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Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”

And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?

You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.

#this is a great post #especially the last point #but also this man probably isn't doing this to make a point #he's just trying to live his life #his #life #I don't what it is with this world that almost demands people to sacrifice everything in service of others #usually this expectation is aimed at women #I'm guessing this is now also aimed at him because he isn't just a man but a gay man

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this is so compelling and heartbreaking and important and i wanted to share it. this is the reality of getting an abortion even with roe v wade in place and it's about to get worse.

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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If Maria really is coming back in 25x07, then she would be like 28 years old now in 2024.

She was 9 years old when Liv rescued her back in 2005

#Wait #Maria is coming back?! #This was literally my favorite episode of this show #and I think Mariska Hargitay won an emmy for it #As she should #svu #Phew #I'm so glad they brought Maria back #And that she is a success story #That she seems to be doing pretty well #And has a normal life #And that she has achieved a lot most likely also inspired by Benson

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when will people use the anon function to send passionate, homosexual anonymous love letters

#always honestly

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If none of them married, how desperate would the Bennett girls actually have been?

Well the only dowry they have is £50 apiece from their mother’s small inheritance, per year; so that’s a total of £250 generated by Mrs. Bennet’s inherited investments per annum.

The Dashwoods (four women) are living on £500 a year when they are forced to live in Barton Cottage (with good-will making the rent presumably ridiculously low thanks to Sir John Middleton’s good nature, to say nothing of all the dinners and outings he invites the ladies to, which will help them economize on housekeeping costs for heavier meals.)

So there would be six Bennet women left to live on half as much as the Dashwoods are barely scraping by on. £250 is roughly considered enough to keep ONE gentleman at a barely-genteel level of leisure (presuming he does not keep a horse or estate or have any major expenses beyond securing his own lodgings/clothes/meals at a level becoming of a gentleman.)

None of the Bennet girls have been educated well enough for them to be governesses to support themselves, so…yes, their situation would heavily rely on mega-charity from others to just help them survive, much less maintain them in the lifestyle they’ve been accustomed to. The Dashwood women have NO social life beyond the outings provided by Sir John and the offer of Mrs. Jennings to host the older girls in London–otherwise they’d be stuck in their cottage, meeting absolutely no eligible men, creating a cycle of being poor and unmarried and too poor to meet anyone with money they could marry.

If the Bennet girls don’t at least have ONE of them marry well enough to help the rest before their father dies, they are really, truly, deeply fucked.

They may joke about beautiful Jane being the saviour of the family, but…it’s true. Mr. Bennet failed his daughters several times over in A) presuming he’d have a son, B) not saving money independently from his income to support his family after his death when it became clear he wasn’t going to have a son, C) not educating them well enough to enable them to support themselves in even in the disagreeable way of being a governess, D) not making any effort to escort his daughters to London or even local assemblies to help their matrimonial chances because he just doesn’t feel like it, E) throwing up his hands and shrugging when faced with the crises of Mr. Collins and Wickham.

Much as we are relieved on a romantic level that Mr. Bennet’s support of Elizabeth saves her from parental pressure to accept Mr. Collins, Mrs. Bennet is NOT A DICK for pushing for the match, because on a material level it very much means they get to KEEP THEIR HOUSE and gain a connection to the powerful patron Lady Catherine de Bourgh, which could be VERY advantageous for the other unmarried girls.

And the scandal of Wickham very nearly scuppers the chances of ANY of the other girls, and Wickham is a further DRAIN on the family finances, not a man who is going to substantially be able to support them. It is SUCH a disaster, and of course there’s not much Mr. Bennet can do until they are found, but he’s away in London and doing…what, exactly? Mr. Gardiner takes over and manages everything and Mr. Bennet seems happy to just let him.

Mr. Bennet does the ABSOLUTE LEAST, and actively damages his children’s futures by his inaction AND by his one action to support Lizzie’s individual needs being prioritized over the collective gain, which…I mean, Lizzie is going to be JUST as homeless and destitute as her sisters when he dies, so much good being Dad’s Favourite is going to do her. :/

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you know what’s a good feeling? a real good feeling?

when sunbeams do this.

that is all.

