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nerdyqueerr · 3 months
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Got one of them gaza esim comms from @appsa and hooooly shit holy fuck look at her! Look at my girl!! God its so cool
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rillette · 1 year
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say i want to start green lantern comics - where would i start? is there a timeline? where can you read all the lantern corps lore?
So generally you'd want to pick a lantern and go from there! Here's a reading guide for most of the main lanterns! For Hal specifically I would read Emerald Dawn parts 1 and 2 first, and then read his 70s run starting with Hard Traveling Heroes to get the best idea of his character.
As for lore, that's where it gets tricky lol! There's a lot of lantern corps lore added with rebirth, so everything that has to do with other corps, is going to be found there. Green Lantern (1960) Annuals, and GL corps Quarterly are collections of oneshots that focus on random corps members, but I'd recommend reading some of the mainline run first just to get a gist of the worldbuilding. There's also Tales of the GL corps which gives a good rundown of basic GL lore!
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transguygardner · 3 months
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Into the GuyLoboVerse: Day 12
Earth 301: Ancient Greece AU
In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. Unfortunately it was neither of these guys. After leaving the HOUSE of APPA ALI APSA, GUY GARDNER decided that wandering traveler was the life for him. This path led him straight into LOBO, retired warlord. After seeing a semi decent but definitely needs improvement defense from GUY against some highwaymen, LOBO decided to take him under his wing. After all, things were getting boring.
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This one comes straight out of my love for Xena: Warrior Princess in case you couldn't tell from the opening line. Guy's outfit takes queues from Autolycus while Lobo's takes queues from Marcus. However I gave both of them the slightly more period accurate tunic/skirt look instead of the leather pants that make shooting stunts a lot easier. I also went with some colors that were of more natural dyes even though it was definitely possible to get some of the more bright and garish colors. But the less dips in the dexter's dyepot the less expensive the fabric. So lighter colors it is.
Guy being from Appa Ali Apsa's house is reference to when he was forced to train with him on Maltus. Beyond that most of the ideas I have for this one are little seeds that I need to let grow some more. It would definitely be more on the wacky adventures you see in a Lobo book more than the sometimes serious stuff you see in JLI, Green Lantern, and Xena.
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maxkuilman · 1 year
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Apsa, the Aspen Blacksmith
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This is Apsa; the result of an internship assignment for a character design internship position. If you want to see some sketches and read about my process, keep reading :)
The prompt I got assigned is as follows:
“A friendly Warforged blacksmith who has discovered a very roundabout way to imbue forged items with magic, or at least he thinks that all of this is necessary. We want this character to be lovable and have some indication of how their method (or lack thereof) works”.
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I started out with some sketches based on mood boards to decide in which direction I wanted to take this design.
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After I finished exploring the prompt, I came up with three concepts and chose #3 based on how well that character fit the description that was given to me.
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The rest of the process consisted mainly of adding details and changing the silhouette to make the character stand out as a blacksmith. For the coloration I picked colors that resemble aspen trees. I made the leaves resemble a forge’s fire by adding red autumn leaves to the tree on his back and I made his “skin” a little darker than a regular aspen tree to indicate all the years of dirt that’s accumulated on his skin.
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For the assignment I also wrote a couple of lines to explain his character and methods; “This is Apsa, a kind Warforged blacksmith with a tree growing from his back. The berries from this tree glow bright blue and Apsa takes care of them religiously, making sure to be extremely careful around fire and building his entire lifestyle around the tree on his back so it can prosper. Apsa uses the berries to “magically activate his tools” and despite him firmly believing it to be a magical process, the red glow on his hammer is really just a chemical reaction between the berries and the hammer’s material”.
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thetimberchasebranch · 5 months
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Hi so I'm dumping questions here because I'm normal, I promise. Feel free to answer them in whatever order and whenever you feel up to it!
First one: magic cores. So does everyone in the world have magic cores, or only some people (who end up in APSA)? Are people born with them or do they “learn” them in some way?
