@ElokoMode @levantophile Did Belgians kill the Congolese because of that novel
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"Rather than being incommensurable, they are laggards on a universal trajectory of progress"
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@levantophile Once I read a novel by a Belgian colonial officer about the foundation of the Luba Empire that was brimming with love and erudition about the culture and erected its monarchy as a quasi messianic bloodline. Didn't stop Belgium from killing millions of Congolese.
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I am struck, and pleasantly amused, by the flawless, highly ornate Arabic prose of this late 19th-century Cambridge Persianist, who was evidently an accomplished Arabist as well.
Incidentally, this is one reason I find Edward Said’s Orientalism overly dismissive and uncharitable toward Western scholars. Men like Browne devoted an extraordinary effort to mastering a difficult language and culture, and that kind of devotion is hard to see as anything other than a labor of love, especially when his Arabic is so poetic and refined. (I must admit, I am envious!)
Ironically, Arabists like Browne likely possessed a far more advanced command of Arabic than Said ever did.
Fitzroy Morrissey@fitzmorrissey
I love this: the Cambridge Persianist Edward Granville Browne writing to Ignaz Goldziher in Arabic rhymed prose (sajʿ). Let’s bring this back among Arabist colleagues!
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@TwasBrillig1 What would that relationship even look like? With Jon being a zombie
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my favourite part of the game of thrones book is when Danny and John Snow fall in love
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@bouncyrou Targs should have rampant haemophilia. Incest would allow Targ women to have haemophilia--doesn't happen irl because X-linked.
Would explain why Targs die young, make Targs sitting in a spiky chair more portentous, contribute to the Targs being fragile, effete
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@bouncyrou There's an interesting line from a Winds sample chapter, on Valyrians looking feminine.
GRRM goated for making Arianne a strict androphile--a preference every sexual faction of Twitter would find offensive.
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I’m an incest fan but targ stans are fucking unreal lol
fortunafavorite@favoritafortuna
sorry but Targaryen's are not Targaryen's without the incest. They are genetically designed to crave their relatives and would not exist without it. Even in the modern world, they would find a way to be attracted to one another
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@adrian_lamete @0laribiwa He is hypocirte, but he's also extremely old. He was Eggs cup bearer for fucks sake
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When you run out of children and grandchildren to marry
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All 'things' are actually social definitions, social contracts. The universe doesn't know where the tree ends and the soil begins. That's something we made up to make navigating the world and communicating about it easier
Elizabeth!@InstantSunrise
people debating the ship of theseus are overthinking it. it doesn’t matter how many boards are replaced, it’s still got the same hull identification number, so it’s still the same boat lol.
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@Matty_Ixnay Love the swirls on that ice-cream. Haven't seen that before
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so much transition posting is towing a *very* fine line between advice and kink
Léa🐞🚜🛟@sex_pervert
The secret to my E cups is i used to drink milkshakes like these every day or two earlier in my transition
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Been enjoying the micropigs on my feed lately. They have a considerate energy to them that I find very endearing. Very polite seeming animals.
pignic【マイクロブタふれあいカフェ】@pignic_cafe
pigちゃんの昼休み✨ #マイクロブタ #pignic
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@sos_isagifan @Tsukiya_a Don't call people retarded.
"Breaking the wheel" is reference to a line from the books, the whole last chapter of Dance is about Dany resolving to return to Westeros with Fire and Blood
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@men_teeth @Tsukiya_a She didn't mention breaking the wheel in book even once and grrm confirmed that her ending will get different in books. Only thing that will get burned is your parents hopes about you once they find out how retarded their child is
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Yes, I'm sure the guy who died for showing mercy to his enemies and took an oath to protect the realm would commit genocide to appease a woman he hasn't even met
£me•rald@Emeraldjeborri
Book Danny would never burn down kingslanding intentionally, book Jon would burn down kingslanding to keep Danny warm
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isn't the opposite the whole idea of the Amtal rule
PowVibes@powvibess
a process cannot be understood by stopping it.
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Go see it and have fun before film twitter tells you it sucks 🔥
The Cinéprism@TheCineprism
🎬 Come and See (1985) Horrifying. Cruel. Unforgettable.
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@men_teeth Im out of the house, but for a woman a break in a marriage in asia is catastrophic social failure and would leave a massive mark on her family and her life permanently,
I just dont want her to suffer like this, i genuinely dont know if i should do the smart thing or kind thing
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Am i pathetic enough to try again with her? Lets find out
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@men_teeth @KhaosKontroller @JuanEditzs Lmfao I just watched this last week. How did you remember this?
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@jsrrayburn @OliverJia1014 Glycerol as sperm cryoprotectant was only discovered in 1949, Hitler died in 1945
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@OliverJia1014 I mean... Hitler's sperm could've been frozen, and then impregnated Trump's mom 5 months later. That's also a possibility.
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My life has truly been enhanced with this knowledge.
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it’s funny that he said this when there were only two black people in the show and one of them literally died and the other was left alone and miserable and would also die soon anyway
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