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Ok but why are nONE OF YOU IN THE REBLOGS TALKING ABT DAEDRA’S PRISON DEATH CULT HELLO??????? I WOULD SELL MY SOUL FOR A NEW REPUBLIC/POST-FIRST ORDER ERA DAEDRA PRISON DEATH CULT CAMEO IN OTHER STAR WARS MEDIA OML

Some stuff I caught from the Denise and Kyle q+a at comic con Manchester:

Syrel was "so turned on" during the interrogation which was 'their first date'

Dedra started a death cult in prison and Denise would come back and play that when she's 80. (Lol)

"Dedra would've gone to anywhere he lived and said absolutely not we have to live in my incredibly clean perfect house"

"he's being sloppy with his cereal to piss off his mom"

"she thought they were gonna be rewarded by the empire but the show is extraordinary because it shows that the empire doesn't care about you, it spits you out. That's why in real life I choose to be in the rebellion. Dedra believes if they do this heinous thing together they will go back to coruscant and be heroes. In her mind they would have lived in a house like Mon mothma's house and been celebrities."

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like he 100% would have been on here posting shit like

“oh so when the united states government kills people its FINE but whenever i do the same its ‘Homelander that’s homicide’ and ‘Homelander you can’t just laser eyes innocent civilians whenever you’re bored’ the double standards are real out here smh” and every one of you mfers would have been reblogging him and tagging shit like #mood bro same lmao

i’ve never actually watched the show so idk maybe i’m wrong but whatever alternate universe The Boys takes place in is damn lucky that Homelander isn’t just a teeny bit younger because i guarantee you that asshole would have done numbers on tumblr

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i’ve never actually watched the show so idk maybe i’m wrong but whatever alternate universe The Boys takes place in is damn lucky that Homelander isn’t just a teeny bit younger because i guarantee you that asshole would have done numbers on tumblr

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okay so I finished Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, and here are my takeaways, because it was AMAZING and I can't believe all US students aren't required to read it in school:

shows how slavery actually worked in nuanced ways i'd never thought much about

example: Jacobs's grandmother would work making goods like crackers and preserves after she was done with her work day (so imagine boiling jars at like 3 a.m.) so that she could sell them in the local market

through this her grandmother actually earned enough money, over many years, to buy herself and earn her freedom

BUT her "mistress" needed to borrow money from her. :)))) Yeah. Seriously. And never paid her back, and there was obviously no legal recourse for your "owner" stealing your life's savings, so all those years of laboring to buy her freedom were just ****ing wasted. like.

But also! Her grandmother met a lot of white women by selling them her homemade goods, and she cultivated so much good will in the community that she was able to essentially peer pressure the family that "owned" her into freeing her when she was elderly (because otherwise her so-called owners' white neighbors would have judged them for being total assholes, which they were)

She was free and lived in her own home, but she had to watch her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren all continue to be enslaved. She tried to buy her family but their "owners" wouldn't allow it.

Enslaved people celebrated Christmas. they feasted, and men went around caroling as a way to ask white people in the community for money.

But Christmas made enslaved people incredibly anxious because New Years was a common time for them to be sold, so mothers giving their children homemade dolls on Christmas might, in just a few days' time, be separated from their children forever

over and over again, families were deliberately ripped apart in just the one community that Harriet Jacobs lived in. so many parents kept from their children. just insane to think of that happening everywhere across the slave states for almost 200 years

Harriet Jacobs was kept from marrying a free Black man she loved because her "owner" wouldn't let her

