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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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Screenplay written by Celine Song

Past Lives (2023) dir. Celine Song

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Past Lives (2023)

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Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; "Jacob's Room" wr. c. 1922

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maybe i like it when a female character is deeply flawed and responsible for countless deaths and so on and so forth. more female characters should be deeply flawed and responsible for countless deaths

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𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚗 𝙷𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎, 𝚂𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚊 (𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸)

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (The Hague, September 1882)

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couples themed photoshoots and old romance films have such a Grip on me they're all so destian and it makes me unwell LIKE

LIIIIIIIIIKE

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i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity

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The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

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Emma Thompson by Annie Leibovitz, New York, NY, 1995

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I REMEMBER EVERYTHING.

everything everywhere all at once (2022) / amigo warfare, eric gamalinda / someone great (2019) / about you, the 1975 / lullabies, lang leav / la la land (2016) /  the museum of heartbreak, meg leder / always remember us this way, lady gaga

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what is memory?

arrival, dir. denis villeneuve // a letter excerpt to her mother on 21 january 1951, sylvia plath // the persistence of memory, salvador dali // progress, franz wright // euphoria, cr. sam levinson

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when everything everywhere all at once said of all the places i could be, i just want to be here with you

and when 12 monkeys (tv show) said death can be undone, love cannot

and when russian doll said "you promise if i don't jump i'll be happy?" "i can't but i promise you won't be alone"

and when palm springs said the pain matters, what we do to other people matters

and when arrival said despite knowing the journey and where it leads, i embrace it

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When a story goes yes life and the universe is fundimentally chaotic, uncaring, and meaningless in nature... but have you considered love? And hope? THAT'S when it gets me

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