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im like if a poet or perhaps another writer of some sort never wrote anything

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

[ Text ID: some nights you are the / lighthouse / some nights the sea ]

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when ocean vuong wrote "in the body where everything has a price, i was a begger" and "even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared" and "because this is mess i made, i made with love" and "i'm sorry i keep saying how are you? when i really mean are you happy?" and "i am not a writer but a faucet underwater" and

#& REMEMBER #LONELINESS IS STILL TIME SPENT WITH THE WORLD

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when i say "romanticise the ordinary" i don't mean "hide all aspects of your life that do not fit under some kind of aesthetic" but rather "strive to find beauty in all the little things because i promise you, happiness can be found everywhere"

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The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”

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do you ever want to eat the sound of a guitar

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Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

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Adaptations have this tendency to remove rage from their characters when its presence is a necessary vehicle to nuance them and contribute to their development and to showcase the various paths our protagonists can choose depending on how they navigate/confront (or don't) that particular emotion. Anyway.

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i love u concept albums i love u relevant track order i love u recurring motifs in lyrics i love u music as a narrative device

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the tsa stops me because my carryon had too much liquid and they open it and its just full of blood

#this is what i carrion icarian is about btw

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annabeth and grover frantically submerging percy in water the way you’d put an iphone in a bowl of rice

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Are y’all over the fact Percy was still wearing Annabeth’s necklace when he fought Luke in the woods?

The material symbol of the five years Annabeth has known and trusted Luke was hanging off Percy’s neck as they fought.

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what breaks me the most about the betrayal scene is that when Percy confronts him Luke doesnt, like, laugh and give an evil smirk and be all confident or whatever. nono the mf BEGS FOR PERCY TO UNDERSTAND.

AND THE PLEADING AND HARMED WAY HE SAYS "i didnt know you were gonna give them to Grover"????? DEAD.

i will not survive season 5 if this is how Charlie plays him i simply will jump off my window

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you know what i think would be fucking hilarious? if percy was fighting a monster and instead of using his sword or some other demigod powers or magic he just straight up clocks it in the face. like he just starts throwing hands. he’s a new yorker. he got kicked out of multiple boarding schools. like fuck all the proper demigod ways of fighting, just BAM! have an unexpected knuckle to the face bitch

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percy calling poseidon "sir" instead of dad but calling kronos "grandpa" is the most percy jackson thing ever

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“couldn’t this be an email” is the most 24yo thing grover has ever said, A+, no notes. so true king

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Demigods who made it into their adult years is a fun concept because I'm just imagining a random son of Athena on his late thirties who's like, a Math teacher or something, watching the news about "the storm that was destroying half the country" and seeing through the mist that that's fucking Typhon and seeing his mom and the other gods fighting him and just. Wondering what the fuck did he miss lol