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Recovery saved my life. The world is far too expansive and beautiful to be so self destructive. I’m too busy. There’s too much to see.

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My manager was like. "I found the best video on YouTube" and I said "oh?" And he said it's called "one hour of silence periodically interrupted by the sound of a metal pole clanking" and proceeded to play it

Every time the pole clanks he spooks like a wild horse and keeps getting more and more frustrated

We are about 20 minutes in and he's like "god I can't wait for this to be over" refusing to turn it off

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Maika Monroe as Julia in WATCHER (2022) dir. Chloe Okuno

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we're at the tail end of tumblr's ibuprofen era and right at the peak of its toys era. every day I look in the mirror and see a different man than I saw yesterday.

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One of my co-workers has a standing desk that he uses sitting down. It looks like this

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GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES ‘火垂るの墓’ dir. Isao Takahata

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JOAN CRAWFORD in Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz

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The truth is like the waiting jaws of a monster, a more menacing monster than I’ll ever be. It yawns beneath your feet, and you can’t escape it, and as soon as you drop, it chews you to pieces.

BONES AND ALL (2022) dir. Luca Guadagnino, adapted from the novel Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis

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TOP TEN SAW CHARACTERS (AS VOTED BY MY FOLLOWERS) → #9. LINDSEY PEREZ

↳ “Rigg didn't kill Ivan. Ivan made his own choice. Isn't that the whole Jigsaw mantra?"

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TOP TEN SAW CHARACTERS (AS VOTED BY MY FOLLOWERS) → #10. BRIT STEVENSON

↳ "What are you doing?" "Being smart."

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Howl’s Moving Castle dir. Hayao Miyazaki (2004)

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RYAN GOSLING as DRIVER DRIVE (2011) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

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It's cuz you're always fiddling on that damn roof

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I do. God help me I do

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Oh, yes... there will be blood.

THE SAW FRANCHISE 2004 — 2023 (insp.)

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AUTUMN SONATA (1978) dir. Ingmar Bergman