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creating a christmas music poll of my own

I don’t really do pop Christmas music so I decided to create a poll based on my personal playlist.

There’s more songs I would put here if I could, but tumblr of course limits our poll options.

To further inform your voting, the recordings I listen to tend to be of handbell choirs, church choirs, folk artists, and deliberately old-fashioned arrangements. For instance, one of the albums I listen to has Victorian-era arrangements of Christmas carols. But I invite you to imagine your favorite arrangement of each song if it helps you select your answer!

Also, it’s way too early to post this poll, as it’s not even Advent yet. Reblog to reach everyone else on the non-pop-Christmas side of tumblr.

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"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

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Cracking one of these bad bois open & sharing with my mutuals

'Tis the season

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“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”

~ E.M. Forster, Howards End

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What's going to happen to British culture - which everyone knows is a great culture!

Watch the full episode on Dropout

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Me and "The Fonz" at premiere of Goncharov (1973) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

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Lieutenant: Captain, they're signalling!

Captain: Very good! What are they signalling!

Nervous midshipman, frantically flipping through the signal book: Navy and red, sir! That is... sodomy and fisting, sir!

Captain: Which side, boy, where did they hoist those colours?

Midshipman, squinting through the glass: Starboard side, sir!

Captain: DAMN IT!!

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writing about a really bad play in my diss rn and people (friends, colleagues, my committee chair) keep asking me, like, well what do you mean bad... how bad is it... so here it is. is my favorite illustrative line from the two maids of more-clacke by robert armin. "is she rich? well she's kind of like the weather in january, you know, when the trees look like a girl who looks like milk."

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The Great Gatsby 2 … they thought he was dead… ……..but they rebuilt him… …faster … stronger … smarter… old sports die hard In The Great Gatling-Gunsby West Egg is about to be Scrambled

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i love music man it's like what if you kept finding new bands until you died and you even loved some of them

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one thing i need you all to realize is that you have to fight like hell for the marginalized people you don’t like. you have to fight for the cringey discourse queer and the misogynistic man of color and the transphobic cis woman and the politically conservative jew and the racist disabled person. you don’t have to like them or agree with them. but if you see them experiencing bigotry and you are a person who claims to be against bigotry, you are obligated to fight for them. you have to fight against bigotry, even if you don’t like the target of that bigotry, because as soon as you let yourself slip, as soon as you allow bigotry on your watch, even if it is directed at the shittiest person you’ve ever met, you’ve now established that in your personal ethos bigotry isn’t wrong, it’s a weapon. and as soon as you’re okay with bigotry being used as a weapon, you have already lost.

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i love the 18th/19th century use of the word "exploded" to mean "debunked" cause theyll say stuff in fankystine like "cornelius agrippa's theories were exploded long ago!" and i just imagine a bunch of scientists going up to cornelius agrippa and saying hey man. your theories are wrong and stupid and they suck. and then they kill him with bombs and guns and dynamite and fire and

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thinking about it again (saturday night at sea by george cruikshank)