#thomas king

[dandeliannes]

EDWIN PAYNE: "YOU ARE MY PAIN, DIVINE, DIVINE"

my very first dbd edit !!!

i really love how edwin interacted with the other characters in this show. it was originally supposed to be just a painland/payneland edit but i wanted more so i added everyone 😭 really really love how this turned out ! this show is so special to me ♥

also thought that come back to me was perfect for edwin so i just had to make this :')

[damnesdelamer]

DECOLONIAL ACTION READING

I recently compiled these to add to a comrade’s post about Land Back, but actually I think they deserve their own post as well.

Amílcar Cabral - Return To The Source

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched Of The Earth

Hô Chí Minh - archive via Marxists.org

Thomas King - The Inconvenient Indian

Abdullah Öcalan - Women’s Revolution & Democratic Confederalism

Edward Said - The Question Of Palestine

Thomas Sankara - archive via Marxists.org

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor

Other key names in postcolonial theory and its practical application include:

Sara Ahmed

Homi K. Bhabha

Aimé Césaire

Albert Memmi

Jean-Paul Sartre

Léopold Séder Senghor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

All of these will help you interpret and confront the realities of colonisation, and ideally help us understand and extend solidarity to comrades around the globe. Decolonise your mind, and don't stop there!

[nix-nihili]

dead boy detectives textposts as starboarded (and other) messages from the dead gay detectives server part five!!

and then, a story told in way too many parts:

1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13

6, 7, 11, 12 by @idliketobeatree

8 by @aletterinthenameofsanity

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Dead Boy Detectives Victor AU Edits (pt. 5!)

And three parter:

Once again. I am having feelings. And editing these things (aka dicking around on a sidequest, as I have come to call it) gives me inspiration to write when I'm slowing down on Chapter 5 of the amnesia fic (which is already at 9.8k and is nowhere near done). So here y'all go!

As always, here is the series:

@deadboy-edwin @icecreambrownies @anonymousbooknerd-universe @magpiemarten @ashildrs

@hartigays @tragedy-machine @just-existing-as-you-do-blog @orpheusetude @mj-irvine-selby

@pappelsiin @itsbitmxdinhere @rexrevri @sweet-like-h0ney-lavender @saffirez

@the-ipre @sunnylemonss @days-light @agentearthling @helltechnicality

@tiredghostby @sethlost @catboy-cabin @secretlyafiveheadeddragon @vyther15

@anything-thats-rock-and-roll @queen-of-hobgobblers @every-moment-a-different-sound

[amixofpixels]

The power of the redheads compels you.

Okie pokie, down here is where I talk stuff and why I have founders again. I had thoughts that turned into decisions to completely reboot my tree. Not like last time, but a complete redo. I wasn't happy with it, I changed rulings and again, was frustrated by the decisions of former me.

My trio of Daisy, Argus and Vivian remained. I switched Max for Thomas as I do honestly enjoy his challenge, and I want to get to it early. Charlie was a flip between him and Pitch, but I would honestly, like a small legacy that isn't a second pgc in this round. 😅

I know, I know, I am a messy kind of player, but heyo, it is my blog and my game. Some of these babies got minor tweaks, mainly the redheads got even more ginger, minus Charlie. He stayed the same. Argus and Daisy got a few new tweaks too.

So, long story short, all of my blog minus this and the favourites, oh and any random makes I did and if I had spouses made for me they are still around too, is non existent anymore,. I may post new kids, I may not, I will post whatever I feel like. Bye now.

[k-wame]

THOMAS KING & SUNI SHARMA Emmerdale · 05.10.2023 » 08.02.2024

[dannymillerfansite]

Emmerdale 04.04.24 Part 3

Aaron returns from his appointment with Liam to find Ruby mid rant at Chas and his family as a mortified Caleb looks on, Ruby's feeling like she's in competition with them all for Caleb's love & affection, she's desperate, deranged & trying to fight for him.

Aaron listens bewildered as Ruby is going nuclear on his family, as Caleb tries to intervene and pull her away she lashes out at him & accidentally elbows Chas in the chest who hasn't even fully recovered from her double mastectomy surgery in the area yet.

As Chas is recovering from the elbow to the chest courtesy of Ruby, Aaron insists he's calling Liam to look over her, despite her protests as Caleb gives Ruby her marching orders.

Aaron is now helping look after the pub, while Charity is looking after his mum in the back after what happened earlier. Belle is upset about the 'break in' & Tom is comforting her, he bizarrely asks Aaron where Charity is as Aaron is getting him in a pint.

[manwalksintobar]

COYOTE GOES TO TORONTO  // Thomas King

Coyote went to Toronto      to become famous. It's TRUE      that's what she said.

She walked up and down those      FAMOUS streets. And she stood on those      FAMOUS corners. Waiting.

But nothing happened.

so. Coyote got hungry and went      into a restaurant      to EAT.

But there was a long line      and Coyote could see it was      because the restaurant was      painted a BEAUTIFUL green.

so. Coyote painted herself GREEN      and she went back to the rez      to show the people what an      UP TO DATE Coyote she was.

And she STOOD on the rez      and waited. So that RAIN came along. So that WIND came along. So that HAIL came along. So that SNOW came along.

And that PAINT began to peel      and pretty soon the people      came along and says, HEY, that's Coyote, by golly      she's not looking too good.

