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2026 booktok discourse: sad books are a cognitohazard (they make you sad)

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Lizzie didn't teach Darcy to be a better person; she's messy and goes through necessary growth too. The titular "Pride and Prejudice" is about *both of them*. Margaret didn't teach Thornton to be a better person, they were different flavors of shitty--the titular "North and South" is about them embodying two distinct but both shitty classist systems in their country--and found their way to a sincerely better worldview.

"She doesn't have to fix him!" / "She deserves better!"

She deserves people to actually appreciate her as a complex character on a growth arc in her own damn story, is what she deserves.

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George bush truisms

I THINK WE CAN AGREE THAT THE PAST IS OVER

RARELY IS THE QUESTION ASKED, IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING?

OUR ENEMIES NEVER STOP THINKING OF NEW WAYS TO HARM OUR COUNTRY AND OUR PEOPLE, AND NEITHER DO WE

YOU TEACH A CHILD TO LEARN, AND HE OR HER WILL BE ABLE TO PASS A LITERACY TEST

A HUMAN BEING AND A FISH CAN COEXIST PEACEFULLY

FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON…SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME… YOU CANT GET FOOLED AGAIN.

DON’T MISUNDERESTIMATE ME

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real talk though this is how you can tell that the arts have been so massively underfunded

in any other world this person would be a full time professional artist, able to make a living by creating, displaying, and selling their art

but now they're accepting job listings realistically off of fiver t take photos of some rich fucks house for the zillow listing.

my dad is a contractor. He builds houses. Beautiful, incredible houses. In 2008 he accepted a job to install some lady's cat door. That's what this person taking zillow pictures feels like to me.

my friend and i have been losing our goddamn minds over the photography in this zillow listing and i feel the need to share it with you all too

the lighting??? the fog?? the atmosphere???

this shit is like high art and it's a ZILLOW LISTING . and that's not even all the photos!!! what the fuck!!!

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Jesper: What is love?

Kaz: A lie

Inej: An emotional minefield

Nina: Baby don't hurt me..?

Jesper: THANK YOU NINA. Kaz and Inej, you both need therapy.

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Coach, I'm me. Ted Lasso, S01E02

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your characters love it when you draw them floating and/or in a white void. it gives them a break from existing within the context of reality for a while it’s relaxing

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irish coworker: *is back from a month in italy*

me: the weather must have been great, you're looking so tanned!

irish coworker: *stares down at his arms, which are a shade of eggshell white i associate with tasteful wedding table settings* i suppose i am!

welsh coworker: *enters room* wow, youre looking so tanned!

ghanaian coworker: *looks around like hes on the truman show*

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req'd by @pumpkinpire

this is how the show goes right?

text: Leslut de Lyingwhore

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when i was little and i went to church people would talk about “fearing god.” they would use ‘’fear’ to describe like a way of respecting him while understanding his power and i never knew what that  meant until i met a fucking horse 

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we used to turn the tv on and just watch whatever was on there