#we deserve the courtesy of reform

[myalchod]

Silrah, detective and assassin AU

we both know who would be the detective 😌😏

This ... didn't come out the way I expected. Saul-centric more than truly Silrah, no-powers AU.

1. If he didn't know better, he'd think this was a nightmare -- but he's wide awake, and though she looks far the worse for wear and it's been almost sixteen years since he last saw her, there's no mistaking the blonde woman laid out on the metal table before him. It's surreal, to see Rosalind Hale like this, but he just stares instead of saying anything, letting the coroner's words wash over him without truly hearing. (She looks small like this, fragile, human. He's not sure what to make of that.)

2. He should go to his DCI and recuse himself -- it's on a matter of time before their connection is exposed, no matter how deeply the records of the Light Battalion have been buried -- but he doesn't, and he's not exactly sure why. He owes Rosalind nothing; he would have been entirely content to never cross paths with her again. But something about her death teases at his instincts, and they've seldom led him wrong, and so he just accepts the case without comment.

3. She had directed them to go their separate ways the last time they had all met, alongside the insistence for silence. That's why it surprises him to find Andreas' name on one of the interview transcripts. He jots down the number, makes a note to call as soon as he can get a moment where he's sure he won't be overheard. Andreas had always been close to Rosalind; if that had remained true, he's Saul's best chance at an answer, or at the very least at some clue that might let him figure out Rosalind's death.

4. The call comes in the middle of the night, rousing him out of an exhausted slumber. Half an hour later, bleary-eyed and freezing cold, he finds himself standing over the motionless body of Andreas Eraklyon, looking at glassy eyes and red-sheened pavement and the bullet hole placed precisely between his brows. It's not the breeze that makes a shiver crawl up his spine.

5. They'd been told to scatter, but a detective has resources even without dipping into skills from a past he'd rather forget, and he tracks down three names, three numbers, three email addresses. Be careful, he sends them all, one by one. Rosalind and Andreas are dead. He doesn't include anything more. If they've changed as little as he has, they'll read between the lines.

6. Three weeks later, on the steps of Parliament, MP Luna Solaria goes down to a single precisely-placed shot, and Saul Silva feels that same chill of foreboding. This time the air is warm and still, but the past feels only a whisper away.

7. There is an uproar in the wake of Luna's death. He's not surprised when he thinks about it: the scion of an old family, unexpected reformer, she'd been highly visible and more beloved than the woman in his memory could ever have been. Perhaps, he thinks, Aster Dell had changed them all more than he had realised. (He tries not to think about the possible implications of that against what he is beginning to suspect.)

8. "He didn't deserve this," he says, when the passing of another month finds him looking down at Ben's body. Rose and the children had been away; it is the only mercy he can find in the moment as he stands in the lush garden his old compatriot had cultivated, in the middle of a quiet village in the middle of nowhere. Only the wind and the sounds of birds, unruffled by the gunshot a neighbour had called in several hours before, answer him.

9. The message appears on his phone mere moments after he arrives home that evening, the text stark confirmation of all he has tried to ignore from the outset -- all that he cannot ignore any longer, when they are the only ones left standing. Who do you think poisoned Aster Dell? she has asked, and as he thinks back to his words earlier that day, the chill redoubles. At least do me the courtesy of talking face to face, he sends back, though he doesn't know what he'll do if he sees her. She replies with a place, and a time, and that night he can scarcely sleep.

10. "Farah." If he had thought to find her changed from when they had parted ways, he does not -- at least, no more than he would have expected with the years that have passed. When he thinks about it, however, it does not surprise him. She'd had blood on her hands long before the four lives whose case files sit on his desk, before he and she became all that remained of that secret task force. (They'd all had far more blood on their hands by the end than he'd imagined possible, once.) "Saul," she answers, and her voice and her eyes are like ice. "I don't understand." The events of Aster Dell and the cover-up that followed had left him with nightmares and guilt beyond measure, wondering what they could have done to change those events, but she's given him a glimpse of something larger, and he wonders now how much of what he knows has been a lie -- and who had crafted the untruths he'd believed. Her smile sits somewhere between sad and mocking, though her eyes remain opaque. "Of course not. You were always the good soldier." The wind whips around them, teases strands of blonde free from where she's pinned it up. He remembers the feel of it against his hands, desperate stolen nights in the field, whispered confessions in the dark, and wonders how much of that too might have been a lie. This is nothing like what he had imagined meeting her again after all those years might be. (He had loved her; now, looking at her face, he wonders if he'd ever really known Farah Dowling.) "Someone has to put the past to bed. You'll figure out the rest." She takes a step back, and with his heart and the past caught in his throat, he cannot find the breath to cry warning.

11. The cliffs plunge down to where the sea crashes below, fierce rip currents that sweep out when the tide is high. They search for days, but do not find a body.

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#fate the winx saga #ftws #saul silva #rosalind hale #andreas of eraklyon #luna of solaria #ben harvey #farah dowling #silrah #though it's much less present than i planned #au headcanon meme #au: no powers #au: modern #yeah i got nothing #asked and answered #charis writes

[bahangwele-blog]

Birth Justice Collaborative

Imagine you are a on your most wonderful moments in life as a woman where you are planning on having a child, irrespective of whether you would want to have a normal vaginal delivery or have a caesarian birth, the tides are always high about whether it will happen naturally, or doctors/midwives will induce you. truth is, it is all a painful but beautiful process. It matters not whether you are in labor for seven hours or a few days, in the happy hour is the most excruciating pain that you gloriously go through with joy expectants, which is why we happily and jokingly refer to our little babies as our bundle(s) of joy!

Imagine a whole life, a purified soul, with no intentions but anticipations of making it to the world alive, battling and causing the mother to groan and gnash teeth pulling and pushing to receive her baby, alive. Childbirth is but a mystery. We plan for how we are going to deliver our baby, where to deliver, by what and by who? truth is there is an underlying matter that is underrated in many communities, that is Birth Justice.

Birth justice refers to a "movement that works to safeguard the rights of birthing people to make decisions around their pregnancies, including seeking abortions, and to have children in a safe and supportive environment."

Going beyond the statistics and beyond grief, "birthing justice places black women at the center of the fight to fix a broken system as they transform the future for all women".

But with the anticipations, joys, hopefulness, and eagerness. what if it all deliberately goes wrong? where do we turn to? who do we turn to? Are there a segment of who should have it better and who should have the worst experiences of childbirth?

An initiative, named Birth justice collaborate (BJC) was launched in 2022 when four African American and American Indian led organizations partnered with Hennepin County to engage their communities in co-designing strategies to improve birth outcomes for their communities.

"Our confidence lies in American Indian and African American community members to identify and help realize the strategies that reflect the future we wish to live into through re-connection with cultural strengths and wisdom, while concurrently addressing structural racism and other barriers to maternal health and well-being." Birth Justice Collaborative Partners

Reliability and assurance are anchored by the set strategies of the Birth Justice Collaborative by:

Acknowledging and addressing impacts of racism

Advocating for radically reform policy and payment

Expand culturally meaninfgul workforce pathways

Advance and Expand Anti-Bias Accountability Programs

Invest in a Network of Trusted Cultural Providers and Resources.

It really does not matter what ethnic you are, what matters is you are a woman, beautiful, and you deserve the most especially when it comes to childbirth. you must be free of choosing a way in which you want to deliver, you are to be free with a sense of relief that you will together with your child be in safe hands and would be served with courtesy, tender and care at any cost.

Women should be empowered, a strong South African Setswana adage that says "o beleha ha se bapadi" which translates, childbirth is no play! Nobody should ever fear going through the childbirth process because of fear of what could possibly go wrong based on who they are or who they are not.

Born or unborn, every life matters!

Join hands and be part of the #BJC

#FOREVER_WOMEN

#culture #writers

[cyarskaren52]

These shows deserve a second chance.

Here are some tv shows who’s cancellations are so unfair

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TVLINE'S YEAR IN REVIEW!

The Most Unjust Cancellations of 2023

BY TEAM TVLINE

DECEMBER 9, 2023 10:00 AM

Courtesy of Netflix, ABC, Prime Video, Hulu

Just as death is an inevitable part of life, so too are cancellations an unavoidable part of being a TV fan — but that doesn’t mean we have to like it.

As with every year, dozens of shows aired their final episodes in 2023. But before we start singing “Auld Lang Syne,” we want to pour one (or perhaps 15) out for the undeserving shows whose shocking, shortsighted and deeply regrettable cancellations will stick with us well into 2024.

Our picks for 2023’s most unjust cancellations include the revival of a popular Nickelodeon sitcom, the reboot of a coming-of-age classic, plus three series based on iconic films about baseball, wizardry and musically inclined gangs.

