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TODA MARIKO and OCHIBA-NO-KATA SHŌGUN | 1.09 Crimson Sky

#shogun #ochiba no kata #toda mariko #q

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SHŌGUN (2024–) Chapter Six: Ladies of the Willow World

#:’( #shogun #toda mariko #ochiba no kata #q

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Botanical designs from One Hundred Newly Selected Designs by Kōrin (Kōrin shinsen hyakuzu), 1864.

#illust #flora #q

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Tori Amos, 1995

#save me white woman singer save me #tori amos #q

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June Jordan, An Address to the Students of Columbia University During Their Anti-Apartheid Sit-in, April, 1985; in On Call. Political Essays, South End Press, Boston, MA, 1985, pp. 117-122

#june jordan #resistance #apartheid #columbia university #q

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it’s insane to me that mariko and ochiba no kata/ruri are explicitly said by the creators and the characters themselves to have grown up very close, ‘like sisters’, and it’s implied they were closer than ochiba was to her actual blood sister (which was normal in terms of family dynamics and given their circumstances, I know, but still). their relationship might just be the most Homoerotic thing in the show, by pure accident, because it’s so intense and Fated that even the absence of any hint of romantic/sexual feeling ironically just magnifies how much their bond is too big to be captured by any conventional framework or labels. and I like this invention of their backstory from the original novel, it’s given ochiba lots more interiority and it’s a grounded and subtle means of saying More about them without having to spell it out. I really appreciate that their history is staged as an Entirely Platonic and Sisterly dynamic but one that had a deep formative influence on both of them, that lasted through all their years apart, right through to the tragic culmination of them as rivals.

the scene where Mariko walks into a room full of men baying for the blood of her lord/her by extension and is instead 100% focused on ochiba no kata, the only other woman in the room, whom she trusts to recognise the challenge she’s trying to pose, sent chills through me. their bond is the hidden fulcrum of the political machinations the show dwells on, more so than any number of the show’s political marriages or more conventional and visible means of politicking the many men in Shogun have, and the creators have touched on that in a similar register.

#shogun #shogun spoilers #toda mariko #ochiba no kata #mariko #shōgun #my meta #fellas is it gay to grow up like a sworn sister to another woman.

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it’s so cool how people #onhere will bitch and moan about “anti-intellectualism” (as if that’s a coherent concept) all day but will immediately chafe against any unfamiliar or potentially provocative mode of analysis or heuristic

#tumblr woes #q

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TODA MARIKO and OCHIBA-NO-KATA SHŌGUN | 1.09 Crimson Sky

#their r/s is my fave part of the show predictably #and also what I crave fic about #SURROGATE SISTERS!! #shogun #gifset #q

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Brunello Cucinelli - Fall 2020

#fashion #q

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Periodic self-indulgent reiteration of the fact that, yes, because "ivy league" school protests get ridiculously outsized media coverage and generate inane political grandstanding like congressional hearings, the overbearing response to the event in fact makes the events socially relevant, and a self-fulfilling prophecy is still a prophecy fulfilled...

...but that doesn't the change the fact that everyone involved in that attention spiral is a complete idiot and we all should be treating these as no different from any other protest of a similar scale. I dream a hopeless dream of a world where people don't just invent crises out sheer boredom and pavlovian prestige jerkoff sessions, a dream that will never be of course but one worth complaining about at least.

#current affairs #columbia university #q

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House with perforated effect | MW archstudio Vietnam Association of Architects

#light #architecture #q

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Just saw someone get an anon that was a callout post for me, calling me guilty by association for reblogging from trans women with whom I don't even know what their beef is. I cannot stress enough that if you do something like this you are a loser.

#transmisogyny #tumblr woes #but not only #q

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#neko neko bakery #gif #q #food

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Breanna Gordon

#illust #i #q

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20. Fax them potentially useful articles.

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reading this list of "practical mentoring tips" and i'm loving #20 i can't believe i haven't been doing this for years

#lol #prev: #i think if you faxed a college student something they would interpret it as an act of aggression #q

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“Some will undoubtedly find this episode obscene. Not I! Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word “murder” made us mumble as much as the word “masturbation.””

— The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen

#nsfw text #viet thanh nguyen #bestiality - #q

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

#current events