Paradoxical

"When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."

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an-apocalypse-of-magpies:

lavenderfoxboy:

jk rowling’s new reputation will never not be funny to me. when you see her name now you dont think “oh yeah thats the chick who wrote harry potter” you think “oh lord, this TERF bitch again” like bro how do you fuck up so bad that your fuck ups overshadow writing the third most read piece of literature in existence

#literally like I was saying earlier!#these books could have just quietly gone down in history as a much-beloved piece of children’s/teen fiction#and people would have been like ‘it’s kind of problematic but the pros outweigh the cons so I’ll read it to the kids’#but Rowling was SO desperate to keep herself relevant that she’s driven HP into the fucking earth

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focsle:

Something about this little note a whaler added in the margins of his journal gets me.

excerpt from a whaling log, transcript follows.ALT

224 [days out]
My book is very damp ink spreads.

Can’t really articulate why but I think it’s something about…the process of reading it now in all its spreading ink, and seeing this little complaint he penned in the moment to explain the ink quality. It‘s a concrete physical link to a little moment in time when this book was new (yet damp) in a fellow’s hands 170 years ago.

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