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[apprenticemockingbird]

raindropsonyellowroses replied to your post: “christinedaae replied to your post:8! AMERICAN GIRL I had Samantha...”:

I KNOW THIS. I HAD THE DOLLS TOO. I WAS APART OF AMERICAN GIRL CHILDHOOD TOO.

I still have all my stuff at my parents place (including the trading cards). I'm never getting rid of it. 

[apprenticemockingbird]

Happy Birthday! Hope you spend with good booze, cake, music, and people! :)

Thank you! And yes I should have all of those things. 

[apprenticemockingbird]

I'm going to ask you quite a bit if you don't mind: 2, 7, 11, 26, 33, 54 and 60?

Your most rewatched movie.

Notwithstanding Star Wars and other movies watched in childhood, probably Withnail and I.

A movie storyline you wish you had actually lived.

Oh, I have no idea (I love a lot of movies that I would never wish to live out). Maybe Secretary.

Favorite quote(s).

The Marquise’s whole speech from Dangerous Liaisons: 

Well, I had no choice, did I? I’m a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent not only myself, but ways of escape no one has ever thought of before. And I’ve succeeded because I’ve known I was always born to dominate your sex and avenge my own… When I came out into society, I was 15. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide.

I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork into the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn’t pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with. And in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die…If I want a man, I have him. If he wants to tell, he finds that he can’t. That’s the whole story.

Favorite movie characters.

Marge Gunderson, Veronica Sawyer, Shosanna Dreyfus, Norma Desmond, Withnail, etc. 

Last movie that disappointed you.

Possession. It just wasn’t engaging enough, which stinks because I thought I would have loved it!

Favorite coming of age film.

Clueless. That counts, yes? 

Biggest movie pet peeve.

Already done! But I dislike the over-abundance of superhero movies these days. 

[happilyevernow]

How I met your mother?

A dude sits his kids down for the longest story in the history of dad!stories and it ends really really badly.

[apprenticemockingbird]

Apodyopis, pairing: Me/the new boy I'm crushing on. ;) or Peggy/Pete

Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.

He tried hard not to think on it, but it happened at the worst of occasions. At a meeting, passing in the hall, catching a glimpse of her through a door—the shape of her body beneath her clothes, the way she felt under his hands. Even after all these years it is still striking, the way she felt, although their encounters were brief things, their bodies never fully revealed to each other. Strange, considering the pain left behind, how shielded they had been. The sensation had simply seared itself into his mind, never to be let go, lingering always at the edges just as she did. 

He wondered if she noticed, sitting across the meeting room table, her hands neatly clasped as he mentally caressed the curve of her breast, her stomach (sometimes he wondered if there would still be evidence of the child there, if it that would make it real, though this thought was usually quickly pushed out).

Pete didn’t think she did; he had grown good at hiding things from her. 

[davosseaworths]

1, 14, 23, 42?

1: Let’s start with a tricky one; what is the real reason you are confused right now? - i dont really know what im doing with my life. i turn 20 in a couple of weeks and im scared of what that means. im kind of losing my friends, and i dont have any idea of what will become of me. its scary and confusing.14: Is there someone who continuously lets you down? - i mostly let myself down. but also my family/friends. 23: Were you happier four months ago than you are now? - no i dont think so? im pretty much in the same place, only that i have a job now that keeps me busy. 42: Are you available? - yes i am!

[apprenticemockingbird]

You are fucking Peggy Olsen. Ok. Sometimes it may seem to you, like you suck but you don't. You're amazing and brave and kind, and smart and a fabulous person! I mean it! So yes, at this moment you feel like you suck, and that's ok, it happens, but you should know that you are all the things I've said and a kick ass mother fucker and don't you EVER forget it.

I'm publishing this only so I can keep it on my blog forever and read it whenever I get down. 

Thank you, truly. 

[apprenticemockingbird]

How is your new year starting? :)

So far so good! I'm going to my mother's oncologist with her tomorrow (for her three month check-up) so hopefully that's good news!

Hope you are having a lovely start to the year!