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i wish people who dunk on “silly” southern accents and vernacular could experience the total derealization that comes with listening to yourself talk and realizing that it’s not your real voice anymore. i spent so many years flattening my accent to sound smarter that i have to remind myself constantly that it’s okay to use my real fucking voice. i’ve had customers at my job make fun of me to my face when i let it slip. when i’m public speaking or even speaking in class with my peers it goes away completely because i’m so terrified of being perceived as a hick. just imagine opening your mouth and hearing a strangers’ voice come out. i can’t stress how viscerally upsetting it is to not know what the real you sounds like anymore. just think for two seconds before you yell about how you can’t take southern or appalachian dialects seriously or i will blow you up with this bombbbbb i swear to godddddd

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Reese Witherspoon in ‘Vanity Fair’, 2004.

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I know this is a shot in the dark but does anyone know anything about Whitebear Whittington??

It's an Appalachian folktale based on East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I read about it in Lee Smith's novel Fair and Tender Ladies, and I'm desssppppeerraatte to find a version or copy that isn't Snowbear Whittington by William Hooks.

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need someone to call sweetbeef like Hal does Falstaff

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Saw this on a North and South 2004 BBC Facebook page, as true today as it was five, ten, sixteen years ago.

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The World of Interiors, November 1996. Photo - Andreas von Einsiedel

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A moodboard for The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

Pictures not mine.

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Arthur Dimmesdale is the only person who understands me

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Anton Lomaev's illustrations for William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Edward Weston Nude 1936, printed 1951 From the Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio: 1902-1952, c. 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print Collection of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film

via artblart

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Jiří Trnka

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you can go to writing poetry with a person in mind, trying to get them out of your head, then end with several drafts of the grossest yearning, filled with everything you ever thought of them and.. they're still in your head. It never works and I'll never learn my lesson :c

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Gage Lindsten