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Anna Akhmatova, from "By the Sea Shore" in Selected Poems

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i love small joys so much!!!! yes i love my coffee in my favorite mug!!! i love the sun spilling in the window!!! i love the wind on my face!!! i love my blanket over my lap!!! i love the clouds in the sky!!!! i am seeking joy in every moment!!!!

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I finished my books idk what to read now nobody mention the TBR pile I have staring at me

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I'm just a girl… I'm alone, on my own. No one wanted to play with me as a little kid, nobody ever lets me in. Something different bloomed writing in my room. I see the great escape, I play my songs in the parking lot just to learn that my dreams aren't rare. Maybe I'm just a girl on a mission but I'm ready to fly in the angel's city, chasing fortune and fame. No one in my small town thought I'd meet these suits in L.A. and the camera flashes make it look like a dream. The kind of radiance you only have at 17, making my own name, chasing that fame. The crown is stained, but you're the real queen selling dreams, selling make up and magazines and your secrets end up splashed on the news front page. No cameras catch my pageant smile and my cheeks are growing tired from turning red and faking smiles. They said, "Babe, you gotta fake it till you make it" and I did. Cause ladies always rise above, so I became the butt of the joke. Talk your talk and go viral 'cause, baby, I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me. Crowd goes wild at her fingertips but there's robbers to the east, clowns to the west. I tried to pick my battles 'til the battle picked me. I was in the alley surrounded on all sides. Brought a knife to a gunfight. I looked around in a blood-soaked gown and tried to tell the town. You said the gun was mine, so they filled my cell with snakes. They say I did something bad then tell me I'm despicable. People look at me like I'm a monster. Now they're screaming that they hate me. I can feel the flames on my skin, and you find something to wrap your noose around. They're burning all the witches even if you aren’t one. So light me, and if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too. So I leap from the gallows, and I levitate down your street. I didn't want to have to haunt you but I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined. They say, "move on", but all I think about is karma. I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze tell me what are my words worth. My pennies made your crown. You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same. The knife cuts both ways, look at how my tears ricochet. Them's the breaks, they don't come gently. It still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, and I can go anywhere I want just not home. He's got my past frozen behind glass but I've got me. I’m still on that trapeze. I'm still trying everything to keep you looking at me. Lights, camera, bitch smile. I can still make the whole place shimmer. I pushed each boulder up the hill, climbed right back up the cliff 'cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned. Ask me why so many fade, but I'm still here. Always risin' from the ashes 'cause I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this. And at last she knew what the agony had been for. I built a legacy that you can't undo. Long story short, I survived. You're on your own, kid. You always have been.

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As a disabled person who's loved LEVERAGE and LEVERAGE REDEMPTION since the beginning - for the characters but also the whole ethos of performing acts that help people against crap systems, it's wonderful to be reminded that it springs from reality.

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most impressive skill on my resume is my ability to injure myself on the most innocuous of objects. i am worker's comp waiting to happen. i am the fool they send through the ringer to set new safety regulations.

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just a girl in her room trying to forgive herself

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Lately I've been seeing stars.

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he wants to show his mom one true thing, and he chooses sophie. sophie the liar, sophie the actress, sophie whose name is not even sophie. she's spent her whole life living a lie, but she's his best friend, his one true thing.

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adding:

grandma: and they're not out of date!

me: were you saying grandpa is out of fashion.

grandma: [silence] let's just say...

highlights from lunch:

grandma: [makes joke about me not having friends]

me: that's more true than you would assume

dad: one of my passwords at work is one of the first compound words you ever said.

me: I feel like I'm not going to like whatever it is.

dad: monkeybutts!

me: I was correct. you could really tell I was a normal child.

grandma: yeah. super normal. [dead stare into my eyes]

me: between that and me watching godzilla everyday.

grandma: you want some meat sauce?

grandpa: yeah sure.

me: the normal conversations that come out of this family.

dad: [staring at my phone]

me: it's Minnie from I-DLE. I have a problem.

dad: yeah.

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highlights from lunch:

grandma: [makes joke about me not having friends]

me: that's more true than you would assume

dad: one of my passwords at work is one of the first compound words you ever said.

me: I feel like I'm not going to like whatever it is.

dad: monkeybutts!

me: I was correct. you could really tell I was a normal child.

grandma: yeah. super normal. [dead stare into my eyes]

me: between that and me watching godzilla everyday.

grandma: you want some meat sauce?

grandpa: yeah sure.

me: the normal conversations that come out of this family.

dad: [staring at my phone]

me: it's Minnie from I-DLE. I have a problem.

dad: yeah.

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everyone wish me luck I have be Social for the next two days

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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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I really hope young folks just discovering Leverage understand that in 2008 a Tesla meant basically the opposite of what it means in 2025. They were so exciting. We were so hopeful.

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beauties of life 🍒🍓🌿

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I truly have such a loyalty to the 5 year old hand stamped "the trees speak Latin" necklace I made at the age of 16 when I first read The Raven Boys