#nova Andrews

[crawlhometohozier]

Hey, do you want to listen to more Hozier?

Search up The Nova collection on youtube! Some of their videos have Hozier on vocals and some of their videos go back to before take me to church. (Plus Hozier looks like a massive hipster in the videos)

[probablymoons]

[are-you-romanticizing-murder]

Callum Nova, Hannibal Lecter, Victor Val and Andrew Minyard nightmare blunt rotation.

[parragone]

color mockups and height approximations of three of my five "villains"! Outlaw is much smaller than his ego would imply-

[ fun note; the more blue their suit, the more likely they'll act heroically even as a villain ]

Incog is a telepathy-strength suit with a mysterious, reflective mask. While they kill when necessary, they avoid doing so, since the dead can't learn a lesson. Arrogant and ruthless to their own detriment.

Acadia is a telepathy-armor suit with an ornate, imposing mask. While she has killed before, she avoids doing so now out of regret; there's only one person who needs to die, and she's still out of reach. Cautious to a fault.

Outlaw is a telepathy-speed suit with an imposing, simple mask. He has not killed, and is known for saving the innocent if they are in danger while he's out and about. He's closer to a hero than he thinks. daring and arrogant, but too kind for his own good.

[victor-v]

oh man i love polls

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

We’re just dropping bombs here like it is going out of style... turns out it was Chord who killed Dwayne’s family... woof... 

[blogdorogerinho]

Críticas — O Protetor: Capítulo Final (2023), Chamas da Vingança (2004), O Livro de Eli (2010)

Denzel Washington vai parar com os filmes de ação?  Os filmes de ação parecem estar com os dias contados para o astro de 68 anos; afinal todo mundo envelhece algum dia. Isso ficou evidente após O Protetor: Capítulo Final (2023), em razão do número reduzido de cenas de ação, apesar do novo trabalho dirigido por Antoine Fuqua estar no mesmo nível dos demais. Contudo, o último capítulo da aclamada…

[xtruss]

What Happened When a Fearless Group of Mississippi Sharecroppers Founded Their Own City

Strike City was born after one small community left the plantation to live on their own terms

— September 11, 2023 | NOVA—BPS

A tin sign demarcated the boundary of Strike City just outside Leland, Mississippi. Photo by Charlie Steiner

In 1965 in the Mississippi Delta, things were not all that different than they had been 100 years earlier. Cotton was still King—and somebody needed to pick it. After the abolition of slavery, much of the labor for the region’s cotton economy was provided by Black sharecroppers, who were not technically enslaved, but operated in much the same way: working the fields of white plantation owners for essentially no profit. To make matters worse, by 1965, mechanized agriculture began to push sharecroppers out of what little employment they had. Many in the Delta had reached their breaking point.

In April of that year, following months of organizing, 45 local farm workers founded the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. The MFLU’s platform included demands for a minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, medical coverage and an end to plantation work for children under the age of 16, whose educations were severely compromised by the sharecropping system. Within weeks of its founding, strikes under the MFLU banner began to spread across the Delta.

Five miles outside the small town of Leland, Mississippi, a group of Black Tenant Farmers led by John Henry Sylvester voted to go on strike. Sylvester, a tractor driver and mechanic at the A.L. Andrews Plantation, wanted fair treatment and prospects for a better future for his family. “I don’t want my children to grow up dumb like I did,” he told a reporter, with characteristic humility. In fact it was Sylvester’s organizational prowess and vision that gave the strikers direction and resolve. They would need both. The Andrews workers were immediately evicted from their homes. Undeterred, they moved their families to a local building owned by a Baptist Educational Association, but were eventually evicted there as well.

After two months of striking, and now facing homelessness for a second time, the strikers made a bold move. With just 13 donated tents, the strikers bought five acres of land from a local Black Farmer and decided that they would remain there, on strike, for as long as it took. Strike City was born. Frank Smith was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worker when he went to live with the strikers just outside Leland. “They wanted to stay within eyesight of the plantation,” said Smith, now Executive Director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, D.C. “They were not scared.”

Life in Strike City was difficult. Not only did the strikers have to deal with one of Missississippi’s coldest winters in history, they also had to endure the periodic gunshots fired by white agitators over their tents at night. Yet the strikers were determined. “We ain’t going out of the state of Mississippi. We gonna stay right here, fighting for what is ours,” one of them told a documentary film team, who captured the strikers’ daily experience in a short film called “Strike City.” “We decided we wouldn’t run,” another assented. “If we run now, we always will be running.”

But the strikers knew that if their city was going to survive, they would need more resources. In an effort to secure federal grants from the federal government’s Office of Economic Opportunity, the strikers, led by Sylvester and Smith, journeyed all the way to Washington D.C. “We’re here because Washington seems to run on a different schedule,” Smith told congressmen, stressing the urgency of the situation and the group’s needs for funds. “We have to get started right away. When you live in a tent and people shoot at you at night and your kids can’t take a bath and your wife has no privacy, a month can be a long time, even a day…Kids can’t grow up in Strike City and have any kind of a chance.” In a symbolic demonstration of their plight, the strikers set up a row of tents across the street from the White House.

