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Richard Papen pisses me off so bad especially in opposition to Judy Poovey like Judy is the exact representation of "young girls coming to conclusions men need a philosophy class to get" and she's also actively participating in the modern equivalent of bachannalias all week without murdering innocents. Also she's actually nice, dresses fancy and doesn't hide being a cringe fail bisexual. Richard keeps criticizing her bc he's misogynistic but really he fucking WISHES he lived like her. Meanwhile he gets high at a party once and discovers basic empathy. Jesus Christ

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tumblr told me to publicly come here with a character ask, even though i have little asked you every little thing under the sun about Both Sides of the Law — other than can you shop it to Netflix 🤭 anyway! let me ask a

Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about

I'm sorry for the delay, work (and the, like, World at large, amirite?) has been brutal. I'm so cheesed you're still interested altho I think I've rambled on about more extraneous details than you could possibly want lol. Hmmm, okay, what about (putting under a cut because I am physically incapable of being brief as you know):

-I couldn't think of how to work it in from Rio's POV, but in the last chapter, when he's watching Eddie and Beth wait for the jury verdict to come back, Eddie is visibly nervous and Rio watches Beth lean over to whisper something to him that calms him down. She whispered, "Be chill." Because that was what Rio kept saying to her when they were moot court partners and they'd be waiting for the competition results. So my head canon was that Beth remembered that (she remembered everything) and would always afterwards say it to herself to "look" chill (on the outside, only, she is never actually chill) in stressful court situations. Then she used it on Eddie in that tense moment (like she forgot to do with Gardner when they were partners) and of course, it was just the right thing to say to make twitchy little Eddie relax.

-I think I already wrote this in a comment once, but I had the whole "How Rio Got His Nickname" thing worked out but couldn't figure out how to put it in. Basically that at a family reunion way back in the day, little Toddler Christopher was toddling around after Gretchen under the supervision of an older relative visiting from Mexico. He toddled too close to the river/stream at the park and fell in. The old lady was so overwhelmed and scared that she just kept screaming "Rio! Rio!" trying to call for help, then after fishing him out and running back to the party, kept saying it trying to explain what had happened. Little Christopher, wet, unscared, and delighted by the all the commotion and attention, kept repeating it in excitement too and then it just stuck. lolllll.

-I had a whole scene in the last chapter with Rio and his mother. Where he's sitting alone with her in her kitchen watching her cook and tells her that Elizabeth would be coming to family Sunday dinner.

He waits til she's busy working away so she's not looking at him, trying to make it all casual.

She clocks the significance immediately tho, despite this being the first mention of "Elizabeth" in years. So she switches to Spanish - like she always does when things are serious - to ask if that means Elizabeth is "free" now, still not looking at him.

He is initially annoyed, because he never told his mother about being with Beth back in school (when she was married), thinking this means Gretchen had ratted him out, both back then and NOW that he's started back up with Beth again.

His mother tells him - tartly - that she's never needed her girl (Gretchen) telling her what she already knew about her boy.

So he relents, says yes, Elizabeth is free now.

His mother just nods, still busying around the sink, tells him "good, now you can be happy."

This then segues into Rio first protesting that he's always been happy, then trying to pick through his conflicted/muddled feelings about being both happy being with Elizabeth now, but also how it still weighs on him how much time was lost + the whole "she has 4 kids now, in addition to the terrible ex that I still hate passionately" thing.

His mother stops cooking, sits down, so they are face-to-face, so he has to look at her.

She tells him about how back when she was pregnant with Rio, and then Rio's father (her brother Victor's best friend and right-hand man, like Rio and Mick are now) died, she used to wish desperately that she would have Rio's father back. That she would have given up being pregnant even, if only she could have had him back. But then, when Rio was born, and they put the baby in her arms, she stopped wishing, stopped trying to bargain with God. Because she knew that she would never give Rio up, not even to have the love of her life back.

His mother then tells him, "you have Marcus." Asks Rio if he would ever give him up. He shakes his head, of course not. She asks if he thinks Elizabeth would give up hers? He shakes his head, of course not.

So she tells him, see? If all the years hadn't passed, neither of them would have had their kids. But unlike Teresa, they get to have their kids and the love of their lives. They get to have both.

"You get to have it all." She tells him, like it's so simple, so clear. Then pats his hand, and goes back to busying around the kitchen and bossing him around with things he needs to bring for Sunday dinner (besides Elizabeth). While he just sits there, calmed and happy.

I didn't think I could write it well enough tho - especially with the switch to Spanish and nervousness about all that. So I just ended up having Gretchen (much easier for me to write loll) try to convey the same thing with her story to knock some sense into him a diff way!

Thanks so much for the ask, Friend, this was really fun.

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Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

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@lgbtqcreators creator challenge – text posts get to know me meme: [5/7] favorite movies

↳ fitzwilliam darcy + getting obliterated by sparknotes

+bonus

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Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

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"You need to call the district I.T. man down here." "O'Shon." "Oh, you know his name, huh? Interesting." ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021- )

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LAVERNE & SHIRLEY 3.12

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Gang friend. Christopher. Mr. Neck Tats. Bounce House Guy. Daddy. Boss. Ron. Mr. CFO. Inner City Gangbanger. A friend. Serial Killer. Marcus’s Dad. Homie. Your boy. Bitch. Extortionist. Chief. Throat Tats. Sir. Business Partner. Genie. Mr. Kowalski. Criminal. Baby Daddy. Lover. Psychopath. King.

              Rio. His name’s Rio.

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I have voted in almost every election since turning 18 (I say “almost” bc I think there were a couple primaries where the Dem was running unopposed and I was in a bright blue district where they were going to win anyway in the general where YES I still voted and YES have always voted in those and YES I know I should have voted in those primaries but we are talking like 2 missed MAYBE so don’t come for ya girl please I was like 22 and hungover on a rando Tuesday in June) and the whole civic duty/pride/opposing fascism thing is always great but also I REALLY like getting that I VOTED sticker too.

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No, Daniel, I will not be attending “shopaholics anonymous” and you cannot make me. You forget I am infinitely more powerful than you. And four centennials wiser. Have you not yourself benefited from my purchases? You love the sparkling soda maker. The heated floor technology was a revelation, though I admit the ceiling installations may have been excessive. But this life affords so few luxuries to the Undead, it is our duty to indulge. Don’t bring my LEGO sets into this! They are priceless to me! You’re jealous of them!

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I think it's hard to wrap your head around this, today, in 2024, and how close we actually are to those days.

My parents met in 1971 when working together at a big U.S. federal agency. Both had bank accounts at the agency's credit union that they had opened separately when they were single.

My mom had the 4-year college degree (him just an associate's degree), was a year older, and had worked at their agency 6 months longer. But that didn't matter. Because after they got married, when she went down to the credit union to make a transaction, she found out that her account had been closed due to her marriage and the funds in HER account (much more robust as she was a little saving nerd and he was a flashy spender) had been transferred to HIS account. No notice, nothing. She was told that the only thing to do was to ask her husband if she could be "added" to his account.

This was in 1972. That's not that long ago. My mom is still alive and well and obsessively monitoring all her bank accounts to this day. And it scares the crap out of me seeing so many of those 1960s/70s landmark protections for women being eroded and to see so many younger women not protecting themselves today as we regress.

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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’s only fanfic if it’s from the Fanfique region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling pornography.

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Let's not get caught. Let's keep going. Thelma & Louise (1991) dir. Ridley Scott

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In the end I’m still here and I’ll stay on this ship until it sinks. Been here since S2, not going to stop believing in Caryl. Been down this road so many times before so I’ve gotten used to it. I love Caryl and I’ll remain on this ship 🙂‍↕️

They are in love with each other and I don’t care what anyone saids. Best friends to lovers make the best relationships.

Will we be let down when it’s all said and done? Probably but I’ve been here too long to quit now so if this ship sinks, I’ll be going down with it 🥳