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Vatnajokull, Iceland by Himmel S

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the most romantic line in anime

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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime by Sorata Akizuki

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“what’s the hardest part about writing?” the writing.

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Because someone is on the ball, Turner Classic is playing (among other WWII films) The Great Dictator today.

If you haven't seen it, please do. It was produced by Charlie Chaplin in the late 1930s, when it became clear that the war was going to happen, and came out in 1940 after it had started. Essentially, Chaplin realized that his famous mustache was about to be usurped forever by a fascist, and that fascist was going to kill a lot more people in the future than he had already.

It's a parody, made before the worst horrors of the Nazi regime were known to the general public, so there is discomfort here (if you've seen Disney's Der Fuhrer's Face, you'll get the idea), but the movie ends with Chaplin essentially saying "fuck it, no one else seems to be speaking out about this and I'm going to use my platform to do that."

For context, this character is a Jew who has been mistaken for the dictator (for obvious mustache-related reasons), and has been sent onstage at a rally to give a speech. Instead of trying to impersonate Hitler, he says what he really thinks. And keep in mind, Chaplin was coming out of semi-retirement for this. It was the first time most people had ever heard him speak, and this is what he said:

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based on this post

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tfw you have a reputation to maintain but a sparkly alien keeps trying to become friends with you 😔✨️

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you love this world/you're willing to die protecting it

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What's the process if you're a superhero and you come out as trans

Do you tell your villains?

Do you keep it a secret so no one can connect Spider-Man with your secret identity for a while? Or do you pop a pronouns pin on your costume and the next time you web up Doctor Octopus and he goes "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME SPIDER-MAN" you go "Spider-Girl actually! I've been figuring out some shit"

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I can't believe Mr. Toei gets away with this

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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#Your fiancé just left you for your former bestie, you just saw the dead body of said best friend's sister, that sister turned a guy whom you convinced to date her out of pity into a tin man and now some random southern girl is singing about tornados

#She was having a day and decided to force her to walk the yellow brick road for nothing

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It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Haven’t been here much cause life and shit but Tumblr unironically changed my life. Yeah yeah this is the nerdy/meme place, but I learned more about myself here than I have in real life. I learned to express myself, discovered Undertale and To The Moon here, and connected with other people through Tumblr.

I can’t say this place has the same magic as it did for me back in high school, but I still like sneaking on here occasionally and seeing what’s up lately.

Thanks for 12 years ya’ll! 😊

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Love me a villain that is tragic and sympathetic but is also shown to have 70% of their problems be their own damn fault.