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echobazaar’s personal

[estampie]

dnd is so fucking funny its been two hours and we’ve killed 3 plants

[potion-junkie]

Damn, your group moves fast.

[estampie]

thanks we havent played for six months

[phyla-vells]

[daydreamlesbian-deactivated2017]

🌹 a rose for lesbians 🌹 a rose for bi girls 🌹 a rose for pan girls 🌹 a rose for sapphics

[nerdyczar]

🌹 a rose for gay boys

🌹 a rose for bi boys

🌹 a rose for pansexual boys

🌹a rose for whatever you call a male sapphic

[starvedstar]

🌹 a rose for asexuals

🌹 a rose for aromantics

[bearalter]

🌹a rose for not derailing a post made specifically for wlw

[0kamii]

G E T J I N X E D!

[rinderpestfeaturedguest-deactiv]

[homunculus-argument]

the universe: okay, you’re a human. I gave you free will and a conscious mind, so you’re free to do whatever you want. So what do you wanna do?

human: GO FAST

the universe: well, you’re a perfect pursuit predator but if that’s the way you want to evolve, go ahead.

human, climbing on a horse: GO FAST

the universe: wait what

human, inventing the carriage, the car and the bullet train: GO FASTER

the universe: I IMPLORE YOU TO STOP

human, trying to figure out lightspeed travel: FAS T ER

[abstractandedgyname]

human: 

THEORETICALLY MAXIMUM FAST

the universe:

[nevver]

The alphabet fades away

[madlori]

Would you like to read a book in which this happens?

It’s one of my all-time favorite books.  It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn.  He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”

It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.”  That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.

Then another tile falls.  Then another.

The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.

Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall.  So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.

The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.

It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy.  It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.

GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.

WOW I want to read that book

[braingospinny]

Very rarely is there a book that I must read at any cost This is now one of them

[hamstergal]

Note: locate book

[the-hogfather]

I actually bought this book because of this post and let me tell you, it was a fucking great decision. Besides having a brilliant concept, it’s also so well written that in the beginning you don’t even notice when another letter is removed. There was one part I had to re-read because I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a single ‘d’ in the last five pages. Seriously, this book is fantastic

[ofpagesandink]

I had to read this for high school and I loved it. I have no idea where my copy went though :(

[korakos]

I’ve owned 5 copies of Ella Minnow Pea because the people I’ve loaned it out to have refused to part with it, ha. Ended up investing in a copy for the Kindle where it’ll always be safe. But yes, it is a very cleverly written book!

[silversteampunk]

The Sisters of Hunter’s Keep

[moeszyslakofficial-deactivated2]

english class is just everybody reading a story, saying their headcannons and the professor deciding whether or not we are valid

[squidbroom]

[mitsukais-deactivated20221015]

i dropped everything that i was doing to draw her

[ithelpstodream]

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Largest march for native rights in DC ignored by the White House and mainstream media

Native American tribes and their supporters headed to the US capital for four days of demonstrations against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and to raise awareness of other issues affecting Native Americans. Activists from indigenous tribes from across America had set up a teepee encampment next to the Washington Monument, before marching on Trump Tower and the White House The protests follow a year-long battle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmentalists against the construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline and the desecration of tribal lands. The Washington DC protests, organised by Standing Rock along with the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Native Organisers Alliance, have asked the Government to require tribal consent when considering major infrastructure projects crossing through their lands. But there was silence

[winemom-culture]

If animal crossing was real life

Me to my friend: hey man you wanna hang out?

Friend: yeah…. but hey can you do me a favor first

Me: sure what’s up

Friend: I need some bugs dude

Me: w..wha

Friend: bugs

[whomthebellstoll]

Destination: Flavour Camp

[toast-my-name-is-toast]

This is why we can’t have nice things

[habitualshaker]

“That’s how it is on this bitch of an earth” is literally a quote from Waiting For Godot I’m shook

[thememesofproduction]

this is the exact opposite of that post about how “face god and walk backwards into hell” sounds like a literary quote and not a dril meme

[ghc-deactivated20190415]

holy fucking shit

[mad-march-hares-tea-party-deact]

Waiting for Godot is basically a shitpost made into an entire play

[femmchantress]

I’ve come to inform you all the Ancient Greeks spelled Thoth, the Egyptian deity, as Θώθ

[small-funny]

hey, thanks! now die

[latining]

Actually, Ancient Greek thetas had a dot in the centre, and lowercase letters wouldn’t be invented for several hundred years.

You mean ΘΩΘ

Behold the face of your god.

[argumate]

[cuirassier]