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Also Buttercup 😭😭😭 those scenes of Katniss and Buttercup crying over Prim together make me sob

Suzanne really went for the emotional damage of parallels with Katniss giving Haymitch the geese. Because she knows his pain of losing the one you love, she gave him his own equivalent of her pearl that gave her comfort when she thought Peeta was gone.

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it was at this point in the book when i started sobbing

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

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The Lady and the Unicorn  is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries created woven in Flanders from wool and silk, from designs drawn in Paris around 1500. The set, on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris, considered one of the greatest works of art of the Middle Ages in Europe.

"According to my only wish."

"The lady with the unicorn. Hearing"

"The lady with the unicorn. Touch"

"The lady with the unicorn. Smell." 

"The lady with the unicorn. Vision"

"The lady with the unicorn. Taste"

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it’s always a good time to remember that time Ivan Vorpatril got discreetly dosed with Cetagandan anti-viagra right before being “invited upstairs” by 2 beautiful noblewomen, so he improvised some bullshit about it being a matter of Male Vor Honor(TM) to get a woman off 3 times before he himself came, and proceeded to foreplay so well and so thoroughly that he successfully exhausted all of them to sleep and snuck out; and the next day started getting a flood of invites to “private parties” hosted by more noblewomen, including at least 1 who was married.

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If you’ve read any scientific articles in school or for work that was supported or published by the U S government, please download them and do not delete your copies. URLs may have access blocked. They are deleting datasets and research from publicly accessible sites, and we have to retain this knowledge. Information is power— and the knowledge they are trying to take is what is most important to keep in this moment. Stay strong, and practice self and community care.

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I made even more Vorkosigan memes

Part 1 Part 2

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I’m so glad people like my Vorkosigan saga memes. I made more for a presentation where I explained what happened in every book but I only had 60 seconds for each, and I explained them in the order they were published instead of the order they happen. It was great. There was shouting. I really need to post those

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it’s such a shame that even 30 years into the reign of Gregor Vorbarra, Barrayar’s government is still fundamentally non-transparent with a tight hand on the press, because can you fucking imagine watching Ekaterin tell Richars to fuck off then propose to Miles in the Chamber of Counts live on Barrayaran C-SPAN

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Not what you'd want to see on a dark Ketterdam night

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I finished A Civil Campaign and I will scream about it more later but. For now, simply put: greatest ever fictional deployment of a couch to deal a lethal amount of psychic damage. Cordelia you fucking legend.

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Miles making up the story of his clone on a spur of the moment running-his-mouth-to-save-his-ass situation and then his clone being real is SO FUNNY TO ME

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Made a dark mode skin to go with the light mode version of this one.

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like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

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One thing I love about Cordelia and Aral is that they come from such different cultures with such different taboos and mores, and they are each delighted by the other's expression of these differences

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we were ROBBED

(Another story in the case of 10, 11 and 12)