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Truth and Measure Audiobook
What happens when the world's fiercest fashion editor learns she's pregnant—and her distracting assistant is the only one she can turn to? This wildly popular age-gap lesbian romance mixes humor and chaos with self-discovery.
Jules Moretti is newly single, an aspiring writer, and the hyper-competent assistant to the most powerful woman in fashion. It's a tough job, but her ice queen boss won't settle for less than perfection.
Vivian Carlisle helms the internationally revered fashion publication Du Jour. She might be smack in the middle of a messy divorce, but you have to make sacrifices to be the best. That's what she tells herself, anyway.
When the unthinkable happens, Vivian's regimented world is turned upside-down. Her life is about power, success, and dominance—not a baby!
This single, shocking moment throws boss and assistant together into an intimacy neither could have imagined. With their lives in chaos, every day brings a new challenge bigger than the last. But everything will work out . . . just so long as they don't do anything totally ridiculous.
Like fall in love.
#books#book club#lesbian romance#lgbt#wlw#truth and measure#girls who like girls#lgbtqia#bi#gay#lesbian#lgbtq#sapphic
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Ah yes, the many choices of what I could do today! Like
1. Rewatch Devil wears Prada
2. Re-read Truth and Measure
3. Scroll on Tumblr in this dead fandom (affectionate)
4. Read other DwP fanfics (aka see if there's a new one maybe)
5. (Re)watch TikTok edits
Ya think I might have a little bit of an issue...
Nah I'm sure it's fine
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self-care is rereading Telanu's Truth and Measure
#knowing full well that every chapter will take you approximately three hours but in this house we won't budge#tdwp fanfic#tdwp fic#tdwp#the devil wears prada#mirandy#fanfic rec#fic rec#mirandy fic#truth and measure
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#f/f fanfic#lesbian fanfiction#telanu#incredibly good f/f fanfic#who knew i liked fashion?#i don't like fashion#truth and measure#mylesficfavs#AO3 link is in the post
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#kirby#daily kirby#my art#digital#hal laboratory#nintendo#so like aliexpress used to have a terrible reputation in terms of like quality and truth in advertising and such right#but like. amazon and etsy are swamped with bootleggers and dropshippers now too#so I figured like. can't be any worse right?#besides I know how to double check descriptions and measurements and examine images critically#I've shopped shady sites before like back when banggood was the only place to get those cute diy miniature kits#(now you can get them at regular craft store chains which is Wild to me)#but I have never opened aliexpress because everyone was always just like 'Never Go There'#(but then again these days folks are doing massive temu hauls left and right)#(so clearly norms have changed even if common perception of aliexpress has not)#I open it up and I immediately find the rug I spent an entire day hunting for unsuccessfully earlier in the month.#and a ton of incredible bootleg kirbs.#and a style of hair clip I've been hunting for for *years*.#soooo I spent the entire day in a pastel fugue lol#(I have not spent any money yet but I'm probably gonna)#(so like I can't confirm that you're not gonna get scammed or whatever just like. use common sense.)#(don't trust sale prices read descriptions/reviews when available and try to avoid work stolen from independent artists)#(that's usually gonna be on printed stuff like phone cases and posters)#(and tbh I have no qualms with stolen official art as long as the quality is as advertised)#(but there's a big difference between stealing from Multinational Corporation and stealing from Some Guy)#anyway done rambling now <3
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i learned that the smoot is a unit of measure named for Oliver R. Smoot, an MIT student who as a fraternity pledge was forced to measure the Harvard Bridge using himself as a ruler. A smoot is equal to five feet, seven inches. (x)
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You're my baby, say it to me...
#gundam witch from mercury#gwitch#wfm#sulemio#suletta mercury#miorine rembran#i bet on losing dogs as per gwitch current story progression aka ep17 do you see my vision...#i have particular mixed feelings on ep 17 most of which i feel that the story is done a bit sloppy i think it started around ep 16 or 15#i really need to get this out so i could study damn it !!#first of all with miorine with the one who's losing a lot by being complicit with prospera's quiet zero significantly trapping herself furt#er in the cycle of revenge and also losing the friends she has come to cherish and also... at the same time knowing hal truths of what real#ly happened prospera true plan. vanadis. aerial and suletta true nature. earth as a spacian battleground. and the whole lot#i feel like she's rushing thru her birthday to eject sul asap from prosperas plan and now whats done is done i feel like she underestimate#what conviction on how suletta values what family means to her. prospera lines where she wonders whether sul will give aerial up#easily is giving vibes that its possible for suletta to take drastic measures to get her family back. miorine grows up on a world that#is defined by strict rules but suletta does not... that is after she's starting to get over her heartbreak i think...#whats interesting about gwitch is that although it considered utena as one of its base material it mixes said materials with how gundam sto#ryline works while simultaneously keeping up with today's themes. so honestly... when this happened today im a bit pissed#another thing that even though on a surface level suletta plays the role of utena with miorine as anthy they are also anthy and utena#respectively. suletta and utena with their kind hearted and naive self with a sense of justice left behind the insidious plot of the school#anthy and miorine titled the bride who adored their respective partner up to the point of deception and betrayal for their own good#SULETTA AND ANTHY GOD THE WITCh. red motifs. i find it funny they both have siblings okay this is messed up. the character shrouded in myst#ery. SCREAMS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS THE CHICK WHO IS YET TO HATCHH !!!! RAHHH#insert utena student council theme somewhere around here#and lastly utena and miorine. the “princess”that is ready to take on a world that is threatening her loved one. both are only child god no.#this is my personal feelings but i will find it heartbreaking that despite everthing suletta will runs to miorine no matter how much she#push her away... but i also want and find it interesting where despite loving and believing in her suletta will slowly will ALSO despise#her for letting them drift apart kind of like anthy and utena on the akio apocalypse arc....... do i want this to happen...? do i....? >yes#regardless augh what a heartwrenching lovely episode despite me knowing it will happen at some point during the show#im like the surprised pikachu meme with tears in my eyes
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so fucking mentally ill about the way miguel isn’t surprised by conchata striking him but doesn’t know how to react when she touches him gently….
#the implications to Miguel not being surprised when his mother hits him…sick to my stomach#like ah man. this has absolutely happened more than once in addition to Miguel being willing to endure a measure of this because#too much like dad#but he appears genuinely shocked and stiff when she embraces him#he doesn’t know how to react when she holds his face#like part of it would just be the shock of Conchata rejecting the truth right in front of her but just#OUGH….miguel……#tunes talks 2099#sm2099
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“Every poem is a description of its own creation . . . a kind of hologram of the mental condition at that moment.”
Success is a kind of failure.
Youth is a kind of genius.
Not-suffering is a kind of suffering.
— Elisa Gabbert, from "That It Is Folly to Measure Truth & Error by Our Own Capacity," Normal Distance
#quote#elisa gabbert#poetry#normal distance#out of my collection#that it is folly to measure truth & error by our own capacity
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We sometimes go on as though people can’t express themselves. In fact they’re always expressing themselves. The sorriest couples are those where the woman can’t be preoccupied or tired without the man saying “What’s wrong? Say something…,” or the man, without the woman saying … and so on. Radio and television have spread this spirit everywhere, and we’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying. What we’re plagued by these days isn’t any blocking of communication, but pointless statements. But what we call the meaning of a statement is its point. That’s the only definition of meaning, and it comes to the same thing as a statement’s novelty. You can listen to people for hours, but what’s the point? . . . That’s why arguments are such a strain, why there’s never any point arguing. You can’t just tell someone what they’re saying is pointless. So you tell them it’s wrong. But what someone says is never wrong, the problem isn’t that some things are wrong, but that they’re stupid or irrelevant. That they’ve already been said a thousand times. The notions of relevance, necessity, the point of something, are a thousand times more significant than the notion of truth. Not as substitutes for truth, but as the measure of the truth of what I’m saying. It’s the same in mathematics: Poincaré used to say that many mathematical theories are completely irrelevant, pointless; He didn’t say they were wrong – that wouldn’t have been so bad.
– Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, 1972-1990
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Ed's "Canon Event"
#OC#Furry#Gay#The truth is Road Rovers was my furry awakening XD#With a little bit of Biker Mice from Mars Swat Kats and Gargoyles for good measure
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The essay question most likely to be asked on Odysseus is ‘how good a leader is Odysseus’ or ‘how responsible for his men is Odysseus’ and the answer, based on the text, is *always* ‘not very’
Here is a Basic Essay plan:
~FOR his being a good leader /responsible:
- tries to get them to leave Ismarus after attacking Cicones
- gets his men back from the Lotus-Eaters, using force in their best interests
- makes stops to take on food and water and ensures crews are well fed, so much so they vote him extra in thanks
- saves his remaining men from Polyphemus by clever thinking and action
- always shares food and loot equally with his men
- after several search parties come to sticky ends, he puts himself into the party and draws lots for fairness
- refuses to abandon his crew to Circe’s magic
- follows Hermes’ instructions to ensure his men are saved from being pigs (yes technically this means sleeping with Circe too)
- chooses not to tell his crew about the dangers of Scylla because he thinks it will cause unnecessary panic
- does tell them not to eat Hyperion’s cattle and tries to prevent them all from dying by begging help from the gods
- gives motivational speeches to try and improve morale (“my friends! We are utterly lost!” 😂)
- can carry *really* heavy stags on his own😉
- is such a responsible leader he attempts to stay awake for days on end to steer them home, and his men only make incredibly bad decisions (opening bag of winds, killing Hyperion’s cattle) when he’s not there to stop them
~AGAINST his being a good leader/being responsible:
- even though he tries to get his crews to leave Ismarus, they refuse, essentially mutinying, and he lets them = questionable authority
- puts his men unnecessarily in danger by insisting on exploring Polyphemus’ island even though they’ve already taken on food and water and even though he has ‘a bad feeling about it’, because their *might* be guest gifts, thus kudos, in it for him
- continues to put his crew in danger by revealing their location having escaped from blinded Polyphemus in order to claim kudos from having been the one to blind him
- continues to put his crews in danger by shouting out *again*, after they’ve narrowly escaped being sunk the first time, in order to further insult the cyclops, resulting in a curse that ends all their lives despite his men *begging* him to shut up
- puts his own life in danger by insisting on hearing the sirens, thus endangering his crew by removing their leader and putting them in the difficult position of refusing his orders (when he begs to be untied)
