Jul. 2nd, 2020

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“There is something of everyone in me, so I have belonged to no one.”

- Christa Wolf, Kassandra (tr. by Jan Van Heurck)
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“I think that one of the aspects of Wolf’s work that bothers—I mean enrages—the male critics of West Germany, apart from her disinterest in Hemingway, is her criticism of male hierarchical modes, her disisterest in the hero. “As long as there are victors,” there’s not too much hope for the world. The only hero is the anti-heroine Cassandra, who sees how decent Aeneas will finally, going forth, only re-create the same patriarchal system. “We have no chance against a time that needs heroes.” Cassandra sees her death before her, and all the other deaths. She can’t do much, but she can see. That is her task on earth, to see, to teach seeing, to tell.”

- Grace Paley’s 1993 introduction to Christa Wolf’s The Author’s Dimension: Selected Essays (included in Just as I Thought)
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“Anyone who touches me will end up with a knife in him.”

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Cassandra (Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf)

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“Between killing and dying there’s a third way: live.”

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sirfrogsworth:

I… kinda think that could work. 

Make it Chipolte and you have a deal. 
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gaycitrusflower:

chop was a bastion of safety and freedom. we cannot let them take this silently.

i dont normally post about this shit mainly because tumblr was supposed to be a place for me to go to escape, but at this point i dont think i can keep that up.
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leupagus:

So I’ve seen this post floating around a lot, and the pictures in it are immensely powerful. And almost all of them are real. 

Almost.

One picture, though, bothered me—not because it looked fake, but because it looked like the moment before a truly horrific tragedy, and I was troubled by the idea that I was looking at something that perhaps only moments later resulted in death. It was this picture: 

So I did a quick image search

and found that it was all over pinterest and twitter and such, which are… unhelpful sources at the best of times. But I did see the picture posted on Reddit, which is a cesspool but usually is pretty good about sourcing its shit. And: 

Sure enough, when I looked up the trailer, here was that exact moment:

Welp.

But why does this matter? In the dozen or so pictures of that really great post, one of them wasn’t a genuine moment of protest against or confrontation with an oppressive, bigoted authority. That’s not a big deal, right?

Maybe not. But it shows how easy it is to sneak in fake information, misleading information, or just wrong information into posts that are largely accurate. And if you’re scrolling through and think “90% of this is stuff I agree with, the other 10% is probably fine too,” you’re more apt to digest the fake stuff along with the real stuff. 

This is particularly important right now, when we’re on the eve of US elections that will quite literally decide our country’s fate for the next fifty years; we cannot, CANNOT trust the things that are reblogged onto our dashboard, even by our good friends (the person who reblogged this onto my timeline is a friend who is imminently trustworthy, for example). We have to be mindful, we have to check sources, we have to consider what we’re looking at.

And that’s not fun! That’s not what tumblr is here for, for most of us; God knows I’d much rather reblog the 1000th gifset of Schitt’s Creek or some shit. But unfortunately, social media isn’t just a place to have fun anymore; it’s been weaponized, quite literally, by people who want us to believe shitty things and are very, very good at sneaking those shitty beliefs into places where we won’t notice them until they’re part of our own ideology.

This isn’t a command that you have to source every single picture or bit of information you reblog; but it is a request that you stop to think. Humans tend to chase the feeling of validation and confirming their own beliefs, and that’s totally understandable. But don’t mistake validation for the truth.
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somecutething:

Oh that is adorable

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these are dinosaurs

I was expecting him to just drop the ball… but damn.

YO… just so you all know! he doesn’t think they’re eggs! this type of bird is a seriema and they use that funky neck-whip to kill lizards and snakes. he is actually Just Having A Good Time

*Queen plays in the background* “’Cause I’m having a good time, HAVING A GOOD TIME - “
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redscharlach:

This amazing collar necklace was made by the French jewelry house of Mellerio dits Meller in 2013, to celebrate their 400th anniversary. Inspired by Marie de’ Medici, who was the house’s patron and wore a lot of high lace collars because that was the 17th-century royal fashion, it’s made of white gold, Burmese rubies, diamonds and pear-shaped pearls, and is the work of Canadian jewelry designer Édéenne.

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melanin-monrow:

Also this

same energy

I have questions.

So, so many questions.

I don’t know if this will answer ALL of your questions buuuuut…

Chris Hale is running for the 4th Congress District of Tennessee. His opponent is incumbent Scott DesJarlais.

And all those things DesJarlais is accused of in that tweet? Not only are they true, but they were also all out in the open during the last election, which DesJarlais won.
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motherfucker-somewhat-limited:

emmablowguns:

bitches post tweets like this and then wear jeans

sorry, I couldn’t find a trained pack of wolves or a grimoire at the mall
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