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as the OG source of the A Little Kindness AU aka Raine adopting Hunter I would LOVE to know how you would change it to be canon compliant. i mean obviously the reveal would be after everything, but god just imagine Hunter worrying about his anonymous friend/caretaker and he finds out its the FUCKING OWL LADY'S PARTNER and hes just so happy theyre ok and to know who helped him out all the time but also OH TITAN LUZ IS GONNA BE HIS SISTER EVEN MORE NOW!

~adoption anon

the little gray box who started it all!!!! welcome back

good lord there would be so many overhauls...just so incredibly many I gotta try to break it all down to smaller sections to even get. a glimpse

1) okay so as we have learned Raine was NOT, in fact, under any mind control, just pulling the biggest brained move on Snapdragon she ever did see. so raine doesn't even go missing in the first place, if anything they might halt the notes altogether but still remain in the castle just because they were under constant vigilance and meeting eda again mightve made them triply afraid of getting other people involved with their work. hunter stresses about it, as you do, but flapjack isn't freaking out cause HE'S seen raine's face, and he knows that they're fine, but he has no idea what happened, so Hunter is less concerned since Flapjack isn't. not by a lot tho.

2) so INSTEAD of Hunter booking it to Luz to plead for help on some criminals, he instead takes all of this suppressed fear and worry and stress and just kinda. balls it up. and then shoves all of it out in the open during Eclipse Lake. he goes HARD trying to get that Titan's Blood and the thing where he tried to relate to Amity over being a failure? he doubles down on that shit TREMENDOUSLY and their shared failing to live up to what other ppl wanted and pushing away their friends (granted Amity actually pushed Willow away to try and help, Hunter didn't push Raine away he just thought he did). you think his breakdown in Eclipse Lake was concerning? hes about to make it even more concerning. hes very very afraid for Bat and he would really rather they hate him than anyone found out they'd been talking to him and they got murdered, so he better try and beat the shit out of Amity! if Belos is pleased with him, maybe he'll hesitate on whatever punishment Bat might be having right now

3) Raine, bless 'em, keeps trying to help Hunter how they can, dropping these tiny hints they don't mean to drop. Hunter's part of setting up and preparing everything for the Coven Day Parade and Raine is noticeably always checking in on the Golden Guard. we know now that Hunter started showing his face more after the Palisman incident, but Raine isn't seen around often, so I imagine it's around the Coven Day Parade that they finally see what Hunter looks like--and good lord that IS a literal teenager what the hell did they DO TO HIM---alright scrap all the plans. darius, eberwolf, change of plans. everything stays the same, but we're kidnapping Hunter on the way out

4) Any Sport in a Storm is pretty much the same, Hunter is just even antsier & more desperate to get these new friends to like him bc. Bat. and also punts Darius twice as hard. Darius for his part is only marginally nicer because he knows Raine's weirdly attached to this little rat of a child--oh wait nvm he sees why now. alright valid point. Darius is a firm believer in "for the love of god just tell him you're Bat it will save everyone a lot of stress" but unfortunately Raine subscribes to "if anyone i really care about is within fifty feet of me we are All Going To Die"

5) mostly everything would stay the same in Hollow Mind, i think? Raine, Darius and Eberwolf might actually go up to the Owl House and speak when Hunter and Luz get trapped in Belos's mind since its both Raine and Darius that are stressed as fuck over the kid? in that instance then everyone teams up much quicker (and in confusion) but Hunter still books it out at fast speeds into the woods and somehow makes it to Hexside. he's a slippery little bastard, but luckily now theres a whole gang teamed together to track him down and hes found by Darius pretty quickly after the Owl House is evacuated and torn apart. however Hexside is VERYYYYY on edge over coven heads claiming to want to "help" and "have betrayed the Coven" so they're all beating Darius back like a rabid raccoon and Hunter thinks he's here to kill him. so thats fun. eventually Darius gives up, scruffs Raine, and throws them down at Hexside and demands they finally clear shit up. its a very cute scene of Raine sneaking in and slipping little notes under the door of whatever classroom Hunter's hiding for his life in, wherein he realizes Bat's come back. and Hunter's finally brave enough to yank open the door to---RAINE?????

6) more stuff that mostly stays the same. Hunter however is very stressed over Raine when they're trapped in the human realm which eventually leads to him and Luz talking a lot and him realizing "im sorry waht the fuck do you MEAN that the owl lady and raine whispers were a THING??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES STILL SOMETHING THERE????" but above all i want to fuck this boy up so insanely bad and at least give him a GLIMPSE of Raine's puppet body being possessed by Belos. even if there is no interaction other than Hunter seeing them for a brief flash I know in my heart that would fuck him up so bad. he would blame himself so so much. Belos really here to kill everything he loves before he can finally be free huh

7) MOST importantly they finally get to hug when everyones reunited and hunter feels SO INCREDIBLY GUILTY when he sees all the fresh new scars Raine has courtesy of Belos. to which Raine, in peak parent fashion, just goes "nah, i dont mind 'em. now we match :]" and Hunter's just god u are missing the point so badly but i'll let it slide. how'd you know my new scars were from belos. and raine just stares like "how did i know your new scars were from WHAT????? oh im so glad i killed his ass" "YOU DID WHAT"

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View: Covid-19 underlines vital significance of secularism

Secularism is now little more than a term of abuse in India. Even in that distant past when it was wholly acceptable to mention the term in polite company, there was a lot of fuzziness about its meaning. The original, European sense of separation of religion and religious institutions from the state was somehow deemed not quite right for India, and equal respect to all religions, it had been suggested, was more appropriate. The Covid-19 pandemic serves to remind us that secularism is a vital ingredient of democracy and that it means not just separation of religion from the state but also subordination of religion to the state in matters temporal.

