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Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee God's Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee The Living End (1992) dir. Gregg Araki Burnt Money (2000) dir. Marcelo Piñeyro Shelter (2007) dir. Jonah Markowitz Mario (2018) dir. Marcel Gisler Massacre River (1949) dir. John Rawlins

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"I would never-"

You would if you were tired enough. You would if you were hungry enough. You would if your mind and body had been worn down enough, through pain or disease or toil or violent struggle. You might if you were put on the wrong medicine, or you got the wrong kind of head injury, or you were forced to choose between someone else and yourself. You might if your livelihood was staked on it, or all your hopes and dreams. You might if you didn't know what else to do, if it's what you were taught or if nobody taught you anything else.

I have not been worn down in most of these ways. I have lived a remarkably privileged life. But I have been worn down in some ways. And they were enough to teach me that in the wrong circumstances, any of us can become someone we don't want to be. It's worth keeping that in mind.

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the thing with jaime is that killing aerys was the objectively right thing to do but because him doing it was dishonorable he was branded a kingslayer and scorned, never recieving so much as a thank you for it even though everyone around him was grateful and certainly not honorable either. and so he rejected the concepts of "honor" and "doing the right thing" because what was the point of caring about those things if it seemed no one ever did and he lived and thrived that way, because in King's landing honor and justice gets you nothing at best and, as ned stark's head showed, dead at worst. until he meets brienne, a woman whose sense of honor and justice literally only gets her ridicule, scorn and harm and who embodies the very values that make a knight despite knowing she can't ever reap the praise and rewards of being one, and yet still continues to adhere to them because it's the right thing to do and his entire world is rocked because maybe, maybe, it's not about praise and rewards but about just doing the right thing because it IS the right thing. yeah he hasn't fully gotten there yet but you know, step by step

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Riverlands tourism board has to be insane

Like do you want to visit the

Cursed castle ruins

Magic lake

River

Possibly cursed but definitely magic island in the middle of the magic lake

River

Battlefield

Battlefield

Castle ruins that are also maybe a little cursed but def less than the other one

Battlefield

River

Battlefield again but this one's ALSO a river and you can go panning for riches!

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broke: the Pharisees were so EVIL, that's why Jesus TOTALLY OWNED them lolzzzz

woke: The Pharisees believed that the Messiah wouldn't come back until people's hearts were holy, so they were trying to save the Jewish people by imposing rules that they thought would lead to their deliverance

BESPOKE: The Pharisees were trying to hold onto the culture and religious identity that had held the Jewish people together for centuries, just as modern Christians can be so attached to tradition and political identities that they overlook radical love and change. Without tradition and rules, there is no order, no unity, no culture, and no sense of purpose. Yet, with too much legalism, we ignore the reason God gave us rules and customs and become thoughtless robots instead of life-long explorers of the Divine. The only way to balance these opposing ideas is through finding identity through life-changing encounters with Jesus, just like Paul, who was both a Pharisee and one of the most radical advocates for grace, mercy, and salvation through faith.

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You believe important and powerful Hebrews may be there? Possibly. You're very keen, Simon. In fact, the most important and powerful person I know will be there. Yeah? My mother.

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Links to Pacific Rim creator Travis Beacham's own posts on drift compatibility and drifting

Drift compatibility is psychological, not genetic

The better you know someone, the more likely you are to be drift compatible

Drift compatibility is potential, not fate

Drift compatibility can be a choice

Friendship is the foundation of drift compatibility

The drift requires trust

Trust is fundamental; also drift compatibility can be determined with anything that tests how well you can anticipate each others' moves

That even includes multiplayer video games

Many cadets wash out during Pons training when secrets come out in the drift and shatter their relationships

A lot of pilots get messed up by flinching over sexual thoughts

Trying to avoid thoughts just makes them worse

Not everything you see in the drift is always real; also the way to deal with thoughts is just let them flow by

Pilots communicate through "headspace"

Illustration of a conversation in headspace

First drifts can be very confusing, because partners don't understand each others' minds very well yet

The drift exposes pilots to each others' raw, unfiltered thoughts

Raleigh knew what Yancy was going to say

The drift doesn't let you read your partner's mind like a database, and you may not necessarily understand what you see. Also when Pentecost says he carries nothing into the drift he means he's calm and stable.

Pentecost gained this calmness through meditation

Trying to block your partner from your mind will make you lose control of the Jaeger

Pilots who fall below 90% sync will be in trouble

General information plus info on RABITs

You can chase your partner's RABIT

Another post confirming you can chase your partner's RABIT

More RABIT info

More general information

Travis Beacham defines ghost drifting

Partners' personalities can rub off on each other

Neural overload doesn't hit you all at once; it accumulates

The time a pilot can go solo varies, and it's a steep curve from fine to dead

More info on solo piloting

Being high in the drift probably makes it harder to avoid chasing the RABIT

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Hashirama: *look of dawning horror* wait. You brought a child to the battle?

Madara: yes? Only as a lookout, though. I know your clan, under your orders, is honorable enough not to kill a child. He’s safe.

Hashirama: you misunderstand. *whips around to Touka* TOUKA. WHERE THE FUCK IS MY BROTHER

Madara: what???

Tobirama: *sees child*

Tobirama: *calmly, in a regular even voice* who brought the child?

Hashirama: fuck, he scares me

Tobirama: *picks up kid*

Touka: double fuck

Madara: what is going on?? Why are you freaking out??? Why is the white demon holding my cousin?!?!

Tobirama: ah, he’s your cousin? *hits Madara over the head* well, he’s mine now. No take backs. *leaves with the kid*

Madara:

Hashirama:

Izuna: what the fuck just happened

Touka: Tobi has an adoption problem.

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A brief summary of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty

Octavian/Augustus - he has a reputation associated with peace but you will get a little ill once you look at all the collateral damage around him and that reputation ie. It's easy to institute a regime of peace when you've murdered everyone who might oppose you

Tiberius - when a chronic people pleaser finally get into a position of power and still no one thinks they're good enough and they finally reach burnout and fuck off to their vacation home indefinitely

Caligula - the first emperor in the long litany of reasons why people whose brain has not fully developed should NOT be given access to unlimited power. Little Boots is either insane or the absolute champion at taking the piss out of the elite and there isn't really a third option

Claudius - an icon for overcoming disability and bullying and knowing how to delegate administration appropriately. Also this man gave his wives a lot of mobility (for the time) so we stan in spite of the sources trying to smear him for that very thing. Also this man was SUCH a nerd and I wish they hadn't destroyed his history of the Civil Wars but that's the Augustan propaganda machine for ya even near kin isn't safe from censorship

Nero - take one traumatic childhood add a flare for the dramatic and then give them unlimited power before their brain is fully developed and now it's like Caligula but with more pizzazz. Nero is literally what happens when that obnoxious rich kid who's into theater gets absolutely unlimited money and power and nothing to curtail his flare for a spectacle.

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He's jealous. Stepfather.

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I…brought you a letter. Gaius asks for your help to solve a crisis in his affairs. I would never suggest that you might have provoked a calamity that only you could resolve in order to remind Gaius what a divorce would really cost him.No, but, even I underestimated the resentments buried deep in Agrippa and his tortured jealousy towards Marcellus. Things were said between Gaius and Agrippa that should never have been said. It's possible their schism is terminal.

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Oh, I know. After my service in the army, I'll stand for office after office 'til I end up in the fucking Senate like grandfather. He never complained.

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DOMINA ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 4

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They never cared about me. Well, then I don't care about them.

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Augustus and Livia in IMPERIUM: AUGUSTUS (2003)

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