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*fighting back tears* i am a sweetie pie, i am a sweetie pie, i am a sweetie pie, i am

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CHALLENGERS (2024) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

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EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

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i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

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ROSALINE 2022 | Karen Maine

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Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

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“Vampire flowers, honey, soul poison.”

— Aimé Césaire, tr. by Anselm Hollo, from “Poplars and Aspens,” (edited)

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Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera: Poems; “Passion Fish”

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requested by @crystalclrs

the borgias (2011-2013) cr. neil jordan / no exit and three other plays, 'the flies', jean-paul sartre / bone, yrsa daley-ward / carmilla, joseph sheridan le fanu / a literate passion: letters of anaïs nin & henry iller 1932-1953, henry miller / absolute solitude: selected poems, 'lxxxiii', dulce maría loynaz / granted, 'in tennesse i found a firefly', mary szybist / romance or the end, elaine kahn / henry and june: from 'a journal of love', the unexpurgated diary (1931-1932), henry miller / pine to sound, nancy kuhl / hiroshima mon amour, marguerite duras / autobiography of red, anne carson / plainwater: essays and poetry, 'canicula di anna', anne carson / the selected plays of hélène cixous, 'the perjured city', hélène cixous / half light: collected poems 1965-2016, 'elegy', frank bidart / the sorrow festival, erin slaughter / melancholia, 'seventeen', dc de oliveira / white is for witching, helen oyeyemi / postcolonial love poem, natalie diaz / wuthering heights, emily brontë / the caged owl: new and selected poems, 'going out', gregory orr

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That's the worst song ever. EASY A (2010) Dir. Will Gluck

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heart’s desire, louise glück

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Rati Saxena, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Mountain nights"

[Text ID: “Last night / there was a dream / And / In the dream? You / You / You / And / Only you”]

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DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Joffrey, is it?

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Arya never seemed to fit, no more than he had … yet she could always make Jon smile. He would give anything to be with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear her finish a sentence with him. — Jon Snow III, A Game of Thrones.

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I’ve said it a bajillion times and I’ll say it a bajillion more: motive. 

It fixes 99% of writing problems. 

Scene is boring? Give the characters a motive. Character doesn’t feel real? Find their driving motives behind their worldview and actions. Tension missing? Find a motive and prevent the anyone from getting what they want. 

Dig into those passions, however big or small. Prevent characters from reaching it, make it glaringly, blindingly obvious what they, in their deepest parts of their soul, crave. 

Motive motive motive.