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Alfons Karpiński - Paris Café (1911)

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I was thissss close to not doing my workout today, but I just did it and I feel so much better. So, whatever selfcare you’re waffling back and forth about whether you “need” today? Do it. And don’t forget to take your meds and drink some water. Eat something, too.

No, coffee is not breakfast.

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"It's a trick," said Van Eck. "It's another one of Brekker's tricks." He broke away from the guards and rushed at Wylan, but Jesper stepped in front of him, grabbing him by the shoulders and holding at bay with straight arms. "You'll destroy everything I've built, everything my father and his father built. You--"

Jesper leaned in and said, quietly enough that no one else could hear, "I can read to him."

"He has a very soothing baritone," added Wylan, and then the guards were hauling his father down the aisle.

-Crooked Kingdom

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I love how Astarion quotes The Tell-Tale Heart every once in a while. It's a rarer line, and initially I thought it was out of place (Neil is very well versed in theater, so I assumed it was a riff from him), but since reading an analysis of the work I think it was pretty purposeful.

The piece is all about fear and paranoia, things we know Astarion is plagued by despite how he might act. Similarly, the narrator of the story also tries to convince the reader that they are not as troubled as they seem. In the end, the narrator is consumed by the beating of the heart of the old man he killed and dismembered, the sound growing louder and louder until in a fit of rage he reveals the body to the police to absolve himself from the persistent beating.

Except the police never heard the heart beat, because it wasn't the old man's heart at all. The narrator was consumed by the sound of his own heart beating more and more rapidly in his chest from fear. He was the owner of the thing that forced him to reveal his true nature, he is the owner of the tell-tale heart.

And what happens with Astarion after you romance him? He realizes over time that, while he tried to deny his feelings and was initially only interested in manipulating you for his own means, he actually has grown to care for you. You have done something to his heart that hasn't happened in centuries, you have made it feel as if it has started beating again.

Therefore, his tell-tale heart leads him to admit his transgressions, which were committed out of fear and paranoia for his safety.

So the line is actually very, very apt. His confession during Act 2 is his own version of "Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!" Except, of course, it is his own heart that he is unearthing for us (and it's not so hideous, after all).

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Karl Hofer - The Windows (1946)

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"When I stumbled off that nautloid and on to the banks of the Chionthar, the first thing I did was find something green to fall in." - Karlach discussing her first steps back on the material plane in a decade in some difficult to get to camp dialogue (and reflecting her usual and tremendous love of the world.)

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MAYBE IT’S FRIENDLY

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen – Costume design by Walter Plunkett

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grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire

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David Shrigley

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Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle My Fair Lady, 2022

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Spooky valentine stickers from 1966 PNGs.

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do you want to see the best trail cam photo ever

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Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.

Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.

I feel like I’ll never catch up.

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the smiths is so fucking funny. i was looking for a job and then i found a job and heaven knows im miserable now. yeah alright. top ten relatable lyrics. steven patrick morrisey wails in his stupid wobbly english and im like yeah. if a double decker bus crashes into us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die. you're so right. god. just shoot me now