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I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

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x / raymond carver

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“I bought the book you were talking about” is a love language

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late rainy nights

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"I'm glad you're not too clever"

Over the Town‘街の上で’ Directed by Rikiya Imaizumi (2019)

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I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

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I feel this sooooo much. Same. But even after just a small encounter with an author. 😅

After a huge summer reading event

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just a little body talk comic.

i have so many more opinions about this topic than can fit in a tiny, nine panel comic.

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Webb captures Jupiter's faint rings, auroras & hazes

l composite from its NIRCam instrument(x)

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Hunger (คนหิว เกมกระหาย), Sitisiri Mongkolsiri (2023)

Quote on the movie stills:

“What you eat represents your social satuts. It has nothing to do with love. The poor eat simply to satisfy their hunger. But when you have more than enough to eat, your hunger doesn’t end.”

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"Kill Boksoon", Byun Sung-hyun (2023)

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shoutout to people who lay in bed all day when they get home from work/school, people who can't go to loud or crowded places or concerts, people who change into pajamas because other clothes are uncomfortable, people who can't consistently participate in hobbies, people who have to turn down hanging out with friends, people who have lowered their standards to improve themselves, people who need affirmations, and people who struggle to stay healthy. you deserve so much love and I hope things get better.

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Tumblr, can you do your magic and find me this dress I fell in love with in the 4th part of Midnight Museum episode 5 pretty please?

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“My Blueberry Nights”, Wong Kar-wai’s coffee-shop AU with Jude Law/Norah Jones as pairing

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“Happy Togerther”, Wong Kar-wai (1997)