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i think we need to bring back calling people internet famous instead of calling them influencers like there needs to be something borderline derogatory injected back into it

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I am gently taking your hands and begging you, BEGGING YOU, to understand that humans are not inherently harmful to the planet. We are animals who are part of the ecosystem. We belong here. This is our home. We belong here. You belong here. Yes, you belong here.

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me: i really dont get why non-floridians lose their fucking shit when they see a beach. it’s just sand and water. who gives a fuck

also me: *sees one (1) mountain* ohohohoohohohohoh holy SHIT holy fuck that’s a big fuCKING ROCK

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NOOOO BC we all know how Jesse likes to be reckless and fall out of trees and stuff. And yes he’s immortal but that’s eventually gonna grade on him….so he gets a CRUTCH

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btw hugo had a brief hyperfix in flower language and he would infodump to winnie about crimes with the made daisy chains in a field together

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Tbh I think my fae awakening mightve been a very different experience if my last highschool musical had been anything other than Tuck Everlasting.

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Tuck Everlasting is Cottagecore, I will die on this hill

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Rip Jesse Tuck, you would’ve love—oh wait

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i feel like newsies fans and tuck everlasting fans are a similar species.

probably because of AKB but i mean

I can say this because I am a fan of both

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Jesse Tuck, Peter Pan, and Jack Frost would be BESTIES i tell you

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no but the thing is you dont understand-

🎶ITS A WHEEEEEEEEEEEL WINNIE

A RIPPLE IN WATER🎶

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of course jesse tuck supports unions, he was in the newsies strike of 1899

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Despite the risk of having a seemingly controversial take, I need to go off for a second about a classic children’s novel from the 70s.

I am so tired of seeing people claiming that the relationship between Winnie and Jesse in “Tuck Everlasting” is pedophilic or grooming and that therefore the book is terrible.

First of all, Winnie and Jesse do NOT have a romantic relationship. People like to cite Jesse asking Winnie to grow up, drink the water, and marry him as evidence that it is, but ignore that actual significance of that moment, what it truly means to the characters, and the fact that it is the only thing with a supposedly romantic connection that occurs between them. Jesse does not want a wife, he wants a companion. He has been alone and immortal for nearly a century, with no one to confide in or experience life with. Winnie is the first friend he has ever had, and he doesn’t want to let her go because of that. Because he was born in the late 18th century, he has no idea how to have a platonic companionate relationship with a girl (and honestly, in 1880, Winnie probably wouldn’t know how to have one with a boy) so his only understanding of how to keep Winnie with him is by marrying her. He does not attempt anything romantic or sexual with her otherwise. And he doesn’t force marriage on her or try to convince her in any underhanded way, he simply gives her the water and gives her the option to drink it once she turns seventeen. He literally wants her to grow up and become what he perceives as his age before they get married; he does not want to be in an age gap relationship. And it doesn’t even happen; Winnie grows up, never drinks the water, and marries a boy her own age.

Also, even if this is a weird thing for Jesse to suggest (and I agree, it is, especially in modern understanding) that does not ruin the book. It is a brief plot point used to allow Winnie to debate the choice between immortality and mortality; the entire point of the book. Just because a book contains an element that you personally find distasteful does not mean it has no literary value, and to claim so is puritanical, conservative thinking.

I blame the 2002 movie adaptation for giving people the idea that Jesse was in love with or groomed Winnie. In neither original book nor the musical adaptation (which is SO good btw) does their relationship become anything resembling romantic. They are friends. They are both others first friend, and that can, and does, mean so much more.

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ngl the storyline of tuck everlasting is beautiful and i love the whole 'you cant have living without dying so you cant call this living' shtick

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but that is to say, if i were good girl winnie foster living in treegap new hampshire and jesse tuck told me he'd be my partner in crime and we could travel the world together....

*deep breath*

id drink the fucking water

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Sometimes I rewatch the Tuck Everlasting musical just to feel something. Everyone who enjoys musical theatre should be required to watch it at least once

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jesse tuck what are you doing in newsies