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starting a collection

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crazy how much better you feel when you just wash your hands (my hands are always sweaty and yucky-feeling when i'm anywhere that isn't like.... cold. or at least cool. and washing my hands means they feel better for a little while) and get food (got a free pizza at work two nights ago cus leftover from an event yay! but very glad to have finally finished it lol) even though you have to pause the album you're listening to (you don't mess around with jim by jim croce) (and in the middle of a song nonetheless!) (dorm room suite so if my suitemate is home i pause whatever i'm listening to if i go into the kitchen area, is that weird? like do other people not care about that lol?) great work team we did it (this is what it's like every time i procrastinate going to the bathroom) (oh holy shit the album is over so it's playing random songs and bad, bad leroy brown just started!!!!!!!!!!!!)

#don't even know what to tag this lol #no it's like i'm always thinking and doing things and wondering if other people would just like #automatically diagnose me with autism or if i'm just reading too much into things lol #trying to triangulate any opinions of myself based on what i think other people would think about everything i do is so interesting #i mean i'm not doing that all the time lol but when i am i'm like hmm existence is so interesting and weird lol #ooh brandy you're a fine girl just came on!!!!!!! #but yeah i'm about to graduate and it's really crazy #bittersweet cus there's so much i'll miss but a lot i'm very glad to say goodbye to #but oh man i'm gonna miss so much #but i just tell myself that this is good and this is what life is like and at least that's something to hold onto

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Hey man sorry I've not posted in a while, it's a funny story actually. I actually got arrested for stealing bread for my sister and her seven starving children. yeah, it was pretty bad. I tried to escape 3 times so yeah I got 19 years, yeah and then I broke my parole and now there's this slutty little man after me, yeah I think he has a crush on me or smt idk

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cant get more fascist police state than snipers on rooftops overlooking peaceful protests.

this is what democracy looks like.

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Making my own post cause I'm sure op doesn't wanna hear it

While I agree it's important to just. Have wheelchairs. Have mobility aids of any kind present and not circumvented. I think it'd be fun to have some people use fantasy solutions and some people use real mobility aids. Because how people's disabilities affect them and how they deal with them is very personal. It's based on needs, preferences, financial ability, ect. And so I think it would reflect the reality of disability even better!

I do think it's important to have rep that isn't mixed. I'm not saying my idea should replace op's idea. I'm saying there should be many options to choose from for representation and that is a option I'd like to see!

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J/B/M

—I am wild over her.

Reference pic below, though I'm sure all the gay ppl on this site has seen it before:

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"Hands of Barnard and Columbia students in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Surrounded by more students holding hands to create a protective perimeter. All unflinchingly staring down imminent threats of suspension and arrest"

subway hands

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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I've been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender because why not and I'm losing my mind at Zuko's proper introduction. I don't know if it's hindsight, shifting characterizations, or just me not watching this in a long time, but this was amazing.

We start off showing he's an impatient and very angry kid. Reasonable, and the sort of flaw we might expect to see in a villain. Kinda funny that he expects to go up against an adult and fully 4-Element realized Avatar, but the kid is desperate and Iroh clearly expects his nephew to get the banishment-denial kicked out of him.

What's important here, though, is Zuko's introduction to the Southern Water Tribe.

Here, we have a very intimidating entrance where his entire ship just sails through the ice right up to the village's front door. It's quite ominous and this is our first proper introduction to how the Fire Nation interacts with a foreign people.

Sokka charges, I'm assuming fully prepared to die, and Zuko casually knocks him out of the way. Okay, so clearly the Water Tribe are entirely outgunned.

He asks "Where are you hiding him?" and the people of the Water Tribe go silent. I assume they're either just too scared to talk or actually protecting Aang.

Whatever the case, it's important to note that the Southern Water Tribe know the terror the Fire Nation can inflict. We have a whole episode dedicated to tracking down a division of raiders. Sokka was able to not only identify the ash-mixed snow as signs of an incoming attack, but estimate how many ships the amount of ash measures to. These are a people who have experience being terrorized and are probably expecting something terrible to happen.

And then, after they don't answer, Zuko grabs Gran-Gran. There was a horror sting to it, and everything the tribe knows about the Fire Nation suggests that Zuko is about to threaten or straight up hurt her to get answers. Classic "terrorize the elderly" bad guy stuff.

And then...

He goes "He's (the Avatar) be about this age and is a master of all four elements!?" and lets her go.

And all of a sudden, the tension that was built up is shattered as Zuko went "I know, I'll give them a reference for the person I'm looking for because clearly they're confused and I wasn't specific enough."

This went from a show of villainy to a show of Zuko being totally socially awkward and misreading the situation entirely. Not helping is that when he does try to menace them a moment later, his fire is slow and angled quite safely.

It still worked on the Water Tribe because they're understandably scared, but all I could think of is that this was the equivalent of a playground bully trying to make someone flinch with that fake-out lunge thing.

Because the fact-and something we'll come to learn-is that Zuko is TERRIBLE at being a Fire Nation oppressor. He's capable of doing morally dubious things and is a competent fighter. But he's lousy at terrorizing people and cruelty-that's kind of the point of his banishment.

And while we can see the story paint this picture of Zuko's true character as the story goes on with hints of good and conflicting loyalties, here we get to see just how bad he is at being "the bad guys".

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please please never stop being annoying about that one thing you really care about

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Fred Flinstone was the first trans man

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introducing my four year old niece to the concept of "moral dilemmas" by telling her that i'm a monster that eats children and that i know it's wrong but i'm so so so hungry and everything else tastes yucky. i've tried all the human food in the world and it all tastes so yucky i can't even eat it. i can only eat children and i'm so hungry

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ive heard from a friend that Marius has a poster of Javert in his room in Shojo Cosette, and i haven't been able to stop thinking about this