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It makes me happy when they listen

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I’m not sure how many people realize that there’s a way in which hurt/comfort is actually very kinky, because at its core you’ve got this emotional power exchange fantasy where one character is vulnerable and helpless and the other takes care of them. In the case of stories involving grievous injuries, where someone is bedridden for a long time, you often end up with two characters in a 24/7 total power exchange relationship without a safeword. It just doesn’t involve as many whips and dog collars.

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why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

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A short story about disability and friendship.

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- The Magicians; Season 4 Episode 12 ‘The Secret Sea’

directed by Shannon Kohli written by Elle Lipson

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i want you all to know that today i saw someone with a tuba get into a subaru with the license plate "tubaru"

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New fic drop! This little ficlet is the silliest piece of crack I've ever written, lol 😂 Enjoy! HONK!

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I’m trying to tell you, you are not alone here.

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peaches and plums

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I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain.

He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

—Henry Fogg, The Magicians by Lev Grossman

(Unlabelled Gifs sourced from here)

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pspspspsps poetry mutuals come here... new quiz... making you the patron saint of something...

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someone apologized for commenting late… 2 months after the fic was posted 😭😭 girl that’s EARLY thats fresh

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You’re here out of some sort of combination of thinking I’m incompetent and your guilt, that he died saving you. You know what? You are way too smart for me to ascribe what just you said to total stupidity, so I’m gonna go ahead and I’m gonna file it under you must be fucking joking right now.

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- Okay, yeah, that’s a lot of zeroes. - Um, how many zeroes? - Uh, to be exact? - Yeah. - A shitload. The Magicians | S03E05: A Life in the Day (2018)

His posture was very straight, but his mouth was twisted to one side, in a permanent half grimace that revealed a nest of teeth sticking both in and out at improbable angles. He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending. But despite his odd appearance Eliot had an air of effortless self-possession that made Quentin urgently want to be his friend, or maybe just be him period. The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) by Lev Grossman

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I used The Magicians novels as a reference point in a paper I wrote recently for class -- the topic had to do with how stories exist in conversation with each other, and I talked about the reaction against the Chronicles of Narnia's pietism throughout the series, and particularly how it plays out in Quentin and Ember's adversarial relationship, compared to the lifelong devotion the Narnian protagonists give to Aslan. Good stuff, I'm delightfully clever.

The amusing bit for Tumblr purposes is that I just got the paper back, and amid other more substantive comments, my instructor wrote "I'm completely distracted by the mention of The Magicians LOL. Quentin, Alice, Eliot and all the rest are very alive to me from the TV series...." No need to thank me, ma'am, distracting people by forcing them to think about Syfy's The Magicians is (not to brag...) kinda what I do.

(I didn't even mention Eliot in the paper. That one's not even on me.)

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counterpoint to that poll: what was your favorite assigned reading in high school??