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#FITZCHIVALRY: “beloved, i have missed your company.”

she/her, egyptian, 22
Joined August 2020
my top ten reads of 2025 🫶🫶🫶🫶
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THIS IS GOOD AI - Only used for tedious work - Doesn't affect creative integrity - Uses completely localised data - Not from a data center - Localised programs aren't bad for the environment in the same scale - Data was taken with consent to the artists 0 problems here
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“Vampires as a metaphor for queerness” “pomegranates in poetry” “cannibalism for all consuming love” wrap it up 😕
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oh sure lets adapt a series all about decolonizing and the brutality of dismantling a regime and somehow pick the one thats written by a zionist who believes shitrael deserves to genocide palestinians
A film adaptation of Pierce Brown’s ‘RED RISING’ is officially in the works. Francis Lawrence (Catching Fire) will direct. 🔗 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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This anti Ai edit is really amazing
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Orientalism 101: Arab and Islamic aesthetics without Islam or Arabs.
New look at Timothée Chalamet and Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘DUNE: PART 3’. (Source: empireonline.com/movies/news…)
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I don't care if you like Sally Rooney's books or not. This is about the UK effectively banning an author's work because she is vocal in her support for the Palestinian people. I don't care whether you personally like her. Nor should you. It's about censorship. It's unhinged.
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zumra retweeted
Sally Rooney, author of ‘Normal People’ and ‘Conversations with Friends,’ says she is being forced to withdraw her books from being sold in the UK due to her support of the organization Palestine Action: In a statement to The Guardian she said: “In July 2025, the direct-action protest group Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK. The following month, I wrote an opinion piece expressing my intention to go on supporting Palestine Action, which is not a proscribed or otherwise prohibited group here in the Republic of Ireland. As a result, the fulfilment of contracts to publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. I have made every effort to be honest with the public about my beliefs and intentions, and I am wholly prepared to accept the consequences.” (theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…)
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i’ll never fall for this propaganda because if you’re an employed adult who likes to read you know how difficult it is to find enough time to immerse yourself in the book so using any free time you get is sometimes the only option
People that read books on the train are lowkey kinda performative 😭
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I genuinely do believe the whole “she only writes when she needs to 🥺” shtick led us here
I think suzanne Collins needs to stop with the hunger games prequels . It feels weirdly exploitative and unnecessary,😭 like I understand the haymitch book but there's no need for more
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the realization that we’re entering the fourth year of this genocide makes me so fucking ill
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"We crossed the canal and raised Egypt's flag" - The front page of the Egyptian Al-Akhbar newspaper (1973)
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new reviews for rereads next please @GOODREADS PLEASE
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are you guys seeing this
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our prayers have been answered 😭😭😭✌️
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The genocide the media doesn’t talk about
SLAVES: 40,000 child slaves in Congo are forced to work in cobalt mines so we can drive electric cars. ETC.
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Adding to this
Doing some theorizing of my own
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here’s a reminder for everyone that in jan 2026, angelina jolie literally WENT to the rafah border and demanded IN PERSON that aid be let through for dying civilians. she went there because she wanted to see the truth for herself and try to help people w/ her boots on the ground.
Angelina Jolie calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed to reach Palestinians in Gaza: “Hospitals need medical supplies, and the conditions that allow civilians to rebuild their homes, schools, hospitals and communities need to be created.”
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I miss when you maybe only got a special edition of a book if it was out for 10+ years. Now it’s sprayed edges straight off the bat or bonus content and covers that are different depending on where you bought the book. The consumerism with publishing these days is tiring
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my biggest hot take is that we need way less special editions and way more mass market paperbacks
I miss when you maybe only got a special edition of a book if it was out for 10+ years. Now it’s sprayed edges straight off the bat or bonus content and covers that are different depending on where you bought the book. The consumerism with publishing these days is tiring
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