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lambsouvlaki · 9 months

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For the Hell of it - 2 - Normal People Behaviour

Character: Jason Todd x civilian!Fem!oc

Rating and Warnings: G, no warnings

Word Count: 1,249

Summary: Jason runs into her at the university library, and gathers the courage to talk to her. The two nerds talk about nerd shit.

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The second time was also a coincidence.

Jason walked through the library of Gotham U after meeting a contact on the grounds. Cutting through the grand stone building was faster than going around, and he enjoyed the stroll to boot. The little cafe on the ground floor was quiet at this hour, while the murmur of semi-panic normal for students at this time of year lingered around the shelves and study rooms. Golden afternoon light streamed through the high windows and danced over the stone floors.

Sometimes he resented this place. The future that had been robbed of him. Today wasn’t one of those days, and he could appreciate it for what it was, with only a hint of nostalgia for a lost dream.

A familiar head of hair caught his eye, sitting at a cafe table.

Andy.

He slowed his walk, then halted as though he was looking at the daily menu.

She had her back to him, alone at a high table in the centre of the cafe. Her messenger bag was slung over the back of the chair, a book and a laptop with its screen dark in front of her. She twisted herself around in the chair to stretch out her back without taking her focus from the book.

Her major was French literature as he recalled, with a minor in… classic English lit? Early modern literature? Something like that. She was the same age as him, twenty three, and out of place in classes full of eighteen year olds. It was something that had caught his attention when he’d met her in the helmet. As a teenager with no opportunities she missed the window, but now her life was in her own hands she was seizing it with both hands.

It reminded him of Cass. He was happy for her.

He wondered what she was reading. If he stood at the right spot one floor up he would be able to look down through his phone camera’s zoom and figure it out from what the words on the page.

He stopped himself before he could take a step in the direction of the elevator. That was reaching Bruce levels of invasive.

He strictly reminded himself not to be weird about this. Maybe he could just… go talk to her? That was normal person behaviour.

Bruce never would, so it couldn’t be that bad an idea.

She didn’t know him outside of the mask. Chances were she wouldn’t recognise him from that day on the train weeks ago, and he looked even more like a stalker if she did.

He had no excuse to talk to her. The Red Hood’s obligation to her was finished. He didn’t have a functioning civilian identity, Jason Todd was still dead as far as the world was concerned, and he did not talk to people unnecessarily as a rule. But he wanted to. He didn’t need an excuse. She was pretty, they had things in common, that was it. It didn’t have to be a whole production.

Mind made up, he approached. He assessed their surroundings further enroute, noting her empty coffee cup and amending his plan of attack.

She looked up when his shadow crossed her table. Her eyes narrowed for a moment at him, then she smiled.

“Hey,” he said. “Can I buy you a drink?”

Her eyebrows rose and she leaned back in her chair, a slight flush of colour in her cheeks. Her smile turned considering and she studied him for a moment. There weren’t that many other students in cargo pants and combat boots in the Arts library. His hoodie covered all the scars on his arms but didn’t do much for the discolouration of his knuckles. He looked down at the table, and caught the name of her book. Voltaire’s Candide.

“Maybe we can talk about 18th century French philosophers,” he said, and then desperately wished he hadn’t.

“Really?” she asked, a sceptical eyebrow raised.

“I’ve never read Voltaire but I’ve had a look at Rousseau. Same era, right?”

“Yeah, both enlightenment, and formative for the French Revolution.” She smiled at him, and leaned forward, her chin propped up on one knuckle. “I’ll be honest, that is not the swing I thought you were going to take.”

“Judging a book by its cover, huh?” he asked, the corner of his lip pulling up.

“Serves me right for making assumptions.” She darted a quick look at him and away again, hiding a smile. “That seat’s free, by the way.”

He took the opening, hiding his own smile. A waiter came over and took their orders.

“So, is that assigned reading?” he asked, when they were alone again.

“It’s for an essay. Satirical political texts from the early 1700s and its social impact.” She winced and rubbed her forehead. “I am sorely regretting not doing Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal.”

“Why’d you choose this one?” He leaned forward, resting his crossed arms on the table.

“I prefer Candide as a text. Nobody is reading A Modest Proposal for a good time. Well, hopefully not anyway. But actually breaking down Voltaire is agonising: my draft is a catastrophe.”

“If you’re still at the draft stage, it’s not too late to change.”

“And let Voltaire win?”

He barked a laugh. She grinned.

“So. Rousseau hm?” She asked. “Was that for a class?”

“Na, I was just curious. A friend-” it felt strange to call Alfred a friend but he wasn’t going to say ‘my butler’ out loud, “-recommended The Social Contract a few years back. I’d argue with about half of it, but it was an interesting read.”

“Which parts did you disagree with? And why?” she asked.

He hesitated a moment, but she waited with open interest. It had been a long time since anyone had discussed this kind of philosophy with him and actually wanted to hear his opinion. It probably helped that she didn’t have a laundry list of crimes to hold against him, but he couldn’t help but enjoy it.

They talked for hours. The conversation drifted across topics, and he found himself laughing at her anecdotes. She spoke with her hands when she felt passionate about something and almost knocked their water glasses over. While she was still the reserves and self-possessed woman he’d met in a crisis, she was so much bolder and free now.

“You didn’t tell me your name,” she said, looking down at her phone.

The cafe was starting to close and the staff had pointedly taken all their cups away.

He could have given her an alias. Probably should have. But he didn’t want to.

“Jason,” he said.

She hummed, and then slid her phone to him over the table. It was on a New Contact screen, with the cursor flashing at the empty phone number field, labelled Jason.

She smiled, expectant and without shame. This woman. He grinned and gave her his number.

She got up to go, and he remembered something awkwardly late.

“You didn’t tell me your name either,” he said.

“I’ll text it to you!” she called as she left, starting to rush to catch her train. Feeling very good about himself he strolled back through the bookshelves, inspired to pick up something.

His phone buzzed about five minutes later.

‘This is Andrea, but you can call me Andy,’ the message read.

His phone buzzed again. The most absurd and niche enlightenment philosophy meme filled the screen and he burst out laughing in the middle of the library.

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monserrata · 3 months

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Finally doing this two weeks later! My apologies! 😅😭

Tagged by the lovely: @herbaklava

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Favorite Color: Yellow 🌻💛🐝

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Relationship Status: Married

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shinayashipper · 2 years

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I wannaa createe comiccsss *grabby hands*

#actually im gonna do it TONIGHT #which wip thooo #my revo one??#i should start now if i wanna make it for the Week #but my rival ones...

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holymanacakes · 2 years

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Day 5 Jealousy - Being a multi Billionaire company owner has its pro’s and cons. The con being that the Paparazzi is way too eager for any potential gossip.

Here is the question tho is it real or fake O.O Poor Yami

Had a decent amount of fun tho, learned a bit will try new things....eventually.

Tho recently a someone convinced me that this 3 would be fun to ship. They called it Stubbornshipping and i Think its fits them to a T

#revoweek #week-of-revo #revolutionshipping #2022 #yami yugi #anzu mazaki #seto kaiba #yugioh #yu-gi-oh #fanart #duel monsters #myart #revolution #weekofrevo #comic #tea gardner #I'm looking at you rebel #Azureshipping if you squint #stubbornshipping

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usafphantom2 · 6 months

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Ukrainian pilots start training in F-16 based in Arizona

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 10/27/2023 - 13:00 in Military

Ukrainian pilots began training of the F-16 in Arizona with the Arizona National Air Guard, leaving Kiev one step closer to acquiring the U.S.-made fighters that Ukraine says it needs to help defend its sovereign territory and its citizens from Russian troops.

U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink announced the training in the X, saying: “This is an essential part of the construction of Ukraine's air defense. The United States is proud to work with European partners to support Ukraine against Russia's brutal aggression."

A National Guard spokesman said on Thursday that the 162ª Wing of the Arizona National Air Guard in Tucson began training a small number of Ukrainian pilots this week “in the fundamentals of the F-16”, with the training expected to last several months. Normally, F-16 training courses last about eight months, according to the Pentagon.

Training at Morris National Guard Air Base follows English training at Lackland Air Base in Texas last month. Proficiency in English is required to fly F-16 fighters.

During a press conference in Brussels earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that F-16 fighters could reach Ukraine by the middle of next year.

The deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, General David Allvin, said that the F-16 aircraft will be important for Ukraine in the long term, as the Ukrainian Air Force will be able to fully integrate the new fighters into its armed forces.

The news came at a time when the United States announced that it would provide up to $150 million in additional military aid to Ukraine.

The package includes more GMLRS rockets for high-mobility artillery rocket systems, ammunition for the National Advanced Surface-Air Missile System, TOW anti-tank missiles, AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and 155 mm cartridges.

