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going thru mood swings makes me feel like a sim its so embarrassing

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I truly hope that i'm your guys' favorite fic-writer-turned-still-fic-writer-but-burnt-out-and-only-reblogs-memes tumblr blog

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I hate it when I talk wistfully about the ancient world and then people are like “you wouldn’t survive back then” yeah obviously I would die immediately but do you think achilles would be able to survive in the modern world if he had to send one polite email? no

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dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

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that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

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This is the only tiktok you’ll ever need, I’ve made about 13 of these and I’m not stopping anytime soon

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Past Lives works so well for me because I am so enamoured with pragmatism in fiction.

I read and watch a lot of stories about idealized love stories and I often enjoy them too! I spent my entire childhood believing that the teenagers who got together in the media I consumed would stay together forever. And then as I got older, I was naturally introduced to more stories about romances that didn’t work out. Still, it’s hard for me to think about those as pragmatic, most of them have this desire for sadness in them. They would make me feel as though the devastation was the point, that the narrative was forcefully bent toward the saddest outcome.

Past Lives doesn’t make me feel this way. Nora doesn’t stop talking to Hae Sung because of an unforeseen tragic circumstance. She makes a choice and goes through with it. Hae Sung puts it best during their conversation at the end of the film. She is the kind of person to leave. And he loves her because she is that kind of person. The “what-if” isn’t in wondering about if circumstances were different. No matter what, she would have chosen her plays over anything else. Her husband even notes that so much of how their relationship happened is because he fit so well into the life she wanted. The whole reason this film is called “Past Lives” is because that’s the only way to ponder about whether Nora and Hae Sung could be together.

It’s such a delightfully Asian perspective on it. “In another life” films are so common, but I always feel like Western movies do it in a kind of parallel universe kind of way. I love that in this one, Nora is so steadfast and consistent in her personality and desires, that there is no real contemplation and consideration of making her and Hae Sung’s relationship work. There is only a longing and a love.

#past lives

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Past Lives (2023)

#this movie gutted me so much in so many ways #this scene #and the you’re only talking in korean when you’re talking in your sleep scens #viscerally gutted me

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i don’t understand why some fanfiction writers will put all of there work in one giant paragraph. i am constantly abusing a paragraph break. i use it every five seconds. new subject? new paragraph. slightly different angle? new paragraph. any sentence that holds any amount of weight? boom new paragraph. i will use one word then do another paragraph break. you can’t stop me.

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Boxer Miguel Boxer Miguel Boxer Miguel B-

#BRILLIANT IDEA #miguel o’hara

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girls when they get overstimulated in the grocery store

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Driven to madness by the kitty cat

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As a fellow person in their twenties, you good?

i wish i could float in a river face down for seventy kilometers and not drown

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why is it every time i opt for an "easy watch to distract myself" i still end up crying

#the seven lives of lea #les 7 vies de léa

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That’s what linked them all. All these lives. They all shared the same guilt.

#THIS SHOW IS PURE PAIN #FUCCCCKKKK MY LIFE