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hiveswap

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

hiveswap

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

hiveswap

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

loveridden1999

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

loveridden1999

everyone say thank you toni morrison

tenderjock

everyone's heard of this, right? per ap article of apr 8, 2026:

Jacobs went on to record more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago and other cities. Now a group of devoted volunteers in the U.S. and Europe is methodically cataloging, digitizing and uploading them one by one. The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection [link to internet archive] is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000s, when the scene blossomed and became mainstream. The collection features early-in-their-career performances from alternative and experimental artists like R.E.M., The Cure, The Pixies, The Replacements, Depeche Mode, Stereolab, Sonic Youth and Björk.

ellewantsrevenge

aadam jacobs's archive

passionpeachy

spring horse 🌷

Not friends, not lovers, but a secret third thing. So deeply entwined in the fabric of each other’s souls that you couldn’t pry them apart with a crowbar. Codependency to the point where it’s wildly inconvenient to both the plot and also every single other person around within a 50 mile radius. We are either saving the world together or ending it. He is half of my soul. Etc, etc.

petapeta

hunter-rodrigez

nixscriptum

eztehaim-deactivated20210718

I really don’t know what crowd I expected to be in the theatre for carol at 1:20 in the afternoon on a friday but it was probably 85% old people, old het couples and halfway through the movie this old lady in front of me turned to the old dude next to her and just said “harold they’re lesbians”

lerayon

Honoring 10 years of “harold they’re lesbians.” Many happy returns to all who celebrate.

louisegluckpdf

umm how to be a dog by andrew kane. btw.

louisegluckpdf

in case you didnt fucking know

I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.

Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days

glowingghosty

mcnerds

you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question

stupidbeecandle

But then you wouldnt have known about the moose

truelovevip-deactivated20190324

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

waterandsilver

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

waterandsilver

i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage

in-the-drowning-deep

I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.

then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.

and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.

moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.

waterandsilver

ohhhhh i can picture this so clearly