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Israel’s plans to take over Gaza City causes outrage

Tina Kraus reports it’s a decision that stops short of seizing control of the entire territory, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for.

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to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

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The Bad Beginning: 🔥🪦👰🏻‍♀🎭

The Reptile Room: 🐸🐍🦎🔪💉🪦

The Wide Window: 💨🏠⛰️⛵🪱🪦

The Miserable Mill: 🏭🪚👁️😵‍💫🚬📝

The Austere Academy: 🏚️📚📓✏️👯🏻👳🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻👶🏻😥

The Ersatz Elevator: 🏢💰💅🏻💃🏼💵🐟🕳️

The Vile Village: 🪚🔨🐦‍⬛👮🏻‍♂️👮🏻🔪🪦🎈🎈

The Hostile Hospital: 🏥🔎📚📰✉️🔪🔥🪦

The Carnivorous Carnival: 🎪🎡🔮🪬🦁😱🪦🔥

The Slippery Slope: 👶🏻🚗🏔️🍳🥶🔥🌊

The Grim Grotto: 🌊⚓❓🍄👶🏻☠️🥢👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏼💔

The Penultimate Peril: 🚕🏨🤰🏻🕵🏻‍♀️🕵🏻👶🏻🛎️👯🏽‍♂️🕴🏼🔫🪦🔥

The End: 🌊🛶🏝️🍹📚📚📚🤰🏻💔🔫💔🪦🪦👶🏻🌊❓

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this frame from krusty krab training video is so underrated to me why does nobody talk about it

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what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

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"Irish doesn't have a word for please, you have to say if it be your will" buddy do I have news for you about "please"

"Irish doesn't have a word for hello you have to use a shorthand religious blessing" buddy do I have news for you about "goodbye"!

"In Polish the word for car is that which walks by itself" BUDDY what do you think an AUTOMOBILE is?

you have got to understand that your mother tongue is not the model of language. all your words have secret histories and layers of meaning just the same as other people's words. the word you think of as just a word has etymology, it wasn't handed down from God as a finished word. English doesn't have a word for movie you have to either refer to the recording medium or use a short version of "moving picture", isn't that cute?

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ilove when someone posts about an issue that's supposedly plaguing society and it's painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok

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unfortunately my eyeliner will never look as good on me as it does on an american male rock musician in the early 2000s

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smol part of a wip

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please do not forget how politically convenient it is for you to earnestly believe sexuality and desire is an inherently dangerous thing that can only be gentled or tamed and can never be a healing or positive thing in of itself

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I KNOW WHAT I NEED TO DRAW!!!!!!

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do you use your irl name on tumblr? ie, either your government name or the name you go as in real life. if you use a different name that's not related to you irl here on tumblr then vote no

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One of the reasons I'll always stand by the 2013 Carrie remake is how it perfectly understands the psychology of a bully in the way few pieces of media do. The bullies in the original Carrie film adaptation, the one everyone praises, are cartoonish caricatures rather than real people, the all the interiority of Snidely Whiplash.

But in the 2013 movie you get to the scene where Chris Hargensen, the leader of the bullies, is brought into the principal's office and told that she'll not only be suspended, but banned from going to prom for how she and her pals bullied Carrie at the beginning of the movie, and the actress who plays her does this phenomenal job of conveying how, in Chris's mind, she's the victim. There's no cartoonish ranting or villainous monologuing, but rather a genuine outrage at a situation that she truly believes is unjust.

The actress and the movie both understand that in Chris's mind, she is entitled to torment Carrie - that her tormenting Carrie isn't just enjoyable, but a right that she has, a just and good thing for her to do because it the world is structured for her to do so, and that denying her that right is an injustice. The warped logic of the bully isn't "Haha I love being mean and evil," but rather, "When I hurt people, they deserve it and I deserve to enjoy doing it, because that is good and just."

And I think that's important because, like, we all have our Chris Hargensen moments. Every one of us has had a time where we felt entitled to be cruel, and recognizing that is important to being a better person. You can't let yourself fall into the trap of believing that your cruelty is always justified, or else Carrie is going to throw your car into a brick wall with you inside it.

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Don't touch that dial!

prints!

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Grateful for the work of David lynch being an inspiration to my art and also so much art that I love who was inspired by him