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safe return / avatar the last airbender

another summer comes and goes ☽ ☾

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I’m getting close to the end of my BOTW adventures, it is making me reflect and giving me feelings I didn’t expect.

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PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS:

there are several posts going around about how to best help if you witness an ICE raid/arrest as a (white) citizen. many of them are filled with extremely bad, LARP-y advice such as screaming at agents and getting physically close to them. in most cases, this is just going to make things worse for everyone at risk (including yourself). you need to stay calm, and avoid getting someone accused of resisting arrest.

to be clear: most of these fascists dont care about the law. “illegal” is not a magic word you can say to make them stop. and, being a white citizen is not an impenetrable shield. you can still be arrested, so be prepared for that. you are, however, less likely to be arrested, and MUCH less likely to be killed or held extralegally.

here is what you should actually do to help:

record, and make sure your phone auto-backups to a cloud. streaming can be problematic because its best to have lawyers look over the footage first. be aware they might also grab your phone, even without a warrant. if they’re grabbing it out of your hands, try to lock it. make sure you have a pin lock, not pattern or fingerprint. here’s some other ways to protect your phone from cops.

if you are able to film, and have determined it won’t escalate the situation, make it obvious you are doing so, because secretly recording is illegal in several states. narrate any violation of rights you see. here is a Q&A about filming ICE.

stay several feet back from agents, because they can claim you’re impeding them. if you’re recording and they claim this, take several steps back, and announce it as you’re doing so, if you’re filming.

ask if they are free to go, if someone is being approached. if ICE insists on the person asking for themself, and they speak spanish*, tell them “por favor repita: ‘am i free to go?’” (this just means “please repeat”) if the agent says yes, tell them “usted puede dejar”. if not..

calmly inform people of their rights if they are being arrested. they do not have to speak at all to agents, answer any questions without a lawyer, or sign anything. they do have to show their paperwork if they have it, but do NOT have to hand over the paperwork/passport, or consent to a search of themselves/belongings, without a judicial warrant (not administrative! here’s the difference). it is crucial that they give as little information as possible to ICE.

if you speak spanish, list their rights in spanish as well, and translate what the agents are saying. if not, keep the google translate app on your phone – it’s not perfect, but it’s quick/accessible and can download languages for offline use. you can also memorize this sentence: “no tiene que responder/dar su consentimiento” - “you dont have to respond/consent”

get their lawyer’s contact info, if they have one and are being taken away by ICE. many people carry a card with emergency contact info on it, including childcare info and loved ones, so you can offer to call those numbers for them.

call for legal help. do not call the ACLU or other big organizations for immediate help, call your local immigration help center (for New York State, contact IDP at 212-725-6422. for California, call the TRUST hotline at 844-878-7801). United We Dream is an immigrant-lead organization that provides aid nationwide, and can be reached at 844-363-1423. please save these numbers in your phone!

know the ICE rapid response network in your town, and keep their number on hand. if there isn’t one close to you, here’s how to make one.

finally, here are some useful toolkits:

comprehensive ICE response guide

know your rights posters for in-home raid readiness, community flyers, and informative videos

ACLU videos explaining what to do in various situations with ICE

*of course not every immigrant speaks spanish; people from south america are being targeted en masse right now, but may speak many indigenous languages as well as portuguese. so ask if you dont know what language someone speaks, and see if google translate can help.

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hhhhhh

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rowan: protection / magnolia: a love of nature / verbena: an enchantment

secrets series

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i want to see more about jyn erso, daughter of an imperial scientist and a woman who walked fearlessly out to meet her death with the Force at her back. jyn erso, thief and killer and scoundrel, in prison under a false name. jyn erso who is bitter and scared and has no interest in fighting the empire. jyn erso who looks saw gerrera in the eye and says “it’s not a problem if you don’t look up”.

what did it take, i wonder, for that girl-child, not nearly yet a woman, who was saw’s best soldier, to turn away from that fight, that galaxy-spanning fight?

sixteen and the bunker is dark and cold and she doesn’t dare close her eyes because if she does she will no longer be sixteen and her mother will be falling, falling, falling down onto a bed of grass. never to rise again. sixteen, and waiting for her father to appear at the hatch.

only, of course, neither of her fathers do.

how long did she wait? how long did she tap at the fading light, begging it to keep glowing, just a little bit longer, because saw will come back he will he always comes back. how long, until her heart cracked, until that bright shining heat of her conviction burnt itself out.

the symbol of the rebel alliance is a starbird. it is a new woman who arises from the ashes of the girl that saw gerrera left in a bunker to burn herself out.

was that it, i wonder, was that the moment she decided to stop looking up: when she finally dragged herself and her ghosts into the weak daylight of whatever planet the partisans were currently fighting on, did she look to the sky and see imperial flags high, duck her head, and head for a hole to crawl into?

or did she tear the city down, looking for the partisans, only for them to be so long gone, leaving imperial wreckage in their wake, leaving the wreck of a girl in their wake?

did she wonder what she had done wrong, for saw to leave her behind? did she think to herself that maybe it was just that she wasn’t enough, that she wasn’t enough? did she think this was another test, of her loyalty and her skill and her strength?

maybe she spends days or months or years on her own, chasing the shadow of the rebellion, gifting imperial troops with explosives that she stole from their own shipments, cobbled together bombs that she learned to make when she was eight and her small fingers were especially good at delicate wiring. maybe she fights on, keeps fighting that galaxy-spanning fight, with the hopes that if she does enough, saw will come back.

except that all she gets for her troubles are wounds that will never heal. when she skulks passed the site of her latest attack, the walls have already been white-washed again. there is no sign that she ever happened.

how long until she gives up? days or months or years? because it doesn’t matter. everything that she can throw at the empire does not matter in the face of that terrible, towering machine of regulations and fear.

jyn is not enough.

she learns to duck her head, lower her eyes, pull her scarf closer around her face, and puts those skills she fought and bled for to other uses.

i wonder if she laughed when the rebel alliance came to her offering salvation, five years too late.

i wonder if she laughed when she realized they didn’t want her at all, just what they could take from her until she was no longer of use.

(and then, of course, cassian comes back for her.)

((the death star turns jyn into ash and so much stardust. what rose from so much ending? hope.))

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Celebrating a fire that I started with a tampon and the thrill of adventuring on a cold winter day.

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Can we talk about how much more hardcore women’s soccer is than men’s

I mean look

these girls will tear themselves and each other apart

taking risks that most men wouldn’t

and the best part is that they actually get up and keep playing

plus they do fancy shit like this

so don’t tell me women’s soccer is boring or easy

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I am a potato in a field of flowers.

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イカーナの亡霊

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“I always believed you would come. Because I know you…”

(x)

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Hero of Time

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Awaiting His Return

by Art-Zealot

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Zelda - Saria Sketch

by GENZOMAN

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I truly feel Majora’s Mask is a game larger than itself.