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Add realism to your fantasy stories by having characters from different backgrounds struggle to pronounce each others' names.

"My name is [low guttural sound] but I don't want to hear you butcher it. So you may call me She Who Arises With The Cold Mountain Sun."

"...Is that what your name really means? All that in just one word?"

"Yes. If you stress the wrong syllable it comes out as 'She Who Coldly Wakes Up The Mountain Sun', or 'The Cold Woman Who Wakes The Mountain Sun', and you will not call me that."

"Oh, huh. Could we just call you Mountain Sun, for short?"

"Hmh. It's boastful, almost bordering on blasphemy, but it is flattering. I accept it."

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My roommates got married last week and said today that they’re planning on moving to somewhere else in the city, and asked me to move with them when they do.

Which I appreciate so much, they’re both fantastic roommates and I really don’t want to try and find another place on my own, but also. Jesus Christ what a look. “Hiii we’re the Thompsons, we just moved in down the street, that’s my husband and that’s the ghoul who used to live in our basement”

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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i love you, it’s ruining my life

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Moon cake and pond cake 🌙 ✨

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the sun is medicine, the trees are medicine, the stars are medicine, the ocean is medicine

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no more "in my humble opinion", from now on it's "from my grandiose and objectively correct deductions".

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Plants in glass and pots, Eugène’s thing.

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i feel like as a fandom we’re really sleeping on aromantic merlin

just look at this romance-oblivious warlock

and remember this scene?

most relatable aro moment i’ve ever seen

not to mention the way he does things for his friends but everyone always assumes his motivations are romantic. such as:

and:

and let’s not forget the flower scene:

merlin is plagued by people misinterpreting his actions as romantic, and he’s just constantly??? so??? confused???

throughout the show, the most important relationships in merlin’s life are with his friends, his mother, and gaius. in 5 seasons, we get one (1) episode where merlin expresses romantic interest in someone. the rest of the time we get:

a) the aforementioned obliviousness and confusion

b) awkwardly standing next to people who have obvious romantic tension

c) interrupting romantic moments by bursting into the room with bad news

d) third wheeling while hardcore judging a friend’s romantic choices

and, of course, e) teasing a certain royal clotpole for being a lovesick mess

like y’all…just think of the possibilities when it comes to hcs and fics. for example:

merlin when arthur asks if he’s seeing anyone: my lord, i was there when you fell for gwen. you were a Disaster. i don’t need that kind of stress, thanks

arthur, indignant and smug: well, it all paid off because now i get to sleep with guinevere in my arms every night

merlin: idk how it slipped your notice, but we have a steady stream of injured future knights coming to share my bed, no romance necessary

arthur: ?????

anyway, i just think it’d be neat

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There’s happiness and then there’s realizing that the last ten pages of a scientific paper are just the bibliography.

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Gonna go ahead and make the rest of my 2020 predictions now:

Christopher Eccleston snaps and assassinates a member of the royal family

Elvis turns up alive

JK Rowling attempts to regain followers by announcing on Twitter that Voldemort is trans

Firefly Season 2

LeFou and the gay extra from the live action Beauty and the Beast get their own Disney+ Series

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HENRY CAVILL as Sherlock Holmes in Enola Holmes (2020)

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Happy Halloween!

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