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Lmao you’re an adult, you shouldn’t be using the word squick. Use trigger. Use your grown up adult words to explain how you feel instead of leaning on a cutesy uwu term that no one outside of tumblr uses. It’s embarrassing.

Idek if this is serious or ironic honestly

#relevant #text post

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what the fuck

#whut?

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not “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in you are not allowed to find genuine joy and form a true connection to fiction, but “oh my god it’s just a tv show” as in, if it legitimately stresses you out and impacts your mood when things don’t happen exactly the way you want them to, and it causes you to lash out at other - real - people, maybe you need to take a massive step back.

#text post #relevant

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I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

#ugh #vaping #smoking #signal boost

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Shrek 2 + favorite pop culture references

#Shrek franchise #Shrek 2 #gifset #Dreamworks

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Okay, so, there's one thing that I'm kind of tired of beating around the bush with white fans about, and it's this: if you pretend to "ignore" race in OFMD, you will miss a lot of what the story is trying to tell you.

Now, I do not truly believe that race is something you can ignore in a story. I just don't think it's possible, and when you try, what you wind up with is something like the conservative worldview of "not seeing color." Trying to ignore race will make you sound racist and ignore important racialized themes.

You can't understand Stede's need for character growth at the beginning of the show if you just focus on how he's "cringe" instead. When Stede makes his crew members of color serve them at dinner when the English board, this is gross, and their faces tell us exactly how they feel about it. Stede unlearning his biases here isn't subtle (guy who called him and Pete "fucking racists" I love you forever), and learning to take all of his crew members seriously as fully actualized people, moving away from the sort of Kindergarten-teacher behavior at the start to truly valuing them as people and taking their input and suggestions, it's an important aspect. Stede asking Abshir for intel at the party isn't just funny, it's also proof he's learned to see value in people in positions like Abshir's.

You can't understand the motivations behind Ed's actions, especially the violent ones, if you ignore the racist overtones. Ed is not a randomly violent person - he gets angry at a captain for calling him a "rich donkey," and if you think it's unreasonable for a brown man to want to get revenge on a white man for calling him that? Then fuck I'm glad you can't see the conversations I have with my other black friends, man. Ed's anger and frustration at the party aren't just because he fucked up with some spoons, lol, you can't get it unless you realize he's the only brown guest in that room. Yeah, he's ignoring Stede's advice, but he's immediately under a pressure Stede never has been. Ed's wanted posters in s2, too, rely on heavily caricaturizing Jewish features to make him look grotesque and monstruous. We're supposed to be horrified by that aspect.

And, yeah, when we ignore the racist tones to Izzy's behavior, I think that's undermining an important aspect of who he is as an antagonistic character. Him buying Ed from the English should feel like a gross violation, because it is. When he sits in front of the crew eating and making Fang and Ivan serve him, I think it's a pretty obvious parallel to how the crew members of color were similarly insulted in the pilot. It's impossible to ignore race in the way he dehumanizes Ed and tries to force him back into a caricature of behavior he hates and is horrified by - when he calls Ed a "wild dog" in s2, if that doesn't cause a visceral reaction of disgust in you, I dunno what to tell you. This doesn't mean that Izzy is irredeemable - just as Stede wasn't - but it does mean that racist biases are things Izzy had to unlearn.

OFMD so often takes so much care with how its characters of color are depicted. We get thoughtful, relatable moments (those French boat people getting humiliated and setting their boat on fire after they'd tried to touch Ed's beard is so satisfying, guys) and excellent, supportive friendships between men of color. The characters of color on OFMD are clean, smart, respected, and it's wonderful. And just because these things aren't always relatable to you specifically doesn't mean they're not important parts of the story.

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #text post #relevant

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Is it secret? Is it safe?

#Lord of the Rings #LOTR #Frodo Baggins #Gandalf #Elijah Wood #Ian McKellen #gifset

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#funny

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Pride season is approaching and if I hear ANYONE speak poorly of bisexual women with boyfriends/husbands I’ll pop all your tires okay thx for listeninggg <3

#LGBTQ+ #bisexual #text post

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When people say nice things about me:

#accurate #about me #gif

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this is kind of changing my life as we speak

#cute #dog

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BILLY ELLIOT (2000) dir. Stephen Daldry “Don’t know. Sorta feels good. Sorta stiff and that, but once I get going… then I like, forget everything. And… sorta disappear. Sorta disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. And I’ve got this fire in my body. I’m just there. Flyin’ like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah, like electricity.”

#Billy Elliot #gifset

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My favorite thing is that Stede’s room isn’t just the captain’s quarters. There’s no sense of privacy or decorum at all. Hell, half of the time no one even knocks. Lucius comes and goes as he pleases, Olu sleeps on the couch when Frenchie and Wee John won’t let him sleep in the nook, and even Buttons goes to cry on Stede’s private little deck at the bow of the ship when Karl dies.

Part of this is Stede making it clear that this isn’t just his room, it’s an open area—his library is open at all times to the crew, after all (even though Lucius is the only one who takes him up on it) but it’s also in part that Stede really does just create that kind of safe space for them. Stede radiates positive embarrassing dad energy™️ and I think whether the crew realizes it (and even accepts it at first) or not, they’re drawn to that. And I LOVE that for them

#OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #Stede Bonnet #analysis

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oh so they’re just saying the quiet part out loud? Good to know they’re just out and open now

#abortion #reproductive rights #pro-choice #relevant

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For he was a gentle heart and a great king and kept his oaths; and he rose out of the shadows to a last fair morning.

#Lord of the Rings #LOTR #Bernard Hill #Théoden #gifset

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Saw your post from the author who was happy people were using Libby. I'm torn as I understand the author is happy to get the license renewed, but libraries only get 26 loans on a digital license vs 60-80 loans on a physical copy. I love the convenience of digital books, but if taking out the physical copy is better for the library I'm willing to make the trip. Just looking for thoughts from others about it.

It depends on the license agreement the library has and its different for every one. Some renew annually, others renew by X amount of rentals. The library does what is best for them, and the more people use their services the more they can usually argue for more funding.

This is not universal, of course, but most of the librarians I know are ecstatic when people use their services.

#signal boost #libraries #text post

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For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

#Lord of the Rings #LOTR #Arwen #gifset