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You’re a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You’ve actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer’s business, you finally reveal yourself.

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Confidential to Bioware: I would ABSOLUTELY play LEGO: Dragon Age. Brick by brick… I will rebuild Thedas. (embiggen)

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“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

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Crowley appreciates being called elegant but has suggested that "saunters" would be a more accurate verb.

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This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.

Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.

So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.

You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.

Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.

Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.

Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.

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20 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (18 DEC 2002)

Let this be the hour when we draw swords together.

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less than a month to go boys

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Happy Hogswatch everyone!

Please enjoy this bonus isolated background A'Tuin:

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Is anyone else excited for Gargoyles comics coming back this Christmas?? 👉👈

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reblog to give the person you rb’d this from a hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows

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It’s not Halloween/spooky season anymore, but it IS time to upload old art here 😁

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I've had the fortune of meeting some online friends in person and as soon as I get home I just get ANGRY like

WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE CANT JUST GO GET BOBA AND HAVE A PICNIC AND GO THRIFTING AND GO BOWLING BECAUSE YOU LIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY. THATS NOT FAIR

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Do no harm

It is kind of shocking how much harm is done in Jane Austen novels by people who have no freaking idea that they are causing damage. You might say “unconsciously done”

Marianne in Sense & Sensibility thinks that Edward loves Elinor and is maybe prevented by his mom from proposing, she has no idea that Edward is actually engaged to Lucy because Elinor hides her pain. She has no idea how awful this speech is, but we do:

“Do you call me happy, Marianne? Ah! if you knew!—And can you believe me to be so, while I see you so wretched!”

“Forgive me, forgive me,” throwing her arms round her sister’s neck; “I know you feel for me; I know what a heart you have; but yet you are—you must be happy; Edward loves you—what, oh what, can do away such happiness as that?”

“Many, many circumstances,” said Elinor, solemnly.

“No, no, no,” cried Marianne wildly, “he loves you, and only you. You can have no grief.”

Similarly, in Mansfield Park, Mary and Edmund have no idea that Fanny loves Edmund, which twists a perpetual knife in Fanny’s heart. I think for her it’s even worse than what Aunt Norris does. Like this seemingly innocuous reference to Mary when Edmund compliments Fanny’s gown:

“Your gown seems very pretty. I like these glossy spots. Has not Miss Crawford a gown something the same?”

And then we have Mr. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice joking about Mr. Collins’s letter and destroying Elizabeth, completely unaware:

Elizabeth tried to join in her father’s pleasantry, but could only force one most reluctant smile. Never had his wit been directed in a manner so little agreeable to her… It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her

In Persuasion, Mary Musgrove, who probably did intend to hurt Anne a little, but had no idea just how terrible it was that Wentworth insulted Anne’s looks, because Mary had no idea they were once engaged:

“Captain Wentworth is not very gallant by you, Anne, though he was so attentive to me. Henrietta asked him what he thought of you, when they went away, and he said, ‘You were so altered he should not have known you again.’”

Mary had no feelings to make her respect her sister’s in a common way, but she was perfectly unsuspicious of being inflicting any peculiar wound.

This is such an interesting thing for Austen to point out. So much pain caused by other people is not done maliciously or even purposely. How do you even prevent doing something like that? I feel like in some ways, this is just a part of life. Which may be another reason why Austen’s novels are so realistic and poignant.

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Trifari axe brooches designed by Alfred Philippe, 1941.

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