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"The killing, um the death, of a Palestinian man..."
A BBC correspondent goes to great lengths to avoid reporting that Israel killed 78 y/o US citizen Omar As'ad.
#bbc#“The killing#um the death#of a Palestinian man...“A BBC correspondent goes to great lengths to avoid reporting that Israel killed 78 y/o#free palestine#palestine#gaza#gaza genocide#genocide#no pride in genocide#free gaza#gaza strip#gazaunderattack#freepalastine🇵🇸#Omar As'ad#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#israel#israhell#benjamin netanyahu#fuck netanyahu#netanyahu a criminal of war
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I want control 2 to have even more documents and more reading
#nothing beats the sheer joy of finding a document hidden somewhere in the first game#I’m trying to 100% the game currently and i love collecting all the weird records and correspondence#it makes the world incredibly rich and immersive#control 2019#control remedy#something i really love about all the records is starting to recognize the characters who wrote them#learning more about dr darling or pope or kiran by seeing their voice in the docs#unbelievably excited for control 2 bc they can build off of established characters#control 1 barely explored their cast (fair enough with such a great original world)#but now they can build on that AND have a great enviornment
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Too old! Are you crazy? You are just starting to live. And life still has all its joys and fruitfulness to give you. Its pains too, of course. But a great and faithful love is the crucible where joys and sorrows melt to become greatness and goodness.
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 8, 1950 [#178]
#albert camus#camus#absurd#absurdism#maria casares#correspondance#love letters#love#old#joy#pain#sorrow#greatness
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Commission batch for @reversal-mushroom
#what a fun batch of characters!!#I had a great time working on dynamic poses for each that corresponded well with their personality#commissions#mlp#digital art#procreate#songbird serenade#maneiac#mane iac#glamour gleam#king sombra#sombra#chrysalis#queen chrysalis#pony#mlp commissions#pony commissions
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#insane wines lore from the cricket ES#hiram getting the headache of his life#after performing a combo of great game sigils and rose taketh + having an entire conversation in correspondence all in the same afternoon#fallen london#mr wines#text
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Sofia: Mr Cedric, why do you always hang out by this window all the time?
Cedric: It's a very special window
Sofia: What's so special about it?
Cedric: It can tell the future.
Sofia: What?
Cedric: The glass shows images of future events, I watch it to prepare myself for what may come.
Sofia: Wha-really???
Cedric: No.
#Source: Royal correspondence episode 7#sofia the first#cedric the sorcerer#sofia the fandom#stf#cedric the great#cedric the sensational#cedric sofia the first#princess sofia#sofia balthazar#incorrect quotes
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Dear Mr. President:
Always there have been men who had contempt for the "word" although words have survived better than any other man-made things. St. John says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God." When you have finished using a weapon, someone is dead or injured, but the product of the word can be life and hope and survival. All of the greatness of our species rests on words -- Socrates to his judges -- the Sermon on the Mount, the introduction to Wyclif's Bible, later taken by Lincoln for the Gettysburg Address. And all of these great and irretrievable words have the bravery of fear and hope in them. There must have been a fierce but hollow feeling in the members of the Continental Congress when the clerk first read the words, "When in the course of human events --." Lincoln must have dwelt with loneliness when he wrote the order of mobilization.
In our history, there have been not more than five or six moments when the word and the determination mapped the course of the future. Such a moment was your speech, Sir, to the Congress two nights ago. Our people will be living by phrases from that speech when all the concrete and steel have long been displaced or destroyed. It was a time of no turning back, and in my mind as well as in many others, you have placed your name among the great ones of history.
And I take great pride in the fact that you are my President.
