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biohazardousgeodez · 6 months
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This is the worst castle of nations art im so sorry
I know this is ooc for castle but i needed to add the context for the punchline and who else was i gonna do
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spockvarietyhour · 1 year
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hol on, let me consult the Encyclopedia Britannica about what it means when Dalek emerges from the Thames....
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wonder-worker · 17 days
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people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?
#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen#no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?)#Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty#Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it.#obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't#But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!”#is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying.#Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status#her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier#the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all#siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen#Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her#that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do#like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her#and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented#no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard#(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..)#ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth#because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century#both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country#yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time#and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians)#Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers#who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression#queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status#yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this#so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties?#why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism')#after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support#and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.
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mallpop · 3 months
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Even if the ICJ does nothing, South Africa and other countries making a case against Israel sets a precedent that now eyes are on them and soon they won’t be able to just keep doing what they’re doing without other countries (besides their masters in the US) turning their backs on them when someone finally retaliates
The issue is no great power wants to intervene in the middle east on Gaza’s behalf. The Europeans and Asians just want their oil and goods shipping to be secure. This isn’t going to push the Arab nations to action because they’ve seen it clearly as genocide from the start, and their rulers don’t want to risk their political power through conflict with Israel. The only way Gaza can be saved in the long-term is if they can find a strong international ally with an economic stake in their existence. The best candidate for that I think is Russia, as having a political entity they can use to cudgel Israel is in their interest. For all the hate Russia gets in the West, they have often been during the Cold War the only nation standing between the US/GB and genocides in many developing countries. A multipolar world with a strong Russia benefits the world greatly, especially as the US is permanently locked into the deadly and idiotic zero-sum game of international politics envisioned by Kissinger
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sitting-on-me-bum · 1 year
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Even T. rex would have feared Zuul, the 'destroyer of shins' Zuul crurivastator, a recently discovered species of ankylosaurid, was a 20-foot-long living tank bristling with armor. In death, this hulking fossil is amazingly well-preserved from its snout to its sledgehammer-like tail—the perfect weapon for delivering bone-shattering damage.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK THIESSEN
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msclaritea · 2 months
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"Sharpe joined Skip Bayless in FS1's sports debate show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed which premiered on September 6, 2016. In addition to his defense of LeBron James, Sharpe is also known for his criticism of Tom Brady and the Dallas Cowboys on the show.
Sharpe also has a podcast called Club Shay Shay. The episode of Club Shay Shay featuring Bubba Wallace was selected by the Apple Podcasts editorial team on their "Apple Podcasts Best of 2021" list.
In January 2023, Sharpe's former lover, Michele Evans, filed a defamation lawsuit against Sharpe in New York Civil Supreme Court. Evans is quoted as saying, “This lawsuit is not just about seeking justice for the personal wrongs that I have endured. It’s also about standing up to public figures who misuse their platforms to spread misinformation and harm others. No one should suffer in silence while their character and integrity are being publicly maligned.”
On February 10, 2023, former NFL quarterback Brett Favre began a lawsuit against Sharpe and fellow former NFL player Pat McAfee, as well as Mississippi auditor Shad White, for making "defamatory charges" about Favre's involvement in a $77 million welfare fraud scheme. A representative for Favre stated that Sharpe and McAfee "tried to enhance their careers by fabricating unsubstantiated defamation charges against [Favre]."
In May 2023, Sharpe's home was burglarized with over $1 million worth of items stolen, according to several media reports. Obvious signs of forced entry were not found by the police. Sharpe announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
On May 31, 2023, it was announced that Sharpe would soon leave Undisputed after reaching a buyout agreement with Fox Sports.[33] On June 13, Sharpe co-hosted his last episode of Undisputed.
On August 23, 2023, it was announced that Sharpe and his Club Shay Shay podcast would join The Volume, a digital podcast network founded by Colin Cowherd under a multi-year deal.
On August 24, 2023, it was announced on social media that Sharpe would join First Take, starting September 4, 2023, every Monday and Tuesday during the 2023 NFL season.
I'm really scratching my head, trying to figure out why a former professional football player would run a sleazy podcast, that regularly trashes the Black community? It's GHETTO, It's totally low brow, embarrassing, and disgusting.
Pretty curious podcast name: CLUB SHAY SHAY!
You'd think that the National Football League would look down on something so cringe, but hey! Sharpe is just another Black tool, dragging black people for entertainment. And fuck Monique for playing her own people like this. Figures she's friends with Taraji P Henson. Nobody better to destroy a community, than one of your own.
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THE REGIONAL WAR in the Middle East now involves at least 16 different countries and includes the first strikes from Iranian territory on Israel, but the United States continues to insist that there is no broader war, hiding the extent of American military involvement. And yet in response to Iran’s drone and missile attacks Saturday, the U.S. flew aircraft and launched air defense missiles from at least eight countries, while Iran and its proxies fired weapons from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
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While the world has been focused on — and the Pentagon has been stressing — the comings and goings of aircraft carriers and fighter jets to serve as a “deterrent” against Iran, the U.S. has quietly built a network of air defenses to fight its regional war. “At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week,” President Joe Biden said in a statement Saturday. “Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles.” As part of that network, Army long-range Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense surface-to-air missile batteries have been deployed in Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and at the secretive Site 512 base in Israel. These assets — plus American aircraft based in Kuwait, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia — are knitted together in order to communicate and cooperate with each other to provide a dome over Israel (and its own regional bases). The United Kingdom is also intimately tied into the regional war network, while additional countries such as Bahrain have purchased Patriot missiles to be part of the network. Despite this unambiguous regional network, and even after Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria earlier this month, the Biden administration has consistently denied that the Hamas war has spread beyond Gaza. It is a policy stance — and a deception — that has held since Hamas’s October 7 attack. “The Middle East region is quieter than it has been in two decades,” Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an ill-timed remark eight days before October 7. “We don’t see this conflict widening as it still remains contained to Gaza,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said the day after three U.S. troops were killed by a kamikaze drone launched by an Iran-backed militia at a U.S. base in Jordan. Since then (and even before this weekend), the fighting has spread to Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Yemen.
