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The concept of aphantasia absolutely blows me away. I have friends (NORMAL HUMANS WHO READ FICTION) who have it, and I have to absolutely bite my tongue asking them about it. I mean, holy sweet baba of GOD, how can you hear a song and not concoct a whole scene to it, eg Pedro Pascal and Jessie Buckley dancing to it but best friends both in love with other people and it's messy so they're just taking five to dance with people who love them

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Why DWJ was the author who shaped my childhood and everything I've ever written. Every book a killer. Sharp, intricate, funny, flawlessly world-built, kind, warm. Influenced Neil Gaiman to be that too. Queen of everything and largely unknown outside genre. Queen of everything.

Don't get me wrong, I love the dreamy fairytale-ness of the Ghibli movie version of Howl's Moving Castle, but the book. The book. Sophie, first off, being so incredibly set on being the boring un-gifted un-adventuresome eldest daughter (as is right and fitting for an eldest daughter to be) that she doesn't notice she's working magic, like, constantly? And when a witch shows up like "hey girlie you are fully working SO much magic that I'm feeling threatened, so like I'm gonna put you in the old lady dimension ciao," she's like well. That was weird. Anyway I guess I better go find something to do as an old lady. And she reasons that this famously evil sorcerer who eats young girls' hearts is probably safe for her now cause like. She's old. What's he gonna do to me. And proceeds to bully her way into becoming his cleaning lady. And Howl, known flaky whimsical fuckboy extraordinaire, is like sure okay I guess that works for me. And just as well because it turns out he's also a fucking bottom who kinda digs this strong stubborn lady who's steamrolled her way into his life, kinda weird that she's disguised as an old woman but w/e he's not gonna question her life choices and like it's not actually a problem for him, and by the time Sophie's figured out that oh crap oh shit she's actually kinda into this flighty asshole, what am I gonna do, he'd never return my feelings in a hundred years, Howl's basically accepted that they're mostly married. And also how can you top "my extremely powerful and slightly fey wizard is just a Welsh grad student who wandered into a portal one day" for a character concept. You can't. It's the perfect book really

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I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

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We all had this cult rave vinyl 12" back in the day, surely

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I want to check if this works. I have never made a quiz before. BEAR WITH ME.

It's for my WIP. Character quiz type thang. It's crap but I want to see if it's worth refining. I add these for clarification:

(Yes, that's Lena Headey twice - could also be Rebecca Ferguson - that's the point, no spoilers)

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Rewatching Penny Dreadful and I'd forgotten the moment of perfect, perfect comedy and perfect actor timing when solo English bobby Inspector Rusk (Douglas Hodge) looks at perhaps fifteen lawless gun toting desperadoes AND a werewolf AND an amoral witch, and says "in the name of her majesty Queen Victoria, you are all" (face of apprehensive despair and awareness of own ridiculousness yet righteous authority) "under arrest"

"Well fuck it, a chap's got to go sometime"

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It’s all about pathetic oversharing and 2 pity likes from your mutuals on here

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Juuuust half a leetle zopiclone

🛌

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The lid was carefully peeled off and the floaty layer that normally sticks to the lid REMAINED IN PLACE like the delicate skin of a soap bubble, unpopped

Can I make a wish on this like a folded crisp?

Let's say I can

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My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

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I am quite drunk but

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Spouse had a shit day at work so I did this. I cannot stress enough that (a) he is not 7 (b) I am not his mother (c) we have a pretty un-twee relationship BUT this was silly and nice and who doesn't love an extruded potato product?

The face on the front left is clearly possessed, though

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[art by @beelzeebub ]

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Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

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