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If I were an English teacher the first thing I would do before we start reading a book would be to show my students some of my favorite fanart of the book (or art of the period it’s set in) because fanart is always how I get interested in a new fandom

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i dont wanna write my fantasy adventure novels I just want to write the fanfiction where my characters have an apartment together in a post-apocalyptic city and find-family their way to happy lives

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Technoblade was the creator who first got me into Minecraft, and taught me how much I loved to laugh, and how much I loved making others laugh. I hope he feels all the love his fans have for him, wherever he is. He played the game well!

I hope god is shaking in their boots rn

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Gay host dabs

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Being a mixed kid is being haunted by the scene in Voltron when Lotor and Allura both have to take that test with the White Lion. Allura passes because she was raised with the ideals of her father and the Alteans, choosing to sacrifice herself for the sake of knowledge and the greater good. Lotor though— who wanted so badly to pass, who was the one who endlessly studied Altean lore and history and tried to employ the rational compassion the Alteans valued— he couldn’t pass the test. He couldn’t pass because the Galran culture and knee-jerk reaction to a challenge was so ingrained in him. “Victory or death.” Lotor was just Altean enough that he had spent his life being treated as less than other Galra because of his half-Altean heritage and physical attributes, and just Altean enough to be marked as Chosen and allowed into Oriande, but just Galran enough to be rejected because he had grown up in a culture so different and toxic that he couldn’t possibly pass the Lion’s test. He was never going to be accepted fully anywhere.

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Harry Potter’s kids are gen z

That is all

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hey yall, this isn’t a book of mormon meme but

how many here would be interested in reading/purchasing a book by me about a cute nerdy collegey mormon lesbian romance loosely based on my own Queer LDS Experience and equally focused on both telling a sweet emotional story as well as tackling the Big Questions that the experience begs

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Please Watch The Dragon Prince

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I can't believe there are people in this world that have normal sleep schedules. Like really?? You just go to bed??? You just wake up...refreshed?

Wow can’t relate

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consuming unhealthy amounts of fanfiction to cope with unbearable, suffocating loneliness

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I love how Chat Noir has all these sick moves -

But this is how he chooses to fight Rogercop -

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Tom Holland is considering becoming a vampire because he can’t sleep.

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So I found a fake tattoo that said “GO TEAM!” in my backpack and to encourage myself throughout the day (it was second period at the time), I put the the tattoo on my inner wrist. I put some water on it, and waited and listened happily to my teacher, totally not contemplating the lack of sleep in my life, and a minute or two later i peel off the paper backing to find. That I . Had put. The Tattoo on. Backwards. Because Im just so great. So throughout the day instead of having a nice encouraging statement on my wrist to remind me that, Hey, I can do this, I had an upside down affirmation of my own incompetence and inability to do anything remotely correctly. 

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AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH INFINITY WAR AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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I can’t wait for season 6

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How to Make Your Villain Domestic but Still Evil

It’s the oxymoron that attracts us. Billowing black cape, terrifying worldviews, a willingness to make the streets run red with blood – and you know what would be hilarious? Them trying and failing to make morning pancakes. You know what would really hit us in the feels? Watching them show tenderness around a special someone.

Having a villain with a domestic side is lassoing a black hole, and it’s a tantalizing thing to watch. However, anyone who’s indulged in these daydreams with their own villains has probably encountered one very specific issue: it makes them less evil. They lose their edge.

For example, look at Crowley from CW’s Supernatural. This was a guy to be feared at one point; arriving out of nowhere at unexpected times, always playing both sides of the conflict, and you could be certain he would skin anyone necessary to get what he wanted – usually without getting a single drop of blood on his impeccable suit.

Flash forward to recent seasons, and we’ve seen Crowley cry and whimper more times than Dean has died –which is saying something. At first, it was fascinating to discover this powerful character actually had a tender side; and now, when Crowley makes a threat, we’re about as afraid as when any low-level demon makes one. This is because his evil was too compromised. He let himself go.

How can we avoid this mistake with our villains? The answer isn’t making them crush puppies and hate butterflies at every turn; it’s in balancing their core scariness with their softer side – giving them complexity, giving us a bit of “aww,” and making their eventual whiplash back into ‘terrifying’ all the more wonderful.

For this, we’re going to use Epic of Lilith by Ivars Ozols as an example. This book centers on arguably the original female villain – Lilith, the first woman of the Garden of Eden, who got on the “good guys’” bad side by refusing to submit to someone who was clearly her equal. There won’t be any spoilers below, but if you give the book a read (it’s an easy page turner), the points will be driven home stronger.

Plus it’s a book with a great female villain who isn’t objectified (don’t let the cover fool you, seriously) and prose that isn’t full of sexual over- or undertones. Talk about a win, eh?

Here we go.    

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How do I politely put “pissing contest” in an essay?