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Time to get emotional about the lighting of the beacons

also props to the many folks in that chain whose job it is to hang out in the cold by a massive pile of firewood they can't use

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Hi! I just finished reading Gaudy Night, which I bought a while ago after seeing you talk about it. (Thank you so much for spreading the word btw!! I shall now be proselytizing to anyone who will listen.) I absolutely loved it. The mystery was great, the writing was 🤌, but the romance!!! Phew! So nuanced! So refreshing! But I'd love to hear your take on the dog collar thing. What was up with that?? Do you know if it was supposed to be as spicy as it seemed to my 2024 eye?

Hello, Anon, I am so delighted! The Gaudy Night proselytizing spreads!

The dog collar! As spicy as it appears to you? perhaps not. More confidently I would say: probably not spicy in precisely the same way it appears close to a century later. I think that the most significant way it advances intimacy is as the first thing Harriet allows Peter to give her, as he cannot resist pointing out. Because Harriet and Peter (my beloveds) are also terrible at talking directly about their feelings, it also allows them to do that. It allows Harriet a dispassionate (!) experience of Peter's physicality and her own, and I think that matters. And because -- again, I cannot overstate this -- they are terrible at talking directly about their feelings, it allows them to experiment with the vocabulary of claiming ("I have taken your collar away to have my name put on") in a context far removed from their scrupulous intellectual discussions about obligation, desire, and the counterpoint.

#gaudy night #dorothy sayers #harriet vane #lord peter wimsey

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Ross Poldark

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Cornelia Gramescu

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ 

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Liam Riley, Paso Doble Photo credit: Rory Murphy

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An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

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The British literary crossover we didn’t know we needed.

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

#chicago #no way in hell we were outside

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This is kind of awkward, Marge.

RIPLEY (2024) Episode IV: La Dolce Vita

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I gotta take a second to praise Viggo Mortensen’s delivery of “…For Frodo.” The whisper, the tears, the love, the loyalty, the hope, the courage, the resilience, the humility of acknowledging that despite being king he is not the main character in this story… all in two little words. Just perfect. I believe Tolkien would’ve approved.

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apologizing to guests at my son's brutalist themed birthday party because the cake is a concrete block

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Poldark 3.05

#series 3 gets a pass because of his hair

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Today's Seal Is: Unlimited Scraggliness

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I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

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3.04

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You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.