The availability of 155 mm cartridges has raised concerns in recent days, as U.S. partners, Ukraine and Israel need them to fight their wars - one against the invasion of Russia, the other against the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which killed hundreds of Israelis and kidnapped more than 200 others in an attack on October 7.

Washington said it is able to support the military needs of Tel Aviv and Kiev.

Tags: ANG - Air National Guard / U.S. National Air GuardMilitary AviationF-16 Fighting FalconUkrainian Air Force

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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roydeezed · 11 months

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One Piece-Chapter Round-Up(Chapter 1083)

Okay so this week is probably the first normal chapter we’ve had in a while after Oda’s streak of absolute 11/10 chapters in the last few weeks. It was just a 10/10 chapter. Average really. Jokes aside though, if you’re a One Piece fan and reading this, can I just take a moment to gush about how amazing this series and its community are? Like, we’re all over the world. Most of us don’t even share a language or continent, much less the same country. We all got into it at different points in the past 25 years and at different points in our lives. And it’s affected us all so much. I can’t help but romanticize such a romantic series. It’s been a journey for us as much as it has been for the Straw Hats. And like with every journey, it’s going to come to an end too. It’s bittersweet but I can still remember the feeling I had reading certain chapters and moments. Where I was during Rocketman’s chase in Enies Lobby, what I was doing during Skypeia, how stormy and dark it was outside when I first saw Hogback, and how reading Ace’s death shocked me for the entire school day. And all of that’s coming to an end. I know a lot of people joke about Oda’s estimate that One Piece is going to end soon, but if you’ve paid attention, his insistence that it’s going to end in 2025 has always remained the same. I bring this up because in a recent announcement about the live-action show, Oda brought it up again. I think we all realised it when “He Laughed” happened, but One Piece is going to end soon. I just want to say I’m really glad I got to take part in this journey. And meet and talk with people in real life and over the internet about it. And also enjoy the creativity it’s inspired in the readers too. We’re really lucky to have such an awesome series and awesome community be a constant in our lives for the past while.

Okay rose coloured glasses Roy over, it’s time to shift over into analysis mode. I know it’s not for everyone but I love One Piece politicking so much! But before we get into that below the cut, I just want to talk about how adorable and sinister the cover page is. Doffy is helping out the baby chick but he’s so doing it to manipulate it later. Never change Doffy, stay despicable. Alright see ya down there!

Okay, so we get into some really intense political and tactical discussions right away. This chapter is almost laid out like the establishing chapter of a big battle, like we’ve seen in Alabasta and Dressrosa. Where we needed to know the locations and particular struggles of each battle. But it’s not going to be a battle. At least not in the fisticuffs sense. It’s more subtle. But that’s exactly why Oda is being so thorough in this chapter. Oda prefers to rely on the art to tell the story as much as he can so with the amount of dialogue in this chapter it’s almost like that one chapter of Hunter X Hunter. You know the one.

Right away, we get Sabo establishing the objectives they set out to accomplish and Dragon and Iva clarifying to what degree they were successful. It’s a really effective tool to deliver expository dialogue and reminds me a lot of the way Christopher Nolan delivers it in his movies. It’s necessary to do it in such a direct way to take the hit of setting things up as early and in short an amount of time as possible but it’s also punchy and dynamic as the deliverer of each set of expository dialogue gets to showcase what their priorities and personality are.

So the objectives. Let’s start with the first. Destroying the celestial Dragon’s symbol. It’s really interesting how the Revo’s symbolic targets are the Celestial Dragons. To me this, and Sabo’s realistic morals later on, symbolize a muddled goal. Because, in the way One Piece deals with dreams and ideals, it doesn’t leave space for realism. Dreams are meant to be outlandish and unreal and way too far out of reach. They shouldn’t be realistic. But this chapter grounds it all. Makes us face the realism of it. And don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love it, the crunchy technicality of it all. And I think this is an incredibly smart way to go about it. But if we’re looking at this through the ideals Oda has set up, I think he’s saying this is the wrong way to go about it. It reminds me of how way back in Sabaody, Rayleigh said that the Straw Hats might come to a different conclusion once they learn the true history. And how the twenty kingdoms destroyed the Ancient Kingdom and took over. I think there’s a parallel there and it’s about how systems of power will continue to oppress if only the cogs in it are replaced. Meaning, the Revo’s could end up just becoming the new oppressors. It’s a cycle of power and abuse perpetrated by the system.

Destroying the symbol of the Dragons also parallels with how the Straw Hats destroyed the flag of the Marines. Their attack wasn’t planned ahead of time. It was the fastest way to show Robin that they didn’t care who came after them. What she meant to them. This is also what the Revo’s are trying to show the world but the thought and planning of it, belies to us the impurity of it all. This also ties into the third objective Sabo mentioned. Destroying their food reserves and how the Revo’s were placing the Holy land under siege. The Dragons are horrible people. That, no one can deny. And I love the righteous rage of the Revo’s, Iva and especially Sabo. But notice the joy Iva takes in having them go hungry. How dramatic it’s made to be. It’s role reversal. What the Revo’s are doing may be right, but they’re just taking on the role of the oppressors at this point. And I know it’s not as cut and dry as that. That’s war. That’s why I love how Oda has injected this into the story. There’s always been great evil and great good front and center in the story. But the middle ground? The grey area? That’s always been lurking but is equally important. Now that we’re reaching the endgame, Oda has finally decided to let it take center stage and I’m so glad he has. If anything I can see this dividing the community and I am here for it. Because I think that’s when Oda is going to show us how the Straw Hats handle this. And that’s to dream and reach for an impossible ideal. I’m so excited!

Before we get into discussing the final goal, I also want to point out how casually Dragon mentions that eight of the twelve nations' uprisings were successful. You know what that means right? Four of those nations are going to incur a heavy punishment. And Lulusia has already paid the price. Sabo also mentions how Cobra was an acceptable loss but we’ll get more into that later. But this is the collateral damage the Revo’s are willing to accept. We know Luffy would never accept that. And that’s another point of Oda’s genius. The One Piece world is so nuanced. Because I strongly believe that Luffy is going to abolish almost all, if not all systems of oppression. And Oda wants Luffy’s blind hope to set an example. But he also realizes that it would kinda set the wrong message if the oppressed were told to seek out a peaceful resolution, because the world doesn’t work like that. So I think he’s using the Revo’s to soften the blow of it all. Where they’ll weaken the systems of oppression and somewhat take it over, but leave it in a weak enough state that Luffy can dismantle it. That way Oda can have his cake and eat it too. Speculation but I strongly believe it.

And now finally the second point. The freeing of the slaves and Kuma. We’ve barely gotten off of the first page and I've written two pages of this in my google docs. I’m sorry for the length yall hahaha. But this chapter is incredibly dense. This point, of freeing the slaves, is probably the most uncriticizable of their goals. It’s definitely the system of power I can see the Revo’s outright abolishing. It also plays into the squeeze they’re putting on the Celestial Dragons. Not only have they lost their food but also their labor force. We also know that Sabo helped to free the slaves by finding the keys to their collars and that Bonney is in the area too and that she’s trying to free Kuma so I wonder if Sabo and her helped each other out. But Bonney is also the reason I think we’re going to see this lead right back into Egghead as she’ll fill in the blanks.

Next, we get the announcement of a new set of bad guys who are directly loyal to the Dragons. Oda really can’t help himself. I believe Oda when he says One Piece is going to end soon, but things like this are why I don’t blame people for thinking otherwise. Oda’s the type to create 99 alts in an mmo before finishing the story with any of them (this comment is gw2 coded). But on either side of this reveal we get discussions on the part the media plays in this revolution. When I first saw Dragon mention that the media censored everything, I was a bit confused as I didn’t understand how the nations knew to rebel. But then I remembered the posters of Sabo and read closer. The news censored the mentions of other nations rebelling, but are mostly letting the truth get out about what the Revo’s did. I’m really interested in Big News Morgan as a character. Because on one hand, this all feels very calculated and in favour of the Revo’s while placating the government, but also Morgans seems to be someone only wanting to tell the best story while ignoring the inconvenient facts.

This all leads to the Flames of Rebellion. See, the way the story is playing out, with Sabo being the poster child of the rebellion, seems to work in favour of the Marines, as it gives them one symbol to take down and end the rebellion. But in actuality, it makes an unkillable symbol. Because if they let him live, he goes on to do more heroic deeds and raise the profile of the Revo’s. But if they kill him, he becomes a martyr and a symbol for greater revolution. That’s why this feels like Morgans is hoodwinking the marines in the guise of helping them and secretly helping the Revo’s. Or this could just be him telling the best story he could find. Either way this chapter must have been important to him as it did contain a lot of “Big News!”

