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THIS IS FUCKING I.N.S.A.N.E.

#read Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn #3 long volumes of what life was like in Gulag written by someone who experienced it first hand

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‘Super Smash Bros.’ was released on the Nintendo 64 25 years ago today in the US.

#it's been so long #but I could remember what song was playing before I unmuted it #and I don't even play smash

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maybe this is a fundamental difference in moral views because i think oppression isn't bad because it harms certain groups, it's bad because it harms people. it DOES harm specific groups, and that's a necessary part of understanding it, but the mistreatment is the problem, not the fact that that mistreatment is unfairly distributed

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#lil sebastian #from parks and rec

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underrated prince of egypt things

•how they handle the violence of the story. the dead guard moses threw off the scaffolding with only his hand shown. the children being ripped from weeping mothers’ arms. it’s enough to draw horror without being gratuitous.

•little ramses jumping up trying to see moses. just. how their relationship was portrayed. it would be so easy to see these deadly opponents and not buy into the idea that they love each other. but they did. and they do. and then it’s broken.

•tzipporah saying ‘i won’t be given to anyone! especially an arrogant palace brat!’ and later marrying moses of her own free will.

•moses sarcastically saying that ramses singlehandedly destroyed the greatest kingdom on earth, and it actually coming true.

•ramses chariot-racing moses in the intro and moses nearly ramming him to death, and ramses in the red sea being thrown off his broken chariot in his vengeance and bloodlust.

•moses returning to the palace in the dark and gently touching the same pillar, and finding ramses sitting in the same place he used to. ramses’ son standing in front of the mural of the killing of the children, something which affected moses so deeply, without even noticing it was there.

•how God is portrayed in this movie. the design is gorgeous and otherwordly and powerful. the sound design and the soundtrack grabs you. it is respectful to faith and twinged with the awe the presence of God creates.

•how Moses finds the burning bush by following a lost sheep. I love the allusions to other Biblical figures and tropes. I love me some Jesus prefigurement.

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#cuando tienes una buena idea en español

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Attack…

#you can see the shadow before the bird appears

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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#the Victorian child might have a chance when they're older if they grew up on the streets and don't get civilized #but it's the peasant

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God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

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(inspired by this one for the sake of full transparency)

#[practically] no time passes while you're asleep #if I didn't need to sleep for good health I wouldn't #there's so much more I could be doing with my time if I didn't have to sleep #especially when I work midnights

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i love awkwardly replying to mutuals' posts like some kind of lost grandpa

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smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud

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#frolicking against? #you mean like red rover?

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its actually really easy to tell when a character is morally gray and tumblr babies need to stop begging for the creators to spell it out. for example, take a story where the hero has sex. anyone with two braincells knows that for all the good that that character has accomplished, they're still going to hell. it's basic media literacy! no matter if the characters are in love, no matter if they're married even, having sex is an irredeemable act that lands you straight in hell. why should we expect creators to spell that out? we're adults, we already know this.

#posts written by shakers

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#if it was the state I was born in I'd be fine