Other lamentable losses include a seven-time Primetime Emmy Award-nominated comedy, a promising superhero drama and a handful of other series starring several household names. It’s certainly a diverse collection of shows, but they all have one thing in common — they all deserved to see at least one more season.

Read on for (in alphabetical order) the 15 shows whose cancellations we would reverse immediately, if only we could, then drop a comment with your own additions to the list. Which of this year’s cancelled shows will you still miss in 2024?

American Auto (NBC)

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We’re still scratching our heads over why the automotive industry comedy, which was just as smart and funny as creator Justin Spitzer’s previous NBC sitcom Superstore, didn’t click with viewers. Be it bad marketing or a lack of audience interest, the show’s sharp satire — the abortion-themed “The Letter” was one of the best episodes of any show this year — and its stellar cast, led by Ana Gasteyer, deserved so much more.  

A League of Their Own(Prime Video)

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We’re not sure it gets more unjust than this, seeing as Prime Video had initially renewed this series adaptation for a second and final season… but the renewal was later rescinded after Hollywood’s simultaneous strikes delayed production on Season 2. Reversed renewals are always heartbreakers, but the sting of this one still lingers: In addition to ending on a forever-unresolved cliffhanger, A League of Their Own shined a refreshing spotlight on communities and topics that are woefully underrepresented on television.

The Company You Keep(ABC)

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The romantic con drama seemingly had it all: A fun, sexy premise, a pairing with solid chemistry in Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim, and an impressive supporting cast (Sarah Wayne Callies, William Fichtner, etc.) Too bad ABC effectively killed one of its most promising new shows in years with a bad timeslot and a lack of faith in its potential to grow an audience.  

East New York (CBS)

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This CBS drama, led by Amanda Warren and Jimmy Smits and boasting a wonderfully eclectic and diverse array of supporting cast/characters, endeavored to offer a contemporary spin on the usual cop show — in that it spoke to the need for reform, and better policing. Alas, when S.W.A.T.‘s cancellation was reversed by the network, it was East New York that seemingly paid the price.

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (Paramount+)

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Not only was Paramount+’s Grease prequel fizzy good fun, it delivered some of the season’s best musical numbers — and earned two Emmy nods for its fleet-footed choreography (see video above). On top of all that, the Season 1 series finale left us with approximately a bazillion unresolved cliffhangers.

The Great (Hulu)

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We might’ve thought that — spoiler alert! — killing off a character as hilarious and dynamic as Nicholas Hoult’s Peter would signal the end for Hulu’s alt-history comedy. But the bold twist actually reinvigorated the series midway through Season 3, inspiring some of Elle Fanning’s finest work as Catherine and opening up all kinds of storytelling possibilities. So we were royally ticked off, then, to see Hulu drop the axe after three criminally underrated seasons.

Gotham Knights (The CW)

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Doesn’t it always happen this way? Just when a new show that got off to a wobbly start starts firing on all cylinders, it turns out to be too late. At first handicapped as being yet another “Batman-less Batman series,” Gotham Knightsspun a haunting Court of Owls tale and gave Misha Collins a deviously delicious dual personality arc, all while serving #Tuernla and #StephHarper ‘shippers oh so well.

Home Economics (ABC)

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The supremely underrated Topher Grace-led ABC comedy never got its due during its brief three-season lifespan, so its unceremonious — and painfully drawn-out — demise did not come as a complete surprise. But it stung, nonetheless.  

iCarly (Paramount+)

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This cancellation felt like a slap in the face, and not in a fun way. We’ve been following Carly and Freddie’s friends-to-lovers journey in real time for 16 years, and the Paramount+ revival’s third season finale put them at the altar, where they nearly swapped vows. In a cruel (but also exciting!) twist of fate, Carly’s estranged mother interrupted the ceremony, much to her daughter’s surprise. We were dying to see what the future held for #Creddie, as well as which sitcom actress would be tapped to play the elusive Mama Shay. Sadly, we’ll be getting answers to exactly zero of those questions, thanks to the streamer’s highly debatable decision to pull the plug early.

The Other Two (Max)

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Max’s wickedly funny showbiz satire had such a sharp eye for the absurdities of celebrity culture that it seemed like it would never run out of material. But alas, co-showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider abruptly pulled the plug on all the fun after three seasons, calling it a creative decision. Was the show actually scrapped due to the reported HR complaintsabout Kelly and Schneider? We’ll never know for sure… but we’ll never stop missing Cary and Brooke, either.   

