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why do I keep getting ads on my social media from the local hospital telling me to give birth there

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trying to avoid writing this fic by titling it (not an uncommon stage in the process for me) and I am STRIKING OUT

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Glanced at a flyer at work and thought "that looks a lot like Toby Stephens" probably three or four times before discovering that in fact it is Toby Stephens

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Romance is a scam made up by lawyers to sell divorce xoxo

god i wish. that would be so cool. i love divorce

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"enthusiastic consent" "dubcon" "noncon" ???con where we're both so neurotic and strange about vulnerability and emotional and physical expression that it'd take a crack team of philosophers to figure out whether anything about what we did together was consensual or even semiotically definable as sex

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Louis de Pointe du Lac + favourite fits | INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Season 1-2 (2022-2024)

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ok so things they left out of this adaptation:

the beginning section with Billy arriving at the inn (kind of important context)

Jim's father dying (I totally understand this being cut to simplify the story, although personally I think it adds something to Jim's character for him to be a) grieving and b) predisposed to latch onto any father figure)

women (I was not particularly surprised by this)

my three personal favorite silly little moments (Livesey keeping Parmesan cheese in his snuffbox, Jim seeing sea lions and thinking they were fucked up snails, and the pirates chanting "Barbecue for captain!" at Silver) (I also wasn't surprised by any of these omissions but a girl could dream that at least one would be included)

the minor character Dick Johnson (this wouldn't be surprising except that they did make a point to mention pretty much every other character at least once)

things they changed:

a number of timeliney things to condense the action (makes sense)

it is Immediately obvious that Silver and his followers are pirate conspirators, a bit more so than in the book

Jim is less friendly with the "good" adults particularly in the beginning - he's actively keeping secrets for Silver for a bit and (unintentionally) helps kill Arrow

Silver was the one to maroon Ben Gunn

the body they find while looking for the treasure is DARBY MCGRAW?!?!?

no hearing "Flint's ghost" :(

instead of Silver peacefully letting them bring him to the nearest port and then quietly slipping away he makes his escape while still at the island (by physically throwing Trelawney into the water while cackling maniacally which made me laugh out loud)

no frame narrative of Jim writing down the story (which I can see maybe not translating very well)

Overall there are obviously a number of things I would have done differently but despite all that I actually thought it was okay. I'm not a big fan of 1950s movies but Treasure Island is a story that's actually really well suited to that particular style of acting (earnest in a way that's a bit over the top, with hilarious fake violence) and music. I also thought the sets and costumes were pretty good. Long John Silver (my top priority always) is not really how I think of him, but that's because my way of thinking about him has been so deeply and irrevocably influenced by Black Sails - setting that aside, I see where they were coming from with this interpretation of him. And Captain Flint the parrot is there <3

I'm watching the 1950 Treasure Island movie and now what in the hell are they doing saying it's set in 1765, as if the timeline didn't already drive me crazy enough

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I'm watching the 1950 Treasure Island movie and now what in the hell are they doing saying it's set in 1765, as if the timeline didn't already drive me crazy enough

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okay it did just cheer me up considerably to see a patron walk in carrying a DOOR and head on up the stairs with it to book discussion

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My coworker is retiring in June and I've been planning to apply for her position and have spent MONTHS thinking about pros and cons of going for it, and mentally rehearsing interview responses late at night, and imagining my life with it, and the bad news is that after all that we just found out that they're not going to rehire the position at this time because of the budget. But the good news is I can stop stressing out about it!

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congrats to the Les mis châtelet team for winning best musical! :)

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following people on both sides of the 9-1-1 ship war is so fascinating because it's not just that they both want their ship to be canon/endgame, they're both one hundred percent certain that their ship will be. and they're both acting like the other side is delusional and has no media literacy whatsoever, but really they both have pretty good logic! unfortunately everyone is half right and half wrong, except for me, the enlightened one, because obviously what's actually going to happen is polyamory. yes I'm being realistic.

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they call me byecurious yhe way im always a little interested in leaving👋

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got out of coming out and discussing my sexuality at a family gathering yesterday by agreeing to the statement "you identify as an introvert?"

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"The pinhole is closing back up." INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.05

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you ever get assigned something as a project in school and for the rest of your life you have a strange attachment to the subject. in like seventh grade i had an assignment to make a poster about the elemental propoerties of osmium and to this day everytime someone mentions it im like 'YEAAAAAAH OSMIUM MENTIONED!!!!!!!!'

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"Maybe I can make porn in an illuminated manuscript style" I ask myself, like a hat maker going insane from the mercury in their work.