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Watching The Perfect Couple on Netflix and I’m realizing I’m never gonna tire of the filthy rich murder mystery setting

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someone: why you sobbing?

me: HE JUST WANTED TO WALK BESIDE HER

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missing people brings a certain type of ache. an ache that spreads and lingers, an ache that says something should be here. no physical part of you is taken when they leave but the body sometimes treats their absence as if they were a vital organ. we love and we need and it is such a powerful thing that we can adore people so much it feels as if they literally take parts of us with them.

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heartbreaking books somehow never leave the place they make for themselves between the cracks.

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book recs no one asked for: always coming home by ursula k le guin, why we swim by bonnie tsui, a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, if you want feminist soul-changing, hopepunk, touches the veil of life reads, and educated by tara westover, all about love by bell hooks, the year of magical thinking by joan didion if you want real, visceral takes on love, grief, and being the master of your own fate, bye

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You know what gets me about people who complain that The Chosen's Jesus is "too nice"? They're conveniently ignoring who Jesus is being nice to. They're either making a point not to mention (or they do, which is a real yikes) that Jesus is spending a lot of time around sinners, around the downtrodden, around people whom life has kicked in the shins multiple times. These are the people you want Jesus to berate for their sins? These are the people against whom you want the Lion to bare his claws? If you're eager to see him verbally take down the socially empowered self-righteous a few pegs, yeah, me too! But those are not the people Jesus is hanging around most of the time in the show.

And he's not saying there's nothing these people he loves need to repent for.

"It's not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick."

"All must repent or perish."

Are you not paying attention??

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broke: the Pharisees were so EVIL, that's why Jesus TOTALLY OWNED them lolzzzz

woke: The Pharisees believed that the Messiah wouldn't come back until people's hearts were holy, so they were trying to save the Jewish people by imposing rules that they thought would lead to their deliverance

BESPOKE: The Pharisees were trying to hold onto the culture and religious identity that had held the Jewish people together for centuries, just as modern Christians can be so attached to tradition and political identities that they overlook radical love and change. Without tradition and rules, there is no order, no unity, no culture, and no sense of purpose. Yet, with too much legalism, we ignore the reason God gave us rules and customs and become thoughtless robots instead of life-long explorers of the Divine. The only way to balance these opposing ideas is through finding identity through life-changing encounters with Jesus, just like Paul, who was both a Pharisee and one of the most radical advocates for grace, mercy, and salvation through faith.

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There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

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call me dilliwaali girlfriend because sab mujhe chod chad ke jaate rehte hain

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Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

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big fan of the rctutsglcu (rom-coms that use the song get low cinematic universe) (red, white, and royal blue + the proposal)

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No cuz after a year of thinking that enemies to lovers is my favorite trope (despite never truly loving an enemies to lovers book/movie), I finally realized that fake-dating has always been my favorite trope 😭

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yall want an enemies to lovers bodyguard movie? look no further may i present to you miss congeniality 2: armed and fabulous. they beat eachother up they fight they cannot stand eachother at all but they make the best fucking team ever they do drag together they share secrets with eachother and bond during a sleepover they learn to get along and through it all they got eachothers backs when they need it most. what more must i say? they have it all!

"i am your bodyguard which means i need a BODY to GUARD"

also height difference

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Top 20 Romantic/Comedies where the girls should’ve ended up together

20. Mean Girls - Janis and Cady

19. The Breakfast Club - Allison and Claire

18. Bring It On - Missy and Torrance

17. Whip It - Pash and Bliss

(if Bliss comes out as trans after the film like Elliot Page did, then these two will still be one badass queer couple!)

16. The Wedding Planner - Mary and Fran

15. Pitch Perfect - Beca and Chloe

(would probably be higher up on the list if i wasn’t bitter)

14. Princess Protection Program - Rosalinda and Carter

13. Clueless - Cher, Tai and Dionne

12. Legally Blonde - Vivian and Elle

11. Frances Ha - Sophie and Frances

10. Stuck in the Suburbs - Brittany and Natasha

9. John Tucker Must Die - Carrie, Beth, Heather and Kate

8. Ocean’s 8 - Debbie and Lou

7. Calamity Jane - Katie and Calamity

6. Bring It On: All or Nothing - Britney and Camille

5. Ice Princess - Casey and Gen 

4. She’s the Man - Viola and Olivia

3. Almost Adults - Mackenzie and Cassie

2. Miss Congeniality - Cheryl and Gracie

1. Bend it like Beckham - Jess and Jules

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If this movie wasn't made in the early 2000s and the creators weren't cowards these women would be lesbians

The literally have more chemistry the the love interest plot in the first movie

Like I'm all for women being just friends but like there direct comparisons between the new character (woman) and the old love interest in the first movie

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Alex Thomas :: Anatomy of a Hook-Up

She’s got a cocaine tint to her tongue as she twists around and asks me to dance.

My stomach is a storm on the sea of Galilee and I down Jesus Christ in a shotglass ship of rum.

I’ve tasted enough sweat on lips in this poker town to feel when they’re all in, and when they just wanna fuck again before the headache sets in.

She’s got a body like a battle-ax. She’s got a body like a bass kick. She’s got a body like Beethoven’s fifth when you’re high on acid.

And she carves her hips into mine like she’s Michelangelo and I’m something holy.

Outside we chainsmoke bummed cigarettes and try not to fuck each other in the parking lot.

Her house, my house; the stairs— the chair— or the welcome mat?

We come at each other like we can’t be broken and love is the hangover of lust.

When we say “goodbye” it sounds like “get out” it looks like a drunk tattoo all sloppy around the edges but with the best intentions.

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Okay, so, either the trailer for Monkey Man was horribly put together, or I completely misunderstood what was presented, because I had NO IDEA what I was getting into. The entire plot took me completely by surprise several times.

This film is deliberately political. I can't recall the last time I saw an action film have such a clear focus on government. It's relatively common for the Big Bad to be a person in government -- that makes them an even bigger threat because in addition to the Criminal Thugs they employ they also have the Police and Media on their side -- but when this happens their actual politics don't matter. They're also a drug dealer, or human trafficker, and that's what the hero is fighting against. Usually we don't even learn what their politics even are. We may see them give a speech saying "Family values!" intercut with them doing drugs and having sex so we know they're a hypocrite, but that's the extent of it. In this film we know that the villains are part of the Hindu Nationalist movement, and are encouraging violence against religious minorities and gender-nonconforming people throughout India.

The condemnation is so direct that I'm not surprised Netflix backed out of distributing out of fear of the backlash in India. The only way the film could have been bolder would be if they used actual political party names instead of the "We're not actually saying 'Bharatiya Janata Party'" angle.

I was also completely unprepared for the inclusion of the hijra temple commune. I was already surprised just by the mention of crime against trans people on the news in the film, but then the main characters finds himself rescued and rehabilitated and welcomed into their society with open arms. They counsel him both philosophically and physically, and prepare him to resume his quest. And then they join him!

A literal army of trans women toppling the oppressive power structure was not on my BINGO card, I'll tell you that.

This movie was intense and an experience, and if you can see it in theaters I say you go right now!