#shur

[neutron669]

Shur by Shotbysud

#Shur #Shotbysud #ooh wow #pin up model #photography #art #orange

[why-i-love-comics]

Black Panther #13 (2023)

written by John Ridley art by German Peralta & Sebastian Cheng

#thor #shur #princess shuri #thor odinson #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers #comic books spoilers

[just-slightly-chayotic]

someone make jeff wear a shirt for once

#i'm literally not evrn awake at this point #jeff satur #tea's ramblings #brain won't shye up #shur #shut

[77-fxes]

Princess of Defense

During the Dora Milaje's ambush of the French forces at the Ansongo Outreach Center, Aneka shows off two electrified daggers that were made for her by Shuri. In fact, the Dora Milaje seem to be sporting plenty of new upgrades, electrified spears, shields, etc. All of these presumably made by Shuri. It's only after I've seen that scene a few times that I've really let how aweome that is sink in. Taking the Blip into account, Shuri is still essentially a teenager and at this point, has been at the forefront of Wakanda's military technology for almost two decades.

It's interesting to think about that in contrast to Shuri's title as princess. This has always been the case, but in Wakanda Forever, that title seemed to carry more weight. Shuri is referred to as 'Princess' or "The Princess' a lot in this movie. From a logistical perspective, this makes a lot of sense. It's a shorthand for her title and the characters are not just connected personally, but as professional servants of the government or are related dignitaries to the government. Okoye is a general, M'Baku is essentially a noble and most likely to the rest of the world, Shuri is mostly known by her title, if not her genius. However, the positioning of how people are saying the word seems to be designed to play up the classical idea of a princess; that of a young, vulnerable, kind, and possibly naive young woman. Something along the line of a fairy tale princess. I feel like this starts early with Okoye and Ramonda's discussion about whether Shuri should go on the mission to find Riri. Okoye refers to her as 'the princess' as both women discuss what's best for Shuri essentially without her.

I believe that there's a more subtle version of this going on in Boston, with the police demanding that 'Princess Shuri' essentially surrender to a foreign power as if she has no choice (to be fair, they're asking that of General Okoye as well). There's the striking bit where Griot refers to her as the princess to Okoye while she was unconscious, and then the staging of the scene where she asks Attuma and Namora for parley with Namor seemed staged to highlight a certain powerlessness on her part. When Ramonda dresses down Okoye later, she speaks of Shuri not as a warrior in distress, but as a captured princess, which is a sentiment she repeats when asking Nakia to rescue her (very fairytale princess!)

I think this sets the audience up for Riri's funny comments about the special outfit and calls out the captured damsel trope in other movies. All of which I believe puts us into the mindset of how Namor seems to see her upon their first real meeting. I think that Namor starts with a clear charm offensive on Shuri because all he really knows about her is her title, and probably what he can usually expect from women holding that title. No doubt he probably surmised that she was brave and protective of Riri, but may have also misjudged her as naive and easily swayed. The bracelet, the backstory, the 'Whole New World' tour of Talokan are all a part of that.

However, in the middle of that, Shuri proves surprising. She quickly identifies the timeline of the bracelet, that his mother was human, is eager to see his nation and even seems to have an understanding of vibranium and its properties that he didn't expect. She understands what he has to protect and admires his work in doing so, but isn't willing to let that sway her in her defense of Riri and challenges him to come to a peaceful solution. This, in turn forces him into a different tact and start discussing a larger alliance between the two, something that he wouldn't do with a person with no authority.

It is in this moment that I believe Namor sees Shuri beyond the label of a princess and as an intelligent, clear-eyed, and determined young woman, and we are encouraged to do the same. It's why we're on her side when she wants to save her captors as she's getting rescued. We too know that this means war. From here on out, the idea of Shuri as a helpless fantasy princess is fully replaced with Shuri as a powerful and determined intellect, one who can be extremely dangerous to the world should she give into despair.

And when you think back, this has always been the case. So when Okoye and Ramonda were deciding what was best for Shuri, she piped up to show that she was both listening and had already decided to go; when the police were calling on her to surrender, she was already hatching a plan to escape that freed her from even Okoye; while Namor was putting on a charm offensive, she was gathering information and making a case. In that particular way, it wasn't Shuri that changed, rather it was our and everyone's perception of Shuri that did.

Which brings us full circle back to those weapons. Because those weapons represent who Shuri has always been; a pragmatic thinker who looks at the world with a clear-eyed, but empathetic practicality. Those weapons weren't lethal, but they were effective and many of her designs are powerful, but rarely offensive. They are the weapons of the protector she has always been, long before she entered the suit.

#wakanda forver spoilers #wakanda forever #spoilers #wakanda forever shuri #shur #namor #namor x shuri #queen ramonda #okoye

[ultrachoppedpenguinbouquet]

Elim

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#Egypt #Elim #Exodus #Genesis #Moses #Oasis #Palm trees #Red Sea #Shur #Sinai peninsula #Vegetation

[bibleblender]

New article has been published on https://www.bibleblender.com/2023/bible-stories/old-testament/exodus/moses-transforms-undrinkable-bitter-water-marah-exodus-15-22-15-27

Moses transforms the undrinkable, bitter waters of Marah (Exodus 15:22 - 15:27)

The Israelites are no more rescued from the Egyptians than they find themselves in yet another predicament. Their lack of water frightens them, then angers them. In their frustration, they lose faith and “grumble” against Moses and, by extension, God.

#Ain Hawarah #complaining #Elim #faith #Marah #moses #Red Sea #shur #water supplies

[drakens-trash]

why isnt there anything on my goddess shuri? thats ok. ill do it myself.

#shur #wakanda #wakandaforever #imsogay

[l00opy]

pikmin but make them like, magical girls

#pikmin #pikmin fanart #madoka magica #crossover #fanart #doodles #I don’t know what I thought honestly but it’s. it’s cute so shur up #loopy’s art tag 🧃

[kev-smell-my-fart]

a redraw. or a sequel. perhaps a successor… to the one pizzahead thing, yknow the one.

#art more like fart #artwork #artists on tumblr #my art #pizza tower #pizzahead #I actually REALLY like this particular design maybe I can use it for something. #Definitely not a mod because it would be a pain in the ass to animate but something for sure #idk I just think he deserves to slay 🫶 #WAIT PIZZAFACE IS HERE TOO I FORGOT TO TAG HIM LMAO #pizzaface #i’ll shur up now *shakes butt*

[disease]

EP COVER for QUINCY LARSEN | 2023 PHOTOGRAPHY: YULIA SHUR

#yulia shur #quincy larsen #surreal #fashion photography #photography #u

[kukvlkan]

shuri + outfits 1/2

#shuri #mcuedit #marveledit #shur udaku #wakanda forever #black panther wakanda forever #letitia wright #shes a fashion icon #tag: mine #tag: shuri #tag: mcu #making the suit gif sent me kjnhbgvfc

[puppetsh0w]

grandma's old house in the desert

#text inspired by tau1tvec #these weren't supposed to be creepy but #ouerbacker #yes i see the black spot on the cardboard im sfill learning shur up #sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 reshade #sims 3 screenshots #the sims 3 #ts3 reshade #sims 3 gameplay #ts3 simblr #ts3 gameplay #sophie & elliott #i cant edit photos

[why-i-love-comics]

Black Panther #12 - "All This and the World, Too II" (2022)

written by John Ridley art by German Peralta & Ceci De La Cruz

#black panther #tchalla #shur #princess shuri #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers #wednesday spoiler #comic spoiler

[crescend0ll5555]

#avril lavigne #emily shur

[77-fxes]

The Chaos Funnel

The last act of Wakanda Forever is chaotic. It didn't really hit me until I kept hearing people question a lot of decisions in the third act, particularly the field of battle. I've seen a lot of reactors point out that meeting the Talokanils in the middle of the ocean definitely puts the Wakandans at a disadvantage. While this is true, I'd also argue that, particularly on short notice, it was the only real way to engage Namor in a fight that didn't include his entire army invading an already devastated Wakanda (but that's for another post).

But the more I thought about it, the more I began to see how the chaos of that battle, the risks taken, the assumptions made, the plans reversed, all have their origin in the emotional chaos that started with Shuri's visit to the Ancestral Plane.

Here she meets Killmonger where she initially expected to meet her mother or maybe her brother, or more honestly, she didn't expect to meet anyone. Taking the heart-shaped herb was never about having an emotional experience after all. As Shuri admitted, it was always about power, and even then, she couldn't really admit what she wanted the power for. In having to admit that she desired revenge, Shuri was also forced to confront the series of strong and often conflicting emotions that accompany grief. In her conversation with Killmonger, Shuri was forced to confront her own feelings of revenge, her difficult feelings about her father's hypocrisy, her mother's selfless sacrifice, and her brother's nobility, her cousin's selfishness. and her anger at how those qualities landed her and Wakanda in the place they're in now. She loved these people and grieves them, but also, has an understandable anger directed towards them.

'It's not supposed to be this way' you can almost hear her say. Shuri doesn't strike me as a person who enjoys having these emotions, someone who's self-concept of herself is that of a helper, a positive, selfless, understanding person who loves her family and country very much. The kind of person who would fight against tyrants like Thanos and save broken white boys who wind up on her operating table.

Grief robs us of such a one-dimensional and rosy self-concept. Grief often involves feelings of anger, of being robbed of a loved one, of both missing someone and hating them at the same time, among other feelings. In the Teen Vogue article on the portrayal of grief in the movie, the columnist Stitch praises the film's open and non-judgmental portrayal of a young black woman's anger in the midst of grief, writing “Seeing Black women allowed to be openly and rightfully angry is so refreshing to me. Shuri's rage and thirst for vengeance in the face of feeling helpless after her brother's death and the murder of her mother was beyond cathartic,” Nia Shumake also highlighted how grief changes your everyday life, highlighting the ways in which each of the four leads attempted to deal with the loss of T'Challa throughout the movie, highlighting Shuri's workaholic tendencies. In my own experience of grief, I've found that the chaos of grief is the most difficult thing to come to grips with. As a person who often prides himself on a high degree of emotional intelligence and a member of the helping profession, I don't like feeling out of control, and I suspect that Shuri--a scientist who values reason and practicality for the greater good--is similarly foxed by such emotions.

It's the chaos of grief that she has been avoiding in her lab, that she's been avoiding in any interaction with her brother's memory or any spiritual journey with it. And it is this emotional chaos that is unavoidable on the Ancestral Plane. Once it is unleashed, Shuri is completely unable to deal with it. From her emotional outburst after taking the herb to her lashing out a M'Baku and into the final battle, Shuri is angry, reckless, selfish, short-sighted, rash. And she should be all of those things! This is a person dealing with unimaginable and chaotic grief. One of my pet peeves with the way that superhero films are sometimes approached is that characters should have the same emotional distance that we do. And so it's easy to say, 'they should have gotten over it,' or 'someone should have made better decisions, or thought more clearly.'

Wakanda Forever eschews that by showing a risky, but not horrible plan formulated under difficult circumstances by what is essentially an absolute monarch. The plan is bad, but no one outside of M'Baku and Nakia would say so, and it's clear that Shuri isn't listening. Thus the chaos extends to the battle where excellent soldiers almost pull off a daring plan, but have no plan B and subsequently find themselves in trouble. A daughter in grief having trapped her quarry in a perfect trap but underestimated how strong that quarry still is. A combatant fighting a more experienced fighter and having to eventually remember her own sense of savvy and strategy to get the upper hand, and finally, the choice between what seems like an emotionally satisfying death strike or a more rational and practical mercy. In this moment, Shuri's understanding of the similarities between herself and Namor, Wakanda and Talokan, followed by a reminder that acting on this information amidst the emotional chaos is the most authentic and cathartic solution saves the day. In a sense, Shuri finds herself within the chaos of grief and acts as she really wants to. This doesn't mean that the chaos has ended, just that she's found some bearings within it.

And isn't that just how grief is? For me, the chaos was years of drinking and self-destruction after my father passed, and getting my bearings took the form of seeking sobriety. For others, it's months spent sitting on the couch in a depressive haze until something new comes along that drags you back out. Still for others, it's isolation, blame, anger at the world. The chaos can take a number of forms. But as Shuri learns in the movie, the chaos of grief can never be fully avoided.

#wakanda forver spoilers #wakanda forever #spoilers #wakanda forever shuri #shur #killmonger #ancestral plane #grief

[starvinylz]

THE PRUDENCE KEYCHAIN I ORDERED ARRIVED YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY

#flipline studios #papa louie #flipline #prudence papa louie #one side is glittery i love ir sm #i have 2 others and i know nobody else who likes fhe papa louoe games so idfk what im gonna do with them #im never gonna shur up about these THEYRE SK CUTE