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sulkybender · 6 months
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I'd love to see a fic that's structured as a behind-the-scenes documentary showing what Zhao's crew think of him.
With @chiptrillino:
INTERIEWER: So... what do you think of Zhao?
OFFICER: *buries face in hands*
MIDSHIPMAN: if I hear another fucking word about that fish—
CUT to break room with portrait of Zhao pinned to dart board.
Handheld camera zooms in shakily on the dart board.
BOILER MAN: He read me a list of names and asked me which of them sounded more more impressive. Zhao the Conqueror. Zhao the Destroyer. King Zhao.
THE BLUE SPIRIT, disguising his voice poorly: Not a fan.
LIEUTENANT: He wants to strike while the moon is full. City full of waterbenders, while the moon is full. I ask him why, and he says, “for dramatic effect.”
BOILER MAN: The Zhaore Lord. The Zhao-inator.
OFFICER: I pointed out that we're a fuckin' island nation and without the moon we'll be flooded beneath the sea, and he wrote it off as a technicality.
MIDSHIPMAN: So fuckin' done with that fish.
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kuni-is-daddy · 6 months
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Scaramouche/Kuni NSFW Alphabet(Fem READER!)
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Today is my Birthday 📷🤠 I wonder what scara would give Y/N on their birthday. Something besides a 'nice vantage point' view I hope🤨💦
CW: Minors do not interact past the cut! this is a NSFW POST!
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A: Aftercare- after you first had intercourse you awoke to rather clean and organized room. Your clothes weren't on the floor and we're replaced with a fresh set by the edge of the bed with a note ontop. Scratching your eyes you flipped the note over and read a small 'Hurry up and go to the dining hall when your done.' So you did, smiling ear to ear gleefully, barely getting out the bed and falling on your butt from a sting in your lower body, and a variety of bite marks trailing up your thighs.
B: Body Part- your neck and cleavage. Scara loves to bite on your neck while stuffing you full. He's Moaning, biting and licking so passionately along your neck he could practically feel your heart beating through it. When you make out he can't help but quickly run his hands under your shirt and tug at your bra fabric hiding your boobs. "Mn..fuck your such a tease~" he mutters out.
C: Cum Shot- Scara is pretty possessive, and now that "He's indulging you more often." Besides a hickey he makes sure to coat you everywhere. Your face, fingertips and especially your boobs. Whenever you wake up in the morning and practically stumble into the bathroom your met with bite marks all over your chest. Taking a picture of you covered in his sticky load is his favorite way of claiming you.
D: Dirty Secret- Sometimes he'll take pictures of you and your fucked out expressions, Fresh tears and bite marks along your beautiful body drives him crazy, Especially after your covered in his sticky seed. When your out for a while or he's on missions and extremely needy, he'll seclude himself just to desperately fist his cock to the many pictures of you he's saved. "Hnh~ S-shit~ that's it, Such a good- mnh~ slut taking my cock so well."
E: Experience- Very little or even none, He didnt care for sex as he's so worked up over Inazuma and dottores constant nonsense. Hearing childe talk about 'Hot People he's seen' on trips nearly made scara push him off the boat entirely. You get the honor of being the only one touching his 'godly' body.
F: Favorite Position- face down. Ass up. He loves rubbing his hands along your back then trailing down your body towards your ass. With his smooth fingertips Its almost like a massage. Once he notices you sink into his touch and arc your back like a cat, he's immediately slapping your ass and gripping onto your hips to pull you closer. Grinning at your surprised moans.
G: Goofy- Scara is way too focused on getting himself or you off. But if you made a sly remark about how gentle he's being...he'd flip you over on your tummy, then smash your face into a pillow and call you a needy slut before fucking you rough.
H: Hair- He's a pretty boy, always keeping it trimmed. But since you have the 'honor' of touching him. He'll let you decide how you want it.
I: Intimacy- messy at the beginning. Since your his everything now scara didn't know how to react. He's never had a long lasting or any relationship like this before. Even with aftercare only your panted breathes and 'small talk' would fill the silence.
Walking through the forest or quiet paths always made scara feel at peace which is why he brought you with him. Not because he was bored. His tone would change completely from 'destroyer of nations and Lord sixth' To the blissful innocence he's had as kabukimono. The second you take the opportunity to interlock your hand with his he nearly goes bug eyed as if you Disturbed his peace. He'd Scoff and sigh as if your needy. So you pulled away with a slight frown and immediately he's grabbing tight on your hand. "I never said for you to let go, did I?" He implied and you immediately shook your head and held his hand again with a bright smile on your face while he tippee his hat and looked in another direction, hiding the rosey red blush coating his cheeks. After a couple of days out, scara would be the one holding your hand as soon as you get out the door for a date/ outing he's planned. Everso tightly and even wrapping his arm around your waist so your under his umbrella ((Or hat)) on rainy days.
J: Jack Off- He wouldn't need to unless he's oversees for a mission. He'd fuck you whenever he felt like it. In public, at home. It didn't matter. If you really insisted on waiting until you both got home he'd still pull you over to a alley and kiss you deeply at the very least.
K: Kinks- KUNI!!! CALL HIM KUNI and it practically drives him INSANE!! He loves how sweetly you say his name, either moaning or just calling out for him. You could try kabukimono but He'd get sensitive over it.
Degrading, "Your such a slut~ moaning and pleading for my cock. Want me to give it to you? Then give me more, let me hear more of your pathetic moans. How much do you want your master to fill you up?" Corruption, if it's your first time he'd give the most devilish smirk you've ever seen in your life it would give that weirdo doctor a run for his money. He gets to claim and stuff your pussy full , molding you to perfectly fit his cock and his alone. Breeding, oh for you to have his children. He'd kiss on your belly and abandon his fatui duty's without a second thought. He loves kids and once it was brought up He'd stop at nothing to fill you up with his seed. Just say the word.
L: Location- he prefers the bed, couch, anywhere in your shared home or his palace designated by the tsaritsa. His office however is a favorite of his so he can see you spread out for him and your body jolting back and forth while the desk creeks from his fast pace. But if he was really turned on like at his meeting with Kujou Kamaji..he'd have you stuff your mouth with his cock from under the desk and even pretending to "drop something" just to see your teary eyed face.
M: Motivation- That mouth of yours. Whenever you talk back it amuses him, even during arguments he'd always say things to get a reaction out of you and see what you could come up with just to shut you up later if he loves your answer. (Mention his mother or '3 betrayals' and he'll use you as much as he wants for the day.) Either starving you of an orgasm or deep throating his length and force you to swallow every drop of his cum. If you send a picture of you in black lingerie or any clothing he's bought recently, he'd make it a priority to fuck you as soon as he got home without a care in the world.. he probably left the door open🤭
N: No(turn offs)- Scara would love to try anything with you, either him being top or bottom he always found a way to dominate you or be a brat about it. So it didn't really matter what you did. But if theirs 1 things he didn't care for was wax play. The thought of possibly burning your skin with a mark like that gives him bad memory's.
O: Oral- he loves it. When he plunged 2 of his fingers inside of you and licked at your clit, you came all over his fingers and tongue. You apologized for being so messy but the first thing that came out his mouth was for you to sit on his face like a good girl.
P: Pace- it depends on the mood, he couldn't live watching you walking the next day without stumbling or your legs wobbling. But if it was a long day with fatui work or he hasn't seen you in weeks. It's slow and passionate. He missed feeling your beautiful body. He wanted to explore it just like your first time.
Q: Quickie- Down for it anytime, anywhere.
R: Risk- since he could have you give head right Infront of a colleague. He'd do it Infront of the tsaritsa for all he'd care.
S: Stamina- he's a puppet....and on top of that his 'Creator' is the electro archon. He could go for hours before Overheating 🤭🤭Turning into a sensitive moaning mess. But 'unfortunately' your a human. 2 Rounds minimum.
T: Toys- catching you playing with a toy in your room? He'd watch as you begged and cried from frustration for him to touch you because the toy wasn't enough. How pathetic of you to result to such things while he was away..
U: Unfair- He’s so unfair. he’s brought you to tears almost everytime you did it, he needs you to beg before cumming. Whenever he feels you reaching your climax he'd slow down just to hear you whimper. If you try to tease him he'd indulge it only until he got impatient. Grazing his tip on your folds before riding him? He'd slam you onto his shaft by grabbing your hips. Licking around the tip? As soon as you blink your deep throating his length.
V: Volume- Get as loud as you want, it'll only edge him on more to go faster, to degrade you more, to fuck you harder. As for him he'd mimic your moans just to make fun of you. "Oh shit...You Ah~ like my cock that much? Yes.. faster? Beg for it..cry louder baby~"
W: Wild Card- somnophilia. Only if you give him permission.. if you couldn't wait for him to come back from a mission and we're passed out in his bed he'd flip you over on your back, spread your legs and begin licking and biting at your thighs. When he has a wet dream he'd spare no time and have you waking up to him grunting and groaning in your ear while he folded you like a chair. Also.. electro play..when riding him he'd shock you to go faster instead of slapping your already red ass.
X: X-ray. how big🤨- 7-8 inches and thick. Grinding on him feels so good it's almost as if he's inside of you already~ making you wet and ache for it. When he shoves it deep inside you there's always a bulge, sometimes he'd even grab a marker and label your tummy. He'll stretch you farther next time.
Y: Yearning- if you want it bad he'll always comply. But ONLY if you want it bad. Keep begging, he needs to know you want It. If you dont beg he'll just swat you off like a bug. Or lazily take you.
Z: Zzz- he'd watch you fall asleep after gazing into his indigo eyes long enough. It was a weird yet comforting feeling as you both laid in bed. Your warm body against his. You'd even lay on his chest to his soft breathing making you rise uppp and downnn. It used to creep you out how he wouldnt breathe sometimes but you got use to it. He'd sit there just observing your body. Even trailing his thumb along your soft lips and cheeks.
-- FIC NOTE 🧍
For those confused on turn off 'Bad memory' with the wax play, I considered it for the 3rd 'Betrayal' When the child died from his illness and Kabukimono burned the house down and most likely buried the kid within it.
But this is all head cannons so I hope this is good food for thought with scara!!
"Didn't you post a scara alphabet before?"
Well yes thank you for remembering 😃☝️ The other one got flagged 🧍
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tofu83 · 2 months
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These biker gang members thought they were freedom fighters, and contempt for authority.
But the authority was magnanimous, would like to give these saboteurs new chance.
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All members would be arrested immediately on street, those who escaped would also be captured by other police squads.
They would be punished in front of public and a police helmet would be forced down to their head.
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The shapes of helmets were same as those of normal police officers, but in fact they were different.
There were many probe inside helmets and would penetrate the thugs’ heads. Their brain wave would be modified, their beliefs and values would be altered to be in line with national interests.
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The nanites flew down from helmets would convert their clothing to the uniform of those who arrested them.
Most bikers wear leather clothing so there was no problem to create a whole new set of uniforms including combat armors.
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Unfortunately, some didn’t wear upper clothing, the nanites would convert their human body directly. They would become half man half machine, actually more powerful and even immortal.
No matter what type of officer they become, they would all be turned from law destroyers to law enforcers, freedom fighters to protectors of order.
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They would serve the citizens very well.
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incorrect-xena-quotes · 5 months
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Other people introducing Xena: This is the Destroyer of Nations, the God of War's right hand, the ruthless warlord Xena, the Warrior Princess.
Xena introducing herself: Hi! I'm Gabrielle's girfriend.
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soberscientistlife · 1 year
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‘I Want To Do My Part’
When the USS Gregory sank in 1942, a mess hall officer named Charles Jackson French dragged a raft full of his wounded crewmates to safety through shark-infested waters.
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Born on Sept. 29, 1919, Charles Jackson French spent his early years in Foreman, Arkansas. At the time, Black and white pools were segregated, making it difficult for Black people to find opportunities to learn to swim. Swimming World Magazine speculates that French may have learned to swim by visiting the city’s stone quarries and the Red River.
However he learned to swim, French’s days in Foreman were numbered. After his parents died, he left Arkansas and moved in with his married, older sister Viola in Omaha, Nebraska. And by the time he was 18, French decided to strike out on his own and enlist in the U.S. Navy
The Navy, like swimming pools across the country, was strictly segregated. As a Black man, French had virtually no other choice than to work as a mess attendant. In that capacity, the U.S. Navy Office Of Information reports that French spent four years the USS Houston, serving meals to the white sailors, cleaning their tables, and keeping the mess hall spick and span.
French returned to Omaha when his deployment ended in November 1941, but he wouldn’t stay in Nebraska for long. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, French promptly re-enlisted.
“I want to do my part, because I’m already trained and I can start right away,” French said at the time.
He had spent his last tour cruising around the Pacific. But this time, Charles Jackson French would see significantly more action.
On Sept. 5, 1942, the USS Gregory and the USS Little were attacked by Japanese destroyers around 1 a.m. while patrolling the waters near Savo Island and Guadalcanal. The U.S. Navy Office Of Information reports that the Gregory, outgunned, sank after just three minutes. Its surviving men were plunged into shark-infested waters as the Japanese fired on them.
But French leaped into action. The 23-year-old helped injured sailors onto a makeshift raft and — when U.S. Navy Ensign Robert Adrian told him that the current would pull the raft toward a Japanese-occupied island — volunteered to jump in the water and pull the raft in the other direction.
Adrian told him it was impossible. French, according to Adrian, replied: “Just keep telling me if I’m goin’ the right way.”
He shed his waterlogged clothes, tied a rope around his waist, and started to swim. For the next six to eight hours, French tirelessly swam as sharks got so close that they sometimes brushed against his legs. At sunrise, an American scout finally spotted him and the others and sent rescue.
But French’s ordeal didn’t end there. As he later recounted, as recorded by Chester Wright in Black Men and Blue Water, French and other uninjured soldiers were taken to a rest camp by their rescuers, who wanted to separate French from the white sailors. To French’s surprise, the sailors insisted that French stay with them as a fellow member of Gregory’s crew.
“Them white boys stood up for me,” French emotionally told Wright.
The story of Charles Jackson French’s heroism was later made public by Adrian, who described it on a radio program called It Happened in the Service in October 1942, according to Swimming World Magazine. Adrian had never learned French’s full name — he and the others only knew him as “French” — but he fully credited him for their rescue that day.
“I can assure you that all the men on that raft are grateful to mess attendant French for his brave action off Guadacanal that night,” Adrian said.
The story was soon picked up by the national news, and Charles Jackson French was identified by NBC. He was celebrated across the country, featured in a comic strip, and lauded by the Black press.
Adrian “and other white Americans owe their LIVES to a black man whom he identified as a ‘mess attendant named French,'” the Pittsburgh Courier, a Black newspaper, wrote after French was identified.
The newspaper continued: “Although Mess Attendant Charles Jackson French of Arkansas was not in a heroic job, he MADE a heroic job out of it. He who had been looked down upon as a caste man, frozen in status, suddenly was looked up to as a SAVIOUR.”
Though rumors spread that Charles Jackson French might be awarded the Navy Cross, he was given only a letter of commendation from Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., the then-commander of the Southern Pacific Fleet.
French may have been denied the medal because a Silver Star was awarded to one of his superiors — and it was unprecedented to award a higher medal to a subordinate. But the Omaha World-Herald noted some decades later that future president John F. Kennedy had been given the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for a similar act of bravery.
After his service on the USS Gregory, Charles Jackson French didn’t rest on his laurels. He returned to his role in the mess on the USS Endicott and the USS Frankford, and witnessed D-Day and the invasion of southern France.
After World War II ended, French faded from the public eye. Black Past reports that he suffered from alcoholism and depression, and passed away on Nov. 7, 1956, in San Diego, California. He was only 37 years old.
But since then, there’s been a push to give this forgotten World War II hero his due. In April 2021, a post about French from the International Swimming Hall of Fame revived his story. And a year later, Rear Admiral Charles Brown, the Navy public affairs officer, presented eight of French’s relatives with a posthumous Navy and Marine Corps Medal — just like Kennedy’s.
“It will inspire generations of sailors,” Brown said at the medal ceremony, reported by the Omaha World-Herald. “It’s a story of the best of who we are.”
French has been honored in other ways, too. A training pool at Naval Base San Diego was named after French, and a post office in his hometown of Omaha also bears his name.
