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Find someone who loves you well. Someone who never belittles you. Even in the heat of an argument. Someone who is gentle with you, but does not treat you like you are fragile. Someone who knows what you are capable of, and celebrates those pieces of you. Not someone who is intimidated by your strength. Someone who doesn’t make you feel guilty for being flawed. It is not love’s job to punish you. And remember the person you love is just as broken as you are when they fall short. No one is perfect – do not hold them to this standard. Find someone who is patient, forgiving, and apologetic. Someone who practices forgiveness freely and often. Love someone who is humble, kind, and empathetic. Not only with you, but with a beggar on the street, or a stranger in the supermarket. Common courtesy is important. Compassion is important. Kindness is important.

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2016’s Top Books

How many lists can Dan and Phil appear on? Here’s another.

1. The Harry Potter series     by J. K. Rowling 2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians     by Rick Riordan 3. The Raven Cycle series +1     by Maggie Stiefvater

4. The Mortal Instruments series     by Cassandra Clare 5. The Captive Prince Triology     by C. S. Pacat 6. A Song of Ice and Fire Series −3     by George R. R. Martin 7. A Court of Mist and Fury    by Sarah J. Maas 8. The Foxhole Court    by Nora Sakavic 9. The Amazing Book is Not on Fire −3    by Dan Howell and Phil Lester 10. Pride and Prejudice −1     by Jane Austen 11. The Throne of Glass series −1     by Sarah J Maas 12. The Trials of Apollo series     by Rick Riordan 13. Carry On     by Rainbow Rowell 14. The Warriors series +2     by Author Collective 15. Six of Crows     by Leigh Bardugo 16. The Infernal Devices series −8     by Cassandra Clare 17. The Lunar Chronicles series     by Marissa Meyer 18. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard     by Rick Riordan 19. Lady Midnight      by Cassandra Clare

20. Wreck This Journal    by Keri Smith

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

literature posters; the book thief by markus zusak

þ!

A feature of English which I think is stupid,

If we’re carrying on with this game,

Is how we abolished the thorn and replaced it,

With two letters that meant the same.

The þ was a letter, amazing, astounding,

Perfect in every respect,

Representing the ‘th’ sound and shortening words,

The one thing it didn’t expect;

One day T and H went and burgled its meaning,

And then, thanks to the printing press,

Its symbol mutated and morphed into Y,

Which is pointless, I must confess.

Þoughtlessly, the þ was forgotten,

Þreatened as the language evolved,

Þankful for þose who knew of old English,

A topic where it was involved.

It only survived in Modern Icelandic,

In English it’s treated with scorn,

And as barely anyone knows it exists,

Please try to remember the thorn.

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So what are the odds that they never went to the same middle school, never played a match during highschool, but still retained a certain level of passion for basketball? And what if, they so happened to sit next to each other at the most anticipated basketball game of the year? Based on this prompt. Drabble dedicated to melontastic WHO FOUGHT ME and anna who also fought me but I lost. I lost hard.  WARNING: OOC-ALMOST-JERKISH AKASHI

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage, ‘60s-era Penguin Classics by Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Voltaire, Plato, and others! It took me three years to accumulate these books one by one, and I’m already starting to have separation issues. *sigh* But I know they will go to a good home. Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on August 27, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

Women have more power and agency in Shakespeare’s comedies than in his tragedies, and usually there are more of them with more speaking time, so I’m pretty sure what Shakespeare’s saying is “men ruin everything” because everyone fucking dies when men are in charge but when women are in charge you get married and live happily ever after

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Listen, if Steve Rogers on earth 3490 is not as gone on Natasha Antonia Stark as John Mulaney is on his wife, then what is the point?