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I actually love it when the bus driver goes fast af and runs the red lights like fuck it were youngggggg

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it’s cry at the start of every movie cause you wish you were making things too tuesday

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Monday's child is fair of face,

Tuesday's child is full of grace.

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go.

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living.

But the child that is born on Sabbath day,

Is bonny and blithe, good and gay.

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TV APPRECIATION WEEK Day Seven: Recently Discovered Fave ↳ Fatiha El-Ghori in Series 19 of Taskmaster

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why do we have to go to school for six years for a nursing degree when nurse sharks get the job without any credentials

Oh! That’s an easy one! So basically nurse shar

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the semantic drift of the term "liminal" genuinely pisses me off and i know its petty. LIMINAL IS A TRANSITIONAL STAGE BETWEEN TWO STATES- OR. IF WE WANT TO WIDEN THE BOUNDARY HERE. IT COULD BE ON THE VERY EDGE OF BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. just because something is abandoned doesn't mean its liminal. in fact, that shopping mall was MORE liminal when it was dying off and shutting down outlets every month than it is 5 years later when the space is fully abandoned.

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The inconvenient thing about life is that half of it is all about listening to your body and letting yourself rest, and the other half is acceting that life will be uncomfortable and inconvenient sometimes and you've just go to make yourself push through your brain going Do Not Want and get the discomfort out of the way, and you never know which one it is.

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My mutuals

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shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

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every book i read in july!

i somehow read loads of books this month - one is a dnf and some of the others were quite disappointing, but no spoilers! full reviews under the cut

Kala by Colin Walsh

I was, and still am, kind of on the fence about this book. I kind of enjoyed it but I also felt like it didn't live up to its full potential. It was quite exciting in parts but none of the characters really compelled me and I found the climax/solution of the book quite unsatisfying.The pull quote on the cover compares it to Tana French and Donna Tartt. I can kind of see where they're coming from, it's definitely a more psychological approach to a crime story and there are some similarities, but ultimately the comparison does Kala a disservice because it's not anywhere near as good as these authors! If the premise interests you and you haven't already read these authors, I would recommend starting there (in particular The Little Friend by Donna Tartt and The Wych Elm by Tana French - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn also has similar themes and is better).

The Looking Glass War by John le Carré

Another banger by John le Carré! It's about an outdated military intelligence department who basically haven't seen any action since WW2 trying to train one of their old spies to go behind the Iron Curtain. I was enjoying this but not in love with it until I got to the part where the spy actually goes behind enemy lines. The whole tone of the novel changes, and you suddenly realise how unprepared he is and how much danger he's in, and how everyone who said this department was basically a bunch of old fools was actually right. You kind of get lulled into a false sense of security, rooting for the underdogs, and then it turns out the underdogs are actually incompetent and woefully out of their depth. It was so so exciting and also terrifying. Very good!

Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías

This is a Uruguyan novel about a woman trying to survive in a climate disaster, but it's more about themes of motherhood and love with the background of environmental collapse. What it really reminded me of is The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, which I didn't really enjoy because I felt it left too many unanswered questions and the narrator didn't have enough agency in the story. This book doesn't have those problems but has a similar vibe, so I would highly recommend if you read that one! I enjoyed it at the time but as I'm writing this review I'm realising I can't really remember what happened, so maybe it wasn't as good as I thought lol.

History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason

I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would! Set in 1909 Amsterdam, it's about a very very attractive man who is using his looks and his charm to try to become rich and live a luxurious life. I have been thinking deeply about my feelings on sex in books recently, because I've noticed a pattern where sex is a common theme in my least favourite books of the year. This one allayed my fears that I'm some kind of prude, because it's absolutely filthy and I loved it. I guess I just have high standards for sex in books, which I think is a good thing?

