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Who are your favourite brunettes?

all of them tbh

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German trailer for The Thing (1982).

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one thing about me is that I'll never move on, if I said goodbye to you 10 years ago I still miss you today

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the sensual world. louise glück

#wirbs

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"you're so quiet!" I'm exploding you with my mind

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I've been worried ever since I was born

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this is a post I would have absolutely agreed with a year or so ago, but tbh (and yes, I’m using this post as a basis for my own musing), I’m more and more convinced that hard lines like this don’t actually help us understand people’s varied responses to things.

not to sound like someone who has read too many anthropology papers, but people’s conduct in many cases reflects their inescapable ties to their past, community, identity, etc (this concept is called positionality but I explained it like this so I wouldn’t be a dick). what if someone has been talking about something, or is part of a group/movement/community, who has been talking about an issue for decades? are they not going to (rightfully, understandably) feel tired? we can understand and respect your hardline—it makes sense—but isn’t it just as easy to understand and respect theirs, given their position in a hypothetical situation?

the more I read and experience, the more I think drawing these lines actually bars you from understanding why others take the positions they do. it’s easy to accuse them of being righteous, but it’s just as easy to accuse yourself of doing that when you make claims about how humans should act that really reflect little more than your own circumstances and development. the point here is that two people can act in opposing ways that given their positions in a situation are just as understandable and respectable as the other. if you accidentally killed someone with your car, you may want to grovel at the feet of that person’s mother. this makes sense. but she doesn’t want to speak to you, she hates you. that also makes sense. no one’s wrong here, it’s just the dictates of the situation.

I’m more and more bored by the people on here who spend their time writing one-note, ostensible ‘truisms’, clearly in reaction to people who have been part of a much larger and more detailed conversation. your basis for action simply might not reflect theirs, and that’s their decision to make. you’re not superior or more enlightened. when we’re talking about politics, or people, or war, obviously people’s proximity to something will affect how they act. maybe they understand something in a way you have never before had access to, maybe you’re so marginal to the situation that is unfolding that your ‘logic’ seems nonsensical in the face of it.

anyway I try and apply this kind of logic to my thinking everyday. truly the best thing anthropology and sociology ever taught me was this idea. and maybe this rant wasn’t fully about this post, but it made me think of it and other situations like it.

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looked up my symptoms and it turns out the parts of me ive been ignoring will come back in full force one day

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i work with this guy from ireland and conversations with him are such a treat. Bro! So daft 😂 has become a huge meme for me in my brain

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embroidered felt earrings + antique lace handkerchief 🤍☁️🩸

etsy // patreon

#insp

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Squidward is a tragic figure, but not in the Hellenic style. He’s in the tradition of Job

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NO DAD, air brushing unlicensed images of spongebob smoking weed on to t-shirts and selling them at a boardwalk was YOUR DREAM. i'm going to be a PROJECT MANAGER.

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