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I was gonna make a jokey post about how Rachel Animorphs is a great character because "what if the most fashionable it girl at your school discovered a passion for war crimes" is just inherently interesting to watch, and you know, that's true

But I think the real thing that makes her interesting is that while the other Animorphs have the "what if you were in a situation where you had to do violence and it was hard" thing covered from a variety of angles, Rachel's arc is "what if you were in a situation where you had to do violence and it was entirely too easy?"

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One of the things animorphs does very effectively is that the series gimmick (turning into animals) :

- is fantastic wish fulfillment for the kids reading it. Excellent daydream material

- ties in nicely with the series themes about violence

- it’s even educational! Seamlessly integrates Animal Facts into the narrative by making them extremely plot relevant

AND

- would genuinely be devastatingly powerful in the specific context of guerilla warfare

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Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳

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#24 ··· VOYAGER: ‘Infinite Regress’

✧ﾟ･:* 25 INSPIRATIONAL STAR TREK QUOTES *:･ﾟ✧

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On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

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using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me

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If you're trans and you don't have a passport, get one. right now. not in a month, not in a week, get started on it today.

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Hey, also, all the anarchist shit aside, tomorrow I want you to make something.

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.

It won't fix the world, but it will change the world. You will have made something that didn't exist before. You will have impacted your reality, even in a very small way. And it is going to be something you made *after.* Something bad happened, something shook you, and you made something after, in spite of it.

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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Ishamael: Do you really think you can stop me?

Rand: Oh maybe not. But you left Mat in a room full of magical artifacts

Rand: and he has no idea what any of them do

Mat: (running around, high on cursed tea blowing the horn of valear with the DIY 'spear of darkness' under his arm)

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yugioh isn’t “good” i.e. its hardly a cowboy bebop or NGE or FLCL or mushishi but if anyone was like “it’s bad” i’d be like be quiet. kaiba’s about to summon obelisk out of the fucking ground

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I know this makes the anti-voting fandom big mad but this is only happening because Murphy was re-elected by a thin margin in November 2021, bucking a 40 year trend of Democratic governors losing re-election in NJ, because enough people voted for him

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Phenomenon I feel happens a lot

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“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”