Reboot (Hulu)

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Hulu’s razor-sharp sitcom about a sitcom was a TV lover’s delight, packed with meta gags about vain actors and clueless network executives. It also boasted a stacked cast including Keegan-Michael Key, Judy Greer, Rachel Bloom and Paul Reiser, with scripts from Modern Family‘s Steven Levitan. But some of those clueless network executives work at Hulu, apparently, since they cancelled one of the year’s most promising new comedies after just one season. 

Shadow and Bone(Netflix)

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Another season of this fantasy series should have been a slam dunk given its popularity and passionate fanbase. After an eventful Season 2 finale, which teased a King of Scars storyline as well as the proposed Six of Crows spinoff, fans were left as stunned as the Darkling getting ran through the gut with this unexpected and unjust cancellation.

Willow (Disney+)

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There was plenty of magic left in Disney+’s under-appreciated series adaptation of this 1988 cult classic fantasy movie, and we would have loved for the streamer to conjure up a second season. The show was mostly well-received by fans, and creator Jon Kasan considers the show to be more “on hiatus” than officially “canceled.” Kasan is hopeful that he can reassemble the Willow team for ��Chapter II” sometime down the line, reminding his social media followers that the original movie “didn’t get its well-deserved sequel for 35 years.” So, you know, it’s something to look forward to with your future grandchildren.

Winning Time (HBO)

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The demise of this ’80s basketball drama belongs in the Hall of Fame of boneheaded TV decisions. HBO’s vibrant retelling of the L.A. Lakers’ rise to NBA dominance wrapped up Season 2 with the Lakers suffering a crushing loss to their hated rivals the Boston Celtics… and thanks to HBO’s cancellation, the story ends right there, with only a tacked-on epilogue to tell us that the Lakers went on to beat the Celtics and win three more championships that decade. Why tell the tale of the Lakers’ glory days if you’re going to end the show before the glory days even start?

The Wonder Years (ABC)

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We thoroughly enjoyed the first two seasons of this ABC reboot, which is why its premature cancellation makes us feel deflated, like an impotent balloon. With effortlessly funny writing and a charming, multi-talented ensemble, this solid comfort-watch deserved to live on for much longer, like its predecessor.

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[thewarfox]

You're probably too much of a little bitch to answer this but how come all pro lifers are so conditional about which life is worth protecting? Are the lives of women who've had abortions sacred? The lives of people who offend your delicate sensibilities? If you can actually come up with a reasonable argument I'll shut up. And probably still disagree with you.

You ask a lot! I do appreciate that you place so much faith in me that, despite your skepticism that somehow I'll be the one to change your mind.

I hope you'll understand that I'm not really pro-life though. I'm more of a practical person than that. I'd prefer to not see a child-abuser live, for instance, even though realistically they might reform someday and try to atone for their actions. I'm no Christian, though, so perhaps I'm just vengeful like that.

I'm a student of history. I have learned that prohibitions are generally a bad idea, as we've seen with alcohol, and are currently seeing with various kinds of drugs. I may prefer, for instance, that no abortions happened, but I recognize that even if illegal, some will happen anyway. In general, as a more Moderate sort of person, I prefer compromises that everyone can live with over something more absolute. At the end of the day, I'd accept a compromise that allows for abortion in limited circumstances, within a limited timeframe(and most people land in some level of this range), as long as the practice is not unnecessarily widespread.

With the logic that, illegal or not, abortions will happen, I'd prefer they were 'Safe, Legal, and Rare', over what they have become today. And that's one of the things people seem to be missing, is that people like me were uneasily accepting of the compromises of Roe v Wade. The problems really mounted when it came to Casey vs Planned Parenthood, which pushed Roe past the point of uneasy compromise, which made the practice permissible way past a certain point, and much more widespread than I think is reasonable.

There have been States across the USA, where abortion had been legalized even after birth, where freshly born children were allowed to die without ever knowing the touch of their mother. Rare though that is, I recognize that, but early-term abortions used to be rare too. I shudder at the idea of a future where such a post-birth practice became commonplace. I think any doctor or mother that allowed for such a thing to happen should be jailed at the very least.

