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sorry I liked your post a second after you posted it I don’t have a life

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writer’s block (dry) = no desire to write, no ability to write (bearable)

writer’s block (wet) = HUGE desire to write, no ability to write (very evil)

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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

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i loveeeeeee nonlinear storytelling. show me where we are. now show me how we got here. the end before the beginning. show me how it was inevitable or how many chances we had to change things(nothing was ever going to change). let's meet in the middle as all the puzzle pieces slide into place hell yeah that's the good shit.

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Renegade Nell (2024) ⤷ Louisa Harland as Nell Jackson

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Creatures from the Luttrell Psalter (c. 1320-1340) PNGs, part 1.

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Missing these goofballs, but I hope they’re having fun and getting up to trouble

#boygenius

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The fucking link to the Wikipedia for "cylinder". Brutal.

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this headline i just saw is making me lose it. searching ‘dracula’ on google images and scrolling the results for an hour every morning nodding solemnly at each pic like they’re motivational quotes before clocking into work

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I love how Polly kissing Nell is the most climatic moment of Pollys life but Nell just rode across the country, saved her sister from an evil theatre kid, and helped a woman give birth, so she’s just like sure okay this is happening and doesn’t even comment on it.

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Renegade Nell textposts part 2

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screams and cries. sofia and nell are such parallels to one another. nell doesn’t overly care about the queen herself but she wants to stop poynton from taking things too far. sofia doesn’t overly care about dethroning the queen but she wants to help poynton to protect herself. and both of them just want to keep their families safe. both are widowed, both lost their mothers at some point and their fathers only recently. both have these incredible powers and a strong, passionate drive for their goals. but sofia is surrounded by people who want to manipulate her, people who are selfish and brass; where nell has people who love her, who see her beyond her abilities. so alike, and yet so different

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nell: don’t call me nelly

literally everyone:

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Another little thing I appreciate about renegade nell is that nell is illiterate but she's still shown to be incredibly intelligent and resourceful. I like how it shows that education/high bred status and actual intelligence are two different things.

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For anything else you want to say about the new show Renegade Nell, I'm deeply appreciative for its sartorial gender subversion. I love that we get to see Nell alternate between and at times actively mix codes of feminine and masculine dress AND that the response to this subversion is an equally mixed reaction of acceptance, confusion, and an absolute grab bag of pronouns and descriptors.

Specifically, I enjoy the refusal of limits. Nell's "disguise" as a nobel woman is complete, believable, and well received. Her "disguise" as a doctor is complete, believable, and well received. Her choice to stand before the queen in military dress is accepted at the same time as she retains the feminine social etiquette of curtsying (even as she does so awkwardly). What we are seeing is a complete refusal of easy categorization and that strategy of opacity is so expertly delivered by Louisa Harland and is so very queer.

I'd love to see a deeper investigation into the costuming of this show, its historical referrants, and the queer readings it elicits

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Renegade Nell - s01e07 "Stop Printing This Muck"

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