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why are people pretending that sex is the only axis upon which some people willingly enjoy things that hurt/scare them

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my cat Meatball’s hanukkah sweater started kinda coming off, so my girlfriend went to fix it, and as she did so she said to him, in her most tender and maternal voice, “aww, is your shirt coming off? whore”

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Hanukkah lamp adorned with damascene technique, silversmith: Yacob Chekrone (1914–1979), Ghardaia, Algeria, 1933

This Hanukkah lamp was submitted by the artist Yacob Chekrone as a final project at the arts and crafts school established in the southern Algerian town of Ghardaïa by the Alliance Israélite Universelle. The AIU’s educational institutions provided academic and vocational training to the Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. One of the skills taught at the school was damascening, a sophisticated technique for inlaying different metals. Chekrone was born in Ghardaïa in 1914. After graduating in 1933, he established a workshop in town and sold his products to the occasional tourists. Years later, his works won prizes when displayed at a Paris exhibition. In 1943 he moved to Jerusalem, where he tried to earn a living as a craftsman, but failed due to the economic hardships of the time and ended up working as a construction worker.

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Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “Duress”

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S. Drago, “Agatha Comes of Age”

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S. Drago, “Song for Antigone”

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Another Woman, Hannah Bonner

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patron saint of unhinged women in nightgowns

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80s horror practical effects was that bitch. can’t outdo the doer

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Another art comparison!!

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Source: Indian Country Today

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano has long believed Japan should pay more restitution for what its soldiers did to her great-grandfather and the other residents of Attu Island.

But her demand was sparked anew this summer by her first visit to the island. She went alongside Japanese officials who, as part of a redoubled effort to recover the remains of World War II soldiers killed abroad, unearthed the bones of two people from the tundra. The Attuans “lost their homeland, they lost their family members,” Pagano said. “This story was never told, and the Japanese have never really helped us in that regard.”

Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories, including Guam, the Philippines and the nearby island of Kiska, to be captured during the war. Japanese landed on Attu on June 7, 1942, killing the radio operator. The residents were kept in their homes for three months, then taken to Japan.

U.S. forces waged a bloody campaign amid hurricane-force winds, rain and dense fog in 1943 to retake Attu Island in what became known as the war’s “forgotten battle.” More than 2,500 Japanese soldiers died in combat or by suicide, and American forces lost about 550 soldiers. Of the 41 residents interned on Japan’s Hokkaido Island, 22 died from malnutrition, starvation, tuberculosis or other ailments over the next two-plus years, including Pagano’s great-grandfather, Mike Hodikoff, the last chief. Hodikoff and his son both died in 1945, suffering from food poisoning after being reduced to scrounging through rotting garbage for sustenance.

After the war, surviving Attuans were not allowed to return to the island because the U.S. military said it would be too expensive to rebuild. Most were sent to Atka Island, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) away. The last surviving Attu residents that were held in captivity died last year. In 1951, six years after the end of the war, Japan did offer the Attuans who survived about $4,000 a year — more than the average U.S. annual salary at the time — for three years, Pagano said. Nearly all accepted, but her grandmother refused, suggesting the treatment the POWs endured was too awful to be compensated with money.

The Japanese never compensated the families for the deaths of prisoners or for the loss of land and damage to Attuan culture and language, said Pagano, who runs Atux Forever, a nonprofit devoted to Attuan culture. The historical trauma still weighs on the 300 or so Attuan descendants remaining in the U.S., she said.

Their website has a place to donate & buy merch if you'd like to help out financially. Otherwise they also list ways you could be an active ally and voice for Attuans that include volunteering, supporting indigenous rights, and demanding accountability from both the US and Japanese governments.

American citizens and Japanese Citizens each have their own sections and suggestions, too.

You can also sign their petition to recognize their nation as sovereign.

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seen a lot of these with your favorites, but reblog with the CURRENT book you are reading, show you are streaming, the last movie you watched, and any game/puzzle/crafts you’re working on 

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tbh it sucks to know Henry VIII died thinking he had a secure male heir in place. he should have been tossing and turning on his deathbed thinking of the succession crisis and the things Mary was going to do

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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

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It's all fun and games and laughing at BookTok until you can't get on AO3 anymore, as someone who likes both romance and fanfic.