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[letterboxdgf]

[iridiumphoenix]

I can't believe November is almost over. What's next, December?? Thank god there aren't any months after that

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[stuckinapril]

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

[boyhood]

Did a school visit today and asked a group of 8th graders if they could define the term "contemporary art" for me [for context, I work at a contemporary art museum], and one of them said "Is it art that's made with contempt?"

And unfortunately that's the funniest thing a student has ever said to me in 10 years of teaching

[rosalindthe2nd]

I can see why people believe that Andrew and Robin haven’t grown enough in wisdom (or “done the work”, as they say) to fix their dynamic at the end of Jane of Lantern Hill, but I disagree. Partly because I’m a hopeless romantic, but partly because I think we see the signs of increasing wisdom from Andrew and bravery from Robin during the course of the book. I do think that time and Jane’s example have changed them and they will be able to navigate disagreement and insecurity without losing their way again.

And because a hopeless romantic can also be petty as all get-out, a huge benefit of this belief is thinking about how insanely pissed off Grandmother and, even more delicious to contemplate, Aunt Irene will be! I know LMM didn’t want to write a sequel but I wish she had because I would have LOVED the scene where Irene comes smugly into the parlour at Lantern Hill and sees Robin happily ensconced - and unflappable now, no matter how Irene tries to poison her with patronising sweetness.

I love the counterpoint of Irene and Grandmother as the two villains and I would have been so ready for this takedown.

[versaphile]

Map of the Kingdom of Camelot by Versaphile

A fully detailed map of the Kingdom of Camelot. The latest edition to my Albion Atlas. Contains all known and referenced locations from all five seasons. Feel free to use this as a reference, though if you make your own edit, please credit me and link back the map to AO3.

VIEW FULL SIZED MAP ON AO3

[rosalindthe2nd]

Absolutely delightful, this

[solar3339]

Remadora art, i honestly doubt Tonks can make her hair glow but the idea was cute so i did it , sue me

I have always had a soft spot for this Harry Potter couple, I wish they got their happy ending 😭

[sparklecryptid]

“I asked chatgpt” well I asked Fëanor, son of Finwë, High King of the Exiled Noldor and he thinks that sacrificing your critical thinking skills to the whims and machinations of techbros is THE WORK OF MORGOTH WRITTEN INTO THE ODE THAT ARDA SINGS and that to do so IS TO SHAME YOURSELF AND YOUR UNLIMITED POTENTIAL. BE FREE. BE FREE AND CREATE WORKS OF WONDER YET UNTOLD

[limirint]

in which Harry is a lightweight (and Ron is an enabler)

[insomniac-arrest]

tumblr: on languages

[alias-milamber]

The thai for “5″ is pronounced roughly “Ha”, and so where english internets would generally put “lol” or something, they put “555555555″.

[drawnsnake]

I was looking for this post for so long

Finally it has returned

[fictionadventurer]

The Lord of the Rings is so full of goodness. It's good on a literary quality level, but it's also just crammed full of good things written by a guy who understands goodness. It's good on a literary level, good on a moral level, good in its appreciation of so many different kinds of good things. You've got the vastness of ancient myths and the homely coziness of small towns and casual heroism from the most ordinary people. It knows a hot bath is good, an ancient legend is good, giving up everything and everyone you've known in a desperate attempt to save the world is good. So many different layers of what good is, and it understands and appreciates all of them. Very few books are to-the-core Good the way that this one is.

[txtapollo]

the only thing more powerful than a weird little girl is a weird middle aged woman. the only thing more powerful than a weird middle aged woman is a weird old lady. and the only thing more powerful than a weird old lady is a weird little girl. thus the world is balanced.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .

[rosalindthe2nd]

I’m having a prolonged Lupin/Tonks moment. I’ve just finished reading OoTP to one of my kids I’d forgotten how much I love them (Lupin and Tonks, not my kids - just to be clear).

I wonder if any better informed Tumblr users can explain to me where the idea that Lupin is Welsh is from? It seems quite widespread. Anyway, I’ve embraced it wholeheartedly, as the title of this tiny ficlet indicates.

Fanfic: Prydferth, Harry Potter | FanFiction

[nostalgicfuturity]

“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

—

Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)

this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

I wish I was a stress cleaner. Never once has my response to stress been “time to employ some good habits”