What Marvelous Dust Doth Fall Here

Something Clever Goes Here

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As a society, we are fascinated by fictional psychopaths. Humankind has an ‘ongoing… fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villain. Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and aberrant psychology has proved a fertile source of such material to the novelist and the reader alike. Perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid cultural appeal as psychopathy.

There is no question… that readers feel empathy with and sympathy for fictional characters and other aspects of fictional worlds’, yet it is difficult to see how one can empathise and identify with a character who is himself incapable of empathy. If empathy and identification are both the goal and the reward of reading literature, then we are left with a striking ambivalence which needs to be explored. 

(Source: bericdondarrion, via fuckyeahvillains)

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jaxh8: asylum-countess: fuckyeahretailrobin: So many people don’t seem to understand how a pin pad works, despite the clear directions on the screen. Cashier: (after waiting a few minutes for transaction to clear) “Does the screen say anything?”Customer: “Oh it just says ‘Input PIN’ -stares blankly-“Cashier: “Ok.”Customer: “Should I put in my PIN now?”Cashier: “….-.-“Customer: “Ugh, I can’t believe how slow you are! I don’t have all day!” this shit right fucking here My favorite was despite the sign saying that the pen didn’t work and they needed to use their finger, they continued to rap at the screen with the pen harder and harder like a fucking woodpecker.

jaxh8:

asylum-countess:

fuckyeahretailrobin:

So many people don’t seem to understand how a pin pad works, despite the clear directions on the screen.

Cashier: (after waiting a few minutes for transaction to clear) “Does the screen say anything?”
Customer: “Oh it just says ‘Input PIN’ -stares blankly-“
Cashier: “Ok.”
Customer: “Should I put in my PIN now?”
Cashier: “….-.-“
Customer: “Ugh, I can’t believe how slow you are! I don’t have all day!”

this shit right fucking here

My favorite was despite the sign saying that the pen didn’t work and they needed to use their finger, they continued to rap at the screen with the pen harder and harder like a fucking woodpecker.