Charlie

people always wanna talk down on it but i fucking LOVE book!polin. i love that penelope's a spinster. i love that she's 28. i love that she's built a life for herself that she's proud of, but is also bored after a solid decade of doing the same thing. i love that he's 33 and aimless. i love that he's traveled everywhere but found what he was really looking for with the girl next door. i love that the would never court Penelope comment came after he was being ribbed by his brothers and she told him she never asked him to court her. i love how danbury said colin was penelope's colin bridgerton and she muttered that he wasn't even though he totally was. i love how they kind of just tumbled and freewheeled into each other. i love how she asked him for a kiss. i love how he got upset that she thanked him and it sat uncomfortably with him because he stopped seeing it as a favor as soon as he experienced it with her. i love how they made out in the carriage. i love how he proposed marriage and she straight up fell flat on her face. i love how he announced she was LW at the ball. i love I'll like it all because I'm with you and I love you for my past and for our future. i love how she retired of her own volition and went on to write novels. i love how colin is a chaotic little gremlin and penelope is a slightly less chaotic little gremlin. i love that she has felicity. i love that colin is disgusted at the idea that he'd be visiting featherington house to look at felicity's watercolors and that he pops off about how he's there for penelope and portia is slack mouthed like a fish. i love all of it. sue me.

happy Juneteenth to black fans in fandom specifically 🫶🏿 love yall

I will say as a great enjoyer of Cis Hetero Romance Novel that if anywhere on the cover the author is described as writing good dirty talk you are inevitably going to run into a sex scene where the dude starts spouting off some shit like "I'm going to put my hard dong in your cute little pussy and freak it sensitive style"

#the allegory to Black boyhood Lou brought to this character is simply unmatched by any other adaptation of pinocchio. it's That Good.

series of unfortunate events really said: sometimes adults are wrong. sometimes they do not have your best interests at heart. sometimes the authority figures you’ve been told to trust are evil, and sometimes they’re just plain idiotic. often, they won’t listen to you, even when you are right. they will misinterpret things you say and belittle your interests and then expect you to take it lying down. sometimes you will know better than they do and there will be very little you can do to change their mind. despite all this, there is good in the world and it will be okay. being young does not mean you are worthless.

For all of the idiots in the notes ^

Honest to god - even if you make 6 figures a year? you're closer to poverty than true wealth. Check your shit and remember who your real allies and enemies are guys.

There was a wonderful study done about 15 years ago I think, that shows that people cannot accurately identify their income bracket. Most people who own a home think they are upper middle class when in fact they are closer to the poverty line. Even people living well below poverty often identify as middle class. The wealth gap is even worse now. I wonder if anyone actually knows their financial standing.

This post is from 2020. Things did not improve.

i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this