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T’Challa plays Black Jeopardy. (x)

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“Staying quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say, it means I don’t think you’re ready to hear my thoughts.”

— Unknown

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Palestinian medicine woman and her pipe..

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I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Robin Williams (b. 21 July 1951)

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“You know you really love someone, When you don’t hate them for breaking your heart.”

— ThePersonalQuotes

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There was never any distance between anything at all.

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Ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags (cut for length)

misschandlerives:

Thanks for the tag!!

1. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

2. Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)

3. Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

4. Jonathan Byers (Stranger Things)

5. Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)

6. Thomas Barrow (Downton Abbey)

7. John Miller (Saving Private Ryan)

8. Remus Lupin (Harry Potter)

9. Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones)

10. Matt Murdock (Daredevil)

Tagging: @witchmd13 @invisibility-superiority @arthur-rex @thebookluvrr1816 and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it

Tagged: @misschandlerives 💚 (arthur-rex ooc)

1. The Core Four (Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, Morgana) (BBC Merlin)

2. Samwise Gamgee & Gandalf - tie (LOTR)

3. 12th Doctor (Doctor Who)

4. Light (Death Note)

5. Mewtwo (Pokémon: The First Movie)

6. Daenerys Targaryen & Drogon (Game of Thrones)

7. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)

8. Captains James Kirk & Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek)

9. Qui-Gon Jinn & Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

10. Aslan (The Chronicles of Narnia)

...in a lot of these fandoms it really is impossible to pick just one character. 

Tagging: @miladys-servant-gwen @sorceress-queen @thewritcrinme @lespendragons @cassiusthecorrupterofsouls @camelotsheart @legowolas @tcs-main @annabeth-starkid @bilan-igg (if you’d like, as always no obligation)

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“How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.”

— Khalil Gibran

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what is like... the most on brand, stereotypical zodiac sign trait is true for you?

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Jasmin Lee Cori, The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect

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Yes, but until the British voting public start wising up and getting more involved in politics in general, such as reading up on the voting records of politicians rather than being spoon fed who to vote for based on newspapers, social media and "public opinion" - nothing will change.

The Lib Dems put a different voting option than First Past the Post to a public referendum back in 2011. Only 42% bothered to vote. Yes, AV isn't quite PR, but it could have got the ball rolling towards a very different electoral system (and consequently a very different setup of political parties in power) than what we have now.

The fact we have an entrenched Tory Party on steroids is partly due to the fact that the current ilk are moving fast to cement their power base (using the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 amongst others to achieve this) and partly due to the fact that still so many of us Brits are being reactive (and have been for years) to all this bleak news rather than proactive.

Here are a couple of points to consider, rather than venting off steam and getting more upset/angry online:

Mass civil disobedience works better than protesting (and leads to less violent outcomes). Support strikers. Criticise newspapers that tell us not to support strikes.

Communicate with your local MP more. Email them, you can get direct access to their email on this site: https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/

Sign petitions. Attend community surgeries. Raise your concerns with local and elected representatives. If you've got the time to watch the latest episode of some drama on Netflix, you've also got the time to send an email and begin to engage in the political process.

Refuse to pay for goods and instead share second-hand resources (books, films, clothes, surplus food, home appliances, baby goods, etc) freely within your local community. Bypass the capitalist system. Bleed the big companies dry of their money. We don't need more of their products. We have everything we need already if we band together. True power resides in the people.

Make friends with individuals within your local police force, within your local political parties, within every institution you can think of. Have rich friends, have poor friends. Recognise that the priviledged in society operate on fear just as much as the oppressed do. Break that cycle of apathy. Do not succumb to hate. Build understanding of what is more important: we either work together as humans or we destroy each other.

Always support the underdog.

whoever the fuck i saw saying “i can’t stand english bitching because they’re so complacent” and whoever else thinks we’re not doing enough i’d like to invite you to DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH.

a law was recently passed that deemed any kind of protesting as disruptive and able to be punished by the police, alongside giving the police more power.

we all watched the police storm the PEACEFUL VIGIL for sarah everard - a woman raped and murdered by a police officer.

PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY BEING ARRESTED FOR OUTWARDLY EXPRESSING ANY SORT OF DISPLEASURE WITH THE MONARCHY.

A WOMAN WAS ARRESTED FOR HOLDING UP A SIGN. JUST HOLDING IT.

PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR BOOING.

everything in britain has been put to a standstill. hospital appointments have been cancelled. funerals have been cancelled. we can’t do anything about it.

many of us will be unable to pay our energy bills this winter. we will freeze. we will starve.

it has been demonstrated to us time and time and time again that protests simply make people talk about how we were protesting and never why. and now the police has increased power to punish us for any public opinion that they don’t like.

we have been under tory rule for 12 years. 12 years of the same people - hey americans, can you imagine that?

we are tired, no, we are exhausted. we are struggling. we are scared. and it has been made clear to us that our government does not care.

so fucking forgive us if we’re putting our own survival over the opinions of americans (and other non-brits but americans are the worst) online who expect us to learn everything about their politics and their country and don’t put in an ounce of effort to learn about ours.

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one of the hardest pills to swallow is accepting the fact that you can’t force someone to care, to love you, to be invested. it either comes naturally or not at all. 

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There is no "after the revolution." No "ideal world." I don't care how much progress we make, we will always fail someone, hurt someone, and the best thing we can do is accept that, and keep striving to make it better as we go.

And don't get me wrong, I don't say this to discourage anyone from trying to make that ideal world. Quite the opposite.

I feel like it's very naive to continue to approach these big changes we want to make in the world as if there's an "after it's all over" when we don't have to worry about it anymore.

We should always be striving to make life better, even when life seems pretty damn good.

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NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)