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Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it

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MISS SCARLET (2020-)

created by rachael new

5.04

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I just met a mother of an autistic child who thinks vaccines cause autism but is still pro-vaccine. Didn't know ppl like her existed tbh

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locklyle week 2023 🍞 love languages [insp]

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The thing that ruins me the most right now is that I had this big dream for so long. Like since I was 12 and started going to shows I have wanted to be a music journalist slash work in the music industry.

and I used so many years and spent so much time writing for any website i could, doing any internship i could do. I went to uni and studied journalism but only did music journalism stuff outside because that is all i could see myself doing.

and now im 23, almost 2 years out of uni, and im still working two casual jobs not knowing where Im going in life.

This year I have had to realise and accept that the dream Ive had for ten years will probably never be anything more than a dream. But the problem is I have nothing else. I dont know where to go or what to do. Im not really good at anything.

Where do I go next? I know I absolutely cannot stay in retail forever, it makes me too unhappy and it doesnt fulfil me.

I was the one with all the potential, the one with the big life ahead of her that would become whatever she wanted to be. But now Im an adult and im looking like more of a failure than anything else.

I didnt understand why my brother was so heartbroken the year he turned 18 when he didn’t get picked up in the draft. When he didnt want to do anything else because football was all he knew and football was all he wanted. I didnt understand why he didnt find something else at the same time. Just in case. Just as a back up. 

All the while I was doing exactly the same thing.

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Alex Rider + Apologising after tasering someone

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There are some stories that just stay with you for years after you read them and 100 Bad Days by @pearlcaddy is one of those stories for me. I’m a huge fan of all the jatp stories she had written but this one definitely inspired me to write my own college au. It introduced me to music and bands I hadn’t heard of, and I think of this universe every time I hear those songs now.

I don’t reread much because there’s just too many new stories to read but I’ve reread this whole series at least three times. It’s juke centric, of course, it’s me, but it’s also just a really good story.

Julie is a voice major and Luke is a townie with a major chip on his shoulder when it comes to music school students. Their first meeting is a disaster and hooking up definitely makes it worse, but Luke can’t seem to stop being a disaster or hooking up with her. Please send help, he’s honestly such a mess. The Enemies with Benefits to Bandmates to Lovers AU that I’m pretty sure no one was asking for.

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WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

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The worst trick a childhood anxiety disorder pulls is, you spend your early years being applauded for being so much more mature than your peers, because you aren’t disruptive, you don’t want any kind of attention, you don’t express yourself, you keep yourself to yourself - this makes you a pleasure to have in class, etc etc - and you start to believe it’s virtue. But you’re actually way behind your peers in normal social development, and who knows if you can ever catch up.

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BUFFY SUMMERS + braids & pigtails

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There sure are a lot of internet posts that amount to "thank God someone was abused, their abuser's tv show annoyed me. I'm so glad a real person got hurt so we can cancel this celebrity I found tiring. I was really hoping people I never met would turn out to have suffered in a way that would vindicate my media tastes"

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Reblog and put in the tags your favorite work of media that has a majority/all-female cast.

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Theory is, if you hadn’t got seasick, you’d be dead.

WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK EVANS? (2022) Episode One

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Look, sir. There's a triple-murderer loose in Brooklyn, and it's our job to bring him in, even if that means forgiving a guy who stole some cars, and, yes, sold a few cats as dogs. More than a few. Weird how many people fell for that.

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE | 4.12