DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022)
Season 1 | Episode 2
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january is one of those months where you experience every feeling on the human spectrum and you just have to go about your day like that isn’t happening
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It’s infuriating how so many women were (and still are) discriminated against for being female
she also killed and dissected a rabbit so that her peter rabbit would be as ACCURATE as possible. all the magic of countless children’s childhoods was built upon the bones of a single bunny’s sacrifice. how delightful. how horrific. what necromancer could dream of such impact with a single stroke of their blade.
(celebrated children’s fantasist) diana wynne jones said that she once wandered into beatrix potter’s yard by accident as a kid and got chased off because beatrix potter disliked children, which really fits into the rest of this quite neatly
Didn’t Diana Wynne Jones also bother Tolkien by attending the class he made intentionally boring? Wynne Jones just running around and annoying other authors before she became one herself.
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anneofgreengablesincorrectquotes:
“A little nervous breakdown can really work wonders for a girl.”
— Anne Shirley, prior to taking her Queen’s exams
My annotated Dracula has informed me that when Harker said his robber steak was “in the style of the London cat’s-meat!” he was referring to “A tradition in London was the “cat’s-meat man,” a vendor who sold little bits of meat on skewers for consumption by cats”
I am overjoyed by this knowledge that there were Victorians just randomly getting lil kebabs for their CATS
I am so happy to learn this was a thing, looks like they were door to door pet food sellers.
My favourite Dracula discovery: the Victorian kebab vendors for pets! I look upon my kitty treat cupboard and know with full certainty I would give this man a sovereign.
single man in possession of a good fortune: *exists*
mrs bennet (an empath) : he must be in want of a wife
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