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Sir Terry Pratchett awakens. A skeleton stands at his bedside, wearing a long black robe. He sits up. “Well, hang on, let me get my hat,” he tells it.

The skeleton reaches into its robe. From abyssal depths it produces a heavy book bound in sheets of lead and night. It is the kind of book that gets stolen by a rugged adventurer from a temple with more spike-traps than the average house of worship contains. It is the kind of book to which the word “tome” might properly be applied. Frost forms on its pages from the lingering chill of the void. 

The skeleton coughs once and holds the book out to the man sitting on the bed.

WOULD YOU SIGN THIS? it asks. BIG FAN.

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Trying to sell handmade crafts in this economy is so. Like. Hey guys I know we're all broke as fuck but do you want my silly little things. I'm very good at it. For the time it takes to make them + skill + materials it's gonna be 30$ per silly little thing. But also shipping costs 12$ for reasons outside my control so it's actually 42$ now. Sorry. No I really can't charge less than that. Yeah I know. Ok. Bye

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every time i look for clothing it gets more depressing. you mean to tell me they don't make booty shorts in my size? at all? even the most basic kind with a common design? really? they don't make this? they don't have this for me? i'm not allowed? really?

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Captain Kirk makes “worst braid ever”, asked to leave Enterprise.

Stranding them on other planets is my enrichment

Spock get that Keratin treatment.

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Demons are real and they write for the new york times.

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I've been dreading making this post but here it goes

I am a 33 year old trans woman currently in a very tight financial situation

at the end of December, I broke 3 of my ribs in an accident as had to stay home from work to recover and just barely recently returned to work

however, due to a lack of sick leave to cover 2 months (time spent recovering and dealing with work not wanting me back until I was at 100% capability), my next paycheck will be lower than average, and since I've been living paycheck to paycheck, this is really bad news

especially since the bill for both my hospital visit and an increase of my car insurance payment decided to happen all at once

my savings are dreadfully low and this isn't even taking the regular bills for this month into mind

I know it's a very hard time for a lot of people, which is why I feel guilty writing this, but if any help at all can be spared I will DEEPLY appreciate it so much; PLEASE ONLY HELP IF YOU ARE ALRIGHT FINANCIALLY

Paypal

Venmo - @ alaudelo

I would very much appreciate it if you could REBLOG this 💜

thank you all so much 💜

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hahahahahaha

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I feel like this about Superman and Batman too...who ARE they if they're not superheroes?? It's inextricably woven into their characters!

I made a post about "Fandom Darling" characters who are super popular but very often have their personalities and personal relationships warped or replaced in fan works, usually also warping everyone around them. Which is, you know, let people have fun and all that, whatever, it's just mildly frustrating if you liked the canonical version of that character.

And people are sharing a lot of fun salt in the tags about this pattern, but usually about the darling's personality or narrative importance, when what finally pushed me to articulate the post was another case with the altered personal relationships aspect.

THAT'S one of the most disorienting ways for a character to be "out of character", in my opinion, because their personality can be mostly intact, but their canonical family, friends, and love interests may have just... mysteriously vanished from both the world and the character's priorities. (Usually in order to prioritize a new love interest above all else.) It's especially weird if those canonical relationships are integral to a character's backstory and their driving motivations. It's like the logical foundation has been taken out from underneath the character's personality, but it somehow remains? Weirdly disconnected?

Like, if I enjoy a character who has an unpleasant family situation, then ideally, I want to see explorations of that character dealing with that. Maybe the unpleasant family is no longer present, but we're still exploring the healing process. I'm less interested in a Modern AU where the character's mentor figure is suddenly and inexplicably their biological parent(???), unrelated characters are their new biological siblings(???!!!), and their childhood was apparently totally happy. That's... that's not my character anymore, even if they mysteriously still have the personality quirks that were a direct result of the canonical unpleasant family situation. Happy for them, I guess, but I don't really know who that character is now.

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@ people who were not born in Ireland and particularly Americans

- It is not Patty’s Day, it is Paddy’s Day. Patty is short for Patricia, Paddy is short for Pádraig which has been anglicised to Patrick. - It is not Gaelic, it is Irish. In Irish, the language is called Gaelige but that’s pronounced Gwayl-geh. - Literally no one in Ireland has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage - We have also never said top of the morning - If you pinch an Irish person for not wearing green on Paddy’s Day they’re likely to slap you. - Why do you dye your drinks green? - It is not “North Ireland” it is “Northern Ireland”. It is not “South Ireland” it is “The Republic of Ireland” or just “Ireland”. - No, I do not know the Dohertys of Mayo. - Please, if you must, do things for the craic and not the crack. Cocaine is not a great habit lads. - Drinks like the “Irish car bomb” and the “black & tan” are incredibly offensive (you wouldn’t drink a “9/11”)

However

- Wearing green is grand - Having a few drinks is also grand, they don’t even need to be Irish (I drink a Swedish cider most of the time) - Aye sure queue up some Irish music on youtube it’s great. - If you want one Irish word to use throughout the day a good one is Sláinte (pronounced slawn-sha) - it’s the equivalent of saying “cheers” before you drink!

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Just a tad late was marathoning atla all day but could not ‘not’ draw something for the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Gosh like this show has been so important to me for so long, it’s such a great inspiration for storytelling and worldbuilding not to mention the art style alone greatly influenced my own. Thank you for being a source of happiness,and comfort, and creativity for me and so many others.

Also p.s. Does anyone else remember the lil like look inside nicktoons studio videos they used play in-between the shows n commercials I used to love the how to draw certain cartoon character segments n my favorite was the one for Katara. Me and my friend both remember one of the tips in that tutorial was that Katara had 8 bumps in her braid. It’s super random, but I was only able to find clips of the ones for Aang and Appa on YouTube, that shits prolly lost media but I’ll stop yappin.

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john william waterhouse wanted to get fucked by a witch sooo bad

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The temptation, when adapting a really iconic detective, is to delve into his personal backstory. That's the devil talking.

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I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

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piplup grain entrapment

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Greek workers, after months without pay, apply austerity cuts on their bosses car

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I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.