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On site for the week for Estrella. Assigned spaces are glorious. So is having a minion.
As the lauded minion, I Completely Agree:-)
24 Tuesday Feb 2015
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On site for the week for Estrella. Assigned spaces are glorious. So is having a minion.
As the lauded minion, I Completely Agree:-)
21 Saturday Feb 2015
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Folded lava
That’s going to look so awesome once it cools into rock.
So you’re saying it doesn’t look awesome now, with the glow of the fire that it came from still in it and showing the lines and braids of it?
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Cheezburger.com – Crafted from the finest Internets.
Bagginshield, anyone?
18 Wednesday Feb 2015
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17 Tuesday Feb 2015
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FUCK THIS POST HAS SHOWED UP LIKE 10 TIMES TODAY AND I HAVE BEEN HUNCHED OVER EVERY FUCKING TIME
PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING it is the best reminder for me ever and I always need it omg
17 Tuesday Feb 2015
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Ravens mate for life and besides grooming each other will give each other gifts including flowers and hold “hands”.
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Whenever we watch a film or read a book, regardless of genre, we always approach the narrative with a set of basic assumptions about its content. If the story is set in the present day, we’ll expect a certain degree of familiarity with the context, though obviously, these expectations will vary in accordance with where we live and where the story is set. If the story involves a discipline or profession with which we’re intimately acquainted, we’ll likely be more critical of its portrayal than otherwise, because any liberties taken or errors enforced will stand out to us. By contrast, if the subject matter is new, or if it involves something we only recognise as a vague conceptual outline, we’ll be more inclined to take the writer’s word for it – an accurate until proven in- mentality. Which is, somewhat paradoxically, how genre stereotypes often get started: if our only, first or primary exposure to a concept is through fiction, and if we automatically assume that what we’re shown is well-researched, then seeing it presented differently at a later date – even if the subsequent portrayal is more accurate – might trigger our scepticism, especially if we’ve seen multiple versions of the original lie, now leant a greater authority by the act of reiteration.
As such, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between an assumption based on fact, like our own, first-hand knowledge of a profession or practice, and an assumption which is itself based on other assumptions, like a popular, romanticised version of a certain historical era. For all that humans are voracious learners, we don’t always consider how or why we’re absorbing information until someone asks us to provide a source, and by then, it’s often too late.
But what happens when you apply this habit of assumptions to purely fictional concepts?