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that's a happy ending, kindness in action can do some good here and there.

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Jar (Our Greatest Enemy)

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I had no idea people hated the iron throne quest. it’s one of my favorites in the entire game

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Yeah I saw the lovecraftian horrors and didn’t succumb to madness. What- no I’m not a cultist, James. For Christ’s sake. What you’re forgetting my friend is that HP Lovecraft wasn’t a flexible man. His brain simply wasn’t stretchy enough to take it all in. I however, have short term memory issues. Flexibility is the name of the game when you can’t remember if you ate lunch or not. What’s the size of the universe? Big. You knew that already, James. Come on now. You don’t need to witness the terrifying ocean at the base of the entirety of reality itself to know that. Pass the brandy.

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reel took me the fuck out

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it's funny when quotes from communist figures breach containment online and people are like "btw in case you didn't know this guy was really problematic"

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coffee makes you have to pee SO much i'm like maos wife over here

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Apparently you can send potatoes through the USPS without a box?? You just slap a label on it and away it goes

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do you ever hear yourself talking and one word comes out very pronounced in you regional accent and you get irrationally embarrassed because oh no now people are going to know i’m from a place

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so the grey wardens' reputation has to be a witcher kind of deal, right? you want them around when the darkspawn show up, but they make you uneasy. you can tell they're different somehow, that something's wrong with them even if you can't quite put your finger on what. and they're not exactly the cheeriest folks around either, are they? haunted eyes and grim smiles. why are they here? is it the darkspawn whose trail they're on or is it the other way around? the two are never far apart.

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I really like this russian edition of classic books. Letting famous artists do the covers in YA style was such a simple but clever decision. According to the recent study the number of teenage readers increased, possibly thanks to these covers. I own traditional classics with blank covers but if I ever see one of these in the wild, it’ll probably make me go feral.

Here are some of my favs:

Dracula (art by Renibet)

2.Jane Eyre (art by Ulunii)

3. Little women (art by чаки чаки)

4. The Idiot (the hedgehog-omg-) (art by Xinshi)

5. Pride and Prejudice (art by Cactusute)

6. War and Peace (art by Xinshi)

7. Wuthering Heights (art by Renibet)

8. The Great Gatsby (art by NIKEL)

9. Frankenstein (art by Iren Horrors)

10. Crime and Punishment (art by REDwood)

11. Anna Karenina (art by Ulunii)

12. The Cherry Orchard (art by lewisite)

13. The Master and Margarita (art by Renibet)

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I remember skipping my 4th hour class nearly every day for the second semester one year because my 4th hour was gym first semester and I could go there and play and run and have fun because the teachers thought I was still in the class.

I loved gym class so much, more than any other class, including art class.

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The DreadRook Week 2025 has wrapped up and we are left with amazing content to enjoy.

Here is the list of it by prompts:

Day 1 - Fade Conversations || "You are ever in my thoughts"

Day 2: Memories || "Maybe forever was a word meant for memories, not for people."

Day 3: Mirrors || "Eyes mirror the soul, and reflect the person looking into them. What does that say about you?"

Day 4: Regret || "And I suppose I had you."

Day 5: Sacrifice || "The healer has the bloodiest hands."

Day 6: The Ending || "No real god need prove himself. Anyone who tries is mad or lying."

Day 7: Alternate Universe || "Perhaps, in another life, we will meet again under kinder stars."

By content type:

Fan fiction || Art || Game Photography || Edit || Gifs || Memes

And of course, visit our AO3 collection

Ma sarennas once again to every creator who has participated!

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If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.

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