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I really thought the letter was going to say Caroline is coming back 😭😂 i was bamboozled

JUST RECAST HER AT THIS POINT PLEASE 😭

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man some of the seven deadly sins aren’t even that bad. sorry I’m angry n wanna fuck? Sorry I ate a lot? shut up

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Wrath is beating someone up because they exist in a way that you don’t like. Wrath is not being angry because someone hurt you.

Lust is not wanting to have sex with other people. Lust is using sex to hurt other people or hurting another person in a sexual way.

Gluttony is not eating lots of food (your own stomach will tell you when enough is enough). Gluttony is when you have enough resources to yourself that you could house and feed the rest of the population of your city but you keep it to yourself because you do not want to give up the power associated with it.

Greed is not wanting to improve the state of your material life because it would improve your quality of life. Greed is taking opportunities and resources away from already marginalized people. (And if someone tells you that a service you benefited from and it actively improved your life was not meant for you specifically, then there needs to be more of that resource).

Envy is not looking at someone who has a higher quality of life and wanting to improve it. Envy is when you are looking to take away from someone who is in the same situation as you. The example the Bible (or catholic school) uses is a man looking at another man’s wife when his own wife loves him very much and is equal to the other woman in every way that is important.

Sloth (aka laziness) isn’t when you’re exhausted or hurting and being too tired to do anything else. Sloth is when one contributed nothing to the work and yet reaps the rewards of the work.

Pride is when you think of yourself of greater than your peers and your fellow humans. Pride is also when you think of yourself greater than God. Pride is not being proud of yourself or others for accomplishing something that was difficult. You are allowed to be proud of your hard work and your accomplishments.

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Why did a tumblr user just explain an aspect Christianity than all my years of private school and church

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“The Father’s face is stern and strong, he sits and judges right from wrong. He weighs our lives, the short and long, and loves the little children The Mother gives the gift of life, and watches over every wife. Her gentle smile ends all strife, and she loves her little children The Warrior stands before the foe, protecting us where e'er we go. With sword and shield and spear and bow, he guards the little children. The Crone is very wise and old, and sees our fates as they unfold. She lifts her lamp of shining gold to lead the little children. The Smith, he labors day and night, to put the world of men to right. With hammer, plow, and fire bright, he builds for little children. The Maiden dances through the sky, she lives in every lover’s sigh. Her smiles teach the birds to fly, and gives dreams to little children. The Seven Gods who made us all, are listening if we should call. So close your eyes, you shall not fall, they see you, little children. Just close your eyes, you shall not fall, they see you, little children.”

— The Song of the Seven [George R. R. Martin - A Storm of Swords - Chapter 46 - Samwell III]

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Rio, Spooky, or Chico

You can only pick one 👀

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My theories for On My Block season 4

- Monsé and Caesar broke up because Ceasar’s season 2 hookup came back to bite him in the ass.

- Mr. and Mrs. Turner threatened to send Jamal to military school, like Mrs. Turner casually mentioned, and Jamal thought that the only way to keep that from happening to assimilate to a “normal” high school experience thus joining the football team. He was scared at first but eventually found out that he was a natural (he runs fast). Being in the team took up too much of his free time and he, Jamal, and Ceasar drifted apart because of it.

- Ruby and Jasmine are too caught up in being a couple that they don’t really fight against Jamal’s increasing absences from group activities and meetings.

- Ceasar goes on a power trip after Oscar becomes the head of the Santos and decides that maybe he likes the gang life. At first he fools himself into thinking that he’ll try to reform them but eventually realizes that if he wants Oscar to stay in power then he’ll have to be as ruthless as Cuchillos was. When Oscar finally decided to leave the gang Ceasar isn’t ready to give up the power and views Oscar leaving as a betrayal of their brotherly bond.

- Oscar’s wife (?) was someone he went to school with and who knew that he’d been a good kind once. They reconnect (I don’t know how) and Oscar starts to see a future with her but is too scared that maybe he doesn’t deserve it or that he’ll mess it up. Eventually his wife shows him that it isn’t true and encourages him to give up his power in the Santos. Oscar and Ceasar still talk but they clearly have beef becuase Oscar doesn’t want anything to do with the Santos. Oscar doesn’t want to endanger his wife and unborn child meanwhile Ceasar sees it as Oscar choosing a new family.

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Science fiction and fantasy isn’t just a white people thing! I’ve talked about some of these books before, but here’s a new slide show entirely for SFF authors of color. Also, I was only doing one book per author. Lots of these authors have multiple books. And like it says at the end, there’s even more SFF books by authors of color but fitting everything in one post would be an impossible task.

Also, could you please not rec white authors on this post? Even if they’ve written a book starring a person of color. I want this post to be focused around the work of authors of color. 

Links to more info about the books beneath the cut. 

Keep reading

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I’ve read Her Body and Other Parties and oh my God. Please read it. It’s so good, especially ‘Real Women Have Bodies.’ Carmen Maria Machado is by far one of the most memorable magical realism authors I have read  

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Good stuff.

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Guys, I edit professionally. This list is legit. Incorporating these suggestions before you hire an editor will save you A LOT of money. Even if you did these and nothing else, you’d see significant overall improvement in your work.

That said, you don’t have to overthink these things when you’re writing a first draft. If you write, “she said angrily” in a first draft, you can always revisit the phrasing in a second draft. I mention this because overthinking style can lead to a loss of momentum, and losing momentum is why so many people never finish a draft. Give yourself permission to write fast, write messy or ugly, and edit your draft into beauty later.

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So much for the “Raphael is gonna be the only one to remember Hope when he turns back into a human” theory :/

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Thoughts on Tall Girl?

It’s not a cinematic masterpiece but I liked it

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Do people outside of the US know about On My Block? Cause it feels like it might be an exclusively US thing to me

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Some of you fan fiction writers need to make use of the read more feature because I am sick and tired of having to scroll through a novella lengthed post. My thumb and eyes can’t take it. Please.

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Things I loved about the iZombie finale:

- Liv and Major were finally together again

Things I hated about the iZombie finale

- they told us about Liv and Major’s life with the zombie kids instead of showing us

- Blain’s death was wack, sudden, and underwhelming. As the series’ main villain, he should have had more. HE WAS STILL AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME WHEN HE DIED! HE SHOULD HAVE HAD A DOWNWARD SPIRAL

- Don E should have survived. Something should’ve clicked for him after losing Darcy. Maybe turn a leaf? IMO he was never really a villain. 

- Why was it necessary to kill Michelle? And have Clive adopt her son? What was the point of that? It added nothing to the story. Absolutely nothing.

- I wanted an inside look into Payton and Ravi’s lives after the ten-year jump. But again, we were told, not shown. 

- Payton was only a zombie for ten seconds when that could have been a cool plotline.

- throughout the final season, they make such a big deal about the Kids but show them for all of 2 seconds when they get kidnapped and then they’re gone

- I hated the whole mYtH sTaTuS that Live, Major, and the Chicks lady got. Seriously, no consequences for the terrorist and the main character goes into hiding for the next ten years? Wack.

In conclusion: I’m bitter and the show should have gone on for at least one more season to wrap up all the loose ends instead of having that weird sudden ending that consisted of nothing. I was way too invested in this show to have such a bad, unsatisfying ending. 

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My predictions for Cable Girls season 5

— Eva calls Francisco dad and when Carlos finds out, he gets angry

— Carlos is now a villain and blames Francisco for everything

— Ángeles’ daughter wants to join the girls in whatever scheme they get caught up in after she calls them back for some reason but they say no because they promised her mom to take care of her

— Elisa still isn’t happy

— Doña Carmen is still alive and still manipulating Carlos

— Carlos thinks he isn’t being manipulated

— Marga and her man get remarried and have kids now

— Oscar and Carlota are prospering in whatever venture they went on in Paris and struggle with the idea of going back to Spain after everything that happened to them there, causing a rift between them

— Cuevas is there, looking after Angles’ daughter because the grandmother is now dead

— Francisco and Lydia aren’t married, but thinking about it

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So what are the theories for next season? Specifically Octavia?

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That man just can’t catch a break

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Can we just take a moment to appreciate how none of the girls in Euphoria are pitted against each other. Like it would have been so easy to make Maddy and Jules enemies because of what Nate was doing but they didn’t. And even the “beef” that Kat and Maddy have isnt just because they’re GiRls aNd ThAts JuSt hoW tHey arE. I appreciate that.

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Wow they really took the commander up to where her entire sleeping grounder army is hu?