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Paris Opera Ballet (with Agnes Letestu as Marguerite)

La dame aux camélias

photo: Sébastien Mathé

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remember when dash drama looked like this

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Swan Lake (English National Ballet, 2018)

catchymemes

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This is it. This is literally my emotion about men

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“And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.”

— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (via books-n-quotes)

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wish my brain was into kinky stuff like producing serotonin and dopamine

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I don’t give a fuck about Netflix!!

I’m here to get nutted in. I’m a grown ass woman.

Put it in.

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It’s 1:11am and I’m up breastfeeding for the 3rd time

Don’t fuckin listen to me. Just watch the movie

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Life comes at you fast

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Wanna see literally the single funniest thing I’ve seen all year?

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no cry november I already lost

found-bodies

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wait

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too many fuckn degrees outside

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yeah dude fuck those college kids

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me laying in bed on my phone, needing to pee for the past half hour with my phone on 2%

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bruinhilda

As a library worker, there’s something I want to say to you.

You do not have to apologize for the books you choose to read.

At all. To anyone. You owe nobody any explanations; you need no excuse or “good reason” to be reading the book.

You do not have to be ashamed for wanting to read “bad” books. You wanna read Twilight? We got Twilight. Need a banal, cookie-cutter-plot mystery or thriller? Those are always fun. Our regulars check them out by the towering stack. Ask Betty for recommendations; she’s read them all. 50 Shades of Oh Fucking No? We’ve got it, we even got it in large print. Have fun. Check out the rest of our porn too. Oh, and the sex manuals are a MUST if you want to “experiment” yourself. Don’t be afraid to ask; they’re here for a reason.

Want to read a book written by a huge asshole everyone hates and agree was a monster? Yeah, we have those. No, we don’t think you’re an asshole for wanting to know what was actually written in there, or judging things for yourself.

You are not too old for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Babysitter’s Club, or Captain Underpants. You are not too young for Sherlock Holmes. There’s nothing wrong with a boy reading The Princess Academy or Sweet Valley High. There’s nothing wrong with a girl being into The Hardy Boys or Artemis Fowl instead.

You do not have to pull the shame face and offer me an excuse when you check out your books. I don’t care if I got so angry at that book I threw it against a wall when I read it: you have the right to read it, and enjoy it if it’s enjoyable for you. THAT’S WHY THE LIBRARY HAS IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. If we only stocked pure, unproblematic literature everyone approved of, by authors of unquestionable virtue, we wouldn’t have any books at all. Or music. Or movies. It would be utterly fucking boring. And it certainly wouldn’t be a library.