- doesn’t tell them what’s in the bag from Aeolus… although they should probably assume he’d share it with them if it was loot, because he has set a precedent for always doing that, by not telling them he creates confusion, leading to their mistake of opening it
- doesn’t stop the rest of the ships from entering the harbour at Telepylos, even though he moors outside = again questionable authority
- abandons 11 ships to the Laestrygonians because he cannot save them (ok he didn’t know they were monster cannibals but still, responsibility)
- chooses a more dangerous route when given a choice by Circe, because Jason’s already ‘done’ the Clashing Rocks and Scylla & Charybdis are unclaimed = more kudos for him again, adding to his personal kleos
- fails to prepare his crew for the dangers of Scylla & Charybdis instead choosing to sacrifice some of their lives for his and the rest of the crew’s (return to in Evaluation)
- absents himself at the crucial moment of their desperation in Hyperion’s island, ostensibly to pray for help, but knowing what Eurylochus is likely to do ie: go against his orders and kill the forbidden cattle
(If I’ve missed out some points I may add more later)
~EVALUATION
- although he can’t possibly be expected to know what’s coming (eg: Laestrygonians being monster cannibals), perhaps he should have taken more stock of the way things were going
- arguably, sacrificing some lives for the majority is one of those horribly difficult decisions of leadership, so this might even be admirable (?)
- he does question every decision he makes in order to choose what he considers to be the best course of action…
- …unless if it involves his own kudos, which is his priority
~CONCLUSION
- although he is not without leadership ability, Odysseus arguably makes too many decisions in his own favour, and is directly responsible for the loss of (12 ships x c.50crew each) c.600men, plus uncounted enslaved people from Troy
- and whereas some decisions made by his crew/men can be blamed for events (not leaving Ismarus, opening Aeolus’ bag, killing Hyperion’s cattle), that Odysseus doesn’t/can’t stop them suggests a lack of leadership on his part and/or a lack of trust in him from his men, and, on these events, we *only have Odysseus’s word for it*, as the sole survivor and narrator of these books, which are being narrated for the dual purpose of entertaining the Phaeacians and gaining sympathy from them so that they will help him get home and this is potentially an unreliable source that, like Odysseus himself*, simply cannot be trusted.
*due to his portrayal in every other literary text containing him as a character
I should end this by saying I LOVE Odysseus as a character. He is ‘meaty’, meaning there’s so much that can be discussed when it comes to him. If anything, he’s an annoyingly enjoyable antihero, like Milton’s Satan, or Shakespeare’s Richard III. Though he’s not a tragic hero and is only a ‘hero’ by Ancient Greek terms, *not* modern:
https://youtu.be/rXTecz3PN18
#let’s all take a moment to enjoy a measured and considered response#odyssey#Odysseus#greek mythology#Homer#essay plan#classical civilisation#gcse classics#gcse revision#greek myth#in truth I love him he’s my bestie
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regrettably back in my vampire/cannibal/generally predatory milf era and therefore have cause to resurface The Reaction Image
#lovett is still lurking in the recesses of my brain as well#its just that i read maybe the most compelling fanfic ive ever consumed (besides Truth and Measure my beloved)#and now im back in love with Tall Vampire Lady#so flustered im making a spotify playlist about it#my lord shes got me twirling my hair and kicking my feet#lady dimitrescu
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It's their worry and their protection and their love and how powerful it is, the loyal love of a dog for the one who saved him and the love of a boy for the dog who saved him in return and the way they just look at each other because this new body is changing that love, is changing their love but... but how do they cross the chasm between them?
Bonus: Also, cat-style loyalty
#choco milk shake#choco milk shake the series#koreanbl#korean bl#kbl#k bl#kdrama#korean drama#strongberry#in strongberry we trust#asian lgbtq drama#asian lgbtq drama gif#asian lgbtq dramas#asianlgbtqdramas gif#asianlgbtqdramas#asianlgbtqdrama#asianlgbtqdrama gif#destroyed emotionally#next week better have comfort and truth in equal measure
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hannah once again living her life for us, the milf enjoyers
#hannah said oh you wanna be someone's specialist girl? yeah its nice <3#not lost on me that this could be an illustration from truth and measure
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Chesterton would love Taylor Swift saying “DO something babe say something lose something babe risk something” idk what to tell you
#he said ‘lovers do belong to each other in a more awful sense than they know’#and NO ONE in this century has lived the truth of that more than Taylor Swift#Sorry to Jake Gyllenhaal but you will NEVER get away from All Too Well (all versions) and that wILL BE YOUR SAVING GRACE#if you LET IT#sorry I’m really hyped up on this there are two things I love and know in equal measure in this world and it’s Taylor’s music#and Chesterton’s worldview
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