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@beansqui

21 y/o

i love going back to the beginning of a piece of media with the full weight of knowing how it ends. you see characters get introduced and it’s literally like

[id: the ‘they don’t know’ meme edited to say ‘they don’t know the profound and life-changing effect they will have on each other’. it shows a simple drawing of a guy with a party hat standing in the corner of a room, looking at two couples who are happy and dancing. the guy is edited to have shiny, tearful eyes. end id.]

One of my favourite things about the library is a prickly old lady named Angèle who often comes on the same day as me, and who systematically returns her books with the comment “Well, that was utter nonsense” (using a delightfully quaint word for nonsense, “sornette”). The librarian told me that she tends to forget which books she’s already read and is always drawn to the same books (“covers with pictures of plants, or birds, or Patrick Modiano”) so that she often borrows the same book numerous times and brings it back proclaiming it to be utter nonsense (“des sornettes, des sornettes !”) with the same gravitas every time. All the regulars love our grouchy local book reviewer with her one and only critique. One of them said if the village’s gazette were still a thing she would have been offered a weekly literary column. And recently a little girl selected a book and asked the librarian if she could recommend it to the old lady, and she came in again this week full of anticipation, asking if “Madame Sornette” had borrowed her book over the holidays, and the librarian said soberly, “yes, I’m afraid your book was utter nonsense”, and the kid started giggling like it was the funniest joke she had ever heard. 

"jesse pinkman takes a girl by the hand and leads her to his bedroom but instead of having sex they just play Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing" sounds like a tumblr meme made by someone who never saw breaking bad. but he really did that

"jesse pinkman tells walter white he can't cook meth that day becuase he's going to the georgia o'keefe museum" DEFINITELY sounds like a shitpost by someone who hasn't seen breaking bad and yet it really truly happened

people on tiktok after posting the worst hot take ever (not a hot take just them bragging about how they refuse to think critically about anything ever) with their full face and government name attached to it

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amabo te, which is to say please, which is to say i will love you, which is to say i will fight so you will not be alone: "amabo te: an essay on love and begging" by franny marzuki (1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14) / "adam's ribs" by jensen mcrae (3, 9) / greywaren by maggie stiefvater (4, 12) / howl's moving castle dir. hayao miyazaki (5) / call down the hawk by maggie stiefvater (7, 11) / illustration for "amabo te..." by kerstin stillman (13) / the raven king by maggie stiefvater (15)

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ok. icebreaker-type question. imagine time travel exists, but all of the serious super big things that likely come to mind when time travel is a factor is stuff youre not “qualified” for, as a civilian. what stupid, petty, thing do you use time travel for?

personally, i’d buy this one limited-time pin from a con i had no chance of going to, and also buy some transformers animated toys while they were still being sold.

Girl this is the best thing I've read today

Lin-Manuel Miranda is not untalented but he shouldn't be making billion dollar disney movies or whatever. This guy should be in a garage making deeply earnest but unpolished rap opera concept albums and posting them online for a niche fanbase of no more than 100,000 too-online theatre nerds. Hiring him to make forgettable paint-by-numbers radio friendly disney princess pop is trying to raise devil's pupfish in captivity. You have to stop giving him money and let him go make cringe in his natural habitat or you're never going to get anything good.

If I go into one more restaurant and see a qr code menu I'm gonna puke like sorry but nope! No! That's not easier! Menus are already reusuable just give me one! Easy five second interaction. What if my phone is bad at qr codes? What if I'm on a low battery? Paper, paper, paper. A hard copy. Physical objects lets get this bread. Ordering through the app when you're sitting at the restaurant is even worse!!! The boomers are right about this one.