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"The Folk adore Cardan, and they’re terrified of my sister, two excellent things. "

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

Faerie being afraid of Jude is one of my favorite things ever. After all the things they've said about mortals , being terrified of a mortal queen is probably one of the most satisfying things I've ever read.

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Ok I love that Jude just without hesitation punched a random guy who was hitting on her but let’s be honest if I saw JUDE FREAKING DUARTE I would ask her out too

#lets just make sure when we flirt we dont touch people without warning especially if thet were raised by Madoc

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"Murdering 14,000 children is not 'Self-Defense'"

Poster spotted in Boston, Massachusetts

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"Your taxes kill kids in Gaza"

Poster seen in New Orleans, Louisiana

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

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Acropolis Ruins at Night by Hiroshi Yoshida (1925)

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Helen of Troy (detail) c. 1867. by Frederick Sandys

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Andreil

bus nap 🫶🏻

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Jude: *walks into the room* 

Oak: She's covered in blood again. Why is it she's always covered in blood? 

The Roach: Well, it looks like it’s her own blood this time.

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Just finished a reread of TFOTA and this quote from Locke (of all people) stuck out to me.

"Do you love me enough to give me up? Do you love me enough to weep over me?"Jude finds the questions off putting and odd, which I don't blame her.

Flash forward to QoN: *Jude, willing to cut off snake Cardans head, not knowing what would happen, but knowing it would break her*

When she truly loved someone, she was willing to give them up, and weep over them.

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Messages of support and strength from Rafah, Palestine to the US student movement.

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Dance 🐉

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Spring omen.

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Hold bb, look at bb, cherish bb

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Art by Anastasia Astasheva

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taylor swift fans are so scary it's like i'm in the truman show. watching taylor swift fans talk about how she soo gets neurospicy mental illness grippy sock vacation is exactly how truman felt when his wife started advertising coffee or something to nobody in particular

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Snared between the teeth of love, and therein torn apart.