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i follow this 1 user on twitter who posts pics of their snakes and i really want you all to look at this snake they have. i’ve never seen a snake that was built like this

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when someone asks you why you haven't had any of the "normal stereotypical" experiences a young person should apparently have and you just go i don't know what to tell you i just haven't and for the most part you don't care but then the atmosphere immediately shifts and you're being pitied. and most people don't really give a fuck right, they're minding their business, but idk i've had interactions with people who do bring it up in subtle ways and treat you as if you're some innocent little being, like oh cover your ears you poor little thing. so you leave and isolate yourself, but then it's like how am i going to have those experiences if i isolate myself? but then when you do try people shame you for it. and this is the way people act when it comes to soooo many things in life. you're like that and we want you to be like this, but we're gonna laugh at your attempts if that's okay?

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OUR COUSIN MADE IT TO THE NFL

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this link definitely does not lead to a bunch of documentaries and miscellaneous movies i keep ripping from dvds at the library, some of which are not easily found or online at all, i definitely will not continue updating it

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it's so funny to me that conservatives think the reason university students become more liberal is because of the actual course material and not like. the fact that universities in the US introduce are oftentimes the first place Americans are introduced to a walkable environment with affordable health care, with community spaces for any affiliation under the sun where they give you free resources and cheap food. with included public transit and opportunities for training in your field of choice. and you realize that for how much you're spending on tuition/taxes, yeah, you do deserve these things, it would be insane not to have those. and then you graduate and go back to having to buy a car to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store.

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Thinking about how Jane Austen's six novels taken together (in writing order, not publication order) become an increasingly scathing criticism of social class, i.e:

Northanger Abbey: Individual members of the gentry (General Tilney, chiefly) come in for some criticism, but mostly on a personal level: General Tilney is a grasping, tyrannical father to be sure but we hear little (though we might easily infer) of what he is like as the resident landholder. The final crisis of the novel, General Tilney's refusal to sanction Henry and Catherine's marriage, is resolved by Eleanor's marriage to a Viscount.

Sense and Sensibility: The "correctness" and "elegance" of the fashionable members of society- the Dashwoods, Robert Ferras, Lady Middleton- are negatively contrasted to the warmness and frankness of Mrs Jennings- whose kind-heartedness makes her more attractive, in spite of her lower-class origins and perceived vulgarity, than Fanny, Lady Middleton or Mrs Ferras (snr).

Pride and Prejudice: The aristocratic Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an interfearing busy body whose title and money only excuse her officiousness and rudeness. Darcy's pride in his superior situation to the Bennets leads him to act wrongly with regard to Bingley and Jane. Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, in trade, are more respectable- certainly better parental figures- than the gentleman Mr Bennet (and Mrs Bennet too). At the same time - Darcy's strengths are displayed in his undertakings as the resident landholder of the Pemberly estates- he supports the poor, and his situation allows him to shield the more vulnerable when he his spurred to act (Georgiana, to a less successful extent Lydia). Wickham's circumstances - debt, etc- could easily be read as the consequences of his wanting to step out of his place- his desire to be the oldest, or at least the second, son of a Mr Darcy- rather than what he 'is'- the son of Mr. Darcy's steward

Mansfield Park: Hey. HEY. look at the shitshow of a baronetcy. Lady Bertram is functionally useless. Sir Thomas is such a bad father that his daughters marry idiots just to get away from him. Also, having money can't give you intelligence or a personality. Most of "fashionable society" are actually miserable and mercenary and also probably immoralistic. The Church is clouded by corruption and isn't actively benefiting the local parish the way it should. The whole thing is underpinned by slavery, and the hardworking Price Children are ultimatley more deserving than the flighty Bertram ones. THAT BEING SAID: the portrait of Mr. Price is hardly better than the one of Sir Thomas, and Mansfield Park does stabilise- indeed, begins grows stronger with the reformation of its heir, and the implication that Fanny and Edmund go on to have children of their own. There is less of a quarrel with establishment, and more of a quarrel with the people who fill it.

Emma: "Gentility is inherent one can sense it in a person-" no you can't lmao shut up. There is literally no inherent difference marking out a gentleman's daughter and a farmer's daughter. Emma's snobbery as to class leaves her, at various times, both isolated and into some *serious* missteps. Emma and Frank Churchill both have a tendency to treat others as playthings, as their money allows them to do so.

Persuasion: The peerage/nobility are patently ridiculous throw them out in favour of [relative] meritocracy and hard workers. Sure, the resident landowners are supposed to be of benefit to those beneath them but they're not, actually, they take all of the privileges and fulfil non of the responsibilities and are pretty much uniformly selfish and our heroine Casts Them Off.

