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Who else is looking forward to this

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Things I did not do today: fast, any useful progress on school stuff

Things I did do today: a bunch of cross-stitching

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hey, I was just at "things got better" island and everyone there is talking about how excited they are to meet you

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WHAT

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It’s eerie how much a young Robert Redford resembles Steve Rogers during the 1940s. We know that HYDRA couldn’t completely erase Steve from Bucky’s memory… but maybe they knew that, and manipulated it to their advantage:

Maybe HYDRA chose Pierce to be Bucky’s handler based on his striking resemblance to Captain America. Perhaps he rose through the ranks because of how well he could control Bucky, without using extreme violence. He would have been the perfect brainwashing tool.

So how many times did Pierce take Bucky’s love for Steve and use it against him? Is that partially how HYDRA made Bucky so complaisant, so willing to take orders from Pierce? 

A young Alexander Pierce would just have to smile at Bucky while spewing lines about Saving the World, and The Greater Good, and Bucky would have listened. It would have sounded so familiar to him, manipulating the part of his brain that would follow Steve Rogers anywhere.

The manipulation is especially noticeable in the vault scene. Seeing Steve on the bridge confused Bucky, but Pierce brings him back to focus by lecturing him about doing his part to shape the century. Bucky looks abashed, until Pierce says: “[if we don’t do our parts]…HYDRA can’t give the world the freedom it deserves”. Then Bucky really looks at Pierce, actually considers him for the first time:

He has a bite to his voice as he replies “But I knew him” – so different from his submissive behaviour seconds before – because now that he remembers Steve, he doesn’t implicitly trust Pierce. Bucky looks resentful, like he’s seeing the manipulation for what it is, though he doesn’t understand why.

Even as his memories return, Bucky could be wary and nervous of Steve, confused by HYDRA’s manipulations. It could explain why he’s running from Steve in Civil War.

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thoughts on Katy Perry/Justin Trudeau?

It genuinely doesn't even compute. It gives me a feeling of unreality. Lots of things nowadays make me feel like "we can't be living in the real world, this can't be happening" but this is by far the most lowest stakes thing that makes me feel that way

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AFI's 100 Greatest American Films Of All Time 96. Do The Right Thing (1989)

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For just one motzei Shabbat, I would like to log back on to good news

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one time i took a picture of a tiger at the zoo and the tiger smiled for the picture it was very great and the best picture i’ve ever taken

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contrapuntal poem: a poetic form that interweaves two or more poems to create a single poem that can be read in multiple ways, depending on how the poem is designed on the page; both as two separate poems and one as a whole.

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I doubt there's any way to format this on ao3, so tumblr gets...whatever this is! I think it could be better but these types of poems are always a fun creative writing activity that's a change of pace from anything long form (and I need more people to try their hand at them NOW because I LOVE a contrapuntal piece so bad please)

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what I think will happen if I message my mutuals

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Customer: VULCAN COMING OF AGE DMV: REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE FOR VULCANS STAR TREK Verdict: ACCEPTED

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"Only 7 left" Etsy. Look me in the eyes. It is a PDF pattern.

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the postmodern major general has blue hair and pronouns

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MAY YOUR DAY BE YAOIFUL ON THIS YAOI DAY EVERYONE 🥳🎉👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨💞

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Jumblr ask game:

🐷 Do you keep kosher?

🎂 Do you celebrate your hebrew, your enlgish or both birthdays?

🎉 Favorite chag (Jewish holiday)?

🐈 Favorite pet?

🐢 Do you do Tashlich and if so arae you a first day or last day type of person

🤬 have you ever gotten hate mail before and if so do you have a really fun hate ask you'd like to share to be mocked?

👿 Do you have horns? what about a tail? (i.e. what's your favorite purim costume)

📕 Whats your favorite Jewish book to study?

🥔 What is your shameful classic Jewish food confession?

🪿 Favorite funny Jewish joke?

👁️ favorite Jewish symbol

Send an emoji for an ask with Silly Jewish Ask Game to play

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It's called a Shema prayer. It's a declaration of faith in God. I lived with my grandmother when I was little and she and I used to recite it, every morning.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. It's Isaiah 40. I was an undergrad theology major...I don't know why I said that.

Noah Wyle as Dr. Michael Robinavitch and Gerran Howell as Dennis Whittaker THE PITT 1.14 ⟶ “8:00 PM” (2025)