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we all know and love dog coded characters but what about their cousin, falcon coded characters. characters whose loyalty is fierce, but more distant, less physically affectionate, an unspoken but mutually understood bond. whose devotion to you is a language that only the two of you understand. whose fearsome appearance never lets you forget the privilege you hold in having earned that devotion. who require careful handling and patience to bond with, so you don't slip and cut yourself on their sharp edges. whose trust is given after you place yours in them, not before. whose dependence on you is less apparent but no less real. whose power is only equal to their fragility. who can easily leave your side, but will always return when you hold out your hand and call them home.

#Kaladin and Dalinar #stormlight archive #cosmere #brandon sanderson

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Love at first poison is a weird ship but I SHIP IT.

#Worlds Behind #City Between #W.R. Gingell #LDD lego creations

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out of boredom i decided to scan a stuffed shark. here are the results.

#this post has lived in my phone's screenshots for years now #it brings me joy when I am stuck in boring waiting rooms #tumblr hall of fame

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Don’t bother looking for sane friends. Everyone’s a bit crazy. The trick is finding people whose type of crazy doesn’t drive you crazy.

#showerthoughtsacademy

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I collect handmade cups. My brother came for a visit the other day and asked which one was the grail

#your friend was right to ask #but my question is are you #Tress of the Emerald Sea

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Just like for the City Between series, I'm posting the best of our texts back and forth as we read through the Worlds Behind series.

All Creatures Great and Small S3E10

"should not have been made to study murder: he should have been put in charge of Small Things. He would have bonded with all of them instantly, and it would have given his life Meaning and Purpose."

No, I won't stop calling Zero's dad "Ozai."

#City Between #City Between spoilers #Worlds Behind #W.R. Gingell

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the caption did not adequately prepare me

"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

#“that's very odd” he's not wrong #doctor who

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#I thought Tumblr would appreciate this very Hinged conversation excerpt #Tom Leher #Mary Poppins #musicals

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#april fool's day #tumblr weirdness #ask games #star trek

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Boop boop boop boop boop boop booo

#april's fool's day #tumblr weirdness #ask games

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I am delighted they noticed my loophole abuse!

#tumblr weirdness #april fool's day

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Okay, okay. But when you get right down go it, Edmund is just one person. He's not the whole of humanity (or Narnia-anity, as the case may be) - he's just one guy who committed a crime and whose life is therefore forfeit. Aslan takes his place in a direct, one-to-one swap: guilty for innocent. In the process he atones for all sin, but Edmund's the one whose life is being directly saved. The executioner lets him go.

Guys. Edmund is Barabbas.

#Narnia #Easter #Good Friday #Christianity

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You guys are so mean

#the url! XD #tumblr weirdness #ides of march

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#polls

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If you like this list please please read the Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, it has ALL of them.

Fun Ways to Meet Characters

Thieves stealing important objects from the main characters and then being forced somehow into a found family situation

Saving a character’s life by doing something like taking an arrow/bullet

By losing a bet with a stranger and then teaming up

Gambling with a shifty character and getting really mad at them, only for them to later end up saving the other character’s life

Meeting the other in an arranged marriage and actually liking them (or really, really hating them)

Or having a chaotic dynamic where they irritate each other but they’re equally chaotic, so they become the mischievous duo in the found family

By bickering over the last piece of food at a banquet

Getting hired as a servant or maid, or some other serving position

By accidentally almost killing a character, only for them to join the found family and literally never stop bringing up that first meeting

#queen's thief #book recs

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[ID: the xkcd comic "Average Familiarity." It has been edited to read "Davy Crockett and Annie Oakley lore is second nature to us two siblings, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows she was in Buffalo Bill's show and one or two things about the Alamo." "And the song, of course." "Of course." Captioned: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, children of experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their parent's hobby. End ID.]

#and by “The Song” we mean “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” not anything from Annie Get Your Gun #that musical Does Not Exist #except for that one song that's really fun to sing even though They Would Never #about me #Davy Crockett #Annie Oakley

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And now, let us sing the traditional Leap Day carol.

For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal, Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal, Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty, One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty. Through some singular coincidence – I shouldn’t be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy – You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of February; And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover, That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you’re only five and a little bit over!

#I like to try squatting with one knee up like that #I lose my balance pretty quickly but it's fun to try #queued for the holiday #leap day #musicals #Gilbert and Sullivan #Pirates of Penzance #PoP