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kaladin and szeth do have a few things in common. for one thing they are both people who, when asked what their "body count" is, would start listing people they've killed

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turns out rep tv really was just the friends we made along the way

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STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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Everyone's like "The new Pope isnt welcoming to gay people and has covered up child abuse" like. Fork found in kitchen?

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say what you will about the historical figure of Cardinal Richelieu but the ‘black breastplate over cardinal’s robes’ look is some warhammer shit

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So I wrote a ketek for my brother's wedding

(and I’m going to make you read the whole story about it before I show it)

When my now sibling-in-law was first trying to flirt with my brother, they started reading Brandon Sanderson because it’s my brother’s favorite author (they had to read a lot of Brandon Sanderson before my brother noticed they were flirting lol)

So actually, the main reason I started reading the Stormlight Archive last year was that I was asked to officiate their wedding ceremony, and I thought I could get some good inspiration from reading my brother’s favorite book series (I acquired a new blorbo and read so much slash fic entirely as a byproduct of wedding ceremony prep. Ha.). I decided to close the ceremony with a ketek.

Writing keteks is HARD. Exploring the subtle different meanings words can have when they’re used twice in a sentence, having to use articles and prepositions sparingly because it’s hard to make them fit both ways, etc. 

But my brother and his spouse are people who a) acknowledge that relationships require a lot of effort and celebrate the work they put in, and b) talk about how they find the presence of the other very calming, which I hope I captured in the ketek. I really wanted to add more bird imagery, because they both like birds, but I couldn’t quite make it fit.

Here it is:

Home calmly alight, we will together build love for all time, all for love built together, will we alight calmly home

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hope this explains it

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I need games to stop trying to get me to block or parry. I will solve my problems with my face or die trying.

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anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizontal, but I need more horizontal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

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"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

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are we not feeling very pious today, brother lionel

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this is almost certainly a post ive made before but when a character's grief is so strong it fully alters the form of the narrative itself... moby dick being so much longer than strictly necessary because ishmael's grief made him stall for time in the telling of the tragedy... harrow the ninth being in second person because harrow was so grief-stricken that she herself was not capable of making narrative sense of the events of the novel and so someone else had to do it.... do u know what i mean

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i feel like tumblr doesnt know about the pain and suffering that is english tap water,,,, girl there are stalagmites inside me

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the libertarian fantasy of safety regulations existing due to sadistic enjoyment of government officials oppressing the innocent small business is kind of hilarious the more you think about it. I hope there is actually a guy out there who just fucking LOVES recalling unsafe food in a sicko sort of way. i'd respect him.