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doubt-everything · 7 months
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Hi, I turned 29 today.
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gizzlyeagleshark · 3 months
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When Doug wears shirts that show his chest hair....
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rustedpyro · 24 days
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blood can be so sticky and sweet i wake with it crusting my lips like a morbid gloss
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johnchrom89 · 1 month
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Day 9 Preview
Didn't want to upload late as usual so tomorrow it is. Who's that Pokemon? Not a mass murderer. Nope. Not at all.
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honeylemonbutte · 2 years
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Interactive Summer, Day 9: Sweet
Quinn from Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian @defiledheartsblog
Would you like a cookie from your totally normal, completely trustworthy bestie Quinn?
@interactivesummer
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varietysky · 2 years
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also I don't have any theories for ghosts s4 yet. I'm just excited to see my ghosties and to become unbearably annoying about humphrey again :)
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dookerino · 11 months
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roninkairi · 1 year
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You can only reblog this today.*
*PLEASE READ THE TAGS
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pastelterrors · 4 months
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Work Doodle Dump
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tossawary · 5 months
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One of my personal nitpicks for historical fantasy is a lack of servants, staff, subordinates, and... idk... subjects? Like, their absence is not... a total dealbreaker for me, depending on the situations the characters are in and whether or not I can just assume that other people are there in the background... but so many of the protagonists in historical fantasy stuff are higher-ranking (very often royalty), and/or have busy jobs, and/or have enormous houses that would necessitate having at least part-time staff.
Like, girl, you should have a maid! WHERE is your chaperone?! WHO is driving this carriage?! Where are your footmen? Are you trying to imply that a WEALTHY DUCHESS is taking a CAB?! You know that you probably have tenants, right? Where is your steward?! Where is your lawyer? Your accountant?! (Like, yeah, you're not going to have your lawyer living in your house, but you HAVE one, right???)
Or, man, you're supposed to be a military commander and you don't even have a single secretary?! Where is your SQUIRE?! (In the spirit of historical fiction, I am jumping wildly across time periods with every sentence here.) Man, I know you aren't looking after your own boots. Where are your GUARDS?! Who set up this tent for you?! Who is looking after your horse?! Who is making and carrying the incredibly valuable maps people are recklessly stabbing daggers into?!
SOMEONE has to be scrubbing these floors and delivering the mail and cooking the meals and doing laundry, and they're probably all DIFFERENT people! My dentist has at least three different receptionists and we can't even get ONE for our court wizard here? A sorcerer's apprentice to take notes? Someone like Sherlock Holmes could get away with just having a housekeeper and taking taxis, sure, but your character is supposed to be a KING?! Why is he answering his own front door? He's going to get assassinated. His SERVANTS should have SERVANTS.
Like, yes, I understand that a lot of servants in certain places at certain times were supposed to make their labor invisible, but there have always been servants who still had to interact directly with the masters of the house?! Yeah, there are potentially really messy ethics here, class divisions are bullshit, but I don't think that completely ignoring the reality that humans have ALWAYS been doing work for other humans is better than just including some well-paid and well-treated servants and employees? Because a complete absence of them, especially where logically for the worldbuilding there MUST be servants (and probably exploited servants, or worse, for some particular worldbuilds to work), often makes me think that your main characters just don't care enough to notice the "lower class" people or know their names.
Also, even Frodo Baggins had a gardener and Samwise Gamgee might be the best damn character in the story?! Sam saved the world?! Servants are PEOPLE. Servants are often the funniest and most interesting characters, tbh, with the most to say about a society and its workings (yes, Discworld is a very good book series, highly recommend), and also the joke of some romantic scene being carefully orchestrated by a stage crew of servants frantically diving into bushes to stay out of sight never gets old to me. Teamwork makes the dream work!
I don't want to gatekeep historical fiction, especially not historical fantasy, because the worlds don't necessarily have to conform to our own and may have magic and characters are often in very unique circumstances, but... sometimes I pick up a story and it's like... "Author, please tell me that you know there is a difference between a butler and a valet?!"
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milchreste · 4 months
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In honor of this post and the numerous tags.
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writeouswriter · 1 month
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People sorting ao3 solely by stats and only clicking on fics with a certain amount of kudos or comments, you will not survive the winter, nor the summer, nor at all, *brings out knife,* run
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destiny-islanders · 8 months
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i get it now
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lotus-pear · 5 months
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the day i picked up dazai or smth idk i've never read it
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maudiemoods · 5 months
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WAAAAAUAGRGGG!!
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I love them so so so much!! AURGG!!
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biomechabird · 4 months
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Despite everything, it's still you.
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