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quick nightly painting that turned out alright:-)

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ok but the hunger games literally did mention it All like… the use of propaganda by the elite as an attempt to divide the minority groups they oppress by making them perceive each other as rivals and prevent them from recognizing and uniting against their real enemy? check. criticism of the way we consume media with no consideration for other people’s privacy like we’re entitled to every detail of their lives and a lack of empathy for their pain because it makes good entertainment? yeah. realistic depictions and explorations of the effects of trauma, particularly that caused by conflict? hunger games has you covered. acknowledgement of the existence of and links between racism and classism, and that conventional standards of beauty are influenced by the societal elite, which people are encouraged to harm themselves in order to conform to (the fact that the weathier people in district 12 are white, blonde and blue-eyed while the coal miner families are mostly people of color; that the two poorest districts, 11 and 12, have majority poc populations; that most people, katniss herself included, consider prim to be prettier than katniss partly because she looks like her white, blonde, blue-eyed mother, who was from the wealthier part of the district; that the first thing that happens to the tributes when they’re taken to the capitol is they they’re “prepped” to conform to capitol beauty standards before they even meet their stylists in ways that literally violate their bodies permanently, and that many of the capitol residents have extreme body modifying surgery that can take a severe toll on their health and wellbeing in the long term)? none of this is accidental, and is both brought up and criticised multiple times throughout the trilogy. the sexualization of minors for adult consumption, especially young celebrities? the fact that politicians in positions of power and authority gain those positions through corruption and by considering anyone harmed in their acension collateral damage? the significance of propaganda and social influence in modern warfare? the misery caused by poverty, which is caused and intentionally maintained by the wealthy elite? the brutal and violating experience of living in a surveillance police state, especially as a member of a minority group and/or poor person? the inherently immoral and corruptive nature of warfare and the military and the unimaginable atrocities and suffering it leads to for ordinary civilians? every YA dystopia novelist tried so hard to be mrs collins but most didn’t even understand half of what went into her books that made them so compelling.

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remember when avatar: the last airbender aired on nick and set the bar so high for cartoons that nothing could ever really top it

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Hello my dear biology loving friend, may I have a cursed sea fact?

sure, this probably isn’t exactly what you meant but here’s a Cursed Sea Fact for you- 

five million years ago, the entire Mediterranean Sea dried up in an event called the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

the sea dried up nearly completely over a period of about a thousand years after tectonic activity blocked off the Strait of Gibralter, leaving salt beds thousand of feet thick that can still be found under the Mediterranean Sea today! there were pockets of water left, but they were so salty that they burned.

so basically this disaster killed off every aquatic species in the Sea in a horrific and inescapable thousand-year extinction event, and is why even today the Mediterranean has no native deep-water species that can be found only there.

this period ended when the Strait was abruptly unblocked, resulting in another catastrophe called the Zanclean Flood. this catastrophic flood event refilled the entire Sea in a period of a just couple of years, and in turn totally obliterated whatever land creatures had moved into the empty Sea basin. what goes around comes around, I guess.

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A DECADE OF LANA DEL REY

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My anxiety is going to kill me. Nothing gets better. I dont deserve anything. I’m awful and too much for anythig and anyone

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why does every cop look like this

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“Life is confusing, like one day you’re the happiest person alive and tomorrow you hate everyone and everything for no logical reason”

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It’s the Basic Ball! A ball for the rest of the LGBT-cuties.

(A Black Lady Sketch Show 1.02)

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yeah “gifted kids” had it rough but please no more sob story posts abt that bc i PROMISE that the kids labelled “dumb” by the system and shoved to the side n not given half the attention that ur gifted ass was got the short end of the stick. its so much more tragic to think of all the wasted potential of children who maybe were too loud or rowdy or didnt test well than “gifted kid burnout uwu”. like yeah it fucking sucks! i was a “gifted kid” too and it fucked up my self esteem for a long time but i was given opportunities and attention in school, something not afforded to other students for arbitrary reasons. the american school system just fucking sucks but i promise u as a star student who got stressed u did not get the worst of it

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Alejandro Cartagena captured Mexican workers on their way to job sites in Car Poolers. This is such an amazing and simple photo series. 

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“I’m still looking for my own version of America. One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly.”

Lana Del Rey

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musicians only Dark Millenials will remember:

cobra starship

neon trees

metro station

3OH3

taio cruz

owl city

far east movement

ne-yo

onerepublic

boys like girls

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Reblog this with your sign and your go to Starbucks order

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This is so wholesome