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I had to look this up but, this is numbers 18:21: I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting. 

The motherfucker was trying to negate his tithe and act like that somehow made him extra righteous

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shinigami eyes says shes a transphobe so...

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honestly the fact the two of them arent smut is more surprising

there are 4 ever given/suez canal fics and two of them are smut. this is the world we live in

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I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

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what a wonderful day to remember and acknowledge that femicide is not a third world/latin american problem, we just happen to have active and effective enough feminist movements that we managed to both put a name to it and make it a prosecutable crime. 

just because you don’t put a name to it or collect specific statistics doesn’t mean the problem isn’t there, in fact it only serves to obscure very serious issues no one wants to talk about except from the safe distance of “this only happens in third world countries”.

get engaged about femicide in your communities now.

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Good.Those motherfuckers were getting too cocky

i bet those colors only shrimp can see suck major ass

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There was a scooby doo movie on a cruise

stop using hospitals as horror settings

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fucked up thneed

I got this ad on my Instagram (this post is not sponsored) and... what is it?? Do you like, put your head through the hole and wear this like a poncho, or 🤨

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No offense but if I followed someone and they posted about how weird it was i’d probably unfollow too

Someone followed me and when i checked all the ppl they followed, it was a bunch of celebrities blogs so uhhhhoney aren't you a bit lost in following me?

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Like at least the Kardashians have a tv show. I’ve seen a couple episodes, and like, as far as reality tv goes, it’s alright. Their lives are interesting, and when they aren’t, the writers make them interesting. what the fuck does the royal family have? every now and then one of them gets married? or caught visiting a child trafficking island? They’re boring, they’re evil, and they get paid a shit ton of taxpayer money to pretend to do a job that doesn’t really exist anymore.

Who's prince Philip and why do people want him to die

He's a British Royal and he's a British Royal

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Lmao fuckin nerd ass mellinials

Millennials are a well-behaved generation.

Studies show substance abuse disorders are 49% lower, delinquent behavior (like stealing and assault) is 34% lower, and teen pregnancy is 40% lower than in previous generations.

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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Please dont forget addicts when youre advocating for people with highly stigmatized mental illnesses. Addiction is a disorder and it deserves just as much visibility, acceptance and support as any other stigmatized mental illness.

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Apartment hunting has shown me that so many kids my age and younger openly broadcast that they are running away from abusive homes and that they are LGBT. I sympathize completely, but you do not under any circumstances need to be on a roommate finder website telling strangers on the internet that you are part of a vulnerable minority with no one back home who cares what happens to you... just say you are moving out, end of. Once you get to trust someone you live with then you can share the backstory. Internet safety is something that still matters.

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I fucking hate being amab because to make myself androgynous I basically just feminize myself So I’ll see some shoes and I’m like oh those are cute and I would look cute in them but then it’s like, those shoes would make me 6′4″

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@the-books-doctor @real-american I just wanted to let everyone know exactly how petty I am

Oh fuck guys we’re like halfway through Cheeto-finger’s presidency.