Oof, That’s Mistake #1. Never Underestimate Megs Even If He’s Mini.

a helpful slideshow created by my friend @the-celestial-bitch and her sister who can no longer access her blog from her country and has asked me to post in her stead instead

this is what she said:

this is a direct response to all the people whose reaction to what’s happening in iran is a calling them islamophobic and blocking them, furthering the oppression they’re experiencing by the government’s hands. please read this, and repost it on Twitter or Instagram and stop the misinformation from spreading

Imagine John watching his future child pulling a John Walker just like him.

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yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.

Getting tired of seeing big posts that are basically like "look there are gay Palestinians too that's why you should support them!" like how about we support them because they're facing a genocide how about that?

WAYS TO HELP UKRAINE FOR FREE AND WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT

Many of us want to help Ukrainian people during such terrible times but not everybody can do that directly or has enough money to donate. There are ways to still help tho - for example watching videos made by people promising that they will donate whole ad revenue to the charity, yet it is not unreasonable to suspect some of the creators to be scammers, not all of them will publish proof of donation, right?

1) Fortunately, channels like Watch to donate ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCJH1K31TTLYhux3v1Yb3NQ ) exist. They have their own website where they publish proof of donation to the charity for all their videos, each dedicated to another important issue. https://www.watchtodonate.org

Link to video made to help Razom (https://razomforukraine.org)  fundraiser for helping Ukrainians - https://youtu.be/Ath4IxAYOB8

Watch to donate already engaged in raising money to fight climate change, aid indigenous people, support girls and women in Afghanistan, prevent LBBQT people suicide,  and so much more! Videos created to support this important issues are still on their channel.

2) Moreover, they have collaborated with artists, for example Michelle Teh - all money made of streaming her song Life Update on Apple music and Spotify will go to Project Hope, they also help in Ukraine (and in other places in the world as well). Their website states that

,, Founded in 1958, Project HOPE is a renowned global health and humanitarian relief organization. Our lifesaving work addresses the world’s greatest public health challenges, transforming lives and uplifting communities. “

Link to Life Update on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/24V6frSTVC8PD5XwBB5E1y?si=143fcd711be64760

3) Watch to donate have their own game (available for free in google play app), according to them it makes 20 x more money than youtube ad revenue, it includes three games, each for different issue. It’s called Play to donate. Profits from ads on main page go to Project Hope

4) Rebuild Ukraine Game

LINK

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pubrevplus.rebuildukraine

- It’s a game created by Ukrainian maker in the bunker, he wanted to help his country so he created the game and all ad revenue will be donated to charities helping Ukrainians now. The  interview with the game creator can be read here https://flipboard.com/topic/gamedevelopment/making-the-rebuild-ukraine-mobile-game-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone/a-cw0GYTgzSX6bpr2sDt4A6g%3Aa%3A58779069-41db98e4b7%2Fventurebeat.com

5) Since the begining of Ukraine crisis (genocide of Ukraine people by Putin and his dogs) World Food Programme does what is the most needed to help suffering people, proof of their work is published here https://www.wfp.org/publications/situation-report-ukraine with newest reports stating that ,,  Since the beginning of the conflict, WFP has reached over 3.8 million people with in-kind and cash assistance and will continue scaling-up its response to assist up to 4.5 million people. WFP continues to monitor the food security situation in Ukraine and refugees movement into neighbouring countries, to adjust its assistance and accommodate surging needs,, . BY PLAYING IT YOU NOT ONLY SUPPORT UKRAINE BUT ALSO SLOW DOWN FOOD CRISIS

You can donate to World Food Programme for free by playing it’s official trivia game on freerice.com , sponsors pay worth of 10 grains of rice for every good answer, many categories are available.

6) PINK FLOYD RELEASED A NEW SONG, ALL PROCEEDS GO TO UKRAINIAN HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

Link to spotify 

https://open.spotify.com/track/05d0sXGApO7BPFY9tMwCXm?si=1366693c3085423f

No one is fucking talking about it but another black man was killed by the same police department that killed George Floyd they killed him 9 seconds after entering his apartment. No knock warrants are fucking bullshit. He was wrapped in his blanket he was innocent they had the wrong address there is body can cottage you cannot fucking deny this bullshit.

This is being hushed up and covered up and I cannot believe it took me until TODAY, SIX DAYS AFTER IT HAPPENED to find out about it.

Everyone should be talking about this shit.

All the BLM protests and here we are again. We cannot let a single one of these slide because that's how nothing changes and that's how innocent people are being killed at the hands of assholes who are happy to pull the trigger without hesitation. I'm so fucking upset right now and so should you be.

EDIT: THE ORIGINAL POST SAID NINE MINUTES I MEANT TO SAY NINE SECONDS

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His name was Amir Locke

I've been seeing a lot of posts insulting the people who are critical of of how TFATWS dealt with Bucky's trauma, claiming that we "want him to suffer". In reality the only reason the MCU wants us to believe he's healed (despite not doing the work) is that they can't be bothered to properly deal with it and just want to 'move on'.

