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NEVER GIVE UP

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What I'm reading right now

Title: When We Were Magic

Author: Sarah Gailey

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2020

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, contemporary, paranormal

Blurb: Keeping your magic a secret is hard; being in love with your best friend is harder. Alexis has always been able to rely on two of her best friends and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable, even when that love is complicated by problems like jealousy, insecurity, lust, or love. That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn't change on prom night. When accidental magic goes sideways and a boy winds up dead, Alexis and her friends come together to try to right a terrible wrong. Their first attempt fails, and their second attempt fails even harder. Left with the remains of their failed spells and more consequences than anyone could have predicted, each of them must find a way to live with their part of the story.

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where is my favorite painting i need to find my favorite painting

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leverage was so so so SO funny for the db cooper job. like yeah its a thief show, they had to mention him at some point eventually. but no. not only do they not mention him for a whole four and a half seasons, they cold drop a historical flashback episodes and decide theyre gonna solve it AND that db cooper married the flight attendant AND that he then joins the fbi and become partners with the guy whos made it his lifes mission to hunt him down. hilarious

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Leverage: Redemption 3x3- "The Scared Stiff Job"

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Leverage (2008) // the gang x taglines

HI I'M BACK. Sorry for abruptly vanishing (again). I had sepsis (again). I’m home now though and have open Wi-Fi again so here’s our guys

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what if you were a corporate lawyer and you HATED yourself so you became a CRIMINAL and NEVER TOLD YOUR DAUGHTER YOU WERE DOING CRIME and then you had to run a scam on a guy by PRETENDING to be BISEXUAL despite being ACTUALLY bisexual and then your daughter WALKED IN ON YOU ON A FAKE DATE WITH YOUR MARK and then said YEAH IT MAKES SENSE YOU'RE GAY because you're BAD AT INTIMACY.

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Leverage: Redemption (2021-present) The Swipe Right Job (S03E06)

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watching the pitt with noah wyle as dr robby (the saddest and most anxious ridden man in all of pittsburgh) THEN watching leverage redemption with noah wyle as lawyer harry wilson (former evil lawyer but turned good guy, enthusiastic louisiana weird guy who occasionally wears funny costumes and pulls cons) is giving me serious whiplash

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I didn’t go missing, David. The FBI knew where I was the entire time.

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yess them again

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In case you forgot, fandom is for freaks by freaks.

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Madison Brown for Selkie

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i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more

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Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isn’t white: the only exception being Mertle, y’know, the bratty little girl we’re not supposed to like.

Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).

So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasn’t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.

Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as “she” when dressed up as “aunt Pleakley.” There’s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a “normal life.” After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."

After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.

Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to “try wearing men’s clothes more often,” she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesn’t understand her son's way of thinking. It’ll definitely be hard for her since she’s so much more “traditional,” but she’s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so she’ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.

The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. It’s not because there’s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isn’t in every episode, but here’s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."

The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.

There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.

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Just for shits and giggles I redrew the posters for the live-action Lilo and Stitch with the real Stitch