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Posted on December 4, 2012 via Itsy Bitsy with 70 notes
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Submerged tree in the Green Lake. The Green Lake or Grüner See is a lake in Austria that dries out almost completely during fall, is used as a county park in the winter and is famous for the underwater park which forms during the spring due to the snow meltdown.
Most badass vernal pool of all time.
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Posted on September 8, 2012 via the soul is bone with 190,376 notes
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Best speech of all time.
DUDE. Enter the Haggis has a song titled “Twirling Towards Freedom.” AWESOME.
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Posted on September 8, 2012 via I Do What I Want with 73,394 notes
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Things I established today
The internet is more important than lunch, but tea is more important than the internet.
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♪ ♫ ♪ These are just some of my favorite things ♪ ♫ ♪
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No respectable writer dared for centuries to write a straightforward heroic narrative. If you wanted to, you had to show that your narrative had a purpose that was not heroic—either to strip the illusions from a naïve hero… or to make a moral and social point aside from the story… And the whole thing reached an apotheosis in a non-heroic non-story by James Joyce called, appropriately enough, Ulysses.
Diana Wynne Jones, in “The Heroic Ideal: A Personal Odyssey”
I wish I could reblog this whole essay, because it is a wonderful discussion of the heroic trope in literature as well as a superlative explanation of how and why DWJ wrote her book Fire and Hemlock, and she lays out all the references she made (some of which I hadn’t even picked up on, after about 10 years of rereading!). Instead, I will simply point out that you can read the essay in the back of the new Firebird reprint of Fire and Hemlock, as well as here at the bottom of the page.
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Of course the Gaang reads Harry Potter.
Kalliopestarmist:i know that we both appreciate how sokka is a watering canMe:sokka would cry at the end of HP book 5.Kallie:XD even i didn't cry at the end of book 5Me:sokka ships Harry/LunaMe:he likes her whimsy and also she reminds him of YueKallie:totally. katara ships hermione/krumKallie:i know because i ship hermione/krumMe:aang ships ron/hermione and harry/ginnyMe:toph ships ron/dumbldoreKallie:true storiesMe:I think toph ships everyone with dumbledore. sirius black.Kallie:azula ships harry/dracoMe:aahahhhahah course.Me:azula has a love/hate relationship with lucius malfoy.Kallie:ty lee ships lily/severusMe:mai likes Bad!HermioneKallie:yes, she does. and evil harry?Me:she likes dystopia fics where everyone loses to voldemort. evil harry. angst.Kallie:yes yes yesMe:mind wipe fics where people forget who they're in love with. timeskip fics where everyone is brokenhearted.Me:zhao likes the dursleys.Kallie:and iroh?Me:Iroh likes fics with OCs.Kallie:oh, uncleMe:he likes those really long fics with really good OCs in them, the kind of fics that are 50 really excellently-written chapters and they're never finished. He likes the mauraders. I think he ships james and lilyKallie:i bet iroh doesn't *quite* get fanficKallie:he reads oc fics and leaves reviews that say things like "this is such a lovely story! what a charming young woman!"Me:he likes the Marauder era stuff because he wants to hear more about james and lily and fighting voldemort. he gets annoyed when the fanfic authors don't understand battle tactics.Kallie:zuko likes gen ficsKallie:(ursa, btw, ships sirius/remus really hard and spends a lot of time clearing her browser history)Me:she has printed out the PDF of The Shoebox Project and took it with her into exile. she cries at the end every time.Kallie:YESMe:also she ships Lucius/Narcissa, and feels really guilty about it.Me:she likes the ones where they get along. every so often she has to stop reading them bc they make her sadKallie:zuko does the same thingMe:aww -
Okay those wheely shelves are seriously the scariest things ever.
TRAINING MONTAGE
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Feminist snark, 1915 style
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Posted on June 20, 2012 via Anarchist Soup with 62,914 notes
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Cultural Food, Cultural Appropriation, and America
A fascinating discussion of authenticity in cuisine, what people value when it comes to food, and honesty in advertising, by Francis Lam and Eddie Huang. I have a lot of opinions about these topics, from the perspective of a white American who likes to EAT the food in question, not cook it. But I also love this article because I know people who talk like these guys. Ahh, familiarity of voice.
Mock Turtles are mysterious personages, neither here nor there. Incidentally, I like ideas, islands, and illustrations of pretty things. Welcome to my Cabinet of Curios.
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