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—YIYUN LI, from Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life.

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people are literally so boring a male character will kill 10000 people and steal candy from babies and theyll be like omg thats my king! but a female character is rude once and theyre like i hope she dies violently

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250809 / Yves

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lying in front of the street cleaner

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THE BORGIAS — 3.01: The Face of Death (2013)

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People making typos in groupchats and then getting whaled on is extremely funny unless I am the one making the typo, in which case you guys are not funny and being very immature

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rory gilmore is a very forgiving person because if my high school boyfriend who ended things by literally ghosting me and the one time I'd seen him in the past two years had been begging me to leave college to be with him, then showed up with zero idea of what was currently going on in my life and claimed to know me better than anyone and yelled at me for taking time out of college I would've killed him actually

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GWAYNE HIGHTOWER — House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024)

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GASOLINE and DRIVE

double feature. coming soon…

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Superman (2025) — dir. James Gunn

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in kung fu panda, po is the dragon warrior because unlike tai lung and tigress, he worked customer service and won't become tyrannical with power

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Team Avatar is back! Air, water, earth, fire, fan, and sword!

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“does fiction influence reality?” fiction is part of reality.

real people write, publish, distribute, profit off, read, learn from, interact with, form communities around, use as a rhetorical device, project onto, and take action based on experiences with fiction. writing fiction is itself a real life set of behaviors that people do. fiction is influenced by and influences culture because fiction is part of culture.

there is no way to separate out what humans do (whether that’s writing stories or conducting scientific studies or having sex) from the culture and systems of power that humans do those things within. there is no behavior of humans that is isolated from and unrelated to our connections with each other.

It’s much more useful to discuss how our behavior relates to our places within existing power structures, our culture, our values and beliefs, and how that behavior impacts each other, and why.

I’m not interested in the question of “does it influence reality?”  I’m interested in the question of “how is this piece of fiction impacting real people and why?”

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kung fu panda 2 (2011) dir. jennifer yuh nelson

your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. it is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

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Villa Salagnon, Lake Geneva, 1968