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My second entry for the H/D FAN FAIR 2020!!

For the Prompt by Skifazoa: Draco’s nervously perusing a sex shop for the first time when he sees a flash of dark hair across the store. He’d know it anywhere, but why is Potter here? And what on earth is in that box he’s buying? Years of uptight parenting from his parents have left him woefully lacking in knowledge about his newfound interests. Potter’s always been rather uncaring of public opinion, perhaps he could be the one to help Draco figure it all out…

[A less censured version here on Ao3] 

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#drarry #fanart

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Something I appreciate about Monkey Man is how doesn't try to frame revenge as just a pointlessly violent, self-destructive pursuit the way many films do. I think it's because Dev Patel was unafraid of adding a political element to the story. The kid wants to avenge his mother, but he also doesn't want what happened to them to keep happening to others. The presence of the hijras really drives this idea home. They fight with him not only because he's their friend, but because Baba and the nationalist party will bring violence literally to their door even if they don't fight back. I often roll my eyes at anti-revenge narratives. I think Dev Patel gets what it's like to be a victim of systematic violence in a way most filmmakers seem not to. Revenge isn't just a selfish pursuit that perpetuates the ~cycle of violence~, it can also be a desperate desire for the violence to end.

#monkey man

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New zine that's free for anyone to print and distribute! Read the whole thing at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the rest of this post.

UPDATE 4/11/2023:

I swapped out the colloidal silver nasal spray info for xylitol nasal spray info. I originally included colloidal silver spray because of the linked study and recommendation from RTHM, but I don't want to be pointing people toward something with notable health risks. Xylitol spray (Xlear) is also cheaper and more widely available!

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James Baldwin, 1979.

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op turned off reblogs on this post for safety reasons but gave me permission to repost it because it's an important message.

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I hope everyone who's seen the posts about Dev Patel pushing a knife in with his teeth understands that watching it happen is like a religious experience.

#I SQUEALED WITH FUCKING JOY #i loved how primal he was #i love how non john wick he was #like hes operating on pure fucking instinct and adrenaline ahhhh i wanna see this movie again!!!

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Dev Patel for The New York Times (ph: Justin J. Wee)

#dev patel #that second just makes me picture him on the floor being stepped on im sorry

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me, watching Dev Patel is beating the shit out of a corrupt and misogynistic chief of police with a high-heeled shoe: Oh, ooh, oooh. Let's go, Dev. Let's go

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I went into monkey man with pretty high expectations and Dev Patel exceeded every single one of them. Like I knew it was gonna be a good action revenge film that has a good political motivation to it but what i am in awe of is that he is that as a first time director this movie is so visually stunning. the shot compositions. the weird fun angles he comes up with in the middle of action packed scenes. Director Dev Patel has entered the chat and he is not fooling around

#YESSS #god i watched it last night and already wanna watch it again #i was literally just :D the whole time #superb #monkey man

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Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

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"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur

FREE PALESTINE.

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The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees. The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.” While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper’s deference to Israeli narratives.

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Despite the memo’s framing as an effort to not employ incendiary language to describe killings “on all sides,” in the Times reporting on the Gaza war, such language has been used repeatedly to describe attacks against Israelis by Palestinians and almost never in the case of Israel’s large-scale killing of Palestinians. In January, The Intercept published an analysis of New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times coverage of the war from October 7 through November 24 — a period mostly before the new Times guidance was issued. The Intercept analysis showed that the major newspapers reserved terms like “slaughter,” “massacre,” and “horrific” almost exclusively for Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians, rather than for Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli attacks. The analysis found that, as of November 24, the New York Times had described Israeli deaths as a “massacre” on 53 occasions and those of Palestinians just once. The ratio for the use of “slaughter” was 22 to 1, even as the documented number of Palestinians killed climbed to around 15,000.

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Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, who was a lead surgeon in Gaza and particularly at Al-Shifa hospital, is barred from entering Germany.

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I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid 

#that abed scene at the bar when the guy was flirting with him but he just wanted to talk about farscape

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Why do so many people make tiktoks while they're clearly driving. What the fuck. Stop that shit, you're gonna kill someone.

#cars to me are like how some people see guns #like you have a fucking killing machine either take responsibility or dont fucking touch it