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this is fred, the dot.

fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

reblog to give fred a branch

i will post fred status updates as he grows

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To all the bots and scammers invading my messages and asks: tough luck buddy, I don't have a single cent to my name and I have no idea how I'm going to keep feeding my sister until she starts school again, so maybe try somewhere else and leave me alone.

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To be a fly on the wall during the Vatican Conclave Watchparty

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Ask thing!!

☾ : favourite word from your language

☆ : give the first lines of a song which is originally in your language

Hiya mate!

☾ : favourite word from your language

Love the word "diaphane". Feels like it sounds like its meaning!

☆ : give the first lines of a song which is originally in your language

"Les rois du monde / vivent au sommet / ils ont du monde autour..." AHEM. Euh. Not that one, wait.

Un jour on est venus au monde

Depuis on attend que le monde vienne à nous

Tant mieux si la route est longue

On pourra faire un peu plus de détours

L'avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent à l'heure où je me couche

Casseurs Flowters, À l'heure où je me couche

speak your language day ask

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This is so shameful. How could we have possibly allowed this heinous cruelty to come so far. We've failed the Palestinian people so egregiously, there aren't words to describe it. Bisan, I'm sorry. I am so unbelievably sorry. We don't deserve your forgiveness. Over and over again we repeat the same horrid acts of violence against each other. And over and over again we learn absolutely nothing. Millions upon millions of innocent lives are completely destroyed, and we have only ourselves to blame.

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Israel Announces Ethnic Cleansing and Permanent Occupation of Gaza

DOn 5 May, Israel's security cabinet unanimously approved a new plan to escalate operations in Gaza, including the "conquest" of the territory and the promotion of the "voluntary migration" of its population into Egypt's Sinai Desert.

Let's call this what it is: the annexation of Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of its citizens-all while we approach ten weeks of Israel blocking food and water to the population.

The approved plan includes several core elements: the military occupation of the Gaza Strip, full territorial control, and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians to southern Gaza, nearer to the Rafah border crossing into Sinai.

Ethnic cleansing has never been incidental to Israel's project it has been a core objective from the very start. The creation of the state itself was rooted in this goal, and decades later, its policies remain consistent in advancing it.

This is the collapse of international law. Palestine has laid bare a global system that not only permits genocide-but protects it, funds it, and cloaks it in the language of human rights.

We are so far beyond words. Beyond condemnation. What we are witnessing is indefensible: the greatest crime against humanity in our time.

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Let us start at the beginning. At its first level of reading, The Princess Bride is the story of Buttercup, the aforementioned Princess, and Westley, her great love, and of Westley's adventures with Inigo Montoya and Fezzik to be reunited with her, in spite of Prince Humperdinck's evil plans.

Part 2, or, what exactly is this novel about.

Meta-literature: the “mise en abyme” of the narration in William Goldman's The Princess Bride “This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it”. With these words, William Goldman provides us with the crux of the novel in our hands. He is the author, yet he is also the reader and the interpreter of this book which is all at once his and another writer's book. Convoluted? It is only the beginning.

An essay in four parts about metafiction, what a narrator is, and The Princess Bride.

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speak your language day asks!

☾ : favourite word from your language ♧ : favourite word from the english language translated in your language ✌ : favourite proverb/saying from your language ☮ : translate the first lines of your favourite song in your language ☆ : give the first lines of a song which is originally in your language ☯ : what do you love about your language? ☪ : what do you hate about your language? ❀ : which language(s) would you like to speak fluently? ♡ : which languages do you speak/have you learned in school? ❁ : which language(s) do you think of as the most beautiful? ✓ : funniest word in your language ϟ : translate a sentence

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King Henry VIII of England?

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Meta-literature: the “mise en abyme” of the narration in William Goldman's The Princess Bride “This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it”. With these words, William Goldman provides us with the crux of the novel in our hands. He is the author, yet he is also the reader and the interpreter of this book which is all at once his and another writer's book. Convoluted? It is only the beginning.

An essay in four parts about metafiction, what a narrator is, and The Princess Bride.

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If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

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Love the random censorship in Victorian novels. Mr. ------- came down from -----shire in the summer of 18--. Who? Where? When? Wouldn't you like to know, book boy

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Meta-literature: the “mise en abyme” of the narration in William Goldman's The Princess Bride “This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it”. With these words, William Goldman provides us with the crux of the novel in our hands. He is the author, yet he is also the reader and the interpreter of this book which is all at once his and another writer's book. Convoluted? It is only the beginning.

An essay in four parts about metafiction, what a narrator is, and The Princess Bride.