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the other thing that itched at my brain on upon a rewatch was ruth harker's insistence that she did everything she did so that lee be "allowed" to grow up and yet we are surrounded by evidence of stagnation. the hoarding. the fact that she keeps teeth and hair from lee's childhood. the doll, the literal eternal manifestation of lee as a child. and the fact that lee herself is so clearly stunted by this terrible thing that happened to her, BECAUSE she cannot remember it enough to confront it. ruth claims that she is protecting them both but her every action keeps them both steeped in their trauma. and it is very obvious that this movie is about parents who do damage through acts of love and intention to protect but there is something about her actively preserving the memory of her daughter pre-trauma and being unable to connect to the woman she's become that makes me nuts. if there's anyone who's not letting lee grow up, its ruth.

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If I had a nickel for every time Shauna humiliated someone who she was supposed to love in front of the entire team and then it started snowing afterwards I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

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We literally cannot let them start charging 80 dollars for video games 70 dollars was already outrageous 60 was pushing it. 80 fucking dollars. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND. For MARIO?!?!?!?!?

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mistynat is so great bc without misty we are just left with a natalie who is shakespearean levels of tragic. just leading an absolutely miserable existence. all the universe does is chew her up and spit her out over and over. unbearable. which is perhaps precisely why they gave her misty, a ridiculous and offputting poodle of a woman with no sense of action -> consequence. she makes nat's life miserable too, often in the deadliest ways possible, but her mere presence in nat's life is so goofy and absurd that it somehow becomes a relief from the usual torments. at least with misty nat's in a codependent buddy comedy on top of the eternal suffering. samuel beckett style. plus christina ricci has a great rack

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i actually find it really fascinating that there seems to be a subset of people who watch television shows and seemingly can't handle an ounce of conflict or narrative tension or flawed people handling difficult situations imperfectly. how do you guys live like this

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you either vibe with your friend doing axe murder or you don’t

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nat being the one to find out abt misty destroying the 'transponder' is exactly how it was always going to go and i LOVE its where we ended up. its why adult nat is so cold and jaded and wary around adult misty, its why she knows inherently that misty cuts her battery cable, tampering w something again to be close to her. why nat is not completely surprised at misty spying on her in her hotel room with a camera. like sorry, since nat's s1 misty hallucination its always been them, intertwined in this resentful and twisted and devoted red string of fate they keep tugging and tugging on until misty eventually strangles her

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the greatest unrequited love of yellowjackets is not jackieshauna but actually other tai and van. other tai would do anything for van, but van will always be disgusted and frightened of her. will always prefer tai, even when tai abandoned her for 25 years, even though it was other tai who asked for van, who was still thinking of her, all those years later

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How to vent about the same problem multiple times without people wanting to beat you to death with hammers

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misty quigley in every episode

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i had a dream i worked in an underwater restaurant and people kept ordering ice in their drinks and then getting mad at me when it would float away. and i’d tell them beforehand that the ice would float away & they’d be like lol no that’s not how it works just give me the ice. I’m fighting customer service battles never seen before

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lore dropping is kinda crazy because sometimes when I’m mid conversation I realize that actually did happen to me

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i remember learning the word melancholy at age 7 or something and thinking oh this word's gonna be huge for me

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One thing that helped me in life is like realizing that everybody else gets away with being ugly. Everybody else gets away with confronting people. Everybody else gets away with accidentally bothering people. Don’t worry about anything ever lol

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i love re-consuming media i used to love when i was younger. like wow! child me still is in me i am holding her hand and keeping her safe and doing her favorite things with her!!!!

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people will look at classic dystopian sci-fi like "wow how did the author predict this would happen" and the answer is they didn't. they hoped and hoped this wouldn't happen. (some of them, the lucky few perhaps, even died believing the worst had been averted.) these writers took a look at terrible things happening around them, and imagined a future where these terrible things dominated and warped reality, and they held it up to the audience and said "see? does this future not appall you??? it has already begun."

dystopian fiction isn't a prediction. it is a warning and a PLEA

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