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Les Mis quotes for Protest Signs

Not being heard is no reason for silence

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The brutalities of progress are called revolution

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

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Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver

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I want to own a house and have a garden in the back and a fruit tree in front and I want to tell the neighborhood kids that they can come pick the fruits when they want as long as they leave some for others, and I want to host dinners for friends and make too much food and make everyone go home with some leftovers, and I want to grow vegetables in my garden and beg my neighbors to take all this zucchini off my hands or I'll have to eat zucchini for every meal for the next few months, and I want to give and feed and love but I need more goddamn money first

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I’m in math class and I don’t know what kind of pretty I want to be. The girl next to me is one kind, the kind Brandy Melville props up in windows and behind cash registers. White shorts expose her flat stomach without shame. When she walks, the flower tattooed on her hip flexes. She smiles with straight white teeth. She’s perfect. I don’t know her name. 

There’s another kind, smiling softly in the corner. A cloud of green hair fluffs around her face, framing her shadowed eyes. Dark clothes carve out the shape of her body. Maybe she’s not a girl. It doesn’t matter. They’re beautiful. I don’t know their name. 

A girl catches my eye as she walks in through the door and my head swims with want. Permed hair curls down the column of her neck. When she floats by, her jewelry sings golden bird song. She belongs on an Indie album cover, not in my second period. She’s wild. I don’t know her name.  

She’s sitting across from me with healthy black hair. A blush is painted across her round face. A pink shirt dips to reveal her cleavage. There’s just something about her I can’t describe, a magnetism that makes me want to live in her skin, even for just a second. She’s sweet. I don’t know her name. 

I don’t know a lot of things. But I know I want to be pretty. Pretty like those girls I don’t know. 

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“oh I’m too old for stuffed animals” skill issue. sorry you can’t appreciate little creatures made to hang out with you, I on the other hand am full of joyous whimsy and therefore vastly superior.

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I NEED A HERO, the bloodied knight returning to his lady.

Tip jar

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Imagine my surprise seeing a post about me being a tiny internet mystery, really gave me a good laugh!

I’ve since moved onto other fandoms after my departure and continue making comics for the media I love, I do regret leaving the ghost hunter au comic on a cliffhanger tho so sorry about that 💀

My art style has changed quite a bit since and I’m very much active online so you might see me around without knowing it 🤫

Again, thanks for the laugh! Take care

-spork

Oh my god, hihihihi Miss Spork! Your art has brought me so much joy and I’m happier that you’re doing work you love, instead of putting your energy into something you feel obligated to continue and you low-key dodged a bullet. Thank you so much for leaving a message, I’m glad I made you laugh. I look forward to seeing you again, even if I don’t recognize you :)

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some very cool happenings from last thursday :)

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lmao, some blog reposted this and their entire page is just unbridled Haunting Adeline lust. Girl, I’m talking about you.

BookTok will defend their favorite character by being like, “Yeah he murders and tortures people and is a super toxic person but he’s a feminist! He would never hit a woman!” And then proceed to point at a man who is, in deed, a misogynist

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I had a Canva template and a dream lmao

@neal-illustrator I love your art and the Famtheon and I hope you like this collage I made!

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I know its probably not but the idea that superman 2025 and the batman take place in the same universe at similar times is so funny to me. All this weird shit is going on with aliens and pocket dimensions in metropolis and then like an hour away its serial killer twitch streamers and the saddest wettest emo boy

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Sometimes I forget my own humanity. Not in an evil way. But in a way that makes me think about rabies and Alzheimer's, how I'm just a body and everything I don't care about can be taken in a heartbeat. I think about the APT and the glucose and the macrophages, how the body can be broken down into little pieces without any distinction for who I am as a person. I think about the hydrogen shot out in the Big Bang and the hydrogen floating in my body. I think about the iron in Betsy Ross's needle and the iron in my American blood. I think about dinosaurs walking over the soil of what will be Ha Noi. It happens even when I'm busy. Music flows into my ears and fingers move over a keyboard, and I'm still not there. I forget. I forget my name, and my life, and I think about how small I am, how insignificant. Sometimes this happens right after watching TV for too long, and the sudden shock of stopping my voyeurism of people that do not exist in a place that does not exist makes me shudder. Is this common? Does anyone else feel a little soulless every now and then?

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IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Chapter one, Medicine for Magicians, is up on AO3! It’s The End of the World as We Know It is an apocalypse/college au of Nevermore inspired by The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold.

Author’s note: Most fanfiction is a portal to escapism. This is a trampoline. You will indeed escape, but I will constantly throw you back into the real world. Chapter one and all chapters onward include references to current events, especially the ongoing climate crisis. Chapter one depicts people not being able to access their medication. If any of the content is triggering or stressful to you, please don’t force yourself to read it.

And now for some visualizations. This is what Eulalie’s puffer jacket is inspired by.

And this is what I meant when I said Eulalie looked like a spectre.

This is the look she’s giving the guys at the end lol

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Prediction for Lore Olympus: Rekindled Episode 72: Apollo is coming to visit her because he found out what happened with Alex from Alex (he is the god of truth after all). A fight between Apollo, Kore, Persephone, and Hades ensues. I think it’ll be mainly physical between Apollo and Hades but I’d love for Persephone to just fucking decimate Hades. Finally, Apollo and Kore get chased off the property by Zeus or Hera.

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And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3  ❤️‍🔥

https://taylor.lnk.to/TSTheLifeofaShowgirl

Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift 📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

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LITERALLY

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The Life of a Showgirl Limited Release Deluxe CDs. It’s Beautiful. It’s Frightening. It’s Rapturous. Available for 72 hours while supplies last. ❤️‍🔥

Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift 📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott