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Why do you hurt me so? 😭
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"This one pleaded for you."
A scene from Captive Prince by @c.s.pacat that wouldn't leave my mind since I read it over a year ago.
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No, but you can just see Damen's besotted reaction... That himbo smile with the dimples and his warm brown eyes and his tousled curls... Uhm... How did this turn into a Damen thirst post?
If anyone is wondering: Reading this long reimagining of captive prince by the amazing Kaerwrites and Damen makes me swoon, as seen through Laurent's eyes...
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The cutest thing about this is that baby Laurent never thought he was winning because he was the better rider, like Auguste probably wanted him to think. He just thought his pony was the best pony ever
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Ah yes, putting this on my to read list now...
I've been seeing this on my dash, wondering if it's something I want to read... It makes me think of Laurent and the way he "inspires homicidal tendencies just by breathing".
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andrew: I genuinely want to kill you
neil, twirling his hair: haha, and then what?
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‘Sentiment?’ said Laurent.
‘Something like that.’
‘You should give me the other.’
‘I can’t imagine you’d wear it.’
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LMAO if you're impressed just say it my guy
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Nick Galitzine confuses me.
I'm not entirely convinced he's a good actor.
I'm not entirely convinced he's a bad actor.
I think he's hot.
I don't think he's hot.
I think his job choices are horrible.
I think his job choices are amazing.
One thing though: I admire him for unapologetically doing whatever the fuck he wants and hopping from explicit men fucking to ridiculous het romance and back.
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Nicholas Galitzine For The Cut/New York Magazine
Photographed By Diego Vourakis
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I think this is a too heteronormative demographic... You're asking this on the monsterfucker website. You need a more diverse demographic...
Friend and I are debating whether something is common knowledge or not.
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Philander, though??? I want Philander because Visander deserves something good in his life after all that happened to him.
We in the Dark Rise fandom are really sleeping on Devon/Tom as a pairing. I'm so desperate for fics about them it's not even funny. And just think of the possibilities of Tom interacting with Visander and realizing the Queen's champion really wanted to fuck his horse XD
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Which reminds me of the story where Jared Padalecki turned to Bradley during a dinner and mistook him for Jensen 😅😄
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—I've lost both my parents to magic. It is pure evil. —If it's supernatural, we kill it, end of story. That's our job.
ARTHUR PENDRAGON | DEAN WINCHESTER
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Shout-out to my wife, @raina-at !
She is so real for saying that
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I'm not entirely convinced by the sketch but the men in the audience being really uncomfortable gives me a lot of joy...
When your lady on her period.
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The old language: the alphabet and some patterns
from the books Dark Rise by C.S.Pacat
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The old world holds many attractions for the readers: its mysterious history, culture, characters and language. There are inscriptions and phrases in old language in the books. At first glance, they look scary and inexplicable. Nevertheless, at second glance, the language opens up. In this analysis, I hope to show that the old language is amazing and share the delight I had researching it.
First of all, disclaimer. I am not a true linguist and, moreover, not Kettering, but a person who loves to find out patterns and tries to explain them. This article is just my theory, hypothesis and my point of view. It can be different from the canon.
There were phrases in the old language and their translations in the first edition of the Dark Rise. They inspired me to reconstruct the old language alphabet and to start my research. The inscriptions in the Dark Heir, the second book, proved the alphabet to be correct.
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The alphabet
As I have already mentioned, the alphabet is based on the translations of the old language in the first edition. I will use one phrase as an example to explain a deciphering algorithm. As I have applied the same algorithm to all inscriptions, I will only mention other phrases in the old language to show the letters they contributes to the alphabet.
The phrases from the Dark Rise: Decoding the alphabet
Step 1: selecting similar letters
Here is the phrase “Rassalon the first lion”.
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There are two S in “RaSSalon”; there is also S in “firSt”
Double S is between two A
The first word begins with R, and R is also present in“fiRst”
L — “Lion”
O —“liOn”
N — “lioN”
“...the First Lion”
T — in “The” and “firsT”
i — in “first” and “lion”
!(why “i” is small I am going to explain later)!
Step 2: non-repeating letters
New letters: H, e (!) and F.
Other phrases
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He is coming (Dark Rise, chapter 11)
New letters: C, M, G
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I cannot return when I am called to fight So I will have a child (Dark Rise, chapter 2)
New letters: U, W, D, V, I(!)
I and i are different. In my opinion, it might be because “I” is a pronoun.
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Enter only those who can (Dark Rise, chapter 15)
New lettres: Y, E
E and e are different. Perhaps, it is because “E” is in the beginning of the word “Enter”.
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The horn all seek and never find (Dark Rise, chapter 15)
The new letter: K
Note: The letter design in the figures is a little different from the original design due to qualities issues.
The phrases from the Dark Heir: Proving the alphabet relevance
There are also inscriptions in the Dark Heir. If I use the same strategy here, it does, here are the proofs.
The first proof
One of the inscriptions is the name Undahar. Names are not translated. All letters in Undahar match the letters of my alphabet except U. It turns out to be V in the previous inscriptions, so I will write two variants U/V because I am not sure which one is correct.
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The Eclipse/Finem Solis (Dark Heir, chapter 26)
The second proof
Here is the phrase: “He is coming.”
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(Dark Heir, chapter 2)
Although there is one unknown letter, we can identify it by using the similar phrase:
He is fighting — Ar ventas
He is coming — *r uentas/ventas
The new letter is A. I think this A is different from the regular A because it is the first letter of a pronoun. Pronouns start with capital letters to avoid confusion with other words that include “ar”.
The result: alphabet
Of course, I admit the possibility that not all letters comply with the original alphabet as it is in the U/V case.
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Issues in deciphering
The same phrases in the old language are written differently in the Dark Rise and the Dark Heir. I do not know whether it is due to errors in the first two editions or it means something else.
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He is coming, Dark Rise (chapter 11), edition 2021
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He is coming, Dark Rise (chapter 11) edition 2022
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He is coming, Dark Heir (chapter 2)
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The past cries out, but the present cannot hear, Dark Heir (chapter 2)
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Only a Steward may enter, Dark Heir (chapter 37)
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Dark Rise (chapters 2, 10, 11, 15), edition 2021
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The structure of the language
There is more to the old language than the inscriptions. Here are my thoughts on the other aspects of the old language. The old language is likely to be the parent language to all languages in the books, the language from which modern languages have derived. The old language has similarities to Latin and Sanskrit, borrowings from Sindarin, Quenya and some unidentified languages.
Vocabulary
Analyzing new information, I have found patterns that helped me to identify word classes. The word classes of the old language are shown in the table below.
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Data summary sheets
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Most nouns end with “ar”, but there are two nouns that end with “or/er”. The pattern is pretty apparent, so I am going to discuss only the nouns that do not fit the pattern.
Aladharet and adharet
My suggestions about meanings and forms of the word “adharet” are based on this dialog:
‘He said, ‘I am not aladharet.’ &lt;...>  ‘I cannot do magic,’ he said. ‘I have never trained with the’ – there was no other word for it – ‘adharet.’ <...> ‘I only know what I have seen, watching the adharet cast spells as I fought to protect them.’ (Dark heir, chapter 38).
There are two variants of the word: aladharet is singular and adharet is plural. Perhaps, “al” is the marker of a singular form, I would no more touch on single/plural forms because we do not have enough information.
The closest meaning from the context is a wizard /enchanter. This noun is interesting because “ar” is in the middle of the word. I think it is a verbal noun (a noun derived from a verb), such as spell – speller, enchant – enchanter.
Kishtar
According to the book, “Vara kishtar” is a shadow hound. “Kishtar” is highly likely to mean a hound or hounds. (Chapter 21)
The root “Kisht” means field, sown-field, tillage, cultivation, (at chess) check in Sanskrit. Of course, the meaning of the word in the old language is different, but it is still quite an interesting coincidence.
Similarities to Latin
There are some Latin names in the books like “Finem Solis”. Besides, some words in the old language are very similar to Latin (see the examples below).
“Callax Reigor” (The Cup of Kings) (Chapter 46)
“Callax” reminds Latin “Calix” (the Cup).
Reigor (Kings)
The root “reig” resembles the Latin root “reg” in “regio,-are”, “regium” (to rule/ royal).
Valdithar
English translation is “dauntless”, it is the name of Sancean`s horse. It has the ending “ar”, probably, because this adjective plays a role of a noun as abstract adjectives can be nouns in English. Synonyms of the “dauntless” are valorous, valiant. They derived from the Latin word “valens” – strong, powerful. This meaning of “val” seems to be suitable for Valdithar as well.
Similarities to Tolkien`s languages: Sindarin and Quenya
As some readers know, C.S.Pacat is a big fan of the J.R.Tolkien, so I decided to compare Tolkien`s languages with the old language and found out some borrowings from them. Several names look like Elvish words in which some letters are altered.
The ending “ion” is typical to Elvish.
Anharion
He is the Light’s greatest fighter who served the Sun King. That name consists of two parts: “Anar” is the Sun and “ion” is a son in Elvish. The sound “h” is pronounced with exhalation, so it might be omitted. Anharion means the son of the Sun in this case. In addition, the name was given to him by the Light side (the Sun King) and it is not his true name.
Ekthalion/thalion
Ekthalion is the Sword of the Champion.
Although “Fermaran, katara thalion” (Dark Heir, chapter 29) does not have a translation, “thalion” is a hero/a dauntless man in Sindarin. In my opinion, the coincidence is not an accident. “Thalion” is the part of the Sword`s name and the meaning seems relevant in context of the books.
Moreover, Ecthelion`s fate in the Silmarillion is quite similar to the fate of the Sword. Ecthelion slayed Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs, at the cost his life. The Sword`s fate is described in the book as follows:
…As a weapon to kill the Dark King. It’s said that a great Champion of the Light rode out with it to fight him <…> but could do no more than draw a single drop of the Dark King’s blood. That’s all it took to corrupt the Blade… (Dark Rise, chapter 13).
The name Ecthelion had its own evolution: its Qenya cognate was Ektelion.
Another thing
Veredun
One of the characters mentioned this name in the following dialog:
‘This isn’t my first time at sea.’ Visander <…>. ‘Atlantic? Pacific?’ ‘The Veredun,’ said Visander. He looked out at the night expanse of black water. This did not feel like the Veredun, or like any sea he had known (Dark Heir, chapter 34).
Names are not translated, but I wanted to know more about this old world sea/ocean. There is no word which is exactly the same in any language relevant to my research, but there are analogs to its parts.
Vere/verus is “truth” in Latin
Dun is “dark/deep/gray/gloomy” in English
Dun is “West” in Sindarin
My translation is “The deep truth” or “The dark truth” or “The West truth”, but I do not pretend to know the truth.
Verbs
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All verbs that we know end with “as”.
Aragas
Aragas means “open” in the old language. I have not found any Latin roots. However, separate parts of this word exist in Sindarin: “ara” is “royal” and “gas” means a hole/gap/opening. Aragas is used for opening gates that connected the Kingdoms, for opening the oubliette under the Sun King`s throne and in the metaphor of opening the door of the Dark King`s magic­. All these cases are associated with something “royal” and “opening”. I might have gone a bit too far here and read too much into it.
Ar ventas
Ar ventas – He is fighting (The translation from the text, Dark Heir, chapters 27, 29)
Ar uentas/ventas – He is coming (The translation of the inscription, Dark Heir, chapter 2)
There is a possibility that these verbs are borrowed from Latin. The root of the word “uent” is the same as in the Latin verb “uenio/venio” (to come). Thus the ending “as” indicates a tense and a person (is coming). My guess is that V and U are interchangeable in Latin. Therefore, “ventas” means “is coming” and “is fighting” at the same time. I think “uentas” is right, because U turns into V.
Vala!
One of the characters used this word in the following dialog:
With a tug of her horse’s mane, she [Visander] said something that sounded like Vala!, and they burst out of the stable doors (Dark Heir, chapter 21).
I think it is the command “walk/run” for a horse and the verb could be in the imperative mood. In my opinion, there is a parallel to Latin. Singular imperatives are formed by removing the ending “re” from verb roots, for example, monstra̅re (to show) – monstra (show). Nevertheless, “Vala!” could be another command, e.g. “gallop/forward/ahead”.
Adjectives
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I think the ending “ra” indicates adjectives. Valdithar looks like an exception, but I think it is not an exception because it is a noun (see the section about nouns).
Vara
The translation of “Vara kishtar” given in the books is “a shadow hound” (Dark Heir, chapter 21).
It also means “soiled” and “dirty” in Quenya. As far as we know, “Vara kishtar” is a creature of the Dark side, and all shadow creatures could be “soiled” in the Light side`s opinion. By the way, there is the Sanskrit word “vara” that means “the best, excellent, the eldest”. The meaning is opposite to the meaning in the old language, but the Dark side could use the word differently.
Katara
“Fermaran, katara thalion”(Dark Heir, chapter 29).
Katara ought to be an adjective because it ends with “ra” and because of its position in the sentence (before a noun). The text does not give a translation, so I decided to consult dictionaries.
Latin and both Elvish languages did not help, but Sanskrit has the adjective “katara”. It has several meanings:
Which (of the two)
Mean, poor, miserable
Timid, shy/cowardly, cowardly/fearful
I have never mentioned Greek before, but it also contains “katara”, but as a noun: κατάρα is a curse or a calamity/disaster.
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Other observations
I noticed other patterns as well, but I need more examples to confirm them.
Structure of sentences
Like in English, a subject goes before a predicate:
Ar ventas – He is fighting
Ar uentas – He is coming
An adjective precedes a noun:
Vara kishtar – a shadow hound
Katara thalion – a shy hero (?)
My own hypothesis
Old language adjectives agree with nouns in gender, case and number.
There is evidence that verbs conjugate and have different tenses. So far I managed to identify only one verb form (continuous, third person, singular). I suppose that the inscriptions contain other verbs as English translations provide other verb forms including modal verbs, various tenses and person.
The reconstructed translation
Only one phrase from the Dark Heir has no translation: “Fermaran, katara thalion” (Dark Heir, chapter 29). We know the hypothetical meanings of the words from the analysis, so the translation might be reconstructed.
Fermaran
Ar ventas fermaran (Chapter 27)
Ar ventas, fermaran (Chapter 29)
In this case, “fermaran" is not used to address someone because there is a variant without a comma. Catalan has the verb “fermar”. It means “to stop”. The form “fermaran” is “they will stop” in indicative future, plural, third.
The reconstructed phrase goes as: “They will stop, mean/timid/poor hero”. It can fit in the context but it is still pretty questionable.
Inscriptions
Unfortunately, I have not achieved my goal to identify words in the inscriptions from the Dark Heir. As I mentioned there is not enough data. For example, the words we know from the translations such as the adverb “only”, the negation “cannot”, the modal verb “may” and the English phrase verb “cries out” remain unidentified. These inscriptions are still the Phaistos disc:
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The past cries out, but the present cannot hear (Dark heir, chapter 2)
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Only a Steward may enter (Dark heir, chapter 37)
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Dark Rise paper editions 2021-2022
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The conclusion
Roots of the old language lie in Latin, Sanscrit, Sindarin/Quenya and, perhaps, something else. Four Kingdoms, four language families: Latin for the Sun/Undahar, Sanskrit for the Serpent or the home of the Lions, Elvish or unknown one for the Tower or the Rose.
I hope the third book will provide new data that will allow me to decode all inscriptions and get more profound understanding of the old language. Meanwhile, I am going to entertain myself with guesses, theories and attempts to decode the inscriptions.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my thanks to my aunt for being my editor, for all help and discussions about the old language, to my sister for all figures and to my friends from Undahar for the support and help! Thank you all very much!
All information is from the Dark Rise, the Dark Heir and dictionaries: Latin, Sanskrit, Sindarin and Quenya.
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The article also was written for the C.S.Pacat fanbook "Undahar" made by people from the discord server Undahar.
Please, credit me if you want to share the analysis.
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25 full read, about 20 of the others at least started. I'm not good with finishing books.
How many have you read?
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
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Kings Rising, C.S Pacat
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Some close ups of the special edition of Dark Rise by C.S Pacat.
Obsessed with the illustrations of Will and James.
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In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok
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Seriously? I'm starting to think i should burn my Potter books now, because she's a fascist, nazi apologist terf and the thought of having paid money for her rich bitchy arse disgusts me.
if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial
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