DC TV AU Questions: If Flash and Nora Allen decided to find where Reverse Flash is at now-a-days and ask for his help on returning Nora to her proper timeline, what happens if he agrees...but, ONLY if they managed to get the Black Flash away from him? Would the two heroes help the guy out? Could they be able to get Black Flash to leave Eobard Thawne (Reverse Flash) alone?
wooo, this is really late! but honestly i think they can! but it’s a 50/50 chance because barry and nora could be strong enough do defeat black flash, and they couldn’t. hmm this is a good question i’ll think about it
Please, pretty please, can someone lend me their artistic talents and make me a banner with all my favourite black women on TV in it? I am happy to accept prompts for a one shot of your chosen ship or fandom as payment.
The women:
Danai Gurira.
Sonequa Martin-Green.
Candice Patton.
Anna Diop.
Susan Kelechi Watson.
Rutina Wesley.
Nafessa Williams.
I love these women. They’re beautiful, intelligent, conscious, and they all act their asses off. Even when/if their shows are pissing me off, I come back for them.
JUST 👏 BECAUSE 👏 A 👏 WOMAN 👏 IS 👏 COMFORTABLE 👏ENOUGH 👏 IN 👏 HER 👏 OWN 👏 SKIN 👏 TO 👏 WEAR 👏 REVEALING 👏 OUTFITS 👏 DOESN’T 👏 GIVE 👏 ANYONE 👏 THE 👏 RIGHT 👏 TO 👏 SEXUALLY 👏 HARASS 👏 HER 👏 PASS 👏 IT 👏 ON 👏
Arinaitwe Gerald, an Batwa indigenous organizer I talk to regularly who lives in southwestern Uganda, is currently having trouble providing for orphaned children he and his wife have taken in in addition to their own children after their mother passed away a bit over a month ago.
One of the children, a 12 year old girl named Immaculate, is in serious pain due to having a cyst caused by goiter. She had been recommended for surgery all the way back in October, but because $700 is nowhere near an amount her late mother or Gerald and his wife can afford, she has still not gotten the treatment she needs and they are even having difficulty getting the $85 needed for an injection that would potentially help decrease the pain and size of the cyst temporarily.
Please spread this fundraiser and donate if possible! Immaculate and her siblings, as well as the Batwa people at large need all the help they can get, and no 12 year old should have to go through all that she is currently dealing with.
“Do you know what the greatest pain a person can feel is ? The greatest tragedy a life can experience ? It is having a truth inside of you, and you not being able to share it. It is having a great beauty, and no one there to see it.”
“I’m about as fashionable as Kanye is Black. Only when it’s convenient. That joke was my choice, just like slavery.” — Issa Rae, hosting the CFDA Awards last night, with Kim in the audience
Just Like The Ocean Always In Love With The Moon Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk at 20
Kurt was fairly quiet and introverted most of the time. Jeff was the opposite. He was very much full of life and had a lot to say. He was somebody in love with experiencing everything. Within a very short time, he had all these famous old rock stars coming to his shows. Which put a a lot of pressure on him. People talked about his concerts the way they used to talk about Hendrix: they’d sit there, wide-eyed, telling you stories about him. He definitely had an aura. It’s impossible to say what it is exactly a guy like that has, that is so attractive to other people. But he had more of it than anyone I had ever met. ~Chris Cornell, Jeff’s friend and music director of Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk.
Sketches is anything except what you’d expect for the follow up to Jeff’s debut album, Grace. Jeff would be proud of that. He began writing songs for the album he wanted to call My Sweetheart the Drunk and was recording many of these songs when he swam infamously into the Wolf River on May 29, 1997. He left behind many unfinished songs and recordings that had to be interpreted and assumed finished in the way Jeff would have wanted. Helping in that, at the request of his mother, was friend Chris Cornell.
Sketches is two discs of ups and downs. There is a lot of scorn, the powerful, heartbreak, isolation, and acceptance. His lyrics show growth, chance, and not Grace part II, a leap Sony would not have been happy with for sure.
Who knows what would have become of Jeff. The truth that music was his home - and that the music he wanted to create and enjoy. When you start to perform under fake names just to enjoy playing a small show for the sake of music…who knows how long Jeff would have survived the industry. Easier said then done now as opposed to the big label 1990’s.
Twenty years since we heard what was going on in Jeff’s mind and heart. There was change going on within Jeff. The sounds he used to record Grace at Bearsville Studio differs greatly from the raw sound of the songs he recorded in Memphis and in New York City for Sketches. There is one eerie similarity between the two albums: Jeff’s references to river, water, and drowning.
Below, some lyrics from each track.
Disc 1
The Sky Is A Landfill
The storm has ripped the shelter
Of illusion from our brow
This power is no mystery to us now.
Leave your spirit genocide
The cancer you won’t remove
We cast our funeral rose inside
And bury the need to prove
Our mutilation is to gain from the system
Everybody Here Wants You
I know the tears we cried
Have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us
There’s nothing in our way
My love
Opened Once
Just like the ocean
Always in love with the moon
It’s overflowing now
Nightmares By The Sea
I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all
From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls
With their bones they’ll scratch the window, I hear them call
“Don’t know what you asked for.”
