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Megan Fernandes, “May to December,” in I Do Everything I’m Told

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you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing

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do you ever watch videos of youtubers reading their own crappy wattpad x self insert fics and think to yourself man i would love to explain the sold to one direction trope to these kids, it would absolutely break them

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domestic petercatherine & paul in a deleted scene from 2x09 - "walnut season"

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cuddling

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EMMA (2020)  dir. Autumn de Wilde

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“Whom are you going to dance with?” asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment, and then replied, “With you, if you will ask me.” “Will you?” said he, offering his hand. Emma by Jane Austen

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Japanese Matchbox Label

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Taylor Swift performs 'Delicate' at the Eras Tour in Pittsburgh, night two (x)

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When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

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 Deeeeelightful!!!!!!!!

#wHAT IS THJS SHOW I MUST KNOW

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self-care is reaching under your shirt and firmly gripping your own boob

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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Art by u/reachling

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Hey! I’ve recently got into the Great via YouTube compilation clips. I’m very happy to see you here, making stuff so that I can be in the audience. Anydeas for new petercat fic? How is that college au coming along? PS I am willing to try to bribe you in moodboards. I have three at the moment, building in vision and phone camera storage lol

To be honest most of my fic these days exist in weird little clumps in my notes app - that college au in particular. am dying for a bit of inspiration these days GOSH SEND IN THE MOODBOARDS ily

#Look what this lovely person made to inspire me for my fics 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 #aaaaaah

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》 Anne with an E ⇢ 1.02 “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me”

“We hope you like the sound of Anne Shirley Cuthbert”

#fourth frame is a painting #awae