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aren't you a bit old to be thirst posting like this tho?? 🤧

catch me thirst posting on my deathbed the grind never stops

#.......... #shit tumblr does

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“Do you think seahorses write fpreg” and the many other riveting things my friend texts me right before I go to work

#my partner says no bc seahorses don’t have human genders they have their own seahorse genders #they have fic we can’t even fathom #<--- prev #tagging the untaggable

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Literally literally when mordred wheels out the fucking canons to shoot at the Tower of London. my heart just drops. like it is SO OVER. Mordred is literally ushering in the end of the age of chivalry and nothing will ever be the same again

#!! #mordred #arthurian legends #le morte d'arthur

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My princess 🎀

#ghost princess perona #one piece #so pretty

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JENNIFER COOLIDGE & JENNIFER TILLY The 14th Annual GLAAD Media Awards – Los Angeles – April 26, 2003

#jennifer coolidge #jennifer tilly

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#post-war british literature?? tolkien who.#<- post war but it’s the war of the roses (via @lefresne)

has anyone checked on thomas malory lately. is he okay

#what even is the etiquette for adding tags that include prev tags... feel free to tell me if i did it wrong #le morte d'arthur #arthurian legends

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pressed flower pngs

#scenic world #while i'm gone queue me the world

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Does this count as pre-timeskip Robin? @jojaydoodles

#prettyyyy #nico robin #one piece

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the only one stopping you from lurking around an ancient ruin, dressing like a disgraced nobleman, and duelling everyone who comes your way, is yourself. 

#stories we could tell #thank you

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#oooh that's a ship that exists? #colour me interested. intrigued even #one piece #boa hancock #black cage hina

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JAWBREAKER (1999) dir. Darren Stein JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) dir. Karyn Kusama MEAN GIRLS (2004) dir. Mark Waters

#what do you MEAN i haven't reblogged this before #jawbreaker #jennifer's body #mean girls

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never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#poetry #sent to me #honoured to be one of those weird friends who that was sent to

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Do you happen to know the origin of the fantasy trope in which a deity's power directly corresponds to the number of their believers / the strength of their believers' faith?

I only know it from places like Discworld and DnD that I'm fairly confident are referencing some earlier source, but outside of Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, I can't think of of any specific work it might've come from, 20th-c fantasy really not being my wheelhouse.

Thank you!

That's an interesting question. In terms of immediate sources, I suspect, but cannot prove, that the trope's early appearances in both Dungeons & Dragons and Discworld are most immediately influenced by the oeuvre of Harlan Ellison – his best-known work on the topic, the short story collection Deathbird Stories, was published in 1975, which places it very slightly into the post-D&D era, though most of the stories it contains were published individually earlier – but Ellison certainly isn't the trope's originator. L Sprague de Camp and Fritz Leiber also play with the idea in various forms, as does Roger Zelazny, though only Zelazny's earliest work is properly pre-D&D.

Hm. Off the top of my head, the earliest piece of fantasy fiction I can think of that makes substantial use of the trope in its recognisably modern form is A E van Vogt's The Book of Ptath; it was first serialised in 1943, though no collected edition was published until 1947. I'm confident that someone who's more versed in early 20th Century speculative fiction than I am could push it back even earlier, though. Maybe one of this blog's better-read followers will chime in!

(Non-experts are welcome to offer examples as well, of course, but please double-check the publication date and make sure the work you have in mind was actually published prior to 1974.)

#tropes #religion

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Raccoons in a tree By: Peter B. Kaplan From: Natural History Magazine 1984

#photography #scenic world #animals

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Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992)

#laura palmer #twin peaks #fire walk with me #while i'm gone queue me the world

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Reblogging self-deprecating memes and then deleting them like whoa calm down bitch. Calm down. It's not that bad

#i really should not neglect my habit of saving posts into drafts first #then i can look at them later and delete if i decide i do not vibe with them actually #or do not want to spark any discourse they might provoke #talk talk talk

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Igraine's blue red dress in Camelot

#igraine #camelot #arthurian legends #while i'm gone queue me the world