#peace keeper

[thedandyray]

Around the hype of the release of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, I played around with some characters of mine as elder dragons. My character Faye would be the most visually unfit as a Peace Keeper while still being one. She's a vigilante of sorts with a strong sense of righteousness. Some of the janky editing and sloppy doodles is because this was actually done in a Drawpile.

[crybabychita]

how i have to frost a cake so nobody is mad at me

[clann-official]

CLANN Companions 1: Jordan

Seemed like the only thing that could improve Jordan’s mood was imagining that stupid grin on Michael’s stupid face plastered onto the punching bag before her. Sweat flew as her barrage of punches and kicks pounded the bag, yet that incessant grin never faded.

Think you’re so cool? Jordan placed two quick jabs at his sternum, which would have bent him over for lack of breath, then smashed his nose in with her dominant hand. Think you can talk like that to me, a Peace Keeper?

“Don’t worry,” Michael had said on the first day, voice oozing with mockery, “I’ll get whatever you can’t handle.”

Jordan huffed as she threw more punches. That grin morphed; now pitying eyes looked down on her.

“You really think he won’t run away if you go charging in like a twister?” Michael had said after she’d first told him how they were going to storm their mark’s – a thug who loaned tremendous sums of credits to people then extorted incredible interest fees – place of work.

Jordan hunkered down, sending a barrage of quicker punches onto his cheeks.

“What?” Michael had said just an hour ago, outside the police station after dropping off the garbage they’d collected, the same unearned, out-of-touch confidence he’d carried himself with all week. “No ‘thank you for your service’ or ‘great job out there’?”

Jordan roared, pivoted on one foot, then threw her back into the next punch. Her core chilled and her skin grew brittle as her right fist glowed a brilliant orange. Jordan’s fist sailed clean through the bag. Jordan blinked, but didn’t move. It took only half a second longer for the lower portion of the punching bag to fall while the rest of it burst into flames.

Shit.

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Read the rest of this side story here, listen to the narration, or check out the other CLANN Companions 1 stories.

[thedarktowerdames]

[angrylittleburd]

Some art for @kittithekat's OC Peace Keeper

[peaceoftheaus]

Iris. Hi. Me again. We need to talk.

[ @xinghopescollective

hello, whoever you are. happy to talk. whatever must you need?

[sueapeek]

Todor the Peacekeeper

[thebooklook]

Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire

522 pages

It shouldn't surprise anyone that this is a heavy read, but it's an important one. Dallaire is open and honest about the Rwandan mission that effectively ended modern peacekeeping. The United Nations was unequipped to deal with the genocide and disaster in Rwanda, and there are valuable lessons that can be learned from it. Rwanda in the 90s was a complex mix of politics and ethnicity that needed to be properly understood to manage the conflict and the refugees, and if you want a clear understanding of the circumstances that lead to the genocide and its mismanagement this is an excellent book. It's a very insightful view into modern politics, but it's not one I can see myself reading again any time soon. Like I said, it's not an easy book to read, and Dallaire doesn't shy away from the horror or the PTSD. I do recommend reading it, but this is the kind of book you need to be ready for.