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Holes (2003) dir. Andrew Davis

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MANIFEST

MANIFEST

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["i could love someone even if i wasn't paid for it. i love you and you don't pay me" // "i love you" "it will pass" // "am i intolerable" "if you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you" // "you dreamt of me?" "no i thought of you" // "i'll take care of you" "it's rotten work" "not to me. not if it's you" // "i figured you'd love me jo" "i don't see why i can't love you as you want me to" // "if i loved you less, then i might be able to talk about it more" // "even though you have broken my heart yet again, i wanted to say, in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you" // "you're in a car with a beautiful boy-"]

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This hit home, and I think it will resonate hard with all my creative friends, here. You are amazing and brilliant and I BEG YOU to keep creating!! ❤️❤️❤️

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my favourite thing about The Boys is that the two characters who personify the peak of Americanism and the peak of Britishness are both portrayed by New Zealanders

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i really will say my favorite thing about this season is just the fact that the cast cannot stop laughing. everything alex says has ally or izzy screaming. honestly ally is dying at everything. the amount of breaks they have to take just to laugh and play and have bits it’s just. god it’s so fun!! they are so good at what they do that they make their friends scream laughing i just. what a wonderful season and we’re only two episodes in

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i know an engineer-type dude who said fiction bored him, because fiction is mostly-formulaic and tropey, and you can generally guess what’s gonna happen next, and yada yada

so his solution for this problem was… to solely read serial web novels in languages that (1) he did not speak, and (2) for which there was no actual translation, fan or otherwise

apparently, the combined forces of “trying to figure out WTF is going on via the power of Google Translate" + “cultural differences in storytelling conventions” + “the inherent randomness of where the hell amateur authors are gonna take their plots”—those all mashed up to make stories that were unpredictable enough to keep him guessing all the time

then he described to me this totally batshit-sounding Hungarian story he’d been obsessively reading once a week for years

and god i think about him all the time.  like.  that is the most wild way to process fiction that i have ever heard of, but also, i’ve gotta admire the sheer chaos energy of it

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I've been musing a bit on that one post that went around during the recent holiday season, to which someone added their family tradition of Present Practice. My god! Imagine actually telling kids what behavior is expected, instead of expecting them to intuit it and punish them when they get it wrong!!

Separate post because this topic is a little tangential to that, but I think it does a great job of unearthing one of our very well-hidden internal biases, which goes as follows:

Good people don't need to be taught.

A good person (in this case, a good child) shouldn't need to be told to be gracious and grateful when given a gift. A good child should just know that a holiday tradition of gift-giving is a social performance to strengthen family bonds and that personal preference or genuine reactions are secondary to that performance. A good child should just know how to value gifts, how to express thanks, how to praise and compliment. No caretakers in their lives should need to put any effort into instructing or modeling these things.

Good people should just know how to be good. If they were really Ontologically Good, their inherent goodness would simply intuitively guide them to correct behaviors. If they can't do that on their own, in a vacuum, in the absence of cues, that's a sign of their inherent moral lack.

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...Which all sounds very reasonable and obvious, and surely a mistake that only fundie christian families would make! Except that people in the social justice sphere also do this all the time. It's not anybody's job to educate you. You should know this already. If you were a Good Person, you wouldn't need to be taught. You would simply intuit the correct philosophies and gravitate to them according to your superior internal moral compass.

If you were a Good Person, you would already know that everything you were taught by your family and/or background was wrong. You should have rejected it already. You should have cut off your family, your heritage, everything about your childhood and upbringing that was Bad and Wrong. You should have known it was all a lie.

If you were a Good Person, you should be able to find the correct way yourself. You should be able to seek out the proper educational resources, and distinguish them from bad advice leading you astray, and make sense of them all according to your own internal moral code.

If you were a Good Person, you would have found your way by the proper, ascetic, official channels, not by reading a comic or watching anime. You shouldn't need entertainment or art to guide you. You should just know.

And if someone can't do these things on their own, in a vacuum, in the absence of cues, that's a sign of their inherent moral lack.

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did the dinosaurs look at the meteor and thought "how pretty"?

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in light of there being a huge pro-life march in my city and the fear of us getting very close to criminalising abortion, i want to share an EU citizens’ initiative called ‘my voice, my choice: for safe an accessible abortion’ and ask if you’re from the EU to take a minute and sign it. they need 1 million signatures to send the proposal and every little helps. stay safe and i love you 💖

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To Fellow STAYs:

I implore you boycott the upcoming release of Lose My Breath ft. Charlie Puth. We should stand together against Zionism and human rights violations. We should all come together to stand against genocide.

On top of being a Zionist, Charlie Puth has also been known as a misogynist, rape apologist, trump supporter and someone like that does not deserve your streams, money nor attention. Charlie Puth should be de-platformed. Please remember that before we are fans, we are human.

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btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.

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it's not a coincidence that there's a rise in collaborations between zionist brands/companies/creatives and companies/artists in the kpop industry. as they're shunned by different medias, they are seeking out new audiences.

art is and will always be a powerful political tool. be critical of what you see, who your favourites work with and please, if you can, speak up and boycott songs, comebacks, collaborations and events.

art is and always will be political. don't turn a blind eye.

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accounts on twitter that you can follow that are mobilizing fandoms and spreading info about palestine and the boycott:

HYBE Boycott Updates

ARMY for Palestine

Carat For Palestine

Engene for Palestine

MOA4PALI

flover4Palestine

p1eces for peace

StayForPalestineGlobal

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Rapper Macklemore posts on Instagram a song in support of Palestine called “HIND’S HALL” that will be on streaming platforms soon and all proceeds will go to UNRWA

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if you had read the story of hind raghab, if you had seen the picture of the child hanging from a pole, its lower body shredded, if you had seen the boy carrying pieces of his brother in a body bag, if you had known the soul of my soul, the story of refaat, and the countless war crimes israel has committed just in 7 months then you wouldn’t stream the song skz is putting out with charlie puth, a zionist and overall bad human, and that israeli producer. you would send a clear message that zionism isnt welcome in any capacity in any medium and you wouldn’t want to fund people who support its hateful ideology. this isnt a matter of being a skz anti and im so fucking tired of people painting it as such. where do you draw the line for your morals?