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If Tumblr is gonna shut down they should put all the top bloggers in a room and make them pass a sack around and put money in it and maybe that'll save it

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tumblr has a shutdown scare every single year I’m not going anywhere I refuse 2 migrate until tornader is right outside my house.

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Me worrying and having anxiety 24/7:

The one day I decided not to worry:

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Ford Maddox Brown, The Ascension, circa 1844

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Ch. 47 Sometimes it takes many years to find happiness. But time flies when you try your best every day to live joyfully and love fearlessly.

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I've always thought Margarita would be a beautiful name for a little girl

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i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

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Do you ever just look at the moon, stars, sky, mountains, night, nature and then look at yourself and think that you’ve been created by the same Creator.

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listen: cheating at baseball is like a whole second sport. as long as baseball has existed, people have been cheating at it

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Winter has arrived on Poob.

Start your 7 day free trial of Poob today, and watch smash hit Martin Scorcese's Goncharov.

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none of the iterations of anne of green gables have gilbert giving anne a candy heart this haunts me

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hot take possibly? but i actually think it’s okay for things to be marketed for adults. it’s literally okay if things aren’t suitable for children. i feel like we are losing the plot

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Nothing fills me with quite as much rage or glee as denying ai permission to do anything

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Name another movie that does exposition as well as Lilo & Stitch.

Nowadays if you need a scene where Character A establishes through dialogue with Character B that Character B has relationship problems with Character A, and there's a main conflict rapidly approaching, and establish both Character A and Character B's motives and cares...

...nowadays that scene would just look like those two characters arguing with bizarre dumps of information. "Why were you late? I had a bad day at school, it would've been nice if my SISTER was there to pick me up on time! Especially now that mom and dad aren't here." "I know it's been hard since their car wrecked, but now is not the time to deal with it; you have to show that you're well-adjusted and I have to show that I can handle you, because that's what the social worker is looking for, so get it together!"

But that's not how they did it in Lilo & Stitch.

In Lilo & Stitch Nani runs home recklessly, we're shown she knows Lilo is already in there, we're dropped into a situation that's very unfamiliar to us —little kid locked her sister out and bailed the door shut—but the way the characters are acting, this is almost a semi-normal thing to find.

Nani mentions the social worker, not in a regular scrambling-to-clean-up-over-the-shoulder lecture, not with talking heads—but with her head through a doggy door.

While the kid is lip syncing to Elvis and barely responding to anything she says. No explanation of where their parents are. No explanation of why a social worker is coming over. No explanation of why Lilo is doing any of this.

Except for what is shown. And you gotta figure it out. And because the audience is engaged by having to figure it out, they're already more than halfway to believing it. You don't deduce something without first getting invested in it.

Live Action Version is not going to be able to do that. They won’t be able to show-not-tell.

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Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?