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I mean... The Disreputable Dog is also Kibbeth, the fourth bright shiner, who alongside her fellows bound the eighth, broke the ninth, and wove the charter from which all old kingdom magic flows... But mostly she's a dog.

Which is to say that having a enormous force of destruction bound up into the shape and temperament of a dog seems perfectly natural and right for a story.

Fireball Jill is the first time I'm planning to break my unofficial rule that my protagonists aren't allowed to be innately empowered by metaphysical forces, but only because the fuzzy handwaving "magic" in her particular setting burns up anyone or anything channeling it to the point where trying to find a way to let it safely expend without total devastation is just a kind of background constant of the world.

Completely willing to give my girl access to something which will cause unknown amounts of physical and emotional trauma. Also a dog, she gets to have a dog. The dog is a living and sentient tear along the burning energies that pour constantly into the world, ready to overwhelm it and burn it to a cinder but it acts like a dog.

Some lackey standing in the road with his goons like "You are nothing to us. We have the divine mandate to reveal the fire to the world. You do not know the forces you are interfering with!" And then she goes, "You're right," and obliterates his head with a shotgun blast. Tears fist first into three goons like, "Whoa, look out! Don't stop me now, I'm interfering up a great big mess!"

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not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

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Combining this with "incorrect" name expansion, call me Toad, short for Toadicca from now on 😂

“trans people with object names” and “trans people with average names” is missing an untapped market of “trans people with seemingly average shorthand names for absolutely insane full names” for example. max short for Maxwell House Brand Coffee Filters

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I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have been in the queer movement for 20+ years, to have studied queer theory, to have contributed to you potentially enjoying the rights you have today because I was part of a groundswell of lobbying and direct action in the 1990s….

…to have a 15 year old who’s spent maybe 8 months being political and has never inquired about queer history anonymously message me, “EXCUSE ME QU**R IS A SLUR LMAO OMG EMBARRASSSING AN aCTUAL ADULT WHO THINKS IT’S OKAY TO USE QU**R!~!!!!”

Dude, we are a slur. Queer folks are a slur to conservative straight people. Everything we are will be used as a slur by everyone who hates us. Gay is a slur. Lesbian is a slur. People will try to use all of our words against us. Don’t fucking let them get into your head to the point at which you’re telling actual queer people not to use the words we’ve used to unite ourselves and empower ourselves for decades. 

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“My lord, I know you are the demon lord and I am but a lowly advisor, but please listen to me. I suggest that instead of sending the hero slightly stronger demons to kill each time, we just send the strongest one right away”

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I love this angry fucker and watching him grow up has been soooo satisfying.

-but  I  gotta  speak  my  truth.

Izuku, I’m  sorry  for  everything.

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This is just being a middle schooler but with extra steps.

The best thing about neural implants is that you can “block” people, effectively rendering you non-existent to one another. But you’re being blocked by more and more people every day, and everyone you ask about it blocks you.

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I just want to read a story about an arrange marriage freeing a person from their abusive parent and the parent going "oh shit" when they realize they made a mistake in forcing their child into this marriage because now said child is outside their sphere of influence but knows all their secrets. And yet all I've got are incomplete Webtoons and an utter inability to find any Gothic romances on ao3 that aren't Jane Austen/Bronte sisters fanfiction.

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Last night I had a dream that Harley Quinn and Lois Lane were a couple, and DC released a comic that was just them living together and being domestic. It was strange, but also Good For Them.

:D

I would read that just to see what their dynamic would be like

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I need a Thank u Mr Terry tag

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I miss being able to battery pull an unsilenced phone rather than needing to figure out how this model wired their silence shortcuts.

i miss being able to take the battery of my phone out and just hold it

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Sometimes just to make myself nuts I consider the sequence of events necessary for “Chuck Tingle, ally for social justice to exist.”

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If you want to learn how to recognize the patterns of literature, there's tons of ways to do it that aren't "read enormous volumes of fiction," although that certainly helps! You can also:

Read the TV tropes page for a fiction you already like! This will outline for you things you've already seen. Don't understand a trope by name? They have their own pages with tons of examples.

If video is more your thing, Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube has a series called "Trope Talk" which explains one specific literary trope per episode.

Want to know more about specifically "classic" literature? ThugNotes has you covered with summary and the baseline analysis of like 50+ titles in digestible pieces.

Like a specific series? It probably has at least one podcast dedicated to it, so you could listen to people way more into it than you talk about the story.

How do u become more intelligent in literature, like analysis and stuff

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shakespeare’s character descriptions/stage directions/contexts are so vague it makes me so happy. wanna make Laertes hamlet’s ex boyfriend? doesn’t say HE’S NOT. wanna make juliet a trans girl? WHERE IN THE SCIRPT DOES IT SAY SHE ISN’T??? fucking put King Lear in SPACE set that shit on the enterprise THERE ARE NO RULES IN SHAKESPEARE 

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Heartbreaking. Worst guy you know has a point.

See? This is why Bradford is my favorite villain. Is he evil? Definitely. Is his ways of getting shit done absolutely wackadoodle? Absolutely.

….Is he right about Scrooge McDuck?

Unfortunately. 

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What a meet-cute

vampire that corrects all the historical inaccuracies on wikipedia

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fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love