TiredSpaceDragon

STOP-

Your idea of commanding the respect of others is... for them to use your name? and pronouns? And be treated as...

..an Equal?

Not to strike terror and anguish into the hearts of your enemies? Not to subjugate the weak? Not to bring empires to their knees? Not to inflict untold pain and suffering across the cosmos?

You sicken me. As always, you lesser beings lack vision. You require only a small, insipid body for a small and insipid mind.

Of course your kind could never conceive of being anything more than what you are, that you would transition that miserable, shambling sack of organic material you call a body into something equally dull and unimaginative. You transition, but you never transcend.

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

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Ok so we all know the Golden Armor was a last minute asspull deus ex machina, but considering all the Bionicle team had to go through just to get Lego have a final arc to the series, I'm willing to forgive it being kinda rushed and out of nowhere.

But even with that, the fact that it was Tahu who got it lowkey rubbed me the wrong way. I dislike that he had to be transformed back to a Toa Mata and I dislike that he has this extra, unique destiny because it really isolates him from the rest of his team. They're supposed to be equals, six heroes one destiny!

But Takanuva having an extra special destiny DOES work! He's the extra special 7th Toa! Greg spent nearly the entire second half of Bionicle hinting that Takanuva was going to have a mysterious special destiny, but never actually got around to writing it. Supposedly he was going to have him play a pivotal role in resolving the planned Great Being Civil War arc in the post-ending serials, but those got cancelled. But this would've been a perfectly fine destiny for him to have!

Plus his color scheme was already gold! He changed it to white to hide during Makuta's reign and because they needed a white set for the Stars wave, and you can have him return to gold by retrieving the Golden Armor, visibly reclaiming his identity after having to hide it (which fits with his arc for VERY obvious reasons).

Takanuva getting the Golden Armor also fits SO well thematically with his character arc relating to Makuta. Ever since he became a Toa, the narrative was obsessed with relating him to Makuta and giving him an arc related to moral ambiguity. He temporarily fused with Teridax to become Takutanuva. Christian Faber even said in concept art that the two of them were always meant to fit into each other like a lock and key to ultimately awaken Mata Nui. And of course later he became a Toa of Light and Shadow, again making him like a mix of Toa and Makuta. And the recurring theme in his journey through the multiverse was deconstructing his views on black and white morality.

If Takanuva used the Golden Armor, he would absorb all the Kraata powers from the Rahkshi, which Greg later implied was all 42 powers. Thus, Golden Armor Takanuva would be a finalized incarnation of the fusion of Toa and Makuta, but now fully under his own control.

It's actually crazy how much more thematically resonant the ending would've been with just this small change. All the other rushing makes sense, but this is something they could've done! And I know the Doyalist reason Tahu got it is because Stars was meant to be a nostalgia line-up of sets and Tahu was the poster boy for Bionicle, but honestly Takanuva had arguably a stronger argument for being the main character!

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.