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i wish people would normalize being lost in life and just not knowing anything. not knowing what you’re passionate about, where you want to live, what you want to do, where you want to go— or what lies next. as a society, we normalized going to school, finding a passion, getting a job, finding a partner, getting married, having kids, working hard to earn an honest living. but what about when shit just doesn’t go that way? you really just don’t know. and what’s even worse is, you don’t know why you don’t know or even where to start so you feel alone. you feel as though you’re a disappointment to your family. as if you failed in life. but you haven’t, it’s okay, to not know. to be lost. you have your whole life ahead of you to figure things out. patience is a virtue. there is no time limit on life. you don’t need to rush. don’t allow society to fixate the narrative of having all your shit together at a certain age. it isn’t realistic for most. being lost is so much more normal than we think. and i just wish people would be more transparent about it.

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Black Girl Magic 👑👑👑👑

Sha'Carri Richardson (Track and Field)

Simone Biles (Gymnastics)

Simone Manuel (Swimming)

Alyson Felix (Track and Field)

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PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM

I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.

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“ Just gather us all in one place and kill us all with missiles. Let us all die at once as martyrs. Because what you’re doing right now is torture! “

I am still sorry if putting this in blm and stop asian hate offends anyone, but as you know by now, social media platforms are preventing Palestine from trending. And you deserve to know the truth. And Palestinian deserve to be heard

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Listen.

There is currently a group of young black leaders who are raising money for an initiative called We Da People to go into primarily black/POC communities and help the neglected communities. From the creator’s themselves:

“Our mission is to give educational and community outreach services to less fortunate, disenfranchised, and otherwise neglected communities across the country... Teaching them how to be activist, leaders, CEOs. While also teaching them what does it mean to be a person of color. We also are hosting Seminars, for high school students and up. We will be giving educational and job resources. All while teaching them to be self reliant. With police stop training and a more in depth session of the summer programs.”

This summer, they are going on a tour around these communities to teach them how to be self reliant, unified, and safe. But that costs money because of travel, food, venues, hotels, and educational tools.

Their goal is $500,000

AS OF NOW, THEY ONLY HAVE $200,000 RAISED ON THEIR GOFUNDME

AND THEY ONLY HAVE LESS THAN 9 DAYS TO REACH THEIR GOAL

Please, if you have any money you can give at all, donate.

https://gofund.me/c43e6876

PLEASE. If you see this, fucking reblog it. Make sure to tag it properly. We only have so little time.

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So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

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my favourite moment of the episode ❤

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RAFAEL SILVA via Twitter - April 9, 2021

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the world has forever changed.

↳ sam wilson appreciation week, day 1: favourite quote

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FLORENCE KASUMBA as AYO, member of the Dora Milaje in THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021)

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Honestly shoutout to The Social Network for giving us the line “you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole” because if that doesn’t epitomize women’s feelings for entitled male nerds I don’t know what does

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This! This! This! 100% agree. I was very disturbed that ppl were flat ignoring the fact that Sam is a black man in America. The moment he gave up the shield I understood 100% why. And Steve was literally Bucky's only family, of course I get why he's upset Sam gave up the shield. But what's gonna get these characters through a tough situation is mutual understanding and patience. The issues of race in this country is a very complex and hard topic to talk about. And the issue of how war veterans are treated in this country is also a difficult topic. And these are issues that are deeply engraved in the history of this country. Me as a black woman can never just stop being black. I wake up every morning having to deal with my own problems plus racism and sexism. I just wish ppl would at least have a little more compassion when confronting such issues.

I say this every week but I kind of feel like I’m watching a different show to you all with the way you cherrypick through the dialogue in order to demonise either Sam or Bucky and pit them against each other re: the shield. Malcolm Spellman is writing these characters as complex, emotional, grieving men coming at the same issue from different, understandable perspectives. Their actions and thought processes are not always perfect because they’re human - but he’s not writing either Sam or Bucky as a saint or a villain. Why are so many people so determined to make them one or the other?

Sam’s reasons for giving up the shield are completely legitimate, understandable and valid. The shield has a weight and complexity and burden for Sam as a black man that it never had for Steve - something it’s clear Steve didn’t think of when he handed Sam the shield and expected him to just drop everything to become Captain America, just because Steve said so. It’s absolutely Sam’s right to decide not to take on the symbol of a country that has oppressed African-Americans for centuries. That’s his choice to make and his alone, because it’s his life - I’m struggling to see how anyone could condemn him for that. 

His reasons are completely valid and his intentions good, but it’s also factual that he ignored Steve’s last wishes, gave away the last remnant of his legacy, and inadvertently let the shield fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t deserve it and may use it for evil. None of that is Sam’s fault, but it’s only human that Bucky wouldn’t be happy with the way things have played out. By episode 3 he understands Sam’s reasons slightly better (just as Sam understands Bucky a little better), but you can’t just stop feeling how you feel over night, especially when it’s fuelled by mental health issues and tied so closely to the grieving process. It’s already been explicitly stated that Bucky isn’t doing well mentally, and is reacting emotionally and illogically to matters of the shield and super soldiers (as Sam said this very episode: “I know why this matters to you, but it’s pushing you off the deep end”). He’s never going to accept John Walker as Cap (nor should he), and he’s not going to let the last fragment of Steve that he has be destroyed, so all he can do is either continue trying to convince Sam that he made a mistake and he should take the shield, or take it for himself if Sam continues to reject it, to keep it out of the wrong hands. I’m struggling to see how anyone could condemn him for that, either.

Neither Sam nor Bucky’s positions on the shield debate are evil or even necessarily wrong, and the narrative isn’t presenting them as such. Only the fandom is. Fandom took a nuanced discussion of legacy, loss and representation, and of race and mental health, and turned it into a black and white, contextless “Sam is a selfish asshole who doesn’t give a fuck about Steve and his legacy” vs “Bucky is a racist who doesn’t give a shit about Sam and his struggles” issue, instead of what it actual is: “two men ultimately want to respect their best friend’s legacy but have different ways of approaching it because of their respective traumas. Through conflict and growing trust they will eventually come to see the other’s perspective and reach a mutual conclusion.” Despite how clear it is on screen, the point is being so badly missed that the fandom is becoming a pretty unbearably toxic place to be for the first few days after an episode drops.

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Please, share this!!!

I don't usually make this kind of post but... Do you remember how angry we all were about George Floyd death because of police brutality???

Well, guess what??

IT HAPPENED AGAIN!! NOW IN MEXICO!!

The cops killed a salvadoran woman in Tulum, they pressured her chest until she died. So please, spread the note!!!

Mexican authorities are well known for their impunity. Don't let this be unpunished!!! We need to make noise again!!!

It's unfair in USA, and it's unfair in the rest of the world too!!

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The stories of women in my family who were forced into lives they didn’t want and didn’t utilize their passions breaks my heart. My grandma wanted to be a journalist and write about the injustices she saw inflicted on disabled ppl while she was volunteering at a state run institution as a teen. Her father decided that she was “too fat and stupid” for college and forced her to get married at 17 or else he’d make her homeless. As a kid she told me that she wished people believed that she had meaningful opinions on events around her. One of my great grandmothers wanted to be an artist but was pressured into marrying a man who beat her. She stayed up late each night when her children were in bed writing poetry and pasting it over elaborate collages she mad herself. We still have stacks of these notebooks she created but was never allowed to do anything with. My mother wanted to be an operatic singer and was considered a musical prodigy in her town because she taught herself three seperate instruments by 13. When she was 18 she met my then 30 year old father who emotionally manipulated her into giving up her dreams to start a family with him. As a kid I would hear her up at night playing the violin or doing vocal exercises until she became too depressed to practice anymore. Like idk y’all there’s a quiet type of violence in the way women’s talents are devalued and brushed aside in favor of bullying them into “traditional” roles that ultimately don’t fulfill what they wanted for their lives. We’ve lost so much art, music, writing, science, and happiness to misogyny.

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The curriculum in America purposely leaves this shit out. Everyone’s history is left out that isn’t male and white. Systematically the truth has always been left out...purposely.

We all have to learn this stuff on own, including Black American history, Native American history, and Hispanic American history.