#Kimberley

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You’re gonna tell me Arthur Dales and Josh Exley weren’t in love? 🙄 Pff. Ok.

#Listen #This was a love story #And a gay one #Arthur didn't want to be with a white woman even though Josh Exley gave him the option #And after Josh Exley realized he was in love with Arthur Dale and that Arthur accepted him as he was this man fully embodied and embraced #his Josh self #The self that allowed him to do what he loved #And do who he loved #I said what I said #x files #I swear this show has been around for 30 years but it's still ahead of its time #even 30 years later

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By the time Scully realises the actual, enormous cost of what she's doing (Melissa dying) it was too late to really turn back because then that became the very reason why she couldn't turn her back on the work, before that I think she believed the cost would only be to herself and the work was challenging and rewarding enough to be worth it..also both Mulder and Scully believed for a long time that justice was possible for these people or at the very least that they could stop them from doing any more damage, it wasn't really until very late that they understood that that wasn't possible while we have the advantage of hindsight..other than the mytharc itself (which mostly turned out this pointless because CC made the plot too convoluted to actually resolve) I think Scully finds the work fascinating and rewarding even if she doesn't agree with Mulder about the why, I think she would be incredibly bored teaching at the academy/as a normal pathologist so overall I don't think it's entirely fair that the only thing she gained was being Mulders confidante, sometimes the pursuit of sth, even if futile, is its own reward

I think I agree with you on this:

"I think Scully finds the work fascinating and rewarding even if she doesn't agree with Mulder about the why, I think she would be incredibly bored teaching at the academy/as a normal pathologist"

And that I wasn't being entirely fair in leaving that out.

I also love this.

"sometimes the pursuit of sth, even if futile, is its own reward"

The question is though at what point does the cost of something/the toll it takes negate its reward?

Because it's one thing for the pursuit of something to be futile, it's an entirely different thing for that pursuit to also cost you things you're not prepared or willing to lose.

Which is why I still genuinely wonder if had Scully specifically had the gift of hindsight, as we do, from the start if she would have gone down the path of working with Mulder.

Because for Mulder it was different from the start, it was always personal.

#x files #the x files #mulder #scully

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X Files

I've been re-watching The X-Files and while it's entertaining and they help people by getting dangerous criminals off the street sometimes I kind of wonder from a 'placing myself in their shoes' point of view, if it was worth it.

What did Mulder and Scully really achieve by going down the path they did? They wanted to find the truth about what the government was doing for themselves and to reveal it to the public but other than for their own peace of mind, would it be worth it?

I feel like if there were family members still alive of people who were victims of the government's actions maybe it would have some kind of impact or point, but other than that wouldn't the information simply either not be believed or cause a mass panic?

Which isn't conducive to anything.

I guess you could argue that knowing might prevent something like it from happening again but does it really? I feel like these kinds of organizations tend to find a way to spring up like weeds regardless.

I get Mulder wanting to know what really happened to his sister in order to better live with the fact that he couldn't save her when they were kids. So his motivation is clear.

But Scully simply chose to make Mulder's work her life as well and I'm not sure what she really gained from it. I'd argue she rather lost a lot and important things at that, like her sister, her own agency on several occasions, her ability to bear children which she may or may not have wanted but still it's always good to have the option. And she definitely didn't want to know what happened to her initially. I think she rather considered it a blessing that she didn't remember.

I guess you could say what she sort of gained from the equation was Mulder's love and trust which I definitely do think she wanted. She became Mulder's one confidant. But at what cost? And also, was it worth it, not just because of the cost but also, because in the end she may have simply wanted to do meaningful work while raising a family but Mulder was never going to be the person to do both with to the normal level I imagine she would have wanted. He was too obsessed with finding the truth at practically any cost, too preoccupied with the past that the thought of a viable future never seemed to even really occur to him let alone being something that he actively tried or even seemed to want to build.

Her work with Mulder is a large part of what allowed him to continue his work because instead of debunking Mulder and his theories in her own way she supported and protected him.

But I don't know that in the end either of them really got out of it what they wanted to the level they would have wanted.

#x files #rant #thoughts

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young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway