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Another faux pulp sci-fi novel cover, but for the TV series this time around.

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I'd 100% watch it!

@copperbadge i need a favor

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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Why do they even make apps for ADHD. You want me to use my 24/7 handheld immediate distraction device? To manage my 'gets distracted too easily' disorder? Ooooh we developed the perfect tool for managing your anemia. Its hosted in Dracula's castle. 👍

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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

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She’s just as unstable, but not as obvious, because she’s trying to distract her own problems with his problems. (Lucy Liu on Joan Watson)

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grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

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Have you guys heard of cats. They're great.

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It's always interesting when people compare Elizabeth to Lydia, and they do have a few similarities, but I personally viewed a pre-Darcy Elizabeth as well on the way to becoming her father: intelligent, witty, insightful and independent yet always mocking rather than genuinely connecting, bantering rather than having real and serious conversations, retreating and detaching rather than engaging.

And that's why even though the focus is usually on how meeting Elizabeth transformed Darcy for the better, I see Darcy as just as integral to Elizabeth evolving into a far better person. Darcy is serious, complex, mature, responsible, and painfully honest - he compels Elizabeth to take life more seriously, to rethink her judgments, viewpoints and perspectives rather than just remaining complacent, and to engage in deeper discussions and more candid self-introspection than she would have otherwise!

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Romantasy and dark romance authors need to stop making big brooding guys whose only personality is "touch her and you die" and consider the appeal of creating a hero whose face is likened variously to a worm wriggling out of old cheese and an adjutant stork and who says things like "don’t let’s bring Socrates into this” and “I had found you beyond all hope or expectation, at a time when I thought no woman could ever mean anything to me beyond a little easy sale and exchange of pleasure and I was so terrified of losing you before I could grasp you that I babbled out all my greed and fear as though, God help me, you had nothing to think of but me and my windy self-importance, as though it mattered, as though the very word of love had not been the most crashing insolence a man could offer you."

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ive read the first 6 murderbot books in the last three days is this accurate

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Alec Hardison + conscience & heart of the team

LEVERAGE (2008—2012) LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION (2021—)

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So excited!!

Now Available: The Chicken Salad War

Good morning readers and welcome to the latest Shivadhverse novel! As with my previous books, I’m making a draft of the novel available for public commentary, so that you all can help make it awesome. 

The Chicken Salad War is the seventh book in the Shivadh Romances; earlier novels are available for purchase as ebooks or hardcopies or in PDF for free. This book includes many characters from previous novels, but I’ve done my best to make it accessible for everyone.

Constructive criticism is welcome! Tell me what you liked, what you didn’t, where my typos are. 

Simon LeFevre, chef to the royal family, has spent thirty years looking after the Palace children, and now their children too. This year, in addition to his domestic duties, he's sitting on the planning committee for the Reclamation Day Festival, overseeing the food tents and cooking competition. Unfortunately he's been partnered up for the project with the city's newest chef, Mr. Ylias Lazaar, with whom he's already clashed over…ricotta. Ylias, glad to be home where nobody blinks much at a woman who prefers male honorifics, is opening her own restaurant at last. She enjoys putting Simon on the back foot, after they got off to a rocky start, but they both know it's in good fun at this point; he's even helping her on a quest to find a lost family recipe. So when Ylias claims she could improve on the curried chicken salad that Simon served for Prince Noah's graduation party, they decide they'll both enter the yearly cooking competition -- and may the best man win.

 The chapters will be posted one-a-day at AO3, starting today with: 

Prologue and Chapter One

You can also read the entire novel in googledoc form, beginning with the Prologue and Chapter One, which will link you to the next section of the book. You can also access the folder containing all sections of the book here.

Happy reading! 

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"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.