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tell me what I'm like (opens the original)
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The way the characters on House M.D. talk to each other is not normal. Not for people and not for TV characters. One of the quintessential rules you learn as a writer is that that the desires, motivations and feelings of your characters should not be stated outright. Yet, this show lives off of exactly that.To be fair, Gregory House isn’t so much in the business of declaring what he feels as he is in telling other people what they are. He compulsively needs to have everyone around him figured ou
you do not have to be good (opens the original)
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Annoyingly, I am pretty principled person. I have a very rigid set of relatively absolute beliefs. One of them is that I hate black and white thinking and moralism. So I’m at odds with myself there.Another one is that forgiveness cannot be earned. That no deed can outweigh or undo the other. That, “to forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's-it's... it's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.”I don’t like to think of the world as being ruled by a moral scale. By
Chronic (opens the original)
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March 2026It seems to me that in some way my whole life has been in preparation for sickness.Sickness is when shit hits the fan. It’s when we pull together and get to work. It’s when I close my eyes.There it is, finally, confirmation that, like my mind, my body is not young and spry, but diseased.Secretly, I’ve been thinking that it’s been rotting. Sanding itself down. That some strange animal is eating its way through it.I am a miserable martyr. I cannot suffer irreligiously. I can’t abstain fr
love as the blood on your hands (opens the original)
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Perhaps the most striking thing about falling in love to me is the guilt I feel.I saw a meme, the painting of Lady Macbeth by Alfred Stevens with letters in a pink font on it that said, “having a crush feels like I’ve killed someone and can never wash the my hands free of the blood”. I instantly saved it.I suppose it comes down to what you’ve experienced love to be.If love is something that was done to you, it’s not something you can do to somebody else with a clean conscience.*Someone asked me
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