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im kinda blogging as I read but like can’t believe that im around three books in and half of the major events happen bc someone calls someone else a pussy. 

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see man I was like zoning out for most of book two of the Illiad but then I read like 

“The veteran Protesilaus had led those troops while he still lived, but now for many years the arms of the black earth had held him fast and his wife was left behind, alone in Phyla, both cheeks torn in grief, their house half-built”

and I dont even know anything about this man but like :(

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Do you think that Percy gets like war-flashbacks every-time he has a new teacher or sub or something and they read his full name off of the attendance sheet

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I'm a sucker for time travelling character that think that their past self are EMBARRASSING ™ and I think that it would very much be the case for Arthur (post-return) if he meet Arthur 'MERlin us so USELESS' Pendragon

Does post-return Arthur still make joke about Merlin? Of course, but only HE can do that!!!

Does post-return Arthur want to kick younger Arthur in the ass? Yes of course (you don't understand merlin he is a BRAT Oh I think I do)

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the real reason luke decided to overthrow olympus is because he saw he had to get his letters of rec from the gods and said fuck that 😭

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Arthur: A macefight CAN be romantic.

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I’m only like a hundred pages into the Iliad but the fact that Agamemnon (derogatory) was trying to test his soldiers by saying that they all could leave the war and most of them literally tried to is so fucking funny to me. They’re truly just like me fr.

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cheers to the “bruce wayne is not batman” tag on ao3

or alternatively, au where dr wayne moonlights at doc thompkins clinic where he keeps meeting these teen vigilantes….. WHOSE kids are these? who let these INFANTS out to fight crime? anyway he uses his sleeper detective skills to track down the vigilantes and…??? be their dad??

omg wait. the drake estate also has a cave system underneath that tim finds and opens it up as a base of operations and thats where the bat theme came from. i TAKE your batcave and i SHIFT it one plot of land to the left.

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headcannon that when alfred finally caves and allows the wayne family to get a roomba, the bat brothers just go nuts over it:

Damian names it, and gets disgruntled when people simply refer to it as “the roomba”. Like, no, that is Cerberus? Get it right please

Tim tampers with it on more then one occasion. Hooks up some motion activated speaker/microphone mechanism complete with a voice modulator so that he can speak to whoever it passes. Steph is convinced for a whole WEEK that the roomba is sentient

Jason puts a few knives sticking out from it at some point. The whole family can hear Bruce’s screams when it enters his study.

And Dick just turns the damn thing off every time he sees it. He thinks it’s the worst purchase of all their collective lives

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ingrid sundberg's colour dictionary - writing help

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intense writing things (exposing things that writers do)

discovering a major plot point of their WIP halfway through and just adding it in with any other changes, telling themselves they'll "go back and revise it later"

lots of staring at a blinking cursor hoping it'll magically write

abandoning their main WIP at a crucial part to write the mini WIP that floated into their thoughts

thinking more about what they're going to write than actually writing

complaining about their favourite character dying off in a novel while simultaneously creating a character whose death will be painful for the reader in their WIP

— (iykyk)

can only write during a certain (extremely inconvenient) time of day

"look I wrote another 10 words" to anyone who will listen

knowing the entirety of the plot but nothing at all when you open a new paper

knowing the exact definitions of the most obscure words but forgetting the simplest things

writing a sentence, being proud of it, finding it again while editing, being really proud, sending it to your friend, realizing it's from Percy Jackson or some other popular equivalent.

smiling in pain when your friend asks you about the wip you abandoned months ago ("I know I will finish it this time")

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Magic reveal in a terrible situation except whenever it's over and Merlin saved Arthur and the knights hes so tired and upset and angry and overwhelmed and he just sort of turns to denial and

"No." Merlin shakes his head slowly and then more sure.

Everyone looks at him appalled but before Arthur can even open his mouth, he's interrupted by tiny nervous giggles from Merlin rocking back and forth in front of them before stopping abruptly and looking up determinedly.

"No. You all-" he points at the knights (who only flinch a little thank you), "-are you going to pretend you never saw that and then- then!" Merlin says a little hysterically pointing at Arthur now who can't help but take a step back and the look in his eyes.

"You! Are going to wait and then when the time is RIGHT just like I PLANNED I will tell you I have magic! And it will be the perfect moment! And it'll be when I'm ready and I'll tell you everything and it'll be SAFE and and- and you'll be upset but you'll understand and this is just-" Merlin screams a little to himself making everyone's eyes widen.

Merlin looks down with his eyes closed and takes a long breath.

He looks up at them looking like he's about to cry before saying desperately in a small voice, "You guys didn't see anything, right?"

Silence greets him before Gwaine cuts in, in a much less boisterous voice than usual, "I didn't see anything." Looking at the knights beside him, he elbows Elyan in the ribs causing a grunt.

Wincing at the pain, "I don't know what you're talking about." Elyan looks at the others with a very obvious look of 'your turn'.

Percival shrugs solemnly, "I was blinded by the sun."

Leon looks hesitantly over to Arthur before straightening his shoulders, "It must have been a trick of the light."

Merlin's shoulders relax a little as he nods to himself before everyone looks to Arthur.

Arthur looks at his knights and then back to his trembling manservant before looking to the ground and then to the sky.

"We were simply lucky as we always are."

Merlin breaths and everyone ignores the tears falling down his cheek as he turns around.

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this joke is so stupid but my 3am brain couldnt resist

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I am forever losing my mind over the fact that out of the main cast, the only Merlin voluntarily revealed his magic to was Arthur. Everyone else either figured it out on their own or was informed by someone else. 

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I just found out that someone wrote retellings of the classics but instead of people, there are animals

I can’t get over the Dorian Gray cover💀💀💀💀💀

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Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray.