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The word "oak" comes from the Old English word "ac," which referred to both the tree and its fruit, the acorn.

#etymology

Gonna get my child free week back which I’m so excited about

"Tantalize" is named after Tantalus, a Greek mythological figure who was eternally punished with unreachable food & drink. So close, yet so far.

#etymology

Aurora out the front windshield in Fairbanks, Alaska

As opposed to all the other years when they were killing Black people and being punished for it right?

I love a cheeky little artsy TV series like High Maintenance where you get to meet all different types of characters just living their lives and sometimes you see them again and sometimes you don’t

Mind the Gap: The Unsettling Effects of Head Hopping in Fiction A powerful narrative is one that is immersive and engaging. Anything that distracts or confuses will pull readers out of the story, of which head hopping is a prime example.

Mind the Gap: The Unsettling Effects of Head Hopping in Fiction

"Anything that distracts or confuses will pull readers out of the story, of which head hopping is a prime example."

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It’s your regular shmegular late 20s housemates trying to find their footing in life. Decent palate cleanser

Watching that new series Adults

No clue why so many people’s response to recent uprisings is “see this is what DT wanted all along so now he can martial law 🤓🤓” when what about anything we’ve seen this past decade alone gives he’s a person that works within the boundaries of the law

a girl in a denim vest says yeah sometimes i come here to cry Alt: Max (teen girl) in Ginny & Georgia in school hall saying “yeah, sometimes I come here to cry, so.”

So on a serious note…about Ginny & Georgia (😅), Max’s story this season was a tough watch as someone who relates so strongly to it.

The start of ep9 made it fairly obvious to me that they were leaning into the idea she’s neurodivergent. I’ve now read the creator say that. And they did it SO well 🪡

At the end of it all, Ginny becomes Georgia thus the cycle continues.

Georgia Isn’t Just Messy — She’s a Narcissist: A Psychological Breakdown of Season 3 of Ginny & Georgia When survival becomes manipulation and motherhood becomes a performance

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I’m gonna have to condense these thoughts because there are many. Going to write it in Substack then post it on this thread.

The first thing Georgia did when she got to the town was to sus out what people needed and give it to them so she was in their good graces and feel indebted to her. I haven’t even got into how her being a thin, pretty, white blond woman aids her in all this.

This is all unintentional. The difference between giving grace for something that isn’t black and white and enabling someone like Georgia is whether there’s a pattern of behaviour. Georgia is constantly in crises that is a consequence of her own actions and that’s the pattern.

Another thing about the cognitive dissonance with the people around her is that they’re willing to accept that she possibly murdered someone because obviously people and situations aren’t always black and white but they are the pawns who assist in her evading accountability and become her enablers

You can’t really get a read on her, she’s always plotting and you can never tell what her next move might be or even why. It seems malicious or conniving initially however when she explains her reasoning it’s usually rooted in some type of martyrdom.

If you as a viewer get a sense that you don’t really know Georgia deeply, your instincts would be correct.

Even the neighbour Ellen, Georgia isn’t a proper friend to her. Ellen is really empathetic, loyal and disarming so befriending someone like this only props up Georgia’s external image and consequently her ego

The fact that people can believe that Georgia killed that man tells you that everyone senses something sinister about her but the cognitive dissonance appears when they excuse her actions with positive intentions or some naïveté which doesn’t add up to Georgia’s character, she’s clearly not naïve.

Ginny is a typical parentified child. She’s the real parent in the house responsible for the emotional labour of her family and tries to protect her brother Austin from the same harm her mum caused her which is a near impossible task.

What I noticed in episode one is, how when Ginny attempts to hold her accountable for the impact of her actions she switches on the victim mode. Which reinforces the trauma bond cycle Ginny is trapped in because all she wants to see is that her mum is remorseful and Georgia gives her just that.

She’s charming, lies a lot, manipulative, exploitative (she uses everybody around her even her kids), victimises herself when it suits her, moves as if she’s above the law, really cares about her self-image, delusions of grandeur and evades accountability. There’s probably more.

When I watched the first couple of seasons I thought even though Georgia was manipulative, she was a good person at heart that just down on her luck but now I think she’s actually a narcissist — yeah I know current trending psychology buzzword 🙄 but I’ll explain why

Watching the new season of Georgia and Ginny. Going to thread my thoughts here.

Fantasy landscape. A woman looking up at a giant moon

World-Building Without Info Dumps: A Quiet Revolution

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Oof 😮‍💨 I needed a second to take this in. #Sinners