Hi! No worries, I'm always happy to answer questions! Although, I don't have the brain power to answer all of them tonight, I figured I'd get started with this one!
So! Its actually really funny you're asking this, because the little comic I've been working on explains the lore behind the ideas of cores!
I will say that-- you'll have to wait a little bit longer for some of those answers-- but I can certainly answer a few of them in some vague detail!
1) "Does everyone have a magic core, or just some people?"
Everyone has one! Not everyone makes use of them, but theyre there!
2) "Are people born with them, or do they have to be learned?"
Simple answer; everyone is born with them. But there's a little more to them than that!
I super appreciate the questions, and I love knowing you're invested and curious! I hope you'll be patient with me long enough to allow me to finish the comic and answer your further questions about the cores!
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ausetkmt · 7 months
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https://x.com/Eugene_Scott/status/1700556967775789157?t=b2V0ug0COHiesgBs90H7Wg&s=09
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/09/race-divides-political-parties/
What divides political parties? More than ever, it’s race and ethnicity.
In a polarized United States, what divides Democrats and Republicans the most isn’t gender or education or income or religion. It is the issue of race, whether in regard to the backgrounds of the voters who make up the two parties’ coalitions, or the conflicting agendas and priorities each side advocates in the pursuit of power.
That reality is brought home in a report produced by the American Political Science Association (APSA) in partnership with the organization Protect Democracy. The findings on race are not necessarily new, but sometimes the obvious isn’t always obvious.
The overall report, the first such from APSA in 70 years, is an effort to contribute to an ongoing discussion about how to repair the country’s broken politics. But a chapter that looks specifically at the demographic sources of division brings home the degree to which the political parties, as they have sorted themselves over recent decades, now have as the most fundamental cleavage race and ethnicity.
“Religion, economic concerns, and factors like education, age, and gender also divide us politically, but the reality is that as America becomes more diverse, it is also becoming more racially divided in the electoral arena,” Zoltan Hajnal of the University of California at San Diego writes in one chapter in the report.
Lilliana Mason of Johns Hopkins University writes in another chapter of the report, “The process of social sorting allowed the Republican Party to represent the interests of ‘traditional’ white, Christian America while the Democratic Party was increasingly representing those who were still struggling to overturn centuries of social inequality. This type of divide is not easily corrected — Democrats and Republicans have opposing visions of who should hold power in American society and how much progress has already been made.”
Some examples from recent elections illustrate the racial division between the parties. In 2016, for instance, then-candidate Donald Trump won 58 percent of White voters but just 8 percent of Black voters — a 50-point gap. There also were wide gulfs in his support between White and Hispanic voters (39 percentage points) and between White and Asian American voters (also 39 percentage points). No other demographic differentiators — whether age, income, religion — come close to those.
Another way to look at this is in the composition of the Republican and Democratic vote in presidential elections. In 2008, 2012 and 2016, about 90 percent of the votes received by the Republican presidential nominees John McCain, Mitt Romney and Trump, respectively, came from White people. That shifted a bit in 2020, as 82 percent of Trump’s votes came from Whites, according to Hajnal’s chapter. Meanwhile, almost half of the votes for Democratic nominees come from people of color.
As the 2020 results indicate, things have changed at the margins. Trump and other Republicans have been able to attract some more votes from Hispanic and to a lesser extent Black people in recent elections. But, overall, the gap between the parties is huge — what Hajnal calls a “racial chasm.” He writes, “Race and ethnicity stand out as the most important force in American electoral democracy.”
If that is the case, why did so much attention in the 2016 and 2020 elections go to class divisions — the focus on working-class White voters or voters with college degrees and those without? One answer is that those were among the voters who shifted between 2012 and 2016 and gave Trump his surprise victory.
But Hajnal writes that only about 5 percent of voters who backed President Barack Obama in 2012 shifted to Trump in 2016, and scholars later found “that racial attitudes much more than economic concerns predicted who would switch.”
Another factor that has contributed to the current gap between the parties is the role of women, as voters and as candidates, something that is linked in the report to the racial division.
