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It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.

decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years

UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire

US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests

Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Donate to Medical Aid for Palestine

Donate to help get food and hygiene kits to Gaza

#free palestine #palestine

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#bones and all #yes timmy go timmy

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this is barely a critique bc I think the show exists in that bubble of modern media where things are made for established fans instead of new watchers, and I also think it goes along with the aura of unspokeness that goes through the entire narrative, but it feels like they ran out of filming time and just had to edit something together

I truly cannot say anything about Sharp Objects that hasn’t already been said….but HBO definitely added that “behind the scenes” bit at the end of the last episode bc they knew ppl weren’t going to get the ending

#good show tho #also even without the twist i think the story stands on its own #like everyone knows ammas fucked even if they dont know she killed ppl lol #whatever

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I truly cannot say anything about Sharp Objects that hasn’t already been said….but HBO definitely added that “behind the scenes” bit at the end of the last episode bc they knew ppl weren’t going to get the ending

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maybe “bones and all” will be our always

#hannibal #lol im funny

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Maria Magdalena in Meditazione - Jusepe de Ribera, 1623.

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quick stupid post to round out 2021: I was reading the horrible genderbent version of Twilight bc I got it as a gift in highschool and I was annotating it with book tabs. It’s been a while since I’ve read it at all and I was ready to finish it just to be done with it BUT I wanted to continue with the tabs bc they were funny. Turns out I have no fucking clue what I was annotating. I didn’t write what the colors meant and now I’m trying to piece them together but literally some of the things I’ve flagged don’t mean anything. Jfc

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Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization (Nancy Holder) - 🌟🌟🌟🌟

I rewatched the movie, was like “This has GOT to be based on a book!” and found out that it wasn’t. I’ve never read a movie novelization before, so I didn’t have high hopes, but I ended up really liking it? Outside of the fact that I knew what was going to happen and it dragged a little because I had literally just watched the movie, I think it was well-paced and well-written. I’m definitely going to look into Nancy Holder’s other stuff, because I really enjoyed the writing, but it is basically the movie transcribed on paper, so I think in her original stuff there will be more room to actually explore her as an author. There are some scenes that Holder added in, and everything she wrote added so much more to the characters and the plot that the movie couldn’t because of time restraints. The background supplied for the Sharpe siblings made sense without demeaning them as villains of the narrative; the few instances of Thomas’ point-of-view really rounded out his character for me, and made the climax of the movie fit better in my perceptions of his character as only implied by the film. My biggest concern going into the novel was the loss of the visual quality of the ghosts, and the general aesthetic of the movie; I think both were preserved very well, with the overall creepiness still there without falling into pedantic descriptions. The time period was handled very well along the same lines -- I didn’t have to keep googling things to make sense of what was happening like a lot of period-pieces require me to do. I personally like the focus on the actually plot as driven through the emotions of the characters. I also liked that there was some preservation in regards to Edith’s outfits, because they’re one of my favorite parts of the movie; however, I also liked Holder’s simple descriptions because there’s nothing I want less than to read page-long descriptions of her undergarments at every outfit change.

Overall, this was such an unexpected enjoyment because I thought novelizations were trash, but it turns out they aren’t.

Favorite Line(s):

“The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon.”

“The things we do for a love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret...This love burns you and mains you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.” (This is also from the movie :))

Honorable mention: Alan reciting poetry about Galahad the knight when going to rescue Edith.

#Crimson Peak #Crimson Peak novel #book review #long post #sam reads

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Scream for Us (Molly Doyle) - ⭐️⭐️

I cannot accurately describe my feelings for this book outside of I did not like it, but it was also okay. First of all, I don't read romance and I especially don't read straight up smut, so I don't know why I started with this one, but it was floating around online as a "Halloween smut book" and I thought that sounded good. It was a really quick read, and there are plot points outside of the smut, but it's mainly smut so if that's your thing... I think this is Molly Doyle's first published book because it very much reads that way; I don't think the writing's bad, and she has a lot of potential as an author, but the writing overall was plain. The characters need the most work for me because they were largely underdeveloped, but it is only about 80 pages long so I don't know what I was expecting. I also did not give a shit about the guys in this outside of their masks. They were also just the same guy, all three big, beefy men with muscles and dreamy eyes and tattoos. The main character was annoying like most romance main characters are annoying to me, but the number one thing I hated about her was that she didn't wear a real Halloween costume. She talks over and over again about how this is going to be her one night of fun, the one night she can let loose and be crazy, and she's not even going to get a good costume? This is a Halloween book, get it together. Also, instead of ending up with Ghost, Michael, AND Jason, she has this stupid hard-on for only Ghost -- who also ends up being her stalker in the end, or something. All of this is to say, I think the stabbing and the arson were fun and fresh and I think the masks were hot.

(Also the list of trigger warnings on this thing is way too long for 80 pages of mostly smut, but nothing was gratuitous, so there's that.)

My favorite quotes: "Now I know how Elena Gilbert felt, torn between two men."

"The Monster Mash begins to play, and everyone feels the vibe."

#scream for us #i cant believe this is the book that got me out of a reading slump but #if you like smutty books maybe this is for you #look up trigger warnings before reading tho serious there's so much shit mentioned for no reason #would def pick up another molly doyle book but i hope her next one is an actual novel #anyway i read books sometimes so im going to tag this as: #sam reads #book review #long post

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also those “booktokers” or whatev r def not smart enough to read it bc they keep finding different editions and being like wAiT iS tHeRe AnOtHeR vErSiOn. like yes babe the print is bigger lol

seeing a lot of people talk abt the secret history again being like “i’m not smart enough to enjoy this” bitch i am too smart to enjoy this “oh my god they killed bunny read on to find out why” ik why because he was a dick next question

#i can be mean as a treat #on a whole different platform lol #this doesnt matter i’ll shut up now

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seeing a lot of people talk abt the secret history again being like “i’m not smart enough to enjoy this” bitch i am too smart to enjoy this “oh my god they killed bunny read on to find out why” ik why because he was a dick next question

#any time i see someone recommending this book i block them #live ur life tho #i did like tht part abt richard get hypothermia or whatever #tht should not have been the best part of the book #and yet #the secret history #lol

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Chris Martin (American, b. 1954), The Library No. 2, 1992-96. Oil, plastic and fabric on canvas

#art #chris martin #ghost books

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Lo so, siete a bocca aperta. L’opera è di Darian Rodriguez Mederos, classe 1992, artista cubano di cui sentiremo parlare ancora.

via Jacopo Veneziani 

#art #look at this shit can u believe????? #amazing

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“For Claire Danvers, high school was hell, but college may be murder.”

#morganville vampires #i did start a rarely used vampire blog what abt it #me stuff

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embarrassing but i think the morganville vanpires series is good

#granted i have never finished it but i stand by my opinion #morganville vampires #next trashy netflix series i say

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Dark Academia Movies:

Legally Blonde

thats it

Legally Blonde 2

#dark academia #yeah ill tag it lol #legally blonde #legally blonde 2 #me stuff

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the first full moon of 2021, Sophie's moon

[credit: @rami_astro on instagram]

#moon