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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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aw percy did you get attached to bessie? bessie who shouldn't be alive and who's only purpose to the gods is to die? bessie the sacrifical lamb? yeah I bet you did

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guysssss i finished season 2 of supergirl yeasterday and i have now been enlightened by the knowledge that an edit of kara and mon-el to the bridge of alley rose by conan gray would fix all my problems

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hot take: Clarisse and Annabeth aren’t all that different fundamentally, you just don’t like female characters that aren’t described as conventionally attractive

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I have watched the scene of Ekko saving Jinx so many times and it gets me every single time every part of it

Jinx’s immediate dismissal of Ekko because she thinks he’s dead? 10/10

Him accidentally calling her Powder? Wild.

Jinx realizing something was up by the third rewind and saying nothing as she pulled the pin again like she was testing a theory? I screamed.

Jinx realizing if she blows herself up she blows Ekko up too so she jumps instead? Insane.

Jinx stopping to listen to Ekko when she notices *her own* signature monkeys in a device she’s never seen before? PEAK!!

One of the best scenes in the entire show period. Jinx and Ekko you will always be famous

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the black brothers' different responses to sex due to their upbringing is actually very important to me.

sirius who has been rebellious since his first year of hogwarts and makes his very existence an act of defiance. but he is all talk when it comes to sex. yes he'll make the most out of pocket jokes and point out every unintended double entendre. but he knows nothing about it. he wants everyone to think he's experienced when in truth remus is his first and only. think crivers sirius. that is my sirius.

regulus who is quiet, reserved, and takes a lot longer to realise that he will never be good enough for his parents, that ruining himself to try to be is a waste of his life. everything he has ever wanted to learn, he has found out for himself. he starts having sex probably too young, probably with barty, and probably for all of the wrong reasons at first. sex was his one little act of rebellion. his secret disobedience.

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A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic.

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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kit connor does the hopeless romantic head over heels lovesick boy so well istg

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i just finished season three of downton abbey.

ask me how i'm feeling.

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Too close to the sun

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Toa is so interesting to me because every character who chooses to redeem themself chooses it over and over again. In Pjo, there’s people who don’t have another choice. Silena was being blackmailed, Luke had gone too far. It was only in dying they could admit what they had done was wrong because they couldn’t be punished for it. There’s monsters like Tyson, but they seem to have skipped the evil gene. In Hoo, Bob chooses to be good now, but he doesn’t know what he did. He doesn’t understand who he’s hurt and how.

But in Toa, Apollo is faced with it constantly. He has to be a good person because he does have that choice. And it’s not only Apollo. Meg, Lityerses, and others are all allowed to express autonomy. It may not be the safest or easiest path, but they still are the ones who determine their fate. They learn to be better, one day at a time. And they get that time, they get that chance.

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annnnnnnnd they're making a hadestown proshot.

my life is complete.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ADDED TRY TO THE LIGHTNING THIEF MUSICAL

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annnnnnnnd they're making a hadestown proshot.

my life is complete.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ADDED TRY TO THE LIGHTNING THIEF MUSICAL