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The lined paper blanket is finally done! It’s made to scale of a college ruled 8.5inx11in piece of paper.

No pattern used, it was entirely self drafted. This took me about 3 months to complete, working on it on and off. I probably put around 80 hours into this blanket so far, but that’s just a rough estimate.

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tumblr is the best bc I can say that Kermit is a butch lesbian and at least one person will agree with me

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Anyone who's listened to part 3 of wisteria lodge: in the distorted noise at the end, did anyone else hear someone humming "the itsy bitsy spider"?......

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I think that diving into Reichenbach rn is too soon after Sign of Four so I'm hoping they stretch it out a lil but I'm excited! I also hope the static at the end is Moriarty slowly taking over the podcast

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My miniature Terry Pratchett Discworld novel library!

Made from an Altoids tin, Popsicle sticks, cardstock, copy paper, and a whole lot of patience. All of the miniature books open and have real printed pages you can leaf through. And the insidevof the lid has a sort-of-3D scene of the UU Library.

Contains the novels from The Color of Magic, all the way through Raising Steam

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family portrait.

ig: d.ill.usion

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convinced a friend of mine to read the locked tomb series and today he FLUNG A PIRHANA AT ME and said "this is for gideon!!!" and tbh I think I deserved it

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Please join my wheel of time obsession now that we have a date for s3. WoT should really be more of a thing on tumblr! It’s queer, it’s absolutely gorgeous, and it’s super interesting fantasy world building! Look at this!

You can catch up on s1 and 2 now and s3 comes out on March 13th!!

Also like the costumes are the most amazing I’ve seen on television - truly works of art.

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Second Moriarty reference in sherlock and co!!! This is going to be BRUTAL

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Little pixel Harrow's attack

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I'm curioussss

Obviously feel free to expand on your answer in replies or tags!

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THE GLORIA SCOTT - now all in one place ! once again thank you to candy and also owl for yelling at me 💛

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finally watched joy to the world (kind of eh, moffat has a serious kink for hotels although he is absolutely based for telling the tories to go fuck themselves) and my friend and I laughed so hard at the "because it was there" everest joke lol

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i haven’t stopped sobbing about this since i saw it, like ouch

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Honestly idk how i hadn't drawn this meme yet

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I took a pretty long pause from reading fantasy voraciously when I went to uni, and got back into it a few years ago. And in those years, the genre has, well, changed.

The first thing that had changed was the rise of romantasy into the mainstream. See, back in high school, books like the Twilight series or The Mortal Instruments were sort of guilty pleasure reads. But now, fantasy fans proudly display their Sarah J. Maas'es and Leigh Bardugo's. Hey, good for us. I like a bit of spicy in my books.

The second thing I noticed was the language. Hmm. This change was a bit less welcome. Now, I get that we want fantasy to be an approachable genre, but I feel like the prose... is kind of, well, bland and mundane? It doesn't transport me, it doesn't convince me that the book takes place in a different world in a different time. There are descriptions that both show and tell when one would be more impactful.

Then there was a third thing; Shallow world building. Rather than making me feel like there's a living world with history, cultures, and people with goals, the contemporary fantasy trope is to have one single deciding factor that isn't actually explored deeply enough to come up with something unpredictable.

Don't get me wrong, a book can be enjoyable regardless. I've had a good time with books like Legends and Lattes, and I did find Mistborn alright. But... they didn't alter how I view storytelling.

I will say that The Locked Tomb, The Broken Earth, and Piranesi were all excellent. So I'm not saying things used to be better, or that everything is bad now. It's not. There're some excellent writers out there. But that's sort of the challenge.

I have a suspicion that with the shrinking mid list - and traditionally, fantasy has sat in the mid list - those who explore the strange and political are getting harder to discover. There's a bigger need for curation, for word of mouth, for digging deeper, if you want to discover untold worlds and interesting language craft.

Can't you just read indie published works? Yeah, kind of. But, there being less resources put into the mid list, and indie being self-funded, there's less money, and time, for editing and revision and letting the story ferment until it's bubbly and flavourful and full of good probiotics to digest.

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its like i never left........... *floats away peacefully