#starhawk

[dimorphodon-x]

Little guys

#not pictured: #Thunderclash sobbing #he was so worried nova wouldn’t like flare lol #my art #transformers #transformers oc #sparklings #Novabird #flareblaze #Gracequake #also crack ship baby #starhawk #rodimus #thunderclash #rodithunderhawk #megatron #oc x canon #nameless oc

[gatheringbones]

[“When an issue is framed as a life-or-death dilemma, as a test of commitment or integrity, it’s hard to have an open discussion. If we’re arguing about whether to cut the weeds with a scythe or a weed-whacker, we could argue the pros and cons of each. But if your frame is “Every small decision is a test of our moral commitment to the environment,” there’s not much room for me to argue the merits of the weed-whacker without being branded as an anti-environmental lout. If my partner and I are arguing about which movie to go to, and my frame is “A compatible relationship means perfect agreement — if we can’t agree then we shouldn’t be together,” there’s not much room for my partner to prefer a Russian drama with subtitles over my choice of a light, romantic comedy.

Progressives tend to be morally driven people so integrity and consistency are important to us, and we have strong feelings and strict standards for how people should behave. Yet we live in a world that is not set up to further many of our goals and aims. We are constantly forced into compromises. We often do drive a car to get to the meeting about reducing our carbon footprint. If we want to establish open and vibrant communication, we should take care not to frame every disagreement as a moral test. Instead, we should look for ways to frame our issues that encourage and support diversity and a wide variety of opinions and options. We might reframe the movie argument as, “A strong relationship can stand diversity — if we go see each others’ preferred movies, we’ll each stretch and grow.” We might look at the weed-whacker debate as an opportunity to evaluate the trade-offs of time and energy vs. fossil fuels. Then we can hear all sides of the story.”]

starhawk, from the empowerment manual: a guide for collaborative groups, 2011

#starhawk #brainspace #currently reading

[bellemaddox]

"What many of us discover, however, when we begin making decisions according to our internal integrity instead of externally imposed authority, is that what we have always called our conscience is really an internalized version of external authority, an inner self-hater that gets us to do what it believes is right by means of domination, threat, fear, and guilt - by telling us the stories of estrangement."

- Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark, p. 36-37

#starhawk #intuition #power #authority

[hmsindecision]

Ask yourself where you fall in Starhawk’s roles people tend to take in nonhierarchical groups

#feminism #starhawk

[ezra-iolite]

(...... Listen, I STILL DON'T DO ART, I KNOW I SUCK AT IT! XD But I had to make a comic based on my experience. I was wheezing with @tigracespace over it, so y'all deserve to suffer with me.)

Sooooo...... while doing some research on book recommendations, I found out just now that there's a Wiccan book called The Spiral Dance, a feminine energy-based thing written by someone under a craft name/pen name that's VERY SIMILAR to a certain traumatized boi we all know and love.

........ Honestly, @dimorphodon-x, I'm just as confused as you are. XD And as soon as I saw that book, all I could think of was a very confused Seeker holding the book and having an identity crisis. 😂 I'd love to know what his reaction would be, but either way, just.... witness my confusion and know that I legit thought the book was written by YOUR BOY for a full second!

........ Also, this meme is now running through my head. SUFFER WITH ME!!

#Look!! I drew!! Haven't drawn anything in ages... I still suck but it was fun XD #Just in time for them Spooky Month vibes too! #dimorphodon x #ezra iolite og work #starhawk

[mangokitty07]

faces

#art #sketch #kat #emmett graves #elena fisher #isaac clarke #frye #gravity rush #starhawk #uncharted #dead space #splatoon 3

[doctorslippery]

Cody Johnson

#adam strange #starlord #flash gordon #nova #superman #rom #spock #starfire #captain marvel #supreme #gladiator #orion #captain comet #green lantern #rey skywalker #adam warlock #buck rogers #silver surfer #sersei #starhawk #lobo #firelord #silverhawks #quasar #master chief #mandalorian #photon #starman #space ghost

[tricksterrune]

Yondu feels

I've finally watched more GotG and have had thoughts about Yondu.

Random headcanon: Since a large part of Yondu's crew is as dumb as a bag of bricks (it's funny until you tie it a lack of literacy and basic education to crime and neglect on a universal scale) Peter and his fourth grade education quickly rise through the Ravager ranks. He's promoted almost instantly once Yondu recognizes he can multiply. (I want to write a fic where Peter is on cleaning duty, overhears someone making a mess of inventory and by snarking, gets promoted by Yondu)

What if.......Yondu's core problem is weakness. Weakness gets you killed. Softness gets you killed. He learned that lesson as a child, sold into slavery, becoming a child soldier and later a ravager. The boss is feared, gets respect, gets what he wants, is free. In control. He absolutely cannot let go of that control. He simply must be the toughest meanest son of bitch around. Or else he will suffer and die. Sadly that extends to his parenting. Teaching someone to be tough will save their lives. What if.....he was shown another way? Deep down Yondu is a softie. He likes silly dolls on his console (the one quirk he gets away with, an eccentricity which is NOT a weakness), he likes music, he wants Peter to think he's cool. If he was allowed to be soft, he'd be a better dad. On that What if he needs a positive role model. Someone who he respects as super tough, as a boss .....but also has a soft side, shows emotions. (Stakar? Peter would love an unofficial grandparent called the Starhawk, even more so if he teases Yondu on a regular basis).

Then Yondu would give up command. I think the need to project toughness in front of his crew is toxic to himself and secretly he'd like to be rid of the responsibility. (In a shocking trend, I want to write this what if fic. Yondu has to choose between his crew, his position and Peter at a point early on and chooses Peter. Maybe he runs to the Ravagers and breaks down crying at Stakar's feet. He'd still be a scoundrel and thief, but with a smaller ship and a very small crew of just two people) he'd teach Peter all about the craft, has adventures but is a better person and dad because of it.

Other random fic idea: Yondu had a great death in GotG. I don't want to undo that. In IW I wished for a small flashback scene, based on Peter's line of how he's been flying since he was 9 and a 'normal human' to react (I had Scott Lang in mind somehow) by saying 'Which irresponsible moron let a nine year old fly a spaceship?' Cue flashback of Yondu and Peter in a cockpit, Peter sitting on the space version of a thick phone book in order to reach the controls. Both of them are buckled in, in contrast to Kraglin who stumbles in, yelling, complaining that you normally warn the crew when you go through one of the gates. Yondu gets a mischievous look and asks Peter if he heard that. Peter catches on. What did you hear, Yondu? I think I heard Kraglin. Kraglin eyeroll of an exasperated stroppy teenager. I think I heard Kraglin say that he wants to do a barrel roll. Cue Kraglin desperately scrambling for a seat before Peter does exactly that. Adult Peter tells the tale with a fond look. Other normal human looks at him in abject horror, which intensifies as Peter says that he absolutely must tell the story of how he was a getaway driver at the age of 11.

#yondu udonta #yondu #peter qill #star lord #starhawk #stakar ogord #what if

[splooosh]

“suffer not”

George Perez - Terry Austin

#Thing #Starhawk #Moondragon #Adam Warlock #George Perez #Terry Austin

[haggishlyhagging]

Witches understand that energy, whether it is psychic, emotional, or physical, always flows in cycles. It rises and falls, peaks and drops, and neither end of the cycle can be sustained indefinitely, any more than you could run forever without stopping. Intense levels of energy must be released and then brought down and grounded; otherwise the energy dissipates or even turns destructive. If, in a ritual, you tried to maintain a peak of frenzy for hours and hours, you would find that after a while the energy loses its joyful quality, and instead of feeling union and ecstasy, you begin to feel irritated and exhausted. Political groups that try to maintain an unremitting level of anger—a high-energy state—also run out of steam in precisely the same way. Releasing the energy and grounding out allows the power itself to work freely. It clears channels and allows you to rest and recharge and become ready for the next swing into an up cycle. Releasing energy does not mean losing momentum; rather, real movement, real change, happens in a rhythmic pattern of many beats, not in one unbroken blast of static.

-Starhawk, Witchcraft and Women's Culture, 1977

#starhawk #womanspirit rising #witchcraft #female spirituality #energy work

[dimorphodon-x]

Based on an RP with a friend where a young Hotrod meets a young Starhawk and they bully each other a bit.

A bunch of other stuff happened too.

#I want to do more doodles based on this too lol #my art #transformers #transformers oc #starhawk #hotrod #rodihawk #oc x canon

[gatheringbones]

[“Such groups suffer from a syndrome I call empowerment to the midline. We dedicate ourselves to empowering individuals, right up until the moment when someone actually begins to exercise power — defined simply as the ability to get what they want done. At that point, it’s as if they’ve stepped over an invisible line that separates the oppressed from the oppressors. Suddenly this person we’ve worked so hard to help find a voice becomes the person everyone wants to speak out against.

I also call this pattern empowerment to complain. We focus our nurturing and attention on anyone who takes the position of victim and complains about leadership. Anyone who takes action or sets direction is suspect. Unfortunately, this sort of empowerment is not very empowering. Nobody gets what they want, and often little or nothing gets done.

True empowerment implies action. Complaining is not enough. Taking action means taking responsibility — suggesting, offering solutions and doing the work to implement them. But in a group suffering from the empowerment to the midline syndrome, there’s no zone of action, no autonomy, no scope for creativity. The group may have done away with the inequalities of leaders and followers, of some people being the stars and others relegated to mere extras. But they’ve done so by preventing anyone from having the power to act.

Here are some of unspoken assumptions behind the empowerment to the midline syndrome in progressive and collaborative groups.

1. People who have extraordinary skills, experience, levels of commitment or other resources or who take on big responsibilities — call them leaders — are always suspect. They are fair game for attack. The result is that no one feels truly safe in the group. There is no trust. No one is able to train, to mentor or pass on skills.

2. Leaders should never receive extra benefits, perks or rewards beyond the joy of the work itself, or they are exploiting others. In collaborative groups, we are often reacting against a larger system of hierarchy, in which higher levels of responsibility confer marks of status and collateral powers. We don’t want to reproduce that sort of inequality. But we do want to allow people to earn fair rewards for their labors, marks of appreciation and respect. If a group continually sees its most experienced people drifting away or burning out, it may be a warning sign that this pattern is in force.

