It would actually be soooo funny if prev!Golden Guard was younger than Darius. Maybe Darius doesn’t even know at first.
27 year old Darius, finally rising in the ranks of the Abomination coven and realizing that this politics thing is a little cut throat! Meeting 20 year old Golden Guard, who is insecure about his age and power, who always keeps his mask on and wears heeled boots and pitches his voice low and has never told a soul that Emperor Belos raised him, but who was weaned on power struggles. He used to hide behind the throne and watch the early coven heads tussle for power. He saw his first assassination attempt at the age of six. And the Golden Guard likes this Abomination prodigy, he’s earnest behind the smarm (he reminds him a little of the older brother he barely remembers, the first Golden Guard of Belos’ reign). So he gives him some pointers. Offers some key information. Gets him up to date on all the gossip.
Darius is head over heels and determined to impress this all knowing stranger at the head of the Emperor’s Coven. The Golden Guard is struggling with his first friend even vaguely his age (coven scouts don’t count, he throws them into death traps and they resent him for it). They develop a secret rapport, a mentorship.
And then three years later the Golden Guard is dead, and it’s strange. They bury him (he isn’t named a traitor in death though Darius knows he was getting suspicious of Belos—there was something complicated between them) and in the coffin he looks so diminished. He does some digging, asks around, interrogates castle insiders and kisses up to the oldest coven heads, and realizes to his horror that the man he so respected was young, much younger than him. A kid was slyly advising him about avoiding poisonings. A kid telling him about secret abomination techniques he’d discovered in old books. He was still his mentor, he still respects him (arguably more now) but he ought to have been attending the Bonesborough Brawl or making out with his exes at parties. All the silly stuff Darius took for granted, denied to one of the people he loved most.
Three years later he’s somewhere he oughtn’t be (someone has to carry on his mentor’s legacy of snooping) and there’s a little boy. He never saw the Golden Guard’s face but he knows that hair, knows those red eyes as seen through the slits in a mask. The first time he didn’t know he needed to be protecting anyone and this time he can’t do a thing to help.
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The OP's complaint is that the term "Avengers level threat" is so reductive it diminishes the threats the likes of the X-Men and Fantastic Four face, thus unfairly painting them as lesser teams compared to the Avengers despite facing similar threats. But the Avengers fan is obviously so opposed to the very idea of any team, especially the fucking X-Men, being seen as equal to the Avengers they see this is dickriding slander. Some obviously got so into Avengers vs X-Men they still have it as their entire personality over a decade later.
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when i was in london this summer i wanted to go to evensong at westminster abbey but the line for the free concert immediately preceding the service was so long i went into the gift shop to loiter, was faced with a display of paddington meets the king memorabilia as soon as i walked in, and immediately turned around and got on a bus to saint paul's instead
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Hey queen. You seem v knowledgeable about pro-Palestinian charities. Would you mind making a post or giving some info on which ones are really effective and honest abt their work? I've been hearing some problematic things about UNRWA, and Save the Children seems to be doing very little (as far as I am informed). I donate to PCRF and MAP, but don't know any other, smaller orgs that may also need more awareness? Thanks ♥
hello, thanks for sending this in. so i've been trying to find smaller orgs for palestine that are specifically for helping gaza, but the issue is not much aid is being let in. PCRF is a really good org in my opinion, I'd always donate to them regardless.
There's also the Palestine Museum, which does really great cultural preservation work.
Palestine Legal is a legal aid group that helps palestinian and palestinian advocacy facing legal challenges.
Palestine Action is a direct action group that helps do disruptive protests.
Samidoun helps palestinian prisioners around the world and keeps and eye on them.
Within Our Lifetime is an NYC based palestinian led organization.
Palestinian Youth Movement is a favorite for Turtle Island led Palestinian resistance.
Palestine Feminist Collective is a Turtle Island feminist movement that works to spread culture and information.
Good Shephard Collective seems to be doing good work in Bethlehem as well.
I would mostly look for mutual aid groups for people from Gaza if you want to donate to them. Aya Ghanamah retweets mutual aid groups a lot.
I might share more groups in a second reblog after I hear back on best ways to help them.
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