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American Lives: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
When Washington Irving published 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' in 1820, he forever blessed - or cursed - the town of Sleepy Hollow, turning a modest cemetery in the Hudson Valley into a tourist attraction.
#history#historyfiles#american lives#sleepy hollow#cemetery#cemeteries#new york state#new york#usa#photos#photo#hudson valley#legend of sleepy hollow#washington irving
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modern au but set in brisbane. is this anything
#TRICK QUESTION its everything. to me#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#marcille donato#senshi of izganda#laios touden#kabru#falin touden#izutsumi#farcille#chilchuck tims#namari#my art#dunmesh#brisbane meshi#americans have all the fun putting their modern aus wherever they live. well its my turn. namari is a caboolture bogan i know this#ive thought about this So much i need to write down all my notes somewhere
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REPUBLICAN GOP - Think! You will be responsible for American lives lost in Ukraine.
Why? Because you are not thinking Strategically for the future or Tactically for ‘RIGHT NOW!’ Tactically, we (NATO, including America) must help Ukraine stop Russia from advancing further into Ukraine and taking over more territory. As Russia continues pouring in more Conscripts (who do not want to be there), Russia is “ALSO” planting more land mines to attempt to stop/slow any Ukraine advances…
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#american lives#gop#Lithuania#NATO#Putin#Republican#republican party#republicans#Russia#russian#russian advancement#strategic#strategic and tactical#tactically#ukraine#ukrainian#weapons
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to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:
reading a fucking book. i beg of you.
in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.
read about americas occupations in the middle east.
read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.
read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.
and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.
dont look away from this.
you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.
if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.
you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.
wake the fuck up.
Edit: please check the reblogs there are readings and ways to help
#og#truly if youre not about it your against it and i dont fuck with you because you're complacent#wake the fuck up#we're all responsible and dont you dare say you're not#americans need to stop living in the world with their eyes closed and their ears covered#look at what your fucking 'glorious country' is doing to people#everyone should be against america no fucking exceptions because america is violent and evil and needs to be stopped#then read about what america has done to the natives of their land#radicalize yourself#decolonize your mind#free palestine#land back#palestine will be free#theres too many fucking movements of just the past couple years all happening at once to act like the world is fucking fine#we are in a human rights CRISIS#WAKE THE FUCK UP PLEASE
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“horror movies of the 1980s exist at the glorious watershed when special visual effects finally catch up with the gory imaginings of horror fans and movie makers. technical advances in special effects (animatronics, liquid and foam latex) meant the human frame could be distorted to grotesque new dimensions on screen. 1980s horror movies delivered the full colour close-up, look-no-strings-attached, special effect in a way that previous practitioners of the art could only dream about. everything lurking in the shadows in older horror movies was now dragged into the garish light of day. the monsters were finally out of the closet.”
#horror#horror movies#horror decades#80s horror#horroredit#moviesedit#filmedit#cinema#horror cinema#friday the 13th#the thing#the shining#a nightmare on elm street#re-animator#child's play#gremlins#the fly#the return of the living dead#demons#evil dead#ghostbusters#night of the demons#the lost boys#hellraiser#basket case#videodrome#near dark#possession#scanners#an american werewolf in london
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Literally begging anyone who can vote in US elections to vote, and to vote against Trump. Which means voting for Harris, not abstaining or voting third party.
My family actually did move here from an authoritarian country, where voting literally didn't matter, they literally did throw out your vote, and they literally did assassinate citizens who spoke out against them.
We would all very much like to keep living in a country where those things are not the case!
You know, the same things that Trump and his stooges have openly said they want to do. And two of the main propaganda lines for why people in the US shouldn't vote, which is a lie.
Voting matters. The parties are not the same.
And make sure to vote in down-ballot races!!!
And like. The fact that voting matters in the US is a very real reason for hope. It is something you should genuinely appreciate. We can make a difference.
And a lot of people risked their lives or even died to earn that right, and it's a right not everyone has.
#interrupting our regularly scheduled programming for a voting matters psa#because I just saw like 5 posts encouraging people not to vote and those posts are bullshit!!!#us politics#election 2024#american politics#2024 election#uspol#voting#voting matters#the parties are not the same#voting rights#democrats#democratic party#united states#not news#yes I also really do wish voting third party had a chance of working#but it doesn't#yes biden's policy on palestine is atrocious and harris's is unlikely to be much better#but that doesn't change the fact that we DON'T live in an authoritarian dictatorship (yet)#and it doesn't change the fact that there is a massive difference between trump and harris#you will have a much harder time helping palestinians if trump wins and starts “crushing” pro-Palestine protests (direct quote from him)#and wrecks the economy so people can't afford to donate or to take the time to protest#me
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the specific tumblr brand of casual racism is really something because none of the people doing it even have considered that theyre being racist as they constantly denigrate and dismiss the work of very notable and famous black authors, artists, musicians and intellectuals whos influence on culture and society have impacted all the stupid pop culture shit they like anyways
#dude idk#especially if you are american like this is literally the history of the place you live in and the people that live around you#mine
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⛓️.2 months till oct.⛓️
#halloween#old tumblr#2014 grunge#i miss 2014#2014core#2014 indie#2014 vibes#2014 aesthetic#2014 tumblr#2014 girl#2014 revival#tumblr 2014#2014 nostalgia#bring back 2014#ahs murder house#ahs coven#ahs fandom#tumblr grunge#grunge aesthetic#evan peters#emma roberts#grunge tumblr#grunge#fyp#coquette#effy stonem#female insanity#living-dead-girlllll#girlblogging#american horror story
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2024 Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees as VHS tapes by @ShawnMansfield
#oscars#academy awards#best picture#best picture nominees#oscar nominations#vhs#vhs tapes#vhs aesthetic#film#movies#fan art#fanart#anatomy of a fall#american fiction#barbie#the holdovers#killers of the flower moon#maestro#oppenheimer#poor things#past lives#the zone of interest#2024 oscars#margot robbie#lily gladstone#emma stone#cillian murphy#ryan gosling#martin scorsese#christopher nolan
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#girlblogging#girl interrupted#girl interupted syndrome#black swan#im just a girl#lana del ray aesthetic#lizzy grant#locally hated#girl hysteria#just girly things#dollcore#dollette#coquette aesthetic#this is a girlblog#cute#girlblogpink#live laugh girlblog#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#just a girlblog#girlblog aesthetic#girl boss gaslight gatekeep#manic pixie dream girl#sweet lolita#the virgin suicides#tumblr girlies#girl icons#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#hell is a teenage girl#american vintage#americana
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American Lives: Warm Springs, GA Franklin D Roosevelt came to Warm Springs, GA, in 1924 in the hope of recovering from the effects of polio, which he had contracted in 1921 and which had paralyzed him from the waist down.
#history#historyfiles#american lives#warm springs#georgia#photos#franklin d. roosevelt#franklin delano roosevelt#polio
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Israeli soldiers opened fire on starved Palestinians as they tried to get to a truck distributing aids
#american politics#free palestine#palestine#gaza#free gaza#israel#palestinian lives matter#jerusalem#social justice#genocide in gaza#save palestine#yemen#theatre
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one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.
the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.
like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.
but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.
so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.
i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?
but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?
sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?
and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.
nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.
the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!
and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.
#spilled ink#writeblr#i hope it is clear here that i actually very much care about equatorial countries#and that's part of what makes me so angry bc im like. climate refugees exist.#they've existed for a while!!!#and the reply is almost always ''should have thought about that before living on an island"#like fuck dude. do you need to like how people vote before ur like#your entire house shouldn't burn down each summer????#so many of these people make it their life to mock california that they think it's FUNNY#and im like. girl you should be fucking trembling. TEXAS??? ARE YOU LISTENING??#this is one of those times that like. i need to stress how fucking stupid it would be#to let trump win. bc he could have “reached across the aisle.” covid could have been#a MASSIVE commercial success. he has such a huge and bigoted and brainwashed following.#literally just a PR campaign called COWBOY UP and it's pictures of cowboys in bandanas#trump reinvisioned as the lone ranger fighting for the american people against covid. EASY SELL#and instead. companies bought him. it became political. it was not ''oh shit this is 1 enemy let's all be human''#it was ''you deserve to die.''#climate change should be GLOBAL. it should be like ''yeah i hate u but. we do all live here''#i don't have to LIKE my group members to do well on a team project bc we are ALL getting graded.#is that simple enough of an under-explaination lol
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REPUBLICANS! You will be responsible for American lives lost in Ukraine.
Why? Because you are not thinking Strategically for the future or Tactically for ‘RIGHT NOW!’ Tactically, we (NATO, including America) must help Ukraine stop Russia from advancing further into Ukraine and taking over more territory. As Russia continues pouring in more Conscripts (who do not want to be there), Russia is “ALSO” planting more land mines to attempt to stop/slow any Ukraine advances…
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#family of Israeli hostage spoke at the DNC#but a Palestinian American is not allowed#what makes israeli lives more valuable than Palestinians#DNC is nothing but a days long Hollywood party of genocide supporters#fuck this#democratic national convention#dnc 2024#dnc#dnc convention#democratic party#kamala harris#us elections
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