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One of the most important things you can teach your kids is when and how to say no to authority figures.

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not gonna fuckin say it again

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Anybody who says cats only play along with human nonsense in order to obtain food has never seen a hungry cat completely ignore a full bowl of food in favour of giving you shit because you did not correctly perform the Dinner Ritual.

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i'm bisexual because i'm attracted to both flesh and machinery

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when im playing a game alone and theres danger i am quiet and stoic, by necessity. when im playing with friends and theres danger i start screaming and sqwuaking like a chimp to communicate over long distance that there is danger and i am distressed. This is because humans are social animals who evolved to live in groups and signal to eachother when herobrine is there

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Japanese actress and male impersonator, Kawaji Ryuko. Ryuko was the star of Shochiku Kagekidan Women's Theater (Shochiku Revue) in the 1940s and 50s

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Melancholia - Anna Calleja , 2021.

Maltese , b. 1997 -

Oil on panel , 20 x 25 in.

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暖かい

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Underrated ship

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My fav gintama ship that featured in like 5/500 episodes

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the thing is, there can be a character development journey about galadriel outgrowing her pride without it feeling sexist.

galadriel's pride can be seen as her individualism and her belief in her own exceptionalism. she has a god complex after all.

and her journey can be about her learning how important a community is, how it can uplift her and let her shine and lead if she does right by others.

the way they go about it is that galadriel sacrifices herself as the way of resisting sauron so the elves take her back in their community.

but galadriel's issue has never been that she doesn't sufficiently resist sauron or is not ready to die in order to defeat him.

her issue in s1 is that she doesn't let anyone in and no one really tries to stand at her side. she is alienated and it is not just her at fault - the people around her fail her and turn their backs on her when she is hurt. they treat her trauma like a burden.

sauron is the only one who tries to understand her and patiently encourages her to open up, thus she lets him in, and he tries to heal her (in his own way)!

but no one, NO ONE, bears the responsibility for alienating galadriel in s2... they just sideline her and doubt her. elrond's "tough love" is fun to watch and all, but man, he could have been a bit softer and more empathetic. gil-galad's joke about her finally being quiet after she wakes up from her suicide jump is... well.

therefore, the season fails to deliver what i suppose it intended to. it feels like a proud female warrior is getting slut-shamed and humbled by the bunch of men who are wrong to have ever doubted her to begin with... ultimately proving sauron right about all others looking on her in doubt.

in the end, it indeed is sauron alone who sees galadriel's greatness and has never doubted her light to overpower her darkness that mirrors his own. i believe that is one of the reasons why he admires her and literally wants to bind her to power.

he does lose it after she tells him that the door is shut and binds her to his darkness in desperation, but the insinuation that the elves take away her sword yet sauron gives her a weapon far more powerful is almost delicious tbh.

it could be a redeeming opportunity to dismiss the sexist development of s2 as a red-herring and further explore galadriel's struggle with her darkness, having her outgrow it in a more interesting and meaningful way.

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I actually can't stop thinking about how the losing party last election dressed like vikings and tried to break into the white house and the losing party this election are sharing suicide prevention hotlines

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Imagine Toshi dealing with this everyday