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My boyfriend prefers his mattresses firm, and I need a soft mattress. He prefers his food temperate while I like my food hot and spicy. This is another good reason to not have a kid, because even if the kid averages out and prefers everything in the middle, there's the risk of some blonde bitch breaking into our house to rummage through our stuff.

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obsessed with how different the first boxcar children book is from the rest of the series. like i haven't read any of them in ages but iirc it was like

boxcar children book 1: they are living in a boxcar

boxcar children books 2-160: they are solving mysteries

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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skeleton of cave bear in Bears Cave, Romania

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“Which shot in the movie ended up being the toughest to pull off, and why?”

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Some reporter (accusingly): And where were you during the battle of New York? 🎤

MCU Spider-Man (very tired): I was ten

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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3d printed start gate

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Romeo & Juliet but Friar Lawrence is replaced by Kronk, messes up the potions again, and both of them end up turned into llamas.

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Were Beauty and the Beast Real People? Petrus and Catherine Gonsalvus

This month on Writing in Margins, I'm taking a look at the history of Petrus Gonsalvus and his wife Catherine, a 16th-century couple sometimes claimed as a real-world inspiration for the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. What's the evidence behind the theory, and what can we learn about the couple's lives from the scattered records of the time?

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#beauty and the beast #writing in margins #petrus gonsalvus #fairy tale origins

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Top 6 Reasons You Should Read the Tyme trilogy by Megan Morrison

Reread a fantasy series I love and appreciate, so now it's time for you guys to love and appreciate it too

It's a fairy tale retelling series. Which is always an endorsement in my mind, but here are some more reasons that's great in this series. The takes on the fairy tales are so cool and refreshing, and well executed-- Cinderella fighting for the working class, the Frog Prince going through a redemption arc where he becomes a better person, and the absolutely shaped storyline that Rapunzel has. And most of them (particularly books one and three) combine multiple fairy tales in such a smooth, natural way.

The world building is INCREDIBLE. The tiny details and the way the different countries are introduced are so cool!! And they really go into smaller details, like the main exports that keep the country going, or the traditions of each country when it comes to dealing with loss. The magic systems are SO COOL, too!!

The characters are all really well done-- they're beautifully developed, both as characters and their relationships with each other. Syrah (main character of book three) has one of the best redemption styles arcs I've ever seen where he goes from unlikeable jerk to a caring, kind individual. Even the villains have well thought out motivations and in depth backstories

The romances in each of the three books are PERFECT because you have a slow burn, a couple that get together in the same book but help each other grow in powerful ways, and a book where the main character doesn't get the girl. The trope breaking! The following of the tropes but in just the perfect way! The level to which I am obsessed with Jack and Rapunzel! It's INSANE

All of the books and their stories are deeply intwined. There are cameos and small details in each book that lead you back to the other three, details that pop out and blow your mind at a reread or even the first time around!

It's really funny and charming and delightful writing. And There are these fascinating implications of other stuff going on in the world you're reading about-- stuff that we'll probably never find out about, since the last book was released in 2019 and there's no sign of another, which is really sad

Anyways, this is a super good series, you won't regret it if you read it! Oh my stars and I didn't even mention SERGE MY BELOVED FAVORITE CHARACTER FOR SURE THE FAIRY GODFATHER LEGEND HIMSELF listen just. read this series. Good talk

#i read all three books in one day #then i went back the next day to reread segments #it was really good

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Greek mythology: Fourth masterpost

Arachne was invented

Some thoughts about considering the lost roots of myths

An ask about what to read (and my pitiful answer) - About the origins of the legend of Daphne - About the correct spelling of the Sky god

The Dionysos gallery: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4

About Ovid

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Recently, I had the absolute joy of working with award winning author Dr. Sean Miller on illustrating his wonderful retelling of an Italian folk tale, Prezzemolina. The book will be out June 2018, mark your calendars! For more info: http://prezzemolina.seanmiller.us

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