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This might suck to hear, but if you're a people pleaser that is motivated by praise and avoids disagreements, you are easy to manipulate.

When I was in therapy after surviving years of domestic violence, my therapist had to tell me that my personality was primed for abuse and we needed to work on that so I would be better equipped to see the red flags and respond appropriately in the future.

I'm still working on this, and it's been 8 years. If you tell someone how you want to be treated, what behaviors you don't tolerate in your life, what you're looking for in that relationship, and they react negatively, don't compromise yourself. Just move on.

This one's for all the praise-kink girlies: differentiate, self-actualize, stay sexy

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Comics by Rose Anne Prevec.

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edelweiss ♡

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had to search youtube real hard for this but i FOUND IT

Edit: Since this very unexpectedly blew up and it was formerly undescribed, a description has been added under the cut!

[Video ID: Mike Nawrocki, the voice of Larry the Cucumber, stands in a voice booth wearing a grey sweater and rectangular glasses situated low on his nose. He is holding a binder full of paper (presumably scripts) in his left hand and a toilet plunger in his right, occasionally gesturing with said plunger as he does a version of the Macbeth 'is this a dagger' monologue by Shakespeare in Larry's nasal, squeaky voice. "Is this a plunger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet, I see thee still. Art thou not fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight, or art thou but a plunger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" Mike turns his head slowly towards the plunger and exclaims, "This thing is disgusting!" End ID.]

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https://twitter.com/archeometrie/status/1170031822614474752?s=12

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Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

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♫⋆｡ Robert Whitaker (1939-2011) worked with the Beatles on their vinyl sleeve covers, as well as multiple different interviews and sets of films they were apart of. Whitaker took promotional images, as well as candid photos of the Fab 4. (1/2)

(Copyright, Robert Whitaker, robertwhitakerphotography on Instagram)

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Ahhh Michelle hello!!!!

Have you heard that Cillian is coming back from the basement this December?? Christmas present 🥹🥰

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts about the new volumes xx

🙀🙀🙀 he is?!?! HOORAY!!!!

Oh boy - I can’t wait to hear this next rendition! I’ll do my best to do a review again! 😆😆😆

Thank you SO MUCH for keeping me in the loop!

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Eartha Kitt photographed for the Daily Herald in London, 1951.

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#Oh she gagged them, thank you Saoirse <3

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HE’S SO SILLYY RAAAHGS (i love him ok) 🙏🏼😍😍 🎀

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I rewatched both shows at the same time, of course this was gonna happen

 (i know Ed’s leg is in the opposite side shh)

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You know, in all fairness to my disorientation, I've been in many fandom situations while having a hyperfixation. I've been there during the height of fandom, when everyone is screaming happily in glory. I've been there when fandom goes through drama and controversy. I've been there watching a fandom fade from trend to peaceful small interactions. I've come ten years late unashamedly to the party. I've bulldozed my friends over with media that I never explore in fandom, which is niche and obscure, which has long since been cancelled or completed, etc. And I've always had fun and never given a ding dong about what happens in those situations because, well, that's how humans work, that's how fandoms work, I'm here for the ride.

But I've never been in the middle of a deep, inspiring, self-growing hyperfixation and had everything roughly, inexplicable removed from me.

That's... fucking wild.

I'm in about the luckiest spot I could be and I still feel weird. I'm lucky I have the videos I downloaded, I'm lucky I can collaborate with TwoSetters over obtaining and sharing the rest, but as each day passes by in silence, the more confused I get. I went through the "five stages of grief" and came out with some acceptance, but I've also been feeling increasingly unsettled this week. Maybe it's weird in one respect to be feeling the way I do. I usually coast through shit without being rocked. But I guess it makes sense why I've felt rocked.

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John, George and Paul onstage for BBC Programme Saturday Club, at the Playhouse Theatre, London, 21 May 1963

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the sound of royai