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Same! He's wonderful!

Sorry for like. Not saying anything, but yesterday was Jospeh Merrick’s birthday. If you didn’t know, you should wish him a happy late birthday. My man’s not getting any deader, but I think it’d make him pretty happy if he weren’t so dead, and he deserves that.

I drew this last year, and I still stand by it. He seemed nice, and I would’ve liked to have met him, and gone to the theater with him, and hang out in his room and talk and stuff. I bet he had a gentle voice, speech impediment and all.

One of the historical figures I’d most want to get bubble tea with 🧋🖤

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Hi guys sorry i didnt make it today, i accidentally invented time travel and spent a week in 1884 smoking weed with joseph merrick

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I don't think he did opium, but the guy got up at 5am to study, then saw private patients, then went to work and came home late. He was probably on the Victorian equivalent of Monster.

Headcanon that frederick treves was an opium gremlin

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hiii not sure if where you are from is the same too, but in France and Spain little kids' teeth are taken by mice. Idk your mouserables reminded me of it, (and also Ernest et Celestine but that's kind of a stretch with another thing)

Hope you're having a wonderful day, love your work :D

OHHH THAT'S SO CUTE

new au, actually. Ratjean and Ratvert with human Cosette

she looses a tooth when she gets the black eye, and Ratjean brings her a coin in return. He then helps her escape her situation through rat shenanigans <3

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Listen, the absolute best thing about Kirk and Spock's dynamic in Star Trek: The Original Series, is the fact that when it aired, queerbaiting was literally not a thing that existed. The writers and producers would not have even fathomed of doing that shit on actual purpose. Which means that all of that homoerotic tension was totally unplanned and completely organic. Just a happy fucking accident. A byproduct of bomb ass on-screen chemistry. And I just think that that's really fucking rad.

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Today I saw a leaf that looked like a frog and I was like haha nice and then it hopped because it WAS a frog and I started crying bc life is really full of everyday miracles including but not limited to experiencing frogs

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i get what people mean when they say jean valjean was unjustly or unfairly put in prison but i feel like it's missing the point to say his sentence was an injustice. legally, his 19 years were 100% justified. he stole a loaf of bread and received the appropriate punishment of 5 years. he tried to escape and received the corresponding number of years each time. his total of 19 years was perfectly valid under the law. and that's hugo's point. the justice system is institutionally flawed. what is fair in the eyes of the law is not fair in the eyes of morality.

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"there should be some kind of test you have to take before having kids" -> wrong, extremely dangerous and highkey eugenicist and racist "the youth should have safe and effective legal pathways at their disposal to make sure their human rights are constantly protected and upheld" -> based, centers the youth, gives minors more power to fight inequality and does not reinforce the idea that parents are immune to scrutiny from their kids

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Watching fiddler on the roof with my friend or should I say my friend is trying to gaslight me into thinking that the sweetest man ever put to film (motel the tailor) isn’t the correct choice of these three village bachelors

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fiddler on the roof needs a bigger fandom. fotr fans where are you :( look at my twink tailor motel kamzoil! don't you love him?? /silly

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if i was tzeitel, i also wouldn't marry a guy named fucking lazar wolf. of course im going to go with the sweet tailor man who isn't being haunted by the ghost of his dead wife

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i've noticed that there is a bit of ingrained antisemitism in some non-jewish fiddler on the roof fans and im not gonna lie it really rubs me the wrong way. like they probably don't even know they're being kinda antisemitic in this way

here's what i mean. fiddler on the roof is about (shocker) jewish tradition and change. when you see tevye who cannot accept his daughter for marrying a non-jew, do you think, "oh, he's set in his ways, he's bigoted, he's just not modern enough, his (jewish) tradition is making him blind." ? whereas every time someone in my family would see it for the first time, literally everyone said, "it's a shame, but i absolutely understand why."

i think that's the most important thing -- do you understand why a man like tevye, a jewish man whose judaism is incredibly important to him, a jewish man who lives in the pale of settlement and whose village is under constant threat of pogroms, a jewish man who is alive in this period literally 2 years after the infamous kishinev pogroms (assuming this story takes place in 1905), a jewish man whose ancestors were constantly persecuted for being jewish (ESPECIALLY in the pale), a jewish man who is so remarkably proud to be jewish despite all of this --- do you understand why this man might be rightfully upset at his daughter for breaking the tradition that he and his people have paid with their lives to keep?

you can disagree with tevye's decision all you want -- i do too -- but like. if you don't see this you need to check yourself. fiddler on the roof is not just about the breaking of tradition -- it's about the breaking of tradition that is been their only method of survival for generations because they are Jews.

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Since nonnatives like erasing us so much

Happy indigenous history month and pride month to everyone, I hope every Indigenous, Métis, and Inuk person has a great month, if you're still struggling with the news there are a lot of new resources and numbers that may help

nonnatives dont add anything unless its support

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Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

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honestly i never thought the phrase “i want that twink obliterated” was like a sexual thing. like when i read the phrase i imagine “a meteor like the one that killed the dinosaurs is summoned from the heavens and hits the twink in question” type situation

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

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