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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

#feminism

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i’ve never seen death note but I know it has two characters that look like this and one of them is an antisocial genius using a mystical artifact to kill people and the other one is the determined teen detective hunting him down and i just found out which is which and now i want to hit someone

#death note #q the world

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#jumblr #pesach #free palestine #no id #video

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#happy 2 years #misha collins

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the worst thing about this piece of shit city isnt the spotty transit, or the lack of decent food, its the dozens upon dozens of armed fucking security guards i need to wade through to get a fuckin loaf of bread at the walgreens downtown. its every single time i need to go get some fuckin toiletry i have to waltz by some fucker wearing a tactical vest with a gun at his side, wondering if this is the time i get clipped because officer andy didnt like the look of someone trying to shoplift a 6 pack of hanes, which are also under lock and fucking key. abysmal fucking situation.

#nyc #< not really but also #usamerican blogging

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Helen and Aphrodite

Do not provoke me, wicked girl, lest I drop you in anger, and hate you as much as I now terribly love you. - Iliad 3.13-14 (trans. Caroline Alexander)

a repaint of a concept i posted last year - the original art is still on my blog and it still gets notes which is driving me insane. so anyway here’s a better version!!

#iliad #fanart #q the world

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“What did you say, to make him try to kill you?”

#the locked tomb #fanart #htn #mercymorn the first #harrowhark nonagesimus #q the world

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Concept: Les Misérables (1862) but if Lemony Snicket was the author Example: to Enjolras–darling, dearest, dead.

Chapter One

If you’re seeking a story whose tragic beginning is followed by a less-tragic middle and an inevitably uplifting denouement, this book should be avoided at all costs. The approximately six hundred and fifty-five thousand words that are about to follow contain the tales of several bright and brave young people who each meet an unfortunate end and several less-bright, less-young people, including myself, who unfortunately survive to recount the events. “Unfortunate” is a word which here means “luckless” and “miserable”, the latter definition having been used for the title of this novel, designed to dissuade you, the misguided reader, from continuing past the cover page.

There are other techniques I have employed in this book that are designed to stop you from yourself becoming miserable by reading this story in its entirety. Firstly, the physical novel, which as you may notice shares the same dimensions and weight as a standard housing brick, for the utmost inconvenience. Secondly, I have included several hundred pages of information which are both uninteresting and have little bearing on the grander story in the meager hope that you will come to your senses and place this novel back on your shelf or better, in a lit fireplace, where I solemnly believe it belongs. 

For example, the use of candlesticks. The word “candlestick” is derived from the purpose of the item itself, that is an object, most often metal, commonly silver, in which one can stick a candle. Many dictionaries define “candlestick” as  “an often ornamental holder for securing a candle or candles”. “Candleholder” is another, less commonly used word for “candlestick”. Candlesticks come in a variety of forms and sizes, and can contain a variety of numbers of candles often demarcated by their names-a “trikirion” contains three candles and a “menorah” contains seven. If you have had the fortitude-a word which here means “strength of mind”-to make it this far through this dull paragraph, it may be of some note to say that the candlesticks with which we concern ourselves in this story are single candlesticks, that may each contain one candle. 

Thirdly, not only have I named the main character in a redundant manner-Jean Valjean-I have decided to tell you here that Jean Valjean perishes on the final page of this novel. That is my story’s conclusion.

With all this information in mind, and having the ending already known, I now give you my final warning and pleading suggestion to forget about this book. Put it down. Hide it away. Bury it in a cemetery late at night with the assistance of a man named Fauchelevant. Forget it ever existed. For now the story must begin.

It begins in a town called Digne, on a grey and dreary night under the roof of a very kind but elderly and poor man, the bishop of the town, whose name was Myriel.

#les mis

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Just rediscovered potentially the funniest thing I’ve written in recent memory

#this is the world's best post we should all stop posting after this one #les mis #fave tag!

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brainworms

#les mis #enjoltaire #fanart

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"Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate" two sentences into les mis gets me every time. It really just sums up the brick experience perfectly

#les mis #<3

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#i know a kurloz #poll

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I love subjects and topics

#i would reblog this 100000 times if i were not myself

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Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

#food

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

#free palestine #transcribed #jumblr

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Happy Passover from Rudy Giuliani

#jumblr #antisemitism #lmao

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The flip side of the post-World War II cries of “Never again” was an unspoken “Never before.” The insistence on lifting the Holocaust out of history, the failure to recognize these patterns, and the refusal to see where the Nazis fit inside the arc of colonial genocides have all come at a high cost. The countries that defeated Hitler did not have to confront the uncomfortable fact that Hitler had taken pointers and inspiration on race-making and on human containment from them, leaving their innocence not only undisturbed but also significantly strengthened by what was indeed a righteous victory.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger

#ask to tag