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if i was jesus i would of got a disciple to tape a pistol to the back of the cross. soon as they put me up there blam blam i take out the roman legionaries. hop down and reload. steal a chariot. before pontius pilate can do anything i've rappelled over his balcony. blam blam. that's his knees

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Be dizzy, said the sun. Be dizzy, said the blood.

Be dizzy, said the heart and lungs and vessels between.

How I cried at the summit. You blocked the sun

and, somewhere, the ocean. What sweet anchor your eyes made.

— Donika Kelly, from “Ars Empathica,” The Renunciations

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More from Clapham.

Let this radicalise you.

There’s a bill going through parliament next week to give police more powers to deal with protestors.

This was a candlelit vigil- that’s about the most peaceful thing going. But the police decided to go in heavy, and they did that because conditions have been created that make them feel comfortable doing this.

This summer, we were told we have “policing by consent” in the UK.

I’d suggest what we have instead is creeping fascism and state sponsored violence.

Hold onto that feeling of being shocked and appalled, don‘t let your anger die down in the morning.

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For anyone who doesn't know what's going on in the UK right now

A young woman named Sarah Everard was abducted and murdered by a cop while walking home

Tonight women planned to hold a peaceful vigil in her memory using the hashtags #reclaimthenight and #reclaimthestreets

Police responded by dragging women away and arresting them using excessive force and destroying flowers and items left as a memorial for Sarah

And oh yeah, on Monday a new bill is set to go throw that gives police more powers to disrupt protests 🙃

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Sjm I NEVER want to read the phrase “baby-rich scent” again in my fucking life

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rainy day in paris // 2019

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it’s almost the end of 2020 but i absolutely do not give a shit because i’m having a personal breakdown over the fact a contemporary portrait of anne boleyn has been allegedly identified

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honestly they didn’t have to go that hard with Andrew’s introduction of him being a disgusting pedophile but they did this. they delivered. for us.

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                                                     I move the stars for no one.                                               Labyrinth (1986) dir. Jim Henson

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Harry Potter & Luna Lovegood

“That’s right, Harry… come on, think of something happy…” “Something happy?” he said, his voice cracked. “We’re all still here,” she whispered, “we’re still fighting. Come on, now…” There was a silver spark, then a wavering light, and then, with the greatest effort it had ever cost him, the stag burst from the end of Harry’s wand. 

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But the horror… The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out.

CRIMSON PEAK 2015 | Guillermo del Toro 

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Victorian Tear Catchers

During the Victorian era, mourners sometimes collected their tears in gold decorated “tear bottles” to keep as a remembrance for the next of kin. It has also been said that the widows would go to the grave on the anniversary of the first year of death and sprinkle the tears on the grave to signify the end of the first year of mourning.

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Meena Alexander, from “Revenant”

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“She dwells frequently upon the beauty and the melancholy of nature,”

— Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays; “Jane Austen,”

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Jefferson: Will there be sausage rolls?

Eliza, sobbing uncontrollably: Th- there-

Jefferson, louder: Eliza. Your husband’s funeral. Sausage rolls?

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“MEDEA : Let no one think of me As humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends.”

— Euripides, Medea (tr. by Philip Vellacott)