Ok ok ok I'm getting emotional. Lemme be corny for a minute..they had an Indian spiderman. A whole superhero who is INDIAN. Not a sidekick. Not a tech guy. A hero. Who does hero things!!! And is unabashedly, whole heartedly desi. His world is desi without being tragedy porn. Like yes show us Bombay traffic! Show us ads for zomato!!! And aunty ke saath shaam ki chai! Show us people pilled on a scooter with no regard for safety!!! Pavitr Prabhakar is amazing and I love him with my entire little desi heart.
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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"
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Ahmed Saad, a Palestinian man who had to jump through an insane amount of loops to get the funds necessary for escaping Gaza, is asking us all to donate to his friend’s family fund.
Mohamed is a hemophilia patient who needs access to medicine and to do surgery on his knees, his 11-year-old daughter also needs thigh surgery (she was supposed to do it outside Gaza in November but couldn't travel due to the border issues). Mohammed’s condition is worsening rapidly and, with Israel destroying the last functional hospital in Gaza, things are looking dire.
Please donate generously!
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I HATE YOU SUPREME COURT!!!
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imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this fucking site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao
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reminding myself there are no truly "bad days", because every single day, someone somewhere in the world has taken a photo of an extremely tiny animal and shown it to someone else, and that's very good actually
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i need to thank whoever came up with Oh. Oh. for what they've done for the English language.
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Can I just say I fucking love how One Piece has revealed one of it's core messages to be "those in power have an obligation to recognize when it is time for them to step down and allow the next generation to carry on in their place, even if that next generation does things differently, bcs nothing stifles freedom and progress like a stagnant society so obsessed with it's past rulers and their legacy that it can't see the cracks forming until it's too late" like that's not just correct, it's straight up CATHARTIC!! Like yeah, Oda, you're right!! It is fucked up that the people in power are so addicted to being at the top that they silence and suffocate everyone who has come after them, insisting that the youth can't be trusted to know what's best or do what needs to be done!!! Thank you!!!!
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