Black History Month Day 24
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harry-hollands · 6 months
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who does it better?
alex turcotte x f!hockey player smau
for all my alex turcotte lovers 🫶🏼: @hischierhaze @babydollmarauders
*PICTURES FOUND ON PINTEREST AND INSTAGRAM*
authors notes: reader is born in 2003 (2 years younger than alex, same year as luke hughes), takes place in 2025
*the girls in the pictures are not a depiction of you; they are merely placeholders bc my goal is to have you imagine yourself 🫶🏼*
WARNINGS: hate on an unspecified national team (you can imagine whatever country that team is from except team canada LOL), team canada (both men and women) wins bronze, soft and hard launches, language, relationships
part 2 (can be read as a standalone)
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lhughes_06: @/yourusername no comment
yourusername: @/lhughes_06 i also distinctly remember you calling me every night practically begging me to transfer because and i quote, “wisco doesn’t need you, we do!”
lhughes_06: @/yourusername nuh uh!
yourusername: @/lhughes_06 you’re a fucking child
dylanduke25: goalie, noun; In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goaltender mostly plays in or near the area in front of the net called the goal crease.
yourusername: @/dylanduke25 pest, noun; an annoying person or thing; a nuisance. (affectionate)
dylanduke25: @/yourusername ☹️
yourusername: @/dylanduke25 AFFECTIONATE ITS AFFECTIONATE PLEASE DONT CRY
dylanduke25: @/yourusername 🤭
yourusername: @/dylanduke25 bitch. (AFFECTIONATE)
trevorzegras: red is definitely your color, just the wrong school
yourusername: @/trevorzegras oh im sorry i thought a college dropout said something to me
trevorzegras: @/_alexturcotte @/yourusername are all of you wisco students mean or just you two?
_alexturcotte: @/trevorzegras @/yourusername we’re nice! just not to you!
yourusername: @/trevorzegras @/_alexturcotte hope this helps college dropout 🫶🏼
trevorzegras: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte ALEX IS A COLLEGE DROPOUT! WE SPENT THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME IN COLLEGE
yourusername: @/trevorzegras @/_alexturcotte and i like him better than you
trevorzegras: @/yourusername 🤨
_alexturcotte: hey we have a lot in common i think we’d get along great!
colecaufield: @/_alexturcotte stop the madness
yourusername: @/colecaufield @/_alexturcotte nono let the man speak!
_alexturcotte: @/colecaufield @/yourusername yeah let the man speak!
colecaufield: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte 🤠
_alexturcotte: @/yourusername well, we both attended wisco, you’re a kings fan, which hey what a coincidence, im a kings player, and i know kevin fiala and can introduce you two!
yourusername: @/_alexturcotte interesting points, i’ll get back to you in a few business days
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yourusername: national champs and b1g 10 champs baby ! im so unbelievably proud of these girls and everything we’ve accomplished. not only are we back to back b1g 10 champs but we played our hearts out and got the national title too!
thank you wisco for being my home for four years, and thank you to this team who’ve made me the player and person i’ve always strived to be.
to the gophers, you played an outstanding game and im proud of the hard fought game you guys gave me.
next time i see you girls, we’ll be competing for worlds and some of us will be separated but that doesn’t mean it’s the end. LA and worlds, here i come 🫶🏼
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yourbsf: i cant believe you’re graduating 😭
yourusername: @/yourbsf i cant either 🥺
yourbsf: @/yourusername i also can’t believe *they* convinced you to move back to california 🤨
yourusername: @/yourbsf what can i say? the offer was enticing 🫡
fan32: i’m violently ill. i can’t believe it’s been 4 years already, and she’s leaving 😭
fan15: AHHHH CONGRATULATIONS!!!
_alexturcotte: im so unbelievably proud of you and everything you’ve accomplished. glad to see that my negotiation skills payed off :)
yourusername: @/_alexturcotte it was an easy decision, i get my favorite canadians as roommates! best deal ever! @/jordanjs224 @/francesco.pinelli71 @/quintonbyfield @/brandtclarke55
yourusername: @/_alexturcotte but also, thank yous 🥹🫶🏼
_alexturcotte: @/yourusername i should’ve seen that one coming. but also, you’re welcome <3
jordanjs224: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte ROOMIES
francesco.pinelli71: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte ROOMIES
quintonbyfield: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte ROOMIES
brandtclarke55: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte ROOMIES
colecaufield: CONGRATULATIONS! BADGER NATION UNITE! THAT’S MY FAVORITE GOALIE RIGHT THERE! 🫶🏼
slknight35: @/colecaufield excuse me? 🤨
colecaufield: @/sknight35 uhh…gotta run!
yourusername: @/colecaufield THANK YOU! THAT’S MY FAVORITE FUNSIZED FORWARD <33
slknight35: @/yourusername @/colecaufield HAH! you’re my new favorite person
colecaufield: @/yourusername @/slknight35 i don’t like this 🤠
yourusername: @/colecaufield tough shit cockfield
badgerwhockey: unbelievably proud of you! thank you for four amazing years and helping us get back to back b1g 10 champs and back to back national titles. we’ll miss you endlessly ❤️
yourusername: @/badgerwhockey admin 🥹🫶🏼
lhughes_06: THAT’S MY BEST FRIEND!!
markestapa: @/lhughes_06 *OUR
edwards.73: @/lhughes_06 @/markestapa ^^
dylanduke25: @/lhughes_06 @/markestapa ^^
luca.fantilli: @/lhughes_06 @/markestapa ^^
adamfantilli: @/lhughes_06 @/markestapa ^^
yourusername: @/lhughes_06 @/markestapa i think im crying harder then i have ever cried in my life 🥹
erikportillo: 🤩
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trevorzegras: 🫡
yourusername: @/trevorzegras a man of many words, the enemy of silence people
jackhughes: you’re way out of his league
fan38: @/jackhughes jack??? what do you mean???
_quinnhughes: @/jackhughes the only thing we can agree on
_alexturcotte: @/jackhughes @/_quinnhughes to be fair i don’t think anyone is on her level.
fan39: @/_alexturcotte ALEX???
yourusername: @/jackhughes no im just out of your league
_quinnhughes: @/yourusername welcome to the family you’re my new favorite hughes!
lhughes_06: @/_quinnhughes @/yourusername i would be offended but honestly? real. she’s already mom’s favorite. she said that her and dad were booking flights to watch her at worlds
kevinfiala22: congrats 🎉❤️
yourusername: @/kevinfiala22 oh.
