Why the Best War Reporter in a Generation Had to Suddenly Stop

breakthecitysky:

As word got around the paper last fall that Chivers was leaving the foreign desk, he was in the newsroom in New York, putting the finishing touches on his major chemical-weapons story (part of his new role with the investigations desk). When the editor he’d been on the phone with from Libya, Rogene Jacquette, spotted him, she walked over to say she had heard the news. Chivers told her about his boy, about the game of cards and the hives and his terrible dread. He said it was as if a message were being sent through his son that it was time to go, in a way that even I could understand.

Jacquette took that in for just a moment and said, “We should all be thankful for your son.” And then she said, “Because he is a blessing.”

When Chris was killed, Tim Hetherington in that same attack, it was Chivers who got them home, who eulogized them in the only way that felt right to me.  

No one covered war like he did, no one wrote better about conflict or captured the humanity that lies on both sides of the equation and while I miss his war reporting, I’m grateful for his son, too.  Because we need him alive.  He doesn’t let you off the hook when he writes.  We need that now more than ever.

Why the Best War Reporter in a Generation Had to Suddenly Stop

Can you tell me a little bit about Bucky and Steve’s first night back with each other in Four Minute Window? i.e. do they ever go out and get the food? Do they just have endless sex? Do they watch TV and rant about how ridiculous the modern world is? And etcetera.

cesperanza:

They do get the food!  I think getting the food together – walking down the cracked concrete sidewalk, hearing the car radios blaring and the mix of languages – was almost as pleasant for them as the sex! Do they watch TV?–no, almost none: they watch sports sometimes though even then they prefer to go out and see the game live, and prefer minor leagues to major ones (”You’re still watching it on a goddamned screen,” Bucky complains.) They’d rather go to the park even and heckle amateurs. Do they rant about the modern world?–only when it intrudes, which it mostly doesn’t: it turns out you can turn a lot of things off. They don’t want an answering machine. They don’t want a data plan. They’re not on Twitter. They listen to the radio a lot, get their news from NPR. They still subscribe to newspapers. Bucky hates the way cars are made with computers inside them so you can’t fucking get in there to soup anything up. He had to get one of those code readers and that pissed him off. Bucky set up a coffee machine in the shop – he refuses to pay four bucks for a cup of coffee– but Steve likes to go to the upscale coffee shops that are popping up; he’s sentimental about expensive coffee, and sometimes drinks a dirty chai and feels really happy. 

Understanding a Shame-Based Personality

lavenderenergy:

There is a difference between blaming and shaming a person. 

  • Blaming is being told you did something wrong. 
  • Shaming is being told that there’s something wrong with you, and you’re worthless, bad, inferior or inadequate. 

Examples of shaming statements include:

  • “You were a mistake; I wish I’d never had you”
  • “You’re useless; you’ll never amount to anything.”
  • “You could never do what he/she does”
  • “You’ve ruined my life; you ruin everything for everyone”

Adults shamed in childhood have the following traits:

  1. They are afraid to share their true thoughts and feelings with others.
  2. They are terrified of intimacy and put up walls in relationships. They also fear commitment as they expect to be rejected.
  3. They are often extremely shy, easily embarrassed, and are terrified of being shamed or humiliated. They tend to suffer from debilitating false guilt.
  4. They struggle with feelings of worthlessness and believe they are inferior to others. They believe that is something they can never change as worthlessness is at the core of who they are.
  5. They often feel ugly and flawed, even when they’re beautiful – and everyone tells them that.
  6. They may be narcissistic and act as if they have it all together; alternatively, they may be completely selfless, almost to the point of being a doormat.
  7. They are often very defensive and find it hard to bear the slightest criticism. They feel as if they are being constantly watched and judged.
  8. They have a pervasive sense of loneliness and always feel like outsiders (even when others genuinely like and love them).
  9. They feel controlled – as if they always have to do want others want and say – and this blocks spontaneity.
  10. They are perfectionists and usually suffer from performance anxiety. This may also cause them to be procrastinators.
  11. They tend to block their feelings through compulsive behaviors like eating disorders, retail therapy or substance-abuse.
  12. They find it hard to establish and enforce healthy boundaries with others. 

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Here’s what fanfiction understands that the Puppies don’t: inversion and subversion don’t ruin the story – they just give you new ways to tell it, and new tools to tell it with. Take a platonic relationship and make it romantic; there’s a story in that. Take a romantic relationship and make it platonic; there’s a story in that, too. Take a human and make her a werewolf; take a werewolf and make him human. Don’t try and sidle up on hurt/comfort like it’s something you’re ashamed to be indulging in; embrace the tropes until you have their mastery. Take a gang of broken souls surviving the apocalypse and make them happy in high school; take a bunch of funny, loving high school kids and shove them in the apocalypse. Like Archimedes, fanfic writers find the soul, the essence of what makes the characters real, and use it as a fulcrum on which to pivot entire worlds, with inversion/subversion as their lever of infinite length.

foz meadows (via ailelie)

17decemberarchive:

This is how the Archive Team is going to save Tumblr (and you can help us)

  1. There is a website in trouble like Tumblr
  2. We have hundreds of warriors machines, which run a special operating system made for archiving the web.
  3. There is a tracker which is a central ToDo list worked on by each warrior. The warriors keep the files for archiving only for a moment before they hand them to the staging servers.
  4. The staging server collect and process the data into huge .warc files which are accepted by archive.org
  5. archive.org process and indexed our .warc files and makes them available in the wayback machine. It takes care of the long term hosting. Each TB stored costs somewhere between 1500$ and 2000$ in the long run. 

Our minimum how much we will save is above 60 TBs. An estimate of the total size of the NSFW part of tumblr alone is 10-20 times that. Even when we will archive only a fraction it is going to be expensive.  When you donate to archive.org today. Your donation will be matched.

You can help the Archive Team (which is not related to the nice guys at archive.org) by filling out this https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoYnlweKF-5iQ2G0FB9s7pDV_Le61dDU-gMMDsc8CQ50YBjQ/viewform?hl=en form  which is used to built the ToDo list stored by the tracker. We are looking for endangered blogs like NSFW blogs for example. If you know any that you would be sad be to loose please add them to the list. That way they will be saved.

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takineko:

libertarirynn:

Lmao

IT GOT FUCKING FLAGGED I’M SCREAMING

They’re fearing our resistance

100% honest I was like oh no, @ponyplaysleipnir is going to be removed at the news. Cause that wonderful bastard loyally reblogged every post of the sleipnir sculpture update I made and it was always like *finger guns* you do you my dude* because it made me laugh the wonderful absurdity of it all.