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a self-indulgent bot for various quotes i find emotionally affecting (aka Things Rob @plounce.bsky.social Likes). this is inherently embarrassing be nice. sources doc: https://tinyurl.com/bdh9ab74 (replies are currently off!)

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 37m

What’s the scientific word for it… weird magic?
That’s not the scientific term for it, but it’s cute.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 1h

Watanuki faltered, and Doumeki couldn't remember ever hearing him falter. Not when he was like this, a wish shop keeper in all his terrible power.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 1h

Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: “I love him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no.”

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 2h

Someone used my card to buy a camera in California. $556 will get you almost nowhere. Maybe my card company just prevented a masterpiece or something sick and twisted, but I’ll never know for sure.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 2h

She didn’t finish her semi-delirious ramblings. Her head dropped back and she fell asleep. She had metamorphosed. Once pure and beautiful, she had spoken like a callous, uncaring pessimist, ready to bury anything tender in their past.

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 3h

whether you should follow through on your predetermined destiny and die for what you believe in or if you should refuse to let them make you a martyr and walk away alive

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 4h

Blind your gravestone eyes on this!

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 4h

My insides are pink and raw, and it hurts me when I move my jaw. But I am taking tiny steps forward.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 5h

When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you that this story is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 5h

You do realize where I'm going, right? Or, rather, who I'm –
Yes.
He's never coming back. You do realize that, don't you?

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 6h

We are all usurpers of something – My sister usurps my sole life, and I yours. O my dear, how patiently you share in all these alien, foolish affairs. And yet, my hand is yours; you too must take it, usurp it – your own, and because of this also my own; take it, clasp it;

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 6h

I've overstayed my welcome.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 7h

Who made you this way? Who is going to bear your beautiful children? Do you think you can just stop when you're ready for a change? Who will take care of you when you're old and dying?

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 8h

who lost their loveboys to the three old shrews of fate the one eyed shrew of the heterosexual dollar the one eyed shrew that winks out of the womb and the one eyed shrew who does nothing but sit on her ass and snip intellectual golden threads

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 8h

Someone else's eyes might not have made me so sad, but this is the worst night I ever had.

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 9h

“There are too many spies in this world already, and all of them squandering their lives.”
“You couldn’t command him. And I don’t think he could have done anything different and remained himself. Remained the man that you loved.”
And that, he thought, was the bitter truth.

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emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 9h

In reading of your mind’s visits to me of late, I did not, in fact, find myself in search of the point. Does this surprise you? What was the word you used for it, in all your certainty – a hunger? How it amuses me to hear you speak of my hunger as if you know it.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 10h

I know my room is a mess. Over and over again, I tell myself I’ll clean tomorrow. Just move the stuff up off the bed.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 10h

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 11h

You like D&D, Audrey Hepburn, Fangoria, Harry Houdini, and croquet. You can’t swim, you can’t dance, and you don’t know karate. Face it, you’re never gonna make it.
I don’t wanna make it. I just, wanna –

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 11h

ITS NOT FUCKING TREATS YOU PIECE OF SOFT KITTY

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 12h

He would not fall. The world went white behind his eyes but he would not go to ground. The blood continued to pour. The nobleman replaced his sword, remounted, rode on. It was only then that Inigo allowed the darkness to claim him.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 12h

They were intelligent, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I’m sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 13h

You destroy me. You know my hunger well, and yet you starve me until I'm begging on my knees.

emotions scrapbook (returned) @affectingbot.bsky.social · 13h

Come on boys, that'll be enough – you'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough.

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