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_alexturcotte: two teams, two world titles, two gold medals, one nation, and my girl
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fan32: the way alex included the women’s team too 😭
fan15: did not see alex soft launching his relationship on my bingo card for this year
trevorzegras: mr. game winner
_alexturcotte: @/trevorzegras mr. tournament point leader
jackhughes: @/trevorzegras @/_alexturcotte i’m mr. goal leader
_alexturcotte: @/jackhughes this ain’t about you
jackhughes: @/_alexturcotte BETRAYAL. BETRAYAL EVERYWHERE.
_alexturcotte: @/jackhughes i still love you babe 🫶🏼
usahockey: history. made.
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fan38: highlight of the men’s tournament is when the announcers practically had an aneurysm with jack, quinn, and luke on the ice 😭
fan39: @/fan38 my highlight was watching the guys get excited watching the gold medal game for the women. luke and alex (and a good chunk of the canadian men) looked like children in a candy shop watching yn make saves
colecaufield: WOAH WOAH WOAH (first proud of us) WHO THE FUCK?
yourusername: @/colecaufield language cockfield!
colecaufield: @/yourusername sorry i mean WHOMST THE FUCK?
yourusername: @/colecaufield yeah, okay.
_alexturcotte: @/colecaufield proud of us too!
colecaufield: @/_alexturcotte NO NO NO WHO IS THAT IN THE LAST PICTURE ???
_alexturcotte: @/colecaufield yes.
yourusername: we did that <3
_alexturcotte: @/yourusername we did, and im proud of us beyond comprehension <3
francesco.pinelli71: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte whats going on here ? 🤨
quintonbyfield: @/francesco.pinelli71 @/_alexturcotte @/yourusername young love 🥺
francesco.pinelli71: @/quintonbyfield that’s crazy 💀
brandtclarke55: thank god you you both kicked *their* asses
jordanjs224: @/brandtclarke55 me and my homies hate *them*
yourusername: @/brandtclarke55 @/jordanjs224 i aim to please 🫡
lakings: 🥇 👑 🏒 🥅
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fan5: history was made for both team canada and team usa. both men and women for canada won bronze while both men and women for the united states won gold. im going to sob oh my god 😭
fan32: @/fan5 i’ve been crying since the conclusion of the men’s tournaments 🥹
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usahockey: In honor of our men and women making history by both winning gold at the World Championships this past weekend, we highlight two players of the tournament, goaltender Y/N Y/LN, and center Alex Turcotte. The two of them both attended the University of Wisconsin and played for their respective hockey teams.
Y/N Y/LN spent four years with the Wisconsin Badgers and helped lead the women’s team to 3 consecutive B1G 10 Championship Titles (2023, 2024, and 2025), and 3 consecutive NCAA Championship Titles (2023, 2024, and 2025).
In the tournament, Y/LN had a .937 save percentage, and a 1.42 GAA, which propelled the U.S to a gold medal and a world title.
Alex Turcotte only spent one year with the Wisconsin Badgers and had 9 goals and 17 assists for 26 points in 29 games played.
Turcotte turned pro in 2020, and unfortunately dealt with a few setbacks with illness and injury before having a breakout year in the 2023-2024 NHL season. He is now a core member of the LA Kings alongside roommates, Francesco Pinelli, Quinton Byfield, Jordan Spence, and Brandt Clarke, all of whom also participated in the World Championships and won the Bronze medal for Team Canada.
Now comes the debate we all have been waiting for:
Who did it better? Y/N Y/LN or Alex Turcotte? Let us know down below.
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fan32: Y/N is the only correct answer. if you think anything else, that’s your opinion, but your opinion is wrong
fan15: im a huge turcs lover but Y/N absolutely did it better. she could literally wear a trash bag and she’d still look like a bombshell.
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fan15: TURCS???
yourbsf: Y/N 100%. she’s my wife and this is my biased opinion coming from a 100% certified turcs hater.
yourusername: @/yourbsf i love you 😭🫶🏼
trevorzegras: Y/N. it’s not even a competition. HAVE YOU SEEN HER???
_quinnhughes: @/trevorzegras the only time i’ll ever agree with you
jamie.drysdale: @/_quinnhughes real.
trevorzegras: @/_quinnhughes i expected this from you. but @/jamie.drysdale FUCKING OFFENDED???
colecaufield: as much as i love alex it’s Y/N 100% 😭
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lhughes_06: Y/N. no fucking competition.
edwards.73: @/lhughes_06 on behalf of everyone i think we can all agree that it’s Y/N no debate.
markestapa: @/lhughes_06 @/edwards.73 FR
yourusername: @/markestapa @/edwards.73 @/lhughes_06 my favorite and forever hype men 🥹
jackhughes: alex, buddy, you’re a stud, but i’d be fucking lying if i said that you do it better
yourusername:@/jackhughes ew you’re making me feel emotions 🥹
_alexturcotte: @/jackhughes @/yourusername please ignore her she does in fact feel emotions like a normal person
jackhughes: @/yourusername good. ❤️
francesco.pinelli71: on behalf of the roommates (oh my god and we were roommates) at our household meeting, we all came to the unanimous conclusion that my best friend, Y/N, does in fact, do it better.
quintonbyfield: @/francesco.pinelli71 as a witness to this household meeting, i can in fact, attest to this statement
jordanjs224: @/francesco.pinelli71 even if alex is my boyfriend, i, in good conscience, cannot state that alex did it better. Y/N does and continues to do it better.
brandtclarke55: @/francesco.pinelli71 no one can do it better than Y/N
_alexturcotte: can confirm, Y/N does it better
fan15: @/_alexturcotte WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
fan38: @/_alexturcotte ARE YOU SAYING WHAT I THINK YOU’RE SAYING
yourusername: @/_alexturcotte thank you <33
fan32: @/yourusername @/_alexturcotte WHAT IS HAPPENING
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yourusername:
“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)” - E.E Cummings
in conclusion, i do it better.
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_alexturcotte: my love <33
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yourbsf: yeah. okay. im fine 🥹
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yourbsf: please take care of my girl 🥹
_alexturcotte: @/yourbsf always and forever
yourbsf: @/alexturcotte oh.
francesco.pinelli71: my roommates (my best friend and her boyfriend) 🫶🏼
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quintonbyfield: my boyfriend and his girlfriend 🥹❤️
yourusername: @/quintonbyfield my boyfriend’s second boyfriend 🫶🏼
quintonbyfield: @/yourusername IM HIS SECOND BOYFRIEND??? @/_alexturcotte explain yourself right now.
_alexturcotte: @/quintonbyfield listen, i got seduced by @/jordanjs224 im sorry you found out this way
jordanjs224: @/_alexturcotte @/quintonbyfield is it me? am i the drama?
jordanjs224: homewreckers stick together 🫶🏼
yourusername: @/jordanjs224 we’re about to be the biggest headache for our boyfriend and roommates 🫶🏼
_alexturcotte: @/yourusername @/jordanjs224 i don’t like this.
jordanjs224: @/yourusername perfect.
_alexturcotte: @/jordanjs224 @/yourusername I REALLY DON’T LIKE THIS
brandtclarke55: MY PARENTS !
yourusername: @/brandtclarke55 MY SON !
_alexturcotte: @/brandtclarke55 @/yourusername that’s not our son
brandtclarke55: @/_alexturcotte @/yourusername ☹️
yourusername: @/brandtclarke55 don’t listen to your father he’s delusional
brandtclarke55: @/yourusername okay mom !
_alexturcotte: @/yourusername 🥲
colecaufield: NO WAY. AM I DREAMING??? IS THIS REAL LIFE?! OH MY GOD. IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S HAPPENED!
yourusername: @/colecaufield IT’S REAL LIFE, BUT COCKFIELD BABY, YOU NEED TO BREATHE BEFORE YOU HYPERVENTILATE
colecaufield: @/yourusername AHHHHHH (my best friend found someone who makes him happy and it happens to be my new best friend 😭🫶🏼)
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elblue6: ❤️
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lhughes_06: i would kill for yn so tread carefully. i have a full college hockey team willing to do anything for her so consider that before doing anything. i don’t care if you are my billet brother and lived with me for a couple of years.
_alexturcotte: @lhughes_06 🤠🫡
_alexturcotte: i love you my sweet girl. now and forever.
yourusername: @/_alexturcotte i love you too, my love. forever and evers <33
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_alexturcotte:
“You’re where I stand, hearing the sea, crazy for the shore,
seeing the moon ache and fret for the earth.
When morning comes,
the sun, ardent, covers the trees in gold,
you walk towards me,
out of the season, out of the light love reasons.”
- Carol Ann Duffy
she definitely does it better :)
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yourusername: my beautiful boy, thank you for taking a chance on me, and loving me for a little over a year. i know starting a relationship long-distance isn’t ever ideal, but we made it work and because of it we grew stronger. you are my present, and my future, and i can’t wait to see where life takes us, hopefully, together, side by side. i love you to the moon and to saturn <33
_alexturcotte: @/yourusername my beautiful girl, thank you for being there for me when i felt like i was alone. i wasn’t expecting to find someone as ethereal as you, but the universe always finds a way to shine a light when everything is pitch black. you helped me heal mentally through the frustrating setbacks at the start of my NHL career, and for that i have no words to express the gratitude i have for your abundant amounts of patience. you are my future, and i will be content anywhere as long as you are by my side. i love you to the moon and to saturn ❤️
~
a/n: thank you so much for reading !! feedback and reblogs are always appreciated! all my love !!!
-soph <33
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Every instance of Stanley characterization I've found so far (more to be added as i scrounge for more):
- Stanley doesn’t let go of the bucket when you are told to put it into the bucket destroyer when you try to. (Bucket Destroyer Ending)
- Stanley running off from the Narrator + outright defiance via either running or actively trying to leave (Release Date Trailer + Game Awards Trailer)
- Stanley responding directly to the Narrator via shaking his head no. (the Game Awards Trailer)
- Stanley looking at traveling sites in his free time plus the National Geographic magazine on the desk next to the computer (the Game Awards Trailer)
- Any instance of Stanley’s attachment to the bucket (I think about The Escape Pod Ending w/ the bucket specifically for this)
- The notes page from the Indiebox Manual
- Stanley’s imagination coming to life after being left alone (the Infinite Hole Ending)
- Stanley walking through the desert to the memory zone (The Epilogue)
- The countdown ending dialogue where it implies that Stanley asks about his coworkers (The Countdown Ending)
- Stanley patting his leg while waiting for commands to come in (the Ultra Deluxe intro sequence) (he does kick his leg a bit in the 2013 intro sequence)
- The Curator’s narration after you leave the museum (the Museum Ending) (suggested by @/axolotleo)
(I realize these are all a bit of a stretch but it’s fun to find and notice these)
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Hymn to Sekhmet
by Joey Rivers (ascendingaeons)
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O Sekhmet, Great Eye of Ra, the First and the Last Healer and Destroyer, Mother and Daughter You Who accepted the Command of Ra, Your Father To cleanse the Two Lands of Isfet But Your nature was too mighty, Great of Strength as You Are Wanton and unrestrained, You ravaged Earth as a purifying flame And as Ra looked on and saw His Eye, He was stricken with pause By the Will of the Sun, Your Rage was quieted by a crimson brew And into transformative slumber You fell, Great Goddess And from Your great Rage, Het-Heru rose A new Eye was christened, of eros sublime And you, Great Mother, knew the sadness of regret
You, Great Goddess, know the measure of rage unbound And so You Stand, Great Mother of War, in defense and duty Of the Principles and Consequences of Ma’at Your Children are many, Great Lady of Life Diverse in their multitudes, empowered by their tribulation
Yours is the soldier, Your Mighty Sekhem made flesh and bone Entrenched in a maelstrom of fire and blood Returning home to a nation that does not understand him
Yours is the survivor, a living branch of Your burning Will triumphant Endeavoring to rise above the quagmire of loss and agony Through You their struggle is transmuted into the golden light of ka ascendant
Yours is the mother, she who knows sacrifice and sleepless nights A font unyielding of love and pride, of smiles and laughter perfected They who bear the weight of the world so a child can know childhood
Yours is the healer, an alchemist of the ontological persuasion He who is humbled by the frailty beholden to human experience He who ushers Your Sekhem through the riptide of transformative loss
Yours is the artist, through whose passions course Your Divine Fire Who walks the scales of inspiration and madness, knowing Creation unfiltered An alchemist versed in the milieus of perception
For You, Great Goddess, are the very Force of Change You are that which makes men tremble so Such an unnecessary fear, of wisdom and experience untouched Were I You, I would feel such sadness But how You smile, Great One! How You laugh! How You fight! You are not “she who cowers before Apep!” NO! You are the Great Lioness Who rends Chaos asunder! You fight and rage and bite and tear Passion and emotion alive and unrestrained!
