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get to know me meme >> Favorite Friendships [32/?] The Baby-Sitters (The Baby-Sitters Club)

I started The Baby-Sitters Club to take care of kids.  But, what I didn’t realize is that it was also to take care of me.  Because, we were more than a club.  We were best friends.

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“It’s a cliché among political philosophers that if you want to create the conditions for tyranny, you sever the bonds of intimate relationships and local community. “Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals,” Hannah Arendt famously wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism. She focused on the role of terror in breaking down social and family ties in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin. But we don’t need a secret police to turn us into atomized, isolated souls. All it takes is for us to stand by while unbridled capitalism rips apart the temporal preserves that used to let us cultivate the seeds of civil society and nurture the sadly fragile shoots of affection, affinity, and solidarity.”

— Judith Shulevitz, Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore

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what he means: my first girlfriend sacrificed herself for the good of her people, and she didn't think twice about it. i saw firsthand what it meant to truly protect those you love, and in that moment i also experienced what it meant to be loved enough to be protected. but i wasn't ready. i didn't have enough time to say goodbye. she was gone before she fell back to me, and i knew it even before i looked for a pulse that wasn't there. she was heavy, until she wasn't, because i saw death happen in a way i never thought it could when her body vanished from my arms. i now know what it feels like to kiss a spirit, and it's the last touch i have of her. she sacrificed herself because she believed it was her duty, an expectation she felt she needed to face, and it should never have happened. but she got dragged into a war that we brought to her home. there was nothing i could do to protect her from its devastation, and i blame myself for her death.

what he says: my first girlfriend turned into the moon

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because the ages in ace attorney are so fucked phoenix and mia’s entire relationship is literally just

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Couple dudes in my textbook wtf

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i think maybe we could spend less time thinking about things that make us angry and more time thinking about other stuff

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IN THE GERMAN VERSION, PHOENIX AND EDGEWORTH CHANGED TO THE INFORMAL YOU IN BRIDGE TO THE TURNABOUT

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How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism

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Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori and Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket PACIFIC RIM 2013 | dir. Guillermo Del Toro

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god imagine seeing this happen like every single day

bonus:

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ta da

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the characters may be fictional but the pain and the tears are real

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I really just need a way to convey to god that I am NOT one of his toughest soldiers, and he MUST start curating easier battles

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Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa.

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arts and crafts are killing me. badly