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I’ve been waiting a year to post this

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened

“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“

ileolai

i found the specific quote i was thinking of x

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

damn gurl :’]

everydaylouie

happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

trappedblackrose-deactivated201

I love this so much. I always play it when it comes on

c0litasxo

how cute

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okarintarou

cowboy bebop end title cards

constable-frozen

Elsa

Anna

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fullmetalfisting

Quick question: why are you all like this? What is wrong. With like. All of you

anhedoniczoruko

batou

another-rogue-trevelyan

One of my favorite little moments in Inquisition is when you take one of the keeps (I think it’s the one in Crestwood) and you find some of your soldiers behind a locked door, and it turns out they’re hiding because they’re playing cards when they’re supposed to be working, and they get all nervous because they’ve been caught by the Inquisitor. And you have a choice with whether to scold them or not, but I always pick the “As you were” option. I think it’s adorable how happy they are when the Inquisitor lets them finish their game and they realize she’s a real person

clayboy2000-deactivated20210427

Five years ago today we were blessed with the best cutscene in gaming history. Thank you, Papyrus. You jumped out of the window but you jumped into our hearts

turing-tested

is this orange or yellow.

turing-tested

its yellow you are all wrong i have decided just now

dogonitblog

hey op, what does this say?

turing-tested

nice try but i’m not colorblind it says 71

khazel-t

bappschonsphiddy

Sorry to everyone here who’s just found out that the number 71 means they can’t be an airforce pilot.

harriyanna-deactivated20221223

everyone forgot about this wholesome video so i dug through the deep files of the internet cause it needs to be seen again

bugsongs

bacon pancakes state of mind saturday

paxamericana

biglawbear

Hey, so here’s the entire 30 minute speech Biden gave instead of just 15 seconds.

The entire speech is eloquent and accessible. This isn’t a fake video. But this is the *one time* in that entire thirty minutes that he stumbled over his words.

Y'all ever done public speaking before? I have. I defy you to last five minutes without stumbling over your words, even with a teleprompter, much less last thirty minutes. And Biden is someone who has struggled with a stutter his whole life.

The point Biden is trying to make is that we are on track to have more American deaths in one year than in any other year since the 1918 pandemic.

So what is OP’s goal in posting this video? To take out the few seconds out of thirty minutes where Biden stumbled? To make you feel like Biden is an incapable, feeble old man?

Nah bro. Fuck OP. OP only wants to scare you for whatever reason by cherry picking. Don’t trust like that.

ohshitthisbloghasothercolors

ALSO! Joe Biden has had a stutter since he was a boy.

It’s ableist as fuck to focus on him getting tripped up on words like that, and the fact that I see so many supposed “leftists” doing this is disgusting.

It’s one thing to criticize him on his policies (and I mean his actual, current policies, because a lot of people on here seem to have done zero research on what those policies actually are,) or his character, and quite another to make fun of his disability.

ohshitthisbloghasothercolors

Actually, you know what? I’m not fucking done.

I have ADD and fibromyalgia. ADD alone makes talking sometimes difficult. Add to that the fact that one of the side effects for my fibromyalgia medication is difficulty talking, some days are rough speaking days for me, even if I’m reading aloud.

By making fun of this, you’re not only ableist and ageist, you’re a fucking asshole. And you’re sending a message to neuro atypical and disabled people that you don’t give a shit about them despite constantly proclaiming how Left and Woke you are.

Do fucking better.

tostrive2seektofind

All of this AND a reminder that foreign governments are spreading misinformation to try to influence this election, so please question everything and do your own damn research from reliable sources.

sharpestasp-deactivated20241106

Rule of thumb - if it is an excerpt, video or print either, I promise you it has been cut to be either VERY favorable or VERY unforgivable. This is the way of politics. Find the full, read/watch it, and then figure out who profits but the cut version.