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I regret you didn't fall to a kinder soul than I...

[A surprise me! Skeb from Cidate - go check them out]

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weekly art challenge #10 - in the cards

the divine luck of the ever-changing wheel is far more overrated than many people think, and Reshal knows this better than anyone

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Robert Gould’s Elric of Melniboné art

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Art by Michael Whelan for the Elric of Melniboné series of books by Michael Moorcock

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Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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dont post original lesbian art on twitter otherwise a thousand people will compare it to their anime yaoi ships and or literally anything other than the original piece

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*sigh* I love my OC... *beats them with a lead pipe*

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the writer's clearly overt fetish

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

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It's 87 degrees at near midnight please can we just have a week of rain and cool weather this is insufferable

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never even set foot in New York but damn does Zohran packing up that sex pest Cuomo make me happy

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down