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priyanka's avatar

“closure is a myth invented by big yearning to sell you more sad”…..but i want it! brilliant essay, per usual.

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❦ sonny p. forella's avatar

gonna guess the joan songs were it ain't me babe, daddy you been on my mind, baby blue & love minus zero. excellent—searingly, painfully gorgeous in your precision. love it!

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i hate kate bush's avatar

omg you’re right on the money with the joan guesses!

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❦ sonny p. forella's avatar

i know my girlll

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❦ sonny p. forella's avatar

not love minus, i mean don't think twice. the section on secretary is great, too—I always had an issue with that film because it truly has top 4 potential hut the the second half comes out of nowhere—literally tonal roadkill. i feel like it never truly addresses the darker themes it deals with

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ellie 🦷's avatar

this made me feel like someone finally wrote down the ache i’ve been carrying for years without language. devastating, precise, and so tender in its refusal to tie things up.

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Valentina's avatar

“finds not purpose, but shape—a different, less consoling kind of resolution” oof… thank you for your words.

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Alex Jane's avatar

So this made me sick thanks

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liy's avatar

beautiful <3

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iris's avatar

back again hours later i literally can’t stop thinking about this piece hahahahah

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iris's avatar

this was everything i wanted/needed it to be and more… not only appearing on my timeline in a perfectly relevant moment in my life but also incredibly written, cited, and interrelated across fields Just amazing

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Tor Rose's avatar

Beautiful <3

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