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okay now I'm curious and I dunno if this is really such an archaic foreign thing to young people today or if I'm just out of touch

Please reblog, I'd love to see a lot of responses!

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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Emotionally spiritually and physically exhausted from the most intense d&d session ever

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Maybe some day I'll learn to take before and after pictures but I rebound an old kids diary into a notebook and experimented with decorations

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sam’s reveal at the end makes this a thousand times funnier

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when bastille and ella eyre covered no scrubs by tlc and mixed it with angels by the xx with no pronoun changes and sampled norman bates from psycho eight years ago then didnt release it on any album or on spotify. obsessed

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how it feels to see a post containing a vaguely factually inaccurate sentiment about a subject on which you are disgustingly overinformed

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they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

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that's a happy ending, kindness in action can do some good here and there.

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if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

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spoilers: the district has monsters in it. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY: WILL ARMAS AND GUY EVER GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER?

fun fact: roleplaying Armas sort of confessing his feelings made me feel like I was in real life asking out my crush (shaky hands, red face, butterflies in my stomach, the whole deal)

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Best advice I’ve ever been given was righty tighty lefty loosey

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i liked problematic tropes

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evan buckley + wide angle uniform shots for @buckweek day one: scenery

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Being an adult in this recession and being like wow I am totally "splurging" on 3 new sets of cotton underwear and 3 pairs of socks like whoaaaaa hold your horses duke of the land where's all this money gonna come from

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what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

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I think I may have solved a mystery that I didn’t even know was one.

So. In Peter Pan, the novel, this is the first mention of Captain Hook:

“Who is captain now?” “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word. “Jas. Hook?” “Ay.” Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation. “He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily. “He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Later, we learn this:

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

“Barbecue” is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Jas. is short for James, but in “Captain Hook at Eton,” he’s also called Jacobus. The biblical figure Jacob was renamed Israel.

Blackbeard’s historical boatswain, and also a character in Treasure Island, was Israel Hands.

I’m just saying, if I got a hand chopped off and my last name was Hands… I might want to change it.