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getting a new interest that it feels like nobody gaf about is so excruciating what do you mean people aren't going ham nuts over this thing. please start losing your minds

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Fuuuck we left the back door open last night andthe whole kitchen got out

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i think we should maybe start killing people

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me

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This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.

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i feel like fandom would really benefit from adopting the idea of readings, as in interpretations. anyone can interpret canon as saying anything on even the most tenuous of justifications. if you interpret a detail or moment in a particular way, great! but if someone interprets that thing in another way, even in a way which directly contradicts your interpretation, that’s also okay. multiple readings can exist at once without invalidating any of them

a lot of fandom drama seems to arise from people acting as if their interpretations are True or Factual in some way, when really all anyone can do is speak to their own interpretations & experiences. which is natural! and good! many voices with many interpretations and approaches is healthy and good. the trouble is depicting a reading, which is a very personal thing, as universally true, and then getting frustrated that others don’t interpret events the same way. & i get it, that can be annoying, especially if you think those other interpretations are misunderstanding the canon. but so much of the time it’s just a different reading, taking into account details you might not have noticed or maybe just viewing them in a different light, informed by different life experiences & values & everything else that goes into a personal interpretation of a creative work

by trying to depict One Single Reading of a text as Correct, fandom loses all the nuance of interpretation & also just turns everyone into a bunch of rabid raccoons fighting over different ways to look through the same kaleidoscope

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lake wants to kill and gnash and gnash my bones I think

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Unmarked masked men (aka secret police) claiming to be ICE arrested Brad Lander, the NYC comptroller and current mayor candidate, and refused to identify themselves or produce a warrant when asked.

Shits bad, y'all

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

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when the ao3 author is funny in the chapter notes and i get lowkey parasocial

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It speaks volumes to John and Chris’s acting that there’s always a subtle nervousness between Burt and Irving. Innie Burving is fluttery butterflies, the excited nervousness of navigating a newly budding romance. Outie Burving is the the constant slight feeling of unease, an amorphous feeling of danger, of something not feeling quite right. There’s never a comfortable domestic feeling. It’s always nervousness, the type just changes, and it’s brilliant.

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permission to lib out?

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Someone was asking in a thread what kind of people could work for ICE right now.

I think it's a good time to remember that the image above are the people who put children into gas chambers.

When I was little, I asked what kind of person could work at a concentration camp.

The answer to both questions I think is "normal people who have accepted the dehumanization of another group of people."