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he's just trying to take hip-hop out the drake era

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fucking. what?

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teens of denial and a portrait of the artist as a young man

(this is mostly speculation)

will toledo likes james joyce, i think that is relatively obvious. he has also called teens of denial a bildungsroman, a term that is often used to describe a portrait of the artist as a young man, so it's fair to assume that he might have taken some inspiration, or payed homage in some way.

both are (among other things) about religious guilt and characters doing things they believe to be sins, despite or because of that. joe sees jesus who calls him scum for doing drugs, stephen's soul 'lusts for its own destruction', he has sex with prostitutes and is later overcome by his guilt.

they both contain mentions of someone feeling hatred towards the people around them in a social setting. stephen, at the children's party at Harold's Cross, 'felt himself a gloomy figure', feeling threatened and disgusted by the people around him, and vincent is essentially about the same thing.

also stephen's father calls him a lazy bitch, and joes father (also) calls him the scum of the earth

lots of mentions of fathers

and mothers

both have a weird relationship between narrator and protagonist (in what capacity joe is will or not, and the third person narration of portrait which is so strongly shaped by stephens growth that the two become entwined.)

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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Absolutely captivated by this very specific type of image

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i still think it was timothee chalamet

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im wearing those shoes with springs in em

this is literally the funniest plot twist in any form of media ever

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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sea

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always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!

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Love seeing something from TikTok and going “girlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal States”