I Have To Take My Own Path...

I’m Katie. I'm a complete nerd and I embrace it each and every day. I'm a Christian. I’m the absolute epitome of a Gryffindor. As a disclaimer, any gifs you see that I post probably aren’t originally mine. I’m not technologically advanced enough to know how to make them. This is NOT a spoiler-free blog. GRYFFINDOR { wear } AVATAR { WATERBENDER }

[silverlullabies]

Something has always bothered me about Harry Potter and I think I figured it out

Okay so the part where Harry survived because Lily sacrificed herself has always bugged me because Lily couldn’t have been the first mother in the history to have sacrificed herself for her child. 

I was rereading the series and watching the movies when something clicked. 

We all know how magical oaths are binding and breaking one could lead to being stripped of your magic and your death. 

Well, I was reading when Snape figured out that Lily’s son was the one that Voldemort was after and begged Voldemort to spare Lily’s life. Voldemort actually agreed to spare her, promised Snape even- and meant it even because if you remember, he killed James Potter without second thought but told Lily to “stand aside” Like Voldemort actually did intend to keep his promise to Snape. 

I think he accidentally created a magical oath at that moment when he promised Snape to spare Lily. So when he did kill her, he broke his oath and was killed as a result. So the next time he cast a spell or did magic, it was snap back and strip him of his life. It just so happened that the next bit of magic he performed was the killing curse at Harry. Instead of killing Harry it back lashed at Voldemort and would have killed him had it not been for the Horcruxes. 

Anyway that’s the only thing that makes sense to me. 

[asuramaru-bae]

oh mY GOD

[nissavibesarchive]

OHHHHHHHHHHH

[thelilnan]

OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE

OKAY

AJAX SOAP

THEIR SLOGAN IS “STRONGER THAN GREASE”

AND I WAS LIKE OKAY YEAH MAKES SENSE FOR A DISH SOAP- WAIT

AJAX WAS A GREEK SOLDIER RENOWNED FOR HIS STRENGTH

AJAX IS STRONGER THAN ALL OF GREECE

[kalikardashian]

someone who worked at ajax has literally waited 66 years for you to get this

[theforce]

i was 14 and i was walking through a mall by myself at 12am after my shift at coldstone creamery lol and a bunch of men started whistling and meowing and getting really close to me and they kept asking me questions and i kept not answering until i didn’t know what else to do so i said “i’m only 14” and almost in unison they said “we don’t care” i was so fucking scared i didn’t know what to do and they kept talking about how i looked and how my body looked and what they would do i was on the verge of tears i was all alone in a huge mall i knew i couldn’t outrun them all i felt totally hopeless until a maintenance worker came up to all of us with a huge industrial broom in her hand, i thought she was going to yell at all of us for being in the mall after hours bc she probably thought we were all friends but instead she cursed all of them out in spanish, threatened to press a panic button on her belt and then proceeded to walk me to the basement garage and waited with me until my mom got there to pick me up she had a death grip on her cart the whole time and a face of steel she looked so strong and i just kept saying thank you and she kept saying not to thank her because she had to stop them.

that was the moment i realized women were the most important beings on this planet and we have to protect each other bc nobody else is going to, she didn’t even know me, we couldn’t even communicate that well because of the language barrier, she could have lost her job for waiting with me in the parking lot but she looked out for me when she didn’t have to, she had nothing to gain from it, i’m 21 now and i tell everyone this story even though it happened 7 years ago, what she did that night helped me form and shape lot of my beliefs early on. 

[actuallunalovegood]

i was at a grocery store really late one night and some old guy kind of eyed me as i walked out of the store next to this other lady. She and I made eye contact and i knew she was scared too. we loaded up our groceries into our cars as fast as possible and I had way more bags than her so she got done faster than me. I panicked because i was sure she was going to leave so i just hurried faster, shaking a little, and then i noticed she sat in her car, watching me and making sure nobody came near. She waited not until all my groceries were loaded, or until my cart was put away, or until I got into my car. No, she didn’t drive away until I drove away. 

And that was the moment that I realized how much women need other women. That we can’t win this war without each other and we have to be looking out for each other, every second. 

[ofgeography]

my last year in new york city, i got off the subway around 9 or 10p.m. i only lived about 5 blocks from the f train, but i hadn’t gotten more than two before a woman’s hand suddenly touched my arm. 

“that guy behind us is following you,” she said. “he was watching you leave the train car and followed you up.”

i hadn’t noticed him, or at least not noticed him following me. when we stopped outside a grocery store, he stopped half a block back and loitered. the woman linked her arm with mine and walked me several blocks out of her way to my front door and made sure i got inside safely.

another time, nocigar and i were walking home and at a stoplight a stranger grabbed my arm when i wouldn’t respond to him and tried to physically drag me over to him. she—who is, by the way, not a very physically imposing girl—ripped his hand off my arm and snarled, “don’t fucking touch her.”

protect your friends. protect strangers. there are good men in the world, but don’t wait for them to do something if you can do it yourself.

[edmundo-noches-buckley]

I was at a club once and my friend left with her boyfriend so I finished my drink and was heading out to the parking lot when three girls came up to me and basically surrounded me. 

“Those guys behind us were talking about following you. We can walk with you.” 

I have MMA training but have never in my life had been offered the protection and sanction of my own gender. This is so important. 

[stele3]

GIRL CODE. FUCKIN’ GIRL CODE. LEAVE NO GIRL BEHIND. EVER.

[cornputer]

When high school teachers tell you, “In college they don’t let you have a notecard, you have to memorize everything,” or “teachers throw away your homework if you don’t put your name on it and they DON’T accept late work.” It’s all bullshit. It’s all fucking bullshit.

[socksblazethechesnutphase]

High School does an efficient job of making your absolutely terrified of college, while not preparing you whatsoever for college.

[fuckyeahloldemort]

Even primary school “you have to learn cursive because in high school you’re only allowed to write in cursive”.

[gryffindornerve]

All they did was lie and scare us

[anarchopuppy]

It’s 11:30 pm and I need raw cookie dough like I need air in my lungs.

[anarchopuppy]

I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna drive to Wal-Mart at midnight in my pajamas and buy a roll of cookie dough because I’m an adult with my own money who gets to make his own decisions.

[anarchopuppy]

Yes.

Hell yes.

Hell.

Fucking.

Yes.

[charlieismyqueen-deactivated201]

When kids ask me what its like to be an adult, I will show them this post. Thank you. 

[leavethemathforpidge]

wtf america why do you sell raw cookie dough

[the-kevin-aesthetic]

So you can bake cookies?????

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[sarahseeandersen]

My hair will never cooperate with me.

[screenageralex]

being 18-25 is like playing a video game where you’ve skipped the tutorial and you’re just sort of running about with no idea how anything works

[darwinquark]

The fucking song and the hysterically thrown pillow that misses by ten feet and the prolonged scream and then it just runs out of cord and anticlimactically tips over I’m deceased.

[otterologist-blog]

I wasn’t wearing my glasses and I thought he was carrying a cat and I screamed when he through it omg

[mainstreetliz-deactivated201710]

[pixiedust-paycheck]

I can’t

[colors-of-the-disney-wind-blog]

Walk into the club like what up I got a big flock

[ultrafacts]

(Fact Source) Follow Ultrafacts for more facts

[slack-of-all-trades-blog]

That sounds like fun!

[ultrafacts]

[ookaookaooka]

[zhouxuns]

Clint Barton would be such a little turd if he played this oh my god

[fyeahrosariodawson]

[alwaysdancingthroughlife]

 I remember when I was doing Rent and I was too thin, and I was doing that on purpose because I’m dying, I’m a HIV+ drug addict.  I remember having to eat raw food and doing all this work to make sure I could stay thin…And I remember everyone asking when I was doing press for the movie, ‘What did you do to get so thin? You looked great’ and I’m like, ‘I look emaciated’…It’s a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be– for what sake? Not health, not survival, not enjoyment of life, but just so you can look pretty.  I’m constantly telling girls all the time everything is airbrushed, everything is retouched to the point it’s never even asked.  None of us look like that. - Rosario Dawson

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[queenjld]

The Cast of the Sound of Music, Then (1964) & Now (2015) recent photos: Annie Leibovitz

[its-like-a-story-of-love-deacti]

Reblog for importance!!!

[usatoday]

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[alwaysdancingthroughlife]

dog person: we have a purebred border collie with a bernese twist

cat person: this is rita we love her she's orange