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netflix you better give me a second season of Dept Q or so help me.... Give me my grumpy, broken man and his team part 2!!!!

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

dir. ang lee

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Watching Dept Q has convinced me that I need to Matthew Goode and Kelly MacDonald as romantic interests. Not in the context of this show; I don’t think Carl and Rachel should be together. But I would love to see the pair of them bantering together and trying to navigate life. I would love to see it.

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

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so many amazing words in the english language. you have clandestine and precarious and serendipity and iconoclast and then you also have staunch and sludge and slurp and smudge

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Happy 132nd birthday, Dorothy!

“We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.”

Happy 127th birthday, dearest Dorothy L. Sayers! You were delightful, DLS, and I’m so grateful for you-for your detective stories, your theology, and your beautiful wisdom.

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would u guys feed me if I was a stray cat

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"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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The novel is called Pride & Prejudice.

If you make Darcy in a Sad Little Socially Anxious Shyboi who never did anything wrong in his whole life and has TRAUMA from Georgiana's near elopement, then you remove his snobbish Pride and erase his classiest Prejudice and it's no longer the novel Jane Austen wrote.

If you focus only on how men need to fix themselves and forget that Elizabeth judged too quickly and harshly; if you erase her need to grow, you remove her Pride in her intelligence/judgment and her Prejudice in maintaining her First Impressions (original title) and it's no longer the novel that Jane Austen wrote.

The story is beautiful because two people are open-minded enough to learn, reflect, and grow. The love story is compelling because neither of them are perfect. If you disrupt the balance of their faults, the entire premise falls apart.

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“… for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.”

— M. M. Kaye, The Ordinary Princess

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erin lecount, sweet fruit

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I am FERAL for when characters demonstrate trust in each other

so I have to talk about THIS MOMENT

S3 ep7 - Game, Set, and Murder

Jack walks in, holds out a file, and says "sign this." And Phryne - clever, detailed, knows the law, under any other circumstance questions why anyone tells her to do anything - she DOES. Without hesitation. Without reading a single word. It's only afterward that she asks, "What did I just agree to?"

[just let me shake this scene between my teeth AAHHHHH]

Are you KIDDING ME. Look, we're near the end. They've demonstrated over and over that they trust each other's instincts in emergency situations. But there is no imminent threat here - there's not even a palpable sense of urgency!

Jack believed it was important she sign a contract.

So she did.

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the funniest part of much ado is after claudio and hero get engaged and beatrice is like “meanwhile I’m over here!!! forever alone!!! I wish someone like don pedro would ask me to marry him haha!!” and don pedro is like “would you like me to marry you?” and beatrice says no.

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Migraines are literally the stupidest thing in human evolution. "Oh no, we're experiencing too much Thing! Better send a rail spike through the skull and blind ourselves about it" like c'mon, man

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did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

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“paid subscription with ads” is fucking crazy. if you pay for a service and then get served an ad on said service you should be allowed to pipe bomb its executive at no legal risk