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#the kind of content I like to wake up to #thank u

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F1 Grand Prix of Miami May 05, 2024 Photo by Mark Thompson

#reader I love him #mv33

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SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

#ohhhhhhhhh LOOK AT THAT #hot!! #dr3

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Now imagining Legolas picking up a normal and very standard rock for Gimli and saying, "Is this a good one? The kind you like?" in a similar way to sending links via DMs to your most beloved mutuals that lead to fandom posts relating to their unfamiliar and strange Blorbos, who you know nothing about and cannot see the appeal of.

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📸 mark thompson

#lighting lighting lighting

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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A neat thing about The Goblin Emperor is that while it's a classic trope of the lost heir plunged into a morass of courtly intrigue where he has no idea whom he can trust, the very first thing it does is emphasize how much he has to choose to trust anyway. Maia has to trust the head of his household to appoint his body servants, and he has to trust those servants. He has to trust the adremaza to appoint his nohecharei, and he has to trust his nohecharei. Any one of these people could kill him. Any one of them could carry gossip to his enemies, or make him look bad in public and thus weaken him in the eyes of the court. But if he so much as implies a discomfort with these choices, he'll offend powerful people without cause – and anyway, how could he possibly pick better? He has no idea what he's doing. He's forced to rely on people. He's forced to trust. The only person he actually personally chooses is Csevet, and what he chooses to do is essentially hand Csevet the keys to the empire. He got so fucking lucky there, that could have gone so incredibly badly.

But it didn't. Because, as the book emphasizes, trust is the right choice. Even when it does go badly, even when he is betrayed, that doesn't mean the trust was wrong. Because when one person betrays him, every single other person around him shows how truly loyal they are, not only by rushing to his aid, but by caring so deeply and obviously about him.

That's why this book feels so odd for its genre: there's a bunch of complex courtly intrigue going on, but Maia never plays the game. He never schemes, he's never playing 5D chess with his enemies. He has to navigate the factions of the court and try to win them to his side, but he does so by being kind and forthright. He's completely blindsided by the coup attempts, and frankly so are we, because he's just been focusing on other stuff! And he survives them, not through his own cunning, but through the love of those he placed his trust in.

#the goblin emperor #i did really enjoy this book

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daniel ricciardo ahead of the sprint race | 📍hard rock stadium, miami grand prix | 📸 rudy carezzevoli

#HOT #dr3

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maxverstappen1: Happy to be on sprint pole 🙌 Difficult to get the tyres to work in the last session, but we’ll take the result 😎

#what a nice smiley face #i do like that #mv33

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Watch: The power and vulnerability in his voice needs to be heard.

#ian mckellen #queer #i like it here i like it

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Paul Newman in The Sting (1973)

#the sting #god i love this film

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max while getting interviewed by viaplay 😗 so majestic

#i approve this lighting #mv33

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when i was a kid we only had windows 95 and we had to sharpen the points of our mouse cursors with pocket knives to make them precise enough to click things reliably

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𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘦𝘵

#daniel

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daniel said he hoped he could do better than just 8th and he stayed in fucking FOURTH PLACE ahead of the only other race winner this year in a fucking ferrari.

#BARK BARK BARK

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Jamie and Roy being in love looking at each other (1/?)

#they should have made it gay #throuple please #Ted lasso

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Logan for Givenchy Gentleman Society (via instagram stories)

#well here's a chap who looks good on screen #if the car thing doesn't work out #he could do this #f1