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I don't know it is pure laziness or "hey, why change a winning concept lol!"

“ThE lEfT iS nOT aNtIseMITiC”

The left are turning into the very people they keep saying they’d slap. They’re fucking Nazis.

#Jew-hate makes you stupid #antisemitism #people are idiots #sometimes i fear for humanity #and that sometimes is now #blood libel

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#support content creators

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Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes find that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

#katniss everdeen #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #hunger games meta

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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan.

#carl sagan #quotes #about books #literature

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it’s the bare minimum

#antisemitism #i stand with the jewish people

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oh save me ninerose save me

#doctor who #ninth doctor #rose tyler #9th doctor #doctor x rose #ninth doctor x rose #timepetals

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Places from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

I ended up visiting several places mentioned in The Phantom of the Opera last summer. I found myself on a strange little pilgrimage...

The Paris opera house - the Palais Garnier

La Madeleine - the church in Paris where Erik fantasised about getting married to Christine and playing his nuptial mass on the really big organ

The beach at Trestraou - where Christine's red scarf flew into the sea and

The church at Perros Guirec - where Raoul had his crazy night seeing Christine worshipping the mysterious violinist playing 'The Resurrection of Lazarus'

All links to other posts on tumblr with my photos of these places

#gaston leroux #poto #le fantôme de l'opéra #the phantom of the opera

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Pieta

#Jesus Christ #mother Mary #this is so heartbreaking

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Purim explained.

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Go back to bed—it’s World Sleep Day!

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“This political posture is supposed to be rooted in humanitarianism, altruism, kindness, and empathy, and yet it has attracted some of the most unkind, callous, cruel people that I’ve ever come across in my life. where this defect comes from is that, instead of curing the perceived hatred of the right, they actually inverted the hatred of the right […] they don’t actually have empathy for anybody because they don’t know what empathy is […] they created an entirely new monster, and that monster is moral narcissism. moral narcissism was developed by this cohort of unempathetic people, who want to be perceived as empathetic, and so they determine what values are considered empathetic. if you go against those values, you will be abused, trolled, harassed, doxxed, cancelled, even if you belong to that ‘other’ group they claim to have empathy for.”

(please listen to her whole piece.)

#leftist hypocrisy #leftist antisemitism #political hypocrisy #antisemitism

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excerpt from ‘untitled’, published in bbc doctor who storybook 2007.

“…he didn’t know his own name any more (who am i?) but he knew her, she was rose tyler and she was the most important thing to him.”

“rose was his best friend, and it was his job to protect her.”

“rose and the doctor, the doctor and rose, it went together like bangers and mash, fish and chips.”

“rose defined him, and he was the doctor, he was the doctor, and he wouldn’t forget again.”

can you believe it’s canon that you can’t have the tenth doctor without rose tyler? ten was born out of unconditional love, unwavering faith and sheer desperation for rose, essentially designed for her, and absolutely no one else. he simply fits her just as much as she fits him. it’s a ‘whatever souls are made, his and mine are the same’ typa romance.

#rose tyler #doctor who #timepetals #tenth doctor x rose #tenth doctor #doctor x rose

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the African wild cat (from which house cats are descended) looks like a normal house cat but with uncomfortably longer legs

#cats and kittens

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That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

#jrr tolkien

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#oh yes #the first time i read it i was 12 #books #shirley jackson #we have always lived in the castle #literature

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THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS jonathan demme, 1991

#Silence of the Lambs #movies i love

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Margaery and Sansa for #SixCharacters couple challenges commissionated by @MalicesRose

#sansaery #sansa x margaery #margaery tyrell #sansa stark #house stark #house tyrell #asoiaf/got