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i want to attend a terry pratchett book club that includes at least one gen x or older british person because i feel like there must be so much brilliant stuff that is going right over my young american head

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So, I’m reading Witches Abroad right now, and in it there’s a festival that’s pretty clearly based in Mardi Gras, called Samedi Nuit Mort. I knew what each of those words meant, and could tell there was a joke in there, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I thought it was something to do with how it sounded out loud, but that didn’t work…

You guys. It’s Saturday Night Dead.

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The Discworld fandom is something I affectionately think of as a kaiju.

The Discworld fandom is, despite all outward appearances of being this lil’ ol’ ma and pa fandom, actually very, very big. Unbelievably big. Vastly, hugely big.

Discworld has a dedicated convention. Discworld had published filk albums. Discworld has officially licensed video games on the PS1. Discworld has a twinned city in the real actual United Kingdom.

Because Terry Pratchett was called the highest selling author in the United Kingdom for a slice of time. Not the highest selling fantasy author, the highest selling author, full stop.

There are a lot of people who have read Discworld, and of those there are a lot who would consider themselves fans of Discworld. And it’s a fandom that largely lies slumbering on the sea floor, content, quiet, until something happens and the whole fandom rises out of the ocean like fucking Godzilla to bellow “HAAAVE YOOOU REEEAD DIIISCWOOORLD III HAAAVE FLOOOWCHAAARTS” and stomp on a building

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people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

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Sorry to ask 😅 but did you ever finish the sailor moon witch art? 😭 I honestly wanna see how Pluto looks like!

I've finished them, including Pluto ^^

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John William Waterhouse

details of

"I Am Half-Sick of Shadows," Said the Lady of Shalott, 1915

Fair Rosamund, 1916

The Lady of Shalott, 1888

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please look at this graffiti my sister saw in paris

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Saw this hand-me-down thrift store style on Fuhbook and tried backtracking and can't hit the source. Really hope they are still posting gold out there somewhere…for morale.

Found via the Unitarian Universalist Hysterical Society and @hidefdoritos and @secondbeatsongs, but tumblr made it a whole lot harder to find and follow them than it should have this morning.

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I have both headphones in with nothing playing. Just me listening to the sound of my own thoughts. The horror!

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If you ever feel like you're bad with money, just remember that Elon Musk paid forty four billion dollars to make both his individual life and twitter.com vastly worse.

Makes Yahoo look like brilliant visionaries for only burning $1b on this sack of Discourse and Supernatural memes.

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PSA: *Beware* AI-generated fungi guidebooks!!

…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:

“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:

“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”

…So PLEASE be careful if you run across anything of this kind.

(ETA: Corrected egregious typo in the title. Apologies, as I was [a] in bed [b] typing hurriedly and one-handed on the iPad, and [c] I think its native keyboard may need recalibration, but also [d] I was upset about what I was having to post, because seriously, WTF?!!)

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Choo Choo

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Storm Witch's Ward Water

You will need: ° storm water °thyme ° rosemary ° sage °sandalwood ° salt Put the solution into a dish and microwave until hot. Take a brush, dip it into the water and brush along the frames of your doors and windows. Once that is done, take the brush, dip it into the water, then flick the water into every corner of the room. Repeat the process with as many rooms that need to be cleansed.