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why is “olde vampires in high school” the big thing and not “olde vampires in college”

everyone in college is eccentric. everyone

you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who clearly hasn’t slept in three days supports you

everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you’re polite and follow class etiquette

multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!

wandering around campus at 3am? that’s just the lifestyle tm

no matter how old or young you look it’s not really that weird, there’s sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere

big schools are very anonymous so nobody’s gonna bother to hassle you

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Old People Restaurant Scam. You know the scam. Whine about perfectly good food to get some sort of comp.

In their old age, my parents befriended another older couple who would pull this stunt everywhere they went. After my mother told me a few stories about how their new friends had shown them how to get discounted or free meals, I felt like I was suddenly the responsible adult, concerned about the bad influence these people were on my parents.

While visiting my parents with my girlfriend, this other couple attended dinner with us. As I expected, the food was brought to the table and they immediately began dramatically complaining to one another about the quality/taste/temperature/etc. They were making a scene in order to attract the attention of the waitress. When our waitress returned to ask how we were doing, the miserable old bastard who played the lead role in their act took a deep breathe, struck a dramatic pose (with his hand raised to begin gesticulating for emphasis) and bega–I leaned forward and cut him off before he could finish the first word: “Everything is absolutely fantastic. It’s all great! Thank you very much!” She smiled, and began her obligatory “Great, well if you need any–” when he made a second attempt. “We come here all the time an–”. I didn’t acknowledge that he was speaking at all, repeated that all was just as we ordered and thank her again.

He was stunned and thrown off from his routine by my interruption. During this pause the waitress walked away (It seemed clear that she knew what they were trying to accomplish). He turned bright red. I turned to my girlfriend and, smiling and without lowering my voice, stated how pitiful it is that some people could be dishonest, deceitful and put at risk the livelihood of a cook, server or hostess for a pathetic discount or a free early-bird special. My passive-aggressive reverse-parenting broke my parents of the habit in short time.

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25-6-2016

So this is the third attempt at drawing Elend from Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn”, the first time Vin met him, the proper douchebag he was, and I kinda like it. It’s still a rough sketch, about an hour, but I like his face a lot!^^ -

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El needs to stop being an intellectual babe. And also cut his hair. Such hobo. Very Elend. Wipe your face.

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Ok but imagine if Vin and Elend had kids

Like, the kids would probably mistborn cause both of them are mistborn (Elend being a lerasium mistborn would probably make it even more likely). But imagine trying to raise kids who can use all the allomantic metals (and probably sneak more from your stores)

trying to put kids to bed when they’re hyped up on pewter, running through the house at 35+ mph, breaking things as they go

“i said no candy stop trying to soothe me”

“I KNOW YOU’RE LISTENING AT THE DOOR IM BURNING BRONZE…AND I KNOW YOU’RE STILL THERE I CAN PIERCE COPPERCLOUDS”

“You can have this back when you behave and dont you dare try to pull on it”

“STOP RIOTING YOUR SISTER SHES ANGRY ENOUGH ALREADY”

“No you damn well cannot ‘try the atium’ in public”

“Thats it. You’ve lost your pewter privileges.”

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I flash read the Mistborn trilogy in like a week and i’m still emotionally compromised like dang what a fantastic series, i cried so many tears 10/10

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Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (fan art by Giselle Almeida)

Brandy Sandy’s books have been inspiring me to write lately

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Shout out to my Arabic teacher that looked at us yesterday mid-lesson and said, “I’m worried. You all look exhausted and depressed.”

Of course we were all like, “Oh yeah we’re dead inside, you haven’t noticed?”

And he snapped shut the textbook, threw up his hands and said, “That’s not healthy! No more vocab! Time for dancing!”

And he taught us a dance from Iraq and we danced instead of doing vocab. We didn’t stop dancing until he saw all of us laughing and was satisfied that we were all feeling better. It was perhaps the coolest, most kind-hearted thing I’ve ever seen a college instructor do.

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Long Car Rides

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When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen.

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This Doctor Who inspired ‘books!’ tote bag can be found at The Art of Flying on Etsy! 10% of proceeds will go to the Texas Book Festival.

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when ur trans & do small things to assert ur transness throughout the day: micro trans actions

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Light Appears to Drip from Trees in these Long-Exposure Photos by Vitor Schietti