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Protective concrete barricades painted in traditional Ukrainian designs during the war with russia in Mariupol in April 2015.

In January of the same year, more than thirty civilians were killed and over a hundred injured in a russian rocket attack that largely went unreported in the West.

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Can You make 50 shades off grey please!!

Excellent suggestion-

Fifty Shades of Grey (2015, Sam Taylor-Johnson)

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I swear the general public's misunderstanding of modern French history is going to be my villain origin story.

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fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach

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still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

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Today we present this exquisite copy of the Penitential Psalms in French, written in 1681. It's full of illuminated initials, and is bound in 18th century embroidered silk. Delightful! (Ms. Codex 1564)

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ACT UP, 1990

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You've heard of Oy Vey, I'm Gay, now get ready for

VEY ZMIR, I'M QUEER

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Bitches hate him cause he was right three centuries early (most people have not yet realized this yet), I do not care what he was/did in life (allegedly also I know, I still think murder is worse by several degrees but that is also not the point) this is about his moral philosophy, world view, atheism and hating the French Catholic God despite it in theory enabling him, but mostly his writings enabling Angela Carter doing bi theory before the word bisexual existed and being anti death penalty. If you think sex is worse than guillotining people who you do not like the door is right there please use it you are the problem.

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i think about this a lot.

i think something we are greatly missing where we are today is nuance. i think that’s also the reason why a lot of these new reboots (certainly including queer as folk, although it’s far from the only example) seem to lack heart. they seem to be created as a way to ‘re-do’ or ‘fix’ these older shows and it often feels as if the original is not respected in the process.

queer as folk lacks racial diversity, there’s biphobia, misogyny, and a number of other flaws.

it was also created at a scary time. the actors were putting themselves as risk for violence. it was the first tv show (at least in america) to ever show a same-sex wedding ceremony in between two main characters.

it’s both of those things, and so much more.

and i just think ‘this show was flawed in countless ways, and should be watched with a fair amount of critical thinking’ and ‘this show was, and is a monumental piece of queer history and should be dearly appreciated’ are two ideas that can, and should co-exist actually.

transcript below the cut:

Scott: …Sharon talked about - she started talking about, you know - the timing of this as well, too, and I think it is important to remember that when we came on the air, we’re talking at the time of DOMA, we’re talking Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, we’re talking Bush coming into the white house trying to make a constitutional amendment to make sure gays couldn’t marry. So it’s - it’s something that’s lost a little now, twenty-one years later of where we were coming out of at that time, too, historically, that added to the - the depth of what we were pushing back against with this show.

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— Timothy Tackett, "The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution"

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audrey hepburn's side profile

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I swear the general public's misunderstanding of modern French history is going to be my villain origin story.

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Robespierre my love get behind me 🤺

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Special interest level: catching a government's attention because of it and getting invited to their parliament in costume

(Special thanks to deputy Antoine Leaument for the invite and Molly X Chang for the photos and videos!)

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Why I think history is repeating itself once again with the French Revolution. So as you all remember earlier this year with the whole haleyybaylee “let them eat cake” met gala thing snd how that felt like the biggest fuck you because their were literally protesters in the back of her video and then when she started to get backlash she was like “ I’m just a normal person” no you’re not. There was a light behind her that cost over 1,000 dollars just causally there as if it was a hoodie. And now with the whole united heath care ceo getting shot and the starch difference with how the media is portraying it vs on TikTok how people are saying he had it coming and how he deserved it (he did). How “deny, defend, depose” is being written and wore by hundreds in support. Now with this Florida woman calling her heath insurance company saying “deny defend depose” and getting arrested and all of the graffiti I’ve seen first hand around where I live. This reminds me a lot of the a chant the French used during the revolution "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (liberty, equality, fraternity). We may not have monarchs and aristocrats anymore but we sure do have billionaires, ceos, and celebrities.This post might be very ranting but I hope you get the point of what I’m trying to say. 2025 is going to be a year in the history books.