The lesson is driven home by the conduct of certain Tablighis, fervent Ram Bhakts and Nihangs.

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” When Marx said this, he did not use opium or opiate as a substance used to derive a mind-altered high, but as something that relieves pain — in 1843, when he wrote it, the hypodermic needle had not yet been invented, and morphine, although isolated from the opium poppy earlier in the century, was not yet a mainstream painkiller, and opium and the sleep it induced were the chief sources of relief from acute pain.

The Tablighi Jamaat failed this basic function of religion, when it ignored Saudi Arabia’s cancellation of pilgrimage in the wake of the breakout of Covid-19 as a pandemic and went ahead with its planned event in Delhi. It flouted the directive of the Delhi government against gatherings of more than 200 people — the stiffer ban on gatherings of 50 people kicked in after March 13th, when the Tablighi’s event got over. Tablighi Jamaat has oppressed the oppressed creatures further, and acted out soulless obscurantism, holding that the angels would protect the faithful from the virus.

As it turned out, angels did not turn up for duty and the event has served to accelerate the spread of the SARS 2 Coronavirus within India, delegates having assembled in Delhi from all over India and interacted with delegates from Indonesia and Malaysia, both places where the virus had taken hold, as also from other countries.

The event has also served to spread the no less virulent disease of Islamophobia, giving a handle to many communalists waiting for something to fault Muslims with. The Tablighi Jamaat and its leaders have behaved irresponsibly and deserve to be condemned without reservation.

Even after the lockdown was declared, religious activity has brought people together in close proximity in different parts of the country, even in my own supposedly enlightened state of Kerala. Videos have circulated on social media of people gathering at temple festivals. The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh himself led the shifting of the Ram idol at Ayodhya one day after the Prime Minister announced the lockout.

In the latest outrage involving violation of state mandated Covid-19 protocol by those acting in the name of religion is that of some Nihang Sikhs, or at least some people dressed as Nihangs, who cut off the hand of an assistant police sub-inspector trying to enforce the lockdown in Punjab. The severed hand has been reattached through elaborate surgery and the culprits apprehended.

These incidents serve to bring out the potential conflict between the imperatives of democratic self-governance of a people, on the one hand, and religion, on the other. Religion often seeks to defy temporal authority, in the name of answering to a higher, divine authority.

When hunter-gatherer humans settled down to grow crops and produce more than was necessary for subsistence, the surplus allowed some people to specialise in new kinds of activity, such as making tools and ornaments, while some specialised in keeping the gods happy, to ward off their wrath, and yet others took up the job of organising the diversified activity of the group. Tending to the gods and running the affairs of the community had a symbiotic relationship. The chief and the priest were one and the same in some cultures, closely aligned in the rest. In several, the chief or king claimed divine origins.

As human understanding of natural phenomena expanded, the realm of the gods shrank. Thunder, rain and lightning, the sun, the moon and the stars, disease, the seasons and fertility — all ceased to the handiwork of god, and amenable to rational explanation, and even, in some cases, human manipulation. Yet, religion continued to thrive, to make sense of the world and its mysteries for those who were not professional philosophers or scientists, to provide a consistent framework of right and wrong, for deciding what is moral and ethical and what is not. Further, religion served as an organising framework of social cohesion, with its rituals and pieties, explanations and obligations, regardless of the gross inequity that marked social life almost everywhere, all through history.

The way humans live has constantly evolved, as has their understanding of the working of the natural world and of society. Religion’s core function is to provide the vast majority — some make do with their own rationality and conscience —with a moral compass that allows individuals to conduct themselves in a manner that makes their life together as a community functional and productive, even if not equitable or harmonious. This core function remains, even when many other elements of a universal theory of everything every conscious individual needs to make sense of the world have been taken over by science. Even as religion continues to lay claim to this core function for the vast majority, rituals and practices of any religion have to change, to be compatible with the changes in how people live.

Quite apart from the moral abhorrence of caste, and the social injustice it imposes on vast sections of society, the incompatibility of caste with the way modern life is organised demands its removal from society. Public transport, for example, makes the caste system and untouchability, wholly impractical. Imagine suburban train passengers having to worry about the caste of those who press against them from all directions.

As human societies grew ever more complex, the state took over ever more functions and responsibilities. New notions of right and wrong, in tune with how people organised their material life, came to be written into law and institutions came up to enforce the law.

Some rituals and practices came into conflict with the law. After democracy displaced monarchy as the dominant form of governance, secularism became mainstream. Rituals and religious practices changed, to subordinate themselves to the law. Where this did not happen, there is no democracy.

The vast majority of Indians would like India to become a more complete democracy than it is. It is time to accept that it also means being secular. And making the writ of the state prevail over obsolete custom of whichever religion, whether that of the majority or of a minority.

(The views expressed by the author are his own)

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