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Kamet and Costis

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The gilded age really is like. "we're going to portray the rarely shown friction in immediately post-Reconstruction america between those freeborn and/or light-skinned enough to rise in rich white circles at the cost of abandoning and looking down on the rest of the Black community AND the darker-skinned people and/or freed slaves who had to create their own high society and culture from the ground up - and did! - and consider this colorism a betrayal and internalized race hatred of the highest order!"

and then the immediate next scene is “we should talk to Robert Sean Leonard’s ghost via seance." Greatest show on television

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my beloved daughters of leda

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My favorite thing about the gilded age is when Cynthia Nixon was like “hey my friend is kind of unemployed can he come play with us?” and then Robert Sean Leonard showed up did to the Boston accent what Michael Sheen did to the mid-century midwestern accent and went “cough cough I’m Robert Sean Leonard. I’m your love interest and I’m gonna have to die it’s what I do best” and then he died

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I hope Bertha Russell never faces a consequence in her life. I hope she becomes grand emperor of the galaxy and slaughters everyone beneath her. thanks in advance.

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God I love Apothecary Diaries. Maomao is like a dog with a mouth full of Lego bricks to me. Babygirl don’t eat that

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just layers and layers to this thing, huh.

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unironically bridgerton’s colorblind casting makes a really interesting statement about how the upper classes and upper castes of colonized countries and mixed children born of unions between colonizer men and colonized women often collaborated with the empire to propagate the imperial project in their own countries and reap the benefits of colonial spoils both at home and in the metropole.

but since this was completely unintentional, we also got two tamil women playing sisters in a north indian family from bombay, using the south indian term for dad and the bengali term for sister while a bollywood score plays in the background.

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europeans have been scared shitless of asia since at least 4 thousand years ago and have based their entire culture around it since then

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kpop idols are south korea’s strongest soldiers because if i was 30+ and my fans kept asking me whether I’m in love with my coworkers i’d start killing

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The Last Days of Troy, by Simon Armitage (2014).

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thanks for the comments and asks saying i'm being mean for very mildly saying i don't like when people make social decisions based on horoscopes.

your behavior has made me realize i should be "meaner": horoscopes are fake.

the position of planets and balls of gas did not in any way impact your personality or destiny. it has nothing to do with what kind of people you are compatible with, despite what an app or magazine told you.

i think sincere belief in horoscopes shows a concerning propensity to trust pseudoscience and a susceptibility to confirmation bias.

i'm pretty tired of having to tiptoe around this kind of thing and include disclaimers. if you genuinely think you shouldn't be friends with someone because of the date they came out of a uterus, you're being a clown.

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if i think about turnus too hard a sudden trembling comes over my limbs and the eyes stare in my head and a great terror bursts in upon my sleep and the sweat breaks out all over my body and soaks me to the bone

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super happy with how this commission came out. it’s pomegranate, hyssop, mallow and apricot.

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But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?

Ursula K. le Guin

definitely a top 5 sentence i’ve seen on here

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love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king

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enough with the "who haunts the narrative?" olympics. let's talk about who doesn't haunt the narrrative. jon arryn's death kickstarts the entire plot and STILL no one gaf