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I’ve said this before but I would love to arrive at a point where it’s no longer standard to say “we’re just friends.”

The fact that you could be friends with someone for a decade…

share laughs and secrets and fight and hurt each other and forgive each other and defend each other and grow and change together and just see each other and understand each other in a way maybe nobody else can…

The fact that it’s possible to share that kind of bond with someone only to have it be reduced to

“Just friends” …?

Sure, not all friendships are profound or even long lived, but damn.

I think we’re doing the whole concept of friendship a disservice with that.

ace-thinks

Also here are some alternatives:

“We’re not dating”

“We don’t like each other in that way”

“We’re not a couple”

Etc. etc.

It’s possible to get the idea across without minimizing the relationship that you do have with them.

ruffboi-mags

i’m not even ace.

but like, dude, I am beside myself excited by getting the covid vaccine bc my bff moved near us last year and we haven’t gotten to see her yet.

She is not JUST anything. She holds another part of my fuckin soul. She is, in every way that matters, my soulmate, and I love her so much it hurts sometimes.

And also we’re not dating.

If you’re not more inclined to say “oh, no, we’re not dating” instead of “no, we’re just friends” if someone mistakes you and a friend for a couple, then frankly I feel sorry for you.

‘cause Fizzy will never ever be just ANYTHING.

cleopatronising

noted icon and legend, Leilani Clarke

thestuffedalligator

It’s shit being a superhero when you know that the multiverse exists. You spend all day saving people, you’re tired, you want to go to bed, and right before you fall asleep someone says “The High Evolutionary is going to turn everyone on earth into a werewolf!” and every bone in your body says “Fucking. Maybe we can be the werewolf dimension. The Universe Where Everyone Is A Werewolf. There are infinite dimensions where everyone isn’t a werewolf. It could be fine. It could be good even.”

And you fight the High Evolutionary and you win and your world isn’t the Werewolf Dimension. But the thought was there. God the thought was there

hexjulia

lmao god, english upper class people... I was reading Mathilda, and there's all these monologues about the protagonist going insane from loneliness and not knowing how to act when she finally strikes up a friendship again; she has retired to a cottage in the woods and is essentially in hiding. All this time we're given the impression that she is utterly alone in that cottage. Much woe about the completeness of her loneliness. and then.

what do you mean your servant ...? in your cottage in the woods where you were so utterly alone? that one?

hexjulia

pt 2, this time Frankenstein by the same. Said Frankenstein is greatly relieved when he returns and the 'apartment was empty' because this means his monster has fled. but then

...did that servant materialise out of thin air to bring him food in his room. The place not actually empty, just empty of people of his own class. he just left the servant and his monster with each other while he was out.

Eventually the monster was like "well this is awkward. I'm out." and the servant presumably just filed the encounter under "weird shit upper class people do" and went on with his life.

lierdumoa

I remember taking this college elective on film adaptations and we talked about the controversy caused by the PBS adaptation of Emma, which made a point of putting servants in every. single. scene, confronting the audience with the reality that the main characters are surrounded by servants constantly and are choosing not to acknowledge their presence. Emma is consoling her "poor" friend Harriet over her misfortune and the entire time a servant is standing there silently brushing Emma's hair or some shit. Virtually every other adaptation of Emma does a very good job of invisiblizing the constant presence of the working class labor force that allowed these people to live the way they did.

technologistrevolution

If anyone is interested the murder mystery Gosford Park specifically explored this phenomenon. Roger Ebert did a review of it here.

mycatwantstoeatpins

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A quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: [...] hands for joy and ran down to Clerval. [highlighted] We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; [end highlight] but I was unable to contain myself. It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.]

shoezuki

My prof was like 'yeah there was this experiment where they like made a casino for rats with mini slot machines n everything and made those rats into gambling addicts it was so cool' n i looked up the article n hes the lead fucking researcher

atomicpowered

I'll do you one better op, i was taking an american history class of the early 1990s to 2000s and upon our final, which only took two hours max (the class was 3) our professor said we could watch some americana stuff if we needed to wait for more finals in the building (i did). The classroom was a huge lecture hall with a projector. He puts on stuff about cryptids, which, that's a surprise but hey, nice light mood for a sobering look at what amounted to pre and post 9/11 america. And when the man on the video introduced the world expert on the jersey devil who do we see grinning at the camera, giant on the projector, but our professor. We turn to see him making the exact same face. We went wild.

twinsfawn

how to move through life like a real human being and not a reanimated corpse

thoughtcascades

not to be dramatic but i need a nap, a hug, 20k in cash, and to disappear for 3 months

kaijuno

does anyone else remember being terrorized every single commercial break by the madagascar 3 trailer on every single cartoon channel in 2011-2012

byrdsfly

gursevraq

shipping the popular yaoi pairing but shaking my head while i do to indicate that i also care about the work's themes and other characters

my-chemical-ratz

happy trans day of visibility🔥🔥🔥🔥

writing-prompt-s

Your spells are custom-made for you, by you. Usually it doesn’t change much, but tonight you were robbed and as the thief tried to cast one of your spells, he burned to a husk before he finished the first line. Your party takes a step away from the book.

novemberwasgrey

Travis: Can't believe Chris is crazy enough to date Clarisse la Rue.

Connor: Twenty bucks they're done in two months!

Travis: Twenty bucks Clarisse will actually strangle him in his sleep.

Clarisse and Chris *fifty years later*:

shencomix

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Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.

There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.

It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish.

the-theatre-ghost

THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS

rxseblue-archive

Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is “SHES GOT EYEBROWS”. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost.

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Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together.