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All The Pretty Things

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🖤 American Abroad 🖤 Bad Boy Loves The Good Girl 🖤 Kdramas 🖤 You Had Me At Hello 🖤 Secret Identities

Meet Iris Muhly, American star of the hit international TV show Shattered.

Just kidding. Ingenue Iris definitely acts in the show, but the vibe? Less ‘star’ and more ‘character the fans hate most’. Bad enough on a normal show. But on a show where fans literally vote to control the plot? A disaster bad enough to potentially kick her all the way out of Korea: her work visa expires the moment her contract does.

Arriving home on a freezing December night to find her agent in the process of moving a Jpop star into her apartment? Hardly a vote of confidence. And that’s before a package explodes on Iris, literally showering her in death threats.

If only the fans loved her enough to vote for her to stay. Heck, right now she’d settle for a place to stay tonight.

Or a vote (of confidence) from, say, Max Kang, hotter-than-hot lead villain in the cast of Shattered…

A dark, flirty paranormal romance full of forced proximity and fake relationships: the perfect read to chase away holiday blues.

READ THE OPENING PAGES BUY THE BOOK

#liana brooks#All I Want For Christmas Is A Gargoyle#Holiday Romance#Korea#south korea#books#booklr#Kdrama#for all the Kdrama fans out there#I got you
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Hitler’s Rise to Power

Adolf Hitler, the infamous leader of Nazi Germany, didn’t just wake up one day with absolute power. His journey to the top was a decade-long process filled with setbacks and strategic maneuvering. Hitler promised to revive Germany’s lost glory, restore traditional values, and eliminate enemies like Communists and Jewish people, which resonated deeply with a nation reeling from World War I’s devastating aftermath. His rise was enabled by those already in power seeking to leverage his popularity for their own gain.

Key Facts:

  • Popularity Gained Over Time: The Nazi Party won just 12 seats in 1928 but grew to 288 by 1933.
  • Strategic Promises: Hitler vowed to end unemployment, restore German pride, and expand the nation’s territories.
  • Power Consolidation: Once in power, Hitler quickly dismantled all opposition.

Historical Context

Hitler’s ascent took place amidst a backdrop of economic turmoil and political instability following the Treaty of Versailles. The Great Depression further exacerbated these tensions, leading many Germans to seek radical solutions.

Historical Significance

Hitler’s rise to power not only marked the beginning of a totalitarian regime in Germany but also set the stage for World War II. His ability to exploit political weaknesses and economic distress to consolidate power remains a chilling lesson in the exploitation of crises for dictatorial purposes.

Learn More: How Did Hitler Rise to Power?

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Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red-Moon Pact 涂山小红娘月红篇 (2024) Dir. Mai Guan Zhi, Du Lin

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do y'all write like this? (this is for one chapter. I can only go chapter by chapter or I will lose motivation)

  • outline, outline, outline
  • write a version of the chapter that is "John went over here. John said this. John felt this. John wanted this." Some flashes of usable dialogue/narration, but most of it is quite bad! I can't skip this phase with stuff like "[something cool happens here]." I won't write anything that way.
  • revise revise revise
  • basically, translate all of the "placeholder" narration into actual narration. (like isn't that penultimate chapter of Persuasion by Jane Austen placeholder narration bc she died and didn't get to revise it????)
  • Filter words! Show not tell!
  • Then put in bolded, highlighted notes that yell things like [SUBVERT EXPECTATIONS!!!!!] who tf am i yelling at
  • print out the chapter to revise again. I print out everything. This is the Jokes Pass where I'm like "heh heh...how do i make this funny"
  • I finish a chapter, but because I'm going chapter by chapter I know I'll have to go back and go over the entire novel to make it cohesive
  • revise it again like two weeks later to procrastinate working on next chapter
  • i feel like i write like a comic book artist draws lmao. "Oh you gotta sketch the thing then refine it when you do pencils and then you ink it and color"
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@doodlebug-aboo YES. NO LIKE, EXACTLY!!!! YOUR TAGS!!!!

With writing I am taking a full-ass sketch and lowering the opacity to 5% and hitting ctrl+Z trying to draw pencils like "uhhh okay. Uhhh okay. Ummm yeah that looks right. Uhhhhhh fix later."

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If you have a plot bunny or stray fic scene stuck in your head that won't go away-

but you don't have the energy or inspiration to flesh it out into a full fic (yet, or potentially ever)-

I highly, HIGHLY recommend boiling it down into nothing but the absolute essential elements of the idea, writing it as a drabble (exactly 100 words) or a ficlet (generally under 1000 words) and posting it like that.

This will accomplish one of two things:

Either it will get it out of your head enough that you can stop thinking about it, or starting writing it and the reaction to it will give you the burst of energy or inspiration to flesh it out.

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He's the terror of two kingdoms and has just casually poisoned second prince to fuck with him and here he is cowering from Waner's potential wrath about the rumors about him and Haitang DuoDuo. (She is not wroth tho ahaha.)

But honestly, she really is his check and balance in terms of peace and being human. You can feel his mile a minute brain actually rest with her. He just stops.

Also, this bit, where he doesn't want to just copy poems he remembers from the old time but come up with his own but he's obviously not much of a poet. Awwww.

She is not the only person he loves in this odd new world. But she is the only one with whom he can genuinely rest.

#cdrama#li qin#zhang ruoyun#joy of life 2
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The Odyssey but Penelope has been slowly killing off suitors one by one via poisoning and staged accidents >>>

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“And then, upon announcing to me that he could no longer stand to live with his love unrequited, hurled himself into the sea… that was the last thing he said to me, the last person to see him before his death... I was helplessly unable to stop this tragedy…”

“You pushed him off a cliff, my lady?”

“Yes I pushed him off a cliff”

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Odysseus: so how many suitors are we dealing with?

Telemachus: well there were 108 at the start but they’ve been reduced to 74

Odysseus: oh some of them left? We are still outnumbered

Eurymeus: actually it’s now only 43. Penelope took out a lot more while you were gone Telemachus

Odysseus: Penelope has been killing them?

Eurymaus: well there has been a lot of… suspicious accidents

Telemachus: My favourite was the guy who fell down three flights of stairs and got impaled on two swords in the process

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@dootznbootz come get yall juice :D

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Look, she's of naiad descent. It's not her fault some people can't swim.

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Odysseus, tears in his eyes: That's my girl!

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They had it coming...they had it coming...

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If you think about it, treasures aren’t that far away. My treasure are these people. The past I spent with them. The present I’m spending with them. And the future I’ll spend with them. Every moment is sparkling. I hope you find your own treasures. Even if it takes time, I hope you find the warmest and the brightest light.

Undercover High School 언더커버하이스쿨 (2025) Dir. Choi Jung In – Ep. 12

#undercover high school#kdrama
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