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Quest for the Gorgon Head by Tyler Miles Lockett

#this is such a cool art style #its very fun finding hermes and athena all small and gold in the background. and the design of the sea serpent in the waves #greek mythology #an art tag

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An old dragon just wants to be left alone, but the new village that just cropped up a few decades ago keep leaving gifts at his doorstep… and now they’ve just left a maiden!

#awww #dragons. dragons! #tumblr microfiction

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i was struck w madness and made some cave painting inspired drawings of winged cattle.... save me aurochs

#i love all of them and i WOuld purchase them as stickers #cows #an art tag #the expression on the top left!

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the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

#everything about cassandra claire makes me so angry #publishing

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"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "badly inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.

#i am from new england and i do find 'the lush jungles of massachusetts' deeply funny; but if you want to hit 'em where it hurts #ya gotta hit 'em in Los Angeles #states #tropes

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My brother and I have this thing where sometimes we forget that we live with our parents and we’ll say “my lawyer has advised me not to finish this joke/anecdote” to stop from saying something untoward in front of them and the other day we were talking about sandwiches and fluffernutters came up and I started to say “fluffernutter? I don’t even know her!” But my dad leaned over and goes your lawyer is advising you not to finish this joke at the dinner table” and it was really funny

#stellar #a unified theory of me humor #people living their lives

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so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

#...this is the part where you tell me most people don't use ''lo!'' as a good all purpose injection isn't it #also i want to poke at 'neap'; neap has only ever been a tide descriptor. that's what it's for. it describes the lowest high water tide #during the first and third quarters of the moon and has since like the 1400s. its not a fossil its just very specific #linguistics #turns of phrase #fossil phrases are so fun to me

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@ta2020photography

"Female Northern Harrier performs acrobatic maneuver."

#gotta love harrier hawks #look at how much the feet move to shift her center of gravity to help with the turn #so cool so cool #i wish i could fly like that #birb

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#snerk #...so here's the thing. all those pieces are rigged with actually almost enough tie points and most of the knots seem to be bowlines #and you really can't knock the ventilation or the fan size #computing #replacing bits has got to be a pain though

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sometimes I wish I had ed sheeran’s phone number just so I could call him up and say SIMILES ARE GENERALLY ONLY WORTHWHILE IF THEY ADD SOMETHING TO AN IDEA. RECOGNISING THAT 2 THINGS CAN HAVE A COMMONALITY IN A VERY VAGUE WAY DOES NOT MEAN IT’S USEFUL TO REFERENCE IT. SEE: FACES CRUMBLING LIKE PASTRIES. IS SHE A BAKER? DOES SHE ENJOY A GOOD CROISSANT? IS THIS REFERENCED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE PIECE? IF YOU ANSWER ‘NO’ TO ONE OR ALL OF THE ABOVE, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200 OR A BRIT AWARD.

#this is my problem with approximately 85% of taylor swift songs #would it kill you to have one cohesive metaphor in this song! would clarifying your imagery kill you stone fucking dead! #would yanking out a thesaurus & picking not the blandest possible word ~mess~ with your utterly milquetoast ~artist vision~? #please LOOK AT THE WORDS ON THE PAGE AND SEE IF THEY MAKE SENSE. words have meanings! please use them!ugh #other songwriters are just as halfassed with their central metaphors but none of them get praised for their '''lyricism''' the way she does #okay. okay i'm done #ah glorious music #writing #turns of phrase

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#finally a place with a reasonable density of dinosaurs #dinosaurs #architecture

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Because I've recently had one of those "your experiences are not universal" moments, please humor me

#summer is thunderstorm season here; shading into autumn too #there were many strange things about living in iceland but one i remember most clearly was that the wind sounded different #there weren't any trees; the wind was only scraping itself against the mountains and the sea and the houses #and even though it rained all the time i never saw lightning. it was baffling #weather #that's a very fun map i like it a lot #a product of a conspiracy of cartographers (a map!)

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No, I cannot honestly say that I "would do the same thing if I were in (villain)'s position," not because I think I'm inherently a better person than they are but because my neuroses lean toward the opposite extreme.

I may very well have done something just as bad, it just wouldn't have been that.

#mood #the villian's plans are often so stupid! obviously if you're going to be evil you should be doing this... #mustache twirling villainy

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TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

#holy shit! my guy! #welp. at least no one else ever has to do that #i knew that astronauts have to have their appendix out for uh. similar reasons. i wonder if this guy is why they thought of it #medicine #polar exploration

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#macoun > empire > macintosh > pink lady. macouns are so good and i can't find them anywhere >:( #braeburns are also acceptable. i like honeycrisps but they bruise if you look at them too long and are comically too large #granny smiths only if i'm desperate #apples #disastrously local to new england #i did grow up in england and now i have entirely too many apple opinions #devil is in the pudding

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working on some orca plates

#!!! #they're so cool!!! #god i want several. fabulous bones #whales #ceramics

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#sometimes its just fun to listen to people completely lose their shit laughing. the crew too! #hell yeah lewis pasteur! #devil is in the pudding #holidays