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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

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do you ever think about how darcy's perspective of the visit to rosings is just... a completely wild time. so like. he and his favourite cousin goes to visit with his weird aunt, and ends up running into this hot girl, that he's really kinda increasingly into? she's staying in the area for a while with her bestie. so like. he was expecting a boring social obligation visit & getting pressure into marrying his other, less favourite cousin. instead, he watches the hot girl hold her own with his aunt in conversation. she banters with him over the pianoforte and they have a Moment™. he keeps going over to the house she's staying at, just to awkwardly chill there, even though he doesn't like the other people there. has a whole conversation with her about how she wouldn't mind living far away from family, as long as she could afford the travel. he extends his visit so he can keep seeing her. when he runs into her on a walk, she makes a point of detailing the exact route she prefers to take while out walking, clearly encouraging him to join her, so he does. he has a really nice time on these walks, they spend a lot of time in companionable silence, but he manages to flirt a little by implying some stuff about the future & what their married life could be like, and they have some conversations about that. and sure, she has some family baggage, but none of them are around so it's a lot easier to ignore, y'know? so eventually he just can't take it anymore, and he shoots his shot. she clearly values honesty so he explains his scruples as well, but he thinks she's been dropping some favourable signals, so he's got a good chance, right?

and then not only she turns him down she ROASTS THE FUCK OUT OF HIM. she insults him. she insults his honour as a gentleman. she flips the fuck out about... oh yeah crap the sister thing, turns out his cousin blabbed, and then I'M SORRY YOU SAID WHAT? ABOUT WICKHAM? THIS IS ABOUT FUCKING WICKHAM, MY FUCKING NEMESIS? HE FUCKING SAID WHAT ABOUT.... OH MY GOD. oh fuck. I've fucked up so badly I need to reevaluate my entire life & risk sending a letter to an unmarried woman who hates my guts, just so i can explain shit. fuck.

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Blackthorne x Mariko

SHŌGUN (2024)

#OH FR??? #hands hands hands #tenderness is in the hands #shogun

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TODA MARIKO and JOHN BLACKTHORNE SHŌGUN — 1x09: "Crimson Sky" (2024)

#I don’t go here but like I can tell something is happening #but the thing is. i can’t figure out wtf is the significance #so I go the notes #obssessed with how vaguely traumatized everyone is in the notes

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A Clock Shop. Apparently.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

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Meet me at sunset

Insta: @debbiebalboa

Twitter: @DebbieBalboa

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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

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maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

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Re: the chasing cars ask.

I don’t make the rules, GT. Now you have to share the rest of the “"let's ruin GT's fucking evening" Swift quartet.” Please. For science.

(Fucking love The Last Time enjoyers. We’re a rare breed.)

Okay so. I'm going to give you my patented Let's Have a Bad Time quartet (the only recipe for Sad you'll ever need!), and then I'm going to do my Good Eats chemical analysis under the cut. But the basic recipe is this set of songs in this order:

"The Last Time" ft. Gary Lightbody

"tolerate it"

"the 1"

"exile" ft. Bon Iver

Fundamentally, I think "exile" and "The Last Time" are both versions of the same song, which Swift has written several times before and since, i.e.: "We have profound feelings that won't let us stay apart from each other but we both understand that this thing between us is fundamentally over." She's been writing this song for years — she takes her first swing at it in "White Horse," but her songwriting isn't that developed yet and she's still resorting to a lot of the more trite metaphors of her early period (princes, princesses, castles, knights, a literal white horse). It's very nondescript and therefore unemotional. Later attempts ("Haunted," "The Story of Us") are more informed by having actually been in a collapsing relationship, and she's also building her vocal acting chops in leaps and bounds between albums, so you feel more of what she's saying. So by the time "exile" and "The Last Time" are being (re)recorded and released, she's a much more skilled writer, lyric, and actress. Her writing is more understated— less tell-y, more show-y.

ANYWAY, for that reason, using TLT and "exile" as bookends for the playlist changes the story from a progression into a cycle. TLT sets up a relationship that's on the verge of failing; "tolerate it" tells us about a relationship that's already failed, and someone who's looking for the courage to leave it. You go from the passionate furor of TLT, in which people are fighting to keep their love alive, to the piano crooning of "tolerate it," when one party has clearly given up trying and the other is still frantically overcompensating. "the 1" reflects on that relationship from the perspective of someone who knows its problems, but has the distance to start missing it again — could be either, and in fact probably both. And "exile" returns to the scene of the crime to ruminate on feelings that have not and may never go away, but have now been placed behind a barrier of social decorum; they've seen this film before, they know how it goes, but they can't help staring. Just like the first song, you hear from both parties, and just like the first song, they're singing directly to each other. But now it's taking place across a crowded room, and the tender "This is the last time, I won't hurt you anymore" has turned into the acrimonious: "I'm not your problem anymore." The thing is still alive, but they're defeated by circumstances and incompatibility.

Basically, Taylor Swift needs a depressed indie folk music bleat-and-cry singer/songwriter type stapled to her at the hip.

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i fucking love music and songs. do people know about this stuff. have people heard about this

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Daphne Bridgerton in every episode – 1x03 Art of the Swoon

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Oh, John 💙

#exactly. and we love him for it #john lakeman #john tavner #patriot #patriot amazon

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HANNAH DODD for Bulgari

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HANNAH DODD FOR BRIDGERTON SEASON THREE PRESS

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kate sharma + night attire