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omg imagine being born and you are on a spaceship and everyone aboard is sooo so mad at you just because you burst out of some guy's chest to be born. like um sorry i've not been alive before i didn't even know that's not allowed please be nice to me um the spaceship floor is cold is no one going to knit me some little booties i am calling child protective services

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the best part of the calliope bonus episode of the sandman was the absolute care and attention to detail that went into depicting the scary subtleties of men who abuse, exploit, and manipulate women. 

the brilliant casting choice of arthur darvill as richard madoc, a likeable actor who has played likeable characters, someone we would probably never think as a bad guy, to be calliope’s captor. richard madoc’s claims of being a feminist, citing famous female authors as his source of inspiration, using feminism and anti-racism as a marketing ploy to make himself look “woke”, dehumanizing calliope because she’s a muse, because she’s immortal, because he was told not to view her as human. 

the single scratch as a symbol of an unforgivable violence, dream’s acknowledgement that his over a century imprisonment is nothing compared to the decades she spent having men forcefully take from her, calliope’s gentle reminder not to compare their traumas because they are different but both valid, dream asserting that richard madoc still must be punished, calliope’s decision to forgive him in the end not for him but for herself, her setting off to rewrite the laws which imprisoned her in the first place and dream vowing to do the same in his realm. 

every aspect of this episode is so so relevant and it’s handled well at every turn, beautifully adapting its source material, giving its antagonist a punishment from his own mind, giving him an abundance of what he unjustly took from someone else and plaguing him with it until he has nothing left because that is what his actions deserved. 

also just the fact that calliope is played by a greek actress. a small detail that i love. there’s just so many good things and it’s driving me up the walls in the best way possible because i’m so glad we got these bonus episodes, i’m so glad we get to see this. 

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dance dance

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“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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there’s such a peculiar poignancy to saying “I miss [this fictional character]” or “I miss [this work of fiction/media]”

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Getting emotional about zebra shark pups.

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How to tell a raven from a crow. Made with corvid researcher Dr. Kaeli Swift for her blog post on the subject!

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Astronomical clock with Memento Mori- Prague, Czech Republic 

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I'm a pansexual with body dysmorphia

So maybe what I've got to do

Is start treating that girl in the mirror

Like every lover, stranger, and friend

And love all her parts and shapes

Maybe that's the cure

Maybe then I'll feel as beautiful

As everyone around me

#personal #pansexual #body dysmorphia #you should go and love yourself

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Hare in Hands on Etsy

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by Phạm Minh

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José Guadalupe Posada - El Nacimiento de Venus (The Birth of Venus)