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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

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Source

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Emily Dickinson // Virginia Woolf

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participating in fandom takes an incredible amount of vulnerability. at any given time, you are baring your soul and unleashing your unbridled enthusiasm and letting your true self be free and sometimes, when I stop to think about it, I am in awe of anyone and everyone who has the guts to do it.

thank you for being here❤️

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Turns out this post is about how many Aes Sedai are evil but I fully thought this was about to be a discussion of how many are gay lmao

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Kira asking Jadzia for sex advice and Jadzia just giving femdom tips because she assumes that's what Kira is after. And honestly, Kira assumes it's what she's after too bc even though it's not what she expected she keeps going back to Jadzia to talk about it more... The dynamic is very intriguing...

But she also feels too self-conscious to actually try to do sex like that for real, so she asks Julian and Leeta if she can practise with them because she knows they'll be kind and it'll be kind of awkward but they'll all be able to laugh about and ofc they both say yes

So awkward Kira/Leeta/Julian threesome where eventually Leeta's like "here let me show you" but instead of pinning Julian down like Kira's expecting, suddenly Leeta's on top of Kira and Kira's like "oh." as she realises what she was really wanting was Jadzia to teach her more by example... 👀👀

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In case you're wondering what the fuck is going on in Germany today:

After our government imploded last week, current vice chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) was the first to announce that he is going to run for chancellor in the upcoming election. He did this with a picture in which he was seen wearing a bracelet that spelt out "Kanzler-Era". He then proceeded to properly announce his candidacy in a video, filmed on a set designed to look like my mum's kitchen in the 90s, where he said, and I quote,

"I am ready to offer my experience, my strength, and my responsibility. As chancellor, if you'll have me."

He also encouraged people to invite him into their homes so he could listen to their problems. His party is currently polling around 10-12% btw. Ambitious to the point of delusion, but mad respect. Just look at him.

The title translates to "My application as a candidate for the people in Germany". The Greens are always so goddamn earnest, you just gotta love them.

So anyway, this prompted a random dude from the Cologne CDU (that's the conservative party) named Gundolf (no, really) to post on twitter that, should the Greens win, we should "inofficially" rethink women's right to vote. He also called Habeck a "political marriage swindler".

German twitter, predictably, replied with a very well-deserved "The FUCK, bro".

Then, Gundolf goes on an absolutely unhinged rant about how, actually, historically women weren't discriminated against because they were "rightfully" considered more emotional and fragile, and also, women's suffrage was a result of higher literacy rates (???), and ALSO, have you, the reader, considered that Robert Habeck is the true misogynist here because he presents himself as emotionally available in a clear effort to manipulate the girlies??? With his good looks and political competency and raw sexual appeal. NOT GUNDOLF of course. HE is immune to all that. He's just concerned for women and their fragile little brains.

(Okay, I may have exaggerated that last part a little but that's the vibes. Gundolf, do you want to tell us something?)

Anyway, that's the party who will most likely head our government next year 🙃

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Everyone: the borg are the most dangerous species in the galaxy they can't be reasoned with they can't be fought. Flee if you can.

Janeway: Tom set a course for the next cube I think it's time I punch the Borg Queen in the face just to remind her I can.

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i hate this fucking "i'm just a girl" brand of feminism bc it is so easy for young women in their 20s who are afraid of big changes and personal growth to revert to depending on their gender and the associated fragility of it so that they can make it through life when really they're just trapping themselves in a position where they cannot and will not grow out of that fear.

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uhh yeah

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(insp.)

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Julius von Klever (Russian, 1850 -1924)

Erlkönig, 1887

“Father, do you not see the King of the Alder Trees? The King with his crown and tail?” “Son, it is just a streak of mist.”

- Goethe (excerpt, my translation), 1782

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And now I am thinking again about how lighter Moiraine seemed just before the docks, how mischievous and grounding she was again, back to her old self from before Rhuidean, as if meeting her fate was a relief. After months of doubt, this certitude that she would tackle Lanfear and disappear must have been comforting. Whether she died there, suffered endlessly or survived, she couldn't know, but this moment was a fixed point she could build on while everything she thought she knew was collapsing. No responsibility beyond crossing and disappearing.

I still wonder if she was aware she was hurting herself and it didn't matter because it was as the Wheel willed or if she never noticed.

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