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I’ve been thinking this for a while, but people realize that the word “murder” only applies to a human killing another human right?

I keep seeing it used for fantasy creatures or animals killing humans. But that’s a misusage of the word. If they aren’t human, they can’t murder you. They can only kill you.

Murder also implies a human killing another human out of malice. Whereas “homicide” is a more broad term for a human killing another human that doesn’t necessary involve malice.

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Dropping this artwork of Emily and Wendell from Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by @heather_fawcett !(the cool mechanical pencil is BACK!) I had such a pleasant time reading the wrap-up to this trilogy in Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales. I love the transition of Emily dipping her toe into Faerie from the real world in Book #1, having a foot in both worlds in Book #2, and keeping a toe in the real world while in Faerie in Book #3. It created new backdrops and stakes through her journaling journey, with Book #3 being the stakiest stakes of the three! Absolutely love these two DOLTS (Wendell's words, not mine), the best grumpy-sunshine couple since Howl and Sophie. So sad to see them go, but this trilogy seems so easy to pick up and reread again! I want to thank @delreybooks for providing me both an arc and a hard copy of Compendium; I hope to do another papercraft standee featuring the whole trilogy set soon!

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[ID: a digital drawing of a white and gold unicorn with a broken crown collar rearing to the right. The background is teal with lighter green leaves and purple flowers. End.]

Classic woodland unicorn!

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Latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreon members for August! Inspired by Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) by Heather Fawcett, featuring Emily and Wendell in some morning afterglow. I love how Emily is being indecisive about doing the traditional romantic things before Wendell wakes, but then he cuddles up with her anyway, deciding for her. Too cute. I kept his bedhead just for you, Em.

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orders for the medieval unicorn are open 🩸

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When I read the fight between Douma and Shinobu, I always feel like he's giving her the chance to vent because he thinks he's being kind, and maybe even saving her like he tries to do with his followers. Obviously he knows he has to kill her because she's one of the hashira, but he could have done it so much sooner if he really wanted to. I know he has a habit of playing around a bit, but I do think there was a genuine attempt to help her in a weird way.

I also like comparing the contrast between how he interacts with Shinobu versus how he interacts with Kanae, and why that is. Interesting stuff.

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Can I show you some unicorns 🦄

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I found out my copy of 'Spinning Silver' is messed up after I got a little over halfway through it, so while I'm waiting to get a new copy, I started 'War for the Oaks'. The new book hooked me immediately, and I love every chapter so far. It's definitely a good read if you like your faeries to be like the classic folklore, but in an urban setting. Even the intro had me laughing because the author herself wrote it just to tell us all how useless intros are. I felt that in my bones lol.

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Maybe it's just me, I dunno, but not only do I not see Douma as a psychopath, I don't even see him as evil. Dangerous? Potentially, depending on the situation. But not evil. Lions eat zebras, and that's not evil. Douma is a demon, so I apply the same logic here. If he eats humans, it's not as if it's cannibalism. He eats them because that is what he needs to eat to stay healthy and to grow stronger. This concept expands out to the other demons too. I don't think any of them are evil for eating humans. Even when people say that Douma plays with his food, I personally think there's a very real attempt there to understand emotions that slip through his fingers. Plus, no one seems to want to be around him other than his followers, but I think he likes to experience a different sort of connection than that, even if only briefly.

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You don't have to agree with me but...I want more people to realize that Douma is far from being a seggs maniac... sure he might've done that if one of his partners wanted, just to make them happy but... he is so detached and apathetic for so long that it's not gonna shift his state of mind 😭

If you think about it deeply, he's actually surprisingly 'pure' and naive to such things due to his detachment and apathy, that he would just prob see seggs as another way to superficially comfort his partner rather than doing that for his own (non-existent) personal desires... I'm just thinking deeply... but I feel like it would be so unique to see an extremely sexually attractive guy who is innocent and naive/or uninterested towards sex.... I NEED THAT REPRESENTATIONNNN (I'm crazzzyyyy)

I just think it hits so different that he's this extremely hot looking guy but he's also a baby at these type of topics GAWD I LOVE THE JUXTAPOSITION

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original comic: https://www.mrlovenstein.com/comic/581

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Douma and Kotoha

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"Douma would not sexually harass someone," I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I start to walk off the stage, but a cheery voice stops me in my tracks.

"She's right," the voice says. It's coming from the very back. I look for the speaker and there, on top of his giant purple bean bag, sits Douma himself.

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I find myself having become an unapologetic Douma sympathizer.

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I finally read, 'The Wood at Midwinter' by Susanna Clarke. It was such a magical little experience, and perfect for winter. It was also in the same universe as 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' so I enjoyed revisiting that beloved fictional world. Even in this book, John Uskglass has indirectly had a part in it, and I love that. Merowdis, the main character, was absolutely precious. I loved her and all her animal companions, and I was so happy for her when she was able to live the life she wanted instead of being stuck where no one understood the things she cared about.