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someone's probably already said this but "friends of Mara" reminds me of "friends of Dorothy" and I don't think it's a coincidence and I love it.

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you aren’t a bad person for having “bad” teeth. you’re not less worthy of love or respect because your teeth are cracked/broken/crooked/discolored. ppl with “bad” teeth deserve better

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MONKEY MAN (2024)

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Congo: The Genocide that implicates us all

Heavy fighting erupted in 2023 between the Congolese Army and several armed groups, most notably the M23 militia, escalating an already disastrous situation. Thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. At present, there are 7.1 million displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Violence of this scale is not without precedent, with the conflict in Eastern DRC leading to an approximate 6 million deaths since 1996.

In November 2023, an unidentified man in the capital Kinshasa set himself on fire while holding a sign reading “Stop the Genocide in Congo.” Another man, Cedrick Nianza, did the same in 2011 while shouting Congo na nga, Congo na nga (my Congo, my Congo).

Violence and conflict inflicted on the people in the Congo is not new. Over a century ago, one of the worst atrocities in recorded history occurred with King Leopold II’s genocide of 10 million African people to control the rubber trade during his colonial rule over Congo from 1885 to 1908.

The modern conflict includes ethnically motivated killings, which have been a frequent reality in Congo since the spillover from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people occurring in their neighbor country Rwanda. Thirty years later, the M23 claims to defend the Tutsi from further acts of genocide.

Along with the ethnic divisions, the modern conflicts are fueled by a diverse constellation of internal, regional, and international actors with the essential factor driving the violence being control over resources.

Almost all new technology, especially what is described as ‘green tech,’ requires materials such as lithium, cobalt, copper, and tin. The Eastern regions of the DRC are rich in these materials – as well as in diamonds and petroleum – and are thus subject to fierce contestations by local militias, backed by foreign governments (such as Rwanda in the case of the M23 militia), and international capital. Those that mine for these materials experience horrible conditions, with many accounts of slave labor and child labor. These same minerals are bought by international companies and create technologies such as smart phones, laptops, electric vehicles, solar panels, ear pods, speakers – basically anything with a battery.

Many activists are calling for a boycott of new tech and insist that the transition to green technology – a phrase used to indicate a switch to more ecological forms of energy production – cannot be built with the blood of Congolese men, women, and children.

This is the third in a series visualizing genocides across the globe created by Hisham Rifai and Ayman Makarem. See the first two specials, Resisting Starvation in Gaza and ‘Zaghrouda’ in the Midst of the Sudan War below.

The artistic duo has also created the Revolution in Every Country comic series on revolutionary movement events and ideas in the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region.

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My villain origin story will be paint companies advertising that I need to bring "vibrancy" and the "colors of Nature✨🌼🌸" into my life and then showing me the most off-white greyige tones I've ever seen in my life.

They put it up against the actual sea and sky and have the nerve to tell me that's blue???

I'm chewing through drywall, la Croix wishes it could bottle a flavor as bland as I heard the color of blue described once as a sickly Victorian child before the consumption got me confined in this windowless white room lest the miasmas take me too soon

I hate it so much!!! Give me indigo and turquoise! Give me lapis lazuli and cerulean!! Let me have real colors for the love of God. If I get advertised something as "room brightening" again I will start biting

My kitchen is currently sky blue with indigo accents because BLUE IS ACTUALLY MY FAVORITE COLOR

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why are bathroom sinks designed like that. infuriating

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nothing in the world belongs to me but my love mine, all mine, all mine

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i know that a lot of people already know this, and that this may come across as condescending to those who do, but it has become increasingly clear to me that many people, particularly younger people, don't understand this but—

purity culture is more then just thinking sex is bad and evil and gross

purity culture is the belief that you can be corrupted, that there is an level of purity that can be tarnished by thinking or doing something deemed sinful or icky and that once you lose that purity, you are lesser then those who have not been "tainted". it's the belief that seeing, thinking, or doing something inherently nonharmful to others will fundamental change you in a negative way

purity culture is watching gory horror movies and being told that you are disgusting for finding it interesting to watch

purity culture is being told that violence in books, movies, games, etcetera will make you violent

