A Beautiful, Beautiful Time Lapse

Teacher, rambler-in-the-tags, text post maker.

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No one:

Literally no one:

me: I wonder if Rose Betts ever gets mad at that one girl on Instagram who does constant covers of her music while wearing her perfect makeup and showing off her bone structure

Nina while playing Hot Girl Summer for me on her phone: I think she does

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me clicking play on The Other Bennet Sister like “look, you have to get over your purist and elitist Austen tendencies sometimes a show is just a show for entertainment and just because you find the premise stupid and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Austen doesn’t mean there won’t be some enjoyable ideas or good performances in it just actually watch something for once instead of critiquing everything from your ivory tower”

The Other Bennet Sister: here’s an inappropriate and gross moment not two minutes in

me: okay never mind

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I don’t CARE that it’s just a moment it makes it worse to me, what on earth is this doing in here, jail for 1000 years

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me clicking play on The Other Bennet Sister like: look, you have to get over your purist and elitist Austen tendencies sometimes a show is just a show for entertainment and just because you find the premise stupid and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Austen doesn’t mean there won’t be some enjoyable ideas or good performances in it just actually watch something for once instead of critiquing everything from your ivory tower

The Other Bennet Sister: here’s an inappropriate and gross moment not two minutes in

me: okay never mind

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Ruby Sparks (2012) is a fascinating exploration not only of the dangers of control when exerted in a relationship but also of the dangers of control when writing or creating, convincingly portraying the truth that once something has been created, even if you created it yourself out of thin air, you owe it a certain amount of flexibility to be itself or the entire endeavor becomes sick and twisted. It also explores the unhappiness that afflicts the one exerting the control almost as much as the one being controlled. It is one of the most unsettling movies I’ve ever seen in my life and it haunts me to my core. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Lila Rose filming herself watching videos of single women crying over being single and offering words of condescending encouragement (to their screens I guess??) while her big eyes fill with performative tears and toads in business suits in her comment section talk about how single women need accountability not encouragement is all that I hate in this world and the next, please know this.

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I finished grading my finals!

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some days the rich internal life becomes like a quivering but simultaneously frozen spiderweb that traps me inside of it.

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🎶 you won’t remember all my champagne problems 🎶

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People need people.

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In the Depths.

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That tweet that said Taylor Swift is like Michael Jordan—

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Taylor said “take me out and take me home” —

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I said being a classics major who hated Greek mythology just to keep people on their toes.

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Bejeweled was a part of Taylor coming back to life that she had suppressed since 1989.

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the way I love the 1..........

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The mind is not merely receptive, in the sense that it absorbs sensations like so much blotting-paper; on that sort of softness has been based all that cowardly materialism, which conceives man as wholly servile to his environment. On the other hand, the mind is not purely creative, in the sense that it paints pictures on the windows and then mistakes them for a landscape outside. But the mind is active, and its activity consists in following, so far as the will chooses to follow, the light outside that does really shine upon real landscapes. That is what gives the indefinably virile and even adventurous quality to this view of life; as compared with that which holds that material inferences pour in upon an utterly helpless mind, or that which holds that psychological influences pour out and create an entirely baseless phantasmagoria. In other words, the essence of the Thomist common sense is that two agencies are at work; reality and the recognition of reality; and their meeting is a sort of marriage. Indeed it is very truly a marriage, because it is fruitful; the only philosophy now in the world that really is fruitful. It produces practical results, precisely because it is the combination of an adventurous mind and a strange fact.

- G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who used to be one of my favorite celebrity interviewers, really debased herself with her gullible engagement with AI slop for this "interview" with "Tilly"

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like she comes to the conclusion that Humans Are Better, and we're the art, but there's such a level of projected belief and unchecked fear and self-consciousness that is unprofessional and, as I tagged, EMBARRASSING!!!! this is literally an algorithm running prompts and hoovering up data it didn't create to create illusions! Its human designer is an insecure and deluded woman who flopped! You don't have to be scared by anything other than human greed and meanness! "Tilly" is nothing!!