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Anemic bitches RISE!!! But not too fast

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self discipline is so hard like. i know the sucker who's in charge...a pushover who hates authority and loves hedonism

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maintaining friendships as an adult be like

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I love how anti-vaxx don't seem to understand that the body reacting to a virus is what the fucking body does naturally when a foreign microbiological agent is injected into the body.

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what is university if not *puts off task because it feels overwhelming* *sits still doing nothing for 2 days paralyzed with anxiety* *finally completes task and it takes literally 20 minutes* *does it all over again the next day*

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avril lavigne was right. what the hell

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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The glorification of an unhealthy work/life balance is robbing us of ouf time. ⏰

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it's a classic scam. you buy cheap ingredients, renovate them using heat and other ingredients and flip em. by the time the cops catch up you've moved on to another dish

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casual intimacy kills me every time. grand gestures are cute and all but seeing two people who are just totally comfortable with having each other in their space, who dont think twice about leaning into each other and thoughtlessly holding each other while doing unrelated things….. thats love

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BIRDS: EXPOSED

SERATONIN: RISING

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Jane Austen Film and TV Adaptations

Sense and Sensibility 

Sense and Sensibility (1995) dir. Ang Lee is a classic adaptation that still holds up. The BBC adaptation (2008) has some excellent casting, but doesn’t work quite as well. 

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright is a beautiful movie, and it does a good job capturing the spirit of the story. The 6-part BBC Pride and Prejudice (1995) is a fuller adaptation of the text and Jennifer Ehle is a charming Elizabeth. Bride and Prejudice (2004) is a fun Bollywood take on the story, even though it has a very wooden Mr. Darcy. 

Mansfield Park 

Mansfield Park (1999) dir. Patricia Rozema makes changes to Fanny’s personality and adds serious consideration of slavery to the plot. It’s an excellent movie, with a wonderful soundtrack, but not a perfect adaptation. The BBC adaptation (2007) with Billie Piper is more true to the text and also enjoyable. 

Emma

The new Emma (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde isn’t my cup of tea, and it takes some serious thematic liberties with the text. That being said, it is gorgeous to look at. Emma (1996) with Gwenyth Paltrow is a classic adaptation of the text, though nothing special. My favorite by far is the BBC adaptation (2009) with the very charming Romola Garai bringing a lot of sympathy to the role. Also, I would be remiss if I didn’t list Clueless (1995) as a fun take on the story. 

Northanger Abbey 

I’ve only ever seen one adaptation of Northanger Abbey (perhaps a reflection on the book’s relative popularity). However, it is a charming one (2007). A young Felicity Jones and J.J. Feild have a sweet chemistry that makes the relationship sparkle in a way that it doesn’t necessarily do in the book. 

Persuasion 

There have been two BBC adaptations (1995) and (2007). The first is a solid adaptation of the text, in the same vein as the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. The second, with Sally Hawkins, takes more liberties with the story but is terribly romantic. I would love to see a newer adaptation in the works. 

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Just ADHD things

Huh?

Foot wiggle foot wiggle foot wiggle

Where did I put the- oh got it.

Clenching your jaw

There's 23 songs, 12 vines/tiktoks, a television line, and a dial-up noise all in my head at the same time

D I S S O C I A T E

Are you going somewhere?

What was I doing?

Ooop bad noise don't like that noise

Simultaneously recite Shakespeare and stare blankly at the wall

Stare blankly at the wall

COLLECT THE THINGS

I've repeated the same movement twelve times because it somehow brings me comfort

Blankets blankets blankets BlAnKeTs

I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you-

Nod and smile

Cry at the sight of a stack of papers

I don't see it, it no longer exists

I'm looking right at it, it somehow STILL doesn't exist

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Thunder and Lightning

Summary: With the war declared over, the paladins decide to take a much deserved vacation. And since Keith has nowhere to go, Lance decides to bring him along to meet the McClains. While Lance is thrilled to be home, he carries a lot of baggage these days, which makes it hard to fit back in. Time changes a person and Lance finds that even though he’s finally getting everything he thought he needed to be happy, the only person he’d ever truly found “home” with had been fighting beside him the whole time.

Chapter 9 

“I’m not, like, interested in you… like that.”

Lying in bed, sheets tangled around his legs, Keith stared up at the ceiling and mindlessly allowed Lance’s words to strangle his thoughts.

“—it’s not like—like I want to marry you or something—”

Swallowing hard, he blinked against the emotion that was swelling behind his eyes. He shouldn’t be surprised at Lance’s words, really. If he’d been at all interested in Keith “like that,” he’d have said something a long time ago. Which Keith had always kind of known. They’d never talked about such things before, despite how close they were, so he’d allowed the hope to fester despite actively pushing against it. Despite talking himself out of it and constantly telling himself it was never going to happen, he’d always thought, maybe, someday…

He’d been kidding himself.

His whole body throbbed around him, feeling like a heavy, exposed nerve atop the mattress. A single tear escaped and streaked its way down the side of his face.

Lance had said it himself, that he wanted to find someone, to get married, to have kids. To create a perfect future. Keith had always known that Lance wanted these things, even if they’d rarely talked outright about it. What an idiot he’d been, thinking that somehow, some way, maybe he’d end up being Lance’s future someone. That in some miraculous deviation from everything they’d ever been, suddenly, Lance would want him in a way he never had before.

Truth be told, Keith had never cared what that meant—what defined Lance’s future “someone.” Sure, Lance talked about marriage and kids and whatever, but Keith had always figured that if he could somehow fill that role, he’d take anything. Deluded himself, even, into thinking that maybe he and Lance already had that significance with each other, they’d just never transparently discussed it. Even though Keith had heard Lance on multiple occasions talk about wanting more. More than what they had—more than what he wanted from Keith.

What a joke. He should have known better. Somehow, he’d become comfortable in the quiet, unacknowledged falsity of his and Lance’s relationship. He’d convinced himself against every reality that proved otherwise that he and Lance’s relationship was different, that it was okay they weren’t direct or forthright, because they had something deeper—something more profound. He knew better now, of course. He’d learned over the years that, generally, people, things, situations, they were obvious in their truths no matter what was said or done. If someone was shifty, then they were probably lying about something. If something was too good to be true, then it usually was. If there was a crack, then a break was inevitable.

Stupid. So stupid.

Falling in love with Lance… He was getting his just desserts now. Years he’d willingly lied to himself. Known he’d been doing it, but gone ahead anyway.

Pathetic.

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