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chaos-and-sparkles · 2 years ago

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Every day you learn something new! Thank you sm for this addition @neptune432 , this is so so awesome!! :D

I didn't know about this before, bc again I'm very North based ansnsjsmjsmsm

From what info I can find (correct me if I'm wrong), Theyyam is a ritual folk dance performed in parts of Kerala and Karnataka that is centuries old, even predating Hinduism (although it incorporates some Hinduism now). They are ritualistic several-hours-long performances of myths and legends often done before village shrines for an open audience, and sometimes include a rooster sacrifice. The performer essentially transforms into the folk god or goddess through the ritual, there's hundreds of kinds of Theyyams, and it's seen as a way for the people to interact with the deity and seek their blessings, before the deity is returned as the performance ends.

I'm honestly really looking forward to doing more research and finding out more about this!

Also. Since the tusks on Pavitr's mask are almost certainly a reference to this.

That's so cool?? Considering the Theyyam is supposed to be so the mortal can channel the deity and bring them to the people to be blessed by, and Pavitr is a hero who saves and protects and is prolly seen as a blessing by the people he saves and protects, that is just. So so good. I'm so normal about this haha (lie)

In Which I Ramble About Pavitr's Character Design and the Indian Cultural Stuff Related to It

DISCLAIMER: I'm an Indian, and these are all my thoughts and analyses, but I'm also just one person and by no means am I speaking for everyone. I am not all knowing, and I am not immune to being wrong sometimes. These points are all my own thoughts and stuff that I know through my lived cultural experiences and some history and book knowledge, but I've not particularly researched any of these. I'm just out here giving my take from what I know. This is mostly just going to be me rambling, okay? Okay. Let's go!

Anyway okay so I just wanna go from the top down:

No. 1:

First of all his hair

His fucking hair

This is one aspect that i k n o w I'm overthinking and probably wasn't as significantly thought out in the design but it just Spoke to me and by all accounts I'm not the only one

But I'm so glad we have him with his thick gorgeous fricking hair, especially them being like curly/wavy and slightly long instead of straight and cropped or whatever

Like. Indians usually have very thick and luscious hair, not everyone ofc but generally it's a thing, and it's considered a point of pride to have long dark thick hair.

And the thing is for the longest time the beauty standard in India was to have very straight and shiny hair, all the actresses and heroes were doing it, even though that's literally not the realistic case for a lot lot LOT of Indians. There's a pretty big variety of hair texture in India; some of it is regionally concentrated too, eg. in South India you get a lot of frizzy, tightly coiled hair that's rough textured, whereas curly hair is usually silkier and looser curled as you go Northwards,, Bengalis tend to have very wavy thick hair,, etc. By no means a rule or anything, it's just a thing that there's a lot of curl variety and a lot of it was for the longest time considered ugly and unkempt (there are some classist/regionalist elements to this stereotype also unsurprisingly) still is by some people,,, bc the standard was Shiny Straight Hair. It's a standard that's slowly shifting. It's currently leaning more on the wavy and voluminous side. But it's def a thing still.

All that to say, it makes me so so happy to see Pav with his curly-ish lush hair that he wears with such pride and style,, that are a symbol of his own pride and self care too!!!

Also the line about "coconut oil, prayers and good genetics" - I LOVE THAT REFERENCE AHAHABSSK, using coconut oil for the hair is a very common thing here, it's so so good for the hair and the scalp alike and it's relaxing to massage it in too.

I've seen people try to write Pavitr in fics as "quickly brushing some coconut oil through his hair" as part of his morning routine and. Um. That's not how it's done askaskjas, I don't mean to be rude to the writers at all, everyone does the best with what they know and no one knows everything, but also practically speaking that would be greasy and awful.

There are multiple ways to apply coconut oil, ofc. Coconut oil is often massaged into the scalp and rubbed into the hair like an hour before washing, sometimes with lemon juice mixed in, and then washed off when bathing. Some people, especially those with drier and finer hair, apply it as a regular after-hair-wash thing, too, but even so it needs to be rubbed in.

A really beloved thing we have is coconut oil champis, too! This is basically when you sit down cross legged in front of youe mother/grandmother, and she massages the coconut oil into your scalp and hair in a way that literally cures all tension and headaches and leaves your head reeling and is so so good for hair and stress and everything. It's a family bonding thing more than just a hair routine. It's not always done by the mom/grandmother ofc, it's just how most of us first experience it, and they have a technique that none of us can ever quite replicate to the same effect later. As we grow up, we often do it for ourselves and for others. It's a weekly or monthly or even just occasional thing depending on who you ask. But yeah that reference was great I love it dearly!

Also about the hair length

So in the current modern "civilized" standard (Indian schools and society in general tend to do a lot of shit trying to assimilate us into western culture and stamp out our own,, for example all my life I've been in schools where speaking Hindi and Telugu and stuff in class or in the hallways was Wrong and Forbidden and We Must Speak Only In English Bc We Are Educated And Cultured. This is so fucking hypocritical bc they would also have Hindi and Telugu classes and then criticize us for not getting it right or whatever), boys are meant to have short hair. Teachers literally single boys out in class for leaving their hair longer, not the exact length they set as the limit. This was my entire school experience; thankfully it doesn't seem to be the case in college, but that may just be bc I'm in an artsy college. In the workplace it's less stringent but it's still a thing.

HOWEVER, historically and culturally, long hair was considered good and even Important for both men and women. There's huge regional variations in this ofc; Maratha peshwas and higher classes and stuff for example wore a "pilaka" (idk what else it's called), which is the head shaven clean except a tuft in the middle that's sometimes braided. Brahmins still do it too.

But my point being, long hair was considered good for the most part, at most it would be worn in a bun for fighting and working,,, braids are a pretty big deal too. Having to cut your hair short=a symbol of dishonour and/or exile, or reserved for menial workers and so called "low classes".

(This is not stuff you even get explicitly told btw. This is stuff I've mostly inferred and studied from history and mythology and stuff , so there's no guarantee I'm 100% right)

Also, in Sikkhism (I'm not Sikh myself so correct me if I'm wrong, this is just what I know) having long hair is super fucking important for men. The hair is wrapped up in the turban, and the turban is a symbol of honour and pride and literally considered life. The long hair is considered sacred.

Removing the turban is basically a symbol of literally losing your honour pride and sense of self,, not just in Sikkhism, just generally at this point. Cutting your hair? Insult on injury.

Pavitr doesn't have particularly long hair ofc

But having grown up with such rigidly enforced things abt boys having very short cropped hair, it makes me so happy to see an Indian character who defies that.

Also!! Quick tangent about braids and their significance,, they're considered very beautiful and another symbol of pride, intricate buns and what not too! Just wanna drop this to give you an idea of what i mean:

In the Hindu myth of the Mahabharata, Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas (she's a very interesting and important and beloved character, regionally also considered a goddess, she was a princess born of fire married to five princes and the vengeance for her honour literally fuelled the war for righteousness etc etc) vows never to braid her hair again until she has washed it in the blood of Dushasana, a man who forcefully tried to disrobe her in court (it's a whole myth of its own). At the apex of the war, Bheem, her husband, brings her his blood. She washes her hair in it and then for the first time in thirteen years, she braids it.

Braids are not as significant now but it was basically a Pretty Big Deal and I just wanted to talk abt it.

In Hinduism too the gods are portrayed with long hair, it's a Thing.

No. 2:

Okay so moving more downwards,, I have a bunch of Thoughts abt Pavs mask design!

Okay so obv we have the spiderweb-pattern that's a given.

But. The interesting parts are these:

The bindi-like design on his forehead.

Bc my point is

Sure that looks like a bindi. And that's beautiful in itself but I HAVE ANOTHER TAKE

Bindis are traditionally worn by women as a symbol of beauty, prosperity, and again, pride. But while nice, that's not quite a symbolism that fits imo

You know what else is ver similar where my mind immediately goes? A tilak.

The shape is kind of off for a tilak actually, a tilak is more of a U or a V with a dot or a flame-like stroke in the middle. So in that case it looks more like a bindi

But i really like thinking that it's inspired by a tilak too, bc

While a bindi is a decorative mark stuck or painted on a woman's forehead as a symbol of beauty and prosperity

A tilak is basically a mark that's finger-painted on the forehead of , usually a man but there's a softer smaller version for women too and ofc there are women warriors who got tilaks, for auspicious and blessing reasons. So in a Puja or ceremony, a tilak is put as a blessing and an auspicious thing, also meant to impart strength. The head of the household usually gets the most striking or biggest one.

Pandits usually wear tilaks for blessing purposes too, although their design is different and more elaborate than the ones given to others

Gods and goddesses had their own tilaks, some of them very distinctive like Shiva's

The part that applies to Pav is the warrior tilak

Basically before a king or warrior went to battle, it was customary to do a small sending off ritual and for the wife or mother to put the tilak for them and say "Vijay bhava" (may you be victorious)

It's still done for big undertakings and challenges like exams and new jobs and stuff.

It's basically for strength, bravery and victory

The main difference in a bindi and tilak is the intent:

Bindi is for beauty

Tilak is for valour

Which. For a HERO. Just. Chef's kiss.

2. the markings around his eyes!!

I'm sure this has been said before, but it's very very reminiscent of kathakali makeup.

Regionally there's a lot of eye makeup stuff also btw. There are some absolutely beautiful tribal designs and regional designs with a lot of colours but I cant remember specifics rn

Also!! The very distinctive black lines around Pav's eyes?? I love them sm bc they feel so so based in kohl and kajal. Another huge beauty and often pride related thing.

There's even a whole thing where a mother or older sister will often rub a bit of her kohl off on her fingertip and press it behind their loved one's ear so that "buri nazar na lage" (no one's bad gaze catches you). It's called a kaala teeka

The idea being that you're so beautiful and/or cute and bright and lovable and nothing should jinx that and nothing bad should happen to you. It's very rare now and I've never experienced it myself but it's so so precious <33

3. the white markings on his cheeks!

I've seen that explanation of how it's reminiscent of Ganesha, the elephant headed god who is kind of a symbol of new beginnings, intelligence, prosperity, and a ton of stuff I don't even know how to explain honestly, but he's very cool and beloved and has a lot of Good Vibes™ and i love him basically.

I personally am reminded more of kathakali makeup again!! But that explanation is very cool too and i like it!! I don't know if I agree bc i think it m i g h t be a blasphemy to have that imagery on your face, afaik no one here does it for any reasons and we have literal festivals and pujas dedicated to Ganesha

But then again I am a human with limited knowledge and i don't know everything

I personally think the tusk like designs are very cool. However, I also think it would be a bit of a No No for religious reasons. I also think it reminds me more of classical dance face makeup and stuff.

I also think if they meant to make it a Ganesha reference, then he should only have a tusk on one side, bc there's a huge deal about Ganesha being "ekdanta" (transl: one toothed) bc he has a well known myth of breaking off one of his tusks to write a mythologically and culturally significant epic.

There are also a lot of actual cultural face painting things in India that are way cooler than the Ganesha thing in my opinion. So while that theory is cool, I don't personally agree with it. I could be wrong, again, idk what the design intent was exactly.

No. 3:

Next thing: this is a very very small thing and i only have a sentence on it, but i really appreciate Pav's neckline in his suit.

The neckline here? That's the kind of cut that's most typical of kurtas. Especially more ceremonial, kingly, wedding sherwani, or generally festive attire; a regular kurti might have a v-neck or something, but this curved collar? Very Indian and classy in a way I can't fully explain.

No. 4:

This next thing I'm going to go completely ballistic about, everyone hold on to your seats!!!

THE FUCKING MOTIF ON HIS UPPER ARMS. IT'S EVEN ON THE MEHENDI-ISH PATTERN ON HIS WRISTS AND HANDS. THE SPIDER SHAPE TOO. I AM NOT NORMAL OKAY

LISTEN.

LISTEN TO ME

TBIS IS CONFIRMATION THAT KRISHNA PAVITR IS CANON

HE IS SO SO KRISHNA CODED

Idc if I'm delusional, i DARE you to look at that blue design and tell me it doesn't look like a peacock feather

THE SHAPE OF HIS FUCKING SPIDER IS OH SO SUBTLY CURVED TO BE PEACOCK FEATHER SHAPED TOO

There is no human way for me to be normal about this i need a minute

Okay for context:

Krishna is a very important and beloved god in Hinduism. I cannot overstate the love I have for him, even being mostly non religious myself.

There is SO MUCH about him he is such a big deal and thanks to him being made a character in popular Indian cartoons and so many animated and live action movies being made about him, he is literally woven in the fabric of our collective consciousness and love for our culture

He's a mischevious and fun and chaotic and lowkey antiestablishment kid deity. He contains the literal universe. He has a deep abiding love for his people and his family and loved ones and the world he serves. He is a dancer, flute player, sweetheart, lover of life. He has a thousand wives, yet one Radha who he never married but is his literal immortalized soulmate. He guides heroes to duty. He is full of wisdom but also silly hijinks. He is so so beloved.

