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[bookwyrminspiration]

I might add she violently argues that Anna is a very strong female character.

And yes, she really needs to raise her standards. I fear for that woman. I’m glad we agree lmfao

I mean, if we're qualifying strong female character as someone who can argue well? Then I suppose? Like I will concede Ana does hold her own against Christian in several instances, which I could see being interpreted as making her a strong woman. Standing up for herself, identifying and communicating her limits, not going with everything Christian wants. But a strong, well-rounded character? I disagree

Her life and story is so tied to Christian literally from page one...there is no her without him. Even those arguments that could be said to make her a strong character are just showing her in opposition to him. She does have a career of her own (editor, which is her dream job), but Christian literally buys the company she works for like a week after she gets hired. If that. And he intends to gift her the company to run, so her ambitions are also tied to and guided by him. While Christian's are entirely separately managed from Ana.

I couldn't tell you Ana's strength's or weaknesses, I couldn't tell you what she's afraid of, or what her flaws are. And if we take into account her being a strong female character, I also couldn't tell you anything about how being a woman affects her. A lot of what I can surmise about her character is actually me superimposing Bella Swan onto her.

I just! She's so uninteresting. There's so little complexity to her and so much of her is defined by Christian in the story.

I'm also fearing for your mother. I can't even articulate just how...lackluster Ana is. To be fair though, so is everyone.

[normal-thoughts-official]

Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

[somewhatvellum]

this will sureily convince the people that the royal family are not out of touch moneywasters and that we should be happy keeping them around for sure

[suiheisen]

MONKEY MAN (2024)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[kellinrk800]

TRISHA PAYTAS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[daenerys-targaryen]

I HATE YOU SUPREME COURT!!!

[jacobtheloofah]

hell world!!!! hell world!!!! hell world!!!!

[frosted-luckycharms]

the way the trio reacts to a weird guy on a motorcycle asking if they need help by just being like “no thanks:) we’re good, no help needed:))))” and ducking back down behind the traffic barrier 😭😭😭

[unpretty]

the thing about having been really broke. averaging $500 a month in a good year broke. using a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for to buy taco bell gift cards for food broke. is that i am SO bad with money. i have a degree in accounting and i am so bad with money. i do not think of myself as superstitious at all but money feels so cursed. not in a spiritual way, i mean literally. practically.

having 'too much' money feels so bad. money is a thing you spend as soon as you get it because it's so cursed. the more it is the more cursed it is. i save too much money and bad things will happen that cost all my money. money is a thing that summons expenses. if i have no money and the car breaks down i find a way to make it work. i scrounge and resell and pass the hat and talk to my mom's friend's friend who knows a guy and in the end i'm so relieved to be right back where i started. but if i were saving my money for a new computer and then the car broke down, the money is just gone. i spent the money i saved for a thing i wanted on a thing i needed instead and after all that hoping i'm right back where i started.

i get a windfall and i set the money aside because if i'm careful that's enough to pay for gas for months. but then i need to pay for heat and i apply for assistance and they look at my bank account and see i have money and now they won't help pay for heat. soon it's just a habit. i get the money and i spend the money. immediately, as soon as possible, get this money away from me. don't even save enough for cigarettes. i can find money for cigarettes, somehow i can always find money for cigarettes. cigarette money is a weird magical fake money i summon from dark corners whenever i run out of cigarettes. i don't know how it works either. i've tried to summon the cigarette money for things that aren't cigarettes and it never works. just get this out of my bank account. get it out of here before something notices there's money here.

anyway i'm working on it but god it's hard

[leonardcohenofficial]

if you wear/don’t wear makeup for other reasons, feel free to put your explanation in the tags!

[goon]

[dailymanners]

Always use "excuse me" if you have to get into someone else's personal space.

Someone at the store is standing in front of the shelf where there's a can you want to grab? Don't just reach into their personal space without warning, say "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" first so that they at least have a warning that someone is about to reach into their personal space, and most importantly, so that they have a chance to move before you get into their space.

Or if someone is standing on a walkway or in a doorway you need to get through, don't just silently shove past them or squeeze past them, say "excuse me" so that they have a warning that a someone is about to squeeze or shove into their personal space, and they have a chance to move out of the way before you do you.

People deserve a fair warning if someone is about to squeeze or shove or reach into their personal space. A lot of people are not okay with having someone, but especially a stranger, randomly shove or squeeze or reach into their personal space without warning. They also deserve a chance to move out of the way first for the sake of their comfort.

Try to avoid just staring at people who are in your way and expecting them to read your mind that you want them to move. Most people cannot, in fact, read minds, so having someone stand in front of them and stare at them often only leads to making them feel uncomfortable and frustrated.

But also more importantly, if you are standing somewhere someone needs to get to, and they say excuse me, you should move aside for them even if just temporarily, so they can avoid the discomfort of having to reach into your personal space or squeeze past you.

If someone is saying "excuse me" it's because they would like you to move because they don't want to have to get into your personal space, whether it's out of respect for you, or just because they themselves are not comfortable getting in your personal space.

All of this goes double for people with trauma and/or people who are neurodivergent. If someone has trauma related to abuse or assault they may find it more upsetting or possibly triggering to suddenly have someone shoving or reaching in their personal space without warning.

Or, many types of neurodivergence can make it especially disturbing and unpleasant to have someone else in your personal space, especially without warning.

You can never be 100% sure who is and isn't traumatized and/or neurodivergent, so always practice respecting other's personal space by giving them a fair warning with "excuse me" or "pardon my reach" before getting in their personal space, and moving aside when you hear those magic words. Or, even if someone isn't traumatized nor neurodivergent, it's still fair to not like someone in your personal space without warning and not being given the opportunity to move first.

[aelric]

obsessed with this image

[queenoftheantz]

hi yes hello a friend gave my baldurs gate 3 for my birthday and is now painstakingly teaching me how to use the controls

Meet my little cosmic horror protagonist Luvtröja!! They are just a little guy!! They like sitting in chairs :]

[liesmyth]

from the aptly titled Biden’s Increasingly Contradictory Israel Policy by Isaac Chotiner, for The New Yorker