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I love tumblr. I fucking love tumblr. Where else am I going to find shit like this

Trying to get a glass of water but i cant. The water goes up

What do you mean the water goes up

they should come up with a positive snake that does something good when it bites you. so it's not just venom every time

when a small nonvenomous snake bites you something good does happen, which is that you can walk around all smug about how you were bitten by a snake because that’s cool as hell

Yeah, yeah, Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre, we've all read it.

Hardware store saturday

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

according to wikipedia, before

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

In Klingon households this is in fact how you get promoted to butler.

people want doing the right thing to be like pulling the correct lever at the correct time but actually usually doing the right thing is more like holding a moderate weight at arm's length continuously for seventeen years