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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

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This is what info dumping oc lore feels like

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Doing a standup set: "So I had some nuts and berries earl-[scattered applause] yeah! Let's give it up for nuts and berries!" [Thunderous cheering]

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Hello 👋

Please take a moment to read my story.

I am Heba Al-Dahdouh. I currently live in the completely destroyed city of Gaza. Since the war on Gaza began on 7/1/2024, my family- my father Nasif, my mother Asmaa, and my siblings Khaled, Ahmad, Muhammad, and Malak-have been living in constant fear, crying, and suffering due to shrapnel, shells, and bullets.

We have no food, no electricity, no cooking gas, no schools, no homes, no cleaning supplies, and no clothes. Our house was completely destroyed. My school has been bombed, and my brother Khaled's university is now rubble, depriving us all of education. The war has forced us to live in displacement centers, which are just tents unsuitable for living, especially in winter.

Every day we live death, terror, and panic a thousand times because of the ongoing bombardment of my city. The war has killed more than 50 of my relatives and neighbors. At the start of the war, we sought refuge at my aunt's house, but it too became rubble. Imagine: we have survived imminent death more than 20 times and have been displaced among shelters more than 13 times. My siblings and I have suffered from many illnesses due to malnutrition, and we need medication continuously.

If we stay in Gaza, we might lose our lives. Recently, we have been seriously considering leaving Gaza for a safe place. However, travel costs are extremely high. We need over $50,000 to leave Gaza. Due to exorbitant prices, rampant unemployment, lack of security, the ongoing siege, and relentless bombardment, we have lost all our money. How can we live in such insecurity, with constant shelling and shrapnel flying above us? Dear compassionate friends around the world,

With your generous donations, even if small, you can save 7 people from imminent death, allowing us to start a life outside Gaza filled with love, peace, and hope.

With my warmest regards from the city of Gaza,

Heba Al-Dahdouh.

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Cannot FUCKING stand when my loose leaf tea says to add tea in tablespoons instead of teaspoons. I'm sorry, bitch. Am I making tea or am I making a table. Let me double fucking check.

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she’s got a lot to say

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This YouTube thumbnail has the same energy as the educational sunfish memes. Can we have some educational opah memes in the chat

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the sidekicks

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brb turning my minecraft model into a fucking bug

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HAGGIS!!

Everyone! Look at little Haggis!!

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i keep seeing white women talking about wearing blue bracelets or some other bullshit to signal they are "safe". like girl, you dont get it. for you its a fun quirky thing to do and say because it makes you feel good about yourself without having to actually do anything.

black people don't get to take it off. queer people don't get to take it off. disabled people dont get to take it off. you can claim to care all you want, but you had your chance and you fucked up.

and the ones saying they broke off with their partner after the election, do you want us to believe there weren't any red flags? or do you only care about it now that it actually affects you. how many passes have you given him because it didn't affect your safety

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my name is detective sleeping and im about to get started on my toughest case yet. the pillow case

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so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

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someone's spitting truth bombs today (you, someone is you. im so tired of girlboss terf pipeline feminism)

AS AM I it’s just BOGGLING to my mind how easily cis women think the patriarchy can be defeated by… withholding sex from men? I mean, whatever floats your boat, but not fucking is as much of a non-action as not shaving or not wearing makeup— it’s just something you do or rather don’t do and I’m a little infuriated that 1) these non-actions are seen as inherently political (they CAN be, the way the patriarchy rejects them) and 2) some people think non-actions are praxis. Like yay! you’re not fucking men, you’re not shaving, you’re not wearing makeup. Congratulations, you’re a human being at its natural state. Do you want a cookie?

Now in all seriousness: there is a need to decenter women’s lives from men. And there are many ways to do so. Again, if the way for you to do so is to go on a sex strike, you go Lysistrata, but, and this is something cishet women, specially white cishet women, and honestly everyone REALLY needs to understand… non-actions are symbolic acts, and symbolic acts are a good start, yes. I would love to live in a world in which not shaving isn’t seen as a statement. but they certainly aren’t enough.

Do you speak up about sexism at school? Do you share information on gendered violence? Do you make sure your workplace is trans friendly? Do you build real, tangible sorority in your community? Do you even donate to women’s shelters? No? All you do is posturing, playacting man-hating dyke until you get bored, and give trans women shit as if they didn’t get enough already? And once you’re done with the charade you go back to bitching about masc women and predatory lesbians and “betraying womanhood”? Huh. Funny how that one works.

“Radical” (cough cough) feminism is often described as a pipeline towards white supremacy, but I don’t see anyone call it what it also is: virtue signaling of the highest degree. You don’t really care about feminism, you care about keeping a Feminist Aesthetic™️ with nothing of substance behind it other than fluff about what women are “supposed” to be. and that, my friends, along w the white supremacy baked into essentialist gender roles, is what gets the rad-to-trad ball rolling.

Ok sorry for the rant I just came out of a terribly dull social event

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just had an absolutely atrocious thought

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Morally speaking your first use of a Death Note is always a freebie, since there's no way any reasonable person would expect it to work