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me with all my hyper fixations

complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said "oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person" with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he's mildly fond of chocolate chips

I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day

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I recently told an ao3 writer that I keep going back to their 260k word unfinished slowburn checking for updates for the last 2 years. They said I'm like that puppy that waits for his dead owner at the train station every day.

That's the realest thing anyone's told me online, I ain't even mad.

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Welcome to Anna’s Anne of Green Gables Rant.

So I saw a TikTok edit of the 1980s Anne of Green Gables and LITERALLY EVERY. SINGLE. COMMENT called it Anne with an E.

BUT those two are not the same, despite having the same source material. Anne with an E is Anne of Green Gables but Anne of Green Gables is NOT Anne with an E. The first book in that series was one of the first book that I fell in love with and the first time I remember shipping a couple (Anne/Gilbert)

and when I watched Anne with An E forty the first time, safe to say I was severely disappointed with what they did with it. They made a heartwarming coming of age novel with triumphs and troubles that we can find a modern day equivalent to and they made it something dark and dramatic. The heart warming aspect are still there and I love the modern commentary on some of the more difficult aspects of the late 1800s/early 1900s like the residential schools and unequal marriages

but the show missed the mark for me and I felt like they were trying to made a show that fit the times/with what was popular at the time and they chose the wrong source material to do that.

Anyways, that was me crashing out

Anna over and out

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A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.

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Poor Neel 😭 I love this show so much guys

he wants PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Slight changes but I definitely like it better

RAB fanart WIP 💫🌌 deciding If I like it how it is or wanna add/change anything

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RAB fanart WIP 💫🌌 deciding If I like it how it is or wanna add/change anything

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Second time using the tumblr breaking news service

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Thinking about supernatural shows like Buffy, TVD and Teen Wolf and wondering why no one has made a supernatural period drama. Give me witches in Regency England, Werewolves in Edwardian era New York. I wanna see the same fluff from like Anne of Green Gables and angst from Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Darcy handflex) but + paranormal stuff

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There's nothing like being a history nerd and being randomly reminded of your different/past hyperfixations cuz what do you mean I'm obsessed with the Medici again because I saw Daniel Sharman in Teen Wolf post

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I’m honestly surprised that stiles didn’t even do that in canon lol

teen wolf didn't make stiles a werewolf because they knew he would be finding increasingly absurd ways around all the absurd Werewolf Rules. some bad guy tries to trap him in a circle of mountain ash and he reveals he's been carrying one of these bad boys in his backpack for months

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Love this version of Macbeth SPECIFICALLY because of Ross. He’s just a mischievous little guy in it

Alex Hassell as Ross THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021) dir. Joel Coen

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pls yall im scared of the next 4 years 😭

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I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

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Heads up regarding news coverage of Liam Payne's death

The TMZ article that comes up shows pictures of his dead body. They do not show his face, but they do show his arms, torso, and tattoos which I find extraordinarily tasteless and disrespectful. So if you are looking for news stories to confirm that this isn't an internet hoax, avoid that one.