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Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go

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Wooooooooooo!!!!!!!

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dont delete your zero note post. i will be there in 15 hours.

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Farm 8, Artist Residence, Delhi, India,

Courtesy: Studio Array

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olden days doctors were kind of onto something because an orgasm and a seaside vacation might actually cure me

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Sanditon season 2 was a soulless soap opera compared to season 1, im sorry 😭 And not even because of Sidney leaving, but because the show abandoned the engine of the story without bothering to replace it

Sanditon the place in season 1 was a massive gamble undertaken by a foolish, colonizer-mentality speculator. But by virtue of the society they live in, such gambles (mostly undertaken with the lives of workers, since Tom Parker would survive bankruptcy better than they would starvation) accrue respect and create the possibility of great wealth for the owner. This scenario is the economic bedrock on which the action of the show takes place. Many people are brought together by the tenuous, yet rapidly expanding system that is the town of Sanditon, and their individual tendencies and desires cause the resulting interactions to play out in certain ways.

Season 2 meanwhile was like a series of pre-determined plots the characters have to move through just so something can happen. Charlotte is off playing catalyst to a random family’s problems. Georgiana is being plotted against in slow motion in another corner. Esther is being poisoned and we all must wait for her to find out, while the plot forces her stepbrother on us, laughing and rubbing his palms together in scene after scene like a cartoon villain. Alison and Fraser are cute as hell, but even that was a sequestered plotline where the conflict came not from character but from an external obstacle.

And Tom Parker wandered about as comic relief, playing out a facsimile of his season 1 plot, now with fewer stakes since the blame for his risk-taking has been supplanted onto another simplistic antagonist (the army). And he fixed the problem by GAMBLING, just with Sidney’s cards? Isn’t that just more of how he ruined Sidney’s life in the first place? Does nothing mean anything? The writers did not Get It this season. You can see it in Tom’s actor’s performance too. It was much more layered and compelling with the material he had in season 1. (Same goes for everyone actually—poor Charlotte was a shell of herself this season and it wasn’t just the grief.)

Season 1 had the characters making choices and getting in their own and others’ way. Spicy and angsty as it might have been, it did Austen the honor of putting to use her deep understanding of character, power, and economics (now with sex!). Season 2 was an assault on my heart and truly devastating to watch after the promise of season 1.

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Girls will say they busy and be in their bed relaxin or sleep

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I've been thinking about this all day.

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CHARLOTTE SPENCER as ESTHER DENHAM

SANDITON (2019-23)

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kate's 365 days of ships:

day 29: lord babington & esther denham sandition

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pick roses at night, just before the rain.

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I miss listening to music being nine years old and the words bearing so little relevance to me that they were like ritual chants or something they just existed to evoke mysterious utterly immaterial emotions by alluding to an inaccessible realm

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Is this phone from the future?

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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Furthermore whoever removed the audio jack from phones should be grilled in front of congress. The fact that I need a dongle to listen to music on a modern telephone while 20 years ago I could have simply plugged a universally standardized cord into the audio jack everyone knew how to use is an anti-human move that should be punished.

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Northwest Arkansas Ice Storm by Greg Disch, 2009