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oh my god november eighth is coming

kirbybot

☀️ & 🌙

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anyway stream montero

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“i would’ve played ‘mary had a little lamb’ if he was singing it”

elsaspants

this is making me delirious. I want to cry every time I read this

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what-even-is-thiss

Amputees continue to be the funniest people on the planet why are the rest of us even trying

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microdosing on intimacy by running my hand through my own hair

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Not much focus on rehabilitation

obi-wann-cannoli

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

guerrillatech

julien baker makes me feel things. not necessarily good things but things nonetheless.

#julien baker #lucy dacus #phoebe bridgers #boygenius #lesbian #idc that she’s short she’s still hot

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“They took our land, they imprisoned our queen, they banned our language, they forcibly made us a colony of the United States. America says they are democratic, that is a lie! They have never been democratic with Native people! They have never been democratic with Indians! They have never been democratic with Hawaiians!”

melpomeny

[VD:

Close up video of Haunani-Kay Trask in 1993 speaking into a microphone wearing a Haku Lei.

“We are not American! We are not American! We are not American! We are not American! Say it in your hearts, say it when you sleep. We are not American! We will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!

The Americans, my people, are our enemies and you must understand that: they are our enemies. They took our land. They imprisoned out queen. They banned our language. They forcibly made us a colony of the United States. America always say they are democratic, lies! That is a lie! They have never been democratic with native people, they have never been democratic with Indians, they have never been democratic with Hawaiians.

[CROWD CHEERS]

The United States of America is the most powerful imperialist country in the world, in the world! They control the United Nations, they control the Pacific Ocean. All these nuclear submarines, circulating throughout the Pacific. The United States of America is a death country. It gives death to native people, and the only way to fight the United States of America is to be political! Kaua! Kaua! Kaua! Fight! Fight! Fight!

END OF VD.]

faustandfurious

Some people on this website learnt the word “trope” and let it settle comfortably into the vocabulary space that should have been occupied by the word “cliché”.

“Trope” is a neutral word. If a particular trope is overused ad nauseam, it becomes a cliché. Saying you hate tropes does not make any sense.

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“I hate recurring themes and motifs”

Well, good luck finding fictional content you can safely consume

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You can hate particular tropes. You can be violently opposed to reading any YA book where the female protagonist has to choose between a Mysterious Bad Boy and Her Childhood Friend, you can avoid Enemies To Lovers like the plague.

But looking for a work of literature without tropes is like looking for a food recipe without ingredients.

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And describing/recommending a literary work simply by listing the tropes it contains is, well, something that I think works a lot better for fanfiction than for original works/published novels.

With fanfiction you have the framework. You know the fandom and the characters. You know the recipe is for chocolate cake, and when someone says “oh hey this is good, it contains hazelnuts and orange”, you can go “that’s great! I love hazelnuts and orange” with the implication that you love them as chocolate cake ingredients.

Recommending a book by listing tropes is like telling someone “you should check out this recipe, it has hazelnuts and orange”. Ok fine, but what kind of recipe is it? Is it a chocolate cake or a fucking salad?