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Russian Naming Customs

With Shadow & Bone content making its rounds on Tumblr, I wanted to make a PSA and clarify that whatever its merits, it does not really represent Russian realities, and especially doesn’t represent Russian names.

I have nothing against people enjoying the show or the books, but I do want to show you how names work in Russia, so that a future generation of fantasy fiction writers doesn’t make the same mistakes that Bardugo did. (If you read to the end, I explain where she went right and wrong with character names.)

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Fred An Playlist

Ugly Heart - G.I.R.L.

Believer - Imagine Dragons

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“well i guess this is my life now”

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My brain: don’t you fucking dare

My hand: whoops lol

(Another fine example to put into a dictionary, this time next to “ Why oh god why”. There are no fun times ahead, guys.)

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Hi, Mark!

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We discovered this curious “ghost in a candle” trick in an issue of The Strand from 1895. Here’s the explanation of the trick, “invented by a man as a rather peculiar surprise for a friend. He made that friend a present of some coloured wax candles, one of which contained the affair shown. The receiver was very fond of having a few candles of the coloured kind placed about his drawing-room, in candelabra, and was intensely surprised one night when one of those which he had thankfully accepted from his friend exploded with a loud ‘bang,’ after having burnt down about half-way, and revealed to view a miniature ghost, with outstretched arms, which had issued from the remaining portion of the candle. To say that the man was puzzled by so extraordinary an apparition is to incompletely describe his feelings. I wonder how the reader would accept such a crisis. I know that I should have been very much astonished. Yet the effect was produced in an exceedingly simple manner, as can be understood by examining the drawings. The lower half of the candle really consisted of a thin cardboard case, containing a spring and a small ‘ghost’ with spring-arms, which would fly apart immediately upon being released from their bondage. A small portion of gunpowder, separated by a disc of paper from the head of the ‘ghost,’ completed the apparatus. The outside of the cylinder was waxed to appear as but the continuation of the candle. When the flame burnt to the powder it naturally caused it to explode, and simultaneously with the discharge the spring forced the little image upwards. This device would make an effective toy, I am inclined to think, as the cylinder could be used as often as required, by fixing a half-candle properly to the top of it and concealing the join.”

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humansofnewyork:

“My mom died of lung cancer on my sixteenth birthday. My birthday is actually coming up—this Saturday. Before she passed away, I was a good student and everything. I was probably going to get a scholarship for singing. But I stopped caring after that. My mom was my biggest fan. Even when she was really sick, she came to my singing recital in a wheelchair, with her hair falling out of her head, and she sat on the front row. I quit singing after she died. There was nobody to sing for anymore. My Dad raised us. And he was wonderful. You want to know how awesome my Dad is? He went to court and tried to legally change my birthday. Just so I wouldn’t have to go through it every year. It turns out you’re not allowed to do that. But he tried.”

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phsfg:

Anon asked for more young meets old!au shenanigans so here’s this

Poor hanzo can’t catch a break

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deep-dark-fears:

Tintinnabulation time. An anonymous fear submitted to Deep Dark Fears - thanks! The Deep Dark Fears book is available now, with fifty unpublished comics and fifty favorites! You can find it at Amazon, B&N, IndieBound, iBooks, Google Books, your local bookstore, and wherever books are sold! For those of you outside the US, bookdepository.com is offering free worldwide shipping!

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petitetimidgay:

ccaesarsalad:

“ 2) Please “

ok but jerry is cute as hell

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tastefullyoffensive:

Dad to the rescue!

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dreamingsnowflake2013:

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lunarsolareclipse:

17mul:

djisjustmysirname:

buzzfeed:

This Baby Was Born With The Exact White Streak In Her Hair As Her Mother

Baby Rouge

@puremarula

@marissarei

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tastefullyoffensive:

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