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"peeta doesn't have a bird" bullshit have you seen a meadowlark

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A London bus stop.

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what snow failed to realize in the 50th games is the more people you have at one place the bigger the chances are that they're going to get along and be friends. you have a wider range of personalities and people and some of them *will* be what you don't want them to be. you want as little people from the districts in the capitol as possible. the numbers, ironically, served the tributes in that sense and that sense only. they were more able to form a community that is a threat. and we saw that they were a threat and had snow and the game makers sweating. if the quarter quells continued, i think they would never again use some rule where the number of tributes is bigger than in the regular games.

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my fractured soul has become entangled in yours.

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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Some studies from the movie Madeline from 1998! I watched it for the first time in so long and all the outfits were so cute! 💙 I love all the primary colors!

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Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself.

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theyre gonna need an intimacy coordinator for me and this calzone

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meant to be 🌈

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Snow really fumbled with Lucy Gray.

He could've been living such a beautiful life with her. If I were him, I would've never missed the opportunity to have a life where I could listen to her sing our children to sleep every night, telling stories that let their imaginations run wild as they dreamed.

Snow fumbled.

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Snow really fumbled with Lucy Gray.

He could've been living such a beautiful life with her. If I were him, I would've never missed the opportunity to have a life where I could listen to her sing our children to sleep every night, telling stories that let their imaginations run wild as they dreamed.

Snow fumbled.

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The sexiest man in the entire world is probably building a fence right now with no instagram account

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this is magno stift to me if u even care

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Modern AU Haymitch only uses dove soap because he likes to see the little picture on it

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"I love all Katniss hairstyles equally"

70s Cher hair shows up: