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Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”

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why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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Saw Bradley Jaden live playing Javert in Les Misérables and it changed my perspective on the novel, my entire system of beliefs and my brain chemistry.

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always acab except if it’s bradley jaden’s javert

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Tolkien: people think my book is about elves and hobbits and heroes and dragons and the evils of war but really it's about how industrialisation is ruining the English countryside and nature and that's why I describe EVERY TREE

Victor Hugo: people think my book is about a priest, a hunchback and a soldier falling in love with the same gypsy girl but actually it's about how the printing press is replacing cathedrals as a form of religious worship in medieval france

They'd FULLY get each other lol

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I just have a thing for "robot overcoming what they were made for" trope I guess

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Watching The Wild Robot:

I'm not crying, there's just a perfect found family in my eye

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characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies

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The outfit. The man bun. Sauron slayed more than Alqualondë.

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*booktok voice* Do you want to read a gay story about two guys who speedrun enemies to lovers, go against their designed nature by being together, who become unstoppable fighting side by side to much dismay of the gods who created them? Do you want to see one of them eaten alive by the grief for his lover when he dies from a godsent sickness? A book about someone fighting so hard for a chance at eternal life that he doesn't notice he is throwing away the precious time he has got, filling it with agony? Well, in the  2100 BCE poem of Gilgamesh-

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I need to quit my job so I can watch movies

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the feminine urge to disguise yourself as a man and ride to minas tirith to die in battle with honour

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THE GHALI EFFECT