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see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

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My favorite thing about Cinderella’s Castle is how unapologetic it is about revenge as a theme. We’ve all seen story after story about the pitfalls of revenge where characters are chastised for their anger and punished by the narrative. I love how, when asked what she truly wants Ella isn’t allowed to shy away from her feelings, no matter how ugly they might be. There’s something powerful about an eldritch god seeing someone who is actively being hurt and saying “you deserve the chance to fight for yourself and for those who have been taken from you”

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Costume. Chitons.

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So I tried a challenge of being on the Stairmaster machine while listening to Epic: The Musical, because you would be so invested you wouldn't want to stop

Let's just say my sould got left in the Underworld and my body died along with the suitors

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do you have any cursed/blessed harris hawk facts?

Harris’s Hawks are the only pack-hunting raptor on the planet! they go after rabbits with tactics similar to those found in a pack of wolves, driving it away from cover until one of them can go down and nab it.

this also means they’re more social than other hawks, and will do things like stand on each other’s backs or hold hands for no reason

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why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

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Jorge what do you mean you have so many takes of Polities' dying "captain"...

Don't be shy, drop them. Break us more.

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amazing double dance by hao ruoqi ( in blue)and wang xuerou(in red)

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some men are made to suffer

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Scenes from Homer by Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone

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Coming into a fandom late

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they actually make me sick

everything about this image is peak romance dawn trio. their entire dynamic is so perfectly captured in this singular frame it’s incredible

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"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

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every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

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The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967

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does anyone hve any sin recommendations i just fell from the garden of eden five seconds ago

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Real conversation I had with my friend who I'm trying to indoctrinate into Epic: The Musical

"ODYSSEUS LOVES HIS WIFE AND SON SO MUCH AND HE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE PENELOPE AND TELEMECHUS AGAIN!"

"He can't STAND IT! He misses son and wife so much that every time he sees a woman with her child, he MUST throw it off a building while she watches"