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So I finished Jurassic park… i just want to preface this by saying when I went to get my pickup order for Lost World I had the funniest interaction with the B&N worker. They were like why are you getting this 30 year old book when the movies been out since forever… 😭 I swear this shit only happens to me.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the book. I love the movie but the world felt so much more alive in the book. I loved how much detail we got for each character and how they really did seem human. From Nedry to Hammond we as readers really get to understand their motivations for everything they’re doing. If you told me as a child that I’d empathize with the blood sucking lawyer, I’d probably laugh in your face.

I will say, though, the development for characters like Dr. Settler and Lex were less than interesting. I know this is a critique of Crichton for a lot of his older books so I don’t have much to add to the conversation. Just wish we got more from them.

I know a lot of people only look at Jurassic park as a dinosaur adventure thriller but I love the horror scifi elements we get in the book. The parallel between Nedry and Hammond’s deaths and how this is truly a story about human greed at the end of the day was well done. Loved the critique of capitalism’s effect on the field of science and how in the pursuit of discovery scientists never stop to think if they should be doing it.

Excited to read Lost World!

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🕊️ Nadin’s Hope: A Mother, A Memory, A Future

Hello, my name is Nadin I’m from Gaza. I’m a graphic design graduate. I’m a wife. And now — I’m a mother.

I finished my design studies just before the war began. I had dreams of starting a small design studio, of making art that told stories. I used to think about colors, fonts, sketches. I used to think about the future.

Then the war came. And the future became something we tried to hold onto, moment by moment.

On October 22, 2023, I was pregnant when a missile destroyed my husband’s family home. 25 members of our family were killed — his mother, his siblings, his nieces and nephews, children. Entire branches of a family tree gone in seconds.

We were displaced twice after that. Everything we had disappeared — home, safety, routine, rest.

A few weeks later, I gave birth to our daughter. There was no crib. No stillness. No celebration.

But she came into the world quietly and beautifully. And in her eyes, I saw something I hadn’t felt in weeks: life that still wanted to grow.

Now, I spend my days holding her and trying to build a world around her that doesn’t shake with explosions.

We don’t know what comes next. There is no clear path. We are walking toward the unknown, step by step — with our daughter in our arms and hope as our guide.

🧡 How You Can Help

This is why I’m asking for support. Not for comfort — but for survival. To help care for one baby girl who entered the world after everything else collapsed.

If you can spare anything, it will help us:

Cover basic needs, so we can breathe and heal

Support a path toward even the smallest stability in a place that has none

My husband manages the donations securely through a U.S.-registered Stripe account. Everything is converted to USDT and exchanged here in Gaza. The rates are difficult — $100 becomes only 245 shekels — but we use every shekel carefully, with full transparency and documentation.

🎨 Sharing a Piece of Me

I want to share more than my need. Over the next few weeks, I’ll begin posting some of my graphic designs from before the war. They are pieces of who I was — and who I still am.

They may not be perfect, but they hold something real: my story before the silence, and my belief that beauty can still live alongside survival.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you. If you can give — thank you. And if you can’t, just sharing this post is a form of support I will never forget.

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“What is that, going on out there?” He said. “That’s your simple idea. Simple. You create new life-forms, about which you know nothing at all. Your Dr. Wu does not even know the names of such things he is creating. He cannot be bothered with such details as what the thing is called, let alone what it is. You create many of them in a very short time, you never learn anything about them, yet you expect them to do your bidding, because you made them and you therefore think you own them; you forget that they are alive, they have an intelligence of their own, and they may not do your bidding, and you forget how little you know about them, how incompetent you are to do the things that you so frivolously call simple… Dear God…”

This goes so fucking hard

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What predatory behavior have you noticed?

The infamous CielStar scandal, a cosplayer/VO dubber who notoriously was a SebaCiel shipper and was arrested for multiple accounts of aggravated sexual assault of a minor and is a registered sex offender, not to mention the people who came forward during his* trial to talk about their experience being groomed by him.

*he is trans, so if you look into this further you'll find a mix of pronouns being used in forums, and she/her pronouns + his birth name used in court documents (he can't legally change it because he's on the Registry); but it's him alright.

Fans sending sexually explicit fanmail to Reo Uchikawa when he was 12/13 playing Ciel on stage (the company started screening his fan mail because of this)

Fans shipping Reo with Yuta Furukawa, which was particularly straining on their relationship (Yuta is an actual uncle and seemed to treat Reo like a nephew) and led to him changing the choreography in Tango on the Campania so fans wouldn't sexualise the scene where Sebastian is teaching Ciel to dance

I've also scrolled kuro blogs when deciding if I want to follow them and have found SebaCiel shippers whose blog were:

entirely dedicated to adult/minor ships (red flag) constantly sexualising children perpetuating the idea that pedophilia should be considered a distinct sexuality in the lgbt+ community

there are probably other examples, but this is what I can think of off the top of my head, and where my wariness mainly comes from

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rachel phantomhive you will never be famous

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all the cool kids are thinking about quizzes as another medium for storytelling btw. and also about frankenstein. anyway who wants to wake up in the laboratory

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sebastian's 362764819487819298482918377th situationship is calling pick up the telephone ciel

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Some after "Sinners" reading material if you're interested in Black American and Indigenous History (and the immigrants who came over, too). I put in the Jones-Rogers book too so y'all won't think the 58% had no serious role in shaping the horrors of America.

Adding this amazing "Sinners Syllabus" too for further resources to educate yourself. The books above are ones I have in my personal library, but some very cool people put together an entire webpage of information. Check it out HERE.

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As a person that not only loves music but also history Sinners (2025) was a masterpiece. As an Irish American I hope from the recesses of my heart that other Irish Americans reflect on Coogler’s message in making Remmick Irish. Reflect on what it means to come from oppression just to enact that oppression onto other ppl. I hope more educate themselves on not only Irish and Irish American history but also more about Black American history and how much our histories intertwine.

Anyway, go watch Sinners

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The portrayal of white people who have been violently separated from their own culture stealing the power of black culture and music to try to get reconnected was SO literal and somehow not at ALL heavy-handed or trite. Fkn remarkable.

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fiona apple is releasing a new song next week about the impact of pre-trial detention on especially Black mothers.visit lethergohome to learn about to learn about the injustices perpetrated against the 160,000 women and girls incarcerated in the united states every day and see a preview of fiona's upcoming song.

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Listening to Komm, Susser Tod while reading the New Yorker article “Everyone is cheating their way through college” by James D Walsh is so dystopian. Like the fact that this is our real life is so incomprehensible to me. The fact that no one can think for themselves any longer or actually want to put effort into their lives is so sickening. The fact that ppl my age parade themselves as activists that care about the world and those around them but will have ai “think” for them before they make even the slightest decision. People will destroy the planet as long as it furthers themselves in some way.

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the little lord and his loyal court

inspired by @heymarushii's art of a tea party

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One more meme and then I’ll draw something serious 😌

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I forgot how to color🥴

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