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LUPITA NYONG’O Chopard Secret Night during Cannes Film Festival at Chateau de la Croix des Gardes in Cannes, France | May 11, 2018

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LIghthouse keepers will never be memorialized like soldiers or cops because they didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job) but they’re like, heroes who saved untold lives through discipline and self-sacrifice doing an impossible lonely job and I’m worked up about  it 

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Baws

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Art by Anastasia Trusova

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I’ve had enough, I’ve seen enough. I want out, I want it to end.

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Music in Film:

13 Going On 30 (2004) dir. Gary Winick - official soundtrack

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I really wish some of y'all had paid more attention in your English classes when the teachers went over the difference between a hero and a protagonist, a villain and an antagonist, and a good character and a good person. litcherally so much of fandom discourse around narratives and characters could be resolved by a high school level ELA level of understanding narrative devices 😩

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me every night when I sit in the dark stabbing my charger into my phone until I find the socket: don’t think of that post,don’t think of that post—

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not even a millisecond later 

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Prediction for other Americans: In a year or two when COVID-19 is winding down either just due to burnout or a vaccine there will emerge a narrative that it was tragic, and sad, but unavoidable, and people did what they could in the face of overwhelming odds.

This will be false.

The US has been far, far too slow in responding. Contrast our response with South Korea's, with their aggressive testing, containment, and mitigation. Notice how slow we have been in implementing measures that can slow the virus's spread. Notice how lack of insurance, paid time off, and a robust safety bet will speed the virus's spread. Notice the lack of testing, and the spread of misinformation. This was, perhaps, not something that can be prevented, but it is absolutely something that can be mitigated, and our leaders and our country failed and continue to fail to take actions that can mitigate it.

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Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.

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