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mmm drinking tn and thinking on the parallels to be drawn between captain america and the reaper of mars. two physically weak but morally strong reluctant leaders who undergo physical transformation to become greater for a cause and then struggle with the balance of being both a symbol and a man, and their conflict between idealism/reality and becoming disillusioned with the very systems they serve time and time again

anyway

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The Final Empire - art practice thumbnails 69 - 93

I made it to the epilogue!!! 🫠 Let's see what art practice has next in store! (I am going to read Alloy of Law next... will there be art for it? Who knows?) The other parts of this exercise and illustrate-though-the-book are here: the first batch is here, the second here, and the third here.

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Denis Gordeev's Witcher art is so good. They're all so chaotic and unhinged, but also have that 80s fantasy novel vibe. I love them

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female character: *is rude or evil or commits heinous deeds*

me, with stars in my eyes:

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i'm a fan of how show!annabeth putting percy off at first because she's so in her head and so focused on her own plans and ideas that she either doesn't consider or doesn't prioritise his feelings is a genuine depiction of neurodivergent people (including, but not exclusive to, children) struggling with friendships and empathy. because that's a part of it that you don't see depicted often for being less palatable and sympathetic to a neurotypical audience but it's a huge part of it

the adhd representation and how it intersects with gender is honestly brilliant. percy gets to be an inattentive daydreamer instead of bouncing off the walls like people think adhd boys have to be, and annabeth gets to look like a bit of an asshole for a while instead of just being harmlessly weird and quirky like people think adhd girls have to be

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I think something many readers completely misunderstood when the books first came out, and even now, is that Katniss IS like other girls. She’s not some solitary strong independent woman™ who’s not like the other girls. She very much is the other girls.

She’s shy and vulnerable and judgemental and inexperienced and embarrassed. She loves flowers (dandelions!) and pretty things and fashion and dresses. She would have music and singing in her life more if she wasn’t so traumatised and stunted. She has crushes and she’s very romantic, if we go by her own descriptions of Peeta and what she notices from her parents. She’s metaphorically (and sometimes literally inside her own mind) twirling her hair and kicking her feet and giggling any time she’s around him. She’s such maternal and protective instincts for Prim, Peeta, Rue and countless others throughout the series. She cares for people a lot and she values community and friendship and love. She wants softness, she wants cuddles, she wants her hair played with, she wants to look good, she wants to wear cute and fun things, she wants to be kissed and loved, she wants to go frolicking in fields of dandelions.

She is just like other girls and the tragedy is that she’s never able to fully just be a girl.

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"Then be kind, Coryo." Coriolanus & Tigris + Antigone inspired by a post by @godofstupidsentences

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Tarot Inspired Journal Prompts

Fool: what is something new you are doing or want to do?

Magician: what is a magical way to enhance my day? Or, how can I be more like the magician?

High Priestess: what are my thoughts on divination? What about intuition?

Empress: what part of myself do I want to grow/nurture?

Emperor: what part of my life needs me to take authority? How can I?

High Priest: what are my personal traditions? How is my spirituality unique to me?

Lovers: what relationships mean the most to me?

Chariot: what part of my life needs me to be more combative/ warrior-like?

Strength: what part of my life should I face with courage?

Hermit: what do I need to do alone more often? What do I need to do with others more often?

Wheel of Fortune: what do I think about luck, fate, and/or fortune?

Justice: when do I need to focus on legality vs fairness? Or, What may cause me to seek justice/retribution?

Hanged Man: what have/will I sacrifice for -x-? What am I never willing to sacrifice? What will I easily give up?

Death: what is something personal I want to end or change? What is something that will end or change no matter how I feel? How can I accept it?

Temperence: what part of my life needs more patience? What part needs more balance? How can I achieve both?

Devil: what is a primal desire I have? Should I grant it to myself? Why or why not? How can I get what I want?

Tower: what can I learn from the current or recent chaos/disaster in my life?

Star: what do I hope for? How can I get it?

Moon: what part of my life is best kept private? Why?

Sun: what makes me happy?

Jusgement: what part of me needs reflection? What is a fair assessment of that part?

World: what parts of my life have been fulfilled? What parts are still lacking?

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Hello! I just wanted to share some potential reads for Session II of the Black Academia Book Club! We will be discussing Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla on our first meeting on November 5th, 2022 at 5PM EST. The sign-up form is still open here, and you don't have to commit to every meeting; just show up for as many meetings as you would like! After signing up, there will be a welcome email sent to you with information for voting on books we will actually read together... but feel free to send an ask, or DM me, if you have any questions!

Sincerely, Sai 🖤

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Just started this book and El is so damn funny

“fuck you for saving people hero the Laws of Karma are gonna get us for it”

“I am objectively beautiful and everyone assumes I’m a sex fiend who seduced their idol however I’m also constantly filthy and hardly ever shower because monsters keep trying to jump me in the bathroom and I’d rather reek than die”

“please weird magic school I just want a cleaning spell stop teaching me ways to commit genocide”

“The dude down the hall killed a girl and still has part of her corpse in his room but that’s. None of my business.”

she’s beauty she’s grace she’s screaming internally I love her already fr fr

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ok I'm rereading the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik and I'm at the part in the second book where Orion says, "Even my mom and dad, they always thought something was wrong with me....they always thought I was weird."

And I'm like. Can you imagine being a woman who gave herself a pseudo-abortion to create a child who was a ghastly, already-dead, always-hungry monster and then incubating him in your womb and raising him like a Normal Boy™ and then being like, "It's really weird that this nuclear weapon I made and impregnated myself with shows no interest in anything other than being a nuclear weapon. I should make him feel guilty about his lack of interest in this XBox I bought him."

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the scholomance series is like what if the person destined to save the world fell in love with the person destined to destroy it what if the person who everyone thought was going to destroy the world was the one to save it and what if the person everyone thought would save the world was the one to destroy it what if tearing down the world was the way to save it and what if high school really fucking sucked