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broooo did you seriously disturb my eternal rest & bring me back to this mortal coil just because my ancient enemy the eternal night has returned? after i sealed it away and everything? which one of you tampered with my binding runes 🙄

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Feeling an incredibly weird specific nostalgia but what piece of media defined 2020 for you (as in you spent that year with it) mine is mtv's catfish

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@trans-peridot i thought of you immediately

When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

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some of you need to realize that your faves would be having unsafe bdsm sex because they don’t actually know what bdsm sex is, they just want to fuck and also kill each other. you must understand this.

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Ao3 is like a wizard enclave made with the Golden Enclaves technique because all the writers are putting a little bit of their power into building it into what it is

And now I'm trying to envision what a fanfiction archive made with a maw-mouth would be like

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hey, does anyone know if tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, or if it's like. a bank holiday.

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“gentle reminder-” VIOLENT FORGET !!! ❌

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good news i'm the most fuckable person at this vehicular manslaughter

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Oh no, you got isekaied into the last media you read/watch. You are now a background character dead center in the plot. Are you surviving.

Yes

No

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its always "the beginning of the vampire lestat is just like my immortal" but never "the beginning of we have always lived in the castle is just like my immortal"

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listen!

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"should the werewolf AU be set before or after the norman conquest?" i ask myself like a normal person.

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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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this book is pretty good! definitely better than i expected based on my own memories and the way people tend to talk about it. you can tell madeline miller really cares about and loves her subject!

song of achilles was probably the first novel retelling of greek myth that i ever read, way back in 2014 when the hype was at its highest, and i really liked it, partly because it was a good way to (re)learn the broad strokes of the trojan war and the events leading up to it, partly because i liked that it was narrated by someone slightly to the side of greatness instead of the hero himself, and partly because it was gay.

since then i've read a lot of novels about greek myth and watched different performances of the original plays so i consider myself a lot more familiar, but i haven't gone back to song of achilles until now. so far my impression is that it doesn't deserve the hate and backlash it's gotten, but i've definitely read better books in this genre. still, it paints a clear picture of the setting and culture, and it's engaging.

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If you persevere, in time you will have an entirely different problem – not that life is meaningless, but rather that life has almost too much meaning. As the scales fall from your eyes the world rushes into focus, presenting itself with a kind of vibrational eloquence that can, at first, be almost overwhelming. Everything shimmers, everything clarifies, everything wrestles for your attention. Trees feel super-real, their roots plunged into the earth, their branches stretching to the sky, birds are flesh and blood souls, fragile with life, the sky unfolds and rolls, the ocean crashes, people fascinate, books are beautiful, children are whirling dynamos of chaos, dogs bark and cats meow, flowers shout, your neighbour glows, and God runs like a helix through all things. The world awaits you, humming with meaning. You are alive with potential. You are not dead.

— Nick Cave on getting clean, Red Hand Files #258