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no exaggeration tho pride and prejudice is one of the best books of all time like literally every word of that book??? slaps. The entire thing!! it’s like a perfectly constructed piece of work like a juicy tender streak or a really nice carved desk from the 1700’s. U can’t even name one part of that book that does not go off it’s like the Turn Down For What or ignition (remix) of books it’s a fire starter man and I’d give my left tit to be able to shake Jane Austen’s hand for the work she accomplished

#i have read this so many times it really warms my heart #i need to finish persuasion!!!!!

pagewoman

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad; and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one’s ramble was over, and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries

Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows (via pagewoman)

#the wind in the willows

elucubrare

i’m kind of against kings in fantasy because i feel like most people don’t really think about them: either it’s a Tolkien-esque “the King has returned again!” or they’re just sort of…there b/c this is Fantasy, we do Kings, but have they considered

dying kings, king-of-the-year, the king who has to fight every year to reclaim his throne, the king who knows that he’s only king for as long as he keeps his strength

the king and the land are one, but not, like, in a triumphant way, in a way where the land claims the king for its own

a king who must be physically perfect (the king is not physically perfect and has to hide it)

the divine king and what it would mean to actually be ruled by a god

elucubrare

@torablaze said “I don’t know what’s wrong with traditional kings and kingdoms. They have existed and still exist in some parts of the world. So, why are you supposed to write bullshit kings/kingdoms when you can just use what historical ones have been like?”

1. Because the point of fantasy is to do things that aren’t like the way they were done in history. and besides, no one does medieval kings the way they actually were done in history, so you might as well make shit up.

2.

The concept of the dying king has a long tradition behind it

The Fisher King’s health is linked to his land’s

Having lost his arm, Nuada was no longer eligible for kingship due to the Tuatha Dé tradition that their king must be physically perfect, and he was replaced as king

Divine kingship was one of the fundamental tenets of ancient Egyptian religion

#go awff

le-jaune

CHRISTOPHER KANE – PRE-FALL 2017

#still fashion week

maximiliani

Ma Mere l´Oye: 4. Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bete

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Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev - Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête (The conversations of Beauty and the Beast)

allthingslinguistic

“In 1881, the American satirical magazine Puck introduced what are now considered the first known emoticons in the English language.” from Haggard Hawks on twitter.

Other candidates for oldest emoticon include a speech by Abraham Lincoln and a poem from 1648, although the most probable direct ancestor of the modern computer emoticon is from Scott Fahlman, who’s written up quite a nice story about its origins in 1982.