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Saw this tweet foever ago n now i keep thinkin bout how making any character ever Canadian is funny as fuck. Theyre all canadian now

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came back late. what the hell's a boop

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Not everyone is tired of hearing from you. Not everyone is waiting for you to fail. Not everyone is upset with you. Not everyone is using you.

I’m sorry if others in the past have made you believe otherwise.

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wrestling fans be normal & not degenerate challenge

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i'd rather see 1000 graffiti penises than 1 product billboard. i'd live in dick city if it meant i could avoid advertisements in my daily life.

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There's a tweet that's gone viral where a person laments realizing that Star Wars "ripped off" Dune, and how learning all the elements Star Wars took from its inspiration tainted it. And I think it shows how poisonous the emphasis on originality in art can be. Because yes, it's wonderful when art makes something new, but it's also wonderful seeing how art plays on what came before, and the conversations it has with its predecessors.

There's going to be a lot of people talking about how much of an impact Goku from Dragon Ball Z has made on fiction in the wake of Akira Toriyama's recent passing, and all the characters who were inspired by him and his story. But Goku himself is derivative - he's inspired by the Monkey King from Journey to the West, one of the first novels ever written. He's far from the first character inspired by the Monkey King, either, and also far from the last.

None of this makes Goku's impact any less than it is. None of this decreases how Goku's story has inspired countless imitators. Just as Toriyama created a new icon from imitating what he loved about Journey to the West, so did Toriyama inspire countless artists to make their own iconic works with his take on the Monkey King's archetype. Goku is, in many ways, the heir to a legacy that spans back to the 16th century, and likely beyond - because I doubt the original Monkey King was formed in a vacuum.

We're taught to think that originality and imitation are opposites that cannot coexist, but they're not mutually exclusive. One can follow in another's footsteps and still take a new journey with its own unique twists and turns. The great works of art are not spawned in the absence of inspiration - they are in conversation with what came before and what will come after.

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It is much easier to hate nazis and conspiracy theorists than it is to love Jews.

It is much easier to puff out your chest against a hypothetical, obvious villain than it is to help the real people they exploit.

I gently challenge allies to ask themselves today: "Where am I directing my energy? Am I putting in the work to show the world how much I hate nazis, or am I putting in the work to uplift Jews and Jewish voices?"

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how is saying "i believe jewish people have the right to live in and maintain a state in the land we're indigenous to" seen as a violent statement by antisemitic leftists, but "death to israel" isnt? i know it's probably something to do with how this sort of leftist views death as something that is either a) a noble action or b) something someone deserves. or it's death being used to mean eradication by someone who for some reason doesnt understand that destroying medinat israel would cause so much pain, suffering, and death.

whatever it is it's an awful thing to say and extremely ignorant. it shows that these people view other nations as toys and dont actually understand or care what destroying one would do to the citizens living there and likely citizens of surrounding nations. plus also either they understand that israel also can refer to the jewish people or they still havent learnt the differences between medinat, eretz, and am yisrael. im scared when someone says "death to israel" bc wanting to destroy the only jewish state is bad enough, and they could mean wanting to destroy the people of Israel as well. personally i dont wanna give people the benefit of the doubt when it endangers jewish lives

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Liebe für Sie, O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-11-2009 © ČT24

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Reblog and put in the tags the fourth song that’s in your spotify on repeat playlist

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hey, whatever happened to franz ferdinand?

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Part of reading JTHM in middle school VS reading it again as an adult is realizing that Johnny is not at all a sympathetic figure and that he is, in fact, written to be the most pathetic annoying man on the planet (positive)

Me in middle school: "He's just like me fr" Me now, as an adult: "Oh my god man, will you shut up?"

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Can we talk about Richard face on this picture

I really don't know what too think..

And how funny iss

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My favorite mentally sane person!! /j

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proving a point

reblog please i am trying to win a bet