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Shonda Rhimes and Julia Quinn: Colin and Penelope have a glow-up this season and become super cool and confident flirts with loads of swagger

Luke and Nicola: Colin and Penelope are LOSERS and they live in LOSER-TOWN where all the NERDS hang out

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You ever just like someone so much you wanna text them “hi do you like mini wheats ? Cause the maple flavour is really good” but you can’t text them that … you almost can’t text them at all

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Trust me, what's happening out there cannot be as what's happening down here. ANTHONY & KATE | Out of the Shadows

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chapter 16

epilogue

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Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

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So I was once actually collecting data in a frozen river, and another guy fell in, filled up his waders and everything. He was wearing cotton (we were floored), and I had the car keys so I was like “alright, I’ll walk you back to the car to make sure you’re okay. Then you can strip down in there and get the heat going. There’s a blanket to wrap up in.” And he looked at me like I was insane. He said, “what? I’m fine.” I informed him that actually, if he stayed outside in subzero temperatures, soaking wet, in cotton, he was Licherly going to Freeze To Death, and he was like, “it’s not the 1800s lmao.”

And then while the guy in charge Forced him to go back to the car and strip, I had to stand there in a frozen river absolutely bewildered by the implication that a Wildife Biologist thought hypothermia is like, an old timey disease that people stopped getting at some point.

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being poly is great and cool except when its not. sighhhhh. for the record when its not cool is when the Insecurities set in, and u get to grapple with wondering if the human u love most in this world feels the same abt u

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the stoic teenager to being on the verge of tears anytime something slightly inconvenient happens adult pipeline is very real

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african peach moth (egybolis vaillantina) | source

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just found out i've been abandoned by god which means he's not watching anything i do anymore. you should come over.

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i love being up early but i love being up late. and i love getting lots of sleep. what now.

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u literally cannot have some sort of kneejerk panicked guiltspiral reaction to learning u hurt someone u cannot start playing out ur imaginary canceled callout metoo moment anytime a loved one thinks uve done something wrong 9/10 people are only communicating that to u bc they want 1) their hurt validated 2) a promise to at least try not to hurt them the same way again 3) a hug not some fucking malicious attempt to destroy ur life

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A general reminder—periodic cicadas pose no threat to anyone and their plant damage is limited to nipping off the ends of twigs. Please do not hose them with pesticide. They are slow and clumsy and confused and only want to make friends with other cicadas and eventually die of sexual exhaustion.

Yes, the screaming is a lot, but they’ve been extremely quiet neighbors for thirteen years, cut them some slack as they go through the most fraught time of their lives.

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Sketches by A.K. MacDonald, 1932

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What’s going to make you happy right now? Is it some cake? Is it a nap? Is it calling your mom? Is it going on a drive and blasting music? Is it taking a bath? Is it reading a book?

Check in with yourself because you deserve that happiness, whatever it is.

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