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YOU DON'T NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT TO LOOK HOT THAT'S THE DEVIL TALKING

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Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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we need to invent a spray tan-style treatment but instead of spraying you with tanning stuff it sprays you with heavy duty spf. and it lasts a few weeks so that way you can just get your spf spray a few times a summer instead of having to spend 10 minutes every day getting sticky and oily and making sure the sunscreen is all rubbed in. how do i get on shark tank

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perhaps a hornet's nest but it takes a special kind of lover to enjoy adaptations of one's beloved media into a different format and the structural and emotional and yes, even thematic changes that come with that. an adaptation can be good even after the story is dissolved into its basic elements and transformed into something new. adaptations can be bad but being fundamentally different and maybe even having a different message than the story it is based on and being a bad piece of art are entirely different judgment values. and it has got to be said. very very few are big brained enough to understand this

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okay now that we’ve a had couple lesbian blockbusters and milfs are having a romance moment, we need to bring back the manic pixie dream girl. she was never fuckin suited to fixing all the problems of some boring twenty year old everyman, but you know who could actually benefit from a quirky free-spirited blue haired girl with pronouns (she/they)? a newly divorced forty-something mom who’s trying to learn how to be herself for the first time in her life

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i don’t care what anyone says, the “multiple floating weapons controlled by telekinesis/whatever” is, has been, and always will be cool as shit

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a lot of people say "Silver *knows* he's in a story" as in he knows he's a fictional character in the show Black Sails. imo what he really does is actively turn himself into a fictional character that he inserts into other people's stories, and that's so much more fucked up, like John Silver only exists bc John Silver made him up

....until other people start to put him into their stories on their own

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‘The Dreamers’ (2003) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci

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Mother and child training longsword in Chile, at the Centro Esgrima Histórica

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wouldn't it be awesome if you stopped using fatness as a visual shorthand for ineptitude/cruelty/greed/selfishness today

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i really do believe that the answer to a lot of people's self hatred is not to try and reassure them that they are wonderful and okay and enough, but instead to remind them theyre a completely unremarkable regular ass person who is not the center of the universe or especially important so why would they expect themselves to be some superhuman savior. like there really is a kernel of out of control self importance at the heart of thinking youre an evil lazy piece of shit. because why would you expect you be anything but just like some guy. if you wouldnt expect the guy who works at the vape shop or your mailman or whatever to be able to do something then why would you expect yourself to? youre just some random ass person. its fine

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Another thing about the M:I8 submarine sequence (I am obsessed, it could have been the entire movie and I'd be satisfied): it feels like the closest we've ever gotten to Ethan panicking. Like, he's been terrified before, but there is usually something he can do or focus on to get through it. He has to get a case or detonator or catch up to that guy or something. But in the Sevastopol, it's just him. He already has what he needs, but he can't get out. Objects are falling all around him, threatening to crush him. Even when he finds an alternate solution, he doesn't fit in the tube with all his gear. Could he have gotten the oxygen tank off without cutting the whole thing? Maybe, but his first and only thought is to grab his knife. He's hitting the door of the torpedo tube with his equipment just to get it open, which can't happen until the tube fills with water to equalize the pressure. The tube is only empty because the Entity tricked the crew into firing that torpedo in the first place. And after that, success of the mission still means dying, just not dying in there where no one can find him.

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i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree

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“Well, I’ve heard of him myself, in England,” said the doctor. “But the point is, had he money?” “Money!” cried the squire.

—  Treasure Island,  Part I: The Old Buccaneer, Chapter 6: The Captain’s Papers

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Black Sails S03E10