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neilnevins:

I feel like whenever Roald Dahl wrote children characters he was trying to make each one more depraved and miserable than the last. So by the time he wrote James and the Giant peach he had to top Charlie Bucket being broke with lazy grandparents and Matilda being the only smart member of a verbally abusive family and got SO frustrated trying to think of a way to make this character miserable until finally he just gave up and pulled out

“Fuck it. Ya know what. His fuckin parents got eaten by a rhino. Also his only friends are bugs. And he lives in fruit. I don’t care anymore”

ofpaintedflowers:

“She smiled at him.
And then it arose and struck Vimes that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful, […] she had opened her heart, and if you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city.
And eventually, under siege, you did what Ankh-Morpork had always done-unbar the gates, let the conquerors in,
and make them your own.”

The further I get into the Watch series the more I fall irremediably in love with these two and their relationship /;u;/ 

madlori:

genealogy-watercooler:

popchartlab:

Who the Hell Is This Person Talking to Me and How Exactly Are They Related to Me: The Chart, just in time for your Thanksgiving gathering.

(Source: Apparently commenter “Platypus Man” from this Lifehacker post)

Oooh!  I really like that this chart gives (average) percentage of genetic similarity.

And confession: Despite my genealogy hobby, I can never remember what my cousins’ children are called in relation to me.  (First cousin once removed, apparently.) 

Protip: the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc when referring to cousins refers to how many generations back you have to go to find a common grandparent. First cousins share a grandparent, second cousins share a great-grandparent, etc.

If you do NOT share a grandparent with the relative (for example, your grandparent is their great-grandparent) then there’s a remove involved.