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new chapter is out!!! quite a life changing one for beca
Chapter 2: the ghost of you
Summary: After Chloe makes an unexpected appearance, Beca finds out a shocking truth that's been kept from her all these years.
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Elementary's Sherlock is just so achingly human.
He doesn't solve murders because it's a game to him; it's because he finds the taking of a life abhorrent. Even when the victim was a Terrible Person™, he'd rather the murderer go to jail, because that person didn't have the right. It's not a game to him.
He's shown again and again to be compassionate and thoughtful, even when he's being an asshole. He's so bad at human relationships but despite what he says, he cares so much.
Jonny Lee Miller was 100% the perfect casting for Sherlock. He knocks it out of the park in every single episode.
Reblogged pinkpastels113
It is AGONIZING waiting till November 21st 😫
Reblogged dxmedstudent
Departing Son of Gondor
Not to long ago my LOTR obsession rose from the grave, and it has been reigning ever since. What a time to have the art skills that I have now <3
(also yes, I am well aware I got the quote slightly wrong, forgive me, I was doing it from memory)
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As a word and concept, "terrorism" has acquired an extraordinary status in American public discourse. It has displaced Communism as public enemy number one, although there are frequent efforts to tie the two together. It has spawned uses of language, rhetoric and argument that are frightening in their capacity for mobilizing opinion, gaining legitimacy and provoking various sorts of murderous action. And it has imported and canonized an ideology with origins in a distant conflict, which serves the purpose here of institutionalizing the denial and avoidance of history. In short, the elevation of terrorism to the status of a national security threat (though more Americans drown in their bathtubs, are struck by lightning or die in traffic accidents) has deflected careful scrutiny of the government's domestic and foreign policies. Whether the deflection will be longstanding or temporary remains to be seen, but given the almost unconditional assent of the media, intellectuals and policy-makers to the terrorist vogue, the prospects for a return to a semblance of sanity are not encouraging. - Edward Said
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This testimony from a palestinian member of standing together is completely unsurprising and is exactly what palestinian organizers deal with everywhere in the world. Anyways, if you've ever wondered why I couldn't stand standing together, this article describes actual events that shows why theyre not an org you should be giving money to. Redirect those donations to gazans directly.
Reblogged dxmedstudent
People always treat 'the right to a fair trial' as like a special privilege you grant to people who deserve it (because they didn't do a bad crime) and something you should rescind to people who don't deserve it (because they did do a bad crime), and not see it as a diagnostic tool for checking whether or not they *did* actually do a bad crime.
As if the worse the accusation, the *less* discerning you need to be about whether it's true or not
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I feel like ppl get bogged down in semantics so let me make it real simple for you. A zionist is someone who supports the state of Israel. Zionism is the belief that a Jewish ethnostate called Israel should be developed in the Levant region (Palestine and Lebanon and Syria) regardless of the existence of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and their people. When any pro-Palestine person says someone is a Zionist, that's not a synonym for Jewish, nor is another word for "person I don't like". When we call someone a zionist it's because they support the existence of Israel as a colony. And just so we're clear: it does not matter if a zionist says they're sad about Palestinian suffering or they want to "live in peace" with Palestinians because as long as they support the existence of a colonial ethnostate called Israel then they're still doing Zionism. If I came to your house and just started living there and tried to starve you out and torture you so you would leave your house, it wouldn't matter that I felt "sorry" for you because I'm the reason you're suffering at all. That's why when you try and say "well, Neil Druckman says he wants the war to stop" that doesn't matter. He's still a zionist. He still wants Israel to exist as a colonial state which will always be at the expense of Palestinians. Do not fall for liberal Zionists. Get it in your fucking head that there's no "progressive" Zionism because there's no "progressive" way to support a state that necessitates the elimination of whole peoples.
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If you’ve ever wanted a show about platonic soulmates, that show is Somebody Somewhere on HBO or Max or whatever the hell it’s called. It’s about grief and found family and loneliness and making friends in middle age and community and vulnerability and small town life. All the actors look like normal, regular people and the dialogue is awkward and real and FUNNY. It’s so good and it makes me actually sad that more people don’t know about it!
It's may be the best show about friendship and found family I've ever seen. It's wonderfully real and heartwarming. It also has some of the most natural sounding dialogue I've ever heard.
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Akagami no Shirayukihime Vol.27
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Lighter than a butterfly...
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:) :) :) :)
Just to be clear with regard to the previous reblog: this is not a hypothetical or a threat-of-the-week, it's what just happened.
UK Supreme Court has effectively declared the wording of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 overruled by the wording of the Equality Act 2010, despite the fact that the Equality Act was written with the understanding that the Gender Recognition Act officially changed one's legal gender for all and any remaining purposes, including those pertaining to biological sex, which it defines broadly as including those having undergone transition, but it clearly includes us, so that was taken care of at the time, and is now being undone.
Note also that this legal ruling only affects trans women.
See also:
The court has been criticised after it refused to allow trans women to take part in the hearings, although it did allow the civil rights group Amnesty UK to participate on the Scottish government’s side.
Victoria McCloud, a retired judge who changed her legal sex more than 20 years ago, was refused permission to be heard in the case. She said that meant “the only affected group was excluded”.
