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Jedi Temple of Luke Skywalker

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"it's okay to live with your parents as an adult if you're disabled" "it's okay if it's a cultural thing" "it's okay if you're trying to save mon-" shh. listen. it is okay for any reason. you don't need to have a justification. if your parents are alright with it and you're alright with it you can just do it. peace and love on planet earth etc etc

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why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.

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Was star wars legends weird and stupid and kind of bad and contradictory to itself most of the time? Of course!! But at least it consistently had NEW IDEAS and FURTHERED ITS CHARACTERS and was GENERALLY UNMARKETABLE AND UNPROFITABLE so u know the freaks writing weird occasionally misogynistic sci fi were doing it for love of the sport and not corporate greed. Those bad stories had heart and also were mostly enjoyable and lots of them were actually good. Also mara jade was there.

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Just a little painting I did today.

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Berlin, Germany: Elisheva Chay prepares for her marriage ceremony after fleeing Ukraine with several members of the Odesa Jewish community at the start of the Russian invasion.

Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

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Lybian Jewish women adorned with heavy jewelry drinking tea, early 20th century.

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BLACK JEWS (…nuff said.)

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Have you noticed you can just spread rumors that a group of Jews who were assaulted were chanting gross anti Palestine stuff with no evidence and suddenly everyone thinks the Jews deserved it.

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most of the time a character isnt even that unlikable. most of the time a character is literally a traumatized teenager who is trying their best.

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Samira Abbassy (Iranian, 1965) - Apocalyptic Lioness (2022)

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Commitment Ceremony, New York City (1989) by Kathy Shorr

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*emerges from headphones covered in blood* the album's really good you should listen

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anybody else feel like they have blood on their hands and are drowning in a river of blood coming from the society and lifestyle we live or is it just me

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A while ago (and I’m talking a while ago) you posted a quote from Nabokov in an interview where he refers to Delores as “his poor girl” (“his” being Nabokov’s). It has stayed with me since I’ve seen it, and I was wondering if you had the link or screenshot to the post? I’ve tried to find it with no luck! :^(

Not to worry, I have most of Nabokovs banger quotes and their sources memorized. I believe you are referring to this quote from an interview with Herbert Gold where he was rebuking Golds statement that Humbert was touching:

"I would put it differently: Humbert Humbert is a vain and cruel wretch who manages to appear “touching.” That epithet, in its true, tear-iridized sense, can only apply to my poor little girl."

The source is here (Paris Review)

There are a few more similar instances in "Think Write, Speak" which is a collection of letters and interviews with Nabokov (these are all separate occasions through the years):

Lolita came out in English in August this year, published by Putnam. It’s my favorite book. The story of a poor, charming girl…

Most critics have failed to stress the pathetic side,” said Mrs. Nabokov. “It’s really a tragic story. Here, in the hands of this maniac is this poor girl—.” “And a very ordinary girl—” Nabokov put in….

One of my favourites for the viscerally horrible and fantastical imagery:

[S]he’s also a very touching character. Toward the end of the book, the reader and the author pity her, this poor child who has been sacrificed on the altar of motels.

This bit from the quote I have pinned:

Lolita isn’t a perverse young girl. She’s a poor child who has been debauched [... n]ot only has the perversity of this poor child been grotesquely exaggerated, but her physical appearance, her age, everything has been transformed...

And one that some people on this website should take to heart:

Q: How, then, do you explain the “Lolita cult”? How do you explain all these girls who move, act, dress, and talk like Lolita?

VN: I wouldn’t know. Perhaps it is a result of the way the popular press has distorted my poor Lo. It has come up with something that has absolutely nothing to do with the book or Lolita the character. Lolita is the story of a sad little girl in a very sad world. The “Lolita cult” is something completely different.

Hope this helped!