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So many times the mean girl in movies would put on a fun performance with singing and dancing and lights just to lose to the boring main character who just stood there and sang a slow song it’s twisted it’s sick

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Okay but just imagine  being Steve Rogers, and going under the ice in 1945, which was after the publication of The Hobbit (1937) but before The Lord of the Rings (1954). 

Steve Rogers very much strikes me as a young man who’d enjoy early genre spec fic, so I like to think that he read and enjoyed The Hobbit when he came out. Then he comes back in the 2000s and discovers that the same author who wrote this charming, whimsical children’s book went on to write three sequels, but the sequels are genre-spawning literary epics,  which have become a touchstone of American culture and went on to inspire a hundred knockoffs and entire new schools of western fantasy

It’s like. Imagine that you read Matilda  when you were younger, and enjoyed it. Then you got hit by a car and went into a coma and when you came out twenty years later you found out that Roald Dahl had gone on to write The Trunchbull Chronicles,  a doorstopper epic war story about Matilda’s daughter Madara, who inherited her mother’s psychic powers and spearheaded a galaxy-wide rebellion against a race of eldritch masters coming from beyond the stars to reclaim their dominion over Earth. Bruce Bogtrotter’s nephew, Baradin Bogtrotter, builds spaceships. Everyone treats this with utter gravitas.

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Is it gonna be gold for Great Britain?

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It’s coming home

(Ps turn up the volume🔊🔊)

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by will mcphail

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Painting for Ginny, my brother and sister-in-law’s soon to be baby girl. Of course had to make her the horse patronus from the Harry Potter series.

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i love all the words we have that mean traveler. i love the shades of difference between wanderer and rambler and rover. i love the boldness of adventurer and the purposefulness of explorer, the lawlessness of vagabond and the capability of wayfarer, the quiet reverence of pilgrim and the wild rootlessness of nomad.

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

— The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (b. 3 January 1892)

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Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:

Thus slowly, one by one,

Its quaint events were hammered out –

And now the tale is done,

And home we steer, a merry crew,

Beneath the setting sun.

- Lewis Carroll ‘All in the golden afternoon’

#alice in wonderland #lewis carroll #Lewis Carroll poetry #poetry #childhood #summer #story #Alice #quote #quotes

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Sylvia Plath — The Bell Jar

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R.I.P Notorious RBG

Vote in her honor. Make her proud.

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“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”

— Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) Austrian economist.

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there’s a large grey area between “this creator is a misogynist/homophobe/racist” and “this creator did not fully think through the implications of some of their writing choices” and it would be nice if people would stop to assess where in the scale between those two cases their criticism applies, instead of going for a hard zero on the first option all the time

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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

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Elie Wiesel

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The Triwizard Tournament x The Great British Bake Off

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golden.

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only these special few can save us now... over to you, european avengers

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“The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.” - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty