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People seriously need to leave Neil Gaiman the fuck alone.

Good Omens has more canonical nonbinary characters than all other representational works combined and you have the audacity to call it queerbaiting because men aren't kissing each other??

Just because it isn't the exact kind of representation you want doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile or desperately needed.

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Look at this fluffy cow

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Bilbo was declared dead while he was away in the Hobbit (and had to do a bunch of paperwork to get declared alive again) but there’s no indication he was formally declared dead after leaving the Shire, even though most people assumed he had died.

Therefore I posit: having a missing person declared dead in the Shire requires the consent of their next of kin. Whoever Bilbo’s next of kin was at the time of the Hobbit (possibly Otho? I’m not sure) had him declared dead at the first opportunity but Frodo refused to ever do it.

Frodo had anxious hobbit bureaucrats knocking on his door every couple of years like ‘Mr Baggins… blease… it’s been 10 years… he was eleventy-one… can we fill out his death certificate yet’ and Frodo was like ‘absolutely not’.

Early on he genuinely couldn’t bring himself too but after a while it was more that he enjoyed irritating the local magistrate’s office than anything else.

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one of my favorite human quirks is when the power goes out and you’re w other ppl and inevitably someone says ‘did the power go out?’ like...you’re all sitting there in the dead dark, tv black, wifi gone, lights OUT but still they’re like ‘hm. well I have a theory but it needs to be submitted for peer-review’

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Excuse me. Is he using a pillow to simulate holding baby yoda?

pedro pascal voice acting for the mandalorian: behind the scenes // final product

bonus:

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After I came out to my ex as ace, things went pretty downhill til our 3 year relationship ended. Its been a couple years without any romantic relationship and I realize that I'm pretty happy staying single. Everyone's always asking me how I deal with the loneliness, but I'm far from it. I'm the happiest I've ever been pursuing the things most important to me and taking care of my mental health. Next step- make everyone else see that.

Thanks for sharing!

- Fae

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An important post from @charisjib on IG about inclusivity in art!

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i need both of these now

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In all seriousness I took a death and dying course in college for fun and that’s when I fell in love with, and began to seriously study, spontaneous or “street shrines”. These are the organic, unplanned placements of items when someone is killed, generally, and the community almost descends on a spot. I am fascinated by that interfaith, inter-spirit moment of connection fostered. What drives someone to leave the first item? Who guides them there? What do we, as humans, seek from the leaving of a memorial on a place that now hallowed? And we know it is, to some extent, even if we’re not spirit-workers. We have this human need to bear witness, no matter who we are, and over and over again it manifests as this need to build some space, some monument that says “they were here, and now they aren’t here, and we, collectively, of all faiths and walks of life, strangers to each other, will remember them”

We take comfort in, and protect to some measure, that space we create with tea-light candles and stuffed bears and flowers and it just feels like the Right Thing to Do. We rebuild these spaces when they are torn down by authority and we keep building them up and that’s beautiful

Street shrines are TRULY universal, too. They are largely non-verbal but it’s like we just KNOW what to do, like something moves inside all of us and it doesn’t fucking matter if we can’t understand anyone else standing at the site, it’s just a Knowing. It’s phenomenal 

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“Books and stories that young readers found and appropriated for themselves”

I love this so much!

When I was little, our library had non fiction close to the kids’ section. I used to sneak over and read what I thought were the “real” books about whatever held my interest. (Not a lot of kid books are written about true crime & ancient Egyptian religion).

Then I’d take the smallest of those books with colorful spines and hide them with my checkout books -a stack of kids’ section books I had no intention of reading.

I love the librarians who never told on me. My parent only caught on once & thought someone had put it on the wrong shelf.

Hii! So I'm taking a course in college about Children's Literature, and have found that just aswering the question "What is Children's Literature?" is actually not as simple as some might think, so I was just wondering, how would you define Children's Literature?

Any books that were either intended for young (not adult) readers or books and stories that young readers found and appropriated for themselves, or that adults felt were more appropriate for young readers. Books can be children's literature and adult literature at the same time. (Children's literature of a specific time can also no longer be seen as children's literature when the nature of literature or the needs of readers change, because it's now become something only adults or researchers might read.) And every statement in the above could be expanded or clarified or footnoted to explain why it's partly true but not entirely.

Or perhaps, "Children's literature is anything I'm pointing at when I'm talking about children's literature."