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"The difficulty with a deadfall lay in striking a balance between stability and fragility. Stability kept the trap from collapsing on its own, though too much would prevent it from collapsing at all; fragility allowed the trap to collapse easily when tripped by its prey, though too much would cause it to collapse on its own."

how tf do i even describe this writing style??

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 allowed Americans to walk freely in public regardless of their race or previous condition of servitude. In 1883, the Supreme Court claimed the act unconstitutional and reversed it.

I had always read about the dangers of "getting too comfortable" but I've never seen it so obviously presented. I remember how I felt when Roe v Wade was overturned, I can't imagine the hopelessness in 1883.

“Because the Grimke sisters had such a profound consciousness of the inseparability of the fight for Black Liberation and the fight for Women’s Liberation, they were never caught in the ideological snare of insisting that one struggle was absolutely more important than the other.”

I forgot nonfiction can make me just as emotional and this is just a single quote from chapter two :,)

A double plot twist to wrap things up, WHY NOT?

Disguising two children as oil magnates from Saudi Arabia in order to infiltrate the president elect's meeting with foreign leaders and kidnap him could not have possibly been on my bingo card.. but I oddly respect it.

I definitely respect the secret button spyware she has installed in her niqab but HELLO?

Does your local 10 year old talk like this?

"It's just what I believe," said Rocky. "It's common sense. I never was a big one for religion. Religions have great music, that's for sure, and cool buildings, but religions seem to make people fight each other too much. If you treat people and animals around you as well as you can, that's enough religion. Don't think you think?" [...] "Why does there have to be a point?"

Crashing the Oscars to commit mass hypnosis.. the obvious first step in any plan for world domination!

Wasn't planning on updating again so soon but.. everybody is being way too casual about Roger's schizophrenia 😭😭

In an attempt to sabotage a billionaire from potentially running for U.S. president, an anti-capitalist, anti-consumerism queen is car bombed. She spends months recovering in the hospital before recruiting a child to her plans.

I remember the series getting crazy but HELLO?

I remember this being my least favorite of the series as a kid but I'm staying optimistic

tearing up in public hello 💔💔

if you know this book i love you

I may be the last person on Earth who hasn’t read HP yet

How could I forget that practically everyone will do/ignore anything for oil 💀💔

“Oftentimes people say, well, if it takes that long, I’ll be dead. So what? Everybody dies, right? […] we have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes.”

“Incidentally, if you are a white man, you don’t necessarily have to identify with that collective “white men” about which I am speaking.”

“Most importantly if the intersectionality of struggles against racism, homophobia, and transphobia is minimized, we will never achieve significant victories in our fight for justice.”

“[…] we [will] have to rewrite the whole category, rather than simply assimilate more women in to an unchanged category of what counts as “women”.”