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thequirkybookaholic · 38 minutes
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if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
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thequirkybookaholic · 4 hours
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me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off
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thequirkybookaholic · 4 hours
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Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.
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thequirkybookaholic · 4 hours
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hello everyone and welcome to the ao3 down group therapy session
the times ahead will be hard but we will get through this together
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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the confetti for a not guilty verdict is actually the funniest fucking thing about ace attorney
it’s like they inherently know their system is fucked to the to the extent that they’ve got the celebration confetti at the ready when they don’t wrongfully incarcerate someone
edgeworth never lost a trial until he faced phoenix wright so the confetti goes off and he’s probably like what the fuck ppfthh pffth phhh that last bit is him spitting the confetti out of his mouth
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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In fifth grade a boy tried to impress me by swallowing a whole tadpole live and I punched him so hard that he puked and the tadpole was fine.
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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like just for clarity the "whats your pronouns are you unionized" is not like a joke read or anything its "she heard these aliens were "A Servant Race" and was like "hey thats sus as fuck that shouldnt exist." rose tyler from doctor who has the trait of immediately finding the person in whatever place and time they go to that is the least advantaged and immediately befriending them. she has experience as a member the working class in england in the 2000s. rose what Makes season 1 and 2 of doctor who good. i mean apart from eccleston and tennant
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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When politicians say they want to take Britain back the 1950s and they actually deliver.
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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Please retire the "we are made of stardust" phrase I am so tired of it
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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Might as well soak it in milk and slam it against the wall at this point. Love this violence
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thequirkybookaholic · 12 hours
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thequirkybookaholic · 16 hours
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i'm sure people have sent you the answer 293 times already too but just in case, the water texture is a default photo filter on the tumblr photo editor!
WE HAVE A PHOTO EDITOR?
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thequirkybookaholic · 17 hours
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