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poirott · 23 days

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Crossover → Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple solving cases together, Part 2 (Part 1)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Julia McKenzie as Jane Marple

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989 - 2013) | Agatha Christie's Marple (2004 - 2013)

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britneyshakespeare · 10 months

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Thomas King as Marplot in Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709)

M. King in the Character of MARPLOT. There he goes.

#there he goes!!!#this is cute i love this #the busybody #the busie body #restoration theatre #restoration literature #susanna centlivre #marplot #theatrical art #theater history #art #theater #literature

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deramin2 · 1 year

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Why do people on this website get butthurt about someone blazing a fan project someone wanted to get eyes on? Lounger, you see an ad that's not relevant to you ort you don't understand and you just scroll on by. Nitty be a little freak who jumps in the comments to harass someone about it.

Tumblr makes money from ads. No ads, no Tumblr for anyone. What would you rather see: Another obvious ad for a shitty spyware mobile game? Or someone's weird little passion project that's some text and a link with nothing to sell?

I will never understand why marplots on social medias insist on making everything discourse if ort doesn't perfectly cater to them.

#tumblr ads

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bladewarde · 2 months

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“ Insufferable little marplot, isn’t he? ” / @inflictswounds

The idle plucking of Lorelei's lyre carries over the persistent rush of the campside stream. Together, they make small conversation, focusing on the biggest event to occur within the tenday: That the visitor in their dreams was not so dreamy… Quite the opposite. Thinking about it makes Laera's stomach turn as she flips a page in Zirno's Complete Compilation of Enchantment Theory. Her eyes drift to her bard friend's fingers; the precision in which she strums is almost captivating until a sharp turn in their little chat leaves Laera a few paces behind.

She half listens, auburn brows raising at Lorelei's harsh usage of marplot, but she doesn't protest. ❝ Far from the ideal person I'd want in my 'ead… It doesn't really bring me any comfort knowing 'e's always there. ❞ The next time she looks up, Lorelei is giving her a look as if she sprouted a second head. ❝ What…? What! ❞ Her words get lost behind a bubble of laughter, Lorelei near on the verge of bursting into a laugh herself. ❝ Are we not talking about… you know? ❞

#inflictswounds #❛ 𝒊𝒄. / ic answers.#❛ 𝒗. / dnd ― baldur’s gate.#laera like WHO are we talking about?!?#i mean... i know who but loool

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peteroo · 3 months

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25.January.24

“Oh, plow, not now!” pleaded Olivia, whom the driver considered a pointed marplot regarding a remunerative task on which he did not have spare time-cents to spend. “Look, my daughter of bother!” retorted Olivia’s dad, your dalliance with banked snow, though devilishly charming, is precluding me from completing tasks at tow. Then, Olivia’s dad found pause in his hard stare and noticed the joyful…

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twentysixtyfour · 5 years

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Word of the Day

August 13/2018―August 16/2018

#Word of the Day #dictionary.com #dictionary.com’s word of the day #laeotropic #riant #marplot #anodyne

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monriatitans · 6 years

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August 15, 2018 #marplot #wordoftheday #funfact #funfacts #vocabulary #learnvocabulary #learnsomethingneweveryday #becomesmartereveryday #dictionarycom @dictionarycom

#marplot #wordoftheday #funfact #funfacts #vocabulary #learnvocabulary #learnsomethingneweveryday #becomesmartereveryday #dictionarycom

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enbyworth · 5 years

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A doodle of Ms. Marplot's previous design! (I wasn't aware she got redesigned ndhdh)

#ms. marplot #clowmfederation #oc #not mine #my art #doo-dad

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joachimnapoleon · 4 years

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Inside this long-legged swaggerer was always a simple country boy, a dutiful son, a generous uncle, a loving father. That wandering English marplot Sir Robert Wilson dined with him in 1814 and thereafter shocked London by comparing his courtesy and savoir-faire to Lord Chesterfield’s. Murat’s generosity was free and artless; in the Empire’s first years, along with Josephine, he had been a major help to those under the Emperor’s wrath.

