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Whenever they were in the Bay Area, Lucy and Harriet, who was not only her maid but her gin rummy partner and confidante, visited Harriet’s best friend, Dot. Knowing Lucille loved barbecue, Dot brought ribs, and they all sat in the kitchen eating them. “I kept staring at this beautiful lady eating messy ribs,” said Dot’s daughter, Barbara, who was ten at the time. “Lucille loved children and she always treated me like a princess. She had her dressmaker make me pinafores and she sent socks to match. My mother was afraid I would be spoiled rotten, and I was. Lucille made people feel important in her company, because if she liked you, she loved you.”

The little girl delighted in seeing how silly Lucille and her aunt Harriet behaved together. “They tried on hats with feathers and veils and pranced around like college kids.” Harriet and Dot reminisced about being dancers together, and Lucille chimed in with tales of her Goldwyn Girls days. “The three of them would have a couple of drinks, then push back the furniture and form a chorus line, laughing and giggling and dancing,” Barbara recalled. 

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a really key part of any healthy relationships is nonsexual biting. it’s really important to just bite each other sometimes. it will keep your relationship alive biting is the stuff love is made of

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No fucking way I found my little rubber fetus

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um. perhaps everyone should go see monkey man. just maybe. consider.

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in Fell the Marvellous backstage

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I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

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one must imagine sisyphus falling in love with the boulder

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Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel

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“Achilles smiles as his face strikes the earth.”

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made a playlist featuring every single song you’d expect to find on a character/ship mix. this baby has everything. little lion man. samson. palisades. smother by daughter. if it was on an 8tracks mix published in 2015, it’s in this playlist.

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-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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h2o: just add water fanart in 2022? yes :)

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and the moon's never seen me before, but I'm reflecting light.