This is why we dance:
Because screaming isn't free
Please tell me:
Why is anger- even anger- a luxury to me?
-Mohammad El-Kurd, "This is Why We Dance," from "Rifqa"
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you have GOT to remember when watching the new doctor who that the question is not is this good. doctor who is only ever actually 'good' once a season at most. THE ONLY QUESTION IS is it fun, camp, and has aliens. also remember the worst doctor who showrunner is always the current doctor who showrunner. now go watch the new episodes as god intended like you're ten years old and still remember how to experience joy and whimsy.
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“why does 15 cry in every episode” because ncuti gatwa is the most beautiful crier in the whole wide world. do you go to art museums and complain about them using the color blue
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Malala Yousafzai in We Are Lady Parts season 2, episode 2, dir. Nida Manzoor
photographed by Parisa Taghizadeh
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I'm in my villain era (setting reasonable boundaries between myself and others who exploit me)
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Space
Take me
Take me somewhere far and out of place
Somewhere I can be safe
Take me somewhere where I can love
And don’t feel so out of place
Take me somewhere
Where the stars are electricity
And meteors are cars
Take me somewhere
Anywhere
A place where all colors on every spectrum all the ones we can’t imagine here
Take me some place any place where imagination creates
And good times invade
A place where all my thoughts can leak out and everything be okay
Take me somewhere far away where no enemies can destroy and no time limit is set
Take me somewhere that only astronauts dream
Ballerinas dance
Artist swim and athletes rest
Take me somewhere where darkness is beautiful
And light holds secrets
Take me somewhere
Anywhere
A place where I belong
A place I can call home
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Circe's Power
by Louise Glück
I never turned anyone into a pig.
Some people are pigs; I make them
Look like pigs.
I'm sick of your world
That lets the outside disguise the inside. Your men weren't bad men;
Undisciplined life
Did that to them. As pigs,
Under the care of
Me and my ladies, they
Sweetened right up.
Then I reversed the spell, showing you my goodness
As well as my power. I saw
We could be happy here,
As men and women are
When their needs are simple. In the same breath,
I foresaw your departure,
Your men with my help braving
The crying and pounding sea. You think
A few tears upset me? My friend,
Every sorceress is
A pragmatist at heart; nobody sees essence who can't
Face limitation. If I wanted only to hold you
I could hold you prisoner.
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we cannot let the people saying "legal child-killing" rejoin society without repercussions. this is depraved. i don't want to share a society with you people. the idea of it repulses me. you people deserve nothing less than ostracization and the end of your platforms and careers.
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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide has released a statement saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and the United States is complicit. The statement was released in the aftermath of the horrific attack on a refugee camp in Rafah
In April, Lemkin also issued a genocide alert for the West Bank
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a collection of cross-dissolve shots in film
✧ ‘Psycho’ (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
✧ ‘Twin Peaks’ (1990) dir. David Lynch
✧ ‘Mulholland Drive’ (2001) dir. David Lynch
✧ ‘Midsommar’ (2019) dir. Ari Aster
✧ ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola
✧ ‘Inherent Vice’ (2014) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
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Isn’t it beautiful that we’ve been writing about Icarus for centuries? One boy who died faster than he lived. Who tasted more sun than fresh air. (He burned for more than he breathed). The tragedy of one boy who died by Apollo’s breath, not unlike Achilles. How could that boy have died on accident? He laughed as he fell right? Or maybe that is just a happier fantasy we tell. An improved idea over the bitter truth. A boy who died so quick must have laughed as he fell, or else he was just a boy. Just a boy who wanted to fly. Just a boy who could do nothing but fall. Why would this boy want to die? For freedom? To spite the gods? To spite his father? Because he was naïve? Maybe we like to believe he wanted to die. To save us from the pain of what it means if the sun was really just a hubris. Just as Apollo watched Achilles be struck in the heel, but could only watch, if just to keep omnipotence. Maybe Icarus did laugh was he fell. Maybe Icarus is just as mortal as we fear ourselves to be
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