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there's such a powerful fantasy in the ending of young royals. Simon thinking about their relationship and realising that it's crushing him, that it's making him miserable, being scared and distressed by his partner and recognising that??? amazing, inspirational, already im swooning. so he leaves! he actually does it! he doesn't sit there and get ground into powder he gets up. damn. that alone is the triumphant finale in many award winning novels. so important to me that he doesn't make that choice for wilhelm in anyway, not as an inducement, not as a wake up call, not as a gift. that he makes it for himself. gorgeous.

and then.

and THEN

Wilhelm looks at that and looks at his life and instead of crumpling inwards, black hole style, or carrying on status quo, reinforcing that if simon had stayed his destruction wouldn't even have been a blip in the steamroller of wilhelm's tragedy--instead of that he goes hm actually, I wanna get better (bleachers.mp3 bass boosted) and then MAKES CHOICES? Towards that? indescribable. that's the fantasy. that's the dream. is it the most romantic thing that's ever happened? possibly.

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From Lisa Ambjörn's story.

And istg I have this in my queue oh well off to delete that one lol.

Look at the contrast! From being trapped and unloved to being loved and in love, free to be his authentic self!

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I have faith in my boys🫶

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YOUNG ROYALS 2.05 | 3.06

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Netflix Canada posted this for Valentine's Day!

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Common Dunnart (Sminthopsis murina), family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia, interior eastern Australia

photograph by Brother-Nature

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has this been done yet

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wilmon & edmar ❤️‍🔥

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“I wanna live not just survive.”

— Unknown

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Louis Armstrong was right. there really are a lot of wonderful things in the world

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to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war

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what a lovely family 🥰🐈🐱

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"I’m very concerned about my client’s right to a fair trial in this case.  He’s being prejudiced by some statements that are being made by government officials. Like every other defendant, he’s entitled to a presumption of innocence. But unfortunately the way this has been handled so far his rights are being violated. And as you know, Your Honor, there’s a wealth of case law guaranteeing his rights to a fair trial, but none of the safeguards have been put in place yet here — in fact it’s just the opposite of what’s been happening. 

He’s a young man, and he is being treated like a human pingpong ball between two warring jurisdictions here.

These federal and state prosecutors are coordinating with one another at the expense of him. They have conflicting theories in their indictment, and they are literally treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, like some sort of spectacle. 

He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career. It was absolutely unnecessary. He’s been cooperative with law enforcement. He’d been in custody for over a week. He waived extradition. He was cooperative at all accounts. There was no reason for the NYPD and everybody to have these big assault rifles — that frankly I had no idea it was in their arsenal — and to have all the press there the media there. It was perfectly choreographed. 

And what was the New York City Mayor doing at this press conference, Your Honor? That just made it utterly political. And as your honor knows under Loro v. Charles, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has held it to be clearly established that these staged perp walks to the media unrelated to a legitimate law enforcement objective is unconstitutional. And I submit that there was zero law enforcement objective to do that sort of perp walk. There’s absolutely no need for that whatsoever. 

And frankly, Your Honor, the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded dealing with his own issues. And, frankly, I submit that he was just trying to detract from those issues by making a spectacle of Mr. Mangione. 

And there are consequences to this. 

He has a right to a fair trial. And I just want to put on the record statements that the mayor made publicly about my client. Nothing saying “alleged” for example. And he said “I wanted to send a strong message with the police commissioner that we’re leading from the front. I’m not just going to allow him to come into our city. I wanted to look him in the eye and state ‘You carried out this terrorist act in my city, the city of New York that I love.’” And he wanted to show symbolism. 

Your Honor, he’s not a symbol. He’s somebody who is afforded the right to a fair trial. He’s innocent until proven guilty. And the mayor was talking to jurors — future potential jurors that elected him. Those are the people that elected him that he is talking to and calling this man a terrorist.

So, Your Honor, I just want to make a record of this and put everyone on notice that this has to stop, and my client is entitled to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence."

From the CNN stream (weird video)

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honestly funniest part of the wicked movie was the wizard is like "huh i need to think extremely fast to convince elphaba to stay here" and his way to do that is "invite glinda to live here as well." like this man is from the late 1800s-early 1900s so he's not gonna outright say "i'll legalize gay marriage" (yet) but he can say "your friend ;) can stay here too"

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On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)