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the funniest thing abt targ stans creaming their pants over daemon targaryen (grrm’s favourite targ) bc he was morally grey and both hero and villain with complex motivations is daemon really is not that grey compared to 99% of asoiaf characters hes just the only one grrm looks directly into the camera to tell instead of show you this. the same fans gushing over unpredictable rogue prince daemon are calling catelyn and tyrion one dimensional villains

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now i'm curious

#my enjoyment of a book doesn't have anything to do with its rereadability to me #those are separate factors i guess

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The German language has quite a few animalistic verbs:

fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoy

hechten ("to pike") = to dive

reihern ("to heron") = to puke

dackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowly

aalen ("to eel") = to bask

vögeln ("to bird") = to have sex

einigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl up

hamstern ("to hamster") = to hoard

schlängeln ("to snake") = to wriggle

stieren ("to bull") = to goggle

unken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doom

tigern ("to tiger") - to walk tigerishly

#german

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My favourite scene from ATLA. It gets me every time. by schlemiel26

#wow #the bubble over her face? amazing #katara #atla #fanart #embroidery

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|| Birds of War

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DAAaHRLINg,

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i know that "unalive" is part of larger worrying trend of self censorship but if you really are in a situtation where you have to avoid the words "die" or "kill" the english language already has centuries worth of much better euphemisms. the iconic and perennial "six feet under"? the lovely imagery of "pushing up daisies"? "shuffle off this mortal coil"????? literally anything from the monty python dead parrot bit???? you have so many options. please try to be more creative at least

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

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#you can't make all deaths the same!!! #i literally started writing #by writing death scenes #so they have a special place in my heart

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Grrm: here's house Blackwood. They are really cool and still worship the old gods even though they're from the Riverlands. They even have a godswood. There are tons and tons of interesting historical Blackwoods. Tytos Blackwood has a raven feather cloak. They are so cool.

Me, immediately siding with house Bracken, because I'm at least 70% motivated by spite in everything I do:

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pet peeve is how hotd + fanfic have this perception of moon tea as medieval plan b and not straight up womb destroying poison

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#straw hat for funsies

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This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

#ugh #i never got into wattpad #but what is this??? #writing

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Man I fucking love sailing the imperial Japanese navy theough the strait of hansan on this fine morning of July 8th 1592. I cannot wait to show lord Hideyoshi my awesome supply routes.

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you 💖

At the risk of being a manic pixie dream girl:

Walking with music that matches my walking cadence

When a plot twist makes perfect sense

Writing (and receiving) letters

Sneaking food into the movie theater

Doing a brainstorming session with a friend.

Thank you for the ask!