“The stronger clout and visibility of female and minority politicians on the left has also intensified the racial politics of the political right,” Katherine Tate of Brown University writes in a chapter specifically focused on the role of women and people of color in party politics.
White women continue to back Republicans over Democrats, but issues of gender and women’s roles today have a distinct left-right division. The continuing political fallout over the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion is the most real-time example, as are differences over transgender issues and what Republicans such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis more broadly attack as “wokeism” on the left.
“Feelings about women’s place in society have become more polarized by party,” Mason said in a telephone interview, “just the same way as feelings about racial equality or feelings about gender identity.”
The overall report, titled “More Than Red and Blue: Political Parties and American Democracy,” comes seven decades after the political science association issued another report about the parties. That 1950 report, prescriptive in nature, lamented a lack of party discipline and advocated for parties that were more ideologically homogenous, resistant to pressure from outside groups and whose members were more loyal than they were perceived to be at the time. In essence, that report argued for more polarization.
Some of what the authors of that report hoped to see has come about, with the negative effects so visible today. Today’s Republican and Democratic parties are far more ideologically homogeneous, and party loyalty is strong in the voting patterns of recent years.
Few of those who identify with the Democrats or with the Republicans vote for candidates of the opposing party. Partisan identification is perhaps the clearest indicator of vote choice. But with a more partisan media environment, the power of social media and campaign finance laws that have moved money away from parties to outside groups and political action committees, the institutional parties themselves have become weaker.
The impetus for the new report is the perception that American democracy is in a fragile condition and evidence that the political parties have contributed to that. The report is not specifically an analysis of how Trump has changed the landscape or the specific threats he poses. It is not designed as a partisan document about partisanship. But it does not flinch from the assertion that the Republican Party has become much more open to authoritarian and anti-democratic impulses than the Democratic Party has.
At the same time, the report notes that both parties contribute to division and discord. “It is widely believed that today’s Republican and Democratic Parties have evolved to a place where they emphasize difference, stoke fear and animosity, and incite conflict,” Mark D. Brewer of the University of Maine writes in the report’s preface. “Indeed, if there is one thing on which deeply divided Americans agree, it is that parties have gotten us to the highly undesirable and dangerous place in which we currently reside.”
The team that produced the report has a more modest goal than the authors of APSA’s 1950 report. One is simply to provide in one place a baseline of what current scholarship has concluded about the state of the parties and, therefore, of current politics.
“There’s a lot of money that’s flowing toward attempts to protect American democracy,” said Mason, who with David Lublin of American University chaired the task force. “One thing that we want to make sure of is that all of those attempts are not, you know, reinventing the wheel. There’s a lot that we already know.”
While not offering recommendations, the report does talk about possibilities for changes within the parties and forces within the electorate that could bring about some shift in party coalitions in directions that would promote democracy and resist moves in the opposite direction.
Overall, the report highlights ways in which the parties contribute to current problems and could contribute to solutions, concluding that these institutions remain essential to a healthy democracy. “These are the ways that our parties can actually harm our democracy and these are the ways that potentially our parties could help undergird a functioning democracy,” Mason said. “And ideally, that would prevent a turn toward authoritarianism.”
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blanddcheadcanons · 2 years
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The Guardians of the Universe forgot their native language. They are so dependent on the Emotional Lights and their own telepathy that they forgot it.
Most of them have extremely thick accents without the light and their telepathy. So if they lose both, they wouldn't even be able to understand themselves properly.
The only exception is Appa Ali Apsa who spent time on Earth and to not freak people out, he actually took time to learn a few of Earth's languages so if he meets nontelepaths and he can't tap into the spectrum, he's still able to talk. His accent is still very thick but he at least understands himself.
