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@her-madjesty / her-madjesty.tumblr.com

"You defy reason, sir. I should like to defy it with you!"
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send me a pairing and a number and i'll write you a drabble

  1. “Come over here and make me.”
  2. “Have you lost your damn mind!?”
  3. “Please, don’t leave.”
  4. “Do you…well…I mean…I could give you a massage?”
  5. “Wait a minute. Are you jealous?”
  6. “Is there a reason you’re naked in my bed?”
  7. “I almost lost you.”
  8. “Wanna bet?”
  9. “Don’t you ever do that again!”
  10. “Teach me how to play?”
  11. “Don’t you dare throw that snowba-, goddammit!”
  12. “I think we need to talk.”
  13. “Kiss me.”
  14. “Hey, I’m with you, okay? Always.”
  15. “So, I found this waterfall…”
  16. “It could be worse.”
  17. “Looks like we’ll be trapped for a while…”
  18. “This is without a doubt the stupidest plan you’ve ever had. Of course I’m in.”
  19. “The paint’s supposed to go where?”
  20. “You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.”
  21. “We’re in the middle of a thunderstorm and you wanna stop and feel the rain?”
  22. “I’ve seen the way you look at me when you think I don’t notice.”
  23. “Just once.”
  24. “You’re the only one I trust to do this.”
  25. “I can’t believe you talked me into this.”
  26. “I got you a present.”
  27. “I’m pregnant.”
  28. “Marry me?”
  29. “I thought you were dead.”
  30. “It’s not what it looks like…”
  31. “You lied to me.”
  32. “I think I’m in love with you and I’m terrified.”
  33. “Please don’t do this.”
  34. “If you keep looking at me like that we won’t make it to a bed.”
  35. “You heard me. Take. It. Off.”
  36. “I wish I could hate you.”
  37. “Wanna dance?”
  38. “You fainted…straight into my arms. You know, if you wanted my attention you didn’t have to go to such extremes.”
  39. “Hey! I was gonna eat that!”
  40. “Have I entered an alternate universe or did you really just crack a smile for me?”
  41. “You did all of this for me?”
  42. “I swear it was an accident.”
  43. “YOU DID WHAT?!”
  44. “If you die, I’m gonna kill you.”
  45. “Tell me a secret.”
  46. “Hey, have you seen the..? Oh.”
  47. “No one needs to know.”
  48. “Boo.”
  49. “Well this is awkward…”
  50. Writer’s preference
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rebe-draws

Josephine Montilyet - Dragon Age: Inquisition More art of one of my faves

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hes just a boy posessed by a spirit of vengance she's sort of a girl with a debilitating savior complex about their mage baby sister can i make it any more obvious

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ly0nstea

Gotta start treating english like monolinguistic english speakers treat other languages

Did you know English doesn't have a word for the Irish word 'mar'? Instead they have to say 'is the cause' of or 'because' for short

On this, i think its HILARIOUS that English lost the singular/plural you distinction and like, unanimously, almost every dialect re-evolved a plural you pronoun, be it ye, yall, yis, yous

[ID: tags reading #sure I'll hop on this #english doesn't even have 'tu' AND 'jūs' #imagine having only one 'you' which has to be used for one person and for multiple people]

official linguistics post

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lwyzlwyz

english doesn't make a distinction between ser and estar and have to make do with to be

eu sou feliz(i am happy) and eu estou feliz(i am happy) are so, so different

This proves that the native english speaker can't distinguish between permanent and transient states, forever stuck in a flow of existence where all states of being carry the same weight. This cognitive dysfunction explains not only the political but also socioeconomic turmoils in the lands where english speakers are native.

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Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

  • Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.
  • Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.
  • In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.
  • In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)
  • In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.
  • The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.
  • In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

Reveal of Welsh postdoc and rugby lad Dr Howell Jenkins (27) perennially one of the funniest things tumblr users can discover in fiction.

It’s unclear whether he finished his PhD or is still a grad student in the process of slithering out of his actual viva.

Here is Calcifer’s “silly saucepan song” that he sings to himself, which Howl sings when drunk (and Sophie doesn’t understand.) It’s a Welsh rugby song.

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soul-siren

"You're a Failure, and your family died knowing it."

I finally finished it!

I got majorly distracted with only 2 sections of this left, and it gathered dust for a bit. But here it is! All the angst!

My Emmit Hawke, purple and unromanced. He's just very tired and never given a break, so might as well strand him in the Fade, right? (I love my Hawke, promise)

There was originally a part 2 that has a bit more of a hopeful tune to leaving him behind, but I dunno if I'll get to that. We'll see.

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