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every morning I wake up and think of these words from philosopher cher

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Hayley Williams

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with the new pope chosen and deltarune chapter 3-4 dropping next month. matpat has the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable a second time

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powercouple

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being happy when you have a mood disorder often feels like this

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“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Circleville Herald, Ohio, April 2, 1928

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Sooo was anyone gonna tell me that butterfly pea flowers are called CLITORIA and look like THAT?? Or was I just supposed to find that out while googling this in front of my mom

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"There's a reason I made Percy androgynous energetically. For one, it was the only way the part worked. Outcast in middle school? ADD ain't enough. Why he struggled socially, was the one area where I didn't want your suspension of disbelief. [..] So I gave him flecks of gay. And I knew it. My cast knew it. Our team knew it. And I was terrified, terrified reviews would shred me for it. They didn't. Me sneaking that in was a big swing. And for me personally my proudest hit. I made him a hero I needed growing up. " - Chris Mccarrell

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i think one of the main issues with "dating culture" in total is that the actual percentage of humans who want or need to pair bond or reproduce is a lot lower than we think it is and this creates conflict from dumping an enormous amount of resources into pursuing unsatisfactory goals, having an identity crisis when yet another relationship or partner is boring or disappointing, going through a destructive breakup and resource partition, and then being coerced into starting over from the beginning and just doing this over and over until we die. i don't think relationships and love and romantic attachment are fake I just think a lot of people don't actually need or want them who have been convinced otherwise

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thinking about the extremely sweet anon who once sent me a message in the middle of exam season asking what i wanted to study once i got into med school because they wanted me to keep in mind the reason why i studied so much which was the specific subjects in medicine i love

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all other relevant things about it aside. dashcon really just is a terrible name

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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Bringing back RebelCaptain Pride and Prejudice AU

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Something that I think is important about Wyatt as a character is how he highlights the stupidity of the district system. I know that the human love of sorting ourselves into categories meant that every YA series for a while had a bunch of different groups with associated traits that tweens could take uquizzes about, but The Hunger Games isn't like Divergent or Harry Potter where young adults get grouped based on their personalities. Sure, the districts all have industries they're known for and the tributes are clearly shaped by wherever they grew up, but being born into District Four doesn't actually mean that you'll like fish. Wyatt is brilliant when it comes to numbers, but in District Twelve he can only channel that into gambling. Imagine if he'd been born into District Three with a father like Beetee, what he could have done with his mathematical talents. There's mention of it with Maysilee too, how she doesn't want to run the candy store but her options are that or the mines.

I guess what I'm saying is that the district system is great for keeping people oppressed because they see their fellows as "other," which is why it is a tool of fascism and not a practical way to run a society. It doesn't matter who is in what group, it matters that they internalize their group identity to the point that they ignore the similarities between them.