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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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oh also i'm day drunk. wheeeeeee

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rereading Welcome! Everything Is Fine for mysterious reasons (they are not that mysterious) and sitting here like. god. intermezzo 3 (chapter 14) is just quietly one of the best things i've ever written, huh

#i mean in general i'm coming to terms w/ the fact that welcome everything is fine is actually banger and maybe i was too hard on myself #isn't that the way with all old projects though. you go back like 'god this was good as HELL i didn't know i could DO that'

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#i've got a performing arts degree #oh I should say: english is my first language #i took classes in diction on how to sing eng/french/germ/italian #as well as constantly singing latin #i do italian and german the most for professional work now #but I've also learned pieces in japanese. zulu. and bulgarian #oh and welsh #but to be honest I don't know that I was doing welsh correctly. the guy teaching me lowkey seemed like he was winging it #also i just listen to a lot of non-english music in my free time anyway #but if you're asking for songs I can sing Every Word Of that's really more indicative of rep

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i love that specific ao3 phenomenon where you get a sudden influx of kudos on a work and it’s clear someone shared your fic but you have no idea who they are or where they shared it. it’s like being a dickensian orphan receiving money from a mysterious benefactor.

#I’m chronically curious so I do want to know WHERE #< dez and i on the same page

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til the particles part like holy water.

TUCKINFFTONMN…. AAHRHEHGG

#damn the SKIN TEXTURE though #lavernius tucker #agent washington #rvb

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hey um are you guys seeing that columbia is threatening to bring in the national guard?

for those of you who don’t know, there were protests in the 1970s on us college campuses against the Vietnam War. At Kent State University, they called in the national guard, who massacred the protesting students.

This is an eerily similar chain of events. It’s mind-boggling that the US is so committed to imperialism that they would rather kill their own citizens than stop killing foreigners. More than that, that they would do so multiple times over, decades apart.

I hope I’m wrong and that the students will be okay. My thoughts are with them, just as my thoughts are always with the people of Palestine.

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every time i type five or more exclamation marks i think of this quote. it's my equivalent to that damn bbc sherlock line about scratch marks around the phone charging port. i can never escape the spectre of terry pratchett judging my punctuation habits

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Chapters: 3/4 Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alice “Wazzer” Goom & Mildred Froc Characters: Alice “Wazzer” Goom, Mildred Froc, Igorina (Discworld), Original Characters Additional Tags: Politics, Plot, Religious Discussion, Visions Series: Part 6 of Six Months Passed.

Alice finds herself at the bottom of a well, sitting in water up to her chest. It soaks through her shift, cold and shockingly real. She gasps in relief. The water is cool and dark as the shade on a hot day. She glances up to see a distant, perfect circle of blue. It must be August, sticky and staggering somewhere just out of reach. “Why am I here?” She asks aloud. “You are here to ask the question,” says the water. It has a deep, feminine voice, caressing her skin as it laps at the stone walls. “What is the question?” “That is up to you.”

#I’m self promoting again #read my fic and experience gender

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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

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Sorry, your game looks cool, but the promotional material used the words "wholesome" and "cozy" so I gotta stick by my principals.

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I'm speechless but I'm so happy that's young people in all the world are with us whats happening in usa universities is powerful i never thought this going to happen I'm so happy guys of this support.

What is happening means that us around all the world humans love each other but the governments don't want that.

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i’m re-reading animorphs, a series i loved when i was a closeted young child, as a queer adult and feeling a little insane over it actually. like ok so. imagine you are just a normal regular kid until one day, a chance encounter with an adult unlike any adult you've ever met before abruptly changes who you are as a person, and suddenly you are not like other kids at all. and now you have to fight a secret battle for survival, but you cannot tell anyone around you about it, because many of the people around you harbor a secret violent hatred for who you are, and if you tell someone without realizing the person you're talking to is one of the people who hates you, that person will either put you through horrific harm to make you like them or just outright kill you. this is true of every single person around you—your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teachers—except for a few other kids who you know share your same secret.

and now you have to try to maintain close relationships with the people you love even though you cannot tell them who you really are, who you spend your time with, who you go to when you're not with them. when you see your secret companions in public, you have to try to pretend you barely know them, because being seen together too often could lead to suspicion. you are enduring consistent ongoing trauma that you cannot talk to anyone about because anyone whose job is to help people through trauma may also be one of the people who wants to kill you. also you're a shapeshifter. like yeah ok i wonder why so many people who were obsessed with animorphs as a kid turned out to be queer

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ok lets settle it. which laios is getting the best dick rn

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#it’s always Very Annoying to me BUT I only correct people if I’m going to work closely with them #there’s like five common spellings of my name. it’s not their fault. so why get twisted

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Honestly, seeing the way men who hit on Devi are handled in I Feel Sick was kind of a revelation for me when I finally read it around age 18. Not because I’d really dealt with that kind of male attention yet, but because each incident was so raw and comic and ugly. I’d never seen that kind of storytelling. I’d never seen that kind of…. Sympathy. Empathy? From a writer. I’d never seen anyone say clearly and unapologetically “this sucks, and it’s constant, and it can make you feel like you can’t trust anyone. it’s isolating.” The feeling that you must be going crazy because when you try to express this, people just make light of it.

And to have it coming from a comic that expressed so much of the writers own frustrations and anxieties with his art through her, so that she becomes him in some allegorical way that I think far exceeds the amount he ever made Johnny like himself…. I don’t now how else to put it. It felt like a revelation.