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Omg, you guys.

Today I was applying for a job and for the very first time in my 20 years in Canada I came across a form that recognizes that different cultures have different name formats and didn’t force me to assimilate my name to English standards. 

I nearly cried. 

I started screaming and made my mom come see.

Respecting people’s culture matters. 

It’s often the little subtle actions that mean the most.

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You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

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“how could you have forgotten that” i forget Everything. unless i remember

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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fuck everyone who has ever tried to make me feel guilty about the amount of sugar in FRUIT

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this place sucks im gonna drink six beers and jack off

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i honestly love when boys immediately get hard from a bit of kissing or touching, it’s cute

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i honestly love when boys immediately get hard from a bit of kissing or touching, it’s cute

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I do not feel fly like a G6 and have not for a very long time

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As someone who is watching Sex and the city for the first time, how no one smacked Carrie on her head yet is literally BEYOND me

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#RIP Benedict Bridgerton you would’ve loved Challengers

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#RIP Benedict Bridgerton you would’ve loved Challengers

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Bridgerton 3x04 | 3x08 insp:

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Past Lives works so well for me because I am so enamoured with pragmatism in fiction.

I read and watch a lot of stories about idealized love stories and I often enjoy them too! I spent my entire childhood believing that the teenagers who got together in the media I consumed would stay together forever. And then as I got older, I was naturally introduced to more stories about romances that didn’t work out. Still, it’s hard for me to think about those as pragmatic, most of them have this desire for sadness in them. They would make me feel as though the devastation was the point, that the narrative was forcefully bent toward the saddest outcome.

Past Lives doesn’t make me feel this way. Nora doesn’t stop talking to Hae Sung because of an unforeseen tragic circumstance. She makes a choice and goes through with it. Hae Sung puts it best during their conversation at the end of the film. She is the kind of person to leave. And he loves her because she is that kind of person. The “what-if” isn’t in wondering about if circumstances were different. No matter what, she would have chosen her plays over anything else. Her husband even notes that so much of how their relationship happened is because he fit so well into the life she wanted. The whole reason this film is called “Past Lives” is because that’s the only way to ponder about whether Nora and Hae Sung could be together.

It’s such a delightfully Asian perspective on it. “In another life” films are so common, but I always feel like Western movies do it in a kind of parallel universe kind of way. I love that in this one, Nora is so steadfast and consistent in her personality and desires, that there is no real contemplation and consideration of making her and Hae Sung’s relationship work. There is only a longing and a love.

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PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

- But why are you immigrating? Na Young's father is a film director, and you're an artist. Why would you leave all that behind? - When you leave something behind, you gain something, too.

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