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Professor Anthony came HOME

JONATHAN BAILEY as JACK MADDOX Heartstopper Season 3 | October 2024

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@lgbtqcreators creator bingo | blending

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green FRIENDS (1994 - 2004)

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Flowers teach hope and patience. Flowers teach tenderness. Flowers teach futility and amazement. You know me, I am always willing to learn. Besides, it is spring. The beautiful forces of nature refuse to remain silent and I feel like observing everything.

Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to J. M. Murry written c. April 1922

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assume at all times that my posts are made to be as deliberately malicious as possible and specifically targeting you

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

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taking a break from TTPD analysis to laugh at the fact that taylor is about to be forced to sit through the NFL draft

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If you’re a Heartstopper of Bridgerton fan you should be thanking ME for manifesting this with my professor au!!!! Like this is literally Professor Anthony with his nice sweaters and glasses and academic books and gray hair! I had the vision in Jan 2023 and I fucking got in weeds and put in the WORK!! Every Daddy Anthony or vaguely professor coded Anthony got its roots with MOI! If you’re celebrating this you owe me eternal love and devotion or thanks (or a comment)

Ok but for real I feel so 🥹🥹🥹🥹 seeing this AU come to life!!

Jonathan Bailey is going to be Jack Maddox, a professor, on Heartstopper s3

#jonathan bailey #heartstopper #jonny bailey #jack maddox #Bridgerton #kathony fanfic #professor aus #kathony

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Obsessed with how we never learn Silver's background story. He can't bring himself to share that part of himself with Flint, to be vulnerable in that way. He claims it's not relevant and the truth is it's not relevant to black sails. It doesn't change the events of the story that we as the audience don't know where he came from. It doesn't change Flint's ability to love him, or vice versa. But we will never know his story. Just like we will never know how it ends.

John Silver spends his entire character arc eluding the narrative while trying to shape it and in the end we are left with a character no one can ever claim to know. Not Flint. Not Madi. To be loved is to be known and John Silver loves so deeply, but he cannot bear to be loved in return. Even as he reaches out, he's pulling back. He's had one foot out the door since the story started and now he can't bring himself to leave.

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the way John Silver has no background and no story of his own. the way John silver did not want to be in the story. the way he actively tried to get out of the story time and time again through the first 2 seasons. the way the crew voted John silver as their quartermaster when he was unconscious and not even there. the way his decisions change the course of the narrative so dramatically that all the other powerful figures find themselves working around him. the way that throughout this show, this work of historical fiction, John silver is one of the only characters guaranteed to survive the narrative from beginning to end because we know everyone else is dead but this is his prequel. the way the whole show is long john silver’s prequel. the way the real historical figures literally write him into existence at the end of season three. the way long john silver is both the most real and the most unreal figure in the show. the way he doesn’t want to be in it.

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maybe it's just the Radical Rediker talking, but there's something pointed in the way that, say, popular pirate media like Pirates of the Caribbean dilutes the pirate's freedom to "bring me that horizon" as opposed to, say, "plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power" (Bartholomew Roberts).

broadly speaking, most pirates chose the life in order to escape and revenge the hard labour, corporal punishment, overworking, and unequal pay of merchant/navy/privateer ships; or the privations of their sudden unemployment once a war was over, ignored as soon as their ability to die for the state was unneeded. yes, many were thugs, but, consciously political or not, they were responding to a particular, material reality.

the pirate's desired freedom was from the effects of exploitative modes of statehood and capital production. but popular media usually shifts this into a general desire for freedom: freedom to roam, freedom to love (usually merely a cross-class white, heterosexual union), or freedom from the personal pressures of social norms. it's a vague, ahistorical, post-Enlightenment, libertarian ideal rather than a response to a real social and economic situation.

to be clear, this only really applies to specifically the late golden age of piracy, in the first quarter of the 18th century. earlier generations of pirates/buccaneers often displayed nationalist/religious motives, and were lauded, tolerated, or even encouraged by the French and English states for aiding their fights against the Spanish and Portuguese. only the last gasp of age of sail pirates had a truly anti-national energy, and both figured themselves, and were figured by the imperial powers, as the enemies of all nations.

but if we are to valourise the late golden age pirate, at his best, his ideals were for true democracy, and the abolition of nation, hierarchy, and labour exploitation; not "the horizon". he was striking out in response to specific political, social, and economic oppressions, rather than a general individual restlessness, and that reality - and its similarities to our own - are important.

I dunno, I just... have a lot of thoughts about the defanging of piracy in modern media. obviously there were a lot of things bad about them, too, and the level of egalitarianism varied between individual people and ships. but again, if we're going to be valourising them anyway... there were idealists. and they weren't subtle about they wanted.

"I shan't own myself guilty of any murder", said William Fly in 1726. "Our captain and his mate used us barbarously. We poor men can't have justice done us. There is nothing said to our commanders, let them never so much abuse us, and use us like dogs. But the poor sailors --"

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Update: North Gaza Aid!

As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!

Please continue donating and spreading the word — every penny means so much! Feel free to share our campaign link to other platforms as well!

Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

GoFundMe Link

[Quick ID: The video is of Mahmoud speaking in front of bags of flour and a tumblr sign. There are captions to the video in english. The image below is of groups of packages of items in front of a tumblr sign.]

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It's not the first time that has happened

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youre an olympic level hater. i respect it.

they asked me to represent my country in the sport of hating i said no. i hate my country

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Been toying with the idea of Tom Anthony Kate challengers AU for ages soooooo basically let’s all circle back after the film’s out yeah

#challengers #fanfic no one asked for