just two gay angels who disobeyed heaven for a seemingly impossible love, only ever want to make everything right in a messed up situation and still won’t let themselves have what they truly want
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my one major gripe with this season is the amount of current pop culture references, because that’s going to date the episodes real fast. i feel this way about basically every other episode like that in previous seasons for the record, it’s just been especially prevalent this season. why must a time traveling show feel so grounded in one time?
edit: fyi, i do enjoy pop culture references and there are a certain charm to the older ones. but the episodes that base their premise heavily on pop culture of the time don’t read as well for me. a dated episode isn’t bad, i just prefer the episodes that feel a little more “timeless”
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the number of times i will go back into a fic to add or remove one single word or maybe move it to somewhere else in the same sentence can’t be healthy. i’m tormented by a mildly popular text post of mine going around that i am sure could be funnier with one fewer syllable, which i also added and removed 3 times in the drafts before posting. it’s not compulsive, it’s genuinely not harming me or preventing me from sharing my work, it’s just like somewhere in the intersection between perfectionism and an inability to let go i’m there ten days after posting wondering if an exclamation point instead of a period would meaningfully alter a reader’s experience, like a philosopher spending six years contemplating the nature of existence through a single grain of sand and okay, i started this post to make fun of myself but i just remembered that my linguistics tag is “language is my one true love” and writing is more like gardening than a race. something can be done when it’s done because there’s a print deadline or a hard frost or you have to put down the shears and see about the rest of your life, but in all other cases it’s just endless potential for noodling around in the dirt until you don’t feel like it anymore. there has never in history been a home garden in growing season where everything is done. i like to pet tomato leaves and maybe clicking “edit” on an old fic when i reread it to change three words and then change them right back is like that. i’m posting this one with no more fuss because i’m going inside to make tea.
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Apart from being a slightly-anachronistic-with-funky-music-period film, Catherine called Birdy is possibly one of the few examples in fiction where life in the middle ages is portrayed with its joys and sorrows, meaning it's not all grit and filth and religion and misogyny (and while there is THAT), you can see how children still behave like children, how a rebellious teen is still a rebellious teen, who tries to be gross, who annoys their siblings, who tries to play the flute with one nostril, who is excited to have a whittled bear figurine and dreams of wrestling a lion, gossips with their best friend and likes to read about the gruesome deaths of saints
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every day i am so glad g3 came out btw. there was such a stretch of time where i thought that monster high as a franchise was dead, which was so weird when it was such a game changer to the doll scene when it came out! there was no news and there was barely anything to speculate over, and like a miracle that changed and there was stuff to look forward to :] also its been honestly pretty great imo, i really love g3. i just love that this franchise is continuing and that its so good at the same time!
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