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My Magnificent Octopus

@vermin-disciple / vermin-disciple.tumblr.com

Just an overeducated academic looking for new ways to waste her valuable time on the internet. My brain is currently entrenched in Star Trek (mostly DS9) and Our Flag Means Death. You can find my fic over at AO3. For my bookbinding projects, check my bookbinding tag.
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ebonykain

This one needs to go right next to the Baltimore accent with the Aaron earns an iron urn.

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royal-random-the-yogurt-queen

In case anyone hasn't seen it

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anais-ninja-bitch

love how english started as a rhotic language and half the native speakers said, "oh, Fuck That Noise"

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findingfeather

What I DEEPLY LOVE about the Baltimore one is how mad HE IS to realize what his own accent did to it. XD He's SO MAD. XD XD

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you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be

my personal favorite

#accents#language#lmao#deja queue
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Today is the 20th birthday (!) of my oldest extant fanfic! Originally posted to ff.net on May 19, 2004, which means that this fic is now older than many of my students. It's probably older than a few of my Tumblr followers. To mark this momentous occasion, I have decided to finally import it to AO3:

Fic: Let a Rat Into Your Heart

(I don't know what you might be expecting, but this is 1,400 words of Voldemort/Peter Pettigrew crackfic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

I was 16 when I wrote this, and it was basically an inside joke between me and my best friend. (Who is, incidentally, still my dearest friend, 20 years later.) It wasn't my first fanfic, just the oldest one to maintain a continuous internet presence since I first posted it. A survivor of the Purge, if you will. (It wasn't much of a purge, tbh, but there were, IIRC, three older unfinished multi-chapter works that I deleted sometime after I started college. I rather regret doing that, now that I am older and have less shame.)

#this fic is really only of historical interest lol#and probably only to me#my friend was very amused when I texted her about it though#my fanfic#vermin rites
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mendedrum
Beating people up in little rooms, he knew were that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say "we are the good guys," and do bad guy things.

Terry Pratchett, Thud (via Samuel Vimes)

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Terry Pratchett's social commentary is impeccable as always. I love these lines. They're so simple yet so raw.

#discworld#terry pratchett#quotes#deja queue
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