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“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment, [but] it’s hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the art of storytelling […]. Our various fictional worlds are—on the whole—horrorscapes. Fiction may temporarily free us from our troubles, but it does so by ensnaring us in new sets of troubles—in imaginary worlds of struggle and stress and mortal woe. […] [This paradox] was first noticed by Aristotle in the Poetics. We are drawn to fiction because fiction gives us pleasure. But most of what is actually in fiction is deeply unpleasant: threat, death, despair, anxiety, Sturm und Drang. […] Literature offers feelings for which we don’t have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve.”

— Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via exhaled-spirals)

#words #jonathan gottschall #reading

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White Oleander, Janet Fitch

#words #janet fitch

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Some of these books will be unhauled as I strive to have only books I am proud of/want to hug/reread.

#books

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Absolutely hilarious to me that the ton is gonna be speculating on why and how Penelope and Colin ended up engaged and there’s definitely gonna be some entrapment/pity rumours going around but the actual truth of it is that Colin chased a carriage down, fell to his knees and went “please please please please please please please”

#! #bridgerton #polin #text

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#of course they are friends

#bridgerton #mythology #they really gave cressida the best line of the season huh #also: colin gifting gregory with the arrow (and then gregory pointing it at him!)

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BRIDGERTON 3.02 | How Bright the Moon

#i'm yelling! #the lore??? #i can't believe they gave us this!!! #bridgerton #polin

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Violet Bridgerton is truly gods strongest soldier. Every season she tells one of her children they're in love and every season they scoff in her face before causing seven different scandals to reach the same conclusion.

#no truly djafjdsajfd #bridgerton #text

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#you know it's serious when they pull that face

#bridgerton #we love to see it!

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penelope is a better woman than me, i would’ve lied and said i got engaged just to see if colin would cry

#text #bridgerton #polin #no literally me jsajfdsajdfj

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polin + tweets

#bridgerton #polin

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Bridgerton 3x03 "Forces of Nature"

Colin's Dream

#video #bridgerton #polin #the fact that this is HIS dream!!!! #he dreams about confessing to her!!!!

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#bridgerton #polin #video #this made me tear up!!! #nicola coughlan the woman that u are... #also the 'thank you' and then running away? comedic genius!

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Could the carriage driver not keep on driving?

#bridgerton #polin #their laughs!!! #they're best friends!!! #best friends in love!!!

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These past few weeks have been full of confounding feelings. Feelings like a total inability to stop thinking about you. About that kiss. Feelings like dreaming of you when I'm asleep. And in fact preferring sleep because that is where I might find you. A feeling that is like torture. But one which I cannot, will not, do not want to give up.

Literally one hot carriage hookup and five minutes later:

#bridgerton #polin #THEM!!!!!!! #that final line!!!!! they did that for me!!!! #god. i'm so so so glad they included that!!! literally iconic

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Bridgerton 3x04 "Old Friends"

Polin Carriage Scene

#video #bridgerton #polin #ICONIC!!!

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And no I don’t think love ever leaves because it’s been eight years since my dad died and he is in every thought and hope and dream. and when I think I can’t fix the computer he is here. and when I eat chocolate cake he is here. and when the sun glows at 3pm he is here. and he will always be here because his life made mine, and my life will be his epilogue

#text #a lovers discourse #!

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“Love Affair That Is the Walk Home” by Jill Osier

#words #jill osier #!!! #oooof. #a lovers discourse