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Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattecashew32/status/1537490263358185472

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In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.

Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.

Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.

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my fav bojack quotes

(written out quotes under cut)

i. princess carolyn: "you don't love me. we're just two lonely people trying to hate ourselves a little less."

ii. bojack: "i really wanted you to like me, diane."

diane: "i know."

iii. diane: "i wake up in the morning and i feel like i have no purpose."

iv. bojack: "life, right? goes by, stuff happens. then you die."

v. bojack: "i spend a lot of time with the real me and believe me, nobody's gonna love that guy."

vi. bojack: "i don't belong there, i don't belong anywhere."

vii. diane: "i'm sorry i'm not the person i thought i was."

viii. honey: "i can't be with people and i can't be alone."

ix. captain: "it's so cruel to let people love you. all you're doing is promising that one day you'll break their hearts."

x. eddie: "i don't want to live!"

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“I hope you find the courage to runaway from everything that makes you miserable”

Spirited Away

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“Jiji, I think something’s wrong with me. I meet a lot of people, and at first everything seems to be going okay, but then I start feeling like such an outsider”

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“Shouldn’t we help him?”

“Nah, he loves treading water!”

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Casual wondering, “what if it’s not meant for me - Love”

Don’t delete the kisses - Wolf Alice