On Lemar Hoskins, I do wanna say that 100% y’all were never supposed to care about him as a person or a character in his own right and it’s evident w the way this fandom be acting that most of y’all never did. First of all, I’ve seen a lot of “explanations” about how Lemar is supposed to be a parallel to Sam or Bucky or he’s supposed to be a subversion of the Black Sidekick. He’s not a subversion of nothing. He’s a Black Sidekick and a Fridged One At That, All Played Straight. None of the racial themes of this show tried to portray are safe from being absolutely shafted by this instance of this colorist (because he is one of the darkest characters on the show, if not, the darkest) and anti black moment.

These writers never wanted you to care about him more than you sympathized with his killer and her cause, not more than you hated (or loved, if you’re one of those people) John Walker, than you rooted for the heroes.

Y’all don’t know nor acknowledge how absolutely traumatic it was for many black viewers to see a dark skinned black man brutally murdered before his eyes and to have the notion of wanting justice for his death (because that /is/ what they did whether you hate John Walker or not) being demonized as shown to be unrelenting violence.

Or to show his killer, another black person, but one significantly lighter in a sympathetic light to the point where she is the one given all sympathy by making it “an accident” therefore “not really her fault” or “her cause is good because it’s okay” or the fact that we, as an audience, even if she is a leftist villain portrayed as evil (she is) because of propaganda doesn’t mean she herself isn’t leveraged above the dark skinned black man that when she “accidentally” kills him, she is framed as this traumatized hapless victim who is allowed to get away while her ally is killed to show “How Far Gone” Walker is, even though, once again, it’s the demonization of wanting justice for a dead black friend.

Only for her to say that his life did not matter. . . (Which is FUCKED to make your character say when she’s played by a black actress) But she has a tragic backstory and she’s a leftist portrayed wrong. . So it’s fine!

And sometimes, he’s woobified and made into the perfect black boyfriend/sidekick/best friend to Walker bc of course he did, that’s a what fandom does with black characters with white best friends! because he can’t escape being a trope even in death.

We’re not supposed to remember his quotes, what he did, what he felt, how he was shown to us onscreen and we are never showed him onscreen if not next to Walker, even his parents’ grief is given to Walker. We can’t see his parents grieve independently because he was not a main character. Not in the way Walker is, Karli is, Sam is, Bucky is. These characters like Sam and Bucky don’t mention Lemar after his death in ways that are supposed to be remembered by the viewer, and Karli is somehow allowed to just say his life didn’t matter. In the end, we were supposed to watch him die and then watch this dark turn.

Even if people expressed criticism of the scene or outrage, it still manages to somehow tie back to other characters. “John Walker could’ve gone dark another way!” Should not be the first response to that scene. John Walker going dark shouldn’t even in be in mind.

It should be “Lemar Hoskins should’ve been allowed to live. Lemar Hoskins should’ve gotten screentime, agency, and the chance to be a character in his own right.”

Thank you for the lore for your AU and for clearing a few things up.

How serious are the laws against those Constructed Cold? I read from an earlier post that Megatron got beaten like in canon over having a book since miners "aren't allowed" to have that kind of literature. Did Whirl go overboard or was that a relatively normal response to finding contraband? Also did Morgan ever tried to get medical books to better help his miner friends?

It wasn’t so much having a book as it is what type of book that tends to get the lower classes into trouble! Also it’s actually a class issue, not a Cold Construct issue ouob.

Megatron is manual class, and manual class has a list of books they’re allowed to read—-usually fiction, self-help and historical books based on their line of work, or Quintesson war and world rebuilding stories that promote the current system——anyone found with one not on the list will be questioned to find out who sold it to them, or will be assumed to have stolen it.

Book stores in different parts of town will offer different books depending on what a person’s designated working class is/what the major working demographic is (a young Megatron approached young!OP because he had read every single book in the one downtown bookstore he’s allowed to go to, and he saw OP reading something he’d never seen before) ——by the time children reach middle school and are segregated based on working class, they’re encouraged to get an education firmly based on what their future line of work is and be heavily dissuaded from everything else. (Libraries are only found in affluent/higher class neighborhoods. OP establishing a community library in The Dead End was unheard of until then)

Whirl beating up Megatron had nothing to do with the contraband and everything to do with people in power, who have a hold over Whirl, using him to teach Megatron a lesson/silence the miner.

OP did actually give Megatron a comprehensive first aid book before he left for the police academy——the cover and first chapter were made to look like a guide to the history of coal mining in England—-because Megs told him that he wished he could learn medicine that he could help his community whenever one was too far away to do calls there (there were not many medics who treated manual classes and those who did usually wanted to ‘rise up’ ASAP. Free clinics were rare and often closer to towns which took time to travel to from the mines).

When Terminus got caught in a cave-in on Messatine and lost his legs, what Megatron learned from this book is what helped save Terminus’ life and helped Terminus recover under less than ideal conditions.