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Jesus said a lot about self-improvement and a little about preaching and anything he said about policing the actions of others was "DON'T DO IT".

Exactly

#religion #jesus

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I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?

#lord of the rings #lotr #kindness

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[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. Hot Lips of M*A*S*H and the Doctor, dandy incarnation, of Doctor Who sit in the mess tent. Hot Lips has a bowl and fork, and the Doctor has opened a tin of food with his sonic screwdriver. Hot Lips is saying, “Ugh. Can anything really good ever come from a can?" The Doctor is saying, "On Sirius Caesaris XII they keep their emotions in cans.” Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

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#m*a*s*h #doctor who #fan art #fancomics

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Now you got it!

#acab #police brutality #abolish the police

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This may sound mean, but...

If you send me an ask containing links to Good Omens fan fiction you think I should read, I'll delete it. Do it again and I'll (regretfully) block you. This is a general blanket sort of thing -- I don't want to read it, legally I can't read it, no I won't make it into the next series, and, no matter how pure your motives, it's crossing a line.

#fanfiction

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Maybe she could rely on gool ol' normal vision and keep from pouring her purple potions* onto the table instead of into the flask

*Master of unintentional alliteration!

Guys, Kara has plenty of powers. Let's not add one on that's an old sexist stereotype! Action Comics 339

#linda danvers #supergirl #dc comics #dcu #master of unintentional alliteration!

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How'd Per Degaton get on the Avengers roster

Orgy? Orgy?

#avengers #marvel comics #marvel

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talking to people about youth liberation brings out the most profoundly reactionary impulses in many and often exposes a deep and foundational rot in people's conceptions of agency and sexual violence

#children

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They have. I hope OP turned around and went in the other direction

I saw a cyber truck on my way home. Turns out they look even stupider in real life than they do in pictures.

#tesla

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Well I love the yellow one best of course, but I thought the poll was about motion picture versions.

Limiting the choice to the shows and movies I have seen/know of. I'm not asking who the first actor you have seem playing Arthur was, rather the one you instinctively think about when someone mentions him or the one closest to your heart.

#king arthur #arthur king of time and space #akotas

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B)

My favorite wasn't even in the poll!!

(This is the only image search result I could turn up with all three of them. And the only one where he was smiling at all was from the scene when he talks to Mordred of undeserving relatives.)

Limiting the choice to the shows and movies I have seen/know of. I'm not asking who the first actor you have seem playing Arthur was, rather the one you instinctively think about when someone mentions him or the one closest to your heart.

#tumblr polls #king arthur

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hot take: Pippin is the only one of the hobbits who is ‘team Arwen’ in the ‘who is the most beautiful woman in the world’ argument

#pippin took #arwen undomiel #lord of the rings #lotr

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Game Changer: No One Will Ever Believe You

I think Sam Reich needs to do just one regular, normal, vanilla version of Game Changer randomly so that when it ends Brennan never feels safe.

#game changer #i don't even watch this show

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Use the back end of the spear? But I guess that'd entail holding it by the sharp bits. Never mind

I've been ordered by my lord to escort his ladies to Edo. I'm sorry, but without a permit, no lord or his retinue may leave Osaka Castle. It is Lord Ishido's order. You leave me no choice.

#shogun #naginata

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I think I may be having a revelation about my father's emotional abuse. I constantly speculate what I must look like to someone who's watching me, and how they might be passing judgment on me. When I'm alone then I speculate that it's dead loved ones watching. Now that my father's dead I guess it's come full circle

thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

#shame #abuse #my abuse

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anti-doxing resources for activists

via Twitter (please rt if you are active there!)

#doxxing

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#elmo #muppets #sesame street