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“I can do nothing for you but work on myself. You can do nothing for me but work on yourself.”

— Ram Dass

#ram dass #quotes #1031

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#appalachia

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Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

#film #so real #emma stone #about me

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Andy Kennelly

#photo #1031 #yep

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just when you think you're normal about a line the amazing devil once again sings "we'd laugh at the ghosts of our fears // we were gods // we were kids" and you're crying in the library again

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#1031 #photo #happy tag

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The first post of my new project Openeyes Media Archive is live. Throughout the next year I will be examining the themes of some of my favorite television series and films as they coincide with the seasons of a year (and a lifetime!)

#openeyes1031 #oma #spring #degrassi #degrassi high #degrassi junior high #writeblr #entertainment #culture #personal #personal essay #entertainment writing #media and entertainment industry

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I love trans voices. I love pre-HRT and “started HRT a month ago” and sore voices lowering and carefully trained voices and I love trans laughter and trans singing and I love the in-between androgyny of some voices and I love MY voice and I love my friends’ voices. I love husky voices and medium voices and high pitched voices and gravely voices. I love range changes and I love the expressiveness. I love trans voices.

#quotes #about me #mere

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“Often father and daughter look down on mother together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate”

#succession #tomshiv #tom wambsgans #shiv roy #logan roy #tv

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Women and girls that are in Gaza are using tent scraps as period products. Tent scraps.

not only do they not have access to clean water, clean bathroom or any bathroom at this point . not only do they not have proper living corders, they do not have access to period products. using tent scraps as period products, same as many things they need to use as compensation for things they need, is causing infections.

and as there is no medical supplies available in Gaza, these women, these LITTLE GIRLS that have just started their periods are dying from these infections.

all while this is happening, you AND me have access to all those things. unlimited access.

the worst thing you can do right now is being silent. shame on all you people who have no real human compassion, nor decency who can’t even boycott, or share valuable information and news about what is currently going on.

people are dying as we live in peace, feeling “unaffected” by the situation.

children are dying as we stay silent.

speak up for Palestine. do not keep your eyes away from Palestine.

Wake up.

#palestine #open eyes

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I WAS THERE.

succession scripts / cardigan by taylor swift / annotation on thumbs by lucy dacus / thumbs by lucy dacus / tumblr user sightofsea / succession season 4 review: HBO's blistering drama goes back to where it started by allison picurro / the prestige tv podcast, recap with arian moayed / writing prompts for the broken-hearted by eden robinson / funeral by phoebe bridgers / wait for me by original cast of hadestown / norwegian wood by haruki murakami.

#kenstewy #succession #kendall roy #stewy hosseini #tv #oh gosh i get it

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#about me #LITERALLY

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What if I want to vape until my head falls off?

#callie sadecki #yellowjackets #she is so real #tv #q

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nooo what do you mean my breakfast of a large double shot iced americano, 2 cigs, and 300mg wellbutrin is making my headache worse

#txt

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i’ve seen a lot of people (namely on TikTok) driving through Appalachian towns just showing off the place and all of the comments are along the lines of “well they vote red this is what they get” and it's been pissing me off but I can't put words to it. like yes it's classicism but there's something else i can't put my finger on it and wanted to put that phenomenon out there to see what others think

i feel like i know what you're talking about and its a very indignant feeling.

this prompted me to have a conversation with my wife about this, and she kind of summed up what i was also having a hard time putting into words:

people just want to be better than other people.

like, until we grow the fuck up and realize we aren't the main character, we want to be better than everyone else because it feels good, and it's easy.

specifically where appalachia is concerned:

people come to the hollers to film their poverty porn and make shitty comments because they want to separate themselves from us Bad Poor People. we aren't the Right Kind Of Poor, so they can feel good about themselves and relieve themselves of social responsibility.

in this case, it becomes easy to dismiss us and our struggles because we "voted this way" (even tho chances are we did not)

because in so doing, they can other us as The Bad People.

Good People Like Them don't have to help The Bad People Like Us, and they don't have to feel guilty about--at the absolute least--not makin it worse on us with their bullshit, because we're just Bad and that's that.

we don't deserve their help because we 'brought it on ourselves,' so it becomes a personal failure/shortcoming of ours instead of the actionable issue of systemic disenfrachisement that it is, and which could help us fight if they really cared.

so, yeah, it feels to me like a blend of classism + some internalized superiority. they feel this superiority over us because of the very stereotypes they perpetuate (such as this massive region being an exclusively maga-country monolith, in this case) which has given them a gross complex.

i still didn't articulate that well but i hope it made sense.

what about y'all? appalachia residents and non-residents invited to answer

#appalachia #open eyes #1031 #q

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where you goin?

#photo #appalachia #q

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mcdowell county, west virginia

#appalachia #janis #photo #q