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oh my god. i just spent all day on email proctoring an online exam and handling student problems....one of which caused me to forget my frozen pizza in the oven and it burned. eating some ben and jerry's chocolate therapy and then going to bed. it's been a long fucking day mentally and emotionally

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it really is insane to me how in the mid 2010s netflix had a reputation of making cool, inclusive series as well as saving tv shows after their networks cancelled them, and now here we are today with every halfway decent netflix original show getting cancelled after 1-2 seasons and a bajillion episodes of bigmouth

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#i miss my boys :(

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A content ending to a day of running an inn worse than anyone has ever ran an inn before.

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WOAH just saw spiderman eating pizza on a roof

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it’s so weird to me how there’s cliques and hierarchies within fandom spaces these days like. we’re all just fucking nerds. how are you gonna try to be popular amongst the nerds. how are you going to feel superior over your fellow nerds. at the end of the day you’re still a fucking nerd bestie

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In the kitchen straight up "chopping it". And by "it" haha well. Let justr say. My vegetble

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ed’s the kind of person who would carefully arrange the letters in alphabet soup to spell out “I LOVE YOU BABE” before setting the bowl down in front of stede

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Yeah so Our Flag Means Death is one of the best things I've watched in years. I finished it earlier in the week and I'm still fucking obsessed. It's just. I'm not sure how they manage to make it so vulnerable and meaningful and diverse without labouring it, without it being an afterthought or a "quota" (as the boomers say!) but everyone should be taking lessons in how to do it. It's so refreshing to see and so fucking good. Everything should be like this. The whole cast were brilliant (as I'm sure were the crew but obvs don't get to see all the great work they do!) and it was funny and touching and I'm obsessed with Ed and Stede and will be forever. Thank you goodnight.

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Source: Becoming Visible; An Illustrated History Of Lesbian And Gay Life In Twentieth-Century America- by Molly McGary and Fred Wasserman

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Just a dream and the wind to carry me

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[RUINING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT REAL] i am playing. With my touys

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#this is from 2017 btw

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It's true that Stede could never have been played by anyone other than Rhys, and Ed couldn't have been played by anyone other than Taika, but even more than that, Ed and Stede wouldn't have worked as well without both of them working together.

Yeah, Rhys is amazing at bringing a likeability and emotional weight to Stede, who could've easily been a very unlikable character. He's an amazingly physical actor and hits those dramatic beats so wonderfully. Taika Waititi, too, is honestly very underrated as an actor; his ability to hit those devastating lows of emotion just as well as the goofy silly moments is wonderful to watch. You can tell watching their performances that these are very important roles to both of them and they care about playing their characters.

But a big part of the reason OFMD works so well is because they're playing these roles together. They've been friends for many years, and they're clearly incredibly comfortable with each other and just enjoy being in each other's company. Rhys and Taika have both said that having each other on set made it so much easier for them to hit the really vulnerable beats, because they were there to support each other.

There's just something really fucking beautiful there. Ed and Stede's relationship is so believable because the guys playing them do love each other, even if it's a different kind of love. They just like being around each other and you can tell in everything from the little gestures to the glances to the way you can see sometimes that they're trying to make each other laugh. And, a lot of the time, this show is so fantastic because, as they've said, they made each other feel safe and supported on set.

No one else could've played Stede, and no one else could've played Ed. But, even more than that, nothing about this show would've been the same if it wasn't the two of them playing these roles with each other.

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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honestly I've had fixations on the tall goth/blond prep fanon couples for a few different fandoms (good omens, Sherlock which I'm gonna count for this lol sorry, etc) and always ended up fixating/projecting on the seemingly less-popular blond prep one. And something OFMD s2 did which was absolutely groundbreaking for me personally was to shift my focus to the other half of the couple for once.

Like, I'm a Stede Girly. Post s1 he was my main blorbo, the one I put in whump situations, the one I wanted to see hurt and comforted and wrote primarily about in character study fics. And after s2, I flipped. I'm still a Stede Guy but I became an Ed Guy too. S2e3 was the first time I started writing fic for ED-centric whump and comfort (would love to still post that some day) and now they share the title of Top Blorbo in my brain. It's incredible. Idk if this is just a Me thing with the focusing on 1 of the 2 main characters but the idea that a single new season made me love both of them equally is amazing to me. I'm still not even like that with GO!

No idea what the point of this post is I'm just rambling now lol

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My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.