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everytime i kill a bug in my house i think of nikki giovanni’s “allowables”

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i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

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is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken

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your life is not an optimization problem

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what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

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one thing i think is so Neat about atla is how all the main bender characters have an arc that corresponds to their "opposite" element. zuko's arc is about the capacity to change yourself and your worldview, and the culmination of his arc is learning a move inspired by waterbending. katara is all about passion and drive, wanting to become a great waterbender and fight for what she believes in, and over the course of the show she comes into her power. toph's arc involves getting free of her restrictive family and connecting with a community, and aang's arc is about learning to stand fast in his beliefs and confront difficult issues head-on. it's a beautiful bit of symmetry that reinforces the show's point about the illusion of separation

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being a fan of a female fictional character is like yes im in love with her soulfully and carnally but i am ALSO her defence attorney her ambassador her pr manager her representative her missionary her right hand arm man her silly rabbit. her scholar her explainer the last man standing in her army. phd in explaining her nuance and depth priesthood in her church. could i be talking about other things?? move on?? maybe!!! were i not the animated suit of armor in her temple bound to protect her for eternity

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To The People I Pass On The Train At Night - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

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imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

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No Gain No Love is actually one of the best dramas I've watched in a long fucking time and I am so shocked that more people aren't watching it and talking about it

The female lead is an older woman (in that she's older than her love interest and most of your run of the mill female leads who are young and naive and inexperienced) who prioritises money and her career over all else and the show goes out of its way to show us how these traits make her seem unlikeable to the society she exists in while also doubling down and using those very traits to endear her to the audience

They're literally like "look at this woman she's self-centred she cares too much about her career she's too obsessed with money it makes people dislike her bc she seems cold and calculating but being cold and calculating never stops her from caring for and understanding the people around her isn't she so cool and misunderstood don't you just love her don't her flaws make her so much more intriguing and relatable look at her she's incredible"

It's just???? So rare and awesome for a show to do shit like this I love it so fucking much

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"so you meant for the comments to be hurtful but not fatal?"

it's such a specific way to frame hate comments, i'm obsessed with it. no bc, truly, how do those people justify asking someone to kill themselves in their comments? just a casual kys bc they wrote something you didn't like? what do they want to accomplish? i mean, i get the bashing, the puritanism, the pearl-clutching (i hate it, but i get it) but the casual kys comment? those make me question if people have forgotten there's other people on the other side.

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NO GAIN, NO LOVE 손해 보기 싫어서 — 2024, dir. Kim Jung Shik   

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A handwritten apology letter won't excuse you from trying to kill me with those hate comments. I didn't write them with such malice. So you meant for the comments to be hurtful, not fatal? Am I supposed to respect your intent and forgive you while licking my wounds? Don't send me apology letters. I have no intention of forgiving you, or settling.

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Is Ahn Woo Jae why you can't and don't want to reveal that I'm your husband?

NO GAIN NO LOVE - EPISODE 5

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I don't know my father. According to my grandmother, he was an asshole who couldn't even claim his own child. My birth itself ruined my mother's life and deeply hurt my grandmother.

NO GAIN NO LOVE - EPISODE 6

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I run my own business, so having a record won't affect me. But you two are employees. Do you think your company will let it slide?

No Gain, No Love 손해 보기 싫어서 (2024)

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Jeez. Why did he have to hit your face? He's worse off than I am. You can't compare your face and his ugly mug!

NO GAIN NO LOVE (2024)