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oh you're in a horror film/book and your phone died/has no bars? how boring. I think phones in horror SHOULD work. they should ding only to have the protagonist check and find nothing. they should get calls from somebody you don't know but is still somehow in your contacts. google maps should lead you to one place, no matter what address you type in.

phones are such a big part of our daily lives, removing them from horror removes the horror from our experience. what if the horror felt like it could happen to you, right here, right now? what if it felt like it was already happening?

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REPOST : Roman stylus 70AD, in comon vanacular translates into “i went into the city and all i bought you was this lousy pen” , link and full translation in the comments [640 x 320]

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here's a fun parchment fact for you re: reusing a surface: sheepskin was often used for legal documents because it's hard to scrape out a word and rewrite without it being obviously damaged, unlike good quality calfskin where it can be undetectable that something has been altered

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i entirely get why people are like "actually knights were historically land-owning nobles waging war on people" and reminding people that idealised modern conceptions of knights are not historically accurate, it's just really really funny given that people have been idealising the institution of knighthood since like. the twelfth century or earlier, go take it up with fucking chrétien de troyes

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French trans woman Marie-Pierre Pruvot, known by her stage name Bambi

Female Mimics magazine 1965

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I feel like a huge problem with BL3 that nobody talks about is that the writers seemed to have overestimated the media literacy of their audience:

Ava being written realistically like an actual teenager should be praised, but players found her annoying.

In the case of the Calypso Twins, they were purposefully written to be annoying and yet nobody recognized that they achieved what they were supposed to because, again, players found them annoying. Also, they're streamers, they're modern asshats, and the playerbase seemed to hate them on that basis as well, ignorant of how a good villain is often supposed to be hated.

The fact that the main theme of family, as well as the entire themes of certain arcs are barely if ever discussed.

I'm not saying this absolves the writers of anything, because they still did a kinda mid execution of what they aimed to do (to paraphrase House of Leaves, BL3 contains two stories: the story that it aimed to be, and the story that it is). But still.

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Shout out to Ventus, because if you pay me to draw Skulduggery Pleasant content, I will love you forever

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My inquest asura, Frogg :3

they are an anthropologist

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I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid 

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Berry, the squishy pink salamander-caterpillar thing.

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i'm keeping you in the time loop. it's the only way i know how to keep you safe. trapping you here, in the last day that you're alive, ignorant of what's to come as the sun sets. i dread each minute, a countdown to the end, but live in relief as all the blood washes away, all the would-be scars fade, and the tears dry before they have a chance to fall. but the memory of you dying in my arms remains, and so i'm keeping you in the time loop

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Our favorite yoga pose—the shrimp squat.

Researchers often find these small shrimp, Hymenopenaeus doris, hanging upside down, motionless in the water.

While performing this “zombie-like“ behavior, the shrimp look a lot like a discarded exoskeleton sinking slowly through the dark midwater. Scientists speculate that the shrimp might reduce their chances of being eaten by mimicking a sinking molt.

This odd behavior might also be an adaptation to conserve energy since the shrimp live at depths where the seawater contains very little oxygen. Animals found in low-oxygen environments have a harder time moving rapidly or for long distances.

Learn more about these deep-sea yogis on our YouTube channel.

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thank you scherz et al. for bringing us the frogs Mini ature, Mini mum and of course, the Mini scule

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My favorite mermaid art is the one of a family photo with a mermaid mother and old sailor father and their sons are both reverse merfolk (human legs with fish heads).

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we passed a sign in boring that said their sister city is dull, scotland

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“Average person is beaten up by a 13-year-old three times a year” factoid actually just statistical error. Vaurien Scapegrace, who gets beaten up by Valkyrie Cain multiple times a week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted