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#found this while clearing out my phone. still true! #good omens critical #although not really. more like n*ilman annoying

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happy thursday everyone

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Ahmad Abdel Rahman says if bakeries had not re-opened their doors, many Palestinians would have been on the verge of losing their families to hunger. “We lived through difficult days, and no one looked at us. We were dying every day from starvation, from bombing, and from running behind the aid parachutes that the planes dropped over us. Aid was dropped from the aircraft into the sea,” he explained. “If we wanted to get food for our families, we had to go to the mouth of death, to the sea, to pick up the aid that fell there.”

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“I hid from my children because of their constant insistence and requests for food. I used to tell them that I was going out to bring them food, but I would go to the house of one of my brothers and spend hours there until I was sure that my wife was able to force the children to go to sleep hungry and when they slept, my wife would send for me to come home. I slept beside them, hungry like them, trying to swallow my tears,” Ahmad recalled.

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*booktok voice* Do you want to read a gay story about two guys who speedrun enemies to lovers, go against their designed nature by being together, who become unstoppable fighting side by side to much dismay of the gods who created them? Do you want to see one of them eaten alive by the grief for his lover when he dies from a godsent sickness? A book about someone fighting so hard for a chance at eternal life that he doesn't notice he is throwing away the precious time he has got, filling it with agony? Well, in the  2100 BCE poem of Gilgamesh-

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#it's got translations! #it's got fragments of tablets with transcriptions! #it even has a calender converter! #!!!

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I hate work I should be at the (remembers I don't want to go to the club) the imagination

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#hate that this is so normalised that i have friends whose first ever sexual experiences in high school involved choking #done by high school guys who 100% were just repeating what they saw in porn

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Can we all be fr right now

I've always been a hater of A Little Life and not a fan of The Song of Achilles. However, now I'm about to become their rabid defender, wtf

#im on desktop so i can't put a waterboarding filter here. but mentally im waterboarding alright

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I've always been a hater of A Little Life and not a fan of The Song of Achilles. However, now I'm about to become their rabid defender, wtf

#these bitches are banned from being sold #because they 'propagandise non-traditional (read: homosexual) relationships' #really. really. do we not have more pressing issues.

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Sometimes I put my face up against my dog while he's sleeping to feel his little lungs expand and his little heart beat and I am struck by the beauty of of life and the miracle of nature to evolve for thousands of years just to create one little guy and put him in my house

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ppl trying to make some of these ships all cute n domestic dont seem to understand these characters are insane. they would have sex by standing on opposite sides of the room fully clothed playing mind games

#********* *********** if it was good

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im not sure you know what ancient rome is

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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for