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shuri constantly teases peter about how much more advanced wakanda is and he usually can’t tell that she’s kidding. he’ll be like “i should get some sleep now” and she’s like “you still have to sleep? lmfao” and peter lays awake trying to figure out if that was a joke

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Marchesa | Resort 2009

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look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

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the movie was amazing, p.s. m’baku is my favorite

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[talking about the body i inhabit] “idk i just work here”

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ill block you. ill block your whole family. i’ll come to your house. steal your phone. block myself

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God when a random dude sends u your bitmojis being amorous together n you’re like. Did I say that your bitmoji could cuddle my bitmoji no I don’t think I did so don’t touch her don’t look at her she is my digital consciousness n she doesn’t wanna talk to you right now

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Im glad Thor Ragnarok is successful but the movie makes me deathly afraid because the sheer possibility that its gonna revive the 2012-2013 tumblr-hiddleson obsession fills me with a fear that can’t be explained and i dont think im strong enough to survive that again

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Vladislav Lantratov as the Evil Genius in Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet)

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One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it

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at a United Nations assembly

t'challa: thank you for your time everyone. Now, I believe my cousin and trusted advisor, N'Jadaka, would like to say a few words

killmonger: *lips right on the microphone* eating ass is the only ethical consumption under capitalism

t'challa: why are you like this

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This is gonna boost use of Bing way more than any tv commercial campaign could hope

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Angel Ruiz de la Casa (Spanish, 1938–)

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Winds of change

my entry for @dorianartbook​ Fortitudo! 💕 It was an honour to be able to participate in this project for such a great cause, I want to thank everyone involved, you are all incredible!! the book is jawdroppingly beautiful!!

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One of the world’s best-loved operas has been given a radically different ending in Italy, with the heroine killing her tormentor rather than being killed herself, in a stand against violence to women.

In Bizet’s original story, Don José is a naïve soldier who is lured away from his military duties and his childhood sweetheart by Carmen. But she then falls for the handsome bull-fighter Escamillo, driving Don Jose wild with jealousy. The last act of the opera is set outside the bullring in Seville, where Carmen is stabbed to death by Don José.

In what is believed to be a world first, a production of Bizet’s Carmen will see Carmen shoot her thwarted admirer Don José with a pistol that she grabs off him, rather than being stabbed to death by him.

The dramatic departure from operatic orthodoxy is an attempt to shine the spotlight on the modern-day abuse and mistreatment of women, an issue given added resonance by the outrage over the behaviour of Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.

The new version of Carmen will open at Florence’s opera house this weekend, with the first few nights already sold out.

“As far as we know it is the first time that the ending to Carmen has been changed,” the opera house’s Paolo Klun told The Telegraph.

The producers said they had changed the denouement of the story in part to protest at the large number of Italian women who are killed each year by jealous husbands, boyfriends and lovers.

Sociologists and campaigners say it is driven by men feeling threatened by the greater freedoms and enhanced economic independence that many Italian women now enjoy after decades of being seen as pliable possessions.

With horrific cases of domestic violence coming to light almost every month, the directors of the work said they were uncomfortable with the idea of audiences applauding the final scene, in which Carmen is stabbed to death and lies motionless on the stage.

“At a time when our society is having to confront the murder of women, how can we dare to applaud the killing of a woman?” said Cristiano Chiarot, the head of the opera house, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. […]

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine + Valentine’s Cards