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Zodiac Signs written Nov 11, 2021 18:58:11 GMT via mobile
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Can we share fun horoscopes in lieu of signs? Mine today include "go deep-sea diving" and "avoid dark holes".

(To ponder: isn't the deep sea in some ways just a gigantic dark hole?)
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Sites You Want To See written Nov 10, 2021 3:07:20 GMT
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I've never played so much as a second of the game, but Arcane episode 1 has me sold: League of legends. No mechanics, just the lore, please and thank you
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What are you reading? written Nov 7, 2021 21:57:02 GMT
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Circe's a good one... Really enjoyed how she portrayed the inhumanity of the divine characters too, compared with how most media tries to do the opposite, ie humanizing them. Made (makes? still kinda do) me want to write an eons-old immortal.

As for me, just finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Took ages to get through, let me tell you. Ages. Dragged at multiple parts but so much wry humor in the writing style which is way up my alley. Kinda similar to Good Omens.

Like the book, it long

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Mr Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone – which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.

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Surrounded by cross, hot strangers, your chance of rational conversation is equal to what it would be in an African desert. Your only wish is to preserve your favorite gown from the worst ravages of the crowd. Every body complains of the heat and the suffocation. Every body declares it to be entirely insufferable. But if it is all misery for the guests, then what of the wretchedness of those who have not been invited? Our sufferings are nothing to theirs! And we may tell each other tomorrow that it was a delightful party.

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To my mind he was not so very plain. True, his features were all extremely bad; he had a great face half as long again as other faces, with a great nose (quite sharp at the end) stuck into it, two dark eyes like clever bits of coal and two little stubby eyebrows like very small fish swimming bravely in a great sea of face. If you had seen that face in repose (proud and not a little melancholy), you would have imagined that it must always look so, that no face in existence could be so ill-adapted to express feeling. But you could not have been more wrong.

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There was no one there. 
Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy whether she were someone or no one at all. (cause. it's a corpse)

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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.

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"I cleverly contrived to capture the little children of my enemy and we pushed them out of the belfry to their deaths. Tonight we will re-enact this great triumph! We will dress straw dolls in the children's blood-stained clothes and fling them down on the paving stones and then we will sing and dance and rejoice over their destruction!"


"And do you perform this ceremony every year, sir? I feel sure I would have remembered if I had seen it before. It is so very...striking."


"I am glad you think so. I perform it whenever I think of it. Of course it was a great deal more striking when we used real children."

—

If the French carry Napoleon in their bellies (which apparently they do), then we carry Wellington in our hearts. Of course it may be objected that Wellington himself was Irish, but a patriotic English pen does not stoop to answer such quibbling.

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A patrol had been sent out to look at the road between two towns, but some Portuguese had come along and told the patrol that this was one of the English magician's roads and was certain to disappear in an hour or two taking everyone upon it to Hell - or possibly England.

—

"Dear God!...What language is that?"


"I believe it is one of the dialects of Hell," said Strange.



"They have learnt it very quickly," said Lord Wellington, "They have only been dead three days." He approved of people doing things promptly and in a businesslike fashion.

—

Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to despair in an instant.
"This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said.


"My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!"

—

There was a silence. Or rather some moments passed filled with nothing but the breathing of fifty cats.

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"We have sent your lordship urgent messages, but we have received no replies. Fortunately for us all Mr Norrell is what he always was: firm and resolute and watchful." As he spoke, Lascelle's glance fell upon Mr Norrell, who was at the moment the very picture of everything which was dismayed, defeated and impotent.

—

a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more the idea of a colour — as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green thoughts
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if Buzz Lightyear the toy was based off the real Buzz Lightyear from this trailer, based on the technology that means Toy Story 1–4 took place further in the future than we've been led to believe. In this essay I will
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