3. We must always sacrifice the needs, benefits and rewards of insiders to the needs of outsiders. Empowerment means always siding with the perceived victim or underdog. The group functions on power-under — people get their way by taking the position of victim. They gain social power, not by taking on responsibility, but by complaining about those who do. The complainers are not truly empowered to act, and those who do take action are undermined.

4. We refuse to acknowledge that people might have different levels of skill, experience, talent, commitment or responsibility, because to do so might affirm a hierarchy. The group is unable to make use of its members’ skills and talents. We can’t mentor and critique each other, we can’t assess what skills and forms of responsibility are needed or are operative in a group and we can’t set standards or hold one another accountable for meeting them.”]

starhawk, from the empowerment manual: a guide for collaborative groups, 2011

#starhawk #brainspace #currently reading

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Comic books are fuckin' weird man...

#Marvel #Guardians of the Galaxy #Aleta #Starhawk

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Marvel Presents #9 (February, 1977) Art by Al Milgrom and Danny Crespi

#Marvel #Comics #Marvel Presents #Guardians of the Galaxy #Charlie-27 #Starhawk #Yondu Udonta #Vance Astro #Brutag #Reavers of Arcturus

[ezra-iolite]

...... Writing block's a bitch. Been stumped on wanting to write anything and finishing your present @dimorphodon-x has been a hurdle I'm not yet able to reach. -_- But it's still being touched up, so it isn't abandoned, I promise. Work is just.... Very slow, is all.

But I did have a dream about Joka Ardhi though, in the Pirateformers AU.... About the technology Asya's ancestors, during the rule of the first Dragon Lord, Alunnui, used as a form of a safeguard to ensure humanity would never again enslave and banish the Dragonkin from the stars they worshipped.

Sooooo RANDOM LORE DUMP!!!

I'd say by combining their honed skill of mining for magic crystals, their advanced understanding of astrology, a lot of blacksmithing and working with the magic of the crystals and MAYBE some influence from the sirens at that time (i.e, three thousand years ago from Asya and Elbent's time), Alunnui commissioned something spread across the few major locations the Dragonkin called home when they were banished underground, in an untouched realm known today by the Jokani as the Forsaken City.

These ancient relics of the highest calibre the ancestral Dragonkin built were made for the possibility of the Dragonkin and citizens of Alunnui's empire being evacuated quickly, should they end up back in the underworld of the Forsaken City, and were hidden in Star Temples within the five biggest dens (akin to a city but based in large collections of huts and caves carved into the walls and giant staligmites) the Dragonkin dwelled in at that time of their banishment from the sun and sand.

In order to ensure the Dragonkin and Jokani loyal to them could be quickly moved from one location to another ONLY within the Forsaken City and across Joka Ardhi....

They made Stargates.

However... The truth to their existence was lost in time, as the temples were abandoned and sealed away, but not locked up for emergency and instant use. Only one Dragonkin from Alunnui's time knows about the Five Stargates of the Forsaken City... Or that they use the five constellation gods of the Evenstar Church as pinpoints to find locations from aboveground to direct the Stargates by choosing at least three constellations for the latitude, longitude and the Jokani Constellational God the gate is named after for the exact location desired (for example, the southernmost gate in the far east, the one closest to the port city of Wajiri, was where the first Stargate was built, and was named the Usiku Gate after the constellation of the Jokani Elder Dragon God, Usiku)...

The only one alive with this knowledge of the Stargates is Mjuzi Kamaria, the royal advisor, and Asya's only ally from within the Jokani royal court...... The only one who has served the royal family and every rightful heir to the Throne of Crimson Sands since Alunnui became the first Dragon Lord.

I DON'T OWN ANYTHING FROM THIS IDEA, IT ONLY CAME TO ME IN A DREAM, AND MADE ME REALIZE THE DRAGONKIN COULD DEFINITELY DO THIS THANKS TO THE POWER OF THE CRYSTALS THEY MINE, AND THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE STARS AND MAGIC!!

And let me just say.... Starhawk in the Pirateformers AU is the one who stumbled upon one such Stargate and accidentally ended up activating one leading from a far eastern Forsaken City den straight to the capital city aboveground. 🤣 It happened in my dream and THUS I DUB IT CANON TO HOW HE HELPED ASYA LEAD THE WAR AGAINST HER DAD!!

#pirateformers au #ezra iolite og work #tigracespace #dimorphodon x #starhawk #Youtube

[soundcrusher]

Was looking through my sketchbook and found these two again.

Left one was done months ago, while the eight one was only finished today.

And both are inspired by the RP with Dimo.

Sometimes I like going back just to re-read the part were Starhawk puts Runningway in his place. That scene is so good.

Starhawk is @dimorphodon-x's character (sorry for messing him up Dimo ^^')

Phoenix is mine

#transformers #transformers oc #phoenix #reg/phoenix #starhawk #starhawk is dimorphodon x's oc