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#Spotify

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?

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Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

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Me and @piningfor-thefjords listened to the new Taylor Swift album on the radio('s website) last night, with the clips of her providing insight to some of the songs as we went and the overall vibe of it was legit like:

TS: "So for this track I wanted to write about the experience we've all had, you know, out with your friends, going to the drive-through, everyone's having a good time but then, when you get home, you find out that they forgot to give you your nugget sauce [laughs]. And it kind of, really, ruins your night. And I wanted to say--well, the narrator of this song, she's thinking "why did you do this? how could this have happened?" because there's this real sense of betrayal, right? She wants to know what went wrong, what went wrong this time, when she expected it to go right, and because it had been going seemingly right every time up until this point."

And then the song, titled "Not Going Back (At This Hour)", is like:

McDonald's (McDonald's) You forgot to give me my barbecue sauce cup My friends warned me you'd be hell Jack said just to go to Taco Bell But I gave you my order and I have my receipt Why did you do this you greasy cheat? Should have known you'd heck this up for me Eventually (McDonald's) How could this have happened? (McDonald's) You knew new exactly what I wanted (McDonald's) How could this have happened? (McDonald's) You knew new exactly what I wanted

Which is sung in a strong-but-not-full country twang, over a thick synthwave-y pulse that you're not expected to dance to, no other instrumentation, except for every 23-26th beat there's an interjection from a different synth sample that's been shaped into a gurgling shriek.

Also the corresponding music video is giving 1930's Dust Bowl.

#taylor swift #ttpd #also they did forget my bbq sauce cup yesterday so that's where this exact metaphor comes from #some people write music others write shitposts

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Shout out to all the spare humans

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Happy Easter/Trans Day of Visibility!

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✨just ace trans things✨

#livin our best lives #happy tdov

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@piningfor-thefjords threw me a happy no more sharks forever party! She got all the things and made that cake and found the shark egg craft on tiktok~

I winged the hand rolls with sushi rice, kewpie mayo, ketchup, shark-shaped fish sticks, and a seaweed salad and they were unreasonably fantastic?! 10/10 would wing again

the sharks color palette ended up being trans flag actually on accident, but it was very appropriate for the event

#no more sharks

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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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oh so when the final boss‘s phase transitions, gamers love it, but when I, a trans woman,

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if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

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Amazing Grace/the Elvis episode was the first sign that Nate is Not Straight

#rewatching this rn and screaming it's so true #legends of tomorrow

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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough