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Highly recommend reading Mary Renault's The King Must Die, which was a direct source of inspiration for Suzanne Collins in its retelling of the Theseus myth. Jon Steinberg also discussed the book's influence on him during the mythology episode of Fathoms Deep. It's a beautiful book!

Fathoms Deep 63: Black Sails and Mythology with Jon Steinberg

Hunger Games 10th Anniversary Scholastic Interview

the hunger games 🤝 black sails

theseus

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someone said theres no maxanor kissing fanart. im happy to change it

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Couldn't make it to SDCC? Fansplaining's panel from Saturday is now online! ✨ With video plus a full transcript.

Featuring our brilliant panelists: Meghan Fitzmartin, Tessa Gratton, Lin Codega, Brent Lambert, Javi Grillo-Marxuach, and Daphne Olive.

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Paintings made for a competition to illustrate “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen.

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Unknown / Undated - by Martin Parr (1952), English

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Interview with the Vampire Gifset request -> Claudia + Blood

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J. R. R. Tolkien: no, my books aren't about the war I experienced. It's just a story

J. R. R. Tolkien's works: you cannot go home, war ends entire bloodlines, you are mourning the death of your brother alone, you dug into the earth and permanently scored the land, you cannot explain what you have been through, you cannot go home, "that wound will never fully heal. He will carry it the rest of his life", leaving the women behind does not save them, the young die first, you cannot go home, the parent will bury their child, you have lost the wives and you will never connect with them again, "how shall any tower withstand such numbers and such reckless hate?", you are not the same, you cannot go home, you can never go home, your father will only side with those he sees as worthy bloodlines and you cannot change his mind, it is more meaningful Not to kill, sometimes your sacrifice accomplishes nothing, you cannot go home

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why didn’t steinberg just give them one good movie kiss. if he had given them just one good movie kiss i would have been all right. they would have been worse but i would have been all right.

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soooo... i started watching black sails last weekend...

i wasn´t expecting all the gay, i mean, i kinda knew... but!! i wasn´t prepared for the emotional ride ok?, how am i supossed to continue with my life after these two?

the reference i used (x)

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happy pride month

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2.05 / 4.04

The closer we get to the end of this journey, the more the contradictions will accumulate...confusing issues we once thought were clear.

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as long as you’re mine

come be how you want to

and see how bright we shine

borrow the moonlight

until it is through.

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Best Cinematography: Sinners (2025) — cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw

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"There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future." SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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PEDRO PASCAL Arriving to the Eddington Photocall at Cannes Film Festival