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Penelope Featherington in Every Episode of BRIDGERTON 1.01 | "Diamond of the First Water"

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tumblr is great because no matter how many followers i get it doesn't stop me from being really fucking annoying. other places i will perhaps think before i post. Not here. not here

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Swifties created a public project called 'For Our Chairman' to congratulate Taylor Swift in Times Square, NYC billboard 🤍

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New picture of Taylor from the 'Fortnight' music video! (Via YouTube)

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New Coraline design drop

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by mono

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

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Every piece of dogshit art makes the world a better place to live. Better to create poorly than not at all.

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well, baby, i'm a put-on-a-show kind of girl.

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Exactly like siblings

having pets is so cool. there's a creature in my house and i can go bother it whenever i want

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they should add a fishing minigame to tumblr

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btw cause I think some people still need to hear this, but the rose colored glasses coming off and the ‘revision’ to the meanings of her songs about joe was always gonna happen. with travis around or not. so saying she should focus on her new relationship is not the dunk you were thinking it is. like I keep saying it but she wrote him into her world, she included him in the world she wrote music in, and when she needed to, she wrote him out. why would he get to stay when he hasn’t earned that anymore? she would have kept him in, she even would have left the bad stuff in a box, but he didn’t seem like he wanted that part of her life. please can we all just realize that this is just such a normal reaction and end to a relationship and Taylor doesn’t need to ‘take the high road’ or whatever just because she’s in a new relationship. the reckoning of what happened was always going to be closing the chapter of the story she wrote for them. she’s releasing it whether you’re ready to reckon with her or not.

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Coballoway are so fucking cool all the time but they were the coolest when they realised Ryke could understand French

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ngl I really disliked Travis Kelce because it all seemed like such a publicity stunt but how can I continue not liking him after

where's the trophy? he just comes running over to me

and

you knew what you wanted and boy you got her