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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

#fairytales #kindness

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#library #reading #books

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I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

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“Cats are like witches. They don’t fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There’s no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won’t know they’ve lost, and to be a real winner you have to have an opponent who is beaten and knows it. There’s no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.”

- Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve. -L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams.

#l.m. montgomery

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Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

#kindness #inspiration

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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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Writing period dramas in the discord, lads

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#books #endless list of favorite books #murderbot #murderbot diaries

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"Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it."

- Terry Pratchett, The Sea and Little Fishes

#terry pratchett #quotes #books

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R.F Kuang - Babel // Hozier - Butchered Tongue

#babel #babel an arcane history #rf kuang #books

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Medea’s Reasons by Salma Deera 

This is probably my favorite poem, and a couple of years back, I illustrated it through a series of portraits featuring women from biblical stories, folklore, and mythology. I wanted to revisit the poem and create something that was more simple and focused on the titular heroine. 

#medusa #poetry #salma deera

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Do not mourn your messy past.

A uniform slab of concrete is tidy,

but nothing grows there.

#nature #naturalist #poetry

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     “Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”      Terry Pratchett,            A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction    

#terry pratchett #hope

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Do we all know what week it is? Weird Al and George do. #BannedBooksWeek

View more Neil Gaiman on WhoSay

(Photo by the lovely and talented Amanda Palmer, archer supreme.)

#george r.r. martin #weird al yankovic #neil gaiman #read banned books

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I don’t know who wrote this or why, but this writing is just *chef’s kiss*

**Editing to add: I now know that this was said by Lindy West in her book The Witches are Coming. Good to know! 

#trumpet #biblical demolition equipment #endless list of favorite books #Lindy west