Russian Winter is enemies to lovers I guess but it's kinda like

"I don't hate you. I hate what you choose to represent. That symbol you put on your chest each time you go out into the world. I hate watching you suffer. Watching people wearing that symbol hurt you. I hate that no matter how much they do, you still wear it. But no matter how much you wear the badge of the organisation that killed my mother, I could never hate You, because you are a victim too even if you never acknowledge it,"

And it makes me feral.

We need to reevaluate our relationship!!!!!!!!!!

"average person has 3 children" factoid actually just statistical error. average person has 0 children. childrens georg, who lives in a mansion and has 7 children, is an outlier and should not have been counted

it is deeply amusing to me that the instigation to the plot of the sound of music is maria being like "pls i want to be a nun!" and then the reverend mother being like "hold up girl, let me send you to live in the house and take care of the kids of the sexiest, dilfiest widower in austria and then we can talk"

climb ev’ry mountain more like go climb christopher plummer you foolish girl

The Sound of Music + textposts pt. 4/?

I should note, I hate the soulmates "we would fall in love in every universe" trope for the aforementioned "where's the tension and interest and really anything worthwhile" reasons. However, "we would find each other in every universe" fucking rips. We would interact meaningfully in every universe but sometimes we are lovers and sometimes we are friends and sometimes we are bitter enemies and sometimes we'd simply both be in the same HOA.

me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

💫 It's okay to write fiction you would not want your grandmother to see.

💫 Different stories are for different audiences.

💫 You do not have to appeal to everyone.

💫 Don't sacrifice the story you want to tell for an imaginary audience or for imaginary critics.

movies used to be about real things like robert redford and paul newman looking at each other

One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico's large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade

When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

Tom Perkinson (American,b.1940)

October Sunset, 2023

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