Yours in admiration, John Steinbeck
-- Letter from John Steinbeck to President Lyndon B. Johnson on March 17, 1965, two days after LBJ's monumental "We Shall Overcome" speech to a Joint Session of Congress urging the passage of the Voting Rights Act in the wake of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama
#History#Presidents#Lyndon B. Johnson#LBJ#President Johnson#John Steinbeck#Presidential Friendships#Voting Rights Act#Civil Rights#Civil Rights Movement#Bloody Sunday#Selma#Selma to Montgomery March#We Shall Overcome#We Shall Overcome speech#Presidential Speeches#Great Presidential Speeches#Letters to Presidents#Presidential Correspondence#Steinbeck#LBJ and Civil Rights#Presidency#Johnson Administration
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If you tracked my eye activity on that bliss promo pic with the tops it would be something like this
Making a major stop at topper
Before crashing into a ditch (yakuya corner)
#i'm having a moment. the only time i'll ever see these two standing next to each other is in a promotional pic for the sfw game version#FOR SERIOUS i was weirded out by this combination of characters in one pic when i first saw it#i was like oh?? they doing a random assortment now? i mean sure! yeah! i guess! spice it up they look great!!#then someone pointed out that this was Tops Only#then showed me the corresponding picture of Bottoms Only#and i felt my eyebrow raise sharply#OOOH.... i didn't even consider... right.... top bottom segregation#(reality does not occur to me. i see them all through switch-coloured lenses and thus ignore information inconvenient to my preference)#then i started thinking more about the . idea of it. that the tops are in a bar's hidden back room with mafia boss dante#and the bottoms are hanging out in the airy beautiful atrium of pure white snow and lilting piano music#tops are like WELCOME TO THE LIONS DEN and bottoms are like HEY COME INTO THE AVIARY AND SIT WITH US 🥰#i dwelt on the fact that i was weirded out by yakumo in this group#and it made me think about how..... yakumo would be scared of all the other tops#all of them are INTIMIDATION 100 to hiim#so i imagine after you get him to pose for this shot with everyone. and the business is done#yakumo will quickly retreat to the room with the bottoms (where all his friends are)#blade being the adaptable little creature he is will be like OH COOL ARE YOU GOING TO SEE THE OTHERS??#I WANT TO SEE THE OTHERS TOO!! MORE FRIENDS!! LET'S GO TOGETHER n_n *links arms* *DRAGS everyone else out of the room*#imagining yaku being first ushered into this dark room with kuya dante and quincy#and he's just nervously glancing at topper for reassurance that there's no danger#just trembling and thinking about how he wants his emotional support wolf/vice captain/priest/earring twin senpai#no yakumo. i wanted you to mingle. and you shall mingle#wear matching outfits with your fellow Tops and (topp) until you build trust and reduce their Intimidation Factors#nu carnival dante#nu carnival blade#nu carnival quincy#nu carnival kuya#nu carnival yakumo
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do you have any more pikario or yukari (or both) headcanons maybe
i still have a few!
rio:
he's a very trusting person originally but after yukari lies to him in episode 16 that trait slowly disappears and he becomes a lot less gullible
ghost/cryptid disbeliever despite being a literal fucking fairy and living around magic all his life
this one is incredibly random but i was rewatching the avengers for the millionth time last night and it occurred to me that if he was into superhero movies he'd be a black widow fan. like i don't think he'd be into superhero movies all that much (his interests lie elsewhere) but if he was i think he'd connect with her backstory a lot. overall he tends to like characters that go through redemption arcs gee i wonder why. during his julio era he would've been the most insufferable loki stan
yukari:
is a prankster! nothing too big or anything that would hurt anyone but she does like messing with others. stuff like switching out the water with sprite. aoi catches her setting a prank up one day but instead of ratting her out asks to join her. they become an absolutely terrifying duo
also ghost denier. now i want an akiyuka buzzfeed unsolved au because i can hear them saying so many of those quotes
#i can and will make a connection between rio and the red in my ledger line/motif#bibury too but to a much lesser extent because she doesn't seem to have nearly as much remorse as rio#anyways. let him wipe out the red in his ledger#won't get on my soapbox about how a great way to cap off rio's redemption would've been letting him help out and do stuff consistently(!)#instead of sitting around. but i Will put the thought into your heads#a kirakira avengers au keeps floating around in my brain... like i'd never write it#but the og 6 + loki (thor & avengers era) correspond pretty well to the kirakira team + julio. it's a fun brainworm#anyways sorry that this isn't a lot! i don't have much left that i haven't already shared unfortunately#precure#pretty cure#kirakira precure a la mode#rio kuroki#pikario#yukari kotozume#asks#anonymous
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watching rory's joy at the beginning of her internship at the stanford eagle gazette and later when she worms her way back in during season 6 (which like hey whatever happened to that lol) is why i simply cannot accept a universe where she doesn't have a career in journalism
#gilmore girls#like she does not have to be a foreign correspondent but i want her in that realm#idk how people think like 'oh she's writing a book about her life this is great' in the revival like. i just think it was a boring choice#i do like the idea of her working with jess on it but. ultimately if they made another season#and she didn't return to journalism that would be a huge bummer#and them making her so like irresponsible and whatever like not preparing for an interview#AS IF lol rory obsessively researched mitchum huntzberger#she was angry when richard set up a yale interview without warning her bc she wasn't prepared#like. if there's one thing rory is gonna do it's PLAN for things#like i'm okay with storylines where she goes adrift sometimes bc i think it's understandable#but ayitl went way too far in that regard#and most regards lol
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#life isn't great right now#im angry all the time#im lonely#im bored#im tired#and i don't feel adequately supported which is not my bfs fault or anything it's just that with a full time job he isn't here to help#and most of the inadequate support is on the medical end#my gp is great but i am starting to suspect that the nurse that does most of his correspondence is an asshole who doesn't check my file eve#and just gives me canned answers that often don't make sense
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“The court is not a habitation made for me; I suffer each time that I must perform there and it makes my blood boil when I see the baseness almost always committed to acquire some distinction for which I would not have given three pennies. (…) I do not feel myself made for the place that I occupy and that I have sworn to renounce, one way or another. There, my dear friend, is the great secret that I have so long delayed to communicate to you. (…) How can a single man manage to govern [Russia] and even correct its abuses? This would be absolutely impossible not only for a man of ordinary abilities like me, but even for a genius, and I have always had the principle that it is better not to be entrusted with a job than to fulfill it badly; (…) My plan is to settle with my wife on the banks of Rhine, where I will live as a simple individual, making my happiness consist of the company of my friends and the study of nature. I know that you will blame me, but I cannot do otherwise, for a quiet conscience is my first rule, and it will never be quiet if I were to undertake something beyond my strength.”
an excerpt from the letter sent by Grand Duke Alexander to his friend, Viktor Kochubey, upon learning of his grandmother’s plans to make him her direct successor (May, 1896)
#oh Alex you don’t know the half of what you’ll carry on your conscience eventually#tsar alexander i#alexander i of russia#catherine ii#catherine the great#napoleonic era#correspondence
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It's 2:30, I'm at home, it's sunny outside, I rehearsed this morning. I received your letter from Friday and another from Sunday and I am angry. That, in summary, is my state. My love, you have to relax, you have to let yourself go, but you must not continue to slide down the slope you have taken these last few days. You are thirty-six years old, you live, you are here, in the open sky with love in your heart and a deep sense of beauty. I understand that your state of fatigue takes you away from everything and everyone; I understand your longing for sunshine and health, but you will overcome this illness and the sun will shine often for you.
The tension in which you have always lived is exhausting, I know, but don't forget that you are one of those who must remain tense until the end, who does not give up, and this idea alone will give you the strength you need to continue. Remember our laughter, often. That's why you have to live, to laugh, to sing in Desdemona, for the peaceful hours of Ermenonville and its park, for thunderstorms, for the sun and the driving rain. I beg you, do not forget happiness. Don't forget that even if we are diminished, mutilated, limited, we are made for happiness, and that it is there, every day, at every moment, waiting for us, if we don't stiffen up, if we consent to it.
Europe has its mists, it is true, but it also has its sun, which is all the more brilliant because it is, like life, not very long-lasting. And then, there are your eyes, the most beautiful eyes I know, my face of happiness and gratitude. There is your work so full of gratitude when, after days and days of drought and poverty, you feel friends with her. What more can I say to you? What else can I say to you but that you are only thirty-six years old and that I have just left a being who was sixty-five, who was only a breath, a spirit, and who still had more happiness, more joys, more energy and more wealth in him than a young man of twenty? Courage, my love! Perhaps you may not be fully aware of the part that I hold in you.
The many weeks of absence erase the memory and replace it with a false change of scenery that we don't know at what to attribute. That's what happened to me lately, before Dad's death, when I was writing to you about my boredom. I was called to order, and I am now busy with the essential. You, abandoned a little, alone, you lose your way sometimes. Forgive me for telling you all this. I am perhaps boasting too much, but I don't think I'm completely wrong. On the other hand, the people around you are not very comforting. I don't know your brother. I don't know F[rancine], but your situation is not one that makes her presence radiant, even if she is exultant with life. As for the G[allimard], this is the couple that I would choose if I wanted to die of "disintegration".
Everything falls on you, everyone cries out for you, everyone asks for you, at the very moment when you should only receive. But you'll see. The days are flying by, and in a very short time I'll be there. Don't come to me with a scowl on your face and the idea that we'll be curled up together in grief, regret, nostalgia and the cult of the past. The latter, it is in every gesture I make and every thought I have, but in a living way. It is expressed in the struggle, in the growing need for cleanliness, for righteousness, greatness. As for the rest, it remains in the depths of my heart, there, in the background, where it mingles with my life to make it richer. It may seem strange to you that I should speak to you in this tone, but you don't know me very well if you expected anything else from me.
