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being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

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*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

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Find a protest near you here: X, X, X, X & X

Donate or join Palestine action here: PALESTINE ACTION

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Hallmark Christmas movie but the salt-of-the-earth small-town guy moves to the big city and falls in love with the cynical career woman and they stay in the city and work side by side to make the world a better wait that’s Superman, once again I have just written Superman

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the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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source

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Yep 😊

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When you state that Israel is a WHITE colonial project and people start breaking down the demographics of Israelis for you... How do you miss the point so badly. It doesn't matter how diverse the colony is when its PURPOSE is to uphold imperialism and white supremacy in the region. People of color can and have contributed to such projects and it doesn't change what they are. The US army is diverse too and it exists to enforce white imperialism.

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archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

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Detective Comics #1091 - "Mercy of the Father II" (2024)

written by Tom Taylor art by Mikel Janin

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Artist removes 1 inch off the peak of England’s highest mountain; Brits want their inch back.

It is still England’s highest mountain, but Scafell Pike is ever so slightly smaller now after an artist stole the top inch of the summit to display in a gallery.

Oscar Santillan, 34, was accused of vandalism after removing the stone pinnacle of the 3,209ft Lake District peak for an exhibition in London.

Ian Stephens, managing director of Cumbria Tourism, said: “This is taking the mickey and we want the top of our mountain back.”

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everyone say thank you greta

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I know we’ve all talked about how we hate Elrond’s character design in the Rings of Power, but can we have a moment of silence for Finrod?

I mean, just look at him. I’ve seen PLENTY of Finrod fanart that is 100000% better than this.

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Galadriel ≠ Eowyn

I think one of the things that bothers me most about Galadriel’s portrayal in Rings of Power is that it doesn’t even stop at a character assassination for her individually, as a person. This Galadriel vs Eowyn comparison is something that shouldn’t ever have to exist.

What they wanted to do, I have to guess, is that they wanted to pick and choose certain aspects of what makes Eowyn such a beautiful character and probably the best example of a female warrior archetype in literature that I can think of, and plant those aspects in their portrayal of Galadriel. What could possibly go wrong, right? Sadly they overlooked the fundamental differences between the two character’s circumstances and character arcs.

Eowyn is a young Human woman who is acutely aware of the danger she and her people are already in because Rohan is sandwiched between Isengard and Mordor. She has spent her life watching people dear to her die and has become unwilling to accept the grim fate and the prospect of simply being condemned to watch everything unfold before her as she stands by the sideline, deemed too feeble to help turn the tide. Yet she is also keenly aware of her place in her society. She may be called the shieldmaiden of Rohan, but in practice she is forced to stand by and send all of her remaining family off to fight in the war. Her rebellion is her deciding for herself and herself alone. She disguises herself to fight beside her loved ones, having already accepted her own mortality as she did so. Not to mention that she was never some invincible do-it-all-herself type. Her strength lies to a great extent in the integrity of her motivations and the way those enable her to push past what anyone believed possible for her. She is not selfish for wanting to fight.

It’s not that Galadriel has not seen death or experienced grief. But her position in relation to time and history unfolding is completely different. She may have been characterized as restless or unyielding in her youth, but to suggest that this meant her willingness to treat everyone else as cannon fodder in the wake of her ambitions is absolute blasphemy. Especially when turning her into some petulent, impatient caricature. Galadriel was always wise beyond her years, and it’s something she stood out for among other Elves.

They have altered her motivations to be focused on vengeance for the death of her brother that never occurred in this way. This has only achieved fracturing her character arc and disconnecting her from the motivations which will lead her to become the Galadriel we meet in LOTR. And worst of all, they’ve made her out to be selfish. She acts more like a Human than an Elf whose long life would put everything into perspective.

Unfortunately this may bleed into the viewers’ perception of Elves in general. Especially because of Galadriel’s standing among Elves. Galadriel in Rings of Power was even at this time much older than Eowyn when she died. And when Tolkien refers to Galadriel as the “greatest of the Noldor” whose “wisdom only increased in the long years”, he doesn’t mean simply that her greatness lied in her strength or any physical ability. Galadriel is essentially the wisest living being in all of Middle-earth, at least by the time of the Lord of the Rings. She is supposed to embody all of the ways in which Elves and Men differ.

To break this characterization in Rings of Power, to make her a terrible Mary Sue Karen who is somehow innately great at everything and fights her battles singlehandedly while still dragging others along to act as collateral for some reason while she keeps being *always right* and never really needing anyone’s help… what had Galadriel ever done to deserve being butchered like this?

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Persephone to Hades - Nikita Gill