Allegedly Literature

come at me scrublord im ripped

[talonabraxas]

‘Thoth and the Chief Magician’, 1925. Evelyn Pau

[ca314159bara]

[spinach-productions]

I love tumblr. I fucking love tumblr. Where else am I going to find shit like this

[huffylemon]

[evilscientist3]

Trying to get a glass of water but i cant. The water goes up

[anyotherstar]

What do you mean the water goes up

[evilscientist3]

It goes up.

[allthesepurplelights]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

they should come up with a positive snake that does something good when it bites you. so it's not just venom every time

[caesarsaladinn]

when a small nonvenomous snake bites you something good does happen, which is that you can walk around all smug about how you were bitten by a snake because that’s cool as hell

[squareallworthy]

Yeah, yeah, Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre, we've all read it.

[cannibalchicken]

[morushroom]

may i share with you the best video on the internet

[nosleepforaiba-deactivated20251]

Hardware store saturday

[retrogamingblog2]

The first ever rage quit from 1969

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

[voxette-vk]

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

[booksandchainmail]

according to wikipedia, before

[decepticonsensual]

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

[stele3]

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

[squareallworthy]

In Klingon households this is in fact how you get promoted to butler.

[person918x]

[pyrexiabog]

The boomstick betrayal

[iydak]

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[wordcubed]

[polyglotten]

[chlommunist]

someone from the uk: im in sixth form

me: how many regenerations do you have left

[animentality]

[uncahier]

[twocubes]

people want doing the right thing to be like pulling the correct lever at the correct time but actually usually doing the right thing is more like holding a moderate weight at arm's length continuously for seventeen years

[lilnasxvevo]

Hot tip: Any cipher can be a secure cipher if your enemies cannot read

[shittymoviedetails]

kim possible without her iconic moustache