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Cover for 'Child's Treasury of German Poetry' designed by Koloman Moser

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Dog feeling the music

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some good news!! the spanish state's ministry of equality has finally passed one of the most progressive trans laws on the planet, shielded free and universal access to abortion and banned conversion therapy and genital surgery for intersex babies, among a lot of other feminist policies. the minister of equality irene montero gave a speech thanking spain's lgtb and trans associations for helping her draft these legislations. couldn't be more proud!!

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vampire hunter? no i said vampire HAUNTER. this jerk sucked all my blood out so now i spend my afterlife knocking over shelves and scaring off potential victims and just making the castle generally pretty cold

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Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

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TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

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“Pierce” in Persuasion

Jane Austen does this thing where she uses certain words only for certain characters or in certain novels. Emma uses the word “blunder” more than any other book (it’s a major plot clue) and the word “supernumerary” is only used twice in her entire compendium and both times it’s near Mrs. Norris in Mansfield Park. 

The novel Persuasion uses the word “pierce” exactly twice and both times it’s said by Captain Wentworth:

He stopped. A sudden recollection seemed to occur, and to give him some taste of that emotion which was reddening Anne’s cheeks and fixing her eyes on the ground. After clearing his throat, however, he proceeded thus—

“I confess that I do think there is a disparity, too great a disparity, and in a point no less essential than mind. I regard Louisa Musgrove as a very amiable, sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in understanding, but Benwick is something more. He is a clever man, a reading man; and I confess, that I do consider his attaching himself to her with some surprise. Had it been the effect of gratitude, had he learnt to love her, because he believed her to be preferring him, it would have been another thing. But I have no reason to suppose it so. It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me. A man like him, in his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken! Fanny Harville was a very superior creature, and his attachment to her was indeed attachment. A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.” (Ch 20)

And the second:

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…. (Ch 22)

Wentworth cannot understand how Captain Benwick can recover from the wound of losing the love of his life, because Wentworth never has. These two statements are bound by the word “pierce”.

(Thank you Project Gutenberg. I only noticed this because I use “pierce” as a search term to find the letter)

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Audio is crap, but turn it up when they hit the snow to improve your day anyhow

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And, it goes without saying, my new best friend, the laminating queen, five fat points.

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