purity culture is being told that wanting to hurt someone makes you bad, darkens your heart, whatever, even if they hurt you first, even if you have no plans to ever act on that desire

purity culture is being told to forgive your abuser, rapist, or even just people who have slighted and hurt you or else you will never fully heal, or that it makes you in someway bad too, or even just as bad as them

purity culture is being told that hating someone is equally to killing them, or wanting to kill them

purity culture is when people have intrusive thoughts that scare and harm them that make you uncomfortable, possibly even triggered, and telling them that they secretly want to do, have, etcetera, those things or else they wouldn't be thinking about it

purity culture is being told not to curse because it makes your mouth filthy, makes your heart filthy, makes you mean and bad and unpleasant

purity culture is being told that jealousy, anger, rage, disgust, and other stigmatized emotions are "bad" or "unhealthy" emotions

purity culture is refusing to let youths or even teenagers read or watch potential upsetting books, shows, movies, games, comics, etcetera out of fear they will act them out, become violent, possessed, unruly, etcetera

purity culture is being told that writing, drawing, or just in general making something dark and uncomfortable makes you gross and evil

purity culture is telling you that you have to portray bad things as bad or else people won't under that it's still bad, that it will normalize this bad thing, that people can be corrupted by it because they can't think for themselves whether this bad thing you portrayed as good is not actually good

purity culture is thinking bad things done for good reasons is just as bad as bad things done for bad reasons, like a mother stealing baby formula to keep her child alive versus someone stealing your pet because they wanted it are equally wrong

purity culture is being told that drinking, smoking, being addicted to drugs, unemployed, homeless, makes you lesser and filthy and corrupts you

purity culture is believing that someone wanting to do something bad, but choosing not to do it because they know it's bad, still makes them bad because they still want to do it

purity culture is thinking people getting tattoos, dying their hair, piercing, wearing make up, getting cosmetic surgeries secretly hate themselves and are disrespecting themselves

purity culture is so much more then just sex. it expands so much further then just christian/religious people and communities

purity culture is doing something bad, and when you try to seek atonement or correct the mistake, that it is unforgivable and will alway be a blight on you, even if others can "learn to look past it"

if you think that someone thinking or do something that does not cause any inherent harm makes them lesser, makes them bad, makes them gross, corrupts them or can lead them to corrupting others, you are pushing purity culture

this is coming from a women raised in an extremely sex negative christian household who spent years hating herself and her body due to sex based purity culture being pushed onto her from the age of six due to early puberty by the way, so don't try to gate keep purity culture on this post as only a religious and or sexual thing

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Casually asks ‘who domesticated grain in your fantasy world?’ but while ripping her shirt off with a WWE stage and a roaring crowd just behind and slightly to the left. 

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BOOK REVIEW: UGLIES: SHAY'S STORY BY SCOTT WESTERFELD AND DEVIN GRAYSON, ILLUSTRATED BY STEVEN CUMMINGS

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This was my first time reading a graphic novel, and I loved it. It is an additional story in the Uglies universe, letting readers in on Shay’s life before, during, and after Tally during the timeline of the first Uglies novel.

Everything we learn about Shay adds so much to her character. I’ve read three Uglies novels so far, but knowing more about her relationship with David before Tally appeared and Shay’s thoughts on events we’ve only seen from Tally’s POV creates a well-rounded picture of the universe. With the movie coming out soon, I hope we get to see some of Shay’s thoughts incorporated into the narrative. 

I also think, maybe unintentionally, we get more depth to David’s character. It certainly paints him in a different light at times than the original series does, which was fun to read.

I love the artwork. This one is in black and white, and the cover page for each chapter is like a little map of what’s happening. I honestly don’t know how the illustrator captured such contrast in the nighttime scenes, but it is pretty and visually appealing, at least to a newbie like me.

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Entrapta from She-Ra is a canon sapphic!

She is bisexual.

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different modes of a bun

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Just finally finished that really raw and intense Tally/Shay longfic and I feel so... happy doesn't even cut it, its too raw and complex for that.

Oh god these doomed mentally ill bi cyborg girls...

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her,

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↳  Gamora - Guardians of The Galaxy

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it's kinda funny having manual labor type strength because I can lift excessively heavy shit and squat constantly with zero issue but no I cannot do multiple push ups