The peacock feather is his symbol! You could see the peacock feather anywhere and it's immediately OH KRISHNA! He wears a peacock feather, famously. In all his iterations, from childhood to adulthood. Peacock feather is his emblem.

Krishna is depicted through the peacock feather. It's become a very common motif in arts like mehendi and various textile arts to have peacock feather and peacock patterns; I'm sure that existed before Krishna too in several cultural circles but he is definitely a huge part of it since. There is a chikankari motif that is very recognisable that's reminiscent of peacock feather but I'm mostly unsourced on that, going off my own interpretation

But there's a definite link between peacock feather=Krishna=inextricable part of culture and art.

At least in North India. He's less of a big deal the further south you go. Still very widespread and overall loved tho.

So anyway seeing that peacock feather type motif on Pav?? Mixed with his Spiderman identity??? Is so amazing to me.

Krishna coded Pavitr real ✨

(Also yeah people have already pointed out that Pav's hand designs are based on mehendi so I don't need to go into that askjasjkas)

No. 5:

Also. Huge fan of his arm cuffs. It's just another Indian warrior thing; often in ye olde times and in mythology, the cuff would be a lot simpler, often just a thread with an amulet to grant you protection. But it steadily became fancier, and now it can be decorative or a valour thing or both

Very often just decorative now actually. Often seen in weddings and ceremonies too

No. 6:

Okay about his bangles now:

I absolutely LOVE THEM I love them so much I am so obsessed with them actually!!

So. First of all

I remember there being a confusion in like earlier fics especially on whether they were bracelets or damrus or bangles or what

And i have Thoughts

So first of all

They are not damrus/damarus.

Damarus are a musical instrument made of wood and with two beaded ropes to beat on the small drum-like ends. They're also symbols of lord Shiva who uses a damaru.

They are very different from what Pav wears and i remember my fucking whiplash when earlier fics called his bangles damarus. I think i choked on my maggi.

I don't mean to be rude to the writers ofc, they were doing the best with what they knew. But it's just very jarring to me to hear that

I think an explanation I heard was that Pav's web shooter design was inspired by damarus? Which yeah I get that and I actually wanna talk about it bc I very much see it. But they are very much NOT damarus themselves

First of all i personally have never seen nor heard of the kind of bangles Pav wears which appear to have a strip of cloth in the middle? While being gold cuffs on both ends? Which is new and interesting actually and opens up aspects abt his character that i find really interesting

Bc first of all: that implies he made them himself from stuff he already had inspired by things he saw. It seems, at least to me, like he used bangles/kadas he had to make the shooters he uses, which are designed the way they are for easier slinging and his cool tricks with them which would be harder if they were solid gold, and also the shape when he does the cool yoyo-y trick and hits The Spot with it and everything is very damaru shape. Which is also pretty cool if it's meant as a reference to Shiva and his damaru (he's a very fierce god with the damaru) or a reference to the street performers who use it nowadays.

Either way - and also additionally the fact that PAV LITERALLY DOUBLED HIS BANGLES AS WEB SHOOTERS WHICH IS SO CREATIVE AND SMART - and developed his own whole signature skillset with it?? And made his own bangle/shooters as I said before????

My boy is PEAK jugaadu

He is the embodiment of jugaad

Never has anything been so true to the Indian spirit than jugaad

Okay so for context, the jugaad that I keep talking about:

It basically means makeshifting and/or inventing stuff you need from the limited stuff you have. That's a very simple way of explaining it. Just imagine that, but up the silliness level x100.

For example, a guy jugaaded a showerhead by poking holes in a sprite bottle and putting a hose in it and routing it to the tap.

Jugaad can be both very smart, and very funny and silly

And it usually involves combining useless stuff/trash/just stuff you had lying around to make smth that you didn't wanna waste money buying, and often ends up having more functions than the stuff it was meant to replace. This but it's also very crackheaded. Like idk how to explain. It's basically makeshifting, but it's just developed into such an Indian Spirit Thing™ that we have a word for it

So i love that Pavitr's bangles do all of that. He is a true Indian boy to his core!

No. 7:

Okay I have thoughts on his dhoti too!

So.

Blue.

I know why they used blue for his dhoti, what with the spiderman colours, the need to complement his bright red with smth softer, and everything. I get it and i love it so so much. What I'm about to say next is not a complaint against this at all, it's very good design imo

But.

Everytime I look at him in his fucking blue dhoti

I just remember all the times my grandmother has apprehended me and made me go and change for trying to wear blue or black at a Puja

Bc they're apparently unholy colours ;_;

Basically yellow, saffron, red are the appropriate holy colours. Now that i think about it, I've never seen a god or mythological king depicted in a blue dhoti or generally blue clothing either - farthest they go from the three i described is pink or green

I never really thought about it until my Nani pointed it out. I'm still not sure if anyone except her even knew or cared about it.

But that is the memory that bonks me on the head every time i Perceive the blue dhoti

Bro upgraded from funeral colour (white, which is his dhoti in the comics and absolutely infuriates me on a visceral level) to unholy colour askaskjjska it's so funny to me

Purple was still a luxurious colour, but generally warmer and/or lighter colours are The Done Thing. It's an old notion and the cultural connotations are now very diluted by Western influence and also none of us Caring about a lot of it anymore (not necessarily a good or bad thing particularly)

Indigo also has. Loaded connotations.

Because Britain did a Colonialism and a lot of Indians suffered for it. It's a whole history lesson.

I would rather not get into the whole details but basically Indigo (the plant from which the dye was made) was a valuable commodity and Britishers essentially forced farmers to grow only that, ignoring their need to grow food or sustenance or care for the land in general, especially in the Bihar-UP regions. There were eventually a lot of revolts where many people, esp farmers, died.

Basically a double whammy of starvation and death as a direct result of colonialism. It was a major part, historically, that sparked rage for the freedom movement

If you wanna learn more abt it you can search up Champaran farmer revolts!

Also about the drape of Pav's dhoti:

I've seen a couple of memes and reels abt how Pav, in an emergency, suiting up for Spiderman duty, would be taking an hour to drape the dhoti and stuff

And those are hilarious and i love them

But also

That's literally not even a proper dhoti -

So the thing pav wears is basically more of dhoti-pants with a cummerbund.

So okay I need to explain this better hold on

A dhoti is basically a sheet of fabric that is draped around the waist and down. The elaborateness of the cloth can vary vastly from intricately patterned silk and brocade, to plain white cotton with a thin gold border optional

The drape of the dhoti varies even more depending on region, occasion, occupation, and status. You can have everything from the casual simple towel like drape and tuck that some men wear to relax on a daily basis, to an intricate thing with many folds and pleats and tucks and the middle part that hangs (I forget the name for that) that would actually legitimately take hours and is often adorned with jewellery . To a thing that's flexible to move in and also looks very pretty and is genderneutral some dance forms call for.

Basically. The drape varies vastly. And it's all one cloth, maybe a second one for a separate cummerbund sometimes, I'm not that well versed abt dhotis tbh.

But the thing Pav wears?? It doesn't seem to me to be folded the way I've ever seen any dhoti

The way it's folded and shaped is not how those style of dhotis work. There would be a lot more pleats and folds, for one. But it's not shaped the way to match the less-folded dhotis either.

Now, I'm no dhoti expert, but that leads me to believe that's not a full on dhoti. What it's more likely to be is dhoti-pants

Dhoti pants are this fusion thing. It's in the name. I haven't seen it much but I know/think/am pretty sure its a thing, bc most Indian guys now don't know how to drape a dhoti either and it's a good solution. Worn like a pant, looks like a dhoti. Simple. A cummerbund for the middle drape, and you're set!

Also side note: the fold with the distinct two legs and the middle drape that Pav has? Is the most commonly depicted warrior and king drape,, at least in North and Middle India, I'm not as well versed about the South but I think it's the case there too. The gods are depicted in that drape too

I have fewer comments on his leg design, I like that it's reminiscent of mehendi even on his feet bc yeah that's also done on the feet, although rarer now and also a bridal thing

No. 7:

He has gold cuffs on his ankles that I really like!

Okay so here's the interesting thing:

I could be wrong, but

But that kind of thick ankle cuff is not actually an Indian thing?? At least not in the warrior hero context that a lot of his design seems based on. At least not of that shape and width.

What we do have though are very simple metal ankle cuffs put on (I think) one ankle of young kids for protection,, again a tradition I'm not very familiar with, it's more localised

The other thing we have that's more interesting tho:

We have payals and ghungroos!!! Which opens up so many exciting prospects to me because those are both dancer things

Like. The payals are ornamental. They are beauty things as well. All women would wear them, their elaborateness and style depending on status, money, and region ofc

They double as dance and performance things too ofc

But ghungroos are specifically dance things

Very very sacred and honoured to the dancers, too. Quite personal

(These are all little bells on the ghungroos btw!! Hundreds of them. They ring out when the dancers dance)

This is what Pav's ankle cuffs most remind me of. It's not the same thing ofc, and idk if the designers were even thinking of this.

But it would be really cool if he was inspired by ghungroos to have cuffs of similar thickness and placement on his legs. Perhaps even familiar to him hmmm?

This is me theorizing HARD to support my headcanon, but combined with Pav's classical dance-n-martial-arts-y moves, i present to you: Pav learning classical dance when he was younger (a thing that a lot of Indian kids do and only a few seriously continue for their lives) is real.

I rest my case

Like yeah it's known at this point that Pav's moves are based a lot off the martial art of kalaripayattu. Which is SO AMAZING AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! But I also think this would be a cool influence alongside that, bc it really feels visible too.

No. 8:

The fact that Pavitr is barefoot is so so important and dear to me!!!

In Indian culture, you're supposed to take your shoes off as a mark of respect, before entering the ranabhoomi (literal transl: battleground, but not in an actual war with swords and shit ofc)

Being barefoot for pujas and in temples and on sacred ground in general is very important

As is being barefoot when you're walking onto a kabaddi or wrestling ground,, basically any fight that's supposed to be important and/or with honour. It's a respect thing for the opponent and for the earth you fight on.

There are a lot of contexts where being barefoot is important or a given

There's the prayer ground bc it's sacred and holy and you can't be dragging your dirty ass shoes there it's super disrespectful. You gotta enter with clean feet specifically, dirty feet are considered disrespectful too. that's also why there wil often be feet washing areas outside of temples here

Then there's the ranabhoomi that I just said, which is more of respect for your opponent and the earth. Respect to the earth especially is very important in the combat forms and sports I know of at least

Then there's the basic respect and tbh the hygiene thing too, of always taking off your footwear before entering another persons house. That one is more flexible, sometimes you can take it off inside, but the done thing is to take them off outside generally. Especially if you're a guest who's not particularly close. You'd be considered really rude if you didn't take them off at all. But again that still varies by person,, the older generations are way stricter abt it

Then the bride thing,,, it's actually a whole small ritual. The bride and groom will enter the groom's house for the first time,, which is considered the bride's new home bc misogynistic tradition so yeah. But basically it's supposed to be an auspicious beginning to a new home and life. (Btw being barefoot during the wedding ceremony is also generally required)

Usually, at least in North Indian tradition, a small vessel of rice is kept at the threshold that the bride must tip over with her foot when entering. It's for prosperity. Then she steps directly into a plate of a red liquid I forget the word for, but it's basically a sindoor paste type of thing. Her first steps into the house must be taken leaving those red footprints behind. That's for auspicious beginning

So Pavitr being barefoot is so so cool from a cultural and a character building standpoint

He takes his job seriously, he does it with respect and honour!!! He seems so chill and happy go lucky, but he's deliberate and respectful abt it!! And he's super connected to his culture too, bc you could just Not and no one would care, but it's so important that he does!!

So yeah!

That has been my full ramble askjasjkas. If you made it this far, have a cookie! Thank you and I hope this was interesting <33

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sulphuryasecretcloset · 4 years ago

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His children

(How did Davarax end up with his troubled children?)

“Davarax. A word.”

Slightly surprised, Davarax glances over as Mardsk walks towards him. The guy is one of the Teachers, one who rarely spoke to the Fighting Corps. Sure, Davarax had been a Teacher once too but that was years ago and most just consider him a Fighter now.

“What can I help you with, ner vod?” Davarax asks, curious.

Mardsk comes to a halt in front of him, seems to struggle for words and gives a big sigh before he just jumps into it. “Paz Vizla.”

Davarax frowns. The heir to the Vizla clan, he's seen the young boy around and knows he will one day be a valuable member of the Fighting Corps, judging by his size and love for battle. “What about him?”

“He's a problem.” Mardsk blurts out. “The boy is a bully. He keeps picking on my Spring Class, beats them up and terrifies them.”

Davarax' frown deepens and he crosses his arms thoughtfully. “Wait. Your Spring Class? Aren't they, what, three or four years older than him?”

“Yeah, so?” Mardsk replies with a slight edge to his voice. “The boy is a bully nonetheless. He's disruptive and constantly challenging my authority, thinking he's above the rules because he's a Vizla.”

