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Newt Gingrich to Dubya/Cheney to Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney to Trump.

The lies got dumber, not just more frequent. Trickle down? WMD? Birtherism? Sean Spicer talking about inauguration size?

'Winning at all costs' has shredded all morals, ethics, integrity, and values.

The indoctrination is complete.

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

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I'm so mentally stable you can park a horse in my brain

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it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like

WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???

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raise a glass to the posts you love that end up deleted. to the fanart and fanfics you lose track of and can't locate. to the blogs you used to look through that ended up unexpectedly disappearing. to the things you didn't archive because you always assumed they'd be there.

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instagram: smacmccreanor

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every prehistoric human reconstruction has me thinking “I want to smoke weed with this bitch”

she looks like she would have been an awesome neighbor, like she would have loved menthols and called me baby

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Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

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“Cette phrase [Face n'est pas seul organe expressif des passions], soulignant l’expressivité passionnelle de “l’organe” de Fogg, et dont nous avons déjà vu un état légèrement édulcoré, cite la source, “Gr. 7”, à savoir un passage de l’ouvrage de Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865) “De la physionomie et des mouvements d’expression”, qui parle, précisément, de la queue (qui, elle aussi, “remue”) de certains carnassiers. C’est une clef indispensable pour comprendre l’enjeu du personnage de Verne : l’imperturbabilité apparente de Fogg cache une pulsion des plus fortes.”

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William Butcher, Jules Verne: les manuscrits déchiffrés, Lyon, ENS Editions, 2015

[This sentence [Face is not the only expressive organ of passions] underlining the passionate expressivity of Fogg’s “organ”, from which we already saw a slightly censored version, cite “Gr. 7″ as source, a passage from a work by Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865) “Of physionomy and expressive movements” which talks precisely of the tail (which also “wiggle”) of some carnivorous animals. It is an essential key to understand the core of Verne’s character: Fogg’s apparent imperturbability hides in fact a powerful pulsion.]

Translation by myself.

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they are 12 year old boys

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a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale