LegoLoveLetters

I like equality, kindness, comics, LEGO, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, science, dogs, cool stuff, and neat things.

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[ilyaois]

💌 re: hi

📝 finished (20 chapters)

📝 60k words

🔍 emails, texts, classic fic style

⚠️ some 18+ themes (read tags)

🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/82367551

[filmbroandy]

hey has anyone heard of this little movie from 2006? does anyone else care about this little movie from 2006?

[legoloveletters]

thank you tumblr for introducing me to this movie. i purchased a dvd copy and dvd player so i could watch it whenever i so desire.

[asuddenline]

'A Code Poem for the French Resistance (The Life That I Have),' Leo Marks

The life that I have is all that I have And the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have, Yet death will be but a pause, For the peace of my years in the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.

[asuddenline]

Leo Marks (1920–2001) was an English poet, playwright/screenwriter (he wrote the excellent Peeping Tom)and cryptographer. He showed a fondness for codebreaker from a young age, and during World War II worked for the SOE–the British espionage agency given the task of helping resistance movements in Occupied France.

One method for sending encrypted messages to agents in the field was to use poem codes. This page gives an explanation of how poem codes work, but the general idea is that the first few words of the poem are used as the basis for forming a cypher substitution; an agent familiar with a poem could then use it to decrypt secret messages.

While it is a strong method (for short messages), Marks quickly realised that using famous poems critically weakened the method–if the enemy could work out what poem was being used, then they’d be able to decrypt all further secret messages sent to and by the agent. Therefore, original poems had to be used–but memorable too, so that the agent wouldn’t have to write such sensitive information down.

This poem was written by Marks in memory of a girlfriend who died in an aircrash. It’s easy to see why it was chosen for a code: it’s simple language and use of repetition gives us immediately the urgency of the speaker’s voice, but also make it very memorable.

The French-British agent Violette Szabo used it as her poem code during her missions, as seen in the movie Carve Her Name With Pride. The use in that film was uncredited, but Marks later wrote about his time in the SOE in his book Between Silk and Cyanide. 

[600000millerhighlifes]

it’s feels weird to do things like buy a jumping spider online

like yes, add spider to cart !

[legoloveletters]

I spent so much money on jumping spiders. So much money. So much.

[liberalsarecool]

'White people without empathy' are sustained by right-wing media and conservative religion.

[nudityandnerdery]

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

[nudityandnerdery]

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

[library-graffiti]

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

[victusinveritas]

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

[nudityandnerdery]

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

[legoloveletters]

Y’all should join your area Democratic Socialists of America branch.

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

[apisashla]

reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on

[alpine-insurrection]

this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??

[harostar]

[lilithtransrights]

Quick someone reply with the gif™️

[burnt-to-cynders]

[lilithtransrights]

[momusu-saval-deactivated2024010]

Always reblog this if you are cool

[legoloveletters]

Must learn to punch

[johnanderton]

Am I really so bad? Am I really so frightening? You've talked to me. You've confided in me. Have I tried to hurt you? It isn't me you're afraid of. What you're afraid of is the unknown.

ROBERT REDFORD as MR. DEATH The Twilight Zone — 3.16 "Nothing in the Dark"

[legoloveletters]

🥺 okay

[liberalsarecool]

Making prices skyrocket is Trump's plan. Tariffs will do the same thing.

An economy rocked by skyrocketing prices will be easy pickins for the billionaire class to swoop in and buy from desperate sellers. Private equity, too.

[legoloveletters]

Fuck

[wilwheaton]

[guerrillatech]

[rincewindthecheese]

little buddy I found at the beach

[legoloveletters]

I am an Old Person. Like, Ask Jeeves old. Netscape Navigator old. Friendster old. Tom was everyone’s friend old.Tumblr used to be super spicy old. Feral GenX middle child old.

Between a childhood formed by my parents’ religion, to military service, to public school teaching my life has largely spent Following Rules. They got me, y’all. I stopped buying physical books, my entire music library is digital, and even if I did have my old VHS and DVD movies, I have no way to view them. Whatever word processing device I’m using corrects my spelling and suggests a softer tone.

Have I given up thinking for myself? Did I, in fact, ever start? I think about Luigi Mangione every day. That young man suffered, recognized the suffering around him, and ALLEGEDLY (because innocent until proven guilty still exists if only in our stupidly optimistic minds) made a very powerful statement.

Think a moment on that extraordinary act of self-sacrifice.

I’m sure I had a point but my perimenopausal brain loses focus like … well now I can’t even come up with an adequate simile.

Free your minds. Free Luigi. Take care of each other. Look for mutual aid organizations in your area.

Best of luck to us all during the shitbird’s second administration. (jk we’re all fucked.)

[dailyoverview]

Check out this awesome drone shot of the Botanical Garden in Mount Lofty, Australia! The garden is situated on 240 acres on the eastern slopes of Mount Lofty in the Adelaide Hills. The garden includes plants from all around the globe, including South America, China, East Africa, New Zealand, South East Asia and North America. -34.988504, 138.718630 Found on: From Where I Drone Photo by: Bo Le

[itoldyouthings]

reminder to all 14-19 year olds girls. that grown man does not like you. you are a victim

[fingerlickinbutch-deactivated20]

He doesn’t like you, he likes your naivety and willingness to put up with shit most women his age probably won’t

[baby-brunette]

"you're mature for your age" "you're so special" "you're so different from other girls" pls run in the other direction!

[certifiedsexed]

This absolutely applies regardless of gender. If you're a boy, if you're nonbinary-It doesn't matter, this isn't okay.

Certified Sex Ed Post!