Napoleon once called him a Don Quixote.

John R. Elting, Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée

#Joachim Murat #Napoleon #Napoleon's marshals

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itspileofgoodthings · 4 years

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness. The prophet who is stoned is not a brawler or a marplot. He is simply a rejected lover. He suffers from an unrequited attachment to things in general.

G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to The Defendant, In Defense of Sanity

#g.k. chesterton #in defense of sanity #quotes #a ! rejected ! lover ! !!!!!

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poirott · 2 years

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BONUS:

Crossover → Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple solving cases together

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Julia McKenzie as Jane Marple

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989 - 2013) | Agatha Christie's Marple (2004 - 2013)

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britneyshakespeare · 10 months

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MIRANDA (to Marplot) Come along, impertinence.

The Busybody by Susanna Centlivre, IV.v.123

#i love that. i love the idea of nicknaming someone 'impertinence'#the busybody #susanna centlivre #restoration theatre #women playwrights #eighteenth century #english literature #quotes #romantic comedy

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desanctii · 4 years

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“Open up.”

Santino leaned back, pondering the topic with narrowed eyes, all his senses turned inward. “One can debate whether this counts as a truly harmful experience, if the memory of it does not simply fall in line with countless others that came before it. At what point does trauma cease and habit begin? But something like that I had never seen before. A madness that ran through our breed like a fever, infecting one after the other. You could not defend against it. They began building pyres, immolating themselves on the steps of churches.

When we arrived, they told us Armand had gone into the sun. I did not believe them then. But I saw the look on Pandora’s face, on Louis’. And I knew that it was true. And what was to blame? What had driven him to this? A veil, uselessly clutched by an undead marplot’s hand, proving... What? Heaven?” Santino shook his head. “I had not thought it would harm me as it did, to realize what he had done. I was so full of grief, full of anger too. They called him a saint and martyr and I wanted to break their necks for it. I will never forget it. The furnace, the smallest piece of fabric they had salvaged... And I thought then, how could this be? Was this not the modern age, the age of enlightenment in which God held no more sway? How could we still burn ourselves for His grace? Even pagans! Mael burned. Why on earth-- Ah,” Santino waved the tangent off.

“Well, as everyone knows, Armand lived. By some miracle, by his blood, he lived. But it proved what I had always thought. Poison can stay dormant in a body for centuries before it catches.”

#;;meme #//thanks<3 #immortalboywonder

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cruzrogue · 5 years

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Roomies PART I

#Fictober19 @fictober-event

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for fanfiction:

Prompt number: 21 “Change is annoyingly difficult.”

Fandom (AU if applicable): #arrow fanfiction #olicity #Flommy

Rating:PG13

Warnings/Tags: There might be adult language

Summary: Roommates enjoying a nice mid-morning conversation after a hectic Finals Week. Tommy and Felicity land up talking about Oliver.

Notes: This is a three-part with its own prompt story Part I Felicity/Tommy conversation. (The are past lovers/ but current best-buds)

Part I Felicity/Tommy friendship Prompt 21- “Change is annoyingly difficult.”

Part II Oliver enters the scene (Future tense Oliver/Felicity relationship) Prompt 22-“We could have a chance.

”Part III Fallout of the Gambit situation... Prompt 23-“You can’t give more than yourself.”

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The bedsheet ruffled toward the bottom half of the bed. The sun’s perfect rays exposing the skin in the girl’s peekaboo pajama set. She’s comfortably reading with the book half layered upon a pillow and mattress. Just enjoying a morning where there are no finals to be had. One last academic worry off her plate. It seems her bedmate isn’t as passive for he is leaning against her shoulder reading a passage of her book out loud.

“Tommy?”

He finishes the sentence he is reading and answers, “Yes?”

“Can you cut it out. I’m trying to enjoy this book.”

“Only you would consider reading after a hectic study fest to enjoy the written word.”

“Yea, well it’s still me doofus, I haven’t changed that much in a week.”

“I think the new dye of purple highlights have seeped into your brain cells.”