And now, to get into Sabo’s character. I love Sabo. But very specifically the adult version of him. As a set with Luffy and Ace, he wasn’t as dynamic as them. But as the Flame Emperor?!? He’s just perfect. He’s spurred on by a righteous rage stemming from years living with an unfocused anger. For the longest time, arguably his formative years, he grew up not knowing why he was so angry. He didn’t have any context to his anger but everytime he saw injustice in the world it felt like that anger grew. He was of two worlds so he can’t remain impartial or unrealistic. He has to pick one to avoid getting swamped by the other. And it’s a flame of anger he has to keep stoked by fighting and rebelling. He’s worried that if he doesn’t it’ll go out and then he’ll have no purpose. That’s why, while his humble nature doesn’t let him play too hard into the role of “Flame Emperor”, his self sacrificing side and righteous anger see it as only proper that he be the kindling to the flame of rebellion, just as Cobra was. It’s a guilt of being a cog in the machines of oppression. Cobra was a cog just like Sabo. Or so he believes. That’s why he’s okay with both of their deaths. Maybe the mera-mera-no-mi only picks users that see themselves as sacrifices, as kindling to greater causes. One thing we know for sure is that Luffy won’t let that happen this time.

This picture absolutely sends me. If I saw this even I would be like, yo Sabo, this you? But I wonder? Sabo looked surprised at the picture. If Sabo never went near Cobra, could this be a reintroduction to Bon Clay? We always knew Bon was morally ambiguous, their greatest loyalty to only to their friends. So this could be a deal made with bon Clay to frame Sabo as a killer. Only for it to backfire, maybe due to Morgans meddling. Or this could just be an unlucky arrival by Sabo just in time for the picture. Though I wonder about that because it would be right in front of the Gorosei, who have been teased to be powerful, so they would’ve just cut Sabo down.

Anyways, moving on because this post is dragging and I am also running out of time irl, gotta go do something, we get into the actual flashback. We get the absolute chaos of scattered forces, a showcase of the despicable nature of the Dragons, and the reintroduction of one of my new favorite Revo’s now, Karasu. This only happened because of this chapter. (Karasuno Fly! Yeah I'm a Haikyuu fan too, what of it)(Okay weird tangent but by typing the Celestial Dragons as Dragons so many times, something in my brain unlocked and I just want to point out that Kaido being a dragon mirrors Luffy’s fight against the Celestial Dragons, with the big punch taking him out also mirroring Luffy punching the celestial dragon back in Sabaody, okay tangent over) Karasu is so dedicated to his crow aesthetic that he made a totally unrelated fruit work to enhance it and themed his attack style after it. Mad respect to him. But it also shows how fruit users define the fruit and not vice versa. Love the other captains too but Karasu has shot to near the top of my favourite Revo’s list.

We also get Fujitora, a marine who despises the Dragons attempting to call down a meteor. Oda is able to inject humour into even the most serious situations. But compared to a lot of the fights over the series we see how tactical and precise the Revo’s are. What they’re doing is messy but they’ve planned it all out. They’re holding back the admirals while Sabo gets the keys. They’ve destroyed the food supplies and the symbol already, taking care of the instant tasks probably at the same time. It’s surgical.

And now we get the main setup panel. It tells us what’s at stake and where everyone is. Sabo freeing Kuma will not only save Shirahoshi from the Celestial Dragon (forgive me, these shitstains are the only characters whose names I actively forget), but it will also accomplish Bonney’s goal. I’m eager to see how that plays out.

I love Vivi so much. She often seems like the only one with a full awareness of events. She usually has a hyper awareness of events. We see her confronting Lucci, having her, who I see as a Straw Hat, meet one of their recurring foes she hasn’t had a chance to meet yet. I don’t remember if it was established earlier when we saw the reverie for the first time but the rest of CP0 was also seen in this chapter.

And finally we come to Cobra. He leaves his guards behind and goes into see the Gorosei. Alone. You realize what this means. First of all. The assumption that Sabo is telling the truth is what we’re going ahead with. Which means. That the Gorosei outright murdered Cobra. That’s… huge. What could he have talked about that prompted such a reaction? With no break next week and such an extensive set-up chapter I feel like there’s a chance we find out real soon. CHOO CHOO, THIS HYPE TRAIN HAS NO BREAKS!!! LET’S GO ROCKETMAN!!!

#op 1083 #one piece chapter 1083 #one piece 1083 #one piece #one piece spoilers #sabo #manga recap #manga discussion #eiichiro oda #this one's long yall #and goes into some tangents #i cant help it #literally thought it was going to be super short till i was halfway through

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