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women’s flat chests

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my mom finally bought a toaster

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If Claire hadn’t miscarried and if Fleabag hadn’t panicked and claimed the miscarriage and if Hot Priest hadn’t been there then Hot Priest wouldn’t have gone out of his way so much to spend time with Fleabag comforting her and being so candid and charming. He assumed she was navigating grief and loss and yeah maybe he was kinda into her but until she confessed he probably thought her flirting with him was just a part of her grieving process.

And if Hot Priest wasn’t a Catholic celibate priest, the two of them would’ve had to navigate whether to have sex instantly from when they met, as Fleabag does with everyone, even after her self-imposed sex hiatus. She even tries to sleep with Belinda within hours of meeting her, and fucks Mr. Nine Orgasm Esq. on date one, despite promising Claire she wouldn’t. His celibacy and his misunderstanding of her circumstances gave them time to get to know one another and spend time together without sex, offering Fleabag her first opportunity to even consider vulnerability, let alone intimacy, since losing Boo.

Even more remarkably, PWB allows them to develop this intimacy without spending the currency of revelation. Over and over, Fleabag has the opportunity to confess, or even just allude to, her shame about Boo’s death. But as they meet and talk, at the cafe, even in the literal confessional, Fleabag discloses pain and confusion and fear, but if she had spoken about Boo, her attachment to HP could have fallen into a dynamic based more on exposure and catharsis, putting her in a vulnerability debt premature for the length of their relationship. The confession that matters most in that moment—what allows them to transgress his vow—is not an admission of shame that he must absolve her from but a confession that what has been drawing them together until now was false. Revealing that it was Claire’s miscarriage took HP out of counselor role—he’s absolved from his responsibility, leaving only his vow to keep them from following their overt attraction. By holding Boo sacred for herself, Fleabag maintained enough boundary to allow her love to blossom not just out of gratitude but based on her own experience with HP. She gets to experience his own messy and even problematic behavior—his drinking, his tactlessness (asking Claire and Martin about their sobriety when they clearly didn’t want to talk about it), how own lack of effective boundaries with Fleabag, knowing that she was into him—alongside all that she finds beautiful and alluring about him.

S1 was largely about Fleabag trying to escape her grief and shame and regret. PWB did an extraordinary job in S2 crafting a set of circumstances that allow it to be a genuine, honest to god (sorry) Love Story. I just yeah. Just f me brilliant.

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THE INSIDE OUTTAKES- Bo Burnham

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gonna release a song called 'this is me crying' where it's just me crying for 10 minutes.

#taylor swift #eras tour #folklore #this is me trying #evermore #hozier

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Just a hunch here, gop. But I think being 14 and married to a gross older man or dying in a mining accident is a bigger threat to a child than hearing about trans people.

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A brief guide on how to punctuate dialogue

Punctuation in dialogue is one of the easiest things to get wrong in writing, and, frustratingly, it can be hard to find decent teaching resources. So if you’re struggling to tell whether to use a comma or a period, this guide is for you. 

1) Every time a new character speaks, the first line of their dialogue must be set apart by a paragraph break. 

Right: 

“I think Jeff Bezos might be a lizard,” said Bo. 

“Not this again,” I replied.

Wrong: 

“I think Jeff Bezos might be a lizard,” said Bo. “Not this again,” I replied. 

2) Only direct dialogue needs quotation marks. Direct dialogue is used when someone is speaking. Indirect dialogue is a summary of what was said.

Direct:

“Come on, Jeff, get ‘em!”

Indirect:

He told Jeff to go get ‘em.

3) Punctuation always goes inside quotation marks. 

Right:

“What would you prefer?”

“A goat cheese salad.”

Wrong:

“What would you prefer”?

“A goat cheese salad”.

4) If you follow or start a quote with a dialogue tag, you end the quote with a  comma. 

Right: 

“Welcome to the internet,” he said.

She asked, “Can I look around?”

Wrong:

“Welcome to the internet.” He said. 

She asked. “Can I look around?”

5) But, if you follow or start a quote with an action, you use a period. 

Right:

“Welcome to the internet.” He smiled. 

Her eyes flicked to the screen. “Can I look around?”

Wrong:

“Welcome to the internet,” he smiled. 

Her eyes flicked to the screen, “Can I look around?”

6) When breaking up dialogue with a tag, use two commas. Or, if the first piece of dialogue is a complete sentence, use a comma and then a period. 

“Yes,” he replied, “an avocado.” (split sentence)

“I hoped it wouldn’t come to this,” she said. “I loved that avocado.” (full sentence)

7) You may have noticed there are two different quotation marks ( ‘ and “). And when putting a quote inside a quote, you need to use the opposite style of quotation. 

Roger looked up. “And then he said, ‘I didn’t steal the avocado.’”

Or:

Roger looked up. ‘And then he said, “I didn’t steal the avocado.”’

(Using ‘ or “ often depends on personal choice. Although Brits like to use ‘ and Americans tend to use “ for their main dialogue)

So that’s my short guide to the main rules when punctuating dialogue! If you have any questions about less common rules, let me know. 

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