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For as much as I think Le Guin misunderstood Gandalf (as suggested by the assumptions she made conceptualizing Ged), one thing she hits dead on the fucking ringer is that Ged losing his magic but getting to live more humanly is a quiet triumph in the exact inverse of how Gandalf largely losing his more human traits (affinity for pipes, mischievous streak, occasional foul temper) to become a more perfect embodiment of divine power is a quiet tragedy.

#favourites #literature #gandalf the grey #ged esc #ursula k le guin #earthsea cycle favourites #earthsea cycle on page #earthsea cycle

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#animals #flehmen response #jacobson's organ

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#doctor who #martha jones #rose tyler #racism #racial sterotypes #representation matters #mickey smith #river song #amy pond #rory pond #bill potts #critical

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god you know what's a perfect movie? gone girl is a perfect movie

#gone girl #bts: gone girl #bts: movies #behind the scenes #???

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The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117

#ageism #tbr #??? #generations

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#jordan peterson #george orwell #tom nicholas #socialism #communism #stalinism #history #authors #propaganda #media #literature #the west

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You do this one thing, you return home a changed man, an honorable man? Just like that?

Yes.

I wish I could see the new you.

#the green knight #fanart #the green knight art

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#dehumanisation #children #parenting #toxic parenting #trauma #childism #articles

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op finally put into words my gripe with this genre

#intellectualism #studio ghibli #media #literature

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#bts: bottoms #behind the scenes #bts: movies

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#its funny #free palestine #palestine #israel #activism

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DELICIOUS OR IMPRESSIVE? DELICIOUS IS IMPRESSIVE.

the bear / james baldwin / barry jenkins / sam sifton / joan tierney / ella risbridger / joyce carol oates / cesar chavez / ruby tandoh / aimee nezhukumatathil / jenny slate / sue zhao / ron padgett / christopher citro / crystal wilkinson / joy harjo

#the bear #web weavings #the bear favourites

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#poor things #yrogos lanthimos #??? #media #her representation

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We never find out what Nimona's original form was, and that's so important.

With trans people, there's such a focus on the way you were born. What you were born as, what you were assigned as. But we don't know what Nimona's first form was. She has no 'true form'. Because she's fluid, she changes, she's a girl and a boy and a shark and a dragon and a phoenix. We don't find out her original form because it is fundamentally unimportant, and to assign her a 'true form' would be disrespectful.

#nimona #trans

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the tiffany quote where she's like "these are real fucking PEOPLE you are condescending to"

#discworld #terry pratchett #tiffany aching #literature

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"Beneath his photo, his deadname had been scribbled out with black marker. Under, written in lopsided letters, it read, Yadriel."

#cemetery boys #yadriel vélez flores #fanart #cemetery boys on page #cemetery boys art #cemetery boys favourites

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Folks have got to understand that they probably aren't messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can't remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don't even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years.

#trauma #???