#raya reflects

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Dear Anglophone writers/filmmakers/showrunners/etc.,

No French speaker says "Sacrebleu" anymore. It's become so obsolete, it's like saying something super archaic like "Lord in Heaven", but even more old-timey. If you use it, French speakers are gonna mock you to hell and back.

When French people do the "kissing cheeks" thing, they're not *actually* kissing the other person's cheeks. They only kiss the air next to each other's heads, with their faces barely touching.

Sincerely, A French-speaker who has grown up in a former French colony, and in the French education system.

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I've been seeing that Pinterest screenshot of that one Tumblr post that goes "Someone please explain all the major Jewish holidays to me like I'm 5", and I feel tempted to do something like that but for Muslim holidays.

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A few years ago, I had the idea of making one of those movies about a girl who falls in love with some asshole “bad boy” with the idea that she can “fix him” with her good influence, but it’s portrayed in a realistic way, and instead of improving, he becomes more and more abusive, until she has to escape.

A couple of days ago, I started reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and finished it yesterday… and I realized that Anne Brontë already beat me to it 177 years ago.

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My toxic trait is that I'm more interested in what the Arlecchino and Colombina characters have going on than the innamorati that the audience is supposed to focus on.

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When a mutual likes one of your vent posts, it's like they're giving you a comforting shoulder squeeze.

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Blorbo but they're not from my shows. Like I hate that show but I have a thing for this one guy. Lemme rescue you from this hell and place you somewhere even worse.

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Uni was cancelled today for not-so-great reasons that I mentioned earlier in my #sonic boom chronicles tag, so I found a window of time to check out The Fantasticks for the first time, listening to the original cast album (I read the play that it was based on). And let's just say that "Try To Remember" hit a bit too close to home for me, because for me it evokes the 2024 war on my country (it started in mid-to-late September, and ended at the tail-end of November of that year).

Not sure if it might be a mix of all the tension in the air what with last night's bombing and the fears of a new escalation, Jerry Orbach's velvety voice, and the fact that I may be currently PMSing, but at any rate it made me weep more than once. I know it was often performed as a memorial of 9/11, but as @ariel-seagull-wings has said in the DMs, it should truly become an anthem for the SWANA region now.

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Adolescence is when you have a crush on Patrick Swayze.

Adulthood is when you have a crush on Jerry Orbach.

(belated thoughts from when I was workaholically working on my final editing project yesterday, which in my case happened to involve editing Dirty Dancing into something different.)