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David Corenswet's audition tape for Superman

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^ and, to be clear, in this scenario, vangelis still 100% is the one who first considered it, before kalandre's intervention!

like, he would totally have this kind of idea and wouldn't exclude black magic from the list of potential cures, esp. given how he managed to eventually conceive jadina with the formulas darkhell had left, and ofc his love for adeyrid making him desperate...

but i can't picture him being reckless to the point of going to casthell on his own, this time with no clues nor instructions or the certainty that he'll find something. on the other hand, however, i can totally picture kalandre teasing vangelis and convincing him to actually do it 🤭

do you think kalandre is the one who convinced vangelis to look into darkhell's lab when he was desperate to heal adeyrid 👁👁

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do you think kalandre is the one who convinced vangelis to look into darkhell's lab when he was desperate to heal adeyrid 👁👁

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imagine being a random orchidian citizen and one day, out of the blue, you learn the queen is terminally ill and also had a secret daughter. and then said secret daughter suddenly rises to the throne and there's the royal court doctor who's become her evil vizier despite his initial job not being politics related at all??? and the other heir apparent, the queen's exiled daughter, a) turned out to be dead and replaced by a clone and b) got sentenced to death for killing another member of the royal family ??? i'd lose my mind

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something something vol 14 jadina being sentenced for kasino's murder (despite her not being the murderer ofc) vs. origines jadina being accused by invidia of being responsible of the cracolac incident that cost kasino his eye, with invidia implying she attempted to kill him... and jadina Feeling Guilty in both instances even though she didn't kill/attempt to kill kasino at all

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AND THIS WILL ALWAYS DESTROY ME TOO AUGH

jadina being completely apathetic to the fact she's going to be executed and not trusting her own perception of the events anymore T^T oh this is destroying me

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jadina being completely apathetic to the fact she's going to be executed and not trusting her own perception of the events anymore T^T oh this is destroying me

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and razzia who takes the lead of the group my beloved <3

i also love how volume 14 has the gang investigating like we're in a crime/detective novel <3

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i also love how volume 14 has the gang investigating like we're in a crime/detective novel <3

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not me thinking 'hear me out.... there are shakespeare # vibes about this arc...' while reading through sang royal and the beginning of l'héritage du mal and then this silly hamlet reference pops up

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patrick sobral was so evil for this scene actually

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Finally, here’s the most fundamental truth of all the gun advocates would admit if you forced them to:

All this death and misery? The thousands of gun homicides and gun suicides and mass shootings? We don’t like it, sure. But it’s a price we’re willing to pay. We love our guns so much that we think all that horror is something the rest of you should just have to put up with. Maybe there’s some amount of gun deaths that would make us say “I’m willing to accept some inconvenience and limits on my gun rights to do something about this.” Would 100,000 dead Americans a year be enough? Five hundred thousand? We don’t really know. But whatever that number might be, nearly 40,000 per year, what we currently experience, isn’t enough. One mass shooting after another after another isn’t enough.

That’s what the gun advocates would say if you gave them truth serum.

This was published in the fall of 2019, and I always think of it because it hits the nail on the head right here. All of the arguments from these pieces of shit are disingenuous because this^ is what they fundamentally believe. There’s no other way around it and we need to stop giving them a platform and acting like they have a respectable position, at all.

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PSA to my Fellow Christians

As we mourn the loss of life and trauma caused by the church shooting in Minneapolis, we also have to not fall for the propaganda coming out about it.

The Trump FBI is already calling this an “anti-Christian hate crime”. Christian nationalists and transphobes are both gearing up a campaign of “This happened because Christians are reviled and oppressed in the US” and/or “this happened because trans people specifically hate Christianity”.

Neither of these things are true writ large, and from what I can tell, neither is even relevant to this case.

From the shooter’s ‘manifesto’ (more of an extremely disjointed rant), it seems like the only real ideology going on as a motivation was intense nihilism and desire to attack “the world” writ large, and the target seems to have been mostly based on the church being familiar and close to her house and shocking. The loud, extended hatred she expressed was actually mostly targeted at Jewish people, and she credited and idolized the Tree of Life (synagogue) and Christchurch (mosque) shooters as well as others whose motives were unrelated to religion entirely.

I know people often push off responsibility for shootings on mental illness but it looks like this person was, while definitely deep in conspiracy theories and online racism, also deeply unwell and not fully connected to reality. It truly does not seem to be a calculated act of hate against Catholics-as-Catholics. Nor is there any indication it’s related to her gender identity.

As we know the truth will set us free, we have a duty as people of faith to do the following:

1. As we continue to grieve and pray and care for each other, let’s bear in mind to especially comfort the children around us who are now going back to school quite possibly in fear

2. Not spread/fuel rumors about this being caused by hatred of Christians specifically or solely, and scrutinize sources claiming “anti-Christian bias is rampant in America” or similar as they are often Christian nationalist, white supremacist, xenophobic or some combination.

3. Not blame Robin Westman’s transness for the attack; not misgender her; not engage with claims that her transness made her violent, anti-Christian, or both

4. Show some extra compassion towards our neighbors who may be experiencing depression or suicidality, particularly if we see these things being demonized because Westman claimed them as her motives.

5. Dispute false claims where we see them, and be voices against the hatred and lies already swirling around this tragedy in the name of God. That is an attack on the integrity of the church catholic and the memories of those killed.

Here is a list of support hotlines for queer people including trans lifeline & Trevor Project

988 is the national 24/7 suicide prevention hotline and the 24/7 crisis text line is 741-741.

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The entirety of Pritzker's speech today is extremely important, and I highly recommend everyone read it (or listen to it if you prefer), but I would like to share some segments that highlight the overall point of his message.

"I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, not the manufactured one, that we are facing in this city, and as a state, and as a country. If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country."

"Over the weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning, for quite a while now, to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."

"What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American."

"If this was really about fighting crime and making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor, or the police?

Let me answer that question: This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.

This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections."

"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention."

"So in case there was any doubt as to the motivation behind Trump's military occupations, take note: 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rate have Republican governors. None of these cities is Chicago.

Eight of the top 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois."

"To the members of the press who are assembled here today, and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is."

"Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidence, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab."

"Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, 'Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?' Instead, I say, 'Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.'

You are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy.

Most alarming, you seem to lack any appropriate concern as our commander-in-chief for the members of the military that you would so callously deploy as pawns in your ever-more-alarming grabs for power."

"To my fellow governors across the nation who would consider pulling your National Guards from their duties at home to come into my state against the wishes of its elected representatives and its people, you would be failing your constituents and your country. Cooperation and coordination between our states is vital to the fabric of our nation and it benefits us all. Any action undercutting that and violating the sacred sovereignty of our state to cater to the ego of a dictator will be responded to."

"Finally, to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous: we are watching and we are taking names.

This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now, and eventually the pendulum will swing back."

"You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually. If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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you’re an angry blade and you’re brave, but you’re all alone