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just remember it could always be worse. we could still have PE.

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HAVANA ROSE LIU

V Magazine | January 2025

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PRETTY WOMAN (1990) dir. Garry Marshall

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An explainer for why I don't fuck with algorithmic social media

If you give a pigeon a little button to peck that releases pigeon food, it will push the button when it's hungry.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food every 5 pecks, it will peck it more often.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food at a randomly selected, always shifting number of pecks, the pigeon will peck that fucking button all day long.

Algorithm based social media is not set up to give you the best most fun stuff all the time, it is set up to give you a bunch of stress and nothingness with a randomized reward of something that actually makes you happy, because they want you pecking that button all damn day. It is a slot machine of content, meant to keep you putting in quarters made of your time and attention till you've nothing yet.

At least if I'm having a shit day on my own Tumblr home feed it's because I've made a bad choice about who to follow and I can fix it.

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Matilda (1996) dir. Danny Devito

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MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ as LETTY ORTIZ ↳ THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001)

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KATIE MCGRATH as LUCY WESTENRA Dracula (2013–2014)

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AUDREY HEPBURN in Sabrina (1954)

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strict top/bottom takes in my fandom? in 2025?

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Modern Screen Magazine, April 1949.

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Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)

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“Katharine Hepburn liked to shock with her boyish looks, strident voice, breeding, and, when she met people for the first time, her affection for purposely creating a bad impression. Rigid and repressed, the twenty-four year old, freckled-faced Conneticutt Yankee always lived with women, mingled with sewing-circle members, and made Garbo and Katharine Cornell her icons. She was swimming naked in director George Cukor’s pool when she first met Garbo and, in printed versions of the encounter, grabbed a towel, curtsied, and solemnly said, ‘Oh, Miss Garbo, how nice to meet you!’ Hepburn was seen about town with her agent the dashing, successful Leland Hayward, but Hayward’s third wife, Margaret Sullavan, called Kate ‘that dykey bitch.’”

-From The Sewing Circle: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women

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if you start reading books again. you will feel at least a little better. I promise

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I love you shows with planned & definitive endings, I love you epilogues that prove the happy ending lasts, I love you finales that feature direct parallels to earlier seasons, I love you cast members that left years ago but came back to say goodbye, I love you well crafted & impactful final lines, I love you fitting send offs for the characters I love

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part of what makes tragedies tragic is the story being preventable from the outside but unpreventable from the inside

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Michelle Yeoh attends the ‘Wicked’ premiere in Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 09, 2024)