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2026 booktok discourse: sad books are a cognitohazard (they make you sad)

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BRIDGERTON (2020-)

KATE SHARMA

2.02 Off to the Races

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MILEY CYRUS: SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL (2025), dir. Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman & Brendan Walter THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (1490–1510), painter: Hieronymus Bosch “Miley is once again talking about the end of the world here. Rather than being afraid of it this time, she seems to have found peace and beauty in the inevitable end. The first verse of the song describes heaven, and the second verse describes hell, similar to Bosch's painting which is sectioned by life, hell & heaven. In the hell section of the painting music is shown as an evil entity that leads to the damning of the human race. Given the song's inspiration of the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, this line [I'm eaten alive by the mouth of a monster] may be paying homage to Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son. ‘Give me love’ explores the path to sin, thematically tying to Saturn Devouring his Son which is commonly interpreted as a depiction of the wrath of god. This compliments the ending verse, in which Cyrus depicts a fall from eden [x, x, gifset insp by x @dengswei].”

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yeah no man it's cool that you don't like the female character for having an insufficient development. yeah even if you adore that male character that appeared in two frames of the show. yeah. yeah. yeah. cool. cool.

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"the effect we have on each other is forever." - jon m. chu

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Ariana Grande as GLINDA UPLAND in WICKED (2024)

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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MILEY CYRUS via instagram

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i fear bridgerton will never have a leading man as hot as regé-jean page

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ngl this scene is probably what sold me on the show

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the Featherington‘s reaction to Marina‘s arrival will always make me chuckle. pretty sure they all turned a little gay in that moment

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People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.

She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.

Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.

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Being anti-death penalty is literally the easiest stance ever. People just say "but should the state kill THIS type of person?" and you just say "no". Not killing people is so fucking easy actually

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If you're reading this I'm rooting for you

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a blank porn blog steps onto my porch (follows me) and I immediately shoot them in the chest with a double barrel shotgun (blocked)

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HANNAH DODD as FRANCESCA BRIDGERTON in BRIDGERTON (season 3)

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bunch of my favourite films: RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)