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shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

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nothing is more frustrating than when I’m leading a serious discussion about the importance of learning how to properly research folklore & cultural stories from reliable sources and someone pipes in like “why does it matter if it’s all made up anyway?”

yeah dude vampires are made up and the whole “vampires couldn’t see their reflections in antique mirrors because of the silver backing” is made up so you can combine those however you want for fun.

but you can’t say “the Victorians believed vampires couldn’t see themselves in mirrors because of the silver backing, which is why Dracula has no reflection,”

because the author of Dracula was a real man who never said that and the Victorians were real people of a real era and you can’t just make up things about real people because it’s important historically for us to understand what people believed about the world and why.

Making up facts about vampires is folklore & literature. Claiming random people in the past believed that, with no evidence, is just lying.

Am I making sense??

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Lauren Bacall, 1946

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Guys I for real thought I was possibly going to die last week because of my anxiety. My heart rate and blood pressure were fucked. Doing better now but OTL

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Burnout

Foto: arthurlopesb

Beleza: eu_zev

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Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

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if ur gonna be pressed into service by your liege lord, u want to be the swiftest rider. get good at horses, because they're always sending the swiftest rider off to do some other shit that is, crucially, away from the battlefield. I'm telling u. when ur forces are outnumbered and the enemy legions show up with some unexpected advantage, someone in command is gonna say, "send the swiftest rider to alert the queen!!!" that's u. u want to be that guy

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I can’t believe I took this 8 years ago today. I’m glad I got to see that meadow before it was “improved”. It isn’t nearly as pretty as this now.

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the letterboxd review, a hybrid literary genre equally born of the recipe blog personal essay and the desire to receive reddit gold,

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one lucky fan will be receiving an authentic blood transfusion that will ideally be compatible, although we did not check

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youtuber with a beard merch be like *silhouette of a beard*

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she gave cunt and she served and she died

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i mean fuck i like archie i like jug i like gettin’ milkshakes i like betty i like to fuck i like time looping and gay people and the black hood i like doing riverdale shit, snort it probably would!

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sending pictures of me drunk and crying with a gun to my head in response to every job rejection email i receive and the subject line is stuff like "this is your fault" "i will be haunting you" etc

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Self Portrait in a Silver Knife (2024) by Duane Keiser

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I was so anxious last week at one point I thought I was going to have a heart attack #no matter how bad things get at least February is almost over

The anxiety attack pukerrrrrr