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Funniest x files moment is the jersey devil episode when scully goes on a date and it doesn't go well and she has a character development moment about weighing how much she wants a normal life and relationship vs being dedicated to her career and the x files. And then it cuts to mulder looking intently at a drawing of a bigfoot with boobs

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The way he buys all the groceries so she can save her money (and he clearly called her shopping for that purpose) but manages to act like it's just because it's too much bother to separate stuff and like...I love him.

Honestly, the whole dynamic is summed up in this scene:

He's getting rained on so she'd be covered but he's couching it as to do otherwise would be a huge inconvenience to him and aaaaa

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i think love is stored in nighttime conversations and “did you eat yet” and books left outside your door and “i waited to watch this with you” and splitting something in half to share and “im proud of you” and folded towels and “you can pick” and heads on shoulders and “you’re right, that was shitty. im sorry” and knocks on doors and “DINNER!” and stupid jokes and “hey i got this for you” and coffee made just right and… there are so many ways people say i love you silently every day over and over again if you only listen

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He got his wife back. He's so happy. I'm so happy for them. Best couple so far!

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The way I started this cdrama because people on twitter made it out to be the Olympic gold medal of misogyny, only to be pleasantly surprised because of how good it was

It's making me laugh reading how much people hate the men in Perfect Match because I'm telling you, they feel a lot like real men. Not even historical men, like dudes I met yesterday. There have clearly been too many Marty-Stus in fiction recently because those guys are fine.

Like Chai An, he's arrogant, competitive, and does pranks as "lessons to ignorant women." Does he suck to some extent? Yes. Does he have any concerning vices to a woman in historical China? No. Women marry men just like him all the time today and do just fine because he's intelligent, driven, and motivated. He has a job and he's good at it. He takes care of his mother and now his wife. That may feel like a low bar, but it is one that many do not clear...

Pathetic Husband #2 (Fan Lianghan), he is a man child, but he's also the one most clearly there for comic relief. However, it seems like he's a bit of a coddled trust-fund baby and he has been growing up as the series goes on. He's fine. He's manageable.

Du Yangxi (Scholar Husband #1). Do I like him? No. Is almost everything bad he's done driven by insane circumstances and not his traits? Yes. Also, he's 20 freaking years old and all he's done his whole life is try not to starve and study for a test. He will improve with time!

Shen Huizhao (#4) may need to update his fundamental morality (it's a bit too concrete and inflexible), but there is nothing wrong with this man that having his child sister murdered in front of him doesn't explain. He would benefit from therapy but that's not going to happen so let his wife figure it out.

Now Insane Boy #5 will probably need some serious work, but his future wife is feral so I'm sure she can handle it.

Anyways, I know dramas are wish fulfillment to some extent but honestly the way people talk about these guys you'd think they are serial killers when they just are flawed.

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Rory on Jess + text posts (season 2 edition) | (season 3 edition) (seasons 4 & 6 edition) (AYITL bonus edition)

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Call me cinephile the way I saw 11 films in January alone rahhhhh

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*pterodactyl screech* I swooned at "Dear Kangning"! He's a trashy guy but trash is in love and she loves him back. That's all that matters. Good for them!

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4th semester how will I cope with you knowing that I have courses from both my majors, society work and a whole ass job to do 😭😭😭

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Convinced my family to watch both The adventures of Tintin (2011) and Arrival (2016) with me and my God what an adventure

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Perfect match is the most Austen esque historical drama I've watched in ages gahhh

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I am fucking appalled

These new Penguin First Impressions collection covers were shared on Reddit:

They are just... inexplicable. Especially the Mansfield Park one, but like, all of them.

Edit: also, to the racial diversity, isn't it just false advertising here? If you pick up that copy of P&P expecting a black couple that is not what you will receive.

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LOTTIENAT MY BELOVED

some lottienat + bubbline gifs i made for my twitter thread

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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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Good strangers ✨

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Call me Ishmael Tonight by Agha Shahid Ali

poetry is wild because in any given collection 30% of it will make you feel nothing, 60% will make you feel varying levels of confused and curious, and the other 10% will crack open your brain like an egg and reveal new truths about the human condition

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really beautiful things are happening between americans and chinese netizens right now