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there’s so much pathologizing over why enemies to lovers is a popular trope (something something the normalization of abuse something something) when the simplest and less moronic answer is that narratives thrive on irony and reversals, and there’s no greater irony than characters going from hating each other’s guts to loving each other unconditionally. raw thesis-antithesis-synthesis.

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Poe: *cradling BB-8 like a newborn baby and cooing at him softly*

K-2SO: *sprinting past, carrying Cassian over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes while Cassian screams*

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Trying to figure out if you’re ace or aro can be so much harder than other sexualities because it’s like, trying to find the absence of something. Imagine you’re at a pond and you want to know if there are any turtles, or fish. Say you find a turtle and you’re like “great! Now I know there are turtles.” Or a fish, now you know for sure there are fish. Or you find both, and now you know for a fact there are both turtles and fish in the pond.

But like, if you don’t find any turtles it might be that there are no turtles or maybe you’re just really shitty at looking for turtles and maybe you THINK you saw a turtle over there or maybe it was just a stick. Maybe there are only a few turtles. Maybe you need to do something special to find the turtles. Maybe a bunch of these rocks are actually turtles but you couldn’t tell them apart. Maybe there are no turtles. You have no idea. Meanwhile some people are saying “Oh there have to be turtles! You’ll find them eventually ;)” or “How many turtles have you found in your pond?” or “Try planting some vegetables at the shore to attract the turtles.” Or “Oh no! What disaster happened to your pond that there are no turtles?” And you’re just standing there wet with an empty net and a tired expression.

But whatever because whether there are turtles or fish or not your pond’s ecology works just fine without them because that’s what eco-communities do they form a system around what they have. You aren’t missing anything if you don’t have turtles you just have a pond system without turtles. If someone tried to change you by pouring a bunch of turtles into your pond it would probably fuck something up.

So you don’t have to be entirely sure. You don’t have to search every inch of the damn pond before you can decide there are probably no turtles. If you want to take the aro or ace label because you think it fits go for it. And if you do find your turtles you can rename the pond. That’s fine.

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This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

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wont you share with me

#the locked tomb #PLEASE HUG HER BACK

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#i like him in grunge mode in xma #though he did that in dark phoenix as well and also rocked it there

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this this this

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I would rather miss the first 3 periods of class before skipping out on a giant breakfast like this.

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#i… have i ever had a dream with a cell phone? #i never thought of this before #i don’t think i ever have #and that is weird

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Rumlow & Bucky threatening people with a custom SIG Sauer P226 SCT

At first glance Bucky’s gun in TFATWS may not look particularly special or appear to have any narrative significance, but I’m here to tell you that’s almost certainly not the case, whether intentional or not.

I already thought the parallel was fascinating when I first noticed these guns looked similar, but the deeper I dug the more compelling the story got. They aren’t just similar, they’re the exact same gun. Which ordinarily wouldn’t be that all that special either, since many people use the same type of gun, but this isn’t some generic off-the-shelf model. In fact, I now think this custom P226 SCT is so unique as to be intrinsically linked to Rumlow, and I’m going to make the case that its reappearance in TFATWS is so remarkable that the gun (and therefore likely Rumlow himself) must hold some sort of significance for Bucky.

Buckle up, I’m about to overanalyze the shit out of this gun.

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#hmmm interesting

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there's not much i wouldn't do to keep you here besides me

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#bitter angsty strung-out dofp charles

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Sleep not, dream not.

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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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she loves her cats!

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Oh, I got a lot of experience with this working at a library in a poor area. We had homeless folks come in that you could smell across the building. We had a guy break into my coworker’s desk, find her keys, and steal her car. We had a woman try to kidnap a child from storytime.

I wish I had real advice about how to handle it. My solution was to get the heck out. I work at a tiny academic library now, where literally none of that stuff ever happens, and I am so, so much happier and less stressed.

One thing we had going for us, in terms of ending harassment without bringing in the police, is that we had a security guard. He or she could eject people from the building without endangering their lives. One or two of the security guards turned out to be pedophiles who were there to perv on the middle-schoolers we got in the afternoons, but still, the concept was a good one.

I just read a book about burnout working at the public library, either feeling helpless about not being able to do more for the homeless population who take shelter there or feeling in danger when a patron harasses them and their only recourse is to do nothing or call the police and risk escalating the situation to murder. I still want to be a librarian, but this is an important perspective I hadn't heard before.

Followers who work or have worked at public libraries, do you have any thoughts on or experiences with this?