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he was her best friend

a mix for bony elbows and candy-stained smiles, for ashen winters and golden summer days, for apple stealing and book thievery, for broken breaths and skies of smoke, for pummeled earth and raw skin, for chapped lips and love lost.

for the saumensch and the saukerl

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AU where Rudy doesn’t die. He and Liesel fall in love & marry, and after a while Rudy decides he would finally like to have children, so one morning he looks at her and asks coolly, “How about a kid, saumensch?”

theliteraryjournals

My heart is so tired.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via theliteraryjournals)

lorelaigilmoure

leo fitz: a summary

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tangled-envisioning

agentverbivore

(almost) every frame of The Scene (1 / 3)

Voldermort: You tricked me.

Harry: I "deceived" you. "Tricked" makes it sound like we have a playful relationship.

ravenreyses-blog

t’challa + some of the most beautiful lines of character development ever written

jemmasimmons

fitzsimmons “lazy saturday” aesthetic

teagabe

i’ll always love you, my sweet sunshine

tashonix

Servin’ it up in the Seychelles

Summary: Jemma and Fitz are enjoying their holidays in the Seychelles when Jemma convinces Fitz to join her in the resorts social beach volleyball competition. After all, it wouldn’t be a holiday without doing at least one silly thing, right? Cue fluff, fun and flirty banter :)

Rating: T

Word count: 1,734

Read it on AO3!

A mega thank you to the wonderful @leggy–peggy for the beautiful gifset/aesthetic!

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I’m a social vampire u gotta invite me into ur conversation or I cannot enter

artyowlsstuff

Okay people, history-fail story-time...

So back in the 1780′s when our country was still figuring crap out and ol’ George Washington was just elected president, G.W. decided to send a letter to Congress along the lines of ‘Looking forward to working with you all, this will be exciting!” Congress, not wanting to slight the president and also trying to express their own enthusiasm, sent back a letter along the lines of “Glad you’re excited, we are also looking forward to working with you!”

Then George sends another letter back saying something like “Cool cool bros, glad you’re just as excited as I am,” and Congress, again not wanting to be awkward or just ignore the PRESIDENT, sent back ANOTHER letter saying some dumb crap that was probably along the lines of “Glad you’re excited that we’re excited that you’re excited.”

Democracy at its finest.

And while this in itself is funny, that is not even the best part.

George Washington, while being powerful, was not extremely eloquent, and at this point was also aging, busy, and overall very stressed about his new position (which he did not want in the first place). So he asked his old friend James Madison, who had a much better way with words, to write the first note to Congress. Good old James Madison, wanting to oblige his friend, did just that and composed the note to Congress. Now, J-Mads was himself a member of Congress, so when the note arrived, he was in session to hear “Washington’s” letter read.

Congress got nervous and worried about who could possibly compose a formal and acceptable letter back to Washington. Who better than his old friend, James Madison? So Jimmy, being obliging, wrote the response. When Washington received the reply, he once again asked his friend to write the response.

And who did Congress choose to write their final letter? That’s right….none other than Jimmy-James-Madison himself.

So James Madison, future 4th president of the United States, wrote himself 4 letters under the guise of George Washington and the first Congress of the U.S. And he was too embarrassed to admit it.