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[maraariana01]

what if you accidentally met a Professional Assassin while on a walk in the park during your rehabilitation haha wouldn't that be fucked up?

shelly could and would kill the phantom right there and then but since no one actually hired him specifically for the job he's gonna be nice :] also he's on vacation my man needs a break from all the killing

[awed-frog]

in regards to the CA civil war post you reblogged-- i havent seen the movie since it's come out and felt like shit for agreeing with Tony afterwards because everyone was all like CAP IS RIGHT!! -- but anyway, did anyone actually say "necessary imperialism" in the movie wtf even happened in that movie i dont even remember??

To be honest I haven’t rewatched the movie either, but I felt ‘necessary imperialism’ was about how the guy is called ‘Captain America’ and sort of represents the US and US politics? So what he does - and specifically what he does in that movie - how he stomps around the world, complains about UN regulations, only cares about saving or helping his friends, disregards the rubble and misery left in his wake - yeah, at the time that seemed quite a clear, if perhaps unintentional, metaphor of how Washington behaves. And I don’t want to start shit here - I don’t know the first thing about the Avengers, never read the comics, have no idea how much of this is the screenwriters or whatever - I’m simply speaking as a person who sort of enjoyed the movies, and literally my only point is that Steve Rogers has evolved in a direction I don’t like at all. Because, I don’t know, in the beginning this was a guy who sacrificed everything, including his best friend and a potential wife, to take the Nazis down; and yet, as the movies progress, his actions turn more and more selfish in a ‘friends first’ instead of ‘values first’ sense. This culminates in his idiotic decision to put all of Wakanda at risk and basically sacrifice not his own life, but the lives of hundreds of African men and women to try and save one of his buddies - Vision - who’d begged Steve and the others to just kill him before it was too late. Like, maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I believe there are some things it’s worth sacrificing what you want for - your ambitions, your life, and, yeah - the safety and happiness of your loved ones - and the exact definition of a hero is ‘someone who’s strong enough to make that incredibly hard choice no ordinary person would make’. 

 And the thing is - I’m not even annoyed by that - I’m annoyed by how it was framed as a noble, necessary and thoroughly unproblematic decision? Jesus, I was 100% there for ‘super-soldier tired of war compromises decades-old moral compass to save his friends because that’s what we’d all do’ - I would have loved to see that -

(As a nerdy addition, that’s a time-honoured and heartbreaking trope - the choice, for instance, that Aeneas faces in Troy. Like, there’s this scene in the Aeneid when Troy is finished, okay, it’s done and dying and there’s chaos and blood and howling soldiers everywhere, and Aeneas randomly runs into a courtyard and sees the Greeks about the butcher Priam, his king, the person he was sworn to serve and protect - and Aeneas knows he should step in, risk his life to save Priam’s, but instead - instead, seeing this old man about to be killed is a sharp reminder of his own father, alone and defenceless, and that’s why Aeneas turns back, saves him instead.)

- but nope, the whole thing was told as ‘hey it’s super cool to doom everyone as long as your bae is okay’ which seems to have become the standard narrative of many so-called ‘heroes’ of screens big and small? 

And if you start to look at the political implications of that kind of behaviour, then I’m sorry, but it’s exactly what Trump’s been saying for two years: that nothing matters, not human rights, not international peace, not hundreds of thousand of people dying, as long as American jobs and (rich, white) American lives are safe. Hell, he put it very clearly (and openly) after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was slaughtered in Istanbul:“I’d rather keep the million jobs.”

[Fact check: on top of everything else, it’s not ‘million’. Also, he’s not fooling anyone: like countless other politicians, what matters to him is not what Saudi Arabia can do for US jobs, but how much money he can get out of them to line his own pockets.]

[revelindrake]

PSA

so a little bit about salem:

i will do my best to mind and respect you, no matter what. be it using your pronouns appropriately or avoiding subjects that are upsetting to you, etc. however, i interact with a bunch of people regularly, and i attempt to extend this compassion to each and every one of them.

nevermind my own personal struggles.

so if i mistake your needs with the needs of another, or if i get your brother’s name wrong or something, i’d appreciate a simple correction. i hope my efforts of being respectful and accommodating are clear enough that the inevitable slip-ups can be corrected and forgiven.

i try really hard, guys. i’m always trying really hard.

case in point: a coworker is triggered by the scent of alcohol. considering the difference in age and the crowd i typically run with, to say something like, “let’s go for drinks sometime” is more of a blanket “let’s hang out” sort of deal for me. but she’s felt the need to address her ptsd every. single. time. i’ve known her for less than a month, and have met 30+ other people at this new job.

now that she’s considering quitting because she can’t manage her anxiety enough to do the job, i suggested speaking with her doctor to find ways to address the issue, since the job is really good, and this super stressful period in training is temporary (plus, she’s already made it this far through the program). she decided to lob the whole, “well, you also don’t seem to get that i don’t drink, because you’ve invited me to drink 3 times.”  and it’s like...yes. i’ve invited you. i haven’t pressured you or forced you or even brought you a drink. i have invited you, a thing you are free to turn down whenever you want. a thing you are free to suggest something different to, which she never did.

“hey wanna go for drinks?” “nah, but we can go for coffee or lunch instead.”

wow. imagine that. look at how easy that would be.

like, excuse me for not being an expert in your trauma after three fucking weeks. goddamn. i have my own shit i’m unpacking and a slew of other friends i’m trying to be good to as well. if you can’t wrap your head around that, it seems more a lack of your ability to be compassionate than mine.

like, fuck.

[nivanfieldmeme]

Bio-Infection

A lot of characters have been infected during the years of RE. Many being able to fight it, like Leon with the Las Plage parasite, and Jill with T-virus. Sherry with the G-virus and Claire Redfield and Moria Burton with the virus Alex gave them. The C-virus vaccine shows a low successful rate in helping people who are already infected, but it can still help people who were infected. A large part of China was infected with that C-virus. Soon, being infected will out weigh not being infected. In a world full of Bio-terrorism, I can see it happening.

[fearless-eagle]

God's Perfect Will (J. C. Philpot)

God’s Perfect Will (J. C. Philpot)

  God’s perfect will

(J. C. Philpot, “The Living Sacrifice Presented” 1856)

“That good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”      Romans 12:2

God’s will is “perfect”. In it, there is . . .   no spot,    no stain,    no weakness,   no error,    no instability. 

It is and indeed must necessarily be as perfect as God  Himself; for it emanates from Him who is all perfection;  and is a…

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[howfirmthygeekdom]

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