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Sherlock Holmes canonically lived to be like 90 for exactly that reason. Conan Doyle wrote "The Final Problem," ended it with Holmes's death, and the entirety of England said "I think the fuck not" and threw a hissy-fit until he was revived
love myself a cockroach of a character. i look at them and go ”how is that fucker not dead? they should be dead. they should be dead ten times over. how are they not?” and 90% of the time the answer is a combo of sheer stubborness and homosexuality
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the parasocial relationship between you and the guy whose article you cite the most in your paper
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hold on a second man…
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Emancipated duels. Photo by Pavel Kurmilev
Baroness Lubinska who presided over the famous duel between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg in 1892, insisted that the duelists remove their clothing above their waists to avoid infection in the event that a sword pushed clothing into the wound it caused. Being a doctor, the baroness had seen many instances of septic infection in soldiers for this very reason throughout her years of medical training.
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I don't think it should have been a crime to cut the edges off coins and then melt them down and resell them. maybe if y'all weren't so shit at making coins this wouldn't be a problem but listen gold is gold and if you hand me a shit ass coin all off-center with a bunch of fucking extra metal around the edges I'm cutting that shit right off and hocking it to the highest bidder. oh it's illegal you're stealing from the crown fuck off money isn't even real. this isn't my problem. do better next time shithead.
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oh by the way, in Danish, "fag" means "subject" and "slut" means "end" so on library shelves you will see "fag slut" to note where the break in book topics is
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pronounced fay' sloot
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As requested, I have examined my fondness for terrible characters, and I have concluded that I like them because they're terrible and I'm not sorry.
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Animals don’t understand the concept of an accident. Your dog thinks you got out of the bed in the middle of the night just to kick him in the head.
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the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week
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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be infertile
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you know how in english, the Farkhad-built house in which Eva has taken residence is called the "Stillwater", implying this sense of calmness, stillness, the flatness of an unmoving sea, perhaps dormancy; whereas its russian name is Омут — "whirlpool", "maelstrom", implying quite the opposite: a constant movement, perhaps even drowning. hehehe
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more people would exercise if this culture didn't make it absolute hell
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Prouder than I should be to have organically ended up with exactly 666 souls
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fics that are like 500 to 1200 words or so often have a particular kind of energy to me - like the author sat bolt upright in bed, struck by the most brilliant inspiration of their entire lives, and then typed as fast as their fingers would allow them to in order to capture it all before it left.
oneshots that are just a straight, clear shot from the brain to the page with no real filter in between? that's good stuff right there.
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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.
[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]
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