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Why are the people in Jackson sending old people to do patrol? Sure, they could be very experienced, but their body is not at it’s best anymore. Then they get shocked when they get bitten.

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bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

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art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

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David Benioff, Troy

// Adapted from Homer, The Iliad

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gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

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I find it funny when people say that P&P is boring because it’s just a bunch of people going to each other’s house, like what exactly are you expecting from a book published in 1813? Them riding rollercoasters? The adrenaline inducing experience of fast and furious? Game of Thrones?

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there is still time. there is still time. until your bones are in the fucking ground there is still time.

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"Cathy’s appearance in the novel serves as the second half of the story—the part of the story often forgotten in public memory and eulogization of Brontë’s great novel. Cathy is not only the fulfillment of Heathcliff’s dark desire to be haunted, she is also the antidote to the original sin of Wuthering Heights: the lack of compassion and forgiveness exhibited between Catherine and Heathcliff, between Heathcliff and Hindley, between all the individuals who couldn’t manifest that compassion and forgiveness when most needed.

But Cathy is no saint at the beginning of her storyline (and rightly so, for it makes her transfiguration all the more potent and memorable, indeed, admirable). Again, Emily Brontë’s genius is in Cathy’s free choice to...embrace the feminine mystique of compassion, mercy, and love that has been absent in the dark toxic world of Wuthering Heights since Heathcliff’s presence. 

[...] Cathy becomes a teacher for Hareton. She helps him in his education. The two do fall in love with each other—a love that was the outgrowth of Cathy’s feminine compassion and mercy which breaks Heathcliff’s heart of stone.

Under the vindicative gaze of Heathcliff, Cathy exhibits her love in a world bereft of love, Heathcliff’s gaze over the love between Cathy and Hareton makes him realize of the love he missed with Catherine because of his inability to forgive. Heathcliff still can’t forgive. So he dies. But his death ends the dark curse that had ensnared Wuthering Heights which allows Cathy to escape the miserable shadow of Heathcliff which inhibited her total transfiguration."

--Libidinal Heights: Love, Lust, and Redemption in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

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If you think the main draw to Pride and Prejudice is "enemies to lovers with a rich man" then you've explicitly missed the point.

The draw is "rich haughty man realizes the error of his ways, makes sincere attempts to rectify his mistakes, and in the end expects literally nothing in return because he does genuinely truly love the girl who rejected him and he didn't want her to ever believe she 'owed' him or that he did it merely to get in her good graces"

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Why did it take me so long to realize that when Holt is singing “The Wunch is Dead”, he’s making a reference to Wicked!

(I just know that after her death, when he listens to it, he thinks of her and their rivalry)

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When a characters’ plot, development, sense of self, backstory, personality, screen time, importance is destroyed just so that they can be romantically attached to another character, that’s not romance, it’s mercenary.

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Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice’.

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

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When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

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One of the biggest reasons why New Directions didn’t win more awards was because Mr.Shue sucked. He kept making the same structures in their performances (s1-s3): duet (mostly slow songs) + big number (that would have everybody singing, but have the main focus on Rachel and Finn, having Mercedes belt at the end). Their best performance that was built this way was ‘Sectionals’ from season 2, where other people got the spotlight, having the duet being Sam and Quinn and the big ending being sung by Santana.

New Directions had so much talent, but all of it was kept in the background, ‘cause Mr.Shue kept doing the same performances and having the same singers without any diversity. He could’ve done a performance where Santana, Rachel and Mercedes sung, but he was so stuck in the same boring performances that he chose. No wonder the girls left, who would want, with a talent like theirs, to be stuck in the back? Also, it shouldn’t have come to surprise to anyone that ND didn’t win ‘Regionals’ in s1, their performance was ‘Sectionals’ worthy. They could’ve been an insanely good show choir, even ranking higher at ‘Nationals’ in s2, if Mr.Shue was a better organizer, choreographer and treated kids the same, giving them fair opportunities. There was space for everyone to have a moment in their performances. (also they could’ve ranked higher if Rachel and Finn could’ve waited 5 freaking minutes; you just know that if any other kid had done what they did, they’d be getting a earful).

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“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, difficult as it is...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)