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BEGGING Zillow to add a comment section.

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The comments on a LinkedIn post sound exactly the same as mandatory discussion posts in online classes.

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The Serena Joy Waterford character arc is going to slam face-first into Hannah Pearl Davis.

#the handmaid's tale #serena joy #serena joy waterford #hannah pearl davis

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Dragons are basically fish, when you get down to it.

There’s no such thing as fish. The word doesn’t have any taxonomic meaning. It’s a word we’ve used to describe everything from hagfish to goldfish, even though a coelacanth is more closely related to a camel than a salmon. But because they inhabit the same ecological niche of “vertebrate animal with gills and fins,” we call them all fish.

Likewise, there’s no such thing as dragons. We call anything that fills the mytho-ecological niche of “dangerous animal that blocks the way” a dragon. And that’s why any kind of argument of what does and doesn’t count as a dragon is moot — wyverns are dragons just as much as a jabberwock or a jaculus or a tatzelwurm, not because they’re closely related in a biological clade but because they fill a narrative niche.

Dragons are also lobsters, but that’s for unrelated reasons.

#Dragons #Fish #Someone explain how dragons are lobsters

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Relationships involve an inherit value exchange. Ideally this is a healthy, somewhat equal give-and-take.

But if you grew up as a girl with conservative/Christian/'traditional values' parents you were taught that the value exchange is meant to be a sacrifice on your part. And then, to complete this cycle, you're taught that sacrifice is righteous.

Now, even when that exchange fails you - when your alone, bereft of what brought you joy, and struggling - you hold your self-righteousness up as a shield because even though your whole life plan failed, you did the right thing by making those sacrifices.

“When the handle has snapped off the basket that held all your eggs…” gone girl tier monologue

#don't give up important parts of yourself or your freedom for someone not exchanging something of equal value #How a Karen is made #misery loves company and will drag down everyone around #This is how bitterness is born #tiktok

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All of this. #WGAStrong

#wga #wga strike

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It shouldn’t be surprising that writers have some of the best strike signs in existence

#wga #wga strike

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I might not get a lot of the symbolism in station 11 but clark not wanting the travelling symphony to do hamlet in fear of the teenagers under his power seeing the play and relating to hamlet and his attitude towards power is probably my favorite shakespeare parallel from the entire show. this show gets it.

#station 11

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Watching Erin Benzakein lovingly boop her favorite Zinnias is healing for the soul.

#growing floret #floret flowers #erin benzakein

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maybe if I keep telling the story, it will never have to end. that way I can keep you alive. If the story lasts forever, so will you. yes, you die in the end. yes I am the only one who remembers. yes I am the only one who knows. But if I never say it aloud, maybe you won't die. maybe this time orpheus won't turn around. maybe peter won't deny him. maybe when I reach the end, you will have had time to come up with a clever solution and escape. maybe this time we survive it together. and the next time, you can tell this story with me. maybe everyone survives and we don't have to tell the story at all. maybe they don't. if I never finish, I'll never have to know. let me speak for a little bit longer. let me live in a world that you are also in for just a moment more. sometimes your memory feels like a noose. I'm sorry. I'm not ready for you to die

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Scrapped review of Luckiest Girl Alive

Set aside an entire afternoon so Mila Kunis can reach through your ribs and squeeze your heart until you can't breath, all while your eyes can't leave Netflix. Use the time after the movie to emotionally recover.

Whatch Ani transform her spinout into a precision landing.

#luckiest girl alive #mila kunis #netflix #scrapped reviews

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Review of The Batman:

This version of Batman is exactly what you'd imagine if someone told you an emotionally unstable orphan dressed up in an animal costume to fight crime.

#the batman #robert pattinson #scrapped reviews

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I want to understand how a novel which I enjoyed, but largely forgot, has become a show that made me weep openly, and that I haven’t been able to get off my mind. Somerville’s adaptation doesn’t just change the original; it has a radically different philosophy of art. Station Eleven was a novel about the persistence of art — about the “classics” that continue to illuminate the human condition, no matter what happens to our society — but the substance of Patrick Somerville’s vision turns out to be “adaptation” itself. The show is about how art must be transformed as the world changes, how it must grow and change if humanity is to survive. You might even say that it’s about how, in 2021, we need a different Station Eleven than we did in 2014.

Most of all, it’s about the hope that people are basically good, that trauma is survivable, and that any stranger — no matter how lost or wild — can be made into a friend.

This shift is refreshing, since most post-apocalyptic stories feel like fictionalized prepper manuals, filled with strangers trying to kill you and take your stuff. To survive, you must bug out, build a fortress, and defend it. Zombie stories particularly tend to be Hobbesian parables about the war of all against all that begins once society falls, with its walls, cops, and dads. In such a world, not dissimilar from the fantasy world of Fox News, strangers are the danger: outsiders must be kept out and the kids must be kept in, for their safety. If you see a zombie — even if it used to be someone you love — you must shoot it in the head.

In Somerville’s Station Eleven, the dangerous thing is being alone. What, after all, is a “stranger” in a world when everyone you knew and trusted is dead?

https://www.gawker.com/culture/hbos-station-eleven-surpasses-the-book

#station 11

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Scrapped review of "Don't Worry Darling"

Would you like your next episode of Black Mirror to be 2.5 hours long metaphor about mysogyny and feature both a pin perfect retro aesthetic and Florence Pugh?

Then get ready for a compelling, edge-of-your-seat two hours and ten minutes of "what the fuck did I just watch?" Followed by a dissappointing 15 minutes of "what the fuck did I just watch?"

#Don't worry darling #Florence Pugh #Harry Styles #scrapped reviews

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Scrapped review of "Baby J" on Netflix

Jon Mulaney, who aged ten years during the pandemic, appears in cheerful berry-colored suit and with the exhausted ('experienced') soul of a man nearing retirement.

With the easy tone of someone who finds humor in everything, Jon Mulaney's audience enters the close-knit world of comedien interventions, drug-stuffed winter parkas, and a retelling of the kind of drama

The humor edges between milleniel and boomer-commenting-on-a-little-league-game

Mulaney managed to retain his squeaky choir boy persona for years despite repeatedly, and in detail, describing substance abuse problems going back to hus school days.

Celebrity rehab story time with John Mulany, who's characaturization of New Yorkers has grown more subtle but no less impressive.

But don't let the heavy content get you down though!

You won't be laughing out loud, but you will be well entertained

#scrapped reviews #John Mulaney #Baby J #Netflix #Probably the last thing I watch on Netflix

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Life would be infinitely more hilarious if Zillow had a comment section.

#Zillow