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28 Times "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" Transmuted You Into A Puddle Of Tears

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“To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.”

When Edward saw the results of his attempt to resurrect his mother.

When Edward saw the results of his attempt to resurrect his mother.

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When he realized Al's body had been taken, and he was willing to give up everything without hesitation to get it back.

When he realized Al's body had been taken, and he was willing to give up everything without hesitation to get it back.

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When Alphonse questioned whether his brother had truly tried to save him, or if he had used his soul to create a monstrous puppet.

When Alphonse questioned whether his brother had truly tried to save him, or if he had used his soul to create a monstrous puppet.

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When we learned that Izumi had also approached the portal of truth to bring back her unborn child.

When we learned that Izumi had also approached the portal of truth to bring back her unborn child.

Proving that not even the strongest of us are safe from temptation.

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What Do You Want To Know About Hilary Duff?

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The “Sparks” singer is stopping by BuzzFeed to answer your questions!

Hilary Duff, acting and singing extraordinaire, is stopping by BuzzFeed to talk about her new album Breathe In. Breathe Out. and we're giving YOU the chance to ask her questions!

Hilary Duff, acting and singing extraordinaire, is stopping by BuzzFeed to talk about her new album Breathe In. Breathe Out. and we're giving YOU the chance to ask her questions!

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Maybe you want to know all about the making of her music video "Sparks."

Maybe you want to know all about the making of her music video "Sparks."

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Perhaps you're curious to see if she's still going on Tinder dates.

Perhaps you're curious to see if she's still going on Tinder dates.

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Maybe you want to know what her favorite song on the new album is.

Maybe you want to know what her favorite song on the new album is.

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25 Photos Of Women Whose Pastels Are On Point

Are You A Ghost?

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This is the only way to find out.

How Much Does Your Dog Actually Love You?

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Find out what they’re really thinking.

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Some Books Used To Be Made Of Human Skin, And This Might Be One Of Them

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Sound horrifying? The practice was more common than you think.

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Now University of Notre Dame conservators are awaiting results about whether a book in their collection was made using human skin.

Last year Harvard conservators confirmed a book in their library had an exterior made of human skin after scientists tested the binding, and other surviving books have periodically surfaced.

Though the Notre Dame copy's history is unclear, the book has been a highlight on the library's Special Collections tour for so long that researchers decided to send a sample to the New York City Medical Examiner's office.

The annotations about the book's potential origins can be seen in this photograph.

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What Gap Closing 175 Stores Means For Humanity

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Guard your chinos.

Gap announced that it will be closing 175 U.S. stores.

Gap announced that it will be closing 175 U.S. stores.

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But what does a world with 175 fewer Gardens of Appropriate Pants mean?????

But what does a world with 175 fewer Gardens of Appropriate Pants mean?????

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175X fewer vaguely cotton t-shirts.

175X fewer vaguely cotton t-shirts.

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175X fewer boyfriend jeans that you thought maybe you could pull off but still haven't worn.

175X fewer boyfriend jeans that you thought maybe you could pull off but still haven't worn.

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What Most People Don't Know About Sign Language

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One Friday night in high school, my friends Emily, Jen, and I curled up on Emily's couch watching Four Weddings and a Funeral. During the scene where Hugh’s character and his brother communicate through sign language, they both turned to look at me.

"Do you know what he's saying?" Jen asked.

"Well, yeah. I'm reading the subtitles."

"But I thought you understood sign language!"

"That's British Sign Language."

"What are you talking about? They have a different sign language there? But they speak English! That doesn't make sense!"

I have had variations of this conversation about a thousand times in my life. As the hearing daughter of a deaf dad and hard-of-hearing mom, I've been a staunch pro-ASL activist and have written on issues related to the Deaf community. And while some topics — legally mandated TV captioning, the fact that knowing ASL and English means I'm bilingual — have gotten much easier to explain over the years, there's one thing that everybody keeps sticking on: the fact that sign language is not universal.

Take, for example, the movie The Tribe, which is opening in New York this week. The movie is groundbreaking for being possibly the first one ever to be completely in sign language, without subtitles. Quite a few reviews (including BuzzFeed's) wrote about the film being totally in sign. A few friends forwarded me links about the movie, saying I should check it out because I'd be able to understand it. But the film is set in Ukraine. And that means that the characters communicate in Ukrainian Sign Language, a language I definitely can't understand.

And that's one of the biggest problems with educating people about the Deaf community — simply saying "sign language" isn't sufficient. It's like saying a movie's dialogue was "in Asian." It has simply never occurred to most people that deaf people in different countries might communicate in different languages, even though hearing people in those different countries can't communicate with each other. I make a point of saying "I know American Sign Language" to people, which means that at least half the time the follow-up comment is "Wait, so there are other ones?"

Too often, hearing people try to argue with me about how it would be so much better for deaf people if they could all communicate with each other no matter where they lived. This is yet another example of the paternalism that the Deaf community has long experienced. I wouldn't march into Italy and say that because Italian is mostly only spoken in one country that everyone should be forced to give it up and learn something else.

As Deaf communities assert their independence, they have created more sign languages. The Nicaraguan Deaf community recently invented their very own sign language from scratch. Even if you share a language with only one other person, it is still your language, to use the way you want it.

I think a lot about the lyrics from one of my favorite gym playlist songs, Björk’s “Declare Independence”: “Start your own currency / Make your own stamp / Protect your language.” When people say “But wouldn’t it so much easier if all deaf people just learned the same language?” they mean “But it would be so much easier for me and my understanding if all deaf people just did what a random hearing person thought was easier.”

The languages deaf people use don’t affect hearing people or their lives in any measurable way. This is the same ableist thinking that once resulted in deaf children being forced to put their mouths in vices, spending all day trying to enunciate English words and being told that sign language would make them stupid and unemployable.

And The Tribe is far from the only example of “sign language” being used without any qualifier specifying the community or country it’s from. After that whole “fake interpreter at Mandela’s funeral” thing, my phone lit up with texts from friends who wanted to know if I had spotted the phony. The answer: No, of course, because I don’t know South African Sign Language.

And while I did love that episode of Call the Midwife with a deaf mom-to-be, she was communicating in British Sign Language, so my enjoyment of the storyline was about the portrayal of the deaf character, not her signing. I was psyched when the British soap Hollyoaks cast a deaf character — because of the cultural impact, not the fact that I had to follow along via subtitles like most of the viewing audience. Like many deaf people around the world, I followed the story of the French film La Famille Bélier — about a deaf family whose hearing daughter becomes a singer — with great interest, as the French Deaf community was angered that hearing actors were cast as the parents. (I’d also like to know what the heck “Deaf Sign Language” is.) For me, being part of the global Deaf community means that even though we don’t all use the same language to communicate, there are universalities that bring us together.

And as for the folks who emailed me to ask if I was planning to check out The Tribe: No, I don’t think so. Not because it’s in a language I don’t understand, though — it just looks really freaking depressing.

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This Graduating Class Shut It Down Performing Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” At Their Ceremony

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♫ Haters gonna hate hate hate♫

The graduating class of Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, just went out with a bang by performing a choreographed flash mob routine to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."

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First, valedictorian Colin Yost made a commencement speech about embracing your inner nerd.

First, valedictorian Colin Yost made a commencement speech about embracing your inner nerd.

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Then at the end of the speech he started to break it down at the podium.

Then at the end of the speech he started to break it down at the podium.

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He jumped into the crowd of his fellow students, and everyone joined in on an awesome choreographed routine.

He jumped into the crowd of his fellow students, and everyone joined in on an awesome choreographed routine.

Yost told MTV News that he was inspired by hearing "Shake It Off" while driving in his car one day. He organized his classmates and even sent out a secret instructional video of the routine.

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29 Times College Was A Nightmare For Socially Anxious People

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“Participation counts for 20% of your grade.” *passes out*

When you arrive on campus with no friends and have to start from scratch.

When you arrive on campus with no friends and have to start from scratch.

All your hard socialization work in high school = down the drain.

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Questioning whether the friends you made in your first week really like you or if they will abandon ship at the first opportunity.

Questioning whether the friends you made in your first week really like you or if they will abandon ship at the first opportunity.

Oh god, what are you going to do after you get out of the orientation honeymoon period?

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Three words: Random. Roommate. Assignments.

Three words: Random. Roommate. Assignments.

No amount of friendly Facebook messaging beforehand could prepare you for having to live with a complete stranger.

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"Participation counts for 20% of your grade."

"Participation counts for 20% of your grade."

Supervillain origin story: BEING FORCED TO TALK IN DISCUSSION SECTIONS.

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Who Is Going To Be The Last Person Standing On "Game Of Thrones"?

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As Jeff Probst would say, who will outwit, outplay, and outlast them all?

We all know that on Game of Thrones, people die.

We all know that on Game of Thrones, people die.

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Like, a lot of people.

Like, a lot of people.

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I mean...most people. Most die.

I mean...most people. Most die.

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BUT WHO WILL LIVE...THE LONGEST?

BUT WHO WILL LIVE...THE LONGEST?

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A Photo Of A Disney Princess-Inspired Girls Softball Team Is Blowing Up Online

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The definition of “play like a girl.”

A girls' softball team in Oklahoma is getting a ton of attention for their team picture that shows what it really means to play "like a girl."

A girls' softball team in Oklahoma is getting a ton of attention for their team picture that shows what it really means to play "like a girl."

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The snap of the "Freeze," a softball team made up of girls ages 4 and 5, was posted online by photographer Betsy Gregory. Gregory's daughter was the team's catcher, she told BuzzFeed News.

The snap of the "Freeze," a softball team made up of girls ages 4 and 5, was posted online by photographer Betsy Gregory. Gregory's daughter was the team's catcher, she told BuzzFeed News.

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Like literally all little girls, the team is obsessed with Frozen. When it came time to pick a team name, the girls wanted to be called the "Sparkling Elsas," Gregory said. However, they settled on the more tough-sounding "Freeze."

Like literally all little girls, the team is obsessed with Frozen. When it came time to pick a team name, the girls wanted to be called the "Sparkling Elsas," Gregory said. However, they settled on the more tough-sounding "Freeze."

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The girls had normal softball uniforms, but their hats had blonde "Elsa hair" attached, Gregory said. They weren't allowed to wear the hair most of the time, however, because it was too windy.

The girls had normal softball uniforms, but their hats had blonde "Elsa hair" attached, Gregory said. They weren't allowed to wear the hair most of the time, however, because it was too windy.

Gregory noted that the "Freeze" didn't have a very successful season, but they had a lot of fun.

"We came in last place in the league, but we sure did look cute," she said.

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Are These Things F**kable?

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Please help.

I need your help. No reason to go into too much detail, but I really need to know if this thing is fuckable.

I need your help. No reason to go into too much detail, but I really need to know if this thing is fuckable.

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Here it is up close. I could really use your advice on this.

Here it is up close. I could really use your advice on this.

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Okay, so, no pressure, but it would also be great if you could tell if this is fuckable too. No particular reason, don't worry about it.

Okay, so, no pressure, but it would also be great if you could tell if this is fuckable too. No particular reason, don't worry about it.

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23 Times Little My Was The Sassiest Damn Woman

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“Sorry Moomin. Didn’t know it was you, thought it was a pig.”

When she'd had enough of Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden's mushy chit chat.

When she refused to settle for any old job.

"When I grow up, I'm going to become a pirate." The joys of motherhood didn't interest Little My, and she probably knew the facts of life anyway.

And encouraged everything around her to dream big too.

When she didn't have time for Moomin's negativity.

"Don't whine. It's enough when the wine whines."


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Meet The U.S. Citizens Charged With Trying To Join Or Help ISIS

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This is an ongoing list of Americans who have been arrested on suspicion of trying to provide material support to international terrorist groups. Updates will be added as new arrests occur.

More and more American citizens are traveling abroad to join and fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Over the past two years, dozens of Americans have been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, many of whom the FBI discovered through their social media accounts declaring allegiance to the terrorist group.

The following are some of the Americans we know have been arrested in the U.S. for attempting to travel abroad to support and fight for ISIS:

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh

Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh

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Pugh was fired from his job working as an airplane mechanic in Kuwait in December 2014. A few weeks later, in January, he allegedly tried to fly from Egypt to Turkey in an effort to get across the border into Syria to join ISIS.

After authorities in Turkey denied Pugh access into the country, he was sent back on a return flight to Egypt. Egypt deported him to the U.S. on Jan. 15 after he was found carrying suspicious items, including a photograph of a machine gun.

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Superman's Longtime Lover Lois Lane Also Became A Black Woman Before

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Did this issue inspire Rachel Dolezal? Probably not. But let’s pretend!

There's been a lot of talk about Rachel Dolezal this week — a white woman who disguised herself as black for several years.

There's been a lot of talk about Rachel Dolezal this week — a white woman who disguised herself as black for several years.

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But what you may not know is that Superman's longtime lover Lois Lane also dabbled in changing races in 1970.

But what you may not know is that Superman's longtime lover Lois Lane also dabbled in changing races in 1970.

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It started with Lois wanting to win a Pulitzer for her reporting on the "nitty-gritty" of some neighborhood called LITTLE AFRICA.

It started with Lois wanting to win a Pulitzer for her reporting on the "nitty-gritty" of some neighborhood called LITTLE AFRICA.

Not Little Ethiopia. Not Little Nigeria. Apparently this neighborhood in Metropolis encompassed an ENTIRE continent's culture.

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But poor lil' Lois wasn't gonna get her big story because BLACK PEOPLE WERE RUDE TO HER.

But poor lil' Lois wasn't gonna get her big story because BLACK PEOPLE WERE RUDE TO HER.

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