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reminder that toomaj salehi is still sentenced to death for the songs he released that are against the Islamic regime and for supporting anti-regime protestors. please continue to talk to him and put pressure on officials to free him
"Are you ok?" I'm actually tired bro. From the bottom of my heart I'm tired
"Are you ok?" I'm actually tired bro. From the bottom of my heart I'm tired
hey i know i asked for constructive criticism but what i actually wanted was for you to tell me i'm extremely talented. and also pretty. sorry if that was unclear
It kind of baffles me that Dominos pizza advertises that their pizzas are topped with “cheese made with 100% real mozzarella cheese”. So in other words, it could be 90% vegetable oil, but as long as at least a tiny bit of that remaining 10% has real mozzarella, they’re good I guess.
That is such misleading wording and I don’t understand how they get away with it.
I was trying to find out more information about the Domino’s cheese thing, and I came across this illuminating sentence:
So there are different things that are all different, as options. Thanks that clears up a lot.
How do I politely tell people that they need hobbies that don't involve the internet or activism?
Start a garden. Get into birdwatching. Join a diamond painting group. Join a book club. Learn how to embroider. Take a pottery class.
Just. Anything that doesn't involve constant arguments about theory and praxis. Interact with people who are outside of your immediate friend group. Shove your hands into some dirt. Create something just for yourself.
no i don’t think david seymour genuinely believes giving kids sushi and quinoa is “woke” (which btw not a single child ik has ever actually received for school lunch) he’s just appealing to his racist supporters, and trying to distract from the fact that they are taking away free hot meals from thousands of children. distracting from the fact that 1 in 6 children in aotearoa live in poverty and that they will be starving bc instead of proper nutritious meals they’re only getting a sandwich and fruit.
they’re distracting you from the fact that they are cutting jobs at oranga tamariki and attempting to repeal section 7AA. that they are wanting to disestablish the safety of children in care team, you know the team whose entire job is to report on the abuse of children in state care, to prevent the crimes committed against these children for decades. crimes that people are still fighting for compensation and justice for.
all in the name of tax cuts for the rich.
modern au james flint would go to pride, but only bc it’s the one occasion on which thomas will allow him to go out in public wearing his ‘I LOVE THOMAS HAMILTON’ t-shirt
Thomas Hamilton Memorial Week Day 4 : Anything Appreciation
Well, I really appreciate it that Thomas exchanged his horrible dust mop of a wig for a much nicer more modern model. But of course no wig at all is what I appreciate the most ;)
inspired by the brilliant @sagestreet´s awesome Black Sails wig meta <3
Toshirō Mifune in Snow Trail (1947) dir. by Senkichi Taniguchi
the eise eisinga planetarium in franeker, the netherlands, the oldest working planetarium in the world. located inside the former home of eise eisinga
historical costume appreciation: captain flint's dark coat in season one of black sails
You know the book that Flint’s reading in the fort cell in 4x05? The red one that resembles his beloved copy of Meditations? This one?
… which, for anyone unaware, is a famous Christian allegory written by Puritan preacher John Bunyan in the 1600s, which sets out a prescription for how one ought to seek and attain salvation from a Puritan perspective (the only correct one according to them).
It stands in complete opposition to Thomas’ “know no shame” inscription in Meditations, encouraging its readers to feel ashamed about everything they do that might divert them from the straight and narrow. It also opposes Miranda’s assertion that “true love shouldn’t require suffering,” being very much on the “the truest form of love, love through suffering,” side of things.
Which brings us to Flint. According to Miranda in 2x05, Flint’s being driven to fight against England is, in part, a result of his shame. She perceives this shame to be that which Civilization’s judgements have burdened him with but Flint himself suggests that his shame is also the result of guilt over having not tried to save Thomas when he had the chance.
This is interesting because, though I do believe that Flint has largely made peace with himself by season four and has found a greater cause to fight for overall (which are not insignificant things, I want to be clear), it’s also true that he says to Silver in 4x04: “I think if [Thomas] knew how close we were to the victory he gave his life to achieve, he wouldn’t want me to [give it up],” suggesting that Thomas’ death is still hanging over him in a way that’s honestly not that dissimilar to how he started out. There’s still a shame-based aspect to his desire to fight in the sense of “I can’t give up this war because Thomas (and now Miranda too) died for this.”
All of this could easily be said to parallel the protagonist of The Pilgrim’s Progress being driven to undertake a perilous journey in order to rid himself of his burden of shame and finally find peace at the end of it all.
According to the Puritan teachings espoused in the book, believing that you are inherently unclean and sinful is paramount to your salvation so, in other words, shame is good and necessary. As I said, this is the complete opposite of the Hamiltons’ beliefs, but it aligns pretty well with the ideas that Oglethorpe professes at the beginning of 4x10 about how “human debris” such as Thomas and Flint are “anathema to the Empire” and how they “must cease to be… to be able to find peace.”
Plenty of people have pointed out that Oglethorpe’s prison plantation can be viewed as a metaphorical afterlife which Flint enters into at the end of the show (through a gate even, just like the entrance into Heaven), but I’d also like to highlight his having to walk down a literal straight and narrow path—again, like the protagonist of The Pilgrim’s Progress—in order to finally reunite with Thomas.
So, with all that being said, the message behind Flint reading this particular book in 4x05 seems twofold to me:
1. Despite doing his best to follow Thomas and Miranda’s example and cast off his shame, shame is still something that Flint is very much burdened by and which still influences his desire to fight against England, even into season four.
2. Silver’s orchestrating Flint’s being sent to the plantation in Savannah and reunited with Thomas aligns with the “happy ending” of The Pilgrim’s Progress, freeing him from his shame and allowing him to find the peace he sought at last. And yet, with the plantation itself being upheld by shame, by the idea that men like Thomas and Flint deserve to be cast out of Civilization, is this really the kind of ““peace”” that Flint wanted for himself? Can imprisoning him for life in such a place truly be said to be “freeing” him from anything?
By having this particular copy of The Pilgrim’s Progress superficially resemble Meditations despite it being a book whose values are entirely opposite from Thomas’ core tenant “know no shame,” the show presents us with a “fruit, fruit. tits, tits.” commentary on its own ending: Silver’s solution might look like a happy ending for Flint at first glance, but, in reality, it promotes shame rather than eliminating it.
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