captainjhwatson:
Since Uganda is getting a lot of interest on the internet right now, I figured it was important to try to present an alternative source of information. Invisible Children is, as many already know, a highly problematic organization, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying to help. Here are some other sources of information, statistics, and ways to donate/help.
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One image from that video will haunt me for years.
It isn’t Jacob’s face as he’s describing how he watched his brother die.
It isn’t the wisdom in Gavin’s eyes when he hears the LRA’s story and says, simply, “That’s sad.”
It isn’t even the image of Senators and Congressmen shaking hands with the common people and promising to listen.
The image I’m talking about is less than a second long.
There is a crowd of people.
They are silent and still.
And they raise their right hands as one.
And they make the sign of peace.
Hope is beautiful.
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Okay, so not to fangirl or anything but in a trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, there is a puppy-sized elephant. :O
And I can’t even find the link.
;(
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There is something majestic and mysterious and undeniably rich about books. They give us words and ideas and motions and they say do what you will with them. They are yours. Use them to build entire worlds, inhabit your own castles, walk alongside an entire civilisation in your mind. It is yours. Take it.
And then I get sad because people are always mad when books get made into films and it isn’t as good or as thrilling or beautiful or perfect as the book. What people seem to forget is that films can’t ever be as good as the book. Films don’t give you uninhabited castles and waiting worlds and people poised on the brink of life.
They give you attempts and guesses and stumbling, faltering, humble representations, because they can’t do anything more. It is impossible to bring a book to that kind of life and not spoil it. Here, they whisper, here is my ruined castle and my half-formed people and my crumbling world. Take it. It is the best I can do.
People seem to forget that books and films exist for entirely different purposes.
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I’m writing this for a reason. These are not the reasons (though they are true):
- I am angry at SOPA
- I am angry at PIPA
- I am angry at the flagrant betrayal of freedoms that SOPA and PIPA would cause
- I am angry at the US government
This is the reason:
- I am angry that the internet has stopped being about art and people and community and has started being about money and power and control.
The people who proposed and are backing SOPA/PIPA took one of the most incredible, intelligent, beautiful ideas in human history, and ruined it. They made it about corporation and franchise and goddamn money.
And I don’t know what’s worse: that they thought that was a good and possible idea, or that they thought they had the right to try it.
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I can’t get ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ out of my head. It’s following me around like some sort of beautiful ghost that begs you to turn around and face the truth.
Some things that are the truth:
- love always matters.
- disappointment shouldn’t ruin things.
- people with cancer aren’t ‘cancer patients’. They are people.
- even if you learn something from a book instead of ‘real life’, it will always matter, because it’s the truth.
- young people are often wiser than adults.
- John Green is an incredible writer.
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