“And what do you want me to do about it?” Davarax does not like where this is going.

“You train him.” Mardsk plows on. “You have experience with difficult kids and you know she would approve of us keeping the Vizla clan quiet.”

Not liking Mardsk using his connection to her one bit, Davarax still doesn't reject the request right away. He's always had a weakness for the outcasts. “Let me talk to him...”

And true to his word, later that day, Davarax hunts down the kid. He finds him sitting in one of the study rooms, reading on one of the datapads there.

Paz Vizla is big, Davarax has no trouble seeing how he can take on and defeat children years older than himself, but there is nothing menacing about the young boy right now. He is devouring the information on the datapad, which a quick peek reveals to be Mandalorian history. Interesting.

“Hey.” Davarax gets his attention. “You know who I am?”

Paz looks up at him, slightly curious but completely self-assured. “Yeah. You're Davarax. You're-”

Davarax nods. “That's me. Pleased to meet you, Paz Vizla.”

Now Paz frowns and he sits up a little straighter. “What do you want?” There is a challenge in his words as well as in the insolent stare. He is his father's son, alright.

“I wanted to meet you.” Davarax sits on the desk next to him. “Because they want me to train you.”

“Figures.” Paz scoffs with obvious contempt. “Mardsk is a coward.”

Amused, Davarax tilts his head and scans the kid's body language. It's a wonderful mess of arrogance and insecurity. He's angry, but also clearly hurt by Mardsk's action. Not completely corrupted by his father, then. Good. “He just knows when he's out of his league. That's not a bad thing, ad'ika. It can save your life outside the Covert.” Davarax sees the youngster wobbling between the lingering hurt and the inferred compliment. “So, would you be okay with that? Me training you?”

Paz looks at him, scans him in return and leans back in his chair. “Why would you want to do that? You're on the Fighting Corps. You don't do teacher stuff anymore.”

Davarax shrugs. “I might make an exception for you.”

“For me? Why? Because I'm a Vizla?” Paz drawls, suspicious.

“No.” Davarax says. “Because I think you have a lot of potential and you will do great things for the Covert. I also think that maybe you need someone who understands you a little better to help that happen.”

Paz shifts uneasily on his chair, his gaze flickers and ruins his pretend arrogance. He swallows and makes himself meet Davarax' gaze. “And that's you?”

“That's me.”

“And who is to say you won't just hand me off to some other teacher?”

Davarax shakes his head. “I won't do that.” His words are calm and secure, no doubt whatsoever.

Paz considers it, then turns back to the datapad and shrugs. “Fine. Sure. Whatever.”

And just like that, Davarax had the first of what would be known as the Fearsome Four.

It takes a long time for him to gain Paz' trust and respect, but with a calm and steady approach, not responding to Paz' tantrums but rather making him use his words; the boy's energy is eventually channeled where it is meant to go.

It doesn't mean Paz stops getting into fights, not by a long shot, but now he at least goes after the ones capable of defending themselves and guilty of some kind of offense, and not just some random victim that crosses Paz' path.

Then comes the morning when Davarax hears a knock on the door to his quarters, opens it and finds another teacher standing there with a tight grip on a tiny, skinny boy's neck.

The boy stares sullenly at the floor, curly hair poking up at all angles, the neckline of his shirt pulled a little to the side and showing a prominent collarbone due to his skinniness. His tiny hands are clenched into tight fists. That is how Davarax meets Barthor.

Unlike Paz, Barthor doesn't show much emotion at being 'handed off' to a new teacher, but those eyes speak volumes. He is furious and filled with spite. Being small and skinny in a society that values strength and fighting abilities can't be easy, but he's been getting back at them in inventive and sometimes fire hazardous ways. Davarax could smell the stench of singed hair through his air filter when the teacher had appeared on his doorstep with the little culprit.

Barthor had pulled one stunt after another,a proper troublemaker, but what Davarax admires is the fact that they were never able to prove it was him. Not once. That speaks of intelligence. So he agrees to train him as well.

Where Paz uses anger and brute strength to intimidate, Barthor immediately tries to sneak his way into Davarax' brain and heart, mapping Davarax' mind to manipulate him while trying to act small and helpless to appeal to his protective instinct. Sneaky little thing. He's going to go far in life.

It turns out that once Barthor realizes that Davarax doesn't fall for his tricks, but treats him with respect and actually talks to him and not over him, the little one thaws and becomes his shadow.

It's kind of cute, really.

Paz isn't pleased at first, but decides the runt isn't a threat or a challenge so he ends up mostly ignoring Barthor, who keeps a wary distance in return. They focus on Davarax, not each other.

“Please...” A third teacher pleads some time later. He holds out his arm and pulls up the fabric and shows the painful mark there. “She bit me! I pulled her off a kid she was pummeling and she bit me. She held on for so long I considered prying her jaws open with a stick!” The man lowers his arm and shakes his head. “You gotta help me, Dav. Please!”

Now this one Davarax asks for some time to consider. He has heard a lot about Raga Saxon, have seen her in action, and she might be the one child he's not entirely sure he can help. He has no idea how to deal with that kind of volatile temper. There is fearless and then there is reckless.

Somehow Paz finds out that Raga's teacher has asked to move her to Davarax and the boy instantly starts to hassle him to say yes.

“She's awesome. She really is! You gotta see her fight.” Paz pleads, walking next to Davarax.

“I have seen that very thing. That is what worries me.” Davarax mutters. “There is no discipline to her. She's basically feral, Paz.”

“I know!” Paz' grin is the brightest Davarax has even seen on the boy. “As I said, she's awesome. You got to let her join us. I'll look after her, I promise. You won't even notice she's there. Please?”

Paz rarely asks for anything so Davarax promises him he'll think about it. And the next day, he stays hidden and watches Raga. He sees the energy crackling under her skin, the wild hair and her complete lack of fear. It's the kind of personality that can ruin a mission and get other Mandalorians killed, but then he sees her with Paz and observes, to his surprise, the other side to her. She 'is' capable of team work, she can be still and patient, and for some weird reason it seems like Paz is the one who brings that out in her.

Fine. She deserves a chance as well. She's a tough little fighter, like a Mandalorian should be. They just need to work on her mean streak.

Bringing Raga in changes the dynamics as she instantly goes after Barthor, like a predator sensing prey. Davarax hopes that Paz will put an end to it, but no such luck. The bigger boy just chews on his snacks and watches with lazy amusement. Davarax is on the verge of interfering when Barthor strikes back.

Raga's shrieks of fury echoes through the hallways, Barthor runs for his life, while Paz chews his snacks with lazy amusement, and Davarax struggles not to laugh. Yeah, Barthor is going to be fine. He doesn't need help.

It is almost a year later when he opens a hatch and finds a frightened boy staring up at him. His name is Din.

Davarax reaches out a hand, Din takes it.

When the request comes if Davarax can train Din too, there is a lack of teachers and Din is severely affected by the trauma he's been through, Davarax doesn't hesitate. He found the boy, he feels responsible for him.

And against all odds, Din is the glue that makes them all stick together.

Paz' protective instinct is triggered hard, Raga senses Paz' approval and actually behaves for long enough to realize she likes Din, and Barthor is so happy to no longer be the lone one against the other two that he reaches out a hand in friendship as well. And Din finds safety from his nightmares in their presence.

It shouldn't work. Not at all. But it does.

He even finds them, more than once, sleeping in a pile together.

And as they learn, as they grow, they keep amazing him and there's not a single day that goes by where he doesn't feel proud of them. They are difficult, yes, complicated, definitely, but they are good students and will do good things for the Covert, he knows this.

The others start referring to them as the Fearsome Four, but Davarax calls them his children and he knows in his heart that he will love them until the day he dies.

#the mandalorian his son and the storm trooper #the one-shots start coming and they don't stop coming #here have some fluff and some sad #Davarax

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bot-imagines · 6 years ago

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May I request headcanona of tfp cons being turned into cats and s/o taking care of them?

I loved doing this one because I got to look at so many cats <3

Megatron

- He’s a Maine Coon. A big, grumpy boi. You’re not sure how, but his fur is spiked in the same places where his armor is spiked as a Cybertronian. He’s this huge bulking cat but somehow walks with a sort of regality that you’d expect to see in a show cat.

- He doesn’t want pets unless he initiates (which rarely happens) The only time he’ll ever let you pet him is when he’s ready to go to sleep. He’s only wants them on his back. If you try to pet his head, he will bite you.

- Surprisingly enough, he doesn’t fight too hard when you introduce food. After the Pits of Kaon, Megatron has learned to not be picky about sustenance. It takes him a bit to get used to the feeling of chewing, but he puts up with it.

- He doesn’t play - HE FIGHTS. He constantly claws at your legs, trying to knock you down despite the fact that there’s no way you will. He will sometimes climb onto the couch and literally tackle you. Protect your face if you value your life.

Starscream

- He’s a Sphynx. Given the culture and lifestyle of Seekers, it stands to reason that he would be one of the most high maintenance breeds there is. If it’s even possible, he gets even more whiney. He’s so cold all the time. This is bullscrap! Hope you like screaming, because you’re going to have a lot of it. God help you if you try to put him in a sweater.

- Pets must be earned - usually by presenting him with soft pillows and blankets or complimenting him a lot. And he won’t accept just any normal pet. None of that one swipe down his back scrap. He wants special attention on every spot. You’re basically giving him a massage.

- The kitchen looks like a war zone the first time you try to get him to eat. You threaten him with a feeding tube but he’s calling your bluff. You wait until he’s sleepy to try again. He fights, but he’s too tired at this point to fight for too long, so after a while, he gives in. Don’t expect him to be better after this.

- He doesn’t want to play with you. He’ll chase a toy mouse around or climb up something if he wants to, but he refuses to play with laser pointers and ribbons. He wouldn’t dare debase himself that way!

Soundwave

- He’s a Russian Blue. You don’t see him unless he wants you to. He hides a lot, though you have no idea why. He doesn’t meow or hiss. It’s… a bit weird actually. You don’t think you’ve ever even seen him sneeze. He’s inexplicably calm and whenever he isn’t hiding, he’s sitting by a window, staring out into the sunny day.

- He doesn’t outright deny you pets, but don’t go overboard. He has a limit and once you reach it, he won’t warn you before he’s swiping at you and running off to hide. Don’t pet him when he’s asleep. He wants to be aware when someone is touching him.

- He’s probably the most calm when it comes to food. He eats without any complaint, but strangely enough, he only like the fish flavors. You still don’t know why.

- Playtime is hit or miss. Mostly miss though. If he’s bored of looking out the window, he might bat at a ribbon toy. But for the most part, he keeps to himself.

Knock Out

- He’s a Toyger. It stands to reason that even as a cat, he’d be one of the flashiest breeds there is. And what’s more flashy than a cat that was literally bred to resemble a toy tiger? He’s constantly grooming himself and sitting up high as if he’s displaying his beauty to the world. He wants so much attention. He will follow you everywhere because he wants you to keep looking at him and telling him what a handsome boy he is.

- Pets are a must, but they must be very precise. There’s only a certain way you can pet his head and his body. He’s even precise about how you play with his tail. God forbid you go against the grain on his fur. He will hiss and run off to fix it immediately and won’t let you pet him for the rest of the day.

- Food is fine. He was always a bit curious about it, so this is certainly the opportunity for him. But don’t think his eagerness to try food means he’ll eat just anything. Wet food only, please and thank you. And he only likes the shredded meat. None of that ground scrap. He’ll turn up his nose if you give him ground wet food.

- Playtime is an opportunity to show off his moves. He only plays with you. Anything that lets him run and jump is preferred. He loves the feeling of chasing something and stretching his legs.

Breakdown

- He’s a Norwegian Forest Cat. No matter the form, he is an absolute unit. He’s a balance of energy and rest. One minute, he’s lounging on the couch as a floofy loaf - the next, he’s climbing up the curtains because tHERE’S A MOTH HE HAS TO GET THE MOTH. He’s quiet for the most part, but he will whine if left alone for too long. He needs companionship - another trait he’s kept from his Cybertronian lifestyle. He also kneads a lot - so you get to tease him about makin’ biscuits.

- Pets are good. Just don’t pet him when he’s running around. And when you pet him, don’t stay too focused on one spot for too long. Except his paws. Holy scrap, please keep petting his paws.

- Feeding time is exciting. He’s hesitant at first, but he takes to it really well afterwards. He wants to try everything - every flavor, every brand, every kind. He also wants to try treats, so stock up.

- Playtime is awesome. He’s up for anything really. He wants to stay in shape after all. Ribbon toys, laser pointers, jingle balls - anything you can get, he’ll play with it.

Airachnid

- She’s a Bengal. She looks like a tiny predator because she is. She’s a hunter through and through. Unless you’re prepared to deal with the consequences, don’t let her outside, because if you do, you will come home to dead animals. And she will be pissed if you try to get rid of them. She stalks a lot. Don’t leave anything too expensive or fragile up high, because she will knock them over.

- Don’t pet her. There’s nothing else to add. Don’t do it.

- She’ll eat, but only chicken flavored wet food. Anything else gets swatted away. She’s super picky about the amount too.

- Playtime is fine. She prefers to bat at jingle balls and hunt small animals, but if she’s in the mood, she’ll play with a ribbon toy for you. She only does it to amuse you as a reward for taking such good care of her.

Shockwave

- He’s a Cornish Rex. He’s so curious, but he’s also analytical about it. He follows you around until he finds something to investigate. Once he finds it, don’t try to distract him, because he’ll swipe a claw in warning. He’s constantly batting at things to try and get a reaction - you included. The only time he’s still is when he’s watching TV with you. He only watches factual programs with you like Discovery Channel or BBC Earth.

- Pets don’t come easy. The only way you can ever get him to stay still for them is when he’s watching TV or sleeping. He’s not too picky about how you pet him as long as you don’t pet too hard.

- Food is fine. He doesn’t complain about it, but he only eats enough to not feel hungry anymore. He’ll leave a lot of food left in the bowl and might kick some out.

- He doesn’t play, he explores. He’s only batting toys around because he’s curious, not playful. He’ll watch you wave a ribbon toy around but he isn’t going to bat at it.

Dreadwing

- Unsurprisingly, he’s a Siamese. You try to explain the concept of twins associated with the breed, but the meaning is lost on him. He likes to be up high so he can look over the room. He also wants to be around you a lot. He likes to just watch you and listen to you talk.

- He’s fine with pets, but only from you. You need to warn roommates and guests to not try to pet him, because he will bite if they try. He really likes head scratches, so focus there.

- Food is a challenge just because it takes forever for him to get the mechanics for it. You actually have to talk him through how to keep the food in his mouth when he chews and how to swallow it.

- Playing with him is an interesting time because he refuses to give up a toy once he’s claimed it. The first time he catches a ribbon toy, he yanks it out of your hand and sits on it. It’s his now.

Predaking

- He’s a Bombay. He’s already a predator, so yeah, he looks like a little panther and acts like one too. Out of all the Cons, he’s the most familiar with animal behavior so takes to it rather easily. He’s extremely territorial and as a result scratches up everything. And I do mean everything. Invest in a good scratching post if you want to spare your furniture.

- He’s hesitant to let you pet him at first, mostly since he’s not used to a kind touch when in his beast mode. But once you’ve earned his trust, he gladly accepts pets. He’s rubbing up against your leg and sitting on your stomach whenever you lay down. He purrs really loud too.

- It takes some convincing for him to eat because he’s not used to not having to hunt for his food. He’s almost insulted that he isn’t be presented with some kind of challenge. You introduce one of those little feeding balls that you have to bat around to dispense food to get him to finally eat.

- Oh hell yeah. He wants to play with everything. He especially loves the laser pointer. He chases that little dot all over the living room and he is not above launching him self up a wall to get to it. Beware his claws, because he will shred something in his attempts to get that dot.

#transformers imagine #tfp imagine #megatron #starscream #soundwave #knockout #breakdown #airachnid #dreadwing #shockwave #predaking #my imagines

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authorgreybrooke · 6 years ago

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Sisters

It had rained fire on Gotham city, the concrete towers cracked and crumbled, buildings collapsed, people fled to nowhere safe. The Bat-signal had been activated. The light shot up into the sky as the citizens cried out for a saviour. Kate rushed out of her cave and into the heart of the fury with little time to consider why things had happened, how they had happened, or who was responsible.

The Batwoman was seen on the Gotham news channels, flying into battered buildings and dragging people out of burning buses. Mary put down her phone and forced herself to focus on her clinic. The injured bodies from the attack would reach her table soon, so she disinfected, she put on blue gloves and kicked off her useless high heels, swapping them for sneakers.

They poured inside, a never-ending stream of screaming, scared individuals, gasping for help, grabbing at the coat Mary wore, trying to pull help closer. Mary pushed back, pushed them down onto tables and chairs and when she ran out of space, she treated victims on the ground. Someone said something about the Batwoman and Mary ignored them. One man had a Bat Blade embedded in his shoulder but Mary ignored it. There were no heroes or villains here – just injured people.

“I heard she never came out of that last explosion."

"Batwoman was limping when I saw her."

"She pulled out an injured police officer right before that building went down."

"I saw her run back in. I didn’t see her come out."

"I heard Alice and her gang were responsible.”

Mary clenched her teeth and focused on counting the stitches she was drawing across a young woman face. The crazed face of Alice stuck with Mary, no matter what, she couldn’t purge the woman from her mind. The villain’s face had been all over social media, every newspaper, every radio station, Mary couldn’t escape her predator.

After she was attacked, Mary began counting things, steps to work, how many times she locked and unlocked doors, how many bottles of water she drank or calories she ate. It felt like an ever-building pressure that itched at her hands and head to keep counting. When the stitches were done she counted them a few more times before moving on to the next patient.

The earth shook, it vibrated beneath everyone’s feet, a loud crash was then heard distantly. Mary looked around at everyone and they looked around at everyone else.

“Batwoman will save us…"

A teenage boy stood and waved his phone in the air. "A helicopter just went down! It hit the courthouse!"

The eruption of chaos that followed was unstoppable, people panicked, spoke over one another, rushed to phone their loved ones, Mary rubbed at the base of her neck and counted the corners of the windows.

Gotham was in crisis. The hospitals we’re overcapacity. There were triage setups popping up everywhere. The Crows had called in military assistance. The police were disorganised and scattered amongst the battlefields. Doctors ran into tiny war zones to help people. The firefighters had too much to do. The security officers were abruptly recruited for things that were above their pay grade. Some of the most notorious crime lords pledge a temporary truce and dirty money to aid the victims. The mayor sat in his office and thank everyone for their help.

The night dragged on, slower than any other night before and when sunlight peaked over the horizon Mary almost cried, relieved that night had finally ended. The last patient left to trek home sometime after dawn and Mary locked the door, slouching against it, convinced that she could fall asleep while standing.

The news replayed clips of bombs going off and children screaming. A reporter asked about Batwoman and conflicting statements came back. Mary sat at her desk and held her head in her hands, weary from the things that had been asked of her during the thick of it.

Days after the tragedy, for almost a week, Mary worked consistently, she treated and healed the old, the new, the criminal, the good, the poor and the crazy. The clinic was drained of its resources and soon enough Mary had to start turning away some people. It broke her heart. Gotham was recovering. The City had been injured and it crawled into the new days bruised and angry.

Mary was so distracted doing inventory, counting her tools, that she didn’t hear the door to the clinic creak open.

"I heard that you’ve been pretty busy."

Mary barley looked over her shoulder, opting to continue counting the last of her supplies. Kate drifted closer, quietly observing.

"Dad’s been calling me. Asking about you. He’s worried."

The sterile plastic crinkled as Mary moved the sealed tools into their specific draws, her fingers moved up and down the draws, counting them, making sure that they were solid.

Kate orbited the frazzled healer, cautious not to get too close. The air was stifled and hot inside the clinic, Kate tugged at the sleeves of her leather jacket, her ribs ached, her head felt light and she leaned against a gurney to stop the world from tilting.

"Your mother even called me once. That was an awkward surprise."

"I’m busy."

Kate nodded and gripped the bed tighter. "I know. I just wanted to check on you.”

“Where have you been?"

"What do you–"

”–Alice blew up Gotham bank, she brought down a helicopter and cause a mass crash on the bridge. Where were you? Getting coffee together?“

"Mary… Alice didn’t do this."

"Really? You really think that?"

"I know it."

"Your loyalty to her is unparalleled."

"Mary, please."

"No!” Mary stood, whipping around to snarl at her visitor. “You have never been here! I’ve been here!” Mary slapped her hand to her chest, anguished. “This is my city! Where were you?"

Kate pushed herself up, struggling to stand, she lifted her chin, refusing to show that she was injured. "I’m here now. That’s all I can say."

"You’re here for Beth. Let��s not pretend there is any other reason.”

Mary worked, she pushed herself so hard that at the end of the day she collapsed in the back room of the clinic, on her couch, still in her white coat and blood-splattered sneakers. The City had stitched itself up and somehow kept going, despite the losses.

Batwoman reappeared and so did Alice and her Wonderland Gang. The Crows condemned Alice, vowing to stop the madwoman. Gotham itself had turned angry, vengeful and merciless. Everyone wanted the villain punished, including Mary.

“Alice sends her regards.” A thug stepped towards Mary, chest puffed out, eyes narrowed.

Mary was tired, too tired to fight, she let her handbag slip from her fingers and clatter onto the pavement. She was too tired to run back to the clinic, to yell for help, to fight back, to do anything.

The man advanced, stomping towards her and Mary closed her eyes, bracing herself for the strike.

“You can tell Alice that the Doc is protected!"

When Mary opened her eyes, Batwoman was beating back the thug, disarming him with swift, powerful movements. The lackey scrambled back and eventually ran away, having had enough of a thrashing.

Batwoman turned to face Mary. "Why didn’t you run?"

"Dude, I just did a fourteen-hour shift at the clinic, it’s a miracle that I am still standing right now."

"Can I walk you home?"

"Seriously?"

"I’m going to follow you anyway."

"Right, because the crazy lady wants to kill me! Awesome."

"Yeah, she does."

"Shouldn’t you have dragged her into the nuthouse by now?"

"It’s complicated."

"Is that a wig?"

”…what?“

"Sorry. Fourteen-hour shift."

"Right."

Mary began walking, the street blurred and random thoughts came out of her mouth against her will, drunk on the lack of sleep, she called over her shoulder, "Well, hurry up. I really need my bed. No criminal is going to stop me from passing out on my mountain of fluffy blankets.”

#batwoman #kate kane #mary hamilton #fanfic #fanfiction #oneshot #gotham #dc cw universe #dc heroes #sisters #lgbtq #my writing

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bumblekscript · 5 years ago

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from Eduardo Q.: For characters based on video game properties, specially long-running ones, how do you balance which abilities are they able to use in a story? I imagine this was much easier for Mega Man, as the aspect of temporarily copying weapons is pretty much already defined in the series itself, but I'm wondering how you do it for someone like Sonic, who in his almost 30-year long run has had all types of abilities: from double-jump, to creating tornados.

Questions answered by Ian Flynn and Kyle Crouse

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Ian: Yeah, it’s a tricky balancing act

Kyle: Yeah

Ian: typically you gotta look at what is kind of the standard for the series, stuff that is synonymous with the character, stuff that has become so ingrained that when it’s missing from it, you go “Wait, when did that change?” like, we’ve had the homing attack since 1999, that’s, that’s a given, Sonic can do that, we’ve had the boost mechanic since, oh shoot, when did Unleashed come out? 2000...

Kyle: 2006, I think?

Ian: 2006 yeah

Kyle: No, it was like, 2008 there we go, yeah, Sonic ‘06 was 2006, yeah yeah

Ian: Yeah, derp

Kyle: [laughs]

Ian: So, 2008, that’s 12 years, that’s pretty established, when was the last time he used Sonic wind? when was the last time he used blue tornado?

Kyle: That’s Heroes

Ian: Yeah, the one-off abilities you can kind of ignore, or trot them out on occasion to say “Hey! Here is my nerd cred, you remember this?”

Kyle: Yeah

Ian: You also have to take into effect, what is going to break the narrative, I mean, Silver by all rights should be just obscenely overpowered by what he can do in the cutscene, that’s another thing, what do you do compared to in-game gameplay and what’s shown off in the cutscenes, because, some of the stuff that they do, especially Silver is just nuts, and you can’t do it in game, so there is no good single answer to that, it’s, you just kinda play it by ear, and get a feel for the characters themselves and how would it best work for the story, and hope to high heaven you don’t forget something that would be an easy out for them

Kyle: [laughs] Well, boost predated Unleashed, because it was in Sonic Rush originally

Ian: Yeah, okay, okay

Kyle: Which was 2005 so, yeah boost has been around for a long time, and I mean, if you want to go back even further you can say “Oh, you’ve had the spin dash since 1992

Both: [laugh]

Kyle: So things like that, there’s some things that are, there’s certain moves in Sonic’s repertoire that are pretty well established that you can pull from, but I mean, there are things like one-off games where he had a certain move that he like, never really uses again, so

Ian: I mean, he swims in Sonic Jam, do you want to count that? No, because that’s one of the defining about him is that he can’t swim

Kyle: Yeah, I know that’s one of the most fun aspects of his character, it’s like, this is his, like, what seemingly one weakness is water

Ian: And then you know, the figure eight peel out was a big deal in Sonic CD, and then come Lost World it’s just him running super fast, it’s a state of being, so

Kyle: Yeah, but I mean that’s also, two different Sonics, apparently also, so

Ian: Oh, yeah... Ok... Yeah, sure...

