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Mami Wata (2023)

Directed by C.J. Obasi Cinematography by Lílis Soares

#wo watch #movies #the queue broke free

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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

#self reminder #self developement #the queue broke free

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A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

#political issues

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I'm a bit late but I thought I'd share a video of Monday's vote to enshrine abortion as a guaranteed freedom in the Constitution, because it's not often that you'll see a crowd of French people gather to applaud their government or representatives...!

#French stuff #legal stuff #women's rights #the queue broke free

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Tree roots following the pattern of concrete footpaths

#nature

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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#Lost City of D #Romcom with engaging even thematic premise and natural acting. Breeziness and appeal unfortunately halted by drastic loss of pace. #A bit sad at the lost potential. #movies

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me talking about how sweden’s win was pre-arranged to coincide with abba’s 50th anniversary next year

#europeanglitterfiasco #the queue broke free

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top 20 favourite book-only asoiaf characters (as voted by our followers) ⤷ #4. sarella sand

"If only it worked that way with apples, no one would ever need go hungry," said Alleras with one of his soft smiles. The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape. It gave him a wicked look that went well with his pointed chin, widow's peak, and dense mat of close-cropped jet-black curls.

#asoiaf #asoiaf edit #Sarella Sand #the Sphynx #the queue broke free

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Sometimes I see posts on here and feel like a lot of you have internalized the idea that the qualifying prerequisites for being LGBT are being cool and interesting and subversive, and that the fact that everyone in the community happens to be attracted to their own gender or else stepping outside of the gender assigned to them is just a happy coincidence, and not like, "not only a qualifying prerequisite, but the SOLE qualifying prerequisite." Being gay IS cool, but THAT'S the happy coincidence. Like I'm sorry to break it to everybody but even boring gay people are gay and even cool straight people are straight, because being gay is not about being cool, it's about being gay.

#lgbtqa issues

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After more than a year I’ve finished the letters of my cross-stitch. It was mostly stitched on the subway during my commute. It’s been my constant companion for months. I don’t want to let it go, but also I’m not sure how to continue yet.

I was powered by spite about how often astr*l*gy comes up in my circles, and I’m not sure a different project would entertain me as much. Though I do love the feeling of cross-stitching.

#Thank YOU! #la foufoune cosmique

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if hearing a girl criticize consumerism and beauty/makeup/anti-body hair culture or even just saying they don't like wearing makeup or shaving or performing femininity immediately makes you label them a pick-me maybe that's your own conscience or internalised guilt projecting just sayin'. maybe she isn't the one who thinks you're anti-feminist for wearing makeup (let's face it she most probably doesn't because most people fucking wear makeup) but your visceral defensiveness at someone just existing outside conventional beauty standards says more about you than it probably does about them

#feminism issues #aye

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thinking about the juxtaposition of Anthy's uniform look and Anthy's private moments. At school Anthy does everything to avoid contact with the world as much as possible. Her her is very long and luscious yet she pins it up in very tight curls. Actually her eyes are fine yet she puts on glasses. And yet the school uniform bares a lot skin of her legs and arms, even stresses an hourglass silhouette.

In private moments with Utena, when both go to bed, she lets her hair and puts her glasses down, yet her night gown covers all the rest of her body, and hides any possible shape of it's wearer. (Also, also when they both lived together in the dormitory, still growing together more closely, Anthy wore her loose nightgown but still had her hair in tight curls, even in a nightcap, and put on her glasses (maybe just to watch the Cowstain Dior ad).)

#Revolutionary Girl Utena #Himemiya Anthy #Lewis babbling #So minute yet significant details about her.

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The Adolescence of Utena (1999), dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara

#movies #Ikuhara Kunihiko #Adolescence of Utena #the queue broke free

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it's quite offputting to me when ppl can't disentangle their hatred for capitalism from a hatred for... new technological innovation? the ways in which capitalism has shaped the development of certain technologies has been deeply negative, not to mention that imperialism ensures that new technology is usually produced via extractive relationships with both the planet + ppl in the global south.

but this weird tying of capitalist impact on innovation (+the idea of what is/is not innovation) to hatred of innovation itself (or even more disturbing valorization of "the good old days"/implications that technology is causing social degeneracy) is baffling to me. perhaps it is impossible to achieve specific technologies without unconscionable resource extraction practices, in which case they should not be pursued. but so many ppl act like there is something inherently morally suspect in pursuit of tech such as autonomous vehicles or AI or automation, independent of the material conditions that produced them/that they may produce.

tesla is evil because they exploit ppl for profit + participate in an economy built on the exploitation of the global south + use 'innovation' as a marketing tool to mask serious safety concerns. they're not evil bcuz they want to make vehicles that move on their own. there are actually a great deal of fantastic applications for vehicles which move on their own? equating technology with moral decay is not a radical position; you need a material analysis of why technological innovation has become characterized by harmful practices.

#social issues #tech issues #self reminder #I had to think how alexa and voice directed devices are deeply helpful for dissabilities but then these are properties of Bezos... #the queue broke free

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any time i see someone say “Pikuach Nefesh” i read it as “Pikachu Nefesh” and i can’t stop 😭

#hahaha #Pokémon #the queue broke free

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Derry Girls (2018-2022) Season 2 | Episode 4

#Derry Girls #the queue broke free

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“to be a woman is to experience pain”“to be a woman is to perform”“to be a woman is to-” SHUT UP SHUT UP 💥💥💥💥

#feminism issues #aye #the claims how *universal* experience for women are so often ??? to me. #Most of all the claims how afraid or sad being a woman is supposed to be is just... something I can't understand. #I don't mean this derogatory for anyone who does feel unsafe for good reasons. #What I take issue with is the assumptions that these fears are to be considered the default. Why?