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coming back to this after taking 3 years of latin and he was so elegant about it. i mean, first person present subjunctive, my god.

Francis Abernathy is so fucking cool like the first thing he does when he meets Richard is mock him and the second is to ask him to sleep with him

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Kazuscara | A Ghost of a Memory

Part 1/?

Also hbday to scara ♡

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St Mark’s Square in Venice, Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (German, 1808–1894)

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me @ dangerous conspiracy theorists:

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The Good Place characters and how fast they’d pick up on Dracula

Eleanor: If Eleanor came to Transylvania on a business trip it was definitely a scam on her part to begin with, so her mental transition would be going from “I am scamming this rich old guy” to “Maybe this rich old guy is scamming me?” She’d figure it out, but the question is whether she’d do so before throwing herself headlong into seduction by the vampire brides.

Chidi: On the one hand, Chidi would be desperately trying not to judge Dracula for different cultural customs and be polite to the point of endangering himself. On the other hand, William Jackson Harper said Chidi would have survived Midsommar because he would have bolted the second things started to get weird, so by that logic he might have just frozen in place when the villagers warned him about the castle, panicked about whether it was worse to break his business promises or offend their cultural customs, and not gotten on the carriage.

Tahani: Tahani wants to make a good impression on aristocracy. Tahani is doomed.

Jason: I actually think Jason would figure out that Dracula was bad news pretty quickly, just not necessarily that he was a vampire. He’d start by going everywhere he wasn’t supposed to, learn this dude is some kind of serial killer kingpin, and then when Dracula says “You can go but there are wolves outside!” Jason would say “Sweet, bro!” and go out and get eaten by wolves.

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Favourite Designs: Alexander McQueen Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear Collection

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why did God give me these battles (getting dressed and leaving the house)

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i know this will make me sound old and boring but once i’m home for the night i’m home. i don’t like upsetting my plans even when i don’t have any. yes it’s only 8pm but i spent the whole evening believing i’m not going anywhere, i cannot perceive or be perceived right now, try again later

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My poor little meow meow Scaramouche 🥺 I still want to beat him up but I also want to pat his head and hold his hand.

ALSO cannot believe Haypasia stanned so hard we saw his entire origin story?? And the fuckin “I see you” line

Ugh, the harbingers came for blood this arc.

i love the backstory art style so much

also seeing more of past scara… it’s so obvious that he was designed w makoto in mind GOD . someone get him out of the robot and into therapy

fr tho who is doing it like the fatui? NO ONE!!!!!

(i didn’t get the third betrayal tho… was he upset bc the child died ??? and scara didn’t understand death??? like what did that infant do to him lol)

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fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

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when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

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Tanja Softic - 49 Notes on Being There, 2016

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most criticisms of the finale focus on aang in a moment of defensiveness, where he uses an element to conceal himself and regroup, and then he’s, by cosmic chance, given a gift from the earth, hit right at his scar and his anahata or heart chakra (you know, the chakra that connects materiality to spirituality). This gift is unearned, people criticize, out of nowhere. Of course, this concept of power found through waiting is a motif reoccurring and explored from the very start of the series with aang’s hundred years of seclusion in the iceberg. in “the storm” katara and aang process how what he perceived as a failure might’ve served a purpose. in the same episode, we learn that it’s zuko’s refusal to fight that earns him his scar and banishment. Among others, jeong jeong is adament about restraint. bumi in the second season encourages aang to seek out someone who understands neutral jing, waiting for the right moment to strike. the teacher he finds, Toph, discovers metal bending while imprisoned. katara discovers a new approach to waterbending under similar circumstances. and the final confrontation with ozai is only made possible when the kids are given the opportunity to retreat by the adults after the failed day of the black sun invasion. there is vitality and energy in these retreats and neutral stances. it’s why meditation is purposeful. it’s what lies behind the philosophies of pacifism. and, importantly (in relationship to a lot of Western Christian-influenced beliefs), it need not be self-sacrificial. and, as aang explains to katara, it’s not easy and it’s not nothing. 

the structure of the plot actually echoes these philosophies, too. in opposition to the narrative device of earning an outcome through the building accumulation of plot points and information until the hero has enough to defeat the villain, atla let’s all these moments exist independently. motifs rather than an arc. it suggests that wisdom is let in rather than built up, which has major implications with critiques of imperialism and capitalism. constant productivity is disruptive to development of self and society. so no, aang didn’t earn his deus ex machinas, neither the lion turtle nor the chakra opening, and that’s the point. he makes space for them to enter the world of the narrative. in a similar vein, the show’s ending is only partially summative. if you felt cheated by the ending, it’s because we’re so used to expecting our stories to pay us for taking our time, watching them put plot points in our hands like dollar bills. but the best stories aren’t made for this kind of consumption. they actually expect us to step away and reflect instead of binge on them. it’s a relationship built on discipline, effort, and affection. we do the work on ourselves to open up and invest in them. it’s why the great works of storytelling like atla are so fulfilling to rewatch, research, and reflect on. 

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'kids these days have it easy' thats the point thats the point thats the whole point we're here to make it better for whoever comes after you sad selfish self absorbed puddle of wank

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I do think the "Dick overwhelmed with grief and guilt upon Jason's death and swearing to 'do better' with future Robins and his character is fundamentally changed as a result" theme can still hold water tbh.

bc even if Jason's take is 100% "yeah Dick was fine. He was just an older brother who lived in another city, I saw him sometimes, he told me jokes and bought me ice cream, no notes" it is entirely in character for Dick to retroactively blame himself!

For him to temper and sharpen his grief by saying, "I treated him like a kid brother when in reality he was a child in constant danger and I was an adult and his safety was my responsibility. If I'd taught him this, connected with him more on that, been someone he could have reached out to, maybe he wouldn't have died" and wallow and fester completely independently of any feelings Jason actually had on the matter.

The best thing about Jason's death is the potential for it to narratively destroy everyone in a thousand wildly different and in-character ways imo.

Not everyone has to be a bad guy but everyone does have to be a sad guy ya know what I mean?