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Early Summer Morning by Mikhail Kornilov

T Kingfisher books are like "Here's an average woman who is very relatable. She's going to experience The Horrors. There is at least one person who will experience The Horrors alongside her, as a treat. The Horrors change her as a person and also occasionally make her have a complete mental breakdown. Sometimes she goes to a coffee shop."

#if T kingfisher has one fan it is me #if she has no fans then i was devoured by Them

thathomestar

just cast the fire spell. dip shit

stylampa-deactivated20220516

happy birthday to large boulder size of a small boulder

ur-daily-inspiration

oldpaintings

The sleeping damsel (Una and the Lion), 1891 by Arthur Trevithin Nowell (English, 1862–1940)

greelin

in case you needed to hear it today:

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re changing lanes

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re taking an exit

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you plan on turning (can even be done sooner than 2 seconds before you’re about to turn)

you have a turn signal. in your vehicle. two of them in fact.

you are so brave and beautiful and smart and can do it. using your turn signal

pixilaine

swords for my sword girls

#it’s giving powderpuff girls #I love it

lanndscape

knight--error

One of my favorite parts of The Stormlight Archive, especially The Way of Kings, is how Sanderson introduces this deeply alien landscape to us. He does so mostly by not introducing things specifically, only narrating as if the viewpoint character were looking at normal stuff that everyone sees all the time—which, to them, they are! Sanderson also often uses one-off names for things, like I think he uses the word "chull" before he actually describes one, and leaves you, the reader, to make your assumptions on what those words could mean. Often you assume you're in "rabbits are called 'glips'" territory, where normal things are called by a fantastical name just for flavor.

The reason why I like this is that you get some moments that are... the closest feeling I can compare it to is "dawning horror," when you realize your assumptions are wrong. Like I heard about "songlings," and I assumed, "Ah, yes, birds!" And then I heard about axehounds and I assumed, "Ah, dogs :)"

And then you actually encounter songlings in the text and. Oh. They're cricket-crab things. Uh.

And then Sanderson actually shows you an axehound and it's even worse, it's a crab-dog!

After that you're left sweating. What else is actually crab? Are the horses secretly crabs? They keep mentioning hogs, but we never see a hog described, are they actually crabs??

But the answer is no. They're just pigs. Brilliant.