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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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i just wanna thank all the gif makers on here. y'all really keep this site alive and we don't freaking deserve you. thank you for all your hard work. tumblr is nothing without you.

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it's actually insane to me how arya stark gets so often misinterpreted as a character when she's so easy to grasp. she often gets criticized for being a 'not like other girls' type of character when she's just supposed to be a tomboyish girl living in an extremely patriarchal society that refuses to accommodate or accept people like her without trying to fundamentally change them. it's literally just it, a very basic concept, but she always ends up getting treated like she's a female misogynist somehow when that is simply not in the text.

arya never looked down on other women for being feminine; rather, she looked down on herself for not being feminine enough. she doesn't reject traditionally feminine pursuits, she's simply not interested and not good at them when she tries. she's introduced literally trying and failing to sew, then running away almost crying when she gets made fun of for it. she knows she's compared unfavorably to her sister and she resents that, being the 'ugly' one, being constantly mistaken for a boy. later in the series, when she says she's 'not a lady', unlike her sister and mother, it's because she thinks she's beneath the title, not the opposite.

this happens in great part because of how game of thrones adapted her (badly, she literally says 'most girls are stupid' at one point lol), but it bleeds into discussions of the novels as well and it always annoys me. i also think this stems from the urge to defend sansa from the undeserved criticisms her character frequently gets, which makes people more inclined to interpret arya uncharitably in comparison, but that's missing the point. both arya and sansa suffer under the patriarchal society of westeros and pitting them against each other in this context is laughable. the main reason why they could never understand each other when they lived together was precisely that, the pressure they felt to be good proper ladies (with arya 'failing' and sansa 'succeeding' at it) driving them apart

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I really don't care if Miley Cyrus smoked a bong. She's 18? She can live her own life...

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How could we know we'd rearrange all the cosmos? We crashed, and we burned, now I just can't go where you don't go.

Imperfect For You (2024) - Ariana Grande on Saturday Night Live

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my desi rapunzel designs (cuz she is) ☀️☀️

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the bond between mutuals who only share one or two fandoms is stronger than an entire fandom combined… I do not know what you are blogging about but you are right, pip-pip and bing-bong are homosexuals who crave blood and understanding and I will heart that in support

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deleting files makes me so scared what if i Needed That

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girlies don't forget to make yourself a little treat today little treats are so important for survival

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Do you ever write out a multi-paragraph rebuttal to something and then think “actually I do not want to get involved in this” and close it

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sorry I love this painfully mid media so much I could throw up

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what are you current top 5 songs from ttpd?

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the universal college experience, no matter your major, is learning how remarkably fucked everything is. except business majors theyre having a great time learning to do basic arithmetic and and staring at that one supply and demand graph where the line goes up

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SIENA ROSSO and ANTHONY BRIDGERTON

-> Bridgerton 1.08: After the Rain (2/3)

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we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....