Kyle: Yeah [laughs] so

Ian: Aaaarghh

Kyle: It’s funny, the super peel out is weird because it like, doesn’t actually do anything?

Ian: It looks sick dude

Kyle: It looks cool, it looks awesome, but it doesn’t actually do anything, it’s actually worse because you’re not spinning when you use, so you can just run right into an enemy or some spike or something and, like you can’t, you have zero protection, but it look cool, yeah, it looks cool

Ian: Kind of a tangent but it reminds me of something that I kinda miss, is the old whirling legs shorthand

Kyle: Yeah

Ian: You don’t really do that with modern Sonic, unfortunately, and I’m glad I was able to get this to happen at least once in the book back with the A.D.A.M. Tommy multi Chaos Emerald story, there is just this one scene where Sonic comes around a corner and I described it as him, you know, banking around the corner like a motorcycle so that those whirling legs kinda look like a wheel, tilting at forty five degrees, and Tracy rendered it perfectly and it looked so cool, and it was everything i wanted, so at least we got that once

Kyle: [laughs]

Ian: We can’t really do that anymore because we don’t have that visual shorthand anymore and wehh

Kyle: Yeah [sighs] oh well

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#Ian Flynn #Kyle Crouse #Archie Sonic #IDW Sonic #Sonic the Hedgehog #bumblekast #bk300920

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lunaneko14 · 6 years ago

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If they're hearing Monica Rial and Chris sabat sabotaging kamehacon, I think I want to hear your thoughts about that

I’ve been waiting a while to address this since the initial allegations have come out, mostly to wait and see how Tumblr reports about this and if they put Monica, Jamie and Chris on blast like they did with Vic but its apparent that its not gonna happen.

Let me say this: These people have harassed, threatened and downright tried to take away the platforms and voice, the very things all these people on Tumblr claimed Vic did and not one person who wasn’t already on Vic’s side has spoken out about what has come out in the spotlight and I can’t say I’m surprised but I’m still disappointed.

With that being said, let me give my followers who may not have been keeping up with the case the rundown:

- Funimation DID NOT do a second investigation on the allegations and the first investigation came up inconclusive and this was BEFORE VIC WAS OFFICIALLY HIRED TO VOICE BROLY IN DBS: BROLY which is why he was greenlit to do it in the first place. But Monica, Chris and perhaps even Sean Schemmel (or whatever) used their influence at Funimation to fire Vic without a second investigation.

- Despite claims, NONE of the allegations against Vic have been proven. No one has gone to the police and there is even evidence that those rumors that you guys have been “hearing about for years” were all from previous attempts by Monica, Chris Sabat, Jamie Marchi and many others (including Monica’s fiance Ron Toye and his flunkie, Shane) to ruin Vic’s career. Yes there have been MANY attempts to ruin his reputation that even predate the #MeToo movement.

- Vic has hired a lawyer, his name is Ty Beard of the Beard & Harris law firm located in Texas where Vic lives, and where companies like Funimation and Rooster Teeth are based and many people have already been served papers (Ron Toye being the only one confirmed but if he got them, the other must’ve got them too, they’re just not saying anything).

- Since Vic hired a lawyer he has made ONE statement and that was to the FANS who kept supporting him through this and this was weeks ago. On the other hand, Monica has threatened people with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Jamie has said she wanted Vic DEAD on Twitter just because people have asked for proof on their claims and allegations.

- Marzgurl is involved, if some of my followers don’t know who that is, she was a former employee of Channel Awesome who actually used to date a proven pedophile (Jewwario) and has even been said to have contributed to him grooming minors and protected him even after allegations (with proof) came out about him among all the other terrible shit that has come out about Channel Awesome. But its been confirmed that she was one of the main one spreading the rumors about Vic sexually assaulting people while she herself has been known to protect a proven pedophile.

- There’s a lawyer named Nick Rekieta on Youtube who has received papers regarding Ron Toye reporting him to the Minnesota bar for his “unlawful conduct” even though all he did was report on the info that he’s gotten on the case. He’s never claimed to be professionally or personally involved in Vic’s case nor is he representing Vic.

- There is suspected evidence through texts, Twitter DMs, calls and emails, Monica, Jamie, and Chris Sabat have been on a blackmail spree with these conventions. Threatening walk outs even speaking for other VAs who have nothing to do with the situation (saying they’ll walk out too even though they never said they would) among other things. This has been going on since the “scandal” came out and gained attention.

- In the past few days, it has come out that specifically Monica Rial, Chris Sabat along with Ron Toye and Shane have been literally threatening the owner of Kameha Con with walk outs and criminal charges if he allowed Vic to come back to the convention. They even went as far as to blow up this man’s phone for 3 HOURS STRAIGHT with various rants and threats. This is ILLEGAL.

Sorry I don’t have links for everything because they are already laid out on Nick Rekeita’s Youtube channel videos about the case among others like YellowFlash, Hero Hei and to a lesser degree, The Quartering.

And to all the people who after knowing ALL of this still defend these people because “uwu victims must be believed!”

And to all the people who think they can just believe and tear down people over allegations and think allegations are enough to ruin people’s lives and livelihood:

YOU. CAN’T. DO. THAT.

Is called a WITCH HUNT and its wrong, it was always WRONG. This is why you’re innocent until PROVEN guilty. Do you know how MORE fucked up this country would be if anyone can make up rumors and shit and get their lives ruined without proof?????

PEOPLE LIE ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!!!

WOMEN LIE ALL THE TIME

POC LIE ALL THE TIME

LGBTQ LIE ALL THE TIME

EVERY HUMAN BEING CAN LIE.

You don’t get to be on a pedestal dressed in white because you’re a minority because minorities can be wrong too. Minorities can act in evil ways too. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen minorities steal, cheat, lie, and commit several crimes both criminally and morally.

Vic isn’t evil for being religious, I’m religious, I believe in God, am I evil for this,or do I get a pass because I’m a black female??????

Vic isn’t homophobic, he’s supported the LGBTQ community before and he’s not homophobic if he doesn’t agree with your shitty non canon yaoi ships and he doesn’t have to sign your shitty yaoi doujins (in fact I think his contract says he can’t sign or promote non canon material). Even if he was homophobic, THAT’S NOT ILLEGAL. Its called FREEDOM OF RELIGION, EXPRESSION AND SPEECH. And you can’t silence people, as long as he’s not harming anyone physically or inciting violence against someone, he can believe what he wants and you have no legal capacity to do anything about it and if you do try to do anything about it, HE has legal cause of action just like he has with this case.

Vic isn’t automatically evil because he’s a straight white male and Monica/Jamie aren’t angels because they’re women.

YOU CAN’T RUIN SOMEONE’S LIFE WITHOUT PROOF. VIC COULD’VE COMMITTED SUICIDE FROM THIS BULLSHIT. ANYONE COULD’VE KILLED THEMSELVES IF THE CAREER THEY’VE BUILT FOR 20 YEARS WENT UP IN SMOKE BECAUSE SOME BITCHES DIDN’T LIKE THAT THEY COULDN’T MANIPULATE HIM. AND WHEN ALL THAT PROOF TY BEARD HAS BEEN COLLECTING FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS COMES TO LIGHT YOU BETTER FEEL BAD FOR IMMEDIATELY BLAMING VIC BECAUSE IF HE KILLED HIMSELF, HIS BLOOD WOULD BE ON YOU TOO YOU FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT.

You can’t convince me that they didn’t want Vic DEAD. Jamie fucking admitted it on Twitter!!!! Vic DID apologize to the FANS he made uncomfortable but these harpies STILL dragged him because he didn’t bend to THEM. THAT’S how you know they don’t really care about victims. THEY DON’T CARE.

And to all of those people who jumped on me for standing with Vic from the start:

#long post #vic mignogna #i stand with vic #istandwithvic #funimation #anti monica rial #anti jamie marchi #anti chris sabat #dragon ball super #dragon ball #broly #dragon ball super broly #dbs broly

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Top 10 Awesome Facts about Clownfish - What to know about Nemo!

Hey guys, welcome to my blog, where I will be posting all sorts of aquarist related content, may that be ‘Top 10 Facts’ blog posts or just letting you know my favourite aquariums that I think are worth buying!

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Also known as anemonefish, clownfish are small marine fish which are found in warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are known as clownfish as the white stripes on their orange body resemble a clown’s face paint. Despite this, there are many other colours which clownfish also come in such as red, pink and black.

In captivity your clownfish can live up to 5 years, but in the wild they can live twice this, up to around 10 years. These small marine animals can grow from around 2 to 5 inches, so overall clownfish aren’t very big fish, contrary to Dory, Nemo’s best friend in the sequel to ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Finding Dory’. She’s a Pacific Blue Tang fish, but today I’m not going to focus on her, but do watch out for a separate video on Blue Tangs, which will definitely be coming to the channel soon.

Since ‘Finding Nemo’ was released in 2003, which of course starred Nemo, an Ocellaris clownfish, sales for this particular fish tripled. This wasn’t good for some areas, as it was overfished to cope with the new heightened demands for these truly iconic marine fish, however luckily, they aren’t endangered yet.

‘Finding Nemo’ leads the audience to believe that every drain leads to an ocean, which led many young kids attempting to actually flush their clownfish down the toilet to let them have freedom – an act which can harm the environment. Many fans of the movie simply purchased clownfish as they wanted to have their own ‘nemo’, despite many not caring for them properly, much of the time not knowing what they are doing is harming or killing the fish – for example not having the correct conditions in the tank.

Clownfish in the wild are found around particular anemones. Despite there being over 1,000 species of anemones, clownfish will only ever be found around 10 of these, such as Bubble tip anemones. Anemone’s are amazing creatures found on the ocean seabed, which attract food using their tentacles. Not being very mobile, their tentacles, covered in thousands of stinging cells called nematocysts release a toxin when something touches it as a form of protection from predators such as sea slugs and codfish, paralysing them.

So why are clownfish found around these deadly creatures?

Well, they become immune to the toxins produced by the anemone as they softly touch the tentacles using various parts of their body. The tentacles secrete a form of mucus, which builds up on the clownfish, protecting it from the anemone’s toxins. Clownfish sometimes eat little bits of their host anemone’s tentacles. But remember, because of the mucus they build up on them, this protects them from the toxins produced by the tentacles of the anemone.

A beautiful symbiotic relationship is formed between the clownfish and the anemone (a relationship which benefits both parties involved), which can in fact be replicated in an at-home aquarium, however this is sometimes hard to do. The anemone uses its tentacles to protect the clownfish it’s in a symbiotic relationship with and leaves left overs for the clownfish to eat once the anemone is done eating whatever it had captured. In return, the clownfish help cleans the anemone by cleansing it of algae and eating little parasites that may be lurking in the anemone’s tentacles, as well as attracting food to the anemone to be paralysed and killed by the anemone’s tentacles.

Now this is an… interesting one. All clownfish are born male and can turn into females later on in life. Now that is incredible?!?! Once this transition has been made however, it cannot be reversed. Any male doesn’t just sporadically turn into a female when they want to, it happens for a reason.

This transition from male to female can happen while mating. While two clownfish are mating, the larger of the two will become the female. Clownfish live in groups which are led by the dominant female. When she dies, she is replaced by the largest male who now turns into a female, leading the school.

When ready to lay eggs, the male clown fish clears an area of bare rock near the an anemone the clown fish are in a symbiotic relationship with, ready for the dominant female to lay hundreds, if not thousands of eggs here, dependent on the species of clown fish involved. The male overseas and protects the eggs until they hatch, who eats the infertile or algae-damaged eggs.

The large majority of the fertilised clown fish eggs will hatch and grow into healthy adults. Because of the huge numbers of eggs laid, this helps in keeping this highly sought-after type of fish with a stable population, therefore not being endangered yet. After incubation for 6-10 days, the eggs hatch and the fish begin their lives as clear larvae, gaining more colour of its relevant species as they age.

And that’s it guys, 10... or more like 30 awesome facts about clownfish. Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and let me know what you want to know about next time!

#fish #aquarist #clownfish #tropicalfish #marinefish #aquarium #top10 #inspiration #funfacts #facts #knowledge #fishkeeping #welcome #ideas #aquamarine #aqua

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usfwspacific · 7 years ago

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A Reel Awesome Partnership: AmeriCorps Service Member Finds Her Conservation Calling in Lake Sammamish Partnership

By Sarah Crestol

Blogger’s note: Sarah is presently a Washington Service Corps AmeriCorps member serving with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Issaquah, Washington, in support of the Lake Sammamish Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. Our hardworking service members have some pretty cool experiences during their time with the Fish and Wildlife Service and are often inspired to write about them. Be sure to catch up on the rest of the series by reading the other adventure stories!

Photo: Kokanee breeding pair, Credit: Roger Tabor, USFWS.

Before I moved to Washington four months ago, I couldn’t have told you the difference between a kokanee and a rock.

But once I learned about the kokanee (“COKE-uh-nee”) of Lake Sammamish, it wasn’t long before I counted myself among their devotees. Not just because they’re charismatic, downright cute little fish, but because their story is both awe-inspiring and tragic.

Kokanee are sockeye salmon that, unlike most salmon, spend their entire lives in freshwater. They’ve evolved from their sea-going counterparts over a period spanning hundreds to thousands of years. For instance, a kokanee population we see today might trace its origins to an Ice Age glacier that blocked fish migration over 11,000 years ago.

In spring Lake Sammamish kokanee emerge from eggs in a handful of streams that feed into the lake. There, they’ll spend three or four years gulping down plankton, the source of the pigments that give salmon fillets their characteristic color. But, when a male or female is finally ready to breed, those pigments move from muscle to skin and transform the fish from subdued silver to striking scarlet. With its extraordinary sense of smell, an adult will navigate back to the stream where it hatched, fighting an upstream battle and evading predators until finding a partner and the right breeding conditions.

Historically, these special salmon were the most plentiful fish in the Lake Sammamish watershed. Now they’re on the brink of extinction. The reasons behind this shocking decline echo the challenges that have befallen wild salmon all over Puget Sound. Our cities are relentlessly contaminating lakes and waterways with soap, pet waste, prescription drugs, car fluids, and pesticides – or worse. Even when diluted, toxins can render a fish smaller, weaker, and diseased and devastate its sense of smell.

Photo: A culvert inaccessible to fish, Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Stormwater runoff, a major contributor to this pollution, ensues from covering natural areas with pavement and buildings. Interrupting the natural process of groundwater storage, we promote flooding during rainy periods and meager stream flows in other seasons. We’ve also cleared stream-side vegetation that fish rely on for shade (to cool the water and increase its dissolved oxygen), for sticks and logs (to slow the current and provide shelter), and for roots (to reduce erosion and filter water).

As yet another construction-related impact, manmade structures like dams, floodgates, and culverts (pipes to channel streams under roads) often cut fish off from prime habitat. And as if the stresses of habitat loss and degradation weren’t enough for salmon, they’re intensified by overfishing, competition or predation from non-native species, and extreme weather events like droughts and floods that have become more frequent as our planet has warmed. Clearly, it’s not easy being an urban fish!

Seeing wild salmon suffer, scientists, governments, and ordinary citizens are stepping up to the plate. In the case of the Lake Sammamish kokanee, their nosediving numbers, starting in the 1970s, drove efforts to list them as an endangered species. After two petitions for federal protection, in 2000 and 2007, didn’t succeed, the people behind the petitions didn’t abandon their cause.

In 2007 the Kokanee Work Group (KWG) – a collection of landowners, non-profit organizations, and local, state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions – assembled. Their mission: determine the causes of the vanishing kokanee population and take action to reverse the damage. And take action, they did. By 2013 the work of the KWG merited national attention. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose the Lake Sammamish basin as the site of one of the first-ever Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships (UWRP’s). This designation recognizes excellence under the Service’s Urban Wildlife Refuge Initiative, which aims to connect city dwellers to nature.

Photo: Me during a kokanee survey.

That’s where I come in: As an AmeriCorps member, I’m assisting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in carrying out the vision of the Lake Sammamish UWRP. My activities in habitat restoration, education, and fieldwork have let me support a medley of environmental groups. Each brings a distinctive toolkit to the table, with biological research, volunteer-driven restoration, salmon dissection lessons, or something else entirely. Knowing that very few imperiled species successfully attain Endangered Species Act protection, I love how Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnerships serve as an alternative approach to conservation.

The Lake Sammamish UWRP may be rooted in its beloved kokanee, but its scope extends further. The partner organizations work to improve the ecological health of the entire watershed and to inform and inspire the public to become more engaged environmental stewards. With 21 UWRP’s currently across the country, maybe there’s one near you, too? Find them here: https://www.fws.gov/urban/partnerships.php.

Until next time, best fishes!

Photo: Fall 2017 restoration event organized by LSUWRP partners.

#womens history month #career in conservation #americorps #stories of service #US Fish and Wildlife #salmon #kokanee #cool jobs #internship #fish #wildlife #conservation

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michaelsongrace · 5 years ago

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karyu-endan · 8 years ago

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Twilight chapter 14 review: Bella’s fine with Edward stalking her. I don’t care. Here’s why (among other things).

I’ve got quite a few things I want to say about this chapter. None of them completely ruined my enjoyment of it now that I’ve embraced the Yandere Tango interpretation (what can I say? It’s fun looking for cases of Bella being a manipulative bitch), but there were small things I took issue with, along with some stuff I liked regardless of my interpretation.

Hmm... Where to start… I know. From here on, I think I’ll begin with everything Bella does that just screams “this girl already wants to be a vampire and won’t take no for an answer”. No point in reading the story like this if I don’t try to make my case clear.

With that out of the way, let’s dig into chapter 14!

Right out of the gate Bella wastes no time in asking Edward for more information about his family on the ride back to her house. As soon as Edward says he was born in 1901 and was turned into a vampire by Carlisle in 1918 to save him from dying from the Spanish Flu, Bella infers that it’s possible to turn humans into vampires. She’s curious because she wants to be one herself, obviously.

Edward, however, says that most vampires don’t have the self-control to do it and Carlisle is one of the few alive who can. He then goes into detail about how most of the Cullens entered the family, though it’s to be noted that Bella needs to prompt Edward for Rosalie and Emmett, and then for Alice and Jasper, and Edward would have stopped without Bella’s insistence. Seems like Edward isn’t the only one fishing for ammunition.

At any rate, Carlisle turned Edward first, with Esme right after him since she barely survived jumping off a cliff and happened to be taken to the hospital Edward and Carlisle were in. Rosalie was joined not long after that, and a couple years later Emmett was mauled by a bear and Rosalie took him to Carlisle to save him. They’d been a happy couple ever since.

Rosalie apparently carried Emmett over a hundred miles to get him to Carlisle’s care too, since she didn’t trust herself with turning Emmett on her own. I have a feeling she might be selling herself short (or Edward doesn’t understand everything), because carrying a man who’s battered and bloodied over a hundred miles without eating him is damn impressive.

Also, this takes a bit of the sting out of Emmett’s favourite food being Grizzly bears. If one of them almost killed him, I can forgive his eating habits somewhat as channelling his bloodlust away from humanity and toward the species that almost took his life. Still unfortunate he’s targeting a near-endangered species though. And Edward still has no excuse for mountain lions.

As for Alice and Jasper, they’re fairly recent additions to the family. Jasper was turned by a different coven and was convinced by Alice to come with her to the Cullens and take on the animal diet. While Alice… they don’t know who turned Alice. Even Alice doesn’t know who turned Alice. All they know is that she can see the future, and she saw herself meeting Jasper and Carlisle in visions, and if it weren’t for those visions, Alice would probably have never considered the animal diet and became a human-eater like all the others.

In most cases I’d question the logic of any vampire that didn’t try the animal diet because, y’know, they were human once upon a time (and Edward claims that all a vampire’s human feelings and instincts are still present, just buried underneath the bloodlust) and would try avoiding their own kind, or something similar to their own kind, on principle. But for Alice though, she doesn’t remember her human life at all. The lack of empathy for humanity can be excused for Alice because of that… but I’m left scratching my head at every other vampire besides Carlisle and the Alaskans, who have the seemingly novel thought among vampires that eating people is wrong.

Bella has the opposite question that I do. Later on in the chapter she wonders why any vampire bothers to try avoiding eating humans. Apparently Bella has a very low opinion of her own species, which is backed up by her dissociating humanity and beauty last chapter, and can’t fathom the very simple answer of “eating people is wrong and some vampires may not want to do it on principle”.

Par for the course for Villain Protagonist Yandere Bella.

There’s one last bit of Bella’s psychopathic nature showing this chapter, though it needs some context. When Bella and Edward get back to Bella’s house, Edward unlocks and opens the door using a hidden key that Bella never showed him. Soon enough Edward reveals that he’s been… visiting her to watch her sleep almost every night ever since Mike asked Bella out to the dance in chapter 4 (so he wasn’t the one who put snow chains on Bella’s tires). Unlike any sane person in the world, who would be creeped out and terrified, Bella is flattered by Edward’s constant stalking. The worst she can say about Edward’s behaviour is that she gets embarrassed at the thought of him hearing what she says when she sleep-talks. And those fears are quickly alleviated when Edward says that what she sleep-talks about is nothing to be ashamed of.

Well, not only is Bella at least mildly insane, she’s also a hypocrite. In this very same chapter, Charlie gets suspicious of Bella being exhausted (Edward hides whenever Charlie’s about to approach his daughter) and starts thinking she’s seeing a boy behind his back. Bella shoots down Charlie’s assumption that she’s seeing Mike by putting him in the friend zone, but it doesn’t completely negate his suspicions. Not only is Bella surprised by Charlie’s observational skills (your father is a cop, you idiot!), she fully expects Charlie to check her room without warning at midnight to make sure she isn’t sneaking out… and is annoyed by the prospect.

So invading Bella’s privacy and sneaking into her room at night is only okay if Edward is the one doing it.

Of course it is, because Edward is the beautiful vampire that could turn her into an equally beautiful vampire and Charlie is the ugly human directly responsible for her very existence as an equally ugly human. The hypocrisy betrays Bella’s pro-vampire, anti-human moral myopia.

Bella isn’t the only hypocrite this chapter either. The reason Edward started… visiting Bella? He got jealous of Mike getting close to Bella and wanted to make sure of whether or not Bella liked him back. Cue his relief – and continued visits – when Bella said “Edward” in her sleep that first night.

You read that right.

The stalking didn’t start because Bella was useless and he wanted to protect her at all times, no. It started because Edward was jealous. Fucking jealous. He didn’t like the idea of Bella ending up with Mike and wanted her all for himself. It puts what he did in chapter 5 in a new light too. The reason Edward pulled a Creeper Cullen and took Bella away from Mike as they were heading to the infirmary during the blood typing lab?

He wanted to rub the fact that Bella was his in Mike’s face. He’s a sore winner, nothing more or less. This behaviour didn’t start in Eclipse, folks; Edward’s always been a possessive asshole.

And Edward has the nerve to call Mike vile. Edward apparently read something awful coming from Mike’s mind and was repulsed at the idea of Bella being in love with someone who could think something like that.

Well I wouldn’t know about Mike’s vile thoughts because they don’t show in his actions. The chapter is titled Mind over Matter because Edward gives that as his reason for why it’s getting easier for him to curb his thirst for Bella’s blood, but it could certainly apply to Mike too. As bad as some of Mike’s thoughts might be, he doesn’t let them dictate his actions and with only one exception (asking Bella out in front of Jessica in chapter 6) Mike has always done the right thing. And as soon as he realizes that he’s done something wrong he apologizes and takes steps to correct it.

Which is more than I can say for Edward, who never stops eavesdropping on people with his mind-reading, or breaking into Bella’s house to watch her sleep, or seeing Bella in general, even after he points out himself what’s wrong with all of these things.

Mike takes genuine responsibility for his mistakes while Edward just keeps sinning his ass off. More than anything, that’s proof that Mike is already more of a man at seventeen than Edward is after a whole century.

If this was supposed to be a straight romance, then Bella and Edward should have been more like Jessica and Mike respectively.

Of course, this isn’t a straight romance, so I’m fine with viewing Mike and Jessica as Edward and Bella’s Good Counterparts and leave it at that.

Unless either of them do something particularly awesome. Then I will definitely point that out like I always have.

I’m going to close this review off with an observation I had that is less personal. At one point Bella asks Edward, if he was turned by Carlisle and Carlisle was turned by someone else, then where did vampirism start? Edward’s answer is more or less: “We don’t know. Could be evolution, or Creationism, or anything. Or whatever was the force that brought together all predators and prey.”

Because of this non-answer and the passage about vampirism’s buffs in chapter 13, I am almost certain that Meyer does not understand how evolution works. Evolution is the result of generations of species changing to adapt to their environment. For example, the closest living relative of the Woolly Mammoth is the Asian Elephant. But they’re drastically different; the Woolly Mammoth had large tusks and thick fur while the Asian Elephant has neither of these things. Why the distinction? The Woolly Mammoth lived during the ice age. It needed the thick fur to keep warm in the freezing climate and it needed the large tusks to break through ice and reach drinkable water. As the ice age ended, the climate got warmer and water became more easily accessible. The large tusks were no longer needed and the thick fur became a liability, so over time those features were lost to the generations.

As Edward points out in chapter 13, the vampire’s advantages are excessive and their beauty is superfluous; those good looks are not needed when they can already easily outrun and overpower their intended prey. It reads more like vampire venom is an unnatural bio-weapon designed by a human mind to give its subject every advantage imaginable in any circumstance imaginable, whether it’s necessary for survival or not.

And I have a feeling that the tale of The First Vampire won’t be explored regardless, because Edward’s non-answer also sounds like code for “how vampirism started doesn’t matter and you better accept that”. That is a shame, because going into who started vampirism and why are questions that I really want explored.

