#firepoint

[eyerealm]

wanda

[zippityzap]

Just for fun I did a quick redesign of my sona with stronger theming

[italiancarssince1946]

1994 Italdesign Fiat Firepoint

My tumblr-blogs:

www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935

[goodwhump-temp]

Shawn Spencer Whump | Psych

1x02 Spellingg Bee - Motorcycle crash, hospital, knee brace, limp, bumps into bin, pain 1x03 Woman Seeking Dead Husband - Held at gunpoint x2 1x05 Lives - Held at gunpoint 1x06 Weekend Warriors - Held at gunpoint 1x15 Scary Sherry - Nightmare

2x02 65 Million Years Off - Shot at, scared 2x03 Psy vs Psy - Hostage 2x04 Zero to Murder in 60s - Brief boo-boo (chair race sabatoged) 2x05 And Down the Stretch... - Childhood bully 2x07 If You're So Smart... - Bullied by children 2x09 Bounty Hunters! - Handcuffed, jumps off boat, held at gunpoint 2x13 Lights, Camera… - Nearly nailed to death (38:00), character funeral 2x15 Black and Tan - Sad (18:30) 2x16 Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead - Mummy 'curse'

3x01 Ghosts - [Flashback; emo/arrested] Increasingly angry about mothers' return, confrontation, heartbroken 3x04 Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable - Shot at, chased x3, restrained, held at helicopter-point and gunpoint, betrayed 3x06 There Might Be Blood - Held at gunpoint, dangerous confrontation 3x08 Gus Walks Into A Bank - Held back, worried, bank hostage, tight gus hug, manhandled 3x10 Six Feet Under the Sea - Held at gunpoint 3x11 Lassie Did a Bad, Bad Thing - Punched unconscious, hostage, held at gunpoint, pistol whipped, fatherly care, nearly passes out (40:15) 3x12 Earth, Wind And… - Runs into burning building, oxygen mask, held at firepoint, caught in burning building, briefly thought dead, coughing/smoke inhalation 3x13 Any Given Friday Night at 10PM - 'Abducted' 3x14 Truer Lies - Held at gunpoint 3x15 Tuesday the 17th - 'Trips', held at 'knifepoint' 3x16 An Evening with Mr. Yang - Angry, mom held hostage, scared, heartbroken

4x01 Extradition: British Colombia - Held at gunpoint x2 4x02 He Dead - Daddy issues 4x03 High Noon-ish - Stampede/pushed, falls into mineshaft, pain, held at gunpoint, trapped 4x04 Devil is in the Details… - Confession 4x05 Shawn Gets the Yips - Scared/dumb ("bomb" on treadmill) 4x06 Bollywood Homicide - Slapped (39:15) 4x07 High Top Fade Out - Held at gunpoint, shot at 4x09 Shawn Takes A Shot in the Dark - Shot, abducted/missing, bleeding, pain, knocked unconscious, choked, jumps on moving car, weak, sling 4x10 You Can't Handle This Episode - Shot at 4x12 A Very Juliet Episode - Held at gunpoint, punched x2, knocked down x2, kicked 4x16 Mr. Yin Presents - Nightmare, angry, heartbroken x2, fatherly love

5x01 Romeo & Juliet & Juliet - Held at gunpoint, falls through window, kicked through wall, insane dodging skillz, knocked down, sore 5x03 Not Even Close, Encounters - Held at gunpoint/abducted by 'aliens' 5x04 Chivalry is Not Dead - Hanging upside down (tomato face), poisoned, collapse, hospital, unconscious 5x07 Ferry Tale - Held at gunpoint x2, hostage, kicked in the face, tear gas inhalation, restrained, trips/tumbles down a hill 5x09 One, Maybe Two, Ways Out - Seriously heartbroken 5x12 Dual Spires - Trapped in burning house 5x13 We'd Like to Thank the Academy - Held at gunpoint x2 5x16 Yang 3 in 2D - Held at shotgunpoint, scared

6x01 Shawn Rescues Darth Vader - Jumps off roof 6x02 Last Night Gus - Hungover, stressed, jumps from balcony, shot at 6x04 Amazing Psych-Man & Tap-Man - Trips, found unconscious, punched, kicked x2, thrown, sand to the eye, exhausted 6x06 Shawn Interrupted - Mental patient, hands covered, knocked unconscious, restrained, held at gunpoint 6x09 Neil Simons Lover Retreat - Robbed, heartbroken x2 (29:35), smile through the pain (42:00) 6x10 Indiana Shawn and the Temple - Hand stuck, slapped, manhandled, held at gunpoint, 'crying' 6x13 Let's Doo-Wap it Again - Appendicitis, collapse, hospital drama-queen, held at gunpoint, drugged, drugs wear off, le rigor mortis, le pain, le kitty cat! 6x16 Santabarbaratown - Held at knifepoint, knocked unconscious, black-eye

7x01 Santabarbaratown 2 - Scared, angry, thrown, active mine, held at gunpoint x3, Lassie love 7x02 Juliet Takes A Luvvah - Traumatized (27:00) 7x03 Lassie Jerky - Shot at, held at gunpoint 7x04 No Country For Two Old Men - Held at gunpoint 7x06 Cirque Du Soul - Pain from pull-ups 7x07 Deez Nups - Huge confession, heartbroken 7x08 Right Turn Or Left For Dead - Insomnia, regret, depressed, head slammed into glass, bruise, concussion, denial, stabbed, nearly hit by truck, headache, tackled 7x11 Office Space - Poked x2, trips, bloody nose, scared, framed 7x14 No Trout About It - Painful yoga, choked, fired

8x01 Lock, Stock… - Held at gunpoint, "restrained" 8x05 COG Blocked - Jumpscared out of hammock, painful poke, body decked by cane, held at gunpoint 8x07 Shawn & Gus Truck Things Up - Hand squeezed painfully 8x09 Nightmare on State Street - Slapped, zombie 8x10 The Break-Up - Nervous, held at gunpoint, shot at, emotional

[justanotherthrowaway1950]

Sadly, I can top the take on aang and being the main character.

(tw abuse) I once saw someone straight up argue that lok Aang is like Ozai.

But how though? Even in the most uncharitable interpretation possible, Aang was only neglectful towards Bumi II and Kya II and overbearing towards Tenzin because he had to make sure that Tenzin could pass on Air Nomad culture to his descendants and airbending to both his descendants and future Avatars. Meanwhile, Ozai was emotionally, verbally, and physically abusive towards Zuko and emotionally abusive towards Azula solely due to his imperial ambitions. Furthermore, Ozai even attempted to kill Zuko no less than three times and was willing to use both his kids as collateral against Ursa.

Despite having daddy issues well into their 50s, Aang's kids grow up to be mostly well-adjusted individuals who make positive contributions to society. Moreover, they admit in TLOK S2 that despite their problems, they were a happy family.

Meanwhile, Ozai turns Azula into a socially incompetent, social pariah who is only good for conquest, driving her insane in the process, and the only reason why Zuko doesn't suffer a similar fate is due to spending three years away from him and his mother and uncle being able to influence him down a better path due to Ozai's neglect.

Not to mention, Aang was in a loving marriage with Katara in which they supported each and they treated each other as equals while Ozai, along with his father, kidnapped and married Ursa at firepoint and was implied to be emotionally, verbally, and physically abusive towards her on top of being a martial rapist.

Did that person even watch either show or read any of the extended universe?

[kamishiro-kenshin]

>idk what that means

Polyamorous firepoint

searched up what polyamorous is sounds complicated

[plumadot]

i made my first proper dnd character!! A civilian tabaxi firepoint ragdoll named Harvestmoon under Canopy Tree :) He's a cobbler who lost his leg and part of his tail to a bandit attack :(

OHHHHH lovelyyyyy ;v; he sounds so whimsical i love it!!! what's his class? :o

[rossithepixie]

Took a trip to a cat rescue today since my roommate is looking to get a cat. Here is a very small sample of some of the babies we looked at

Tortie is named merryweather, grey boy is wuzzy and the tuxedo is named bagel.

Bagel was probably my favorite. There’s also a not pictured firepoint siamese that they applied for.

[randomvarious]

Tom Robinson - "Big Boss Man" Firepoint Song recorded in mid-1960s? Compilation released in 1969. Folk-Blues

Alright, just so we’re clear here, despite the fact that YouTube seems to think that this song is by the queer British punk and new wave icon Tom Robinson who’s now a BBC radio host, I don't think that this song is actually by him. In fact, I think that this is most likely a different British Tom Robinson entirely; a Tom Robinson that I can find little to no information about, besides the fact that he apparently goes by T.J. Robinson and was in a band called Heron with British reggae guy G.T. Moore for a time. And that’s pretty much all I've got on him.

Sometime in the mid-60s, though, during a sustained period of folk and blues revivalism in the UK, Robinson recorded a cover of American blues legend Jimmy Reed's own "Big Boss Man" for a brilliant British acoustic folk-blues compilation called Firepoint that is very lightly treaded on both Spotify and YouTube, and is definitely worth checking out. It stars an amazing bottleneck guitarist named Mike Cooper, who was partly responsible for conceiving the album itself, but it also has this great track from Robinson on it too. Rich and messy, squealy strings abound with some harmonica as well. Just some beautifully imperfect, totally obscure, heartfelt stuff here 🥰.

[dankalbumart]

Firepoint by Various Artists Music Man 1969 Folk-Blues / Folk / Blues

[nishikawa-jun]

for some reason i feel like my friends and i are being reluctantly drawn right now. who the firepoint is drawing us

[fire-point-official]

poly firepoint when 🔥🔥

when kenshim kills himself

[justanotherthrowaway1950]

"Zuko looks like he can be either 3 or 4 years old, and Azula is a baby. So you're telling me that she reminds Ursa of Ozai at....one years old?"

I don't think that a toddler Azula reminds Ursa of Ozai, I think Ursa (unconsciously) resents Azula for being the child of prophecy, as far as she is concerned, that caused Azulon and Ozai to kidnap her at firepoint and force her to marry Ozai and bear his kids against her will.

Or in other words, the reason why her life went to hell.

Remember, most firebenders are born with a "spark" in their eyes, or at least Ozai thinks they are. Unlike Zuko, Azula was probably born with a very strong spark in her eyes, pleasing Ozai since at least one of his kids wouldn't be a "dud", and in all likeihood, would be a firebending prodigy that more than justified his marriage to Ursa.

Imagine your kidnapper and rapist getting what they wanted from you and more when they kidnapped you and raped you? Wouldn't you be liable to hold resentment and anger towards the person(s) and/or thing(s) that made your kidnapper and rapist happy and justified their actions in their head, even if said person(s) and/or thing(s) were innocent?

I think a similar logic applies to Ursa's reaction to Azula unlocking her firebending, as seen in Spirit Temple.

Also, there is a good chance that Ursa (unconsciously) feared and resented Azula due to the threat she represented to Zuko. Ozai would have thrown Zuko out as a baby for lacking the spark as a newborn if not for Ursa and the Fire Sages convincing him otherwise. It wouldn't be illogical for Ursa to assume that once Azula proved herself to be a viable heir by his standards, Ozai would remove Zuko from the picture, and therefore fear and resent Azula for her very existence.

It wouldn't surprise me if Ursa tried convincing Ozai that Zuko was enough due to realizing the threat a more gifted sibling would pose to Zuko's life when Ozai indicated he wanted another child due to not being happy with Zuko, only for Ozai to violently force himself upon Ursa until she became pregnant with Azula. Whereas with Zuko's conception, while Ozai still raped her (sex by implicit coercion is rape), it was not as violent and didn't pose a threat to already existing child of hers.

"Never having the character own up to said flaws and writing it as if it were a good thing, and pretending that they did nothing wrong."

Yeah, I don't understand why they don't have Ursa acknowledge the resentment and anger she very likely must have held towards Azula for being the embodiment of what caused her life to go to hell and possibly due to the threat her very existence posed to Zuko?

Hell, I don't understand why we haven't see Ursa acknowledge on panel that part of the reason why she likely liked Zuko was because she could pretend he was the child she could have had with Ikem?

Even though you could headcanon that the former happened off-panel in between The Search and Smoke & Shadow and the latter will occur when Ursa and Azula eventually have a heart-to-heart conversation, I wish we got to see them in the comics.

I don't think it would take away from Azula's agency or be a form of victim blaming, but further explain and clarify how Ozai's abuse affected his kids and former wife and their relationships with each other.

Had some more thoughts about the letter Ursa wrote to Ikem about her only comfort in her marriage to Ozai is her and Ikem's son, Zuko. And I realized something. I know that a lot of people in the fandom say that the reason why she didn't include Azula in that letter is because Azula reminded her too much of Ozai, and other stuff like that. But there's just one problem. When Ursa writes that letter? This is how old both Zuko and Azula are:

Zuko looks like he can be either 3 or 4 years old, and Azula is a baby. So you're telling me that she reminds Ursa of Ozai at....one years old? At best? Yeah, no. It's just more bad writing and Yang not understanding the characters to the point where he thinks that this actually makes Ursa more sympathetic. Which, it does, if you don't really think all to much about it. But in reality, all it does is make her look worse and worse as a mother. And again, that's fine. Character flaws are good. It makes the characters more interesting. You know what's not interesting? Never having the character own up to said flaws and writing it as if it were a good thing, and pretending that they did nothing wrong. And acting like the people who rightfully have issues with that character because of these flaws are in the wrong and crazy.

[cythraul]

PC a Week: Cryonix

Some friends and I are rolling up a player character in a new RPG system each week.

Anyway, here's mine from last week, using the recent Transformers RPG from Renegade Game Studios.

Cryonix

Essence & Skills

Strength 6: Athletics 0, Brawn 1, Conditioning 1, Intimidation 0, Might 5

Speed 2: Acrobatics 0, Driving 0, Finesse 0, Infiltration 0, Initiative 1, Targeting 1

Smarts 3: Alertness 1, Culture 1, Science 0, Survival 0, Technology 1

Social 4: Animal Handling 0, Deception 0, Performance 1, Persuasion (Counseling): 2, Streetwise 0

Languages: Cybertronian, English, Inuktitut

Health: 4 / 4

Defenses: Toughness 17, Evasion 12, Willpower 13, Cleverness 14

Bureaucrat

Perk: When using the Lend Assistance action, you can grant the recipient both an Edge and a ↑1 to their Skill Test.

Job Function: Counselor

Background Bond:  I evaluate all members of my team for efficiency, so my job is easier and more effective.

Monolith

Large and In Charge: Up-Shift on Persuasion if the target is smaller than me.

Bot Mode: 20’ ground, Huge, Fine Motor

Alt Mode (Truck with Snow Plow): 45’ ground, Extended, crew 6, firepoints 4, Limited Articulation

Special Attack: Ram (Driving)

Field Commander

Perks: Issue Command, Prepare for War, For the Allspark!, Never Forsaken, Bend a Knee or Stand Tall

Focus: Ambassador

Issue Command, Prepare for War

Qualifications

Limited Armor Upgrades, Ballistic Weapons, Melee Weapons

Equipment

Blaster / left hand

Close Combat Bludgeon / right hand

Rifle / integrated (2)

frag grenade

concussion grenade

Increased Armor

Description

Cryonix is a gentle giant, using his bulk to interpose between his team and danger.  He’s slow-moving, but inexorable.  He’s more thoughtful than brilliant, and inspires loyalty in those who serve with him.

His alt mode here on Earth is a big white truck with a snowplow on the front.

Prior to the war with the Decepticons, Cryonix was a therapist.

[that-seems-stupid-lets-do-it]

A Raging Wildfire's Challenge! Setsuko Miyawaki trained 4* @bobcross1010 firepoint is so cool... i hope i did setsuko justice in this

[justanotherthrowaway1950]

(tw death, murder) Some ATLA thoughts about the argument "Azula would be worse if the show was for adults", Updated:

I still think that ATLA was dark enough to show Azula as a mass murderer/torturer. Jet was killed. All those firenation soldiers were killed. This happened during the show, and not before. On screen.

If you add the comics then there's even more reason to think that ATLA could've let Azula kill and torture indiscriminately, bc the comics are a lot darker than the show...

And anyone remember the scene where the Earth Kingdom soldiers mentioned that the fire nation tricked earthbenders into killing their own men?

Plus Azula is a villain who actually tried to kill people before. And nearly succeeded.

ALSO:

Ninjago (a kid's show) has a whole season where it's revealed that something the protagonist did before redemption killed people. Said protagonist was around 11 or so during that time.

Like that's dark and a child's show.

To be quite honest, I often vacillate on whether Azula would be worse if the show, and more generally the franchise, was for adults, but I think Azula would have been worse if the franchise was for adults.

On the one hand, the franchise doesn't shy away from dealing with adult topics like genocide, death, trauma, child abuse, and martial abuse and rape, among other things. But on the other hand, the franchise rarely, if ever, realistically and/or directly depict characters dealing with or acknowledging such topics.

For example, Jet and Aang were shown to have died on-screen, but the show never explicitly says they died, instead opting to imply that they died or are going to die, like when Aang told Katara "I was gone! But you brought me back." or when Toph confirmed Jet was lying when he told Katara he would be fine. In fact, the show during The Ember Island Players makes fun of itself for never explicitly saying that Jet died, and Yang felt that he had to state in an author's note in the library edition of The Promise that Jet did die.

Even though getting shot by lightning and dying before spending several weeks in a coma has to be highly traumatic, and we see characters like Zuko and Katara struggle dealing with relatively less severe trauma for years, after The Awakening, Aang is never seen or implied to be dealing with trauma related to his death and resurrection, presumably because any realistic depiction would be beyond the scope of a children's TV show.

Zuko was burned by Ozai on screen, but only in an indirect manner. Moreover, we have never seen the direct aftermath; the next time the audience sees Zuko, chronologically speaking, he has already started to actively search for Aang, and other than an eye patch, doesn't seem worse for the wear.

The comics show us that the Royal Family forced Ursa to marry Ozai and bear his kids at firepoint and deal with emotional, verbal, and (implied) physical abuse. The comics also show Ursa dealing with PTSD from her time as Ozai's wife. But the comics fail to explicitly state that Ursa was the victim of martial rape, or show any physical abuse.

The show does show or refer to several large scale battles, like the Siege of the North and Siege of Ba Sing Se. But we never see anybody strewn out on the battlefield or anyone getting maimed. Not even Lu Ten, even though we know thanks to Legacy of the Fire Nation that Iroh saw him laying on the battlefield as he died.

And speaking of Iroh, it is very telling that, despite there being constant references to his days as a celebrated Fire Nation general, we never see him being confronted by a victim of his campaigns or an Earth Kingdom town or village dealing with the aftermath of Iroh conquering them. Nor do we ever see or hear about Iroh's participation in Azulon's government, even though he logically had to since he was Azulon's heir, and so Azulon would have been grooming him to take throne.

(Yes, I am aware that the roleplaying game makes it canon that the Rough Rhinos were under Iroh's command when they burned Jet's village. But Jet did not know that when he confronted Iroh and Zuko in Ba Sing Se; he confronted them because solely because he thought they were Fire Nationals.)

Likewise, it is very telling that we never see flashbacks of Jeong Jeong or Piandao's time in the Fire Nation military, or see or hear about any potential victims of theirs.

I could go on, but the point is that even though the franchise is willing to deal with dark topics, it avoided dealing with them in a realistic or overt manner. Moreover, if it would make a character intended to elicit the audience's sympathy or empathy look too monstrous to invoke such a reaction, a character's less than savory past and actions were deliberately put of focus. So, considering Azula was intended to at least elicit the audience's empathy, she follows the storytelling guardrails I identified above.

It's why Iroh and Zuko make allusions to the fact that Azula has traitors and prisoners tortured, but the franchise has never as of the time of this post never gone into detail.

It's why Azula tells Sokka that Suki was her favorite prisoner, but it is later revealed that Azula only had one interaction with Suki after the Kyoshi Warriors' defeat, and it was mostly filled with one sided gloating by Azula and an ultimately futile attempt to break Suki with words. Moreover, Suki is never seen dealing with any medium to long-term effects from her imprisonment. Though to be fair, Azula implies she sent Suki to the Boiling Rock in part due to the tortious conditions present, and Suki barely breaking down is solely due to her resiliency and mental strength.

It's why Azula doesn't kill Mai after her "betrayal", even though it would be a guaranteed way to mentally break Zuko.

It's why Azula chooses to banish the Palace servants, the Imperial Firebenders, and the Dai Li, even though in the past she is shown to be more than fine with killing perceived threats.

And it's why Azula doesn't kill or seriously maim any of the kids she and Fire Warriors kidnapped, even though it would have caused Zuko to snap and become a tyrant like she wanted him to become.