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The Cruel Prince

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By Holly Black

After her parents are killed, Jude and her sisters are kidnapped by their killer – a fairy named Madoc. Turns out that Jude’s older sister, Vivi is the result of their mother first marriage, a marriage to Madoc, a Redcap general from the fairy court. The twins, Jude and Taryn are raised in his household, as his children and must deal with the terrors of growing up among fairy-folk – where even the kindest of them could kill the humans through sheer carelessness. Eat fairy fruit, join a fairy dance or be a little incautious with their words, and the twins could find themselves dead, or bound to a fairy for life.

Desperate to gain their own autonomy, and unable to return to the human world, the twins each come up with their own plans to gain a position in the fairy court. Taryn is determined to do so through love, marrying a high fairy-lord. Jude is determined to do so through fighting, impressing a lord enough to be chosen as their personal night. A difficult enough challenge for a member of the gentry, let alone a magicless human-child.

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While it may now still be useful as a herbal remedy, sage was once considered a magical cure-all. In some places, the herb was even thought to cause immortality, and the ancient Romans viewed it as a holy plant.

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Bruce @ the fam when they're about to have a normal guest over at the Manor for the first time in literal years:

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In Celtic mythology, snowdrops are associated with the goddess Brigid. She was the goddess of spring, fertility, healing and smithcraft. Perhaps due to this connection to the goddess, it is unlucky to pick and bring snowdrops into the house on Saint Brigid’s day, more commonly known as Imbolc.

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“This representation was groundbreaking for the time and a lot of people liked it” and “This may have aged poorly and many modern audiences from the group don’t feel represented by it and are bothered by aspects of it” are not mutually exclusive

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see also: “it’s okay to feel uncomfortable with these pieces of media due to their clumsy—if not harmful—depictions” and “some people still enjoy them, despite their flaws, especially older people who grew up without the same amount of representation we have today, and it’s not your place to tell someone they can’t like it”

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see also “it’s valid to dislike a piece of media because the associations it brings to mind for you are upsetting” and “the associations something brings to mind for you may not be universal or intended, so before you decide something is ‘x-coded’ or ‘a dogwhistle’ you need to fact check a bit.”

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sw would have been so much shorter if one clone decided to murder palpatine in his office because. who are they gonna arrest. sadly the suspect looks like 1000+ other men and all of them forgot what they did last friday night

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alternatively

clone #1, looking at the security cam footage: oh yeah that’s totally me

clone #2: no way look at this handsome face. that’s me

clone #3: you weren’t even on coruscant during that time

clone #2: that’s my cover

clone #4: shut it everybody i stabbed him

clone #1, furiously pointing at the footage: he wasn’t stabbed you shithead, he got shot!

clone #4: yeah with my knife

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

One of the Clones eagerly suggests a DNA test to prove he’s guilty and the people investigating die inside. 

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Season 1 assassination plots against Arthur: *exist*

Merlin:

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cw blood / the untamed episode 10 spoilers

i dont think this moment was supposed to make me laugh as hard as it did

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Niflheim, loosely translated as world of mist, was one of the nine realms in Norse mythology. It was a cold and barren place. It is said that creation began when the waters of Niflheim and the fires of its neighbour, Muspelheim combined to make steam. From this steam, Ymir, first of the Jotnar emerged. Ymir was later killed, and his dismembered body was used to create Midgard (or Earth, as the locals call it). His blood became the oceans, his flesh the earth, his skull the sky and his hair the trees.

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A Brief Account of Life with Loki

Loki the Trickster is one of the more famous deities in the Norse Pantheon, we take a look at the myths and history of this iconic figure.

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In honour of the most recent instalment to the Marvel Universe, with the Disney+ show, Loki, This week, we’re taking a look at the actual god that the character is based on.

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