Jacobs also shows numerous ways slavery made white people powerless

for example: a white politician had some kind of relationship with her outside of marriage, obviously very questionably consensual (she didn't hate him but couldn't have safely said no), and she had 2 children by him--but he wasn't her "master," so her "master" was allowed to legally "own" his children, even though he was an influential and wealthy man and tried for years to buy his children's freedom

she also gives examples of white men raping Black women and, when the Black women gave birth to children who resembled their "masters," the wives of those "masters" would be devastated--like, their husbands were (from their POV) cheating on them, committing violent sexual acts in their own house, and the wives couldn't do anything about it (except take out their anger on the enslaved women who were already rape victims)

just to emphasize: rape was LEGALLY INCENTIVIZED BY US LAW LESS THAN 200 YEARS AGO. It was a legal decision that made children slaves like their mothers were, meaning that a slaveowner who was a serial rapist would "own" more "property" and be better off financially than a man who would not commit rape.

also so many examples of white people promising to free the enslaved but then dying too soon, or marrying a spouse who wouldn't allow it, or going bankrupt and deciding to sell the enslaved person as a last resort instead

A lot of white people who seemed to feel that they would make morally better decisions if not for the fact that they were suffering financially and needed the enslaved to give them some kind of net worth; reminds me of people who buy Shein and other slave-made products because they just "can"t" afford fairly traded stuff

but also there were white people who helped Harriet Jacobs, including a ship captain whose brother was a slavetrader, but he himself felt slavery was wrong, so he agreed to sail Harriet to a free state; later, her white employer did everything she could to help Harriet when Harriet was being hunted by her "owner"

^so clearly the excuse that "people were just racist back then" doesn't hold any water; there were plenty of folks who found it just as insane and wrongminded as we do now

Harriet Jacobs making it to the "free" north and being surprised that she wasn't legally entitled to sit first-class on the train. Again: segregation wasn't this natural thing that seemed normal to people in the 1800s. it was weird and fucked up and it felt weird and fucked up!

Also how valued literacy skills were for the enslaved! Just one example: Harriet Jacobs at one point needed to trick the "slaveowner" who was hunting her into thinking she was in New York, and she used an NYC newspaper to research the names of streets and avenues so that she could send him a letter from a fake New York address

I don't wanna give away the book, because even though it's an autobiography, it has a strangely thrilling plot. But these were some of the points that made a big impression on me.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl also inspired the first novel written by a Black American woman, Frances Harper, who penned Iola Leroy. And Iola Leroy, in turn, helped inspire books by writers like Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston. Harriet Jacob is also credited in Colson Whitehead's acknowledgments page for informing the plot of The Underground Railroad. so this book is a pivotal work in the US literary canon and, again, it's weird that we don't all read it as a matter of course.

(also P.S. it's free on project gutenberg and i personally read it [also free] on the app Serial Reader)

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they love me because I be saying shit like alas and perchance

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*BANGING POTS AND PANS TOGETHER* HEY EVERYBODY LET’S MAKE SURE APOLLO SEES THIS ONE

I give it three months tops before a data breach leads to a public figure in the UK being outed for visiting niche porn sites because they uploaded their ID in order to access it and the site's data security is absolute dogshit

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Sometimes cleaning feels overwhelming. I tell myself I need to clean Everything™ and that in order to be considered Cleaned everything also has to be Organized. So I have this thing that I do to get around that, and I’m gonna share it here for y’all in case it’s helpful for anyone.

I call it Box Method. It works best if you’re working within a space that has places to store things like closets but that’s not 100% necessary imo.

How To Box:

Split the space that needs cleaning. Not strictly necessary but helpful for anyone with task paralysis. Cleaning your bathroom? Nope you’re just cleaning your vanity. Cleaning your bedside table? Nope you’re just cleaning the bedside table’s top drawer. Get as small as you need to in order to get your brain to cooperate. No size is too small for this I’m so serious.

Grab some Boxes (does not have to be literal btw just needs to be able to Contain things, Amazon boxes, Stop & Shop bags, old pillowcase it literally does not matter).

Assign a category for each Box as needed. For example when I’m cleaning my desk my Boxes are: art, productivity, electronics, jewelry, Belongs In The Bathroom, clothing, and This Isn’t Even Mine How The Fuck Did This Get Here.

Chuck Shit In There™. Go Box-by-Box. If you have an idea of which Box is going to have the least amount of stuff in it then start there, if not just pick one randomly. dO NOT. MAKE IT NEAT. YOU FUCKING HEARD ME. I DON’T WANNA SEE A SINGLE SEMBLANCE OF ORGANIZATION IN THAT BITCH. WE ARE AIMING FOR HOWL’S BEDROOM HERE OK (reference included below for those unfamiliar). CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME. EMBRACE THE CHUCKING OF THE SHIT.

When your Neurodivergent little brain inevitably throws a fit halfway through whatever Box you’re currently Chucking Shit Into, stop. Take a moment. Gently take your brain by the hand. Look it in the eye and say, “are you actually at your limit here or do you just not want to do this?” Nudge it a little, see if there’s any give. If there is give and it just doesn’t want to continue (understandable tbh), then do the opposite of that and continue but, AND THIS IS CRUCIAL, make sure you baby your brain as you do this. Your brain is a small toddler. That’s ok. Hold its hand as you gently drag it along. If there’s no give, just stop. Pick up the Boxes. And put them away as they are. Under your bed, beneath your desk, on a shelf, in the closet, doesn’t matter as long as they’re Away. Go do something else, maybe something nice for yourself. Make some tea, have a snack, play some games.

Repeat steps 1-5 as necessary until the space you sectioned off in the beginning is done.

Repeat steps 1-6 until the entirety of the space that you initially wanted to clean is clean. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE that there is NO DUE DATE for this step. The whole process may take a day. It may take a week. It may take a month. It may take a year. That’s ok. The timing doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’re doing it, even if slowly. I’m personally giving you my explicit permission to take however long you need. I’m also giving you my personal guarantee that it does not matter how long this takes you regardless of what anybody else in your life tells you.

Aaaand uh yeah, that’s it. Never mind that this is basically a fancier equivalent of “shoving shit under your bed so that the room looks clean” if it works it works man ok. I don’t make the rules. Except when I do. In which case I say to hell with the rules and move at your own pace.

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Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

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By the way, the prosecution just violated Luigi Mangione's HIPAA rights and I have not seen people talking much about it

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ok well i think more characters should be introduced to therapy speak. and they should misuse it in new and egregious ways

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hey does anybody else with ADHD do the thing where certain times have really stupid arbitrary connotations attatched. like i will get myself up and moving at approximately one (1) minute past noon and my brain will literally go “What’s The Point In Getting Dressed The Day Is Over Now” and i have to ACTIVELY AND AGGRESSIVELY be like, “no tf it is not????? leave me alone?????? whose side are you even on here???????”

does this happen to anybody else or am i an outlier here, obnoxiously tagging the shit out of this bc i need answers pls respond

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not saying you should bc i happen to like your pfp personally.

but.

IF you did change your pfp.

might i humbly suggest:

no bc satan, love ya man, but the pfp could definitely be better

FINE. YOU WANT IT CHANGED?! YOU REALLY WANT IT CHANGED?!! FINE.

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@amoeba-proteus honored to have experienced the entirety of the Saw franchise this way with you 🙂‍↕️

this should have been me

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People on twitter have been saying this website is extremely white and tbh its making me very curious what the demographics of this site are (of my own reach anyway) so

DISCLAIMER: Race is a non scientific concept with no exact definitions. It is a social construct primarily characterized by how society treats you and thus this is an imperfect poll. If you feel none of the options here reflect you and your experience I implore you to reblog this with your experience as I am curious about that and want to hear about it.

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I love this man

Alex Hirsch you will always be a legend to me

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Satan bestie you had the perfect opportunity to insert an -inator in there à la Heinz Doofenshmirtz and you didn’t, VERY dissapointed rn smh /j

Do you have any innovative, new ways of torturing people?

Pennar chambers. Pennar explosion chamber, Pennar sentience chamber, Peenar inside out-ation chamber...