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jo march really was like. i love the people around me and i cannot cope with them leaving and being mature and appealing enough to start new chapters in their lives while i'm still clinging into this idealised, carefree, comedy-like lifestyle i thought was gonna last forever. and i really thought platonic relationships could replace my repressed longing for a romantic one but now all my loved ones' first priorities became romance. meanwhile i cannot put myself out seeking a romantic relationship because that would automatically mean altering, belittleing, objectifying and compromising myself, my life would become a cliche with guaranteed unhappy ending because i feel like no one in this world could truly make me happy. and i do want to embrace my independent, single lifestyle but i guess i didnt calculate back then how lonely it's going to feel. it's like my only choice is between two types of unhappiness. jo march conveyed all this stuff and i'm not supposed to tear up just thinking about that goddamn movie???

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Mr Darcy: “I’m not going to another Ball.”

Mr Bingley: “I heard Elizabeth Bennet is attending.”

Mr Darcy:

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barry is an excellent show but it’s also very easily misinterpreted, particularly if you don’t have the context of the shows it’s very deliberately and overtly satirizing - the sopranos, mad men, breaking bad, any number of military dramas - and especially among younger fans who came to the show after becoming fans of bill hader through IT there is like… a prevailing attitude that barry is a good person at heart and he’s been forced to make bad choices against his will and the show is a war for his soul, and anyone he hurts on his path to redemption is just collateral damage. which was the central premise of any number of Great Man shows of the peak TV era, and precisely the trope that barry is critiquing. like. barry is a war criminal and a murderer whose moral compass is skewed absolutely beyond repair and whenever he is given an opportunity to become a better person he instead chooses to become a worse one, so that even his pursuit of acting, which was supposed to liberate him from his life of crime, is increasingly just an outlet for him to vent his rage. and to watch this show and view barry as an anti-hero with a heart of gold who’s just doing his best to overcome a violent past is an incredibly shallow misreading of what the show is doing. the whole demonstrable point of this show is to interrogate the arcs of iconic Great Men like don draper or walter white (barry’s alliterative name is not an accident!!!), not uncritically repeat those arcs.