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The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

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i'm big on "you could've just told me"

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Helena presenting herself as feminine to the public when there’s cameras around and presenting herself as masculine when she’s just in her private life AGH THATS SO INTERESTING!! Love learning about Helena’s gender expression.

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helly rrrrr

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by Laerte Coutinho

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Randomly remembered something I saw online and can't remember the exact details of - a translation of an ancient Egyptian letter that a young soldier sent his family from abroad, I think from Rome. While all the other details are lost to me, I distinctly remember the tone of the letter, because the attitude in it was so shockingly different to the way I was raised. In Finnish, the word for "conceited" is literally "self-loving", and there's a saying about how self-praise reeks, and any kind of praise of one's own is downright shameful. Entire generations have been raised with the idea that saying anything positive about your own children will rot their moral core.

And this guy in this letter was like "Dear father, dear mother, I am now here in Rome! I am sure to prosper thanks to how excellently you have raised me. I have commissioned a picture of myself in my new uniform, so you can see how handsome I look in it."

Like... Damn. Imagine raising a kid to be that unwaveringly confident in their own worth and prospects, and unhesitant to praise you as well. Why would you raise your kid any other way.

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next dynamic were sexualizing is that of a bull and a toreador

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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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I love that psychic powers are still "allowed" in science fiction. They're an acceptable part of the aesthetic. Like you can't have magic, but you can have brain magic, because it's more Science.

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goo-goo eyes

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Sorry I love them forever

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note to self: you’ve got this, you’ve got this, you’ve got this.

you can make it through this. you just have to commit to it. you have to believe you deserve to make it, and you do—you do deserve to make it.

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fixing things

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local mob boss, puffing on a cigarette angrily:

goon:

Batman, tied to a chair six feet away:

mob boss: did ya have to tie him to the chair with his legs spread open like that?