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i know my mutuals so whenever i see a horny post im like. *sigh* which republican senator is this about this time

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"The problem is people don't read classics anymore"

No I think the problem is people don't read WIDELY. The ONLY ya and/or fantasy romance crowd is just as insufferable as the ONLY classics crowd or the ONLY litfic crowd or the ONLY nonfiction crowd and vice versa.

You gotta get some variety in there my guys

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Tragic how much effort the daily task of Being A Person takes

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they should make building the life you want easy instead of hard

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my goal for 2025 is small simple and clear: change my whole entire life

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once i beat the depression and the burnout and the anxiety and the loneliness and the exhaustion and the guilt and the awkwardness and the apathy and the low income and the chronic illness and the impatience and the vulnerability and the creative block and the capitalism and the cruelty THEN you'll see

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this is old as fuck but im transcribing the full page notes i wrote about harry and vincent from when i first read the book. FUCK the hyper fixation is so back guys. help me. notes in blue are from me right now, the rest is from like 3 years ago.

VINCENT ANALYSIS

Shown to be impulsive and act on emotion. Apparently (what claire north said in an interview i believe) if harry didnt kill him in the ending vincent would have coddled and been sweet to harry?? and he'd DROP The Quantum Mirror PROJECT??? HELLO???? Harry just needed to convince him completely and everything would have been fine?? i got the feeling that he held a lot of remorse over what he did to Harry. Vincent acts a lot on emotion (ie soccing harry in the face after finding out he's a Kalachkra bursting into Harry's office to debate his papers, starting the quantum mirror, continuing the mirror, dropping the project for Harry, and more). We view the Story through the eyes of Harry so this is his perspective on him.

HARRY ANALYSIS

Cold and calculating. This bitch is manipulative, holy. Brought up the fact that he'd be fine with becoming vincent's lover unprovoked?? said outright he liked vincent?? Homosexual Vibes. Harry is very introspective and while he is impulsive at first (ie. telling his gf, suiciding the first time, taking the advice of a random prostitute, etc...) he fully falls into the mindset of 4D chess. Harry definitely has the better moral compass of the two, but he's far more manipulative. If he hadn't been able to get Vincent's backstory and ended up dying, he would probably continue acting around vincent. he's the kind of person that doesn't care about the journey as long as he gets his end result. I wonder how would have reacted to vincent falling in love with him. would he Continue his plan? would he let himself indulge in momentary pleasures and elope with vincent? (probably not)

lastly some notes about their contrast

The duality of these two is amazing holy shit. Vincent is technically the villain but he has more heroic traits while Harry is the hero but he's a lot scarier and is more villainous.

Vincent tortures, Harry kills. They're both terrible people but Vincent is hopeful where Harry is resigned and tired.

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there’s another fucking week this week

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goncharoved

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i don't feel like a person most times i feel like something ugly masquerading as one and everyone can tell that i'm missing something or i'm wrong somehow

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friends with negative benefits. friends with detriments

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if anyone else is still a dirk gently fan in 2024 please contact me immediately

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Maybe deciding to get a degree was a bad idea

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this vision came to me at like 2am, so now you must see it too

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imagine if people still took last names from their trade like fisher, smith and fletcher. imagine some guy introducing himself to you as jonathan podcaster

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I’m just going to leave this here