That’s all. Next chapter is titled The Cullens. It’s rather obvious what’s going to happen next.

#Twilight review #anti Bella Swan #Bella Swan is an idiot #creeper cullen #Edward and Bella is abuse #Mike Newton is awesome #Rosalie Hale is awesome #Bella Swan is a hypocrite #tropes #hypocrite #artistic license evolution #villain protagonist #the sociopath #good counterpart

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A Taste Of Hazel Chapter 1

Note: For new followers, (Please read Two Savages before beginning this story)

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For all my followers, welcome back =p, I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it! (Due to everyone’s awesome support and responses, here is another story to sink your teeth into)

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Without further adieu

The bakery was packed front to back with mammals of all description from an enormous elephant to a teeny tiny mouse, each one waited patiently to get to the front of the line where they were to be served.

The bakery was called “The Puffy Leo” and was an outstanding top notch bakery in Zootopia. In fact, it was where one Gideon grey received a scholarship and learnt to bake.

Hazel stood behind a very tall and dashing looking tiger, who sported a dark blue police uniform.

He was tall; as his species should be and had many scars that Hazel could see, but his most stand out and dashing feature was a smile that seemed to brighten up the room, and as police should, it made you feel safe.

Hazel was a fox, and to her, as she had been reminded constantly, and especially in high school; a very simple fox at that. Typical red and white coat colouring, small fangs and normal height. She had been reminded of this relentlessly through her life, but never more so then by actions of Red.

Anyone with half a brain would describe Hazel as loyal, kind, considerate and innocent, but usually the word used to describe her was untrustworthy, cunning and sly, the words used by her so called “peers” however she had never done anything to be labelled with any of those titles and she simply knew it was blanket terms for any canine with red fur and pointed ears who fell under the species Vulpes Vulpes.

However, Hazel’s most outstanding feature for her so called “normality”; as her name would suggest, was her brilliant Hazel eyes, that seemed to change periodically between deep emerald green, to a lightly tinged autumn brown. Her eyes seemed to absorb the light from the sun itself, brighten it, and then re emit it.

Most animals who spoke to her would sometimes stumble or stutter on words when they first saw her eyes. But the realisation that she was a fox soon foreshadowed that beauty.

She was shy and elegant and tried her hardest to prove that not all foxes are untrustworthy and cunning.

Hazel was in the dying years of her 20’s, 29 to be exact and her birthday was just around the corner, not that the time clock was an issue to her in any spectrum.

She had gone to college for many years following her dreams, but dreams are made to be shattered and it seemed every step Hazel took did just that, shattered her dreams, however she was hopeful and brave and soldiered on tirelessly.

The officer in front of her had ordered two coffees and a punnet of blueberries. The baker who Hazel knew very well smiled handing the officer a punnet of blueberries that would usually be used in the blueberry muffins, Hazel assumed they must have known the each as the store owner simply sold them to him as a punnet, the tiger paid him, collecting his stuff.

“Thanks Fangs, I’ll see ya tomorrow right?” asked the lion on the other side of the counter, giving him an obviously playful wink while placing the money into the till.

“You bet” replied the officer, returning the wink before turning to leave.

The large cat turned to leave, his attention focused on juggling both coffees and the blueberries and almost walked straight into Hazel, his reflexes however allowed him to shift to the side and miss bumping her.

“Oh my apologise ma’am” excused the police officer with a tip of his hat, apologetic that he almost bowled her over. “Love your dress by the way!” he complimented with a smile, his fangs highlighting his preened professional stature, feeling sheepish for almost knocking her over in front of all the customers.

“Not at all” she exclaimed with a nonchalant attitude, accepting his apology with a bright but shy, half smile, smirk and tilt of her head.

The lion behind the counter straightened up when Hazel had walked up.

“Good Morning Hazel my dear” he greeted flashing a toothy grin while rolling his paws in his apron to clean them.

“Good morning Alex” she responded scanning the glass for something scrumptious to help her through the day, her eyes stopped on a piece of pastry that seemed jam packed with blueberries, she raised a paw and pointed a claw at it through the glass

“That one please Alex”

Alex bellowed a laugh picking up tongs and placing the “Blueberry bonanza” into a paper bag and handing it over the counter to her.

“You look as bright as the Saraha on the hottest day of the year” he complimented her as he did every day, touching his monumental paw gently to the side of her face to look into her eyes, his favourite view in all of Zootopia.

Hazel beamed at his compliment, squeezing his paw gently before she reached into her purse to get the money; Alex shut his eyes and held his paw out for her to stop.

“It’s on the house little miss”

“Why?” quizzed Hazel her paw frozen in her purse.

“You know why…” scrutinised Alex “…have you … heard from him?” asked Alex reluctantly.

Hazel removed her paw, zipping up her purse shaking her head, fighting back the urge to cry.

“Thank you” she mouthed looking up at him with thankful eyes.

“Chin up sis” he pleaded, seeing the hurt clear as day, and knowing full well she was sad; as her eyes instantly lost there glisten. “Eyes like that should never be dull” he concluded.

“I’ll try” responded Hazel shining him a false smile before walking out the door, Alex’s attention going to the next customer.

Hazel would usually head now to take the 404 bus from downtown to tundra town getting off at the Bliz street stop and walking half a block to begin work, but after “Items of significant cost” went missing, she was suddenly made redundant, and was no longer required at the Zootopia channel 12 news station.

Hazel had been the chief of editorial, it was never really what she wanted to do anyway or even what she had studies at college; but it did pay the bills.

Hazel knew her job-loss was ridiculous, but even if they had caught the real thief, it would not have saved her, prejudice was just too rampant against foxes.

“What do I have to gain from stealing this junk?” she had argued, only to have her pleas fall on deaf ears.

You see, Hazel had gotten a great inheritance from her father when he passed away, which is how she was able to live in a brilliant loft in the most expensive part of Zootopia and why she was not so worried about getting a job and now chose to chase her dreams, like her father did. Even though she lived among the top of the Zootopian hierarchy, most thought she had hustled or slept her way there.

Truth was Hazel’s father had worked tirelessly and made his way high up the ranks at city hall starting off as a civil servant, he had been good friends with the mayor of Zootopia of the time; Mayor Lionheart, who was the uncle of Alex from the bakery, that is how Hazel and Alex knew one another.

Hazel’s father, Dante, was an advocate for predator rights and the removal of mandatory shock collars during a great split in Zootopia’s predator and prey class of citizens; long before Hazel’s lifetime.

Dante had been a spokesperson against prejudice and the need for the equal treatment of all animals in Zootopia; it lasted a while, but in the end the foxes still got the short end of the stick, she could understand why he had such passion for it, she hated being a fox sometimes because of the way she was treated.

Alex had known Hazel since she was only a cub, seeing each other on many occasions both at her father’s work functions and when Alex would come to visit his uncle at work. Hazel use to stay glued to Alex’s side like a shadow, and had an obsession with his mane as a cub. They had become mischievous sidekicks that reigned terror at city hall, messing up paperwork and playing throughout the hallway.

Alex was ten years older than she and saw Hazel as his younger sister; even though they were different species. He had always been protective of her and looked out for her every step of the way.

When Hazel was old enough, around her teen years, her and Alex would meet up for coffee and the occasional movie, but over time adulthood took place and their responsibilities as such made seeing one another quiet difficult nevertheless their relationship was set in stone and nothing was going to shake that.

When the crying had stopped and his tears had run out and all the whimpering in the world was not going to change what had happened, Nick simply sat there, a subtle hum leaving his lips, he didn’t know what the hum was; but it left his lips regardless.

There were no words left, no happy phrase, nothing for him to hold onto. It was as if all that had happened up till this point had made him a fragile piece of glass, but now that glass had exploded, shattered all over the place; in the dark of Nicks mind, and he was a child once again, sitting in his green scout outfit muzzled and sobbing, being forced to try and repair this shattered glass with a hammer; it was to be impossible.

Fangmyer walked over as he did most days and sat by Nick placing a coffee down along with a punnet of the best blueberries money could buy; as he always did, making sure Nick wouldn’t starve himself to death.

Nicks eyes became moist at the sight of the blue uniform, as they did most days. After this momentary introduction Fangmyer would talk, Nick would listen, Fangmyer would leave for the ZPD and Nick would pour the coffee out and return sitting cold and statue-like on the park bench, eating maybe one blueberry out of the punnet before it also joined his coffee in the confines of the park bin.

This had gone on for a year, a whole year of Nick sitting in the park. Night would come and he would simply pull his long overcoat over his head and fall asleep on the exact same park bench.

He had lost his house when no one would give a fox that could barely stand a job.

His park bench was very specifically chosen, it sat only a few metres from the lake that was situated in the middle of the park, just in case he became thirsty and just down from a small footbridge; his sanctuary from rain and a simple reminder of who he really was, an under the bridge fox. There was a small batch of trees around him and the path his park bench was on was one less travelled. There was grass patches all around and a bin just to the right of his bench another reminder of the garbage he thought himself as.

His face was rough and scraggily and his eyes seemed to have blood red lines in them all the time, like he had not stopped crying, which was true for the most part, although it was internal. His fur was matted and oily, very different to how the fox’s usual vibrant coat used to be.

Officers would usually tell animals who tried to sleep in the park to move on, but the police who patrolled the park knew who Nick was; the dumb fox, played by clever bunnies and their insidious agenda. Most Officers left him alone after they knew he was protected by a specific officer.

A new recruit had tried to make him move on; cruelly and full of aggression, a smart-arse punk of an officer. He grabbed Nick hard around the arm when Nick had ignored his initial direction to “Get lost”.

“Didn’t you hear me fox? I said move on!” snarled the hyena.

Tightly grasping Nicholas’s forearm, making sure to dig his claws deep into Nick’s flesh only to have Fangmyer intervene, giving him a taste of his own medicine. Fangmyer tearing the Hyenas arm from Nicks and squeezing the Hyenas arm hard, digging his large, curved, tiger claws in so hard it broke skin, his eyes unwavering, telling the new Officer to “Let it go” to which the new recruit conceded.

No one dare touch Nick thereafter; however Fangmyer was reprimanded for “Aggressive behaviour to a fellow officer” and was placed on parking duty by Jack, the new chief of the ZPD.

Nick had lost his home “What was the point” he thought and when he couldn’t even string words together in his mouth or form thoughts that didn’t instantly take him back to the last time he saw “them” and re break him all over again, “What was the point”.

Hazel a very shy and kind Vixen was on her way from the bakery to start her new job, where she was the boss of her own destiny.

She took Furbast Road this morning and cut through the park as she loved the warm sun and smell of the fresh grass and roses that littered the park. She was on her way to the library; where she worked on her novels, the course she had studied so hard for at college.

She wanted to be a writer and although she was as she had released a few short stories, she was not a very well-known one, but a writer non-the less and as always, she saw the same fox that she use to see when she was heading to her old job as the chief of editorial.

“A bum” others had described him as when she had asked.

“Some washed up con-artist who got what he deserved”.

“A typical response to a fox”, she would always think when they shone her that all too patronising stare, that she also belonged to that “trope” of critters.

She was just at the small lake in the centre of the park, when she happened upon the same fox on the same bench with that same look, devastation, and as always, she sat across from him far out of his visual site; just to stare.

She could see past the devastation and bum-like exterior he was indeed a handsome fox. She sat with her legs to her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs, and just stared.

She had day dreamed about him several times, she felt silly about it, she put it down to too many love stories as a cub and the fact he looked eerily similar to Red, which both broke her heart and made her mad simultaneously.

She sat back and took out her pencil and paper, that she usually used for her writing, a place to jot down notes or ideas, however Hazel was also creative in many other ways and began to sketch Nick, like she had done for the last six months, something about this fox drew her in completely and utterly, but no way on heaven or earth would she ever talk to him, what would she say?

She sketched and sketched and sketched she was almost done when she saw a group of young mammals lead by a beaver approach the fox.

“Watch this” stated the beaver picking up a pine cone and throwing it at Nick, who took the hit and didn’t so much as bat an eye. The beaver scoffed “so much for predator”.

“He must have rabies” added one of the animals following the beaver, who threw a half eat cake at Nick, still no movement was made. The jelly and cream simply dripping down the fur on his face falling off his chin and smearing the fur on his neck a little.

“Ah” scoffed Hazel amazed at their cruelty. “ Little critter” she spat to herself, tucking her sketch book under her arm and putting her purse over her shoulder before storming over to intervene.

“Hey bum!” shouted the beaver “My father says you should get a real job cause your making’ you’re kind’ look even dumber!”

Nick stayed silent starring forward. He couldn’t even hear the beaver, he could hear nothing but the voice of Maria and Jack talking in his head, his brain playing scenes in his head of what was possibly happening at the Savage household.

“I love you” gasped Maria into Jacks ear, wrapped together in love… making a new kit, a kit that would replace their love for his daughter, would they hurt her the same?

