Look, I’ve spent years in a haze, trying to
forget my past. Sakaar seemed like the best place to drink, and to forget,
and to die. One day. But I don’t wanna forget. Can’t turn away any
more. So, if I’m gonna die… well, it may as well be driving my sword
through the heart of that murderous hag.
chirrut: team sweet flips. takes his forms seriously but extremely Extra when sparring. he’ll kick your ass. he’ll kick your dad’s ass. he’ll kick his own ass.
baze: they don’t even have guan dao in this setting. he just tied a sabre to a staff one day and was like “think I can use this?” and his teachers were like “well we won’t stop you”. he wears his hair like that because it’s the closest he’s allowed to having a padawan braid.
[Image: Young Chirrut
Îmwe and Baze Malbus practicing their marial arts; in the last image, they’re face to face, smiling.]
Bliss. I’ve been having a tough week and one of the few things keeping me going was coming back to this art in drafts and knowing I was going to share it on Finnrey Friday. This is the next in a series of summer-themed commissions drawn by the incredible @horreurscopes. They just look so happy and content. It’s what I’d love to have for myself. For the world, tbh.
(P.S.: Alex’s Patreon is really rad and they also currently are open for commissions!)
Daryl Davis is a Chicago blues musician, who uses his friendship with KKK to convince members to leave this organization. He successfully persuaded 25 former white supremacists that there’s another way. Davis has his own strategy, he explains and talks to people in more than friendly way, that allows to prevent usual misunderstanding.
‘They may be yelling and screaming or pounding the table, but at least they’re talking, they’re not fighting.’
Davis choose to disarm them with polite conversation and smile. And this worked out.
It doesn’t mean he’s anti-Black, he just chose his own path. No need to spread fake facts. This is very important!
#StayWoke
He has a great story on the podcast snap judgement def worth a listen (also snap judgement is pure gold)
Yes, thank you, I dug through the reblogs to find this mention, because in the Snap Judgement episode, he talks about what it took to get someone like a Grand Wizard in the KKK to talk to him like a human being, and it’s not something that just everyone off the street could do to the average KKK member, and it was not without cost! He got harassed, assaulted, and arrested outside of a Klan club by racist cops. Klan members regularly brought weaponry to interviews with him, and sometimes pointed those weapons at him while threatening him. He endured endless slurs and insults, both casual and pointed. He kept his cool under circumstances when most people wouldn’t be able to.
It wasn’t sunshine and kittens, because KKK members are not uwu widdle babbes who just need a fwend, they are violent dickheads and it takes an extraordinary person to handle them with confidence and chill.
And all of you in the comments blithering about how “this is how you stop facism/racism/nazis,” take note: white supremacists should not expect to be able to run roughshod over the rights of others until someone extraordinary with the patience of a saint and balls as big as all outdoors changes their minds. It would be great if they do change their minds, but until then, we should all be concerned with making sure they don’t take over and kill more people.
Those of us with privilege should be protecting those without, no matter what. Don’t allow abuse to go on without response because it doesn’t feel “loving/peaceful/non-violent” to stop it.
Here’s a link to the episode, it’s amazing, and Daryl Davis is amazing.
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