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i had a dream last night that i met taylor swift at a birthday party and she started shooting a money gun with $100 bills in it and i was only supposed to take one bill but instead i took six.

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more crows as kids quotes:

kaz: I don't like Thursdays or Fridays

nina: what do you like about mondays and tuesdays and Wednesdays?

kaz: I don't.

nina: you don't like days?

kaz: No.

*before going fishing as a group*

wylan: Are we going to hurt the minnows when we spear them?

inej: we aren't spear fishing, sweetheart

inej: If you were in the hunger games, could you beat her?

jesper: YES

inej: *skeptical* even tho matthias is Russian?

wylan: This is my favorite table ever because it's brown. AND THERES GLITTER ON IT

nina: What makes a reptile a reptile?

wylan: I don't know anything because I've never read history.

kaz: that one brain cell is working hard today.

nina: *to every statement * THAT is FALSE

nina : You're being a menace

kaz: to be fair that's not an unusual occurrence.

nina: Just leave the damn kids alone.

nina: They could sting, but they don't. I could bite you but I DONT!

jesper: Sometimes they try to kill you and it's really annoying.

inej: *sarcastically* Yeahhhh "I love drinking battery acid that tastes like lemons"

kaz: I do. It's my favorite hobby.

inej: if you keep being annoying I'm going to speak in Spanish.

nina: That's okay I'm going to speak Material Gurl language.

inej: I'm a miracle baby because--

jesper: NO I DROPPED IT ON THE GROUND

inej: because my mom can't have kids

jesper: I can't eat this.

inej: But since my parents are divorced

jesper: I can't eat this!

inej: and my dad's wife has kids

jesper: I CANT eat this!

inej: Sometimes I get to be an only child

jesper: I CANT EAT THIS

inej: And sometimes I get to have siblings

jesper: DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I CANT EAT THIS???

matthias: *on hands and knees playing charades, panting like an animal.*

kaz: Is it from Minecraft?

matthias: Yes.

nina: A sheep

inej: A pig!

wylan: Lava!

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the crows as things the campers i worked with said

wylan: You like blue? Blue is my seventh favorite color!

jesper: *sticks up middle finger* I don't even know what that means

matthias: how do we stay safe today?

jesper: We don't jump into the pond five times.

matthias:... or any times

wylan: My worst part of the day was that we didn't set things on fire

nina: does he LOOK like food?

kaz: a little because I'm so hungry

inej:...no cannibalism in at camp.

wylan: What are we doing in here?

kaz: this is where I eat the little children who are bad.

inej: Solo hablamos en espanol

nina: Uh- uh- uh- MATERIAL GURL

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i found the most vibey dress for a dollar at the thrift store but it’s like one size too small. :(

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had a dream i got drafted into the military and instead of it being anything cool i just climbed a bunch of landlocked boats and a dude pretended to cry so that i would get close enough that he could try to kiss me.

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i had a dream last night that my dog turned into three dogs and i wanted her back into one so i went on a voyage on a ship through the swamps of louisiana to find the potion that would change her back and then all of a sudden i accidentally put the potion on the tangled movie and beauty and the beast, combining them into one and rewriting disney history.

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ARCANE S2 IS COMING NOV 2024?????

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In defense of Shakespeare's Daughters

When students find out that:

Shakespeare has no living descendants (and that's why we don't have to ask "Which Shakespeare?" like we do with the Bach family),

That he did have a son, once, but that boy died when he was only ten years old, and

That son was named "Hamnet" (not a typo, BTW)

Those students who go on to become Shakespearean scholars can get a bit obsessed when it comes to themes of fathers, sons, and grief (particularly in that one play about a Prince of Denmark).

So I'd like to take this time to point out that Shakespeare was also the father to two daughters: his firstborn, Susanna, and Judith, Hamnet's twin sister.

And to help me make the point that the Father/Daughter relationship was important to him, and not just a consolation prize, here's a few of the plays that hinge on it (an incomplete list):

The Tempest: a father and daughter as the only humans on a tropical island.

Romeo and Juliet: The tragedy unfolds with exponential speed when Juliet's father decides that she must marry Tybolt immediately.

Much ado About Nothing: The comedy almost becomes a tragedy when Leonato rejects his daughter during the wedding ceremony.

The Winter's Tale: In the first half of the play, the jealous king rejects his infant daughter, wrongly thinking she is a bastard. In the second half of the play, we see the daughter as a teenager, and her relationship with her adoptive father, a shepherd; the play is resolved when she returns home, with her adoptive father, to her birth father.

Hamlet: Let's face it -- the whole play gets mired in schemes, secrets, and second guesses until Ophelia's response to her father's death unleashes a flood of action.

Merry Wives of Windsor: the "B Plot" is all about how the young adult daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Page successfully schemes to marry the young man she actually loves, instead of either of the arranged marriages her parents are hoping for.

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i just watched pride and prejudice and zombies and I’m pained to say it was very good