Yard Of Blonde Girls
Through the yard
Through the yard of blonde girls
Through the river and the sea
Gold sharks glittering
A tree of white
Breaks the earth
The streets where Lola played
Witches’ Rave
You’d like to see him suffer
For you fantasy and thrill
He fell sick while we made love
He’s out there, somewhere, still
New Year’s Prayer
Leave your office
Run past your funeral
Leave your home, car
Leave your pulpit
Join us in the streets where we
Join us in the streets where we
Don’t belong, don’t belong
You and the stars
Throwing light
Morning Theft
True self is what
Brought you here, to me
A place where we can
Accept this love
Friendship battered down by
Useless history
Unexamined failure
Vancouver
We’re where we belong
It should end here
Until the end of time
Beyond the moment
That ends our bondage
I am your failed husband contender
I’m your loan shark of bliss.
You & I
You and I
Ah, the calm below that poisoned the river wild
You and I
Tears that dry on a rude awakened child
Where you look down
I’ve walked before
Burning holes
With eyes of liquid brown
If we had only known
In a way
We wouldn’t reach this ground
You were my only home
Disc 2
Nightmares By The Sea
Stay with me under these waves, tonight
Be free for once in your life tonight
New Year’s Prayer
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing
Past the sound within the sound
Past the voice within the voice
Haven’t You Heard
Paranoia will write the world prayer
Make sure that you fit in the right holes
But when you take his offer, you’re done for
I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)
We had a birthplace in common
We had separate beds and lives
I’ll just sit here and glow
Break out the oldest pictures
Hand your ruined letters out to dry
We had a birthplace in common
And separate beds and lives
And lives, and lives
Murder Suicide Meteor Slave
Welcome down to paradise rock
There is no single entrance
With the stars to revolve around
There is no real underground
Back In N.Y.C.
You’re sitting in your comfort you don’t believe I’m real,
You cannot buy protection from the way that I feel.
Your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash,
But it was mine in the first place, so I’ll burn it to ash.
And I’ve tasted all the strongest meats,
And laid them down in colored sheets.
Laid them down in colored sheets.
Who needs illusion of love and affection
When you’re out walking in the streets with your mainline connection?
Demon John
Today or tonight
Better get yourself together
And transcend it, a burst of light
Blaze stars into me
While the love breaks through here and now
Your Flesh Is So Nice
Jewel Box
Diamonds from the pavement
Where a broken glass had been
Just like these troubles that I’m leaving to the wind
Like sapphires in boxcars speeding towards the end
Like thieves, my bad luck grows
Satisfied Mind (Cover)
My Friends and My Lovers, I Will Leave, There’s No Doubt
But One Things For Certain, When It Comes My Time
I’ll Leave This Old World With A Satisfied Mind
Gunshot Glitter [Bonus Track]
Down to the sea out of the skies
Of gold cards and casual tears
I have only come to see you shine
Feminine smiles the right side is wise, more than I.
I wanna be your lover,
Lipstick my name across your mirror.
Blood red with flaked gunshot glitter
And be one with all you disowned in your young life. You paranoia politician diva.
You paranoia politician diva.
Thousand Fold [Bonus Track]
There ain’t a star born that brightens
More than you, you always should have known,
I’ll illuminate your question,
Long time ago I’d died and gone.
What has brought the question?
Time has brought the question.
Come and call the question,
Oh, oh, oh.
Here are the stars, same thing again
I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset
Forgetting
I ever happened
That I ever happened
I should preface this with the warning that I am not a linguist or anything remotely related to one. I’m just pairing my understanding of the English language with my understanding of Pidgin and trying to figure things out. Correct me if I get things wrong in either language.
Pidgin - English
Dem swear for you? – Are you cursed?
Seems to be a mix up between swearing like cussing someone out for being an idiot with swear/curse words and actually placing a curse on a family down to the 5th generation or something. There’s an actual history of this connection in English I read somewhere, but someone’s gonna have to explain it better to me
I sabi am – I understand it
Probably from English “savvy” which I have seen used as a verb in old timey novels from a certain era and probably still applicable to modern accents from different areas of the UK. Like “You savvy?” in English, “Sabi am?” in Pidgin
I don do am – I did [the thing]
“Don” is indicative of past tense, seems to be a generally accepted rule. Maybe “done”, similar to AAVE?
I no do am – I did not do [the thing]
No is negative. Obviously
I nevah do am – I did not do [the thing] yet, or I did not do [the thing] in the past
Nevah like “never” but not in the finality that it often implies in English
Are there any linguists in the house who can help me out here? Or better yet, any pidgin speakers who are less rusty than I am? It’s been years, lads
Also, I noticed some similarities between Pidgin and Patwah which is v cool and if any speakers can enlighten me, please do
Reader Chris passes along an article about differences in American Sign Language usage between white and African-American signers. Researchers investigating what they call Black ASL found significant variations in signs, signing space, and facial cues. They explain:
Black ASL is not just a slang form of signing. Instead, think of the two signing systems as comparable to American and British English: similar but with differences that follow regular patterns and a lot of variation in individual usage.
They hypothesize that these differences began in segregated learning environments, and continue to evolve in Black social spaces. The whole article is worth a read.
Thanks, Chris, and remember — you can submit Wonk-worthy links through our ask or via email!
ETA, 9/24/12: Many of you have brought up the use of the word “mainstream” in this infographic. Better choices definitely exist, since this word rings of othering. We appreciate your nuanced and attentive readership!