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht

Another very hyped book that was a bit of a let down. I can see why this was so critically acclaimed, but it just didn't do it for me. The autofiction, vague storyline, kind of meaningless-but meaningful stuff doesn't really float my boat, and I think if the blurb had been more honest I never would have picked it up.

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

ANOTHER hyped book that was a bit of a letdown! I really enjoyed parts of it, but the story was quite muddled and it really wasn't sure which way it wanted to go (there was a point where I was DEAD sure that the murderer and the main character were werewolves lmao). I do enjoy mysteries where it seems like the solution is going to be supernatural but then it turns out to just be terrible human beings, but in this one it turned out to be human beings AND some kind of eldritch monster, but the story made sure you knew the humans really were terrible and would have murdered even without the influence of the eldritch monster, which does make you wonder what the point of the monster is? I feel like it really had potential but just missed the mark.

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

Another sort of on the fence book. It's about an ordinary Dutch family man who finds out the company he's dedicated his whole life to has gone bust, and basically abandons his family, murders a prostitute, and starts just roaming the streets of Paris, taunting the police when they can't catch him. It's a weird view into the mind of an actual lunatic, but it does show its age.

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

At this point I was really looking for a slam-dunk, and what I wanted to do was reread The Secret History, but I thought noooo Rose be gooooood read something on your tbr instead........ and I ended up with this, which was described as "for fans of The Secret History", but was really just a badly written knock-off! I got about 70 pages in and really couldn't get on with the writing style, I found it SO clunky and frustrating to read. You know how "show, don't tell" is the first rule you learn about creative writing? This guy missed that class I guess! I was weighing up whether or not to soldier on and try to finish it, but my mum said "Oh darling, life's too short!" and you know what? She was absolutely right. DNF!

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Now THIS was a slam-dunk! It's actually really different from the movie, and in retrospect I much prefer the book. First of all, it's set in London, not New York, and has much more of a Bridget Jones vibe to it. Secondly, on a rewatch of the movie I found it really frustrating how incompetent movie!Becky is compared to book!Becky!!! In the book she's a financial journalist who doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, rather than a girly girl who just dreams of working for a fashion magazine. The book centres a lot more around her trying to deal with her shopping addiction, get out of debt, and figure out her life rather than on romance, and ends with her writing a groundbreaking piece of investigative financial journalism that gets her love interest/rival to actually change his mind about his business practices. I would actually really recommend it to anyone who likes the movie, just because it's a really different take on the same beats.

currently reading + on my radar

this is a long one already so I'll keep it short! I'm reading a really good book at the moment, and am really pleased with how I'm getting through my tbr pile.

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Lark and Bower / Sarah Ward - 2020

During lock down, without a loom or studio, she started stitching small woven patterns by hand, using leftover yarn and a lot patience. What began as a way to keep going became a way of working.

Now, even with her full studio back, she still creates these tiny, time-consuming pieces. They're not made to be worn or sold fast, they're made to be seen, to remind us that weaving is an art, not just something for clothes. She uses waste yarn, old stock, and plant fibers to avoid adding more to the pile of fast fashion.

via @arthunter.me and @larkandbower

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We need to normalize calling coworkers stupid fucking idiot son of a bitches we need to end workplace professionalism and courtesy and just openly curse and yell at each other we also need a day where everyone meets outside in the parking lot and we all fist fight each other until only 1 is left standing

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THE WATERMELON WOMAN 1996 | dir. Cheryl Dunye

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we all got that one homie with a job thats weirder than everyone else in the group and when you’re all complaining about customer service he’s like “yeah i hate when they bleed on the chain and it gets all stickyyy” and you’re like huh?? and he just keeps going like “and they always scream when you bring out the rack” and you’re like hey do you work in a medieval dungeon what do you do? “oh i just do maintenance” and dodges the question every time but one time you were driving near his apartment and you saw him getting out of his car and he still had the executioner hood on and he was dragging a morningstar behind him across the pavement and it was making this horrible grinding sound loud as fuckkkkkk