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You've heard of the man, the myth, the legend. Now get ready for the woman, the omen, the portent.

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Happy Halloween! 🎃✨️🎃✨️💀✨️💀

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Ninth Saints

close up on faces cause I like em

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I'm very normal about these two drawings

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no i am not immune to early 2000s pop-punk music that fucks a little harder than everyone likes to admit

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Still thinking about the concept of something being "emasculating". Like men had to create a whole extra word for them to describe how humiliating it would be to do one of the many things they foist upon women.

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6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY

1991, dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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JK Rowling is:

The ninth best-selling writer of all times, all categories confounded including romance novels, children albums, Shakespearian plays and poetry, and even manga.

(Those are low-balling numbers. She might actually be fourth or fifth, depending on the actual sales of other successful writers. But ninth is the minimum.)

The third best-selling author to meet overwhelmingly positive reception both from the public and critics, to the point where her books are taught in school. Only Shakespeare and Agatha Christie have done better.

THE best-selling and most read author is her lifetime, save perhaps for Christie.

Not only that, but she managed all of this in only 22 books. For comparaison, prolific romance novel author Barbara Cartland with comparable sales number estimates wrote 723 novels. Child author Enid Blyton, best known for Noddy and The Famous Five, wrote 800. Agatha Christie wrote four times this amount of Whodunits. Shakespeare twice as many plays and poetry volumes.

And that's not all of it! Not only has Rowling sold that many books, not only is her work critically acclaimed and studied as a defining element of the canon of British and western literature; she is the ONLY writer in the top ten sellers to have written and met success in no less than three literary genres. Children's fiction, adult fiction, crime novels. Most of the hyper successful writers in the top ten are prolific writers of genre fiction who repeat their own formulas over and over, but Rowling actively challenges herself and continues to win readers over.

And that's just her literary achievements.

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the thing we all need to say loudly and more often is that not only did women always work throughout history, but the kinds of work they had to engage in were often longer-lasting, harder, more boring, more emotionally taxing, more fundamentally necessary for continued survival, and above all, they did the majority of it. the majority of work in the world was done by women, this has been true for millennia, and is still true today.

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I cannot find the Tweet again but I once read something like "Fandom is the only thing you have and you're not even having fun" on a quote retweet of fandom drama and I have thought about it daily ever since

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hot take: Nie Huaisang is not actually good at Xanatos Gambits - elaborate planning, setting up dominoes or chess games or whatever metaphor you want and letting it all fall into place, every option a win. Nie Huaisang is very, very good at:

appearing nonthreatening

manipulating a scene, mostly via use of feigned helplessness and redirection

gathering information

throwing rocks at a hornet’s nests and then reacting very quickly to stay just slightly in control of the consequences, mostly using the tools above

That’s his modus operandi over and over. Getting Wei Wuxian resurrected - the biggest rock-to-a-hornet’s-nest of all. Sending Jin Guangyao a letter revealing Qin Su’s parentage, basically saying his days were numbered - yup. Getting Nie Mingjue’s body all together to storm off to the temple - yep. But I refuse to believe that he predicted the results of any of this well enough to plan - oh, the general scope, sure. WWX would go haring off to solve the mystery, almost certainly picking up LWJ because, you know, true love and righteousness. JGY would do something to overreach; that was clearly the goal of the letter. And NMJ would have the chance to get his own vengeance. But Nie Huaisang clearly made sure he was on the scene to manage the consequences of all of these - that’s not the actions of a man with masterful, predictive plans. That’s a very clever man with, like, alright plans, a decent sense of timing on when to land a political killing blow, who’s really good at winging it.

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tumblr is ground zero for something i like to call soft mens right’s activism (or uwu mra) and it makes me want to tear my hair out

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things jon missed while stalking his colleagues:

the fact that sasha had been half lined up for gertrude's job and how that would be a pretty good murder motive

the discrepancy between elias's hiring in 1991 and how he said he was working as a filing clerk in 1972

tim's brother's mysterious disappearance/death directly preceding his change in careers

martin's real age and literally any of his academic or employment history

conclusion: he's bad at this <3

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how can ppl say cats dont have feelings like. 

when my cat got deadly sick she refused to eat a single thing and it had been days but when i started crying she ate just a little bit, and upon seeing how happy it made me, kept doing it whenever she could.

now whenever im sad or crying she finds wherever i am with a mouthful of food and eats the pieces one by one, every time looking up at me making sure i was watching her eat it all because she knew it made me happy. and it DOES make me happy

i love cats!!!