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(ETA: I’ve swapped in the Imgur versions of the photos because Tumblr’s stretch/skew thing made them look like crap and it was driving me crazy. Plus I’ve modified 10 to replace Miss Peregrine’s cover, after feedback, and modified “male gaze” to just “gaze,” as it’s debatable who the intended viewer of these books is meant to be.

You can still see the larger version of the images on Imgur!)

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Victorian Gothic Houses 🇺🇸

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𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕳𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝕰𝖝𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗 𝕬𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈

Which is your favorite?

Let’s be friends on Instagram @SpookyScaryShelby

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Bergman Model 1896 Semi-Automatic Pistol, Raymond J. Wielgus, 1895, Art Institute of Chicago: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Wielgus Size: Overall L. 19.1 cm (7 ½ in.) Barrel Overall L. 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.) Caliber 5 mm Medium: Stainless steel, gold, and ivory

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69875/

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Far-right cartoonist Ben Garrison frequently posts bigoted illustrations of conservatives' favorite enemies on his website, but the absurdity of his work is even more apparent in his portrayals of former President Donald Trump.

Garrison often paints Trump as an athletic, god-like figure leading the crusade against supposed enemies of freedom.

But a recent Garrison masterpiece is going viral for all the wrong reasons.

Trump recently announced a lawsuit against Big Tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google's YouTube for what he says are free speech violations against conservatives. Trump and his ilk immediately started fundraising off the effort.

Garrison attempted to embody Trump as a fighter against Big Tech suppression, portraying Big Tech as a windmill and Trump as the literary icon Don Quixote.

Don Quixote is the main character of the 15th century story The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.

Quixote is an aging and angry man who becomes delusional and rebrands himself as a knight, donning a dilapidated suit of armor and mounting an exhausted horse. He sees inns as castles, innkeepers as lords, and windmills as ferocious giants.

Quixote's feud with windmills has been an enduring theme for centuries, and gave birth to the British phrase "tilting at windmills," meaning to fight enemies that don't actually exist.

Garrison's portrayal of Trump as Don Quixote pursuing the windmill of Big Tech censorship paints the former President as delusional, mounting a war on an imaginary foe—a primary criticism of Trump's

Garrison tried to clarify that Trump's enemies aren't imagined—the diametric opposite of the meaning conveyed by his picture—but the internet had to laugh at the accidentally true comparison.

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HELP IM ADDICTED TO MAKING THESE EDITS I CANT BELIEVE THIS MOMENT WAS IMMORTALIZED ON VIDEO

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Malamute Pups 😍

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Follow us @anxietyproblem​

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UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!!

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bruce wayne maintains a presence on all conspiracy theory boards with the screen name BruceWayneIsTheBatman and all his posts have titles like “BRUCE WAINE IS BAT-MAN INDISPUTABLE PROOF” and it’s just a picture of Bruce Wayne from the back next to a picture of Batman from behind and they both have the contours of their butt drawn on in a shitty MSPaint red line (note: Bruce is in a suit and Batman has a cape, neither of their butts are clearly discernible) and the quote “THE BUTTS MATCH!!! THE FACTS DON’T LIE!!!!!” and he makes at least three of these posts a day, and “Bruce Wayne is the Batman” becomes a meme a la “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer” and he gets asked about it on a talk show and he laughs uproariously at the idea and Stephen Colbert just HAPPENS to have a batman mask under the desk and they do a bit together where Bruce Wayne puts on the mask and walks around saying things like “excuse me, bank robbers, can I perhaps offer you some money to stop you robbing this bank?” and “I say, cease and desist your criminal behavior or I’ll have my butler ask you to leave” and the audience is LOSING THEIR MINDS laughing at the idea of this pampered rich guy taking on the Joker on a bi-weekly basis and then anyone who suggests “Bruce Wayne is Batman” in earnest gets met with mocking “oh man do the butts match” comments

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Writing Tip #137: If you’re having trouble writing about dealing with curses, it’s probably because you’re trying to apply a scientific mindset to something that operates on narrative logic.

Don’t think about whether a given solution or workaround would make sense given the empirically demonstrable “physics” that govern the setting.

Instead, imagine that your story is a game of Dungeons & Dragons.

If your proposed solution or workaround would make that game’s hypothetical GM do this:

… then it works.

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This is the best Marvel edit I’ve ever seen WOW!! ❤️