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[id: apsa hi!! hello!! insanelyyyy cool, you are insanely cool! very crazy for me to be mutuals with someone so cool. but you are so very kind as well, you've really just got it all going on! it's always so nice to see you on the dash or in the notes, you're really just so, so lovely to have around! very glad that we found each other in amongst all the insanity of tumblr! also so true, biriyani haters ARE the weakest link... yours, nessa end id]
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shikanji · 2 years
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HIIIIII HOW ARE U
APSA HI HELLO!!! I'm doing good omg taking some time off after graduating hehe (aka my unemployment era 😙✌) HOW ARE YOUUU!!
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heartlandpoet · 19 days
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Dancers in Op, 11/100, Signed, Lyle J Wessell.
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ao3feed-brucewayne · 2 months
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Green Lantern New Genesis: Recharged
read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/DEv6T8F by Truenofan86 Shinji Ikari seemed to be forever destined to eternal banishment in space locked inside a manmage god, a fitting end for a failed hero. Meanwhile, a Green Lantern who's destiny was be to be the greatest is the last living being of his universe guarding the emotional embodiments as it's gets eaten by antimatter, a failure much like Shinji. A twist of fate allows the two beings to meet. Shattering the illusion inside Unit 01. By the same twist of fate Shinji's willpower is big enough to attract the last power ring. The Daxamite finally puts his duty, handing over his ring and the title of Ion to Shinji as Unit 01 is transported to another world. One filled with god-like beings, heroes. Now as a Green Lantern, Shinji must put the past behind him as he integrates in the hero society. Finding new friends, regaining trust in others, and perhaps...finding the love of his life as his presents shifts destinies of people around him. Shinji knowing one thing, that no matter if it's the Brightest Day or the Blackest Night, no Evil would escape his sight ever again. Words: 4367, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Green Lantern - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M Characters: Ikari Shinji, Arisia Rrab, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Laira (DCU), Kilowog (DCU), Soranik Natu, Tomar-Re, Ganthet (DCU), Appa Ali Apsa, Sayd (DCU), Yui Ikari/Adara, Sodam Yat (Spirit), Kyle Rayner (Spirit), Ion, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Wally West, Barry Allen, Carol Ferris, Green Lantern Corps, Guy Gardner, John Stewart (DCU), Arthur Curry (DCU), Kaldur'ahm | Jackson Hyde, Garth (DCU), Tula (DCU), Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Artemis Crock, Clone Roy Harper | Will Harper, Koriand'r (DCU), Kon-El | Conner Kent, M'gann M'orzz, Alan Scott (DCU), Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, Todd Rice Relationships: Shinji Ikari/Arisia Rrab, Artemis Crock/Wally West, Carol Ferris/Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Dick Grayson/Koriand'r, Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen, Shinji Ikari & Wally West, Shinji Ikari & Dick Grayson, Kon-El | Conner Kent/M'gann M'orzz, Shinji Ikari & Tula (Aquagirl), Shinji Ikari & Members of the Team (Young Justice), Shinji Ikari & Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Additional Tags: Cross-Posted on FanFiction.Net, Ikari Shinji Needs a Hug, Ikari Shinji Has Issues, Arisia is a teenager, Protective Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Depressed Ikari Shinji, Shinji and Wally being the new Brave and the Bold, Hal Jordan being a human mess., Shinji being the host of the Ion entity, prior avatar's spirits residing inside Ion OFA style, Guardians of the Universe being assholes except for Ganthet and Sayd, Wally West is a Good Friend, Dick Grayson is Robin, Wally West is Kid Flash, Shinji being Isekaied, Yui suffering consequences of her actions, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags May Change, Tags Are Hard, Tags Contain Spoilers read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/DEv6T8F
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aryasamajworld · 3 months
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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. May his enduring influence inspire individuals committed to the noble cause of service. #martinluther #king #inspiration #noblecause #service #apsa
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deadlinecom · 7 months
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eternal-echoes · 1 year
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Philip Pullella:
Your Holiness, thank you, on behalf of the English group, for making yourself available. Our colleague de Lara has already put the question that we wanted to ask, so I will continue just a little further along the same lines: When you were seeking to make these changes, I remember you said to the group from Latin America that there are many saints working in the Vatican, but also people who are rather less saintly, didn’t you? Have you encountered resistance to your wish to change things in the Vatican? Have you met with resistance? The second question is this: you live in a very austere manner, you have remained at Santa Marta, and so on... Would you like your collaborators, including the Cardinals, to follow this example, and perhaps to live in community, or is this something for you alone?
Pope Francis:
The changes ... the changes also come from two sources: what we Cardinals asked for, and what has to do with my own personality. You mentioned the fact that I remained at Santa Marta. But I could not live alone in the Palace, and it is not luxurious. The Papal apartment is not particularly luxurious! It is a fair size, but it is not luxurious. But I cannot live alone or with just a few people! I need people, I need to meet people, to talk to people. And that’s why when the children from the Jesuit schools asked me: “Why did you do that? For austerity, for poverty?” No, it was for psychological reasons, simply, because psychologically I can’t do otherwise. Everyone has to lead his own life, everyone has his own way of living and being. The Cardinals who work in the Curia do not live wealthy, opulent lives: they live in small apartments, they are austere, they really are, austere. The ones I know, the apartments that APSA provides for the Cardinals. Then it seems to me that there is something else I wanted to say. Everyone has to live as the Lord asks him to live. But austerity – general austerity – I think it is necessary for all of us who work in the service of the Church. There are many shades of austerity .. everyone must seek his own path. With regard to the saints, it’s true, there are saints: cardinals, priests, bishops, sisters, laypersons; people who pray, people who work hard, and who also help the poor, in hidden ways. I know of some who take trouble to give food to the poor, and then, in their free time, go to minister in this or that church. They are priests. There are saints in the Curia. And there are some who are not so saintly, and these are the ones you tend to hear about. You know that one tree falling makes more noise than a whole forest growing. And it pains me when these things happen. But there are some who create scandal, some. We have this Monsignor in prison, I think he is still in prison. He didn’t exactly go to prison because he was like Blessed Imelda, he was no saint. These are scandals, and they do harm. One thing – I’ve never said this before, but I have come to realize it – I think that the Curia has fallen somewhat from the level it once had, in the days of the old curialists ... the profile of the old curialist, faithful, doing his work. We need these people. I think ... there are some, but not as many as there once were. The profile of the old curialist: I would say that. We need more of them. Do I encounter resistance! Well! If there is resistance, I haven’t seen it yet. It’s true that I haven’t done much, but I would say that I have found help, and I have found loyal people. For example, I like it when people say to me: “I don’t agree”, and I have found this. “But I don’t see that, I disagree: that’s what I think, you do as you wish.” This is a real collaborator. And I have found people like this in the Curia. And this is good. But when there are those who say: “Oh, how wonderful, how wonderful, how wonderful”, and then they say the opposite somewhere else... I have yet to come across this. Maybe it happens, maybe there are some like this, but I’m not aware of them.. Resistance: in four months, you won’t find that much.
- PRESS CONFERENCE OF POPE FRANCIS DURING THE RETURN FLIGHT, 28 July 2013
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pihlkrag · 1 year
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Paths Untold: Philippines - Sheron Dayoc from Nico Meissner on Vimeo.
Paths Untold is a series of 27 micro-documentaries of South-East Asian filmmakers, their careers and the cities they call home. Urban. Idealistic. Individual. Unapologetic.
Sheron is an APSA and Netpac award winning filmmaker. And Sheron was our guide in Manila. The moment he met us, his car broke down. Afterwards, he was our location guide two days - negotiating with the 'neighbourhood police' at Brillante Mendoza's local basketball court, joining street-karaoke birthday parties, showing us alternative music clubs, and giving us an interview at 2am in our hotel; where we were chased through the different lobbies by the security guards who neither liked cameras nor people sitting casually with a clip-mic on their shirts.
Credits ******** Producer/Director - NICO MEISSNER Cinematographer - EMMY ONG // instagram.com/emmy.ren Post Supervisor - SHIH-YIN JUDY YEH Editor - SHIH-YIN JUDY YEH Sound Editor - PETER KURUCZ
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