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“The French called this time of day ‘l’heure bleue.’ To the English it was ‘the gloaming.’ The very word ‘gloaming’ reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.”

— Joan Didion, Blue Nights

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i got that dog in me

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on a whim picked up emily ratajkowski's book of essays because i had liked her new yorker essay in 2020. Finished it yesterday and today i'm still trying to shake off the gross, slimy feeling of being submerged in her POV for so long. Like, she's so obsessed with her own suffering to the point where it's a parody!!!! she has NO thoughts for the interiority of other women!!! she doesn't do or say a single thing that made life better for any woman other than herself!!! like girl!!!!

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Does anyone have recs for a no skip album? 🎶Feel like I need some fresh music in my life

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Having experienced a lot of it in my 20s, I think some of the worst, pettiest, most straight up this-is-just-bullying-you're-passing-off-as-praxis incidences of Queer Infighting endemic to young people can be best understood as attempts to exercise power by people with very little power.

Like you're 22, you're queer, you've just become a Marxist, the scope of World Suck is overwhelming and you have $30 in your bank account. What can you do to feel like you have any power? Well, you can try to get your frenemy cancelled for cosplaying a character from a problematic show. You can write a public callout post over someone's obviously friendly use of a slur you don't think they technically have the right to reclaim. Doing this stuff can make you feel like you have power and your actions have an impact. Unfortunately the impact in question is a negative impact on other marginalized people. But that often takes some maturity and self-reflection to notice.

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ah. i see you've already met my esteemed weed butlers, jointsworth and bluntsworth

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if you think about men when you’re on your own and want to have a wank, then you’ve got an interest in men which is homosexual.

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its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍

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everyone deserves, at least once in their life, to read a book that feels like it was written exactly, specifically for you

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Part of getting older is realizing how absolutely insane it is that basically every form of media is constantly trying to convince us that the most interesting moments of the lived human experience are happening in HIGH SCHOOL…… girl who gives a flying fuck what 16 year olds are doing.

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(Pre)Meditation - II

part i here

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“Guillam drove languidly but fast. Smells of autumn filled the air. A full moon was shining. Strands of mist hung over open fields and the cold was irresistible. Smiley wondered how old Guillam was and guessed forty, but in that light he could have been an undergraduate sculling on the river. He moved the gear lever with a long flowing movement as if he were passing it through water. In any case, Smiley thought irritably, the car was far too young for Guillam.”

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John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (via cinemaocd)

#god this scene is so romantic

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if i can (with a lot of love) offer one teeny tiny (it's soooo small) critique to the (lovely) RPF writers out there, it's that rich people (and especially rich celebs) don't live like normal people. Like you guys don't have enough assistants floating around in the background. There should always be a minimum of one assistant floating around in the background

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I've just been informed that LCD Soundsystem is also playing on Aug 22 🫠

partner in emotional shambles because he's missing Nine Inch Nails playing in Toronto....they're playing on Aug 23, literally the night before the 2 Oasis nights on the 24 and 25. Wondering how financially irresponsible is TOO irresponsible🤔

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partner in emotional shambles because he's missing Nine Inch Nails playing in Toronto....they're playing on Aug 23, literally the night before the 2 Oasis nights on the 24 and 25. Wondering how financially irresponsible is TOO irresponsible🤔

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Between interview with the vampire filming in Toronto, oasis reunion tour playing in Toronto, and all the hockey players coming in and out of Toronto....Im afraid Toronto is the RPF centre of the world this summer