That thought was always the worse, and the one he couldn’t shake, he knew ju- Maria’s body to well and worried about his daughter on the constant; knowing these two rabbits didn’t have morality.

“Love you daddy” giggled Nicks kit her smile aimed at Jack as he tickled her belly. Her new father, her successful uncompromised father.

“You’re the best thing to happen to us Jack” Maria would confirm, Nick’s kit nodding in agreement.

“What a loser” cackled the Beaver as he leaned down to pick up another pine cone and throw it but as his paw came back preparing to launch the projectile it was caught in a paw of red, he turned to see Hazel snarling at him.

“Listen here you little creep” she growled “You leave that fox alone this instant” she demanded.

The beaver pulled his paw from hers “Or what?” he challenged disrespectfully.

As he pulled his arm from Hazels grasp, Hazels book fell from under her arm falling open to a page full of sketches of Nicholas.

She went to threaten him but was lost for words, what was she “going to do?” she thought nervously.

She looked to Nick for a moment to gather courage, strange that a fox she didn’t know could give her that.

The Beaver scrutinised the look on her face as she looked at Nick and saw a specific look in her eyes.

One of the beaver’s followers pointed to the open book on the floor “She’s a stalker” he blurted through fits of laughter pointing out the pictures of Nick.

The Beaver looked down to the book and burst out in laughter “Eww, you’re in love with a homeless fox” he shouted, his insult breaking her thought.

The Beaver’s friends soon joining in with the laughter, before they soon started to chant it, yelling it out loud for all to hear “♫You’re in love with a homeless fox, you’re in love with a homeless fox♫” Jumping around her poking fun before taking off all laughing; leaving her shaking in anger.

Once they were gone she shut her eyes to calm herself, once calm she rolled her eyes and shook her head, her attention turning to Nick.

“Are you okay?” asked Hazel, trying to make eye contact with him.

Nick didn’t reply he just swallowed deeply.

Hazel breathed out heavily realising that this would be the extent of their conversation.

“Well…umm… it was nice to meet you” she whispered with a smile, her ears folding back over her head as she turned and walked away.

Nick leaned down realising she was walking off without collecting her book, that sat open on the ground.

She turned almost forgetting her book, she leaned down at the same time as Nick, her paw landing on his forearm as his paw covered the book. His eyes firstly saw the sketches but something else grabbed his attention more then the pictures.

They stood up, his paw holding the book her paw holding his arm, they made eye contact, she smiled but Nick’s whole body shook with fear and he froze stiff, he swallowed hard and his chest pounded, all colour had run from his face, fear engulfed.

However, this vixen was not horrifying or scary at all, on the contrary she was sweet and gorgeous to behold, and smelt Devine; however her paw gently rest on the forearm of Nicholas and all he could feel was the small paw of one Judith Hopps.

His eyes moved to it slowly and were glued to it in horror as if this vixen was burning his arm with a hot branding iron, his shake was so violent the vixen could see it and feel it shaking her paw. She felt horrified, what had she done to scare him so…

Nick gently raised his other paw and swiped her paw from his arm; the shaking slowly subsiding the longer her paw was gone.

Hazel pulled her paw into her chest, feeling confused and bad, fearing she had done something wrong.

“I…I’m sorry” she whispered, although she had no idea why she was apologising. She held her paw close to her chest like she was concealing a weapon or her paw was some dangerous kind of poison.

Nick quickly shoved the book at her and turned to look at nothing in particular, to look at anything; but the mesmerising eyes of this vixen.

Hazel gently took the book making sure not to make contact with his skin again; she went to speak but felt like a leper, felt self-conscious and instead turned rushing away at a brisk pace.

Nick shifted his eyes several times slyly and when he was sure she was far enough away his shake returned and his legs shook violently, he was weak in the knees and gently felt around behind him with his paw until he found the seat.

He sat starring at where the vixen had touched his arm and with all the power left in his soul he tried to shut out the memories that were trying to flood his mind.

“Never … let them see they get to you” he murmured rubbing his arm as if he had been injured.

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Create a target candidate persona, or a composite of your ideal employee. (Download these buyer persona templates to get started.) Use the information you find to make potent promises that your target candidate wants to hear and, more importantly, you know you can keep.

Are you hiring for a role in content marketing? Consider aspects of your existing marketing team that you want to see reflected in your new hire. What are your current employees' career goals? What do they enjoy most about the company? Which areas of expertise do they lack that your candidate can provide?

These are all valuable pieces of information that can help you draft a corresponding job description and ensure your potential candidates would be a fit at your organization -- both culturally and professionally.

2. Optimize the job title with the keywords that candidate is using.

Every day, the job hunt leads millions of people to search millions of keywords. This makes SEO very important to the recruitment process, especially when writing job ads.

In your quest to be unique and desired, don’t make up a new, creative name for an established role. In other words, don’t call your open content marketing position an “Attention Ninja” or “Audience Crafter.”

Example

For a role in content marketing, title your job exactly what you're looking for: “Content Producer.” If you’re in the B2B space with clients all over the world, for instance, add a few more adjectives: “Global B2B Content Marketing Coordinator."

Keep in mind that the experience level of your ideal candidate can change the words they use when looking for jobs online. If you're hiring for a mid-level content marketer, for example, consider words like "strategist," "specialist," or even "manager." Is the content you produce part of a much larger digital marketing operation? Include the word "digital" -- as in "Digital Content Marketing Specialist" -- to put a finer point on all the digital channels you want your applicants to be passionate about.

Post the position under a recognizable, keyword-friendly title, as that’s what candidates will be searching.

3. Start with a company summary.

Open your job ad's main text copy with a “Company Summary” paragraph. But don't simply paste your business's "About Us" boilerplate description into your job listing. Your "Company Summary" should help to put the job for which you're hiring into context for the applicant.

If your company sells security software, for example, it won't be enough to simply state your company name, when you were founded, the types of software packages you offer, and where you're located. Your applicants will want company details that pertain to the team they'd be joining.

Here's an example of a company summary for a (shamelessly made-up) software developer that's looking for an awesome content marketing specialist to join the team:

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Security Software Co. is a Boston-based software developer that puts today's most pressing ecommerce security challenges at the heart of its brand. We turn the best cybersecurity technology into trusted solutions for the small online business, and after a decade serving more than 70 clients, we need someone to help us tell the stories that matter most to our customers.

If you summarize your company in a way that resonates with your ideal candidate, you'll set yourself up to dive right into the job description itself. But don't be fooled: The best job descriptions can't simply be packaged into a second paragraph following the Company Summary above.

Describe your open position using subheads, or sections, in this order:

Benefits

Requirements

Responsibilities

Here’s a breakdown of each section along with example paragraphs that, when combined, will form a “Content Marketing Specialist” job description for Security Software Co. -- the fictional company we created in the italicized paragraph above.

4. Concisely describe the job's benefits.

Every ad must start with a concise description, or overview, of the role. It should be snappy and compelling -- just be sure to complement the clear, quick explanation of the role with the job’s big-picture benefits as well.

General Electric did a nice job describing the benefits of their roles in the commercial below -- part of an amusing series to help the company shift its brand to keep up with today's digital culture. Listen to how the man in the blue sweater describes his new position:

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People inherently want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Appeal to that desire by helping candidates envision the impact of their work.

If you’re hiring a software developer, explain the mark that software will leave on others. Will it help them beat traffic? Will it help them communicate better with their family? Will it help them get clean drinking water every day? Be specific. The more specific you are, the more compelling your message will be.

Here's how our fictional organization, Security Software Co., might describe the benefits of working as their newest content marketing specialist:

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As the Content Marketing Specialist for Security Software Co., you’ll create articles, infographics, and eBooks that build an engaged audience. Your goal will be to drive thousands of people to subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn. Your success will expand Security Software’s global reach – helping millions of parents protect their children from online predators – while simultaneously developing your personal brand as a foremost expert in our space.

5. Summarize the benefits package.

Now that you have the candidate’s attention, draw him or her deeper into the ad with a section dedicated to the other benefits: your company’s benefits package -- a topic employees care about. But just know, there's a right and wrong way to write a benefits bullet ...

Use examples to help candidates envision the benefit, not just read it on the job ad. Like this:

The wrong way: “Heated parking garage.”

The right way: “Arrive and leave work comfortably, thanks to a heated garage.”

Example

At Security Software, we ask a lot of our employees, which is why we give so much in return. In addition to your competitive salary, medical/dental/vision plan, and matching 401(k), we’ll shower you with perks, including:

Dress: Wear anything you like to the office – and be as comfortable at work as you are in your own living room.

Flexibility: Two days a week, feel free to skip the commute and hit your deadlines from home.

Food: Save hundreds of dollars on food each year thanks to our well-stocked, healthy kitchen.

Location: On the days you are in the office, get here quickly thanks to our highly accessible central location.

Wellness: Stretch away the stress every morning in our in-house yoga studio.

6. Keep the job's requirements clear and realistic.

This section will be your ad’s most sterile, so don’t close with it. Stick it in the middle, sandwiched between two sections that highlight promise and opportunity.

Keep your list of requirements only as long as it needs to be. You don’t want to scare great candidates away with trivial prerequisites. You also don’t want to engage and inspire unqualified people with a shortlist.

Example

Not everyone can be a Content Marketing Specialist. To be seriously considered for this role, please have the following in regard to:

Experience: At least 3 years in a similar role with comparable goals and responsibilities (security and/or software background, preferred)

Education: Bachelor’s degree in English, Marketing, Communications, or a similar field, preferred

Skills: You must be an excellent writer, someone who understands how to frame a message in a clear, concise, and compelling way. You must also understand the mechanics of an efficient, effective Marketing Automation campaign (HubSpot experience, preferred).

Characteristics: This is an autonomous position, so you should be self-sufficient and self-motivated. It’s also a creative role, so you must be able to gracefully receive criticism and feedback about your work.

7. Use strong verbs to describe the job's responsibilities.

Responsibilities are the job. They’re the work, and the paycheck. But responsibilities can also generate excitement and promise in a passionate candidate.

Begin each bullet point of your job responsibilities with a unique yet fitting verb. For example, the role doesn’t “manage” people; it “shapes” them. The role doesn’t “oversee” projects; it “enables” their success. See the difference? One word can offer a fresh perspective, altering the reader’s frame of mind.

Example

As Security Software’s sole Content Marketer, you’ll meet the initiative’s strategic needs on your own, experimenting, learning, and adjusting as you go. Throughout your journey to grow our brand’s audience and reach, you’ll be responsible for:

Sculpting informative, entertaining, digestible articles that audiences can’t stop reading.

Designing beautiful, rich infographics that are as engaging as they are shareable.

Publishing easy-to-skim, value-driven eBooks for download in exchange for business-email addresses.

Crafting persuasive, laser-focused landing pages that compel your target audience to take one valuable action.

Purchasing targeted ad spend on well-performing social media platforms.

Pulling prospects through each stage of our marketing funnel, gradually warming them up for a productive conversation with sales.

The Final Product

Here’s what our example job ad for Security Software Co. looks like when stitched together:

Content Marketing Specialist

OVERVIEW:

BENEFITS:

Dress: Wear anything you like to the office – and be as comfortable at work as you are in your own living room.

Flexibility: Two days a week, feel free to skip the commute and hit your deadlines from home.

Food: Save hundreds of dollars on food each year thanks to our well-stocked, healthy kitchen.

Location: On the days you are in the office, get here quickly thanks to our highly accessible central location.

Wellness: Stretch away the stress every morning in our in-house yoga studio.

REQUIREMENTS:

Not everyone can be a Content Marketing Specialist. To be seriously considered for this role, please have the following in regard to:

Experience: At least 3 years in a similar role with comparable goals and responsibilities (security and/or software background, preferred).

Education: Bachelor’s degree in English, Marketing, Communications, or a similar field, preferred.

Characteristics: This is an autonomous position, so you should be self-sufficient and self-motivated. It’s also a creative role, so you have to be able to graceful receive criticism and feedback about your work.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

As Security Software’s sole Content Marketer, you’ll meet the initiative’s strategic needs on your own, experimenting, learning, and adjusting as you go. Along your journey to grow our brand’s audience and reach, you’ll be responsible for:

Sculpting informative, entertaining, digestible articles that audiences can’t stop reading.

Designing beautiful, rich infographics that are as engaging as they are shareable.

Publishing easy-to-skim, value-driven eBooks for download in exchange for business-email addresses.

Crafting persuasive, laser-focused landing pages that compel your target audience to take one valuable action.

Purchasing targeted ad spend on well-performing social media platforms.

Pulling prospects through each stage of our marketing funnel, gradually warming them up for a productive conversation with sales.

APPLY NOW

This ad, for all intents and purposes, is a generic example. It’s designed to illustrate, at a high level, the techniques that make candidates feel something when they read a job ad.

Nonetheless, it’s important to first use your knowledge of the role for which you're hiring to create an accurate ad -- one that reflects your company’s culture and specific needs.

Good luck -- although something tells me you have this one in the bag.

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