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random miscellaneous text posts/quotes i found on pinterest that have jess energy part 1/?

#gilmore girls #jess mariano

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it’s frustrating because every time as a kid or a teen that you talk about something about your life or growing up that makes you nervous every adult in the room immediately jumps down your throat about how much worse it’s going to be once you’re older and how this is nothing compared to how much life sucks in the later years and then these are the same adults who turn around and go why can’t you all just grow up already, your generation is so immature, I started working at nine years old or whatever the fuck. Like they’re fucking surprised about it? First of all look at the adulthood you’ve crafted for us to grow in to. Secondly; you literally spent my entire childhood telling me how much being an adult sucked and how much worse it was then whatever I had going on, and now you’re surprised that I don’t want to grow up?! Pull your head out of your ass and maybe you’ll be able to hear your own hypocrisy.

#like some adults will truly adopt any mindset other than #maybe this late-capitalist society is the problem #maybe it's not normal for us all to hate an intrinsic part of life #maybe we shouldn't keep telling the kids that the worst thing that is ever going to happen to them is #1 yet to come #and 2 #completely unavoidable?!!

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wow what a cool piece of storytelling you have there! I’m sure I’ll be completely normal about it in every way possible and not allow it to take over my every waking and resting thought

guys….guess what happened

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just had a thought (rare) and I’m now fully convinced Erik had to make Sam have a werewolf listener so he could refer to them as his ‘mate’ instead of his ‘partner’ at risk of immediately conjuring the image of full-blown cowboy Sam, chaps and all saying “howdy pardner”

#redacted audio #Sam Collins #darlin’ redacted audio

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ADHD pro tip: Use psychological warfare on yourself.

For example, in order to do long tasks, like folding laundry, I put on the Mario Hat:

The main feature of the Mario hat is that my headset does not fit over it, so when The Bees™ try to put me back in front of the screen, the headset issue forces me to remember why I put the Mario hat on, and back to the task I go

As a bonus, the Mario hat is also a very clear indicator to my housemates that business is getting done, and they have learned not to distract me when I'm wearing the "goofy-ass cosplay hat"

It's not stupid if it works.

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JESS ANGST JESS ANGST

There is no way Jess knows how to have a family meal until well into adulthood if ever

Having a family meal is very different than sitting down with takeout or going to a restaurant. You have to pass the salt, you have to take servings and figure out how much is appropriate to take, you have to speak in a narrow bandwidth of appropriate topics, you have to pass dishes you have to know what fork to use sometimes.

No way Jess knows how to do any of that. It might seem obvious but if you are constantly a second from exploding with terror and fury and just HAVEN'T them it's not obvious.

Liz proudly admits she had never made dinner before, so unless her guys (who Jess vehemently hated) insisted on a family dinner he's never had a family dinner, and if he had it was under duress. He's been grabbing food on his own and avoiding uncomfortable meals since he was tiny

Of all the times Jess ate in canon by far the most comfortable he got was walking in a city street eating a hot dog.

The first meal we see at Stars Hollow he has taken a pile of food, parked it on the raft next to him to have to himself. Obnoxious teen or scared kid who found free food, claimed it, keeping it safe (why not both but I'm just saying)

The second meal at the Gilmore's would be complete alien territory. Strangers, piles of food you're supposed to hover around and just take and figure out how much is okay to take, and Jess being acutely aware these people are watching him

OF COURSE YOU BAIL

The worst meal of course is at Emily's where he's at his least chill and most uncool but probably part of that is having a formal dinner for the first time. He holds his fork improperly, he can't engage in polite small talk. Almost everything he says would be appropriate over takeout but isn't here and even Jess admits that's him trying to make good impression. But he doesn't have the experience or social language to.

#Jess Mariano #Gilmore girls #gg

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can’t criticize plastic surgery as an institution because it’s none of your business if a woman wants to “fix” her insecurities. can’t criticize the makeup industry or beauty standards because some women feel good when they shave and wear makeup. can’t bring up the challenges women face in the workplace because some women want to be stay at home wives instead of working. everything a woman does is automatically feminist and we shouldn’t stop to think about the context surrounding her actions because that would be misogynistic. here’s what i had for girl dinner. according to my girl math the barbie movie was a revolutionary piece of feminist media. i may not show it but i feel the life slowly draining from me day by day.

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I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

#the muppets #the princess bride

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bored border collie: im going to perform psychological experiments on every human member of my household

bored pit bull: i bet i could eat a rock if i tried hard enough

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the ship of theseus wikipedia article in 2003. 20 years later, after 1792 total edits, 0% of its original phrasing remains. (x)

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

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