She turns her head slightly to the boy just hoovering there. “Really? Would I be reading if I lost brain cells? Maybe even act like those bimbos you were out with last night?”

“Ouch!” He moves a little more into her, bringing her to flatten some more on the bed. “I thought you were okay with me going out. My best friend is in town.” They share this loft in downtown Boston, he hated being alone and sometime last year asked Felicity to move in with him. She’s really becoming one of those friends he can’t live without.

She sighs as she wiggles out of his hold. “It seems it’s you who loses brain cells when he is around.”

“Really?”

“Didn’t he just get kicked out of another school?”

“Yea, he got caught in a non-educating way with a teacher.”

“Figures!”

“Oh come on Felicity, he really is a great guy. Just a little misunderstood.”

“What is there to understand isn’t he with an on-off girl that he keeps cheating on?” Tommy shrugs. He has no idea why his buddy keeps doing that to himself. “That is what I thought and the nerve of you trying to set us up.”

“I think the lady protest too much. He isn’t with that girl no more.”

“Can we stop talking about Oliver Queen, I’d like to get back to enjoying what I was doing?”

“Reading a historical romance? That’s your pleasure? Girl, you could have the real thing?”

She rolls her eyes. Tommy is a wonderful guy friend. They tried for a relationship and the sex was amazing but as much as they like each other it just didn’t pan out. They have a lot of similar interests and so they just became really close friends with some added benefits.

She huffs at his suggestion. “Tommy? Sometimes a girl got standards and rather read a book on love than waste her time with player who will only chew her heart out and she’d wish to have read a book instead.”

“So, what I am hearing is Ollie is still a no in your book?”

“Are you even listening to me?”

“I am, but you don’t know Oliver like I do. He really is a good guy.”

“Tell that to the hearts he has broken.”

“Well by those standards I’m as bad as him.”

Felicity smiles, “Oh, you have your faults buddy but you don’t actively try to break them hearts.” She pats his shoulder. “You get yours crushed on occasion. I mean that whole ice cream date we had a few weeks back.”

“Let’s not talk about Cheryl. I think I’m done with that name forever more.”

“My poor baby. Must be so hard to be you.”

“Hey! Have a heart. Not everyone can be laser focused like you.”

“Says the trust fund baby.”

“You really think that is what girls see in me. That I can just buy them things?”

Felicity looking at those sad orbs of his staring at her with just enough concerning charm that he holds over her. He comes from money and boy does he flaunt it. He comes across as an easy target as he likes to have a good time and sometimes overdoes his generosity. Unlike him she doesn’t have the funds to buy things on a whim. She’ll never use him like her own piggybank like some of the surreptitious girls he seems to find in doves.

“Do you remember how we met?” Tommy rolls his eyes. They’ve know each other since before last semester started before the summer break and now another summer is just about around the corner. “It was a study group. I volunteered to help the statistic professor with his group of students.”

“Yea, you’re a wiz at this stuff.”

“Oh shut it, you weren’t there because of a failing grade you just wanted to makes sure you truly aced the final but you acted like a goofball and I couldn’t tell.”

“Loved the moment you realized it, your cute puckered lips and disapproving narrowed eyes before I asked you on a date.”

“I said no.”

“Never said you had taste.” She whacks his shoulder as she goes to do it again she finds herself pinned under him. “I on the other hand knew you’d be so worth getting to know.” He brings his lips down to just peck hers. They have a small moment before he moves himself off her. “It sucks that we just don’t have that special connection.”

“That is because we both believe in love. Maybe love is a fallacy.”

“Do you believe that? Really believe that?”

“No. But what we have is simple. How do we both know love can’t spring from what we have?”

“You are such a romantic. Love it. Too bad I know how you really feel for a certain buddy of mine.”

“What? Why do you have to mention him every chance you get? He’s a pompous womanizing jerk.”

“That gets you to light up like a Christmas tree when you see him.”

“Take that back. I do not!”

“What would you do if I told you that he was moving to Boston?”

She seems amazed, “He got into another school here?”

