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SPOILERS AHEAD!

I knew that Kate and Toby were going to break up for a long time. The hints were there. The clearest one being that Thanksgiving episode with the flash forward to Kate signing with her maiden name, while Toby was being sus during the present day about his CrossFit group. I think that the writers had originally planned for them to separate during the fifth season, but the pandemic happened, and they may have thought it would have been too much.

Toby and Kate love each other, but their love has been deteriorating slowly over time in subtle and in not so subtle ways. And what I have noticed is that even though Toby loves Kate, he thinks he's the only one struggling, and that he's justified to not deal with it. We saw it when he avoided being home to be with Jack. We saw it with the job loss, and not wanting to stay with the kids. (And I am sure I am missing things) The problem with this is that there's a pattern of him not thinking "Huh, this must be hard for her too," but it is covered up with reasonable justifications, like I don't want to be sad and the pandemic has been very hard.

What may end up happening with them is that Toby will stay in San Fran because it is easier than deal with what's at home, which seems very logical when a man who has a tendency to avoid and run away is taking a job that would make his relationship long distance. What will be at home? I don't know, but having two very young kids would send anybody running, but devoted parents sit in between the poop and the broken crayons and deal with it anyway.

On the other hand, Kate is on a blossoming journey right now. She finally confronted and dealt with the feelings from her past ab*sive relationship. She has found a fulfilling job that she's absolutely perfect for. She's very far from that Kate we met in the first season; she has grown so much. He may not like the change in dynamic, which we saw glimmers of this past season.

Then, there's the other shocker—Madison and Kevin. Kevin gives his all to everything he does, but he doesn't wonder about his feelings until someone asks him, because he can be selfless to a fault. He is still in this journey where he is learning to take care of himself because the only times he is selfish is when he's also being self-destructive. He had to learn this lesson that sometimes doing the "wrong" thing is what's best; in this case the "right" being was that you marry the girl you knock up. I also think that he will fall in love with construction, specially since we know his acting career is doing not too well right now. That will also bring him closer to his father, and I can't wait to watch that journey.

And Madison! I have fallen in love with her character. She also needed to finally realize that she is so worthy of being loved, and that she shouldn't settle for scraps of love. She deserves so much more than that! Her and Kevin are fantastic together, and I do think Kevin was right, and their love will grow. However, we will find out if it grows platonically or romantically. If it is romantically, I hope Kevin learns to say that he wants to watch that steamy Bridgerton episode and get the pizza he wants, instead of caving in every time to what others want, and I hope Madison feels wildly and magically loved. I was a little sad when they broke up, but the lessons are far more important for them. It could be a story of growing love, or a story of the best co-parents ever, based on the flash forward we got in the S5 finale.

I think the writers could do a comparison between Kate and Toby co-parenting, making their already fragile relationship more fraught, and Kevin and Madison co-parenting, bringing them closer despite the delicate situation.

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“I think looking back in my career, there have been so many different musical phases and different things I wanted to wear at different times and they fit my life at the time. And so I think you’ve got to allow yourself that grace, to put on a certain lifestyle or certain outfit or certain creative mantra and then discard it when you outgrow it. This was weird because evermore was the first time I didn’t discard everything after I made something new. It was weird. I had to fight off anxiety I had in my head, like fear, that was like, ‘You need to change.’ Like the demons are here, you need to change, you can’t stay in the forest! I was like, 'I wanna stay in the forest!’”

— Taylor to Zane Lowe on the dysfunction between the nature of celebrity and the need to create (x)

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“I liked opening the album with [willow] because I loved the feeling I got immediately upon hearing instrumental Aaron created for it. It felt strangely, I say witchy and I stand by that. It felt like somebody standing over a potion, making a love potion, dreaming up the person they want, and the person they desire, and trying to figure out how to get that person in their life. And all the misdirection, the bait and switch, the complexity in seeing someone and in feeling that connection and in wanting and trying to make them a part of their life. It’s tactical at times, it’s confusing at times, it’s up to fate, it’s magical. […] It felt a bit magical and mysterious, which is what I wanted people to feel going into this album that was a collection of these stories that would take them in all kinds of direction. To start them with a setting of the vibe. But what you say about closure is really profound. With folklore, one of the main themes of that was conflict resolution, like trying to figure out getting through something with someone and trying to tell them something, and making confessions, and communication. evermore deals a lot in endings in all sorts, and shapes, and sizes, and in all the kinds of ways we can end a relationship or a friendship or something toxic and the pain that goes along with that the phases, and so its cool you noticed that.”

— Taylor to Zane Lowe on willow and the differences between evermore and folklore (x)

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“We know that for every “issue” book, we need at least five more where we can go on adventures, fall in love, solve mysteries, be heroes, do everyday things like everyone else. Black readers need to see themselves in narratives outside of racism, slavery, Jim Crow, police brutality. As do non-Black readers. In order to create a safe world for Black people, books that don’t focus on “issues” need to be given just as much space. They provide an opportunity for Black readers to have a moment for themselves, to take a breath, readjust, and simply exist, and for non-Black readers to see us as fully human.”

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L.L. McKinney

The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain

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It’s quiet uptown more like I’m crying uptown

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King Georges: i'm so bluuuue

*smashes foot on the ground*

*lights become blue*

Me: *dies*

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#midnight sun #twilight

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Me: an adult who has surpassed the twilight era and has long given up hope for Midnight sun

Stephanie Meyer: Look at this countdown that could be about literally anything

Me: ITS MIDNIGHT SUN. LET IT BE MIDNIGHT SUN OR LET IT BE NOTHING.

#stephenie meyer #twilight #midnight sun

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cordelia to james: would you like to stay for dinner?

sona, from inside the house: WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?

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Me before Chain of Gold: There is no way I’ll ever like Alastair Carstairs

Me after Chain of Gold: Damn this boy is really gonna have one of the best character arcs/redemptions of the whole Shadowhunter Chronicles

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James being a Herondale.

#william herondale #james herondale #chain of gold

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The best part of Jane the Virgin Season 5 is Petra and Jane’s friendship. They’re sisters now. 

#jane the virgin #season 5 jtv

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@ everyone who is upset and/or confused at why the NK was, in fact, *not* the Big Bad….. this show is called Game of Thrones y'all.. Like yeah the ice zombies were a whole lotta yikes, but the show is a fantasy drama aka it’s about human relationships and politics just happens to be a big part of that aspect here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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That was possibly the most stressful hour and a half of television I’ve ever watched.

But they pulled it off.

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I still can’t believe what happened.

Like…. what the fuck they gonna do now with just THREE DAMN EPISODES LEFT?!?!?!

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GOT Spoilers

Or not really.

Jon Snow is the only reason that there was an army ready to fight the Night King. He discovered that valyrian steel can destroy a white walkers, ordered the mining of dragon glass to build weapons and convinced Dany to join the fight. He did this basically alone because the other were focused only in politics.

If there is even a battle of Winterfell is because of him, otherwise it would be Winterfell (or Westeros) massacre.