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getting so overstimulated that you can't do literally anything. including getting up and leaving the situation that's overstimulating you.

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"Station of play, fifth of its variant" gets me EVERY TIME

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sometimes I forget that the posts that me n my friends regularly quote are actually kinda niche and it's more an inside joke than a known meme. ur telling me "oughhh I'm exactly the same but a process has occurred" isn't recognisable to most ppl??

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ppl talk about like. the characters and plot and whatever of zzz. they grind hollow zero and build characters. meanwhile I am apparently in the top 0% of soul hounds players.

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my uni assignment rn is a video essay on the activities that fans and fandoms participate in. we were told quite strictly that just because its a video essay doesn't mean it shouldn't be formal and we're not allowed to make jokes. my workaround is to talk about hilarious examples with total seriousness.

this is in a section that just generally talks about fan conventions btw

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silly pubsec meme i forgot to post

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I made an NSFW blog, @xxgoldie, so anyone who enjoys my standard ramblings doesn't have to put up with horny ramblings if they don't want to. it's mostly abt my smut fic ideas bc I'm doing that again now. check it out ig!

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sometimes when I'm doing my uni readings I whisper-read aloud to myself (if I don't I have to reread the same paragraph 3 times bc I didn't process any of it). I am currently reading a paper that sounds like the author used a thesaurus on every other word. I am also half asleep. so I am saying things like

"literary transpositions build on an array of visual patterns that have their own genealogy- what the Fuck are you even talking about"

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none of my friends are writers and it's making me go feral bc I want to yap abt my current project but none of them have the mindset that I need to thoroughly yap, they're all just like "that sounds awesome! good luck!" like yes thank you I love you, please analyse it and throw me some ideas. basically none of them are artists and the very few that are are more skills focused than ideas focused. I need to talk to someone with imagination. if u don't have entire universes in ur mind u just won't get it.

(also psa bc tumblr is infested with whataboutism, I do not think I am superior because i am a writer, I love my friends very much and would not trade them for the world, I simply find that people who don't create characters and stories in some way are difficult to discuss fiction WIPs with and I really want to discuss my project with someone. end post.)

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when the blind man shows frankenstein’s creature the pleasures of life he shows him cigarette and music. notice how he doesn’t show him linkedin and email

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[scrolling through a fandom tag] wrong. wrong. incomprehensibly wrong. wrong but harmless. nice style and color palette but I don't care about that ship. mildly entertaining liveblog update. they whitewashed my girl :( . good joke, reblog. wro--well that's my mutual so I will politely look away. fifteen posts in a row by an innocent rp blog that I don't have the heart to block. take I agree with but op was annoying about it. chapter twenty-eight of a longfic wip. !! GOOD POST !!, instafollowed. bot. technically correctly tagged but uses this acronym for something completely different. museum worthy art piece by a sixteen-year-old from the philippines. wrong. wrong but in a new and exciting way that provokes thought.

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it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here

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started playing for the king and my god it is such a struggle. like in a satisfying and fun way but they truly are not kidding with the 'do not expect to beat this game quickly' disclaimer. I must have played roughly 15 saves by now (all original story at lowest difficulty) and I cannot get my characters past level 3/4ish before i die. I can feel it getting easier every time, especially as I buy new things from the lore store, but by god is the grind crazy.

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If you’ve got the time, slow cooked scrambled eggs is really good on toast.

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one of my favourite things about my degree is that I get to study things like fan culture and part of my attendance is for screenings, so when I have to get up at 7am and get on the world's most crowded bus to get to campus, at least i get to watch black panther when i get there

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so bridgerton season 4 is said to be coming out 2026. I know bridgerton is a big show, but this seems like a long way away all things considered - there was a 2 year gap for season 3, but it was expected sooner (writers / actors strikes) AND we got Queen Charlotte in between. because of this, many people (myself included) think we are getting another spinoff show in between, so here are my theories for what this could be, ranked from (in my opinion), least to most likely.

3) Violet and Edmund's Story.

Now, I would kill for this. I think it would be brilliant, and if they continue the storyline of Violet and Lady Danbury's brother, I think it would add a good layer of emotion if we know more about Violet and her past. Plus, I'd love to see some background on Portia. The reason I think this is the least likely option is mainly because Julia Quinn has stated repeatedly on her blog that she will never write Violet and Edmund's story, that it has been something she has always known. and I think they work well as this almost mythological love story, quietly affecting their children's views on love without anyone Truly knowing the details. I think it looms too large in the show for them to risk not doing it justice. I also think that if we're ever going to get it, we're going to get it later (probably in the lead up to or directly after Francesca's season)

2) Lady Danbury's Story

One scene from season one that I am constantly thinking about is the flashback where Lady Danbury meets and takes in young Simon, and talks about how she couldn't be frightened, so she made herself frightening. I have been of the opinion from when I first watched Queen Charlotte that what we saw there was only the beginning of that. I would love to see more of her, more of her childhood, and with the inclusion of her brother in the main show, I think it's a possibility. In fact, I'm nearly convinced it will happen at some point, perhaps as a second season of Queen Charlotte (and almost definitely with Violet and Edmund sideplot). But I think there's actual evidence and setup for the last option here, making it more likely.

1) Anthony and Kate in India / Season 4 Set Up

This seems set up Perfectly. It seems odd to make a big deal out of them going if they're not going to be shown there (I can't remember who it was, but someone in the production team said the reason daphne and simon aren't mentioned like at all in Season 3 is that they would feel weird bringing them up a lot and then not showing them). Simone Ashley has mentioned a project set in India that she has coming up, but that she can't give more details yet. The showrunners apparently considered setting season 4 in fall / winter but decided to keep the spring / summer social season timeframe, which makes me think some scenes (i.e. the masquerade) will be shown in the middle spinoff, adding some time skip between benedict and sophie meeting and the rest, and give some context around the Guningworth family. we would see the beginning of francesca and john's marriage, eloise's adventures in scotland, penelope's pregnancy and potentially her giving birth, all cut between anthony and kate finding their way in india (and we'd get to see edwina again!! and meet her new husband!!!!). it seems perfectly set up, beneficial to the story, and super fun.

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I feel like super spicy buldak noodles don’t even taste good they’re just spicy