“He wasn’t expelled for his grades.”

“Great, can’t wait to see him try to sleep with all the Bay State area chicks.”

“Change is annoyingly difficult.” Tommy than looks at his best female buddy. “But it is doable because maybe I’m a hopeless romantic or the other thing you have called…”

“A Busy-body, meddler, marplot, but in your case mischief-maker!”

“Ha, I’ll add only that I am a do-gooder because I know he also lights up light a menorah when I mention you.”

“Now you are pulling my chain. He doesn’t even know I exist.”

“Oh, he does and he’s coming here for lunch.”

“What?”

“Yep, he’ll be here in like less than an hour.”

“I’m going to kill you.”

“No you aren’t because I can tell you want to shower and get yourself all dolled up for him.”

“I…”

“Time’s a ticking… he’s bringing lunch and unlike you he knows you are here.”

Felicity stumbles from the bed. “I can’t believe you had this whole thing brewing. I really hate you right now.”

“Sure you do. Chop! Chop! Time is of the essence.” He is laughing as he watches her pick out clothing from her dresser. She is going to die once she finds out that the third room in this penthouse loft is going to house Oliver Queen. He can’t wait to see her face.

To be continued on next prompt…

#fictober19 #olicity #oliver queen #felicity smoak #thomas merlyn #flommy

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juchechat · 5 years

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KCNA Commentary on Japan's Denial of Its Past Crimes

[April 10 Juche 108 (2019) KCNA]

Not only the international community but also the Japanese people bitterly denounce the Japanese government for persistently denying its past crimes.

Hatoyama, ex-prime minister of Japan, at a recent news conference deplored the fact that Japan, highly responsible for the division of Korea, serves as a marplot instead of playing its role in the thawing season of the DPRK-U.S. and inter-Korean relations that started with much effort, adding that Japan should do what it has to do.

In February, the "2019 statement of Japanese citizens and intellectuals" urging the Abe government to make an apology for and reflection on the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule over Korea was made public in downtown Tokyo. And Japanese religionists repeatedly made open apologies for the past atrocities on the occasion of the centenary of the March First Popular Uprising in Korea.

This is the conscience of Japan.

However, the Japanese reactionaries still deny the blood-stained crimes against the Korean nation and other Asian peoples and are desperately keen on distorting Japan's history though 70-odd years have passed since the end of World War II, turning a deaf ear to the calls of social justice and conscience.

Denial of the past crimes means a willingness to repeat them.

It is proved by the deplorable reality in Japan that is run through with reckless arms buildup, radical revision of the Constitution and political climate of ultra-nationalism, all of which spark off serious concern and vigilance of the international community.

It is by no means fortuitous that Japan is regarded as "political dwarf" and "animal of economy" no matter how vociferously Japan advocates "proactive pacifism" and "contributions to the international community".

The persistent evasion of liquidating the past proves to be Japan's nemeses such as exclusion from the issue of the Korean Peninsula, political and diplomatic conflicts with regional countries and failure in the attempt for becoming a UNSC permanent member.

Japan can neither make even a step forward as long as it is weighed down by the past nor be a normal state unless it clears crime-woven history.

At the end of January, Japanese Prime Minister Abe said in his policy speech that it is the time for totally summing up postwar Japan's diplomacy, expressing the strong will to "put an end to the tasks remaining for 70-odd years after the war".

Japan is well advised to keep in mind that the core of postwar Japan's diplomacy and its unavoidable historical task are to admit the heinous inhuman crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against Asian peoples in the last century and make an apology and reparation for them.

Japan should not talk about "summing up" while glossing over a pile of hideous crimes it should compensate for before history and mankind.

Japan's future depends on its understanding that the settlement of its past is the only way to shake off the ill-fame of an enemy state and live in harmony with the international community.

#dprk: news #dprk: japan

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monriatitans · 6 years

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February 27, 2018 #Marplot #wordoftheday #becomesmartereveryday #wordwordappcom

#wordoftheday #marplot #becomesmartereveryday #wordwordappcom

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