And the women brought her FOOD. And the men brushed her COAT      until it was shiney. And the children PLAYED with      their friend.

I been to Toronto Coyote tells      the people. Yes, everybody says, We can SEE that.

[emmerdale-character-bracket]

Round 1

[sundaynightlive]

Things I highlighted in ‘The Back of the Turtle’ by Thomas King pt 1 (yes, my tik tok is @librarysundae)

[emmalwrites]

Spring/Summer 2022 Favourite Reads

More suggestions from my bookshelf. #summerfavourites #favouritebooks

Read my Spring/Summer 2022 Favourite Sounds here. Alfabet/Alphabet: A Memoir of a First Language by Sadiqa de Meijer Winner of the 2021 Governor General Literary Award for Non-fiction. Finding this book about the adjustment from Dutch language and culture to Canadian was somewhat serendipitous, since my father made the same journey a few years before I was born. De Meijer’s story offered me…

[fckbatmanhiskidsareminenow]

multilingual batkids. they learn each others languages so they can mix and match. for example:

tim in french: have you figured out how we’re gonna tell b we’re not going to that gala yet?

damian in arabic: no i thought that was thomas’ job?

duke french: me? no jason said he’d do something

jason in arabic: hey don’t drag me into this!

dick in romani: i’m gonna kill him i really i am

steph in russian: who are we killing?

dick in english: ah! nobody! wait i didn’t know you spoke romani

tim in greek: you’re an asshole

jason in english: wait my greek is rusty say it again slowly

tim in greek: you’re an asshole

jason: …. you motherfucker

cass signing: nice drawing

damian in chinese: thank you

dick yelling at bruce about something he did

jason in spanish: what language is he speaking right now?

tim also in spanish: uh all of them i think

jason: does bruce even know-

tim: no he doesn’t

[courtneywhitless]

Thomas King - One Good Story, that One

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Dead Boy Detectives Victor Edits: Nix Comments Edition!

Everyone say hi to the most iconic commenter of the bunch! (These are half-shitposts and half serious. The VibesTM were rapidly alternating.)

Also, MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!

And Nix's crowning magnum opus:

Everyone say thanks to @nix-nihili, absolute icon!

[ditzybat]

non-gotham locals think the most prolific bat-villain is the joker, or scarecrow, even the riddler — or any of their assorted highly dangerous deluded rogues.

but a real gothamite knows how big a pain in the ass condiment king is, in fact, urban legend says that the bat kids have formed a pact to not tell batman if condiment king just happens to turn up… at the bottom of gotham harbor.

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

Sort of bums me out that so many people didn't seem to Get the Cat King so here are my thoughts:

So let's start with Edwin's crime. He uses something the cat desires (a sardine) to lure the cat to him and then uses an enchanted string to trap the cat with magic. He demands the answer to a question in exchange for its release. Edwin knows it is dangerous to use magic on a cat, that it violates Rules but he does it anyway.

Binding a creature and agreeing to set them free under a certain condition is very Classic Fairytale. its also a favourite trope of Neil Gaiman's (he did not write this show but his influence is there). In both the Sandman and his novel Stardust (and the film adaptation) trapping a creature with magic and demanding a task/favour in exchange for their freedom is an extremely important plot point. Edwin binding a cat and demanding an answer in exchange is exactly in line with this Fairytale trope

And so is the Cat Kings response. The Cat King is a trickster. What he does to Edwin is exactly what Edwin did to one of his subjects. He entices Edwin, he binds him with magic and when Edwin demands to be free he turns his own words against him "why all the fuss for one little spell?" Edwin did something wrong. He imposed his will/magic on another creature and the Cat King is punishing him for it in a way that is poetic. Its fairytale. its trickster. its classic.

I've also seen people complain that the task Edwin was given 'count all the cats' is 'impossible'...except its fucking not. Edwin does it. He does it so well he actually BEATS the Cat King ("you didn't count yourself" Are.You.Kidding.Me. Classic!Fairytale!Vibes!)

The Cat Kings choice to bind Edwin to Port Townsend is good on so many levels. From a storytelling perspective it forces characters who can travel anywhere in the world to stay in one place, and increases the stakes for these characters who are supposed to be on the run. From a genre perspective...its an excellent use of fairytale tropes using both Rules of magic, a protagonist who is unkind to a seemingly weak creature who is punished by a more powerful law, a binding, a task to complete, etc

Which just leaves the character perspective which it ALSO does really fucking well and introduces the final aspect to the Cat Kings character. He's seductive. He is responsible for Edwin, 100 years old ghost boy, finally unpacking his internalized homophpbia. he is the catalyst (cat pun not intended)

He pushes Edwin, challenges him, at times literally forces the truth out of Edwin, but he really never does violate his consent. Significantly Edwin is attracted to him, like its an important part of his character that he is. He may not like the Cat King but he is attracted to him!

The Cat King is such a great example of a trickster, a morally grey character who imposes a sense of justice on Edwin after he crosses a line, but also has his own selfish interests and meddles. Hes so important to the plot of the show, to Edwin's character arc, to the genre.

And he's just fun. Unapologetically queer, powerful, complicated. Silly little outfits. Petty cat behavior. Deep heart.

Some of you just didn't get it. And I'm sorry for you. because the Cat King is Excellent actually.