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tbh I’ve always found it very funny that Elrond is like “there’s no point bringing Glorfindel on the quest, even though he’s a balrog-slayer. You won’t need balrog-slayers” and then thirty pages later they run into a balrog

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Presenting the Ridiculously Gorgeous Mackintosh Roses Shawl ... It Looks Like Stained Glass: 👉 https://buff.ly/3trva8U 🌹

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Lan Fan gets her arm amputated by a coroner in an abandoned house in the middle of the night and it’s barely a c-plot, reminds me of that post about Barry the chopper

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Bruce not killing the Joker is morally abhorrent to Jason both because the Joker killed him and because the Joker has killed so many. You can't make it one or the other.

And it's funny to me that people will latch onto things like Jason saying he doesn't care about the world, and then turn around and ignore that at every point in Under the Red Hood, Jason is placing himself as just one of many victims.

He doesn't just view Bruce not killing the Joker as "proof Bruce doesn't love him". He views it as allowing the Joker to kill more people.

This is textual! He literally says "I thought I'd be the last person you let him hurt."

He brings up Barbara in his UtRH speech! The articles we see him holding in Lost Days specifically mention body counts during the Jokers escapes since Jason died. Those are featured by the comic for a reason.

You can hate Jason, you can believe he doesn't really care about Gotham when he's trying to be a crime lord, you can say his fans are wrong for saying he's especially angry at people who hurt women and children, you can hate his methods - but saying Jason has no motivation other than his own death for resenting Bruce not killing the Joker is just bad meta. It's not accurate to canon.

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Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

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I don't know if this will make sense but Jason's death and how bleak his resurrection is as like...the ultimate refutation of what survivors often get told as meaningless platitudes.

The suffering did not make him kinder, did not make him better.

He didn't get through it, he didn't survive.

He was a child and he was murdered and there is no lesson to be learned from it except blood, and he will take his share of that in spades.

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APPARENTLY TUMBLR HAS ADDED A COLOUR OF THE SKY THEMED TRAVEL CUP TO THEIR MERCH STORE!?

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i refused to stay buried because i love you why are you running

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ok. icebreaker-type question. imagine time travel exists, but all of the serious super big things that likely come to mind when time travel is a factor is stuff youre not “qualified” for, as a civilian. what stupid, petty, thing do you use time travel for?

personally, i’d buy this one limited-time pin from a con i had no chance of going to, and also buy some transformers animated toys while they were still being sold.

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anyways, instead of focusing all your energy on calling out Succession and the Last of Us for being anti-palestinian, here's some of my favourite media made by Palestinians 🇵🇸 and their allies...

Salt of this Sea (2008). Dir. Annemarie Jacir. Heist film set in Palestine about 2 Palestinians who help a Palestinian American woman rob a British bank who refused to give her the money her grandfather left her.

Netflix original series, Mo, created by Mo Amer. Dramedy about Mo, a Palestinian American without papers, trying to stay out of trouble until his US citizenship is approved (he's already been waiting for 12 years). This just got renewed for a second season!!!!

Farha (2021). Dir. Darin J. Sallam. Coming of age story about a 14 year old girl trying to survive the Nakba in 1948. Tw: settler colonial violence.

In Between (2016). Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud. A film about 3 Palestinian women, one of whom is queer, in their 20s living under occupation. Heart-warming story about friendship, solidarity and revenge. Tw: sexual assault.

In Vitro (2019). Dir. Larissa Sansour. Breathtaking short scifi film set in a future where Bethlehem has been destroyed by an ecological disaster and two scientists from different generations are trying to remember what happened. This film is pure poetry and I think about it constantly.

It Must Be Heaven (2019). Dir. Elia Sulieman. A charmingly absurdist film about Elia Sulieman seeing parallels to Palestine everywhere he goes as he tries to make a film about his homeland.

The Crossing (2017). Dir. Ameen Nayfeh. Short film about Palestinian siblings trying to cross an Israeli checkpoint to visit their grandparents.

Ramy. Episode 3 of season 3: 'American Cigarettes'. Far and away the best episode of TV of 2022, and also directed by Annemarie Jacir. Ramy goes to occupied Palestine to make a diamond deal with some Israeli brokers, but his horniness takes him to The Other Side. I think about this episode almost everyday, it's unlike anything I've ever seen.

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. A book of interviews and essays conducted by Angela Davis on how systems of racism and colonial violence are all connected, and how solidarity between communities of colour are vital, using the long-standing allyship between Palestinians, Aboriginal peoples and Black Americans as case studies.

As fine and good as it is to call out Zionism in media, rmr to also support Palestinians, their work and their art. Feel free to suggest more ❤️

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.