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why should palestinians have to leave behind their land because israel wont stop killing them. why should anyone have to leave behind their life and memories and sentimental value just because an aggressor is left unchallenged. please think this sentiment through and delete it from your thoughts. instead of blaming an oppressed people for living in a hostile land, ask who is making that land hostile to live in.

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- How good it feels.

#black sails #james flint #charles vane #anne bonny #jack rackham #john silver

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#Happy 10 years to the gayest thing to ever hit your screens #black sails #silverflint

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Today's a personal Black Sails Anniversary for me, so posting this drawing of my faves from my fave show as a tiny celebration

#Black Sails

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TMRSS23 Reveals!

🎅🥳 TMRSS23 Reveals are HEREEEEEEEEEE!!!! 🎅🥳 

Good to go? Have you seen the TMRSS23 Wrapped? Do you have your guess lists ready? Chaos gifs to hand?

All will now be revealed…!!

Here are the TMRSS 2023 santas!!

Thank you so much to all our wonderful santas, for all the creative and diverse gifts this year. What a gift to our fandom, truly!  

We hope that you all had fun participating in TMRSS this year. Thank you so much to those of you who have celebrated each other and our community. We have really appreciated seeing your likes, reblogs, yelling, livereads and overall excitement and appreciation for santas' hard work. 

Please do continue to reblog and share the creations! Reblog, rec, tag, comment - show our santas some love!

Santas: 

if you want to post your creations on your own blogs, or anywhere else, go for it!  We’d be really, really grateful if you could tag/mention “tmrss23″ when you do 🥺🙏  Also, go ahead and publicly thank your betas, cheerleaders, or pets if you want to - there’s no longer any need for secrecy! 🙅‍♀️🕵️‍♀️ (We can let you know who your betas were, if yours was arranged through our tmrss system.)

We’d like to personally thank the following people:

@whiterubys for designing our fabulous banner and icon - check out Anne’s blog for more gorgeous gifs and edits! 

Our wonderful pinch hitters: @seaselkie, @persnickett and @purplepingupenguins and kind beta readers: @jo-the-unknowable @itsthemxze​ @astralpenguin and @persnickett 

You’re all absolute tmrss angels and we appreciate your help so SO much!! We could not run tmrss without being able to rely on our wonderful pinch hitters and betas, who are such essential supports to us during the event. Pinch hitters: thank you for being the reason that no one is left without a gift, which is so very important. Thank you, tmrss stars!!!!!!! 😍👏

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Thanks again everyone for participating this year!! Hope you had fun!

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Hope to see you all next Christmas, for tmrss24…! 😉🥳

Dreams and Bridge 🎅🎁

#lets goooooooooooo #tmrss #you guys are amazing as always

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Merry Christmas @newtswonderland

Title: Spring Town

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: Canon typical violence

Wordcount: 8,004

Summary: One psychic's daughter, three private school kids and a small town's ghost story. What could possibly go wrong?

Message to giftee: merry christmas angel!

#this has actually been so much fun to write #my writing #tmrss #tmr #mine

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“Without the threat of death, it wouldn’t have been much of a lesson,” said Dr. Gaul. “What happened in the arena? That’s humanity undressed. The tributes. And you, too. How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.”  [...] “You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It’s a lot to take in all at once, but it’s essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need."

— The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020)

Then I remember Peeta’s words on the roof. “Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to... to show the Capital they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.” And for the first time, I understand what he means.  I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can’t own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

— The Hunger Games (2008)

#thg

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"Do you know the story of how I came to be this way? Athena was everything to me. I worshipped her, I prayed to her. I made offerings. She never answered. Not even an omen to suggest she appreciated my love. I wasn’t like you, sweetheart. I was you. I would have worshipped her that way for a lifetime in silence. But then one day, another god came, and he broke that silence."

#pjo #i love her

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insp.

#why is this still getting notes #??? #self reblog

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I've worked a few tough crowds myself over the years. In politics? In panto.

#pride 2014

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Merry Christmas @purplepingupenguins

Title: The Once and Future King

Rating: Teen and up

Wordcount: 14,280 words

Summary: A Merlin au; Thomas is the young sorcerer who comes to Camelot and Newt is the arrogant Prince.

Message to giftee: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! I was so excited to dive into your prompts and I got SO into it that unfortunately I came up with enough ideas for a fic that would take me much longer than the time limit to write. But I really hope you enjoy this little taste, and I promise if I ever write the long version you will be the first to know.

#ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh okiee gonna read this now #tmrss #tmr

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Arundhati Roy, ‘Our country has lost its moral compass’

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hope is a skill

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Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

#narnia

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something that kills me about the hunger games is that they’re supposed to show that the capitol is necessary, that they keep people civilised because humans are inherently violent creatures and then the kids get to the arena and they care for each other. lamina mercy kills marcus, reaper gathers and covers their bodies, lucy gray stays with jessup as he dies, haymitch holds maysilee’s hand, katniss sings to rue and covers her in flowers, thresh lets katniss live, cato begs clove to come back to him, and katniss nurses peeta back to health. because these kids don’t want to kill each other. and it flies directly in the face of exactly what the hunger games stand for and still they do it. because people are good, there are just some who choose to do bad.

#thg

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"The show's not over until the mockingjay sings," she said. "The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you're just making these things up." "Not that one. A mockingjay's a bonafide bird," she assured him. "And it sings in your show?" he asked. "Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol's, anyway."

#thg