My Side of the Looking Glass

He definitely did, but since the whole book is supposed to be a translation of something he found and not something he personally wrote, they’re switched for the audience’s convenience. There’s a lot more to it, but here’s a chart of Shire months from the appendices at the end of RoTK. Elves and men are different, but there was no handy chart.

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15-year-old Nour is in a severe state of hypoxia!! Her heart is struggling to function due to her chronic condition, and her blood is unable to circulate oxygen throughout her body! She urgently needs funds for supplemental oxygen treatment OR HER ORGANS WILL SHUT DOWN!!

Please help save a teen girl’s life!!! Anything helps!!!

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So far we have raised $505 CAD (about $371 usd)

Current: $64,331 CAD

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cemetery of laeken, brussels.

If you have a bit of money to give, I ask that you offer a bit of monetary assistance to this Gaza fundraiser that has asked for my help in making this post. They have only reached 7% of their goal, and the lives of 6 children in addition to others are at stake, and all of them deserve to live.

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Hello, I'm Abdul Rahman, a 23-year-old young man from Gaza. I'm writing to you today with a broken heart, given the difficult circumstances we're living in. In this brutal war, I lost my home and everything I own, and most importantly, I lost my dear brother, who was my support and my lifeline. 💔

Now, I find myself in an unbearable situation, supporting my family during this harsh ordeal. Days and nights pass by, and we can't find anything to eat. **We're living in hunger, and we don't even have flour. A bag of flour costs $570!** Where can I get that amount? I have young siblings who are starving, and I can't bear to see them suffer.

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It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

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Because a lot of times, revenge gets framed as this inherently immoral act, like it doesn't matter how evil the person you want revenge on is, it doesn't matter that stopping them is a net positive for the world, revenge is just bad and wanting it makes you bad.

But I think that a lot of the problems with most revenge narratives come from the fact that the person/people seeking revenge put too much importance on getting revenge, but there's not enough catharsis in the actual act of taking revenge. They end up left with a whole lot of left-over righteous anger, and no acceptable targets left to vent it on. That way lies the bloodline ending feuds of greek tragedy and the like.

But Leverage says "No, actually you're right, that guy is absolutely terrible, he does need to be stopped and his victims should be awarded the catharsis of revenge." But then, instead of taking the easy way out of having Hardison siphon all the money out of their accounts, or sending Elliot over to their house with a baseball bat, they complicate the revenge plot. Instead of walking the easier path of the quick and unsatisfying revenge, they insist on poetic justice and dramatic irony and the complete and utter, very public destruction of the worst people in the world.

"y'all are really losing the plot here. uprisings, riots, and militant standoffs with ice waste their time and prevent them from abducting our community. these aren't just protests, they're acts of direct action. this isn't about optics. it's about keeping families together.

surrounding ice vehicles, burning waymos, preventing the flow of traffic, and creating obstacles with barricades and debris makes ice's job much harder. a city sanctioned "peaceful protest" doesn't."