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I have done Big Girl Job for two days and now I'm thinking about am I going to accomplish anything else during my time here

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Statues of Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint Joseph, Santuario Nostra Signora di Guadalupe, in Santo Stefano d'Aveto, Liguria.

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Me about to tell a bunch of middle schoolers this guy’s name :) :) :)

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They’re fighting over custody 😔

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I’ll smile and you’ll have to face it: I’m the greatest love that you wasted

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Life is fun because sometimes you can get your little brother (grumpy-pants, acting like a teenager before his time) really into Jane Austen miniseries and now we're rewatching Pride and Prejudice 1995 and he's laughing so hard at Darcy's antics and throwing shade at Wickam whenever he shows up on screen

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Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.

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I hate eye drops. It goes against every instinct I have.

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no written propaganda submitted

visual propaganda below:

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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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Profanitee

A manatee that swears at random times

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you know now knowing that as kids shawn played bassoon and gus played clarinet it’s truly criminal there was never an episode involving a local symphony orchestra. like, one of the principal musicians dies—call it the principal flutist—and foul play is suspected, so shawn convinces the chief to let them go undercover. gus is still using his old clarinet, but henry got rid of shawn’s bassoon like ten years ago so shawn makes the department rent him a really nice one. lassiter’s huge qualm this episode is that he thinks shawn and gus are making a mockery of the beauty that is classical music. shawn actually feels very strongly about the case because one of the pieces they’re performing has a majestic bassoon solo that he was supposed to play in the eighth grade until he got stiffed for first chair. gus and jules are the only ones being normal.

lassie and jules end up arresting the second chair flute player because it seems like a jealousy case, but shawn isn’t convinced. he goes down the rabbit hole and uncovers this crazy romance subplot about how the principal bassoonist and the principal flutist were sleeping together, but then the flutist slept with someone else in the orchestra—call it a percussionist (they’re always doing that)—and so he killed her. shawn claims he learned this through the instruments speaking to him. the high stakes moment of the episode is when the bassoonist tries to kill the percussionist, but our fave crew end up saving the day.

the episode ends with shawn and gus playing in the concert and shawn doing the bassoon solo since the principal was arrested for murder. biggest plot twist of all is that he actually sounds pretty good.

another random note is that lassie has it out for the second chair flute because he used to play oboe when he was younger and got relentlessly bullied by the flutes. shawn finds this out and forces bonding between the two of them by sharing his bassoon trauma. lassie does not seem to care. because the percussionist gets injured in the scuffle near the end of the episode, shawn convinces the orchestra director to let lassie play the triangle in the concert. later on in the series, there’s a throwaway line about how shawn can’t get ice cream with gus after a case because he’s busy. there’s a honk outside the psych office and shawn jogs out, gets in lassie’s car, and they go to community orchestra together.

oh also the henry subplot of the episode is that he and the director of the orchestra go way back for some reason and that’s the only reason that shawn and gus are allowed to go undercover. shawn is pissed at henry for getting rid of his bassoon and henry tries to turn it into a lesson about responsibility that is immediately undermined by the department renting one for him.

do you see my vision

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one major & objectively delightful subplot we missed out on that exists forever in my heart is a henry and juliet subplot. already hilarious at baseline no matter what point in the show it happens but galactic levels of comedy if it takes place after shawn and juliet start dating. you just know juliet would be experiencing 12 layers of complicated personal introspection & probably grief re her warring professional respect for henry, her protective instincts towards shawn, and her own million daddy issues (henry is, tragically and ironically, all of the things frank WASNT) all intersecting in a giant tangled mess that shes trying very diligently to mediate so she can have a Normal and Polite afternoon with her boyfriends dad, who she kind of already knows but is only now for the first time officially hanging out with as Her Boyfriends Dad. meanwhile henrys like "jesus god, this is the only woman on planet earth who is actually capable of putting up with my son long term. we CANNOT fuck this up, team". and they both immediately proceed to be as humanly weird about it as possible for the whole entire episode