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THEY CALLED US DELUSIONAL. THEY SAID THAT WE WERE REACHING. THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON. THEY TOLD US WE WERE CRAZY AND THAT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

Anyways, TimeBomb and GhostFlower are officially variants.

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blue sargent 🌀

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My last doodle for a while… going to deactivate for a bit but I’ll be back when I’m doing better… I love u, tb nation 🤍

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i'm like if a lover hated everything they see

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and if i said i wrote hurt/comfort fic for the will of the many what then? what then. anyway here it is! i <3 this series.

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"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

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Me checking on one of my beloved ao3 fics that hasn't been updated since 2017

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ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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mega spoilers so beware but adding to this yet again because imagine this said guy forgives you or whatever and lets you join his trio team in a NEW battle royale! you have a chance to redeem yourself! (this time the battle royale is a very sought-after school-wide event which you really need to graduate well.) this is the only way too save your final school ranking so you're very grateful. happy times.

teamwork makes the dream work! also now said guy vis telimus disappears randomly and comes back with suspiciously human-teeth-shaped injuries ravaging his arm and infecting the rest of him. also it looks super gross and also things are not looking too awesome for you guys. he says it's totally fine but it's not so you have to roll with it and you end up helping him bandage it. but whatever! you are one step closer to winning! kind of. there's still heavy competition all around.

except now a bunch of students are killed! yes!!! by a faction of the government—as it appears to be! and more people are on the hunt for you and other students of the academy and ESPECIALLY said guy because he is national hero and a big big target. what luck!

and also he has like telekinesis now. or something like that. idk but he claims it's just good hearing and wont admit to it. but it's something like that.

he kind of dies toward the end (at least that's what everybody assumes when some of them including you manage to escape in misery) but he comes back drenched in blood and carrying a dead body (of a person that you may or may not have been somewhat supposed to find for him) .

and then. he passes out. just like that.

imagine this is you and you are aequa and this is only book 1. oh i would throw hands i really would.

aequa is so real because if i had to go to some death battle royale match watched by children and random violent citizens just for some GUY my dad wants me to spy on because my dad has beef with his dad and it ends up being some awkward study hangout turned TRAUMATIC BLOODSHED EVENT where said random guy saves ME and then EVERYONE and then shows up in school so now i OWE him but talking to a seventh could mess with my record ranking so now i still owe him? but like. secretly?

but he's a lying LIAR all the time and hella suspicious? and then he shows VIOLENT TENDENCIES and then also starts breaking my never-been-done-before record by MILES? and then i try calling him out and exposing his cheating but that ends up in me LOSING MY RANKING and my STUDENT FAVORITISM. and also turns out he's actually not cheating just somehow? smarter or something? like what the fuck?

again, all to SOME GUY that joined the academy late.

i would actually start tweaking. you all would have to all physically restrain me from strangling him and then myself and then everyone else.

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These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

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i have done the great work of compiling a supercut of all the times Vis called another man* handsome in The Will of The Many, a 625-sh page book, that is about 8 handsome men every 78 pages.)

*This does include his own father. And also, interestingly, Indol three times.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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new romantics

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if you don’t remember anything else for the next 4 years, remember this: don’t be a fucking snitch.

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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

— Howard Zinn (via freckles-and-books)

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Warm greeting from a reader across the pond (excuse any mistakes, my English isn’t perfect).

I’ve been reading TLE throughout the last two years after my best friend told me about it (rather EMPHATICALLY stressed how much I would adore the piece of art you have so kindly been sharing with us FOR FREE!!).

The elections are coming up in Germany, and like the US, my friends and I have been highly stressed about the political situation. I could go on, but you (obviously) seem to need no explanation regarding horrible and inhumane politics.

Just a few words of appreciation from me:

Your writing has been a beam of light on any given bad (borderline depressive) day.

I am extremely moved by these complex characters.

And even more, the idealistic Lily, torn between enthusiasm and activism and utter hopelessness and depression regarding the state of the world, has really rekindled my own personal relationship with my activism.

I feel empowered by this woman torn and powerful as she is.

I’ll always be hopeful for change towards a better world. Let’s hope Germany pulls together in February.

And even in the worst case. There are still good people doing their best and working together towards a future of togetherness and humanity….

Take all the time in the word, we will be waiting!

Sending all the warmth and gratitude from Germany!

Oh my goodness, I have been following the situation in Germany and I am thinking of you all daily and praying for the best. I really hope you are able to avoid the absolute shitshow we’re going through over here. Sending all my love and positive vibes. ❤️🫂🤞🏼

And thank you so very much for these kind words. It truly means the world to me and brought a tear to my eye. 🥲❤️❤️❤️