John Henry Sylvester, left, stands outside one of the tents strikers erected in Washington, D.C. in April 1966. Photo by Rowland Sherman

“It was a good, dramatic, in-your-face presentation,” Smith told American Experience, nearly 60 years after the strikers camped out. “It didn’t do much to shake anything out of the Congress of the United States or the President and his Cabinet. But it gave us a feeling that we’d done something to help ourselves.” The protestors returned home empty-handed. Nevertheless, the residents of Strike City had secured enough funds from a Chicago-based organization to begin the construction of permanent brick homes; and to provide local Black children with a literacy program, which was held in a wood-and-cinder-block community center they erected.

The long-term sustainability of Strike City, however, depended on the creation of a self-sufficient economy. Early on, Strike City residents had earned money by handcrafting nativity scenes, but this proved inadequate. Soon, Strike City residents were planning on constructing a brick factory that would provide employment and building material for the settlement’s expansion. But the $25,000 price tag of the project proved to be too much, and with no employment, many strikers began to drift away. Strike City never recovered.

Still, its direct impact was apparent when, in 1965, Mississippi schools reluctantly complied with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by offering a freedom-of-choice period in which children were purportedly allowed to register at any school of their choice. In reality, however, most Black parents were too afraid to send their children to all-white schools—except for the parents living at Strike City who had already radically declared their independence . Once Leland’s public schools were legally open to them, Strike City kids were the first ones to register. Their parents’ determination to give them a better life had already begun to pay dividends.

Smith recalled driving Strike City’s children to their first day of school in the fall of 1970. “I remember when I dropped them off, they jumped out and ran in, and I said, ‘They don't have a clue what they were getting themselves into.’ But you know kids are innocent and they’re always braver than we think they are. And they went in there like it was their schoolhouse. Like they belonged there like everybody else.”

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #109 - "Determined"

Originally posted on March 19th, 2008

Story - Josh van Reyk Art, Letters - Andrew Griffith

deviantART | Seibertron | TFW2005 | BotTalk

wada sez: Omega Supreme first appeared without fanfare in the Sunbow cartoon in “Blaster Blues”; his reasons for travelling to Earth were further explored in “The Secret of Omega Supreme”, forming the basis of this strip. On the generic seekers appearing here, Andrew Griffith says: “Those colors were based on the script calling for a Green Seeker and a Yellow Seeker and I thought why not make one a Conehead?” I expect the colour choices were inspired by the “Rainmakers” seen earlier in the cartoon, so I’ve tagged the characters appropriately as Acid Storm and Nova Storm—sue me. In the notes, writer/editor Josh van Reyk claims this is the 100th Mosaic to be released, having selected it for such a milestone. Why the discrepancy with the Seibertron count? Well, he's assuredly not counting the seven pre-Mosaic strips originally made for the Allspark forums, republished as part of the project. But that means there's two more he didn't count, and I don't have any hypothesis as to which those might be!

[leitoracomcompanhia]

Puritanos

Eram seguramente os puritanos, o novo povo escolhido por Deus, que tinham nas mãos os destinos da Humanidade. Ao contrário dos hebreus, que haviam fracassado perante Deus ao recusarem aceitar seu filho, estes colonos ingleses escreveriam o capítulo final da História antes de o Céu e a Terra se unirem por fim. Tal como Noé na sua arca, tinham atravessado o vasto dilúvio oceânico a fim de cumprirem a sua santa missão.”

Paul Auster, “A Trilogia de Nova Iorque”; gravura de L. C. Andrews, a partir de pintura de  P. F. Rothermel. 

[edsonjnovaes]

OS GRINGOS COMEÇARAM A COPIAR/QUERER A MESMA FAMA DO GREG

@southamericamemes os cara aprenderam a farmar seguidores #southamericamemes ♬ som original – de tudo um pouco Os caras aprenderam a formar seguidores. @South America Memes – Tik Tok OS GRINGOS COMEÇARAM A COPIAR/QUERER A MESMA FAMA DO GREG – imKary5. 07 abr 2024 Canal Secundario:    / @karyzinhaofc   Roblox: @imk4ry Após Vincent Martella, ator de Todo Mundo Odeia o Chris (Everybody Hates…

[ironcladfoundry]

Ironclad 5: Blood Red

Pages 62-65

[mitjalovse]

David Bowie's period from the middle of the 70's also happened thanks to a set of people that made his sonic transformation possible and … yes, I forgot to mention his cohabitation with Iggy Pop during Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, since Pop benefitted greatly with this, he made some of his best albums then. Pop did struggle after this collaboration, so Bowie appearing on one song from Soldier does seem to be an attempt to capture what they did in Berlin, yet … the tune actually projects Bowie's problems during the 80's somehow. There are some good intentions, yet the entire track feels like two people hoping to understand what made them them by applying the wrong lessons. Still, Bowie didn't give up on his friend, though they never reached the heights of Berlin again.

[hauntingsoundtracks]

The Craft, Andrew Fleming

I Have The Touch, Heather Nova

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Shit absolutely hits the fan.. Chord actually takes some shots at Sil and Thrasher when confronted, and finally when the house of cards starts to crumble, Chord hints that there is some lady who is actually pulling the shots and he is so much more scared of this mysterious figure than he actually is of dying to the point where he straight up tries to blow his brains out, the team just barely saving his life...

[andrewdmeyer]

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