If I am angry today, it is because I have received a letter from my sister who takes on the appearance of Saint Sebastian and indulges in scenes in front of her distraught daughter, scenes that have no real basis, given that she has hardly seen my father in twenty years and that she left on her own as soon as she wanted to. Anyway, let's leave that. No one in the world, I'm sure, misses the presence of Dad more than I do. I miss him every moment, but the crying and complaints are not my doing; like him, I have a disgust for death, like him I have a thirst for life and happiness. I love him infinitely and he helps me to live, and it is for him also that I want to laugh. That's where I am.
As for the follies I wanted to warn you against, don't worry about it, I wasn't thinking of anything out of the ordinary. Only you were telling me about a trip to make, and I thought that we shouldn't build too many castles in Spain, that it was important first of all to find ourselves, to see where we were with our life and health and to weigh the possibilities that would be granted to us. That was all. I got your "picture". You have cheeks! And a little scoundrel look...! My love, my beautiful love, courage again. Work. Work well, the best you can.
By the way, I don't know if I told you about your preface. Did I tell you that I had tears in my eyes when I read it? Oh, yes. It is beautiful! After its publication, you'll have to retire to a deserted island, but a beautiful island! Okay, I'm leaving you. I'm going to write to my sister again and write a few more letters. Then I'll go and buy some pretty flowers for Feli. Then I will finish at the theater. See you tomorrow, darling. Angeles asks me to ask your permission to kiss you. Four eyes on your picture. The house, black and yellow, smiles at the thought of seeing you soon. As for me, here I am, in the most patient and impatient wait that one can imagine. In your arms, in your warmth, I will be happy again. I love you.
Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 28, 1950 [#219]
#albert camus#camus#absurd#absurdism#maria casares#correspondance#love letters#love#sun#angry#sky#heart#beauty#strength#laugh#happiness#gratitude#poverty#joy#courage#greatness#health#island#happy#warmth
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Stefania hated the US and in her later years hated the USSR and disavowed her Jewishness and was enough of a 19th-century bourgeois salonniere to take a period- and milieu-typical stance re: LGBT rights, not unlike my mom's: you're entitled to equality/equity under the law, but don't flaunt your difference so flamingly and conduct yourself properly in polite society. Do whatever you like in private, but be discreet. Etc. So I wonder what she'd make of the fact that the person passionately committed to preserving her legacy, writing her biography, and translating her work into English is a post-Soviet Jewish trans guy from Chicago
#I think if we talked on the phone we'd have a great time#And if we met in person she'd be like What the Fuck is That Thing#stefania tag#One reason I idealize 19th- and early 20th-century correspondence is that you could form attachments and impressions#Without knowing what your interlocutor looked like
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The Heir of Redclyffe is teaching me that what Little Women really needed was for the March sisters to have a clever, witty, sharp-tongued, disabled brother who was BFFs with Laurie.
#charles edmonstone my beloved#he's so much fun#and his friendship with guy is one of the best parts of the book#i'm shocked to see a victorian book where the disabled person is neither a monster nor a saint#the disability affects his life and the household but it's far from the only thing about him#he's a great character in his own right#he even has a plot-relevant illness#but the plot relevance isn't 'oh no he's near death let's have drama'#but 'he's having a flareup and can't write letters so someone loses a vital correspondant at an unfortunate moment'#(charles does later lampshade the lost opportunity for a dramatic deathbed reconciliation scene)#but anyway despite my continued comparisons of this book and little women#they are different books#aside from the laurie thing and the general family atmosphere and the moralizing mother figure there's quite a lot different#for one thing the male characters are much more interesting than most of the female ones#the girls are fine but certainly not the main draw of the story#i do like the religious aspect of this one more though#at first it was giving me anxiety cuz they agonize over teeny little sins#but once we moved from childish concerns to more adult ones the faith aspect became much deeper#still clunky and eye-rolling at times but also surprisingly natural in some places#and i'm still holding my breath for whatever made jo cry over this book#66% through the book; it's gotta be coming relatively soon#books#the heir of redclyffe#little women#charlotte mary yonge#louisa may alcott
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being an idiot and beyond that, rather tired, i forgot both my phone and computer charger when getting to my parents for the weekend. this fares extremely badly when looking at the work i have to do
#i'll check if theres any corresponding chargers anywhere but it's not likely#ent talks#ooooh baby this sucks#also song memory for all the posts asking about your first musical: i fully forgot for a decade but mine was emilie jolie#what a great first musical for a small child#in a very small theatre i believe
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