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okay but “you’re on your own kid, yeah you can face this. you’re on your own kid, you always have been.” is for the eldest daughters

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i really need more television to exist in the same refrain as derry girls where it's not trying to tell some profound and heavily plotted out overarching story... rather its happy to just live in the brief moments of these character's lives and the comedy and tragedy that is part of their every day existence. i love 'we're not going anywhere in particular but you're damn sure going to enjoy the journey' type storytelling.

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— Joan Didion, “On Keeping A Notebook” (1966), Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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I miss when things used to be a bit ugly…. That’s when people had so much fun… now everyone is beautiful and untouchable and boring and sterilized…. Maybe fashion was weird back in the day and no one took proper care of their skin n whatever but at least people were having fun, at least people tried to be original and weird and fun instead of just being online . Maybe Sumtimes U have 2 go out on a summer day and have so much fun that u forgot to reapply sunscreen…. Maybe that’s what life is about ! Hmm….

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not to be a cunt but the way people seem to write books now by cherry picking favorite tropes and character cliches and mashing them together with a basic overplayed plot.. and then it's marketed online and even in physical book stores literally just by describing the book by its trope usage and people eat it up like slay fake dating or gay enemies to lovers 😍 like okay but what is the book ABOUT is the writing good what's the plot what's the message? they're all soulless and like bioengineered to be immediate bestsellers with zero depth

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and when chidi anagonye said “i argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. simply put, we are not in this alone”

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Fuck sometimes i catch myself talking about Classic Literature and I’m like please I promis e I’m not Pretentious just sometimes you read A Thing that got written like. A Long Time Ago and you’re like fuck we’ve always been the same haven’t we. Stupid. Horny. Weird. Afraid to die. Here to have fun, to get drunk, to do things out of spite, to fight for beautiful things and also for just fucking stupid things. Desperate for those that come after to remember and say our names

#currently reading war and peace and i’m having a blast #it’s just… really good man

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Trivia from Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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for anyone that missed taylor’s speech 🥺👉🏼👈🏼

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Adult heroines commit suicide for different reasons than teenage heroines do. Where the teenagers have been drained of all desire, the adults are so full of desire that it kills them. Or, rather, they live under conditions where ordinary desire makes them fatally monstrous.

Jia Tolentino, “Pure Heroines” from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (via smokefalls)

#this essay man...

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look I'm not saying "Trick Mirror " isn't without its lows, bUt Pure Heroines???

"Has anyone ever written a great novel about a woman who is happy in her marriage?"

and

"Is it that fantastical, the idea of a selfhood undiminished by circumstance? Is it incomplete, naïve? In children's literature, young female characters are self-evidently important, and their traumas, whatever they may be, are secondary. In adult fiction, if a girl is important to the narrative, trauma often comes first."

AND

"whatever is dictated is not eternal, not predestined, not necessarily true"

#i was listening the audiobook on my way to work and omg #i have lots of problems with how it portrays some things #but this essay snapped

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Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre

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rock fact

#Over the Garden Wall

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books I’ve read in 2021: daughters of sparta by claire heywood

#my edit #2021 books #daughters of sparta #claire heywood #greek mythology retellings #helen of troy #clytemnestra #trojan war #booklr

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I have made a craft paint acrylic on canvas repaint of The Happy Accidents of the Swing, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, but it's frogs🐸🌸

(Available as prints, stickers, and a bunch of other things on my Redbubble shop✨🐸)

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Forgot to complain about hosab!!! It took me a MONTH to finish it and somehow I had only seen one spoiler on tiktok, which was good I guess. But nothing prepared me to the jumpscare that was Rh*sand in the ending. I hated the ending lol.

#it was sooooo long #And I don’t see enough people talking about Hunt being a slave again #because *that’s* what broke #hosab #crescent city #also why would sjm ruin danika and bryce’s friendship??? #if she wanted people to stop saying danika was a lesbian just say so #because danika’s mate plot… 🤢