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The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

hey friend

dont kill yourself tonight ok

you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again

Don’t forget to wear glitter, take your meds, and practice self-care in honor of our dear departed Space Mom.

Cultural Fashion: Earth Avatar Mural Woman

Let me just say that this is my favorite piece of in-universe art in Avatar. I love everything about it: The color palette, the symbolism of Kyoshi standing on two pillars of earth, the two earth avatars in the background doing their best JoJo poses, and the mystique of it all. Kyoshi is an Avatar who literally split open the earth beneath her to create an island named after her and lived to be over 200 years old, but somehow she's not the star of this mural? Just what the heck did the center lady do to be depicted as being akin to the sun itself?

Anyways, she looks to be wearing Qin Dynasty (221–206 BCE) lamellar armor. Lamellar armor is armor that's composed of overlapping plates of metal, leather, or bone that give the wearer a "scaly" look. The spaulders resembling a little shawl or capelet reminds me most of Qin armor, the dynasty that gave us the terracotta warrior statues. Qin Dynasty warriors also wore dress-like robes and a tucked-in scarf around the neck under their armor. Finally, she's wearing a little topknot crown, known in Chinese as a guan (冠) or xiaoguan (小冠). Pretty much the only aspect of her design that strays from the terracotta warrior inspiration is her lack of boots, as she opts to go barefoot to better earthbend.

The Qin Dynasty was China's first imperial dynasty. Perhaps the center lady is the first ever earth avatar? It would explain why she looks to be shining rays of light on all her "successors". Plus, there's sort of a running theme in ATLA of revolutionary earthbenders tending being women: Oma, Kyoshi, and Toph.

I guess you could call them all... Mother Earth.

Lapis lazuli bead necklace with gold drop pendants, city of Ur, Mesopotamia, circa 2500-2300 BC