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i love when tinders like “you missed a match” and i just got done xing some military boy like NO i did NOT

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gas? i light that. gate? i keep that. girl? i boss that

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today is the start of chanukah so for those who don't know: the holiday is celebrating the Maccabees, a group of ancient jewish freedom fighters.

the main jewish holy site, the Temple (and rly all of judea), had been conquered by the seleucid empire and repurposed into a temple for greek god Zeus. some upper class jews wanted to accept greek polytheism, letting the ancient tradition of judaism die out in favor of assimilation into empire. this of course was met with resistance from many jews, and that resistance was met with murder, subjugation, and outright religious persecution.as things in jewish history tend to go.

a large group of angry jews, largely poor farmers, who decided they werent afraid of death or imperialists or anything banded together as the Maccabees, named for the rebel leader Judah Maccabee and meaning "hammers". They fought a war against ensconced imperial forces, using largely guerrilla tactics and winning small skirmishes that built up over time into the ultimate victory: retaking the Temple and driving out the seleucids for good. as they celebrated and ritually cleansed the temple in accordance with the torah, the rebel fighters found that much had been taken or destroyed, with only one pot of oil left fit to light the Menorah, the religious lamp (which dates back to Moses himself). though there was only oil enough for one night, the lamp burned for eight nights, which was seen as a miracle and brings us back to the 8 candle lightings of modern day.

chanukah is definitely "not the most important jewish holiday" like many people say, but i wanted to share this story to bring some gravity to this celebratory time of year. we fry latkes and spin dreidels in the company of loved ones to bring joy in the winter, yes. but also, this tradition began as the revolt of an oppressed marginalized people, crushed by a government that did not represent them, left to rot by an upper class who sold their people out for nothing. the maccabees were not trained infantry, or a previous faction of government coming back together; they were just a ton of working class people unifying under a common cause, fighting scrappy battles to destroy the evil they saw looming. if you take anything from this holiday, it is the spirit of the maccabee: redouble your efforts to build and extend solidarity, release your fears of power and the size of our struggle, and dedicate yourself to fighting, in any way that you can. we too can unite, and push back the evil above us, and reclaim our world for all people. happy chanukah 🕎❤️

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If u ever wanna hit on me pls be obvious I am stupid.

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Good evening girl I'm infodumping

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human headcanons? yeah sure

heres 20 of them

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Whooooooh

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none of this would've happened if they let fundy get away with voter fraud.

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Technoblade joined the game.

- a major historical event, dream smp

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i cant BELIEVE minecraft hamilton has better plot twists then actual hamilton

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I cannot fathom the fact that a whole ass election, banishment, and dictatorship occurred while Technoblade joined the SMP for the first time, and Dream didn’t make ONE (1) appearance in his OWN DAMN SMP SERVER.

Yet he came on George’s stream right after. What the honk, man. I wanted to see bloodshed 😭😭

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t’was a rough first day

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I should make stickers or something

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Here are some teenagers doing teenager things at a Wild Teen Party™ for @gaybellethorn. I never went to these when I was in high school but every so often in college you could find me standing awkwardly next to the food table while everyone else did Cool Kid Things.

@eah-exchange

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I think these two are the sweetest characters I’ve ever encountered and feel so fond of them, by their originality and style and personalities Alistair Wonderland, son of Alice and Bunny Blanc, daughter of the white rabbit, brought to you from ever after high I ship them so badly, apart from adoring Wonderland since always

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kissesssssss 💋

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Redraw of apple white :)