You are Love, Great Goddess You are Fear, Great Goddess You are Devotion, Great Goddess You are Loss, Great Goddess You are Health, Great Goddess You are Sickness, Great Goddess This is why I call You the Mother of Life Your Ka is the very essence of experience! Your Sekhem is the very wind of change!
When I first called upon You, timid and unsure, I beheld Your Gaze, a window of fire open before my face And as quickly as You Saw me, You left And again when I called to You with offering of water and bread Exhausted by grief and devotion, tirelessly sung from a caregiver’s heart You came to me and my eyes were opened to You! As I lay without sleep, You stood at my bedside Stroking my back with strong hands of fire Whispering strength and courage into my ear As a sentinel You walked with me, a Mother Lioness guarding Her cub Such loyalty and tenderness You showed And my eyes were forever opened to Your nature
You are the very Force of Creation, the Monad of Being From which stems those primordial principalities Love and Fear, Physis and Logos, Known and Unknown Order and Disorder, Life and Death, Dynamism and Stasis
I offer henu to You, Great Goddess of Creation The endless potentiality and movement of the living cosmos The Fires Divine that Become living sinews and living earth
I offer henu to Your Husband Ptah, the Cosmic Smith Patron of artisans, of those who tirelessly toil In the pursuit of Bringing Into Being but a shard of the Sacred Unmanifest
I offer henu to Your Son, the Beautiful Nefertem The Ageless Lotus that rose from the Benben Stone The First Splendid Light to Shine in the churning Waters of Nun
It was You Who held my right hand as I accepted the mark of a healer And embraced me as a Mother would Her graduating son I offer You my pain, Great Goddess So that You may transmute it into Strength I offer You my fear, Great Goddess So that You may transmute it into Courage I offer You my uncertainty, Great Goddess So that You may transmute it into Wisdom
Into Your Belly I give of myself to unleash my greatest potential To burst from Your Bosom, shining and emboldened For there is nothing that is beyond Your Reach, Great Mother It is for me, now, to See that nothing is beyond my own
Dua Sekhmet! Dua Sekhmet! Dua Sekhmet!
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Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project knew from the start that this place was not all that isolated and was far from uninhabited. There were, in fact, dozens of families within 20 miles, largely poor families of ranchers and farmers, many Hispanic and Indigenous, who unwittingly went about their daily lives in the first fallout of the atomic age. Now, those who were infants and children downwind of the detonation of the “Gadget”—a code name for the plutonium bomb used in the Trinity test—are nearing the end of a decades-long battle to be recognized and compensated for generations of illness they trace to exposure from radioactive fallout.
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The reactions of Manhattan Project observers at the Trinity site are well documented. “Words haven’t been invented to describe it,” physicist Val Fitch said of the enormous fireball. General Thomas Farrell said the awesome roar “warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous.” “A few people laughed, a few people cried,” Oppenheimer recalled years later. “I remembered a line from the Hindu scripture . . . Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Physicist Kenneth Bainbridge said, “Now we are all sons of bitches.” Less documented are the reactions of the many New Mexicans who lived near Trinity. They had no warning, no context for the star-level explosion that shook their homes and startled them awake that morning. Worse, in the weeks after the test, they were never advised that their land, crops, livestock, and water may have been irradiated. A 2010 report to the CDC used archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory to re-examine the extent to which New Mexicans were unknowingly exposed to radioactive contamination from Trinity. Its findings revealed a shambolic and sometimes cynical effort to track the Gadget’s fallout that windy morning using “crude” and “ineffective” measures. Spotlights were deployed to try to follow the 230 tons of sand and ash falling from the mushroom cloud as it dispersed over southern New Mexico. Film badges designed to detect and measure radiation had been sent to nearby post offices before the test, but because of the Manhattan Project’s secret nature, there was little explanation on how the badges were meant to be used or why, and so they were deployed incorrectly or not at all. Some soldiers assigned to chase and monitor the radioactive cloud couldn’t relay their findings to headquarters in Albuquerque because they were not equipped with long-distance radios; other monitors attempted to gather fallout samples with domestic Filter Queen brand vacuum cleaners. (These samples were later lost or destroyed.) At least one monitor left the area after his superior declared tracking fallout a “waste of time,” while another soldier misplaced his respirator and took the official but scientifically misguided precaution of breathing through a slice of bread.
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