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Current wip

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We all did Mulder, we all did.

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RIP Queequeg

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For the last 6 months I’ve been stuck in a social situation where I had to grey rock someone due. It’s been so uncomfortable, but I’m finally free.

I've been gray rocking my parents before I even realised the term existed

7/05/25

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“Readers didn’t just become more efficient. They also became more attentive. To read a long book silently required an ability to concentrate intently over a long period of time, to ‘lose oneself’ in the pages of a book, as we now say. Developing such mental discipline was not easy. The natural state of the human brain, like that of the brains of most of our relatives in the animal kingdom, is one of distractedness. Our predisposition is to shift our gaze, and hence our attention, from one object to another, to be aware of as much of what’s going on around us as possible….For most of history, the normal path of human thought was anything but linear.

To read a book was to practice an unnatural process of thought, one that demanded sustained unbroken attention to a single, static object. It required readers to place themselves at what T.S. Elio, in Four Quartets, would call ‘the still point of the turning world.’ They had to train their brains to ignore everything else going on around them, to resist the urge to let their focus skip from one sensory cue to another. They had to forge or strengthen the neural links needed to counter their instinctive distractedness, applying greater ‘top-down control’ over their attention…What was so remarkable about book reading was that the deep concentration was combined with highly active and efficient deciphering of text and interpretation of meaning. The reading of a sequence of printed pages was valuable not just for the knowledge readers acquired from the author’s words but for the way those words set off intellectual vibrations within their own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.

…Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or a replenishing, of the mind. Readers disengaged their attention from the outward flow of passing stimuli in order to engage it more deeply with an inward flow of words, ideas, and emotions. That was—and is—the essence of the unique mental process of deep reading.”

- from The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr

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It's so important that I have a book to read at all times.

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its been said to death but haymitch and katniss being the same kind of person is devastating. katniss consistently chooses the young, the old, and the frail as allies because she wants to protect them and values their skills and haymitch does the same. katniss choosing mags, beetee, and wiress, not knowing that they were haymitch's mentors?? and haymitch saying of course you want them?? katniss picking rue vs haymitch referring to the young children of district six as his doves. deranged.

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karppi and nurmi + season 03 kisses

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Sakari Nurmi & Sofia Karppi - Deadwind 03x08 “Rauniot”

Karppi and Nurmi and the nordic noir equivalent of a happy ending

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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (2015) dir. Francis Lawrence MOCKINGJAY (2010) written by Suzanne Collins

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I’m so pumped!

Ralph Fiennes is now in Hunger Games as the main villain, Snow, and in Harry Potter as fucking Voldemort. ICONIC SHIT!!!

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Left my little dude home yesterday and now I have a shadow.

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I’m really surprised how gross I feel about the blatant baiting of buddie to try to recover from Bobby’s botched death. The PR this week, and the season finale all left such a bad taste in my mouth. 9-1-1 has truly given me the ick with all this. The last week’s PR comes off as being purposely ambiguous so as to manipulate a key part of the fanbase and that’s truly sad.

Also let’s not pretend like the interviews weren’t organized and approved with the blessing and supervision of the ABC PR department because they absolutely were.

Welp, that’s it on 9-1-1 for a bit for me. I’m off to enjoy my other fandoms that actually appreciate their fans. 🫶

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getting queerbaited in the year of our lord 2025 call that a recession indicator

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Eddie won’t ask Chris to come back to L.A. (even for just a visit) for himself, but the moment he thinks Buck needs Chris he flies Chris out.

Video credit: ibid imp on youtube.

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Buck, Eddie, and Chris | "Cant You Both Be Good Cops?"

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