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I don't know exactly how to articulate this but... if you repeatedly show historical fiction women rejecting traditionally female skills/duties and doing swords instead, because swords is obviously the Most Important Thing, you are kind of implying that all the work that has been traditionally done by female hands for millennia was useless all along and not, you know, keeping civilization going. Because it's usually rejected not as a personal preference but as This Is The Important Stuff (male work) and That is The Dumb Useless Stuff (women's work) and that kind of bothers me. The message was supposed to be Vital But Underpaid and Underappreciated, not women's work is insignificant so let's all go do swords.

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CULLENS- related the way knives and guns can be held in the same safe.

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“…my creator, my mentor, my father…”

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Bella Swan: :(

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hemingway / ahkmatova

"But Carlisle believed I was able-- too gifted, too strong, too intelligent... It made me arrogant, I think, but it also shaped me into the man I saw in his head, so determined was I to earn the approval he's already given. Carlisle was shrewd like that."

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hemingway / ahkmatova

"But Carlisle believed I was able-- too gifted, too strong, too intelligent... It made me arrogant, I think, but it also shaped me into the man I saw in his head, so determined was I to earn the approval he's already given. Carlisle was shrewd like that."

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- Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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Happy 122th Birthday Edward Cullen

June 20, 1901

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“Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.”

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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“We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos.”

— Alan Watts

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“They should’ve talked about Bella’s hallucinations more after New Moon” not in a “it’s problematic and objectively bad storytelling to drop it” way, but in a “Edward’s pain and disbelief that Bella risked her life just to hear his voice was delicious, and I crave more” way

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Been watching those Star Wars movies lately back to back. Yeah I did get a boyfriend why do u ask

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Gonna chill out the rest of May and then change my entire life in June. Possibly July if that doesn't work out. Certainly no later than September or October.

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“Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.”

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a.c.