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This means everything to me

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Rita Moreno wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in West Side Story (1962) | Ariana DeBose wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in West Side Story (2022)

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I feel like I’m constantly worrying about the next part of my life without realizing that I’m right in the middle of what I used to look forward to

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The feminine urge to bewitch someone body and soul

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What endearments am I allowed? Well, let me think. Lizzy for everyday. My Pearl for Sundays and Goddess Divine but only on very special occasions. And what shall I call you when I’m cross? Mrs. Darcy? No. No. You may only call me Mrs. Darcy when you are completely, perfectly, incandescently happy.

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still thinking about jane austen. will update later if things change

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anne and wentworth are too scared to talk to each other for most of the book but that means they both pay intimate attention to each other’s body language and non-verbal cues. wentworth helping anne into the crofts’ carriage because he can tell that she’s tired but too selfless to take up the spot, anne constantly noticing whether his eyes are on her whenever they’re in the same room, wentworth removing her nephew from her back, anne intuitively moving to the spot where he was writing the letter (which he knew she would do, giving him the subtle opportunity to come back and hand her his confession). after all these years they still feel at home with each other and they don’t even recognize it until wentworth has to put this loving silence into words.

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JANE AUSTEN · (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)

─ Works & Publication Dates:

     ❦ Sense and Sensibility, 1811      ❦ Pride and Prejudice, 1813      ❦ Mansfield Park, 1814      ❦ Emma, 1815      ❦ Northanger Abbey, 1817/1818 (posthumously)      ❦ Persuasion, 1817/1818 (posthumously)      ❦ Lady Susan, 1871 (posthumously)      ❦ Sanditon, 1925 (unfinished, posthumously)

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what, in your opinion, is the best onscreen kiss of all time??? not so much in a ‘this is my otp so i love their first kiss’ kind of way. as in, what’s the kiss you look at - whether it be bc of the soundtrack or the setting or the outfit choice or the leadup or the symbolism - and you think, that is a Damn good kiss?????

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The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become “person who wakes up early” or “person who reads” no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I don’t know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase “person who x” like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!

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we should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you

1 / 2 / 3 / 4

j. tillman / isaac levitan / james taylor / nicholas roerich / taylor swift / tom thomson / maggie rogers and del water gap / caspar david friedrich / mitski / peder severin krøyer / taylor swift / sylvia plath

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cursebearing hips

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We’re not “just friends,” we’re friends. 

Stop defining friendship as less than romance. Stop defining romance as better than friendship. 

Friendship is enough, friendship is beautiful and fulfilling and good. Friendship isn’t less than. No type of relationship is better than another. 

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, dir. Marc Webb (2012)

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the feminine urge to frustrate a man

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What’s the best thing about playing Spiderman and MJ? One of the best things about playing Spiderman is getting to work with Zendaya. One of the best things about playing MJ is getting to work with Tom Holland. Yes.

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deleting my dating apps because i wanna meet someone the old fashioned way (he insults me at a ball and i overhear)