#ASDGHJKL

[lesbiansybelle]

SAY IT

[alicedrawslesmis]

"A country, is without a doubt, a place where people live."

- Victor Hugo

This seems like an obvious statement, but is it?

A country is a place? If you invade a territory and annex it to your territory then is your country also that place? What about the people there? And if no one lives in a part of your country is that not your country anymore? If everyone got up and left France forever at once, and other countries occupied that land, is that place then still France?

Enjolras, and by extension the author of Shoujo Cosette (Victor Hugo), makes a punching political statement when he puts emphasis on the fact that a country, a nation if you will, is a spacial configuration for a people first. Because he isn't just saying a territory but also not saying a place where people are in, they Live in that place.

A country in this context is not an accident of where you were born or a totally shifting ideal but a real inherent quality of the totality of one's life at that moment. You can't get in and out of it at will, you live there. To leave would be a difficult and reality-altering choice. To get out from where you live is a total alteration of your state of being. So 'a place where people live' is more meaningful than you would think at first glance.

If we take 'place' as more of a metaphorical term to mean 'state', or a 'quality' a country then would be an inherent quality of the person who lives. To paraphrase "A country is a state inherent to living" and it accounts for the fact that someone might have many qualities at once, but most importantly it is not just a statement about a administrative frontier, or government-approved boundaries, in fact he says nothing about the boundaries of a country. For a country you need both a space and a people.

And to cap it all off! He is saying this is fact 'without a doubt'. Not a suggestion, or even a hypothetical. A country is a state of being for the people, and you cannot separate these two concepts. It's a deeply potent and inherently politically disruptive phrase.

[hedgebelle]

PODFIC!!! For my MDZS fic <3

GRAYWAKE MADE A PODFIC TO MY MDZS FIC. !!!!!!!!!!!!! All caps is the only way I can communicate about this.

The MDZS fic in question is "One Can Keep A Secret (If He Does Not Know It's There). Graywake has a lovely storyteller's voice and does mean Lan Qiren lines <3 It's wonderful and I'm so touched, and I'm putting the link here for anyone who would like to check it out (please do!).

[ourlittleuluru]

Little bird told me you were shy. No need to be, Petal. Why wouldn't I perceive you? Come say hello again some time.

(*ฅдฅ*)…/////!!!

Immediately squats down to the floor to hide her face behind her folded arms on her knees, not used to attention but it wasn't so bad making a new friend

I-i will...! Most definitely...!

[cyb3r-mutt]

like fr i'm normally a big bottom sub but you've got me fantasizing about torturing you with pleasure and fucking you so hard you cry

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 please omg this is gonna give me a complex help :3 very much here for this I should be crying I look so good crying

[p5informantau]

I doodled this when working on the backstory as to why Ren decided to become an informant. Just haven’t really settled with some of the details yet, so my impatience mind decided to draw the scene I wanna draw first O}-{

[xiaozhan-appreciation]

Xiao Zhan for YSL Beauty

[spydcddya]

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[fandoms-writings]

someone make me finish this fic 

[sharama]

Something that makes me stupid happy is scrolling through Tumblr and seeing peoples personal headcannons for their WoL's / Azem / OCs / NPCs

🥺

[weirdnerdstr]

why is this very specific tag trending

it’s literally a keyboard smash

how is this even possible

[homicidalfantrolls]

That guy doesn’t look like a medic

“I was thinking that too but in all fairness neither does Dia.”

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

tech problems at soundcheck...

video from @ere-na

[samsheughan]

they say outlander is about love across different periods of time but i say with my whole chest that it's really about jamie seeing that claire is "not like other girls"

[cyb3r-mutt]

Eeeeeeeee I just got my hair cut and the gender euphoria I am experience I am squealing. I squealed walking into the drug store when I saw my reflection very loudly I am soo eeeeeeeeeeeee

[throughpatchesofviolet]

I love them so much.