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#it's my birthday :)

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“[…] sonorous fountain, eternal singer of the sleeping garden.”

— Antonio Machado, from “It was a clear evening” (tr. by Betty Jean Craige)

#quotes

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There’s two ends of the horror spectrum

#etc

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LOVE LETTERS<333.

#aes

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Things that People Forget About When Writing Sword Fights

You don’t have to dodge by a foot. You only have to dodge by an inch.

Not all swords are made the same way. You wouldn’t fight with a katana the same way you would fight with a broadsword.

You don’t need to aim for the heart or the head. Get the vein in wrist, and you could incapacitate that hand.

Small cuts matter. If you’re cut up enough, you’re going to start suffering from blood loss, and that’ll put you at a disadvantage.

The blade isn’t the only thing that matters. There isn’t some set of rules in sword fighting where you can only stick the stabby end into the other person. Hit them in the head with the hilt, and they’ll feel it.

If there are multiple attackers, you want to incapacitate or kill each one as quickly as possible. Endurance matters, especially when you’re not only swinging/stabbing/aiming something that is 2-5 lbs (ceremonial ones were a lot heavier, but wouldn’t be generally fought with) but also taking/blocking heavy blows from at least one opponent.

#fight scenes #weapons

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Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems; “Orpheus”

[Text ID: “My body is something / I have worn / for other people.”]

#quotes

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“The heart of another is a dark forest.”

— Ivan Turgenev, The Duellist  (via down-the-rabbith0le)

#quotes

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#aes

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Ghost hunting show that’s basically a reverse Scooby-Doo where in every episode the “ghost” turns out to be a different, unrelated supernatural creature or phenomenon. The main character is so focused on proving the existence of ghosts in particular that they’re always crushingly disappointed by this, and the moment they figure out it’s not a ghost they immediately lose all interest in investigating further. There is no indication that non-ghost supernatural phenomena are in any way commonplace or well known, and other characters react to them with the expected shock and fear – it’s just the lead who’s completely unfazed by any weirdness that isn’t a ghost.

#concepts

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sem·pi·ter·nal

/ˌsempəˈtərnl/

adjective eternal and unchanging; everlasting. 

#dictionary

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems

#quotes

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“Unbody me–I’m tired–and get me home.”

— Ralph Hodgson, from Eve, And Other Poems (1913); “The Moor,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

#quotes

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George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"

Text ID: The first thing God made is love / then comes blood / and the thirst for blood

#quotes

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“The siren song returns in me, I sing it across her throat: Am I what I love? Is this the glittering world I’ve been begging for?”

— Natalie Diaz, from Postcolonial Love Poem; Manhattan is a Lenape Word. (via xshayarsha)

#quotes

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#aes

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i love that the phrase is “in love” like love is a place. like somewhere you could live.

#txt

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Negative Traits for Your Characters

Talks over others/interrupts

Always has to one-up others

Can’t take criticism

Always plays the victim

Selfish

Pathological liar

Makes everything about them

Bad at sharing

Guilt trips others

Makes special events about themselves

Their way or no way at all

Makes up excuses for everything

Has a reason why nothing is ever their fault

Not a team player

Does jobs halfway

Makes everything a joke

Can’t take a joke

Is overly literal

Can’t let others enjoy anything

Stingy with money

#character