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I’d really love to know what the hell Vader was thinking during that pregnant pause after he asks Luke to join him in Empire because Luke just kind of stares at him, says nothing, and then just… falls? Leaving Vader there looking like a total idiot but also wondering what the hell does Luke even think he’s doing?! Only Clone Wars Anakin could have been that extra, all “I’d rather fall into an unfathomable abyss than finish this conversation with you” is such a Skywalker move, so the only thing I imagine Vader really thinking is “Well, he definitely gets that from me.”

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*looking at the moon* what highlighter does she use?

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my two moods

#me

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Me: i love books! I love them so much! I am such a bookworm!

Friend: cool! How many did you read this year?

Me: OK, so here’s the thing

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You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

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Friendly reminder that women are forbidden to read in some parts of the world right now. Friendly reminder that oppressive regimes are telling women what to wear, where to go, what they can and can’t do, right now. Friendly reminder there are plenty of men in government who view women only as incubators and nothing more right now. Friendly reminder that what happened to Ofglen at the end of episode 3 is happening to girls all over the world right now. 

Friendly reminder that The Handmaid’s Tale is already real, in various forms, for many women. No red dress and white bonnet necessary. 

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I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, or of misrepresenting the human potential for deplorable behaviour. The group-activated hangings, the tearing apart of human beings, the clothing specific to castes and classes, the forced childbearing and the appropriation of the results, the children stolen by regimes and placed for upbringing with high-ranking officials, the forbidding of literacy, the denial of property rights: all had precedents, and many were to be found not in other cultures and religions, but within western society.“

Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid’s Tale in a 2012 interview  (via this-is-sar)