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I don't get how autumn always makes life feel so Intensely Real. All of a sudden you're so so aware of how fresh the air touching your skin is, the fragrant scents of wet earth, dying leaves and growing mushrooms, and how the sudden black shadows feel like cool velvet, smell like ink and taste like rowan berries and black tea. And everything is so fucking keenly, intensely, overwhelmingly ordinary and real.
You are allowed to completely change as a person by the way. You don’t have to stay trapped in the versions other people created of you.
whatever was left, that was ours for a while.
sunrise - louise glück
don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.
hey. don't cry. how the gentle wind beckons through the leaves as autumn colors fall. okay?
so genuinely donna noble as a character is so important to me. she’s a woman who’s bad at holding down a job and who’s loud and brash and who thinks she’s stupid. but the narrative makes a point to say that she is worthy of love, and she gets a best friend with no romantic tension and a loving family. her voice is established as an important influence on the doctor time and time again. her actions prove that she IS smart, and she IS worthy of respect, and she learns how to ask for it. she gets to be the most important woman in the world without being a “perfect” woman and that just makes me so happy
what they dont tell you about those little hand baskets in the grocery store is if you put enough things in them they get heavy
I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.
best part of princess bride is that inigo loudly and openly states to anybody who will listen that he's going to kill a guy for revenge and has been chasing this for a while and instead of anybody saying "but revenge wont bring ur father back are u really sure that killing this guy will make anything better arent u scared of regretting the one thing uve spent ur entire life chasing" they're all just like "yea dude sounds cool hope you find him" and then he does and inigo kills him and is just "aw cool my dads avenged now i can go ride off into the sunset with my friends" and i think thats actually really great. yea maybe revenge isnt always the answer but it sure does make you feel better
Part of what I love about it too is that there are no unrealistic expectations about it. No revenge won’t bring his father back (they highlight on purpose that the 6 Fingered Man would do anything to save himself, but can’t do that) But Inigo never thinks it will! The point of the revenge is vengeance, not resurrection. He’s a determined and capable guy. If he could figure out resurrection he would, but that’s off the table so revenge is the next best option. He spends the whole time knowing vengeance won’t bring him what he truly wants, but that doesn’t make it any less necessary to his character.
Not to be cliche, but Jane Austen's novels are a lot about how great power & wealth should come with great responsibility, and how most of the wealthy and powerful fail at that. She's asking questions like, "Is that insanely wealthy person polite, charitable, and considerate in a way that befits his station in life?" and she's finding most of them wanting.
People on the internet: “Belly shouldn’t be going back and forth between the brothers!”
My brain every time:
Like, this is not a hot take. Out of all the things you can be mad at this show for, you’re attacking the premise like someone is making you watch it.
This is what bothers me about these “anti belly” arguments, because what kind of show did you think you were signing up for?! Obviously, these people, and the situations they are in, don’t resemble real people or real life. Shows like The Vampire Diaries begin with this exact same premise (a love triangle with two brothers), but I think people give it a pass because it’s a fantasy show, so our disbelief is already suspended. But what you have to remember is TSITP is also a fantasy. It’s a fantasy world with fantasy characters who don’t get acne, wear super expensive clothes they don’t rewear, and boys stay loyal to the girls they loved as a teenagers. The whole point of the show is the FANTASY of Cousins Beach, the Fisher boys, and wearing white dresses; it’s a fantasy without any actual magic.
Imagine making fun of the love triangle in a show where that’s the entire premise? It would be like if I watched Severance and had my arms crossed the whole time while saying “people shouldn’t undergo the severance procedure, no matter how much they’re grieving!” As if that’s a hot take. Like, sure. They probably shouldn’t. But that’s the entire premise of the show, so how can I realistically turn my nose up at it when I chose to watch it.
Should people in real life date two members of the same family? No, probably not. But people aren’t watching The Summer I Turned Pretty for the gritty realism, and as much as Belly’s character is the target for a lot of the (sometimes valid) criticisms people level at this show, I think Lola Tung’s performance completely redeems her. Despite her flaws she is still a lovely and effervescent young woman whose optimistic outlook is really endearing. That and she’s completely gorgeous. I’d probably fall in love with her too.
So, when people say “I’m team anti belly” I always want to roll my eyes. Sure, way to be a contrarian, yee who understands so much more about ethics in soap operas than the rest of us. The issue that you have isn’t with Belly, it’s with the premise of the show. I feel like I’m kind of stating the obvious here, but the love triangle is the whole reason why there’s a plot in the first place and if she wasn’t engaging with it there would be not plot. If Belly Conklin is a protagonist that is difficult for you to root for on account of her actions then that’s an issue you have to level at the narrative, not the character. Because if she wasn’t going back and forth between the brothers then the show would be worse than bad, it would be BORING. And I for one can handle the over-the-top drama for the sake of entertainment, because that’s why I’m watching this show: to be entertained. Or maybe I’m a masochist, I don’t know. But I don’t think I am.
Ok, this has been my whole argument the entire time I've watched this show. I tell people all the time that if these were real people, I'd be extremely annoyed and tell Belly to date literally any other person than these two brothers. BUT they're not real. And so I'm suspending my disbelief about the ethics of the situation. The love triangle is the whole point of the show, and I am going to engage as Team Conrad or Jeremiah on the show's terms, not as of this were a real scenario
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
The main difference between the weather being uncomfortably cold, and the weather being uncomfortably hot, is that the things you can do in the cold to warm yourself up (hot food/beverage, blankets, cuddles, nice clothes like sweaters, thick scarves and snazzy jackets, getting exercise) are very pleasant and very effective, and the things you can do in the heat to cool yourself down don't do shit.
ive seen so many geese today and let me tell you, their call really is harsh and exciting. and they really are doing it over and over again. almost in the way that world calls to you and announces your place in the family of things.
genuinely can’t stress enough if you’re in high school rn and anyone is telling you that’s the best time of your life they are lying. it gets better. hs is arguably the worst. if you can survive that you can survive anything. despite the horrors i know i’m always posting about i swear life is so much better as an adult
this is also true of college!! soooo many people are going to tell you that college is the best time of your life and I promise it's not. anyone telling you that is lying to you and to themselves
