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Me, two weeks ago: omg you guys Doctor Who might be kinda good again?????? what is this??? Me now: actually i take it back, Doctor Who exists to disappoint me specifically. how fucking hard is it to write halfway decent television???? I'm not even asking for GOOD television, just DECENT television would be fine

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saw a review of babel that was like “it starts out slow but it gets really good!” did we read the same book robin’s whole family dies on page like 1

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should i eat first or shower first *has phone in couch time for another 3 hours due to choice procrastination, a behavioral phenomenon observed in pigeons and rats as well*

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marvel knew they had to kill yondu before thanos did the snap thing otherwise he woulda whistled once and thanos would be gone

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i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain

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russell I’m in your walls

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You belong with me. 💚💛💜❤️🩵🖤

Letter on my site :)

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can’t believe Suzanne Collins had Wyatt Callow, who knew the odds of all the tributes’ deaths better than his own name, die protecting Lou Lou, who he statistically knew wouldn’t make it anyway. had Louella McCoy, who was immediately ready to try and stick it to the capital any way she could in the games, die before she even reached the arena. had Maysilee Donner, who constantly talked back, who wanted to die with her head up, who didn’t want to be treated like an animal by the capital, die mangled on the ground after having her vocal chords ripped out by a capital-manufactured bird. had Haymitch Abernathy, who from the moment he learned of Beetee’s plan, knew he was ready and willing to give up his life so that his friends and family could live, be forced to live without them, knowing all he did in the arena was for nothing. that everyone died anyway. sick and twisted.

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One of the grossest things with that episode is that they made Ncuti Gatwa, an actual genocide survivor, act in that 'but the genocided people actually want to randomly kill seven William people' episode

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episodes like this one remind me that doctor who is a BRITISH show bc that was a zionist fantasy if I’ve ever seen one

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I graduated college yesterday!!!! what the hell!!!!!

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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That "RIP" meme, but with Babel characters

RIP Robin, you would've loved Frantz Fanon and therapy

RIP Rami, you would've loved Edward Said and political linguistics

RIP Victoire, you would've loved Angela Davis, the Black Panther party and natural hair blogs

RIP Letty, you would've loved girl boss feminism and "all lives matter"

All the images of the characteres are from the ilustrated book website and were made by Abigail Larson.

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I don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention this but rf kuang’s naming of Victorie in Babel is just genius??? Victorie is derived from the Latin word for ‘victory’, and at the end of the novel, she was the only one to survive the rebellion out of the three of them. Her name alone carries the implication that the revolution was successful despite her and Robin’s worries, as she rides out in ‘victory’. This is such a smooth and unnoticeable reassurance that the novel did not end on a cliff-hanger, but rather and strong and positive reaffirmation.

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holy shit I just finished babel. everyone read it rn

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: <- a bite mark