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Imagine being so consumed by your ex that you not only run with a pack of coyotes for a while after you divorce, repeatedly kill her granddaughter’s would-be assassins, and join a life-threatening mission no questions asked, but you also get back onto the ship you used to share, and immediately think, yeah, I’ll take her bed. Daisuke you are unmatched.

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I know people are disappointed that Van isn’t a lesbian but isnt it so cute how Van is this large, rowdy woman who is respected by her pirate clientele while her husband is this small, loving man who has the voice of an angel and likes to write the trivia questions?

Vanellope “I support my husband’s aioilis” Chapman and Bert “my adventurous wife can beat you up” Chapman.

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One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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resistance to fascists is obedience to God. [x]

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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some quick lotr studies :]

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I know I've said it before but every rewatch I do cements this thought further - elijah wood's performance in LOTR is absolutely insane, they really had a character whose name means "wise by experience", hired an 18-year-old to do it, and he delivered so much that not only is it a beautiful and moving role on its own, it's a performance equal to those of the absolute powerhouses he played side by side with like ian holm and ian mckellen. to name just a few

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I need y'all to watch this clip

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One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.

Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”

Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.

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there is nothing subversive about a woman doing exactly what the patriarchy expects of her or rewards her for doing. she can do it if she really wants but it does not make her a feminist icon. we're all so caught up in the rhetoric of "this is HER CHOICE to do what she wants!" that we forget there are often external factors that drive people to make certain choices and these factors should be subject to scrutiny

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Woah mama just reminding my followers that TERF ideology is fundamentally evil and not welcome anywhere near my blog hummina hummina hummina

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I am lucky enough to be on a mini pilgrimage as part of a holiday and I just saw the most beautiful prayer in an icon of the Virgin Mother.

It’s framed as a conversation between Mary and Jesus and captures so beautifully their relationship. It’s not the best translation from the Latin- please let me know if you’d like it in the original

Oh what do you ask for mother?

The salvation of the living

They provoke me to indignation

Compassion, my son

But they will not convert!

Then you will save them by Grace