There is a point where something is too permissible. Where more damage is done in its unrestricted allowance than if it were prohibited altogether. We don't allow for people to drive drunk, for instance, or high. These inebriations CAN be done safely, without endangering others. Abortion cannot. Someone is dying when an abortion is performed successfully. A person's life is ended. They'll never know what it's like to take a breath, or hold someone's hand. They'll never fall in love, or have children of their own. Perhaps they had a rotten future ahead of them! Maybe they would suffer. Maybe they would see hardship. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think if their life is to be ended, they should at least have some say in it. It shouldn't be someone else's decision, or be put in someone else's hands.

I would rather there were no abortions. This is true. I was willing to live with the compromises of Roe v Wade. Pro-Deathers pushed things too far. They asked for too much. They took a practice that should be awful, unpleasant, and done regretfully and tried to wash it clean of any negativity. They refused to recognize that the babies being aborted were people. They denied them that basic dignity. 'Just a clump of cells' is a common and abhorrent refrain. I think if an innocent life is to be taken you should do the basic courtesy of recognizing they were a person who deserved life. See them buried at least, as any other. Be remorseful over what was done. Don't celebrate it. Don't revel in it.

But that's not what Pro-Deathers did, now is it? They stripped these innocents of their humanity. They indoctrinated women into thinking the unborn are 'parasites', that they'll 'ruin their future', that they will 'end your career', and 'ruin their body'. They treated such a consequential procedure as little more than having a blemish treated, or a little bit of gel injected to plump your skin. Harmless. Hardly anything at all. That's the kind of thing the Nazis did to the Jews. Clinical extermination. Justifications of how much better things would be without the people they were killing. People coming out the other side with unjustly clean consciences.

If I have a choice between a world where a baby isn't recognized as a person until some arbitrary point post-birth, or a world where a baby is recognized at conception, then I choose the latter. I would have accepted a world where abortions were rare, done with regret, and treated the child with at least some basic human dignity. Pro-Deathers pushed well beyond that though. They've deluded mothers into things, of ending lives. Often gleefully. Too often with only worry about their own futures. Very often in support of oppressing vulnerable populations.

I ask you, if you were to die, would you be okay with being snuffed out without a trace? With no one remembering you? With your very humanity being stripped away? Would you at least like for people to have given you a name? To have a thought thrown your way on the anniversary of your death? It's not asking for that much, is it? Perhaps you'd like your mother to apologize to you for it, on occasion. Just a little recognition of the unfair thing that was done to you.

If I have to choose between a mother who did an awful thing with sorrow and regret, or a mother who did an awful thing with relief and a smile on her face, I will choose the former. I'm sick of this infantilizing of women, like they didn't have choices. Contraceptives have been around for a long time now. Condoms, IUDs, the Pill, and still other methods of preventing pregnancy exist. You can choose to use them or not. Abortions should be for emergencies, like a victim of rape(and even then I'd prefer at least considering letting the innocent child live, but a compromise is acceptable), or some rare illness that will kill the mother. They shouldn't be a replacement for basic contraception.

And just like I would hold men to account for their decisions to have sex, to have them support their child, I don't think it's unreasonable to do the same for women as well. They made a choice to have sex. We live in a world where we know the consequences of that. We've made abundantly available methods to prevent pregnancy. Women aren't fucking children who are too stupid to understand the consequences of their own actions. I think it's fucking disgusting for a child to die because its mother made a 'mistake' in judgement. If men are expected to take responsibility for their actions, to support their children, then women can take responsibility too. It takes two to tango. Stop treating women like children. Compromise was possible. It was an uneasy thing, but it was possible.

Now it's up to the States to decide. Now it's up to the people, instead of some detached court that created law when it had no place to. The balance of power has been righted. The people can choose, in their own states, what to allow and not allow. People can move to states that suit their values, as it should always have been. That's the whole fucking point of the USA, a coalition of states with different values that work together for their common interest.

And just like how I look with disgust at countries like Saudi Arabia, who throw gays from rooftops, I will look with disgust at states where babies are allowed to cry on a tabletop until they die cold and alone. You can have your consequence-free abortions in your state. I will lobby for the basic human dignity of the unborn in mine. Just like I am willing to consider compromises, I hope you will consider the same. You stated I had little hope of changing your mind, and I grieve for that, but know that if you were aborted, I would have been upset on your behalf too.

#abortion #roe vs. wade #states rights #compassion #pro life #anon answered