Beautiful. Audrey at her finest.
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dreaming of moving somewhere where it rains and the trees are always a deeply saturated green. i would open a bakery, work at a vineyard, always have fresh flowers around, let my dogs come to work with me, and have a constant stream of my favorite music playing.
who’s coming with?
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Remember when you left Gotham? Before all this, before Batman? You were gone seven years. Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn’t come back. Every year, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there’s this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I’d sit there and order a Fernet Branca. I had this fantasy, that I would look across the tables and I’d see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn’t say anything to me, nor me to you. But we’d both know that you’d made it, that you were happy. I never wanted you to come back to Gotham. I always knew there was nothing here for you, except pain and tragedy. And I wanted something more for you than that. I still do.
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“The Qualities of a Gentleman:
He acts kindly from the impulse of his kind heart.
He is brave, because, with a conscience void of offence, he has nothing to fear.
He is never embarrassed, for he respects himself and is profoundly conscious of right intentions.
He keeps his honor unstained, and to retain the good opinion of others he neglects no civility.
He respects even the prejudices of men whom he believes are honest.
He opposes without bitterness and yields without admitting defeat.
He is never arrogant, never weak.
He bears himself with dignity, but never haughtily.
Too wise to despise trifles, he is too noble to be mastered by them.
To superiors he is respectful without servility; to equals courteous; to inferiors’ kind.
He carries himself with grace in all places, is easy but never familiar, genteel without affection.
He unites gentleness of manner with firmness of mind.
He commands with mild authority, and asks favors with grace and assurance.”
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**gasps** found something that relates to me on tumblr!! (Finally)
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do you ever get those pangs of anxiety where you feel like nobody likes you and nobody will ever like you and you will achieve nothing
the fuck is a pang
Every day.
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Alright. I critisized one of these “rules” a couple months ago. I told you all that, firstly I didn’t like the idea that to be a lady, or a gentleman that you had to follow a set of rules set by someone else.
I want to break down what it means to be a gentleman briefly, at least linguistically.
noun ( pl. -men)
1 a chivalrous, courteous, or honorable man : he behaved like a perfect gentleman.• a man of good social position, esp. one of wealth and leisure.• (in the UK) a man of noble birth attached to a royal household.
2 a polite or formal way of referring to a man : opposite her an old gentleman sat reading.• ( gentlemen) used as a polite form of address to a group of men : “Can I help you, gentlemen?”• used as a courteous designation for a male fellow member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Well, that in and of its self doesn’t justify these rules and their… creditability. Because, being a gentleman is about being the best person that you can be as a man. It’s not a set of guidelines that you can memorize and follow, it’s a lifestyle choice. It’s like the above use of “classy”. Doesn’t it leave a bad taste in your mouth?
Classy… Say a couple times. Use it in a couple sentences. Read out the above sentences. It makes me feel like the men who read this are taking down notes, instead of actually making an effort. Sure, manners are learned. But hopefully a man who is in a relationship with this “her” is invested in the authenticity of the relationship in which he doesn’t have to look online for ways to be a better partner.
Oh, okay “it sounds classy.” Not that it means something. The word love doesn’t mean anything. It’s the actions behind it. The love you hold in your heart for her is now tossed away because you are only calling her love for the benefit of its sound. There is something wrong about that, at least to me.
I hope my love understands that I won’t be using terms of endearments because it sounds classy, I hope he understands that I use it because that is how I feel.
I hope women expect more out of endearments as well. That he should not take advantage of the vocabulary of words that express the emotions we feel. That they (our partners) don’t manipulate them so that others believe them to be gentleman who hold “class”.
Words are almost all we have to communicate, and not acknowledging is lazy, which in my opinion is the opposite of a gentleman.
^Thank you. My feelings exactly. You shouldn’t just call someone “love” because of the implications of the word, use it because you mean it. In my opinion, other pet names destroy the value of the relationship. Love, however, doesn’t. That’s my two cents, anyway.
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If I may, this style is very attractive.
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List of Words to Know #14
Petrichor - the smell of rain on dry ground
Cataglottism - kissing with the tongue; French kissing
Gargalesthia - the sensation caused by tickling
Callipygean - having well-shaped buttocks
Farctate - the state of being stuffed with food; having overeaten
Lalochezia - the use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain
Charientism - an artfully veiled insult
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