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Shippers claiming everything Steve did in the movies was because of Bucky is reductive of Steve's character.

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My Journey to Escape the War in Gaza

My name is Abdelmajed. I never imagined I’d be sharing my story like this, but life in Gaza has become unbearable. I am a survivor of the war here, and in the blink of an eye, everything I once knew—my home, my safety, my community—was ripped away from me.

The war has transformed Gaza into a graveyard of broken dreams. The buildings that once stood as symbols of life and resilience are now piles of rubble. Every corner is filled with the echoes of explosions. Every moment is shrouded in uncertainty. There is no security. There is no stability. There is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Basic needs have become luxuries. Food is scarce. Clean water is even scarcer. Hospitals are overwhelmed and under-resourced, and there is almost no medical care to be found. Every night, families go to bed hungry, praying they’ll wake up to see another day. The cost of basic necessities has skyrocketed, and it’s become a daily battle just to survive.

I’ve seen things I never thought possible—standing in long lines for a piece of bread, rationing every drop of water, and watching my people suffer in silence. I have lost everything—my home, my safety, my dignity.

Escape from Gaza is my only hope, but it’s almost impossible without financial help. The cost of evacuation is far beyond my means, and without support, I’m trapped in a warzone with no way out.

I’m reaching out to you now, in the hopes that someone, anyone, can help. I am not asking for luxury. I am asking for a chance—just a chance—to live. A chance to escape this never-ending cycle of fear, destruction, and loss. A chance to rebuild my life somewhere safe, where I can begin again, where I can find hope once more.

Any amount you can give will help me get closer to safety. Even the smallest donation will make a difference—it could be the lifeline I need to survive. If you are unable to donate, please share my story. The more people who hear it, the better the chance that I can find the support I desperately need.

Your kindness and support mean the world to me. You’re not just helping me escape a war; you’re giving me a chance to live, to rebuild, to breathe again.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for caring.

Vetted by @gazavetters

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I got the same impression from Denning’s Fate of the Jedi writing. The way Luke is written makes him seem remarkably cold and ruthless compared to his film characterization

I realize that at least part of Denning's thought process when having Luke do things like deliberately make Jaina think she shot him down and killed him, or knowingly send Ben on a doomed mission to get captured and tortured, was that these were just situations where an optimal solution doesn't exist, and Luke's just doing the least terrible thing he can in the situational context.

And I think that would have worked if Denning's Luke had shown compassion in the first place, to contrast the times he ends up having to make those kinds of gut-wrenchingly cold choices.

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This is beautiful

New art from the displate collection

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I'm gonna say it. I don't like when people go "Kyoshi was controlling Aang here" when Aang does anything remotely powerful in the avatar state. In the Kyoshi novels it's pretty much established the avatar state doesn't work that way (she described it as being conscious but having thousands of voices influence her actions, when you control the avatar state you can choose not to listen, it's not One past avatar that takes over) and it also undermines Aang's power and fighting spirit. Just because Aang is a pacifist doesn't mean he can't give someone a good beating, and we've always seen Aang find clever and witty ways to fight. You hear him making funny quips (kinda like spiderman) during fights because he's a child.

So no, when Aang grabbed Ozai's stupid goatie when he entered the avatar state, that wasn't Kyoshi or Yangchen controlling his actions. That was him, because it's established that Aang was in a controlled avatar state during that final fight. Ozai just told him his people deserved to die mere minutes prior, you would have pulled his beard and slapped the fire out of his hands too. Also, he's twelve, he probably thought it was hilarious

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At this point, anyone who truly understands and respects the American Constitution would recognize that our country has not only lost whatever right it has to call itself honorable, but its dignity as well. We’re already experiencing a constitutional crisis—not that the news media will ever admit that—and we’re halfway through the door to complete authoritarianism. This is the point where Captain America goes Nomad

And he’s RIGHT. Fuck everyone who is throwing a fit over Mackie speaking the truth. He and Chris Evans know this role better than anyone. Captain America is a figure of American propaganda both in the real world and in the MCU, despite how the characters Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson and actors Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie feel. If you just see the red, white and blue, the propaganda, and not what these characters have stood for, that’s on you. And if you think that America represents honor and dignity for everyone, wake the fuck up. Honestly, just look out the window.

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Reposting this because as vile as he is, and despite what most of the internet seems to think, Palpatine isn’t a Diablo ex Nihilo who was born maniacally evil. He’s a character who evolved over the course of a story. Before he met Plagueis, he was a spoiled but confused, even naive youth with sociopathic tendencies that were worsened by horrible parenting. It took decades for him to grow into the heartless schemer we see in the films. Believe it or not, villains have character arcs too

Many people on the internet call the Palpatine family murder in Darth Plagueis to be of a cold-blooded nature when it actually wasn't. And it’s not the ultimate showcase of Palpatine’s evilness. It certainly is grizzly, but as Palpatine confesses internally while in a dilemma over Vidar Kim’s upcoming assassination, it was done out of much anger and fear. To me, it is the unmasking of evilness, revealing that it is a much more complex thing.

In the murder scene itself, it was clear that Cosigna, Palpatine’s father, was ready to take drastic measures. And, instead of dealing with it calculatedly, Palpatine’s next actions were clearly a powerful Force-sensitive’s instinctive reaction to threats. They weren’t completely conscious.

There were indicators during and after the fact that Palpatine, instead of gaining pleasure from his newfound powers and from causing suffering, was deeply disturbed by what he had done and what he could do. He went as far as to tell the rest of his family to not approach him. Although he killed them anyway sometime later, we were clued that it haunted him.

In his meeting with Plagueis afterward, he was obviously shaken by it. I personally could not detect pride in those scenes. Only confusion and terror in himself. He was expecting Plagueis to take some of that off him by showing solidarity, instead, Plagueis dumped all the guilt on him and trapped him with it. Telling him basically that he is damned, unredeemable, and that it would be a waste of time for him to try to be good.

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LOL, thanks for sharing. At first, I thought it was some kind of award you made up for impressive beards. Then I realized you only ever use it for Nomad Steve and wondered if it was some kind of fun nickname you invented. I was sure it was your own invention, somehow, but for ages and ages I’ve regarded it with #Visible Confusion.

Confused, no longer!

Evolution of Captain America

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Evolution of Captain America

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The gift

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Some of y’all really need to log off and touch grass. It is NOT healthy for you to have a whole blog dedicated to a celebs relationship just so you can’t trash it and even call it ‘PR’ despite them being married or having children or some shit.

It’s insanely unsettling and creepy.

You don’t have to like the person they are with but that is not normal behavior.

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I needed more of him than what we got. So much more…

nomad steve 🖤

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happy birthday steve rogers you will always be bisexual to me

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Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate it this year.

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CHRIS EVANS as STEVE ROGERS Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)