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The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison

Book Discussion

What were your childhood favorite books that no one else seems to know? Not Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, but the book no one else has ever heard of. Mine is Princess from Another Planet. 

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We’re mesmerized by these kaleidoscopic animated gifs created by illustrator and animator Anna Taberko. Inspired by spinning phenakistoscope animations, Taberko usually begins each piece as a hand-drawn cel animation before digitizing them and turning them into sequential loops.

Follow Anna Taberko on Instagram, Giphy, or right here on Tumblr at @annataberko to check out more of her animated creations.

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Talk about tunnel vision. I love it!

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Walter is my cousin’s dog. He really has a thing for swimming.

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the Butterfly Cave is a sacred place where women from this indigenous community conduct ceremony, pray, and pass knowledge down to young women and girls; sign this petition to support their fight to protect it!

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How The Signs Show Kindness

Aries: Cracking jokes to lighten the mood. Planning elaborate adventurous fun days out with their friends when they have been sad

Taurus: cooking or making homemade presents for those going through hard times. Reminding people they love them even if they don't always talk to them as much as they'd like

Gemini: lending a listening ear even when all they want to do is speak. Trying their hardest to include as many people as they can in a group setting

Cancer: tagging their friends in things that remind them of them throughout the day. Caring for others when they are sick or injured

Leo: sharing information they find valuable with those around them. Trying really hard to make others laugh/keep everyone entertained. Compliments others at random

Virgo: giving long, elaborate advice to those who are in need of it. Teaching what they know to others who could benefit from it, regardless of how long or tedious that process may be

Libra: bringing people together who could benefit from one another. Being honest when it is necessary and humane to do so

Scorpio: devoting tons of time and energy to those closest to their hearts. Putting harsh feelings aside for the sake of others when it is needed

Sagittarius: surprising loved ones with long desired gifts and gestures. Bringing others to see/experience things they have not yet had the chance to. Sharing details of their day and asking others about theirs

Capricorn: giving back to those who helped to bring them up. Reminding their friends of all their great qualities and all the reasons they shouldn't be giving up. Serving as an inspiration

Aquarius: giving to organizations and charities which they feel deserve it the most. Fights for those who cannot fight for or stand up for themselves

Pisces: approaches any situation with a caring heart, genuinely nice and easy going inside and out. Highly empathetic and sympathetic and will show they are concerned about a friend's emotional state

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Well, another book to add to my list

Author Scott Lynch responds to a critic of the character Zamira Drakasha, a black woman pirate in his fantasy book Red Seas Under Red Skies, the second novel of the Gentleman Bastard series.

The bolded sections represent quotes from the criticism he received. All the z-snaps are in order.

Your characters are unrealistic stereotpyes of political correctness. Is it really necessary for the sake of popular sensibilities to have in a fantasy what we have in the real world? I read fantasy to get away from politically correct cliches. 

God, yes! If there’s one thing fantasy is just crawling with these days it’s widowed black middle-aged pirate moms.  Real sea pirates could not be controlled by women, they were vicous rapits and murderers and I am sorry to say it was a man’s world. It is unrealistic wish fulfilment for you and your readers to have so many female pirates, especially if you want to be politically correct about it! First, I will pretend that your last sentence makes sense because it will save us all time. Second, now you’re pissing me off.  You know what? Yeah, Zamira Drakasha, middle-aged pirate mother of two, is a wish-fulfillment fantasy. I realized this as she was evolving on the page, and you know what? I fucking embrace it.  Why shouldn’t middle-aged mothers get a wish-fulfillment character, you sad little bigot? Everyone else does. H.L. Mencken once wrote that “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” I can’t think of anyone to whom that applies more than my own mom, and the mothers on my friends list, with the incredible demands on time and spirit they face in their efforts to raise their kids, preserve their families, and save their own identity/sanity into the bargain.  Shit yes, Zamira Drakasha, leaping across the gap between burning ships with twin sabers in hand to kick in some fucking heads and sail off into the sunset with her toddlers in her arms and a hold full of plundered goods, is a wish-fulfillment fantasy from hell. I offer her up on a silver platter with a fucking bow on top; I hope she amuses and delights. In my fictional world, opportunities for butt-kicking do not cease merely because one isn’t a beautiful teenager or a muscle-wrapped font of testosterone. In my fictional universe, the main characters are a fat ugly guy and a skinny forgettable guy, with a supporting cast that includes “SBF, 41, nonsmoker, 2 children, buccaneer of no fixed abode, seeks unescorted merchant for light boarding, heavy plunder.” You don’t like it? Don’t buy my books. Get your own fictional universe. Your cabbage-water vision of worldbuilding bores me to tears.  As for the “man’s world” thing, religious sentiments and gender prejudices flow differently in this fictional world. Women are regarded as luckier, better sailors than men. It’s regarded as folly for a ship to put to sea without at least one female officer; there are several all-female naval military traditions dating back centuries, and Drakasha comes from one of them. As for claims to “realism,” your complaint is of a kind with those from bigoted hand-wringers who whine that women can’t possibly fly combat aircraft, command naval vessels, serve in infantry actions, work as firefighters, police officers, etc. despite the fact that they do all of those things– and are, for a certainty, doing them all somewhere at this very minute. Tell me that a fit fortyish woman with 25+ years of experience at sea and several decades of live bladefighting practice under her belt isn’t a threat when she runs across the deck toward you, and I’ll tell you something in return– you’re gonna die of stab wounds. What you’re really complaining about isn’t the fact that my fiction violates some objective “reality,” but rather that it impinges upon your sad, dull little conception of how the world works. I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. I’m not writing history, I’m writing speculative fiction. Nobody’s going to force you to buy it. Conversely, you’re cracked if you think you can persuade me not to write about what amuses and excites me in deference to your vision, because your vision fucking sucks. I do not expect to change your mind but i hope that you will at least consider that I and others will not be buying your work because of these issues. I have been reading science fiction and fantasy for years and i know that I speak for a great many people. I hope you might stop to think about the sales you will lose because you want to bring your political corectness and foul language into fantasy. if we wanted those things we could go to the movies. Think about this!  Thank you for your sentiments. I offer you in exchange this engraved invitation to go piss up a hill, suitable for framing.

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BBC Moriarty is inspirational

"The man with the key is King, and honey, you should see me in a crown." I finally had a reason to use this in a regular conversation and it was 123% more satisfying than I thought it would be.

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Fucking Mortal Instruments

I LITERALLY JUST GOT THAT MAGNUS' CAT CHAIRMAN MEOW IS A PUN ON CHAIRMAN MAO. FUCKING SHIT IM SO ANGRY IT TOOK ME THIS LONG. MAGNUS WAS PROBABLY THERE FOR IT ALL JUST LIKE THE RACE TO VIENNA.

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History is Watching

Lin-Manuel Miranda is our generations Orson Welles.

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How It Actually Happened #55

Burr: Talk less.

Hamilton: What?

Burr: Shut. Your pie hole.

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alex is literally the human version of the hoe don’t do it meme

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How It Actually Happened #55

Burr: Talk less.

Hamilton: What?

Burr: Shut. Your pie hole.

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George: Guys, we need a plan.

Alexander: Punch everyone.

George: One that goes further than punching everyone!

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He’s my favorite yandere