May 2013
165 posts
marble-lover-of-liberty:
those-barricade-boys:
spiralphilia:
Look down look down
you stole a loaf of bread
look down look down
now everyone is dead
LES MIS IN 4 LINES, EVERYONE.
chloejaynes:
daleklord:
chloejaynes:
Just got a job! Hello six am start!
Chloe I’m so jealous! Where?
steelplatedhearts:
Alternate title for The Great Gatsby:
I Am Uncomfortable With Your Personal Drama And I Want To Go Home: The Nick Carraway Story
thepensivebrony:
“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”
finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever
cryptaniac:
bananneli:
I wish that there was a socially acceptable way to say, “I’m having a bad mental health day and need you to pay attention to me,” without alienating everyone.
or: “I’m having a bad mental health day and need to be on my own for a while so please don’t be mad if I cancel our plans on short notice.”
Some Harry Potter Facts.
Daniel Randcliffe's favorite HP book is Chamber of Secrets, Emma Watson's favorite HP book is Prisoner of Azkaban and Rupert Grint's favorite HP book is The Goblet of Fire.
Neville asked the Sorting Hat to be put in Hufflepuff because he found Gryffindor's reputation bravery intimidating.
Most of the members of the Black family are named after stars.
Voldemort cannot love because he was conceived under the effects of a Love Potion.
The first Harry Potter novel was published in 1998, the same year that the final Battle of Hogwarts take place. "I open at the close."
J.K. Rowling has said that when she took an online Sorting Hat quiz it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
Both Sirius and Fred, Hogwarts pranksters from different generations, died laughing.
Tom Marvolo Riddle is also an anagram for "immortal odd lover."
Slytherin house was the first and last house mentioned in the series.
October 9 of 1995, Dumbledore's Army meets in the Room of Requirement for the first time to practice the Disarming Charm.
In the movie scene "Nineteen Years Later", Tom Felton's girlfriend Jade Gordon makes an appearance as Draco's wife, Astoria Greengrass.
Voldemort is bald because this way people can't use his hair in a Polyjuice Potion.
Ron's Patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which are know for chasing otters. Hermione's Patronus happens to be an otter.
Voldemort's Boggart would take the shape of his own corpse, since death was his greatest fear.
Voldemort was 71 years old when he died on May 2, 1998.
A Patronus is a physical representation of one's soul. Since James Potter's is a stag and Lily's is a doe, they are literally soul mates.
Molly Weasley's brothers Gideon and Fabian were killed by Death Eaters in the first war.
Even though he feared death, Voldemort could not become a ghost because his soul was so damaged.
George would never be able to evoke a Patronus Charm after Fred's death.
A Patronus often mutates to take the image of the love one's life because they so often become the happy thought that generates a Patronus.
Bellatrix Lestrange is actually in love with Voldemort.
After Kingsley Shacklebolt became the new Minister of Magic, he told all who participated in the Battle of Hogwarts they could have a job as an Auror without N.E.W.T.s.
Snape hates Neville so much because Neville could have been the other Chosen One, meaning that Lily would have survived.
The third scent Hermione could smell emanating from the Amortentia (love potion) was that of Ron's hair.
Minerva McGonagall played on the Gryffindor Quidditch team while she attended Hogwarts.
The Elder Wand is the only known wand in existence with a hair from the tail of a Thestral at its core.
Dumbledore was gay, and he was in love with Grindelwald.
oneandonlygabriel:
part-time-thinker:
ink-film-nibbles-script:
“England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn’t make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn’t been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler’s ambitions.” — Mitt Romney
The Americans:
The British:
...
feelingawkward:
i don’t understand how unemployed people fill their day and i get that like it is difficult to get a job and all but i mean i’ve only been home a week and i’m bored out of my mind. i don’t want a job for money anymore, i want one just so i have something that actually feels worthwhile to do with my day. if i don’t find a job soon i think i’m gonna cry.
This is exactly how I...
sfux:
i feel like people who eat breakfast really have their lives together
Pakistan journalist abducted & raped by the state...
Why why why why why why. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/voices-in-danger-in-pakistan-state-brutality-makes-journalism-a-dangerous-business-8625230.html
When Umar Cheema was being dragged off to be tortured after investigating Pakistan’s ISI secret services, it was his son and unborn child that he worried about most.
Umar, a 32-year-old reporter for the Pakistani paper The News,...
thecorruptedquietone:
prongsmydeer:
Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are not even...
Woman: I'm smart
Patriarchy: Well you're probably ugly then
Woman: I'm creative
Patriarchy: You mean unattractive right?
Woman: I have all these incredible accomplishments
Patriarchy: Yeah but look how ugly you looked doing them
Woman: I have value
Patriarchy: Not if you're ugly lol
Woman: I'm conventionally-attractive & posted selfies on my blog
Patriarchy: I'm so sick of these empty-headed chicks only caring about their looks. Just because you are attractive and get attention from men doesn't mean you are special or deserve respect. Why don't you read a book or do something productive with your life you dumb slut
“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not...”
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club (via feelingawkward)
ghiralicious:
livingenough:
swimminginmavin:
hurpthederp:
iwillmindfuckyou:
gameandwatch:
kushdrinker:
green is not a creative color
what the fuck are you trying to say with that gif
lets not bring it up
lets never bring it up
Don’t Hug me I’m Scared
what part of never bring it up do you not understand
Me every night: I can have exactly 7 hours 23 minutes and 48 seconds of sleep if I fall asleep right now.
“I would rather stand three times with a shield in battle than give birth once.”
– Medea, Euripides (via edmunddonnellan)
thatisalargebaby:
teenage girls are fucking mocked for liking things that are marketed towards them and for them then when theyre sick of being shit on for that and try to like things not specifically “for them” they get shit on for “pretending” and they cant win at all its a lose lose situation being a teenage girl
jwisser:
thepasta-nerada:
vvrathia:
the sexual tension when u and ur crush are online on fb at the same time and u just stare at their lil green dot
and suddenly you know what gatsby felt like
This is actually the most profound and appropriate literary allusion I’ve encountered so far this week.
ambassador-of-anguish:
shouldertappingghosts:
If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate...
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)
nannajane:
in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me
