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#language #puns #english #french #lol #beautiful

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#art #medieval art #marginalia #illuminated manuscripts #humor #bitch #rofl #pretty sure that second dude is just straight up pooping but even so

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Reblog if you are a fic writer who welcomes moodboards, playlists, remixes, art and any other type of gift based on your stories.

#writing #oh that's the dream #it will never happen because I write so little #and so self-indulgently #and so nobody knows about my stuff or reads it! #maybe if I can get off my ass and actually publish an original novel like I promised myself #but someday I hope #I will probably cry if it happens

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Gen-X Bingo

Friend shared this: https://imgur.com/gallery/kL4U0PM

And here’s mine:

Can’t remember the name of the typing program I used, and I wasn’t allowed posters in my room (or much TV.)

P.S. for non-Americans or the uninitiated, *69 / star sixty-nine is NOT the same as regular sixty-nine - it was the number you rang to find out who had called you last, if you didn’t have an answering machine and nobody picked up / they hung up as soon as you answered.

#random #memes #gen x bingo #American stuff #yes I'm old #the 90s were my zenith #and honestly I really liked Crystal Pepsi :< #tales of an xennial

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You know, story, I spent a lot of effort on you. Very rude of you not to finish yourself while I’m sick. You’re like 85% done anyway, just...you know, do the rest yourself.

#writing #*whine* #come oooooon #I feel so rubbish I need a win

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Someone: Happy, healthy fictional relationships aren’t interesting to watch

Me, an intellectual:

#relationships #ofmd fic #happy couples #rick and evy #ALL OF THIS #actual healthy relationships are *wonderful* to see in media #there can and will still be drama #it does not need to be boring! #even the happiest most loving and most successful couples still have problems #it's about what the problems are and how they handle them #I hate this idea that all of the spark in a relationship happens before the relationship happens #and after that it's misery or tedium #that's ridiculous #does nobody know any happy couples (or polam relationships)?? #do people think friendships are boring unless people are fighting or failing to communicate? #I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing happy couples making it through life together in fiction

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Not me with insomnia writing fic in Evernote on my phone at 4 am like an animal

#personal #random #between the heat and my tonsils and this cough it's just...uuuugh

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Today is the date when Eowyn and Faramir got married, so happy anniversary to my OTP! <3

#lord of the rings #middle-earth #tolkien #eowyn #faramir

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I… I may not be an explorer or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. I… am a librarian.

Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan in The Mummy (1999) Dir. Stephen Sommers

#mountains #the mummy 1999 #evelyn carnahan #rachel weisz #such a wonderful character #as virtually the only woman in the film she has a lot of pressure on her shoulders #and she carries it beautifully #she's adventurous and clever and spirited and sharp #she's courageous and skilled and beautiful and still feminine #she's flawed and warm and human and she's allowed to be a whole person #and that shouldn't be rare but it can be #her delight is infectious and she's so easy to root for #Rick O'Connell is a very lucky man

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You meet a friend in the woods

#art #bear #bears #adorable #a friend

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#writing #humor #ideas #biggest oofs #*insert gif of kaj imploding*

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you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

#ethic #morals #belief systems #doing better #what we owe to each other #the social contract #oh look it's ex-catholicism #when I realised there was no god and no need for one for the universe to exist #the bottom kind of fell out of my world #I have reevaluated everything #because I had to #because I wanted to #I rebuilt my whole worldview brick by brick starting all the way at the foundations #and that house looks nothing like the one I was born in #and I am more proud of that than anything else I have done in my life #(which ok isn't a lot but still) #I hate who I used to be even if I know it wasn't all her fault #and I remember her suffering #but that's not an excuse #unlearning your life is hard #but what am I if I'm not willing to do that #if I'm not willing to be wrong and start over and be better

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“Christianity didn’t become a world religion because of the quality of its teachings, but by the quantity of its violence.” -Eleanor Ferguson.

#indigenous rights #native rights #oglala lakota #missionaries #christianity critical #good for them #what christianity did to native americans was genocide #what it's still doing #universal religions are immoral and oppressive #believe what you want to believe and let others do the same #if your religion is so great and open to conversion people will come to it on their own #don't force it on them #don't push don't beg don't guilt trip #and clean house of the mess you have already before you drag more people into it #Catholicism is such a nihilistic religion anyway #people are *definitely* better off without being exposed to it #nobody needs your suffering fetish and promises of eternal torture #jog tf on

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@tolkienweek 2022 | Favorite Minor Character

[Faramir] was gentle in bearing, and a lover of lore and of music, and therefore by many in those days his courage was judged less than his brother’s. But it was not so, except that he did not seek glory in danger without a purpose. He welcomed Gandalf at such times as he came to the City, and he learned what he could from his wisdom; and in this as in many other matters he displeased his father.

#middle-earth #lord of the rings #tolkien #faramir #david wenham #Faramir <3 <3 <3 #my best middle-earth guy #when I got into LOTR after the Fellowship movie came out he and Eowyn were my favorites #HOW EXCITED was I that they got together??? #my OG OTP

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“average person bumps into a tree 3 times a year“ factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hits a a tree 0 times per year. Jungles Georg, who swings into a tree on a vine 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

#random #humor #george of the jungle #spiders georg #bahahahaha! #I need to watch that again it's been ages

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The dream team ✨

#art #the mummy 1999 #rick o'connell #evy carnahan #jonathan carnahan #the mummy #very cute #just rewatched this the other day #still holds up apart from the questionable treatment of Egyptian characters

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Liked songs on Spotify shuffle play, go! (Please don't be cringey or all 5 REM...)

Pretty Girl Lie, Baby Queen

We Do It Better, Daisy Dash

Stayaway, MUNA

All Our Dreams, Leon Lour

Too Afraid, MARINA

That extremely rude Spotify bot thing from a few weeks back didn't think my taste was 'basic' (I was only 2% basic, although it did not approve of Ace of Base), but I do enjoy pop these days.

#replies #ricochetoconnell #ask games #music #thanks!