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the wicked movie teaches important moral lessons like "be bisexual in college" and "don't trust politicians" and "if you push someone who's in a wheelchair without their permission, someone might throw a bench at your head with their mind"

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— Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan.

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#Your fiancé just left you for your former bestie, you just saw the dead body of said best friend's sister, that sister turned a guy whom you convinced to date her out of pity into a tin man and now some random southern girl is singing about tornados

#She was having a day and decided to force her to walk the yellow brick road for nothing

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Rewatching Arcane

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One of many pieces of information rarely discussed that has stuck with me in studying the Holocaust in a literacy class is that people who survived the death camps often did not survive starvation. It is very difficult for a severely malnourished body to recover from starvation. A severely malnourished body will struggle to process food at all, and many people die in the process of “refeeding.” This is called refeeding syndrome for this reason. Reintroducing food can and often is fatal without careful, medical guidance.

Starvation is one of the most common and effective forms of genocide. What makes it effective is that past a certain point, even if aid has been delivered, it is not enough to save someone from death by starvation. What also makes it effective is that withholding food is viewed as a passive consequence of political turmoil rather than an intentional act of violence among a people. You will see more people die from starvation in genocides across history because it is an effective way to kill many people without the use of state resources.

The starvation of Gaza is intentional. The United States and Israel may gesture that they are delivering or allowing aid into Gaza, but in reality they are active participants in the starvation of Gaza by destroying medical infrastructure, limiting the amount of aid “allowed” in, and blocking aid trucks from entering. Throwing food into Gaza by airdrop at this point in the genocide will not be enough without medical infrastructure to refeed a severely malnourished population. Many will die anyways. Many have already.

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Writing high fantasy is harder for me than it used to be because I'll write "The door swung open" and I'll imagine some tumblr user with three different grad degrees in medieval history dunking on me with a 2,000-word post about how door hinges weren't invented until 1956 and before that they'd just smash them open with axes and rebuild them each time.

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I’m going up the country. Baby, don’t you wanna go?

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Rebellions are built on hope.

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Gold star ⭐ to everyone who made it to the end of this crazy weekend

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Tobey Maguire Spider-Man "it's a hard knock life" fancam hours

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every time it rains i think of that raymond carver poem. poetry is like prayer to me methinks. or an incantation

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SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (2017) SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) dir. Jon Watts

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the midwest princess 💖🎠 #ChappellRoan

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happy birthday chan 🎂💙

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they hate each other.