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Question how did starscream feel when is babies were being born I can see him freaking out a little think am I a good enough sire for my little sparklings. Also who’s baby came first or was it at the same time

Oh, Starscream is scary like a litte shit, but swings from being in a total panic state to a "I'm perfect" state even after the born of the sparklings (pretty much like this previous answer)

And he also got very different reaction to the born of Atalanta and Windrider. To answer, Atalanta comes first and (i think one years later or some months? Is not really much time between the two, but I'll ask GF) then Windrider.

Since wasn't really ready to be a sire (and probably even Optimus didn't expect to could be a carrier), Star got very detached and very "Starscream" reaction when she was Atalanta. While for Windrider Skyfire was so excited and happy that Starscream refrain (as many times with Sky) to be a little acid glitch.

Also, I know you want zoom on babies derpy faces. Yes, yes I KNOW.

(Atalanta still the derpiest among the two)

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Prompt 16 - Born

@jeggyverses-jegulus-microfic June 16, Word count 479

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Sirius and Remus’s wedding plans raced ahead at breakneck speed; it seemed that now they were officially engaged, they wanted to be married as fast as possible. James’s flat was full of wedding decorations, mood boards, guest lists and stag do ideas. There was so much stuff in his flat that he’d moved into Reg’s flat, much to Reg’s annoyance. 

Reg seemed more than happy to stay with James, sleep in his bed, eat his food, etc…etc…, but the second James is in his personal space, all bets are off. 

“James, your jumper is on my sofa again!” Reg yelled through to the bedroom. 

“Sorry!” James yelled back, so very tempted to list all the shit Reg had left all over the place in his flat over their relationship. He’d lost count of the number of times he’d stepped on a stray bobby pin.  

“Ugh! James, your phone charger!”

James was about to apologise when he remembered where he’d left it. 

“It’s plugged into the wall.”

“It’s in the way!”

“Of what?” James was beginning to get a little irritated now. 

“Me!”

James got up from the bed with a sigh and walked into the living room where Reg was ripping the offending charger out of the wall behind the sofa, where no one could see it unless they were hanging over the back of the sofa. 

“Reg, love. Look, I know you don’t like sharing your personal space, but there isn’t room for us right now in my flat, so either I move back in there on my own, all the wedding stuff moves in here, and we move back to my flat, or you try to put up with the odd jumper on the sofa?” James thought that sounded rather reasonable, but you’d have thought he’d asked for Reg to run down Parliament Street as naked as the day he was born from the angry scowl he was giving James. 

“That shit is not stepping one crêpe paper flower past my door,” he hissed, pointing at the dividing wall. 

“Right then either I go, or you learn to put up with me,” James repeated. Reg screwed up his face in anger as he tried to decide what he wanted. James let out a sad sigh and turned towards the door. 

“WAIT!!!” Reg called after him, looking around the room as James stopped and flung himself over the back of the sofa to plug James’s charger back in. “Stay,” he said, his voice muffled. 

“Thank you, love,” James grinned and tried not to burst into laughter, because he was pretty sure that Reg was not stuck upside down behind the sofa. “Love?”

“Yes?”

“Are you stuck?”

Reg didn’t say anything; then a pitiful, “Yes,” came from behind the sofa. James chuckled and went to rescue his dramatic boyfriend. Things were a bit easier between them after that.  

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ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she's a Native American. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to.

Send ICE BOTOX Barbbie to hell.

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On This Day — May 2, 1860: Theodor Herzl was born in Budapest.

He began life as the most unlikely of Jewish prophets — a thoroughly assimilated, secular Viennese journalist and playwright who truly believed the Jewish people could simply vanish into enlightened Europe and be safe.

He was wrong.

The rising tide of modern racial antisemitism shattered him. In Vienna, Karl Lueger built a political career on Jew-hatred. In Paris, Herzl watched the Dreyfus Affair unfold — a Jewish officer framed for treason while mobs screamed “Death to the Jews!” — and realized emancipation had been a cruel illusion. Jews were no longer hated for their religion. They were hated for being Jews.

Herzl saw what almost no one else did: the Jewish people would never be safe without a state of their own.

In 1896 he published Der Judenstaat (“The Jewish State”), declaring:

“The Jewish question persists wherever Jews live in appreciable numbers ... This is the case, and will inevitably be so, everywhere.”

One year later, in 1897, he convened the First Zionist Congress in Basel and later wrote in his diary: “At Basel I founded the Jewish State.”

He told the world: “If you will it, it is no dream” and “We are a people — one people.”

For the next seven years he poured himself into the cause with superhuman effort — meeting the Ottoman Sultan, the German Kaiser, the Pope, and British officials — begging, negotiating, and pleading for the right of the Jewish people to return to their ancient homeland. He exhausted himself completely.

He died on July 3, 1904, at the age of just 44 — worn out, broken in body, but never in vision.

He never lived to see the catastrophe he feared was coming. He never saw the Holocaust. But he saw clearly what emancipation could not fix: that even in “enlightened” Europe, the Jews would never be truly accepted.

He was right.

In 1948 — just 44 years after his death — the State of Israel rose from the ashes of exile and genocide. In 1949 his remains were brought home to Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, the city he loved but barely knew.

One assimilated Jew, shaken by the hatred he witnessed, dared to turn a 2,000-year-old dream into a political plan. Because of him, the Jewish people once again have a home.

Am Yisrael Chai.

@CptAllenHistory

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bornday!

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