falling feels like flying

Liz here! I'm 20 now (gross), and I subsist on toast and showtunes.

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i really really really love tom holland.

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Apparently J.K Rowling knows the exact process to making a horcrux.

But she hasn’t told anyone and doesn’t plan to yet.

The only person that she has told is her editor, and said that her editor felt like vomiting afterwards.

All she will say is that a certain spell is involved, and then a horrific act is performed.

i want to know what it is so badly

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Okay, let’s think about this for a second.

We know that making Horcruxes involves murder. It’s essential. So the “certain spell” is probably Avada Kedavra….with some extra words added to it to use the energy created by the death to split the soul. 

What intrigues me is the “horrific act” aspect and the fact that the editor wanted to vomit after hearing it. So what could that be? It can’t just be the act of murder itself, which, as horrifying as that is, is exactly vomit inducing in the grand scheme of things. 

So if we take the murder itself out of the equation, what other activity could be considered horrific enough to make someone want to ralph? Well, my warped mind can think of at least two. 

1) Necrophilia. Now I don’t actually think this is the answer, but it’s gross enough to make anyone vomit on the spot, so I’m throwing it out there. I just don’t think that’s it at all. My personal theory is…

2) Cannibalism. There are a lot of cultures that believe that to eat the flesh of one’s enemies is take your enemies’ power into yourself. Most specifically the heart, though really any flesh or organs would do. So does Voldemort eat the dead as his “horrific act”? I think this one is the most likely and is grotesque and taboo enough that it turns the stomach.

Also, consider this fact: HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED DEATH EATERS.  Hmmm. Weird, right? 

There’s an obvious problem in these theories though. If either these acts is essential to creating the Horcrux, HOW DID VOLDEMORT ACCIDENTALLY CREATE A HORCRUX WHEN HE TRIED TO KILL HARRY AS A BABY AND NOT KNOW IT? Voldemort didn’t have time to cannibalize Lily. And he certainly didn’t sexually assault her corpse, thank GOD. So how did he turned Harry into a Horcrux that night in Godric’s Hollow?

Consider this: nowhere in the text does it say that Voldemort’s physical body was found in the wreckage of the Potter’s house. Perhaps when the spell rebounded on him….he…ate himself. Not physically chewed himself up and swallowed, but more in a magical way. Think of it like the house being sucked into the Other Side at the end of Poltergeist. 

His spirit was so corrupted that it devoured his physical body when the Killing Curse was turned back on him. That would be the cannibalistic act needed to create the Horcrux. And perhaps Voldemort wouldn’t realize that it was a cannibalistic act? He probably wouldn’t even think to consider the fact that his rotten, fractured soul ate his body.

So there’s my theory. What do you think?

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OH MY FUCKING GOD

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Well, you know…shit.

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why would you pay someone for 26-51 weeks for doing nothing

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you have a very, very odd definition of “doing nothing”.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

On a scale from zero to American society, how much do you hate women and children

[thedesigndome]

Stunning Surreal Photography Collages by Hüseyin Şahin

Rationality versus irrationality, fantasy versus reality, logic as opposed to magic create constraints in our imagination as we grow up; we undergo a continuous struggle within ourselves, curbing our childlike curiosity and our desire to explore. However, Istanbul-based visual artist Hüseyin Şahin broke free of these limitations to compose surrealistic scenes.

Keep reading

[systlin]

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[systlin]

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

[ella-raene]

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

[systlin]

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

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Les Amis playing D&D

Grantaire as the DM. He gets to deal with the absolute logistical nightmare of trying to make a campaign work with all of them together. He went off-book a loooong time ago but has managed to keep the group moving forward, challenging them, and just being a really great storyteller. He, along with Joly and Bossuet, came up with the idea for the campaign, and slowly roped all their friends into playing.

Joly as an Elf Cleric. Literally all of his spells are healing spells because someone has to make sure they don’t all get killed on a regular basis.

Bossuet as a Dwarf Fighter. 90% of the reason Joly needs all those healing spells. Despite being totally jacked and loaded down with weapons, Bossuet rolls critical fails so frequently that he has never actually killed anything. 

Feuilly as a Tiefling Warlock who claims his otherworldly patron is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. His character has a very sad backstory that involves being run out of town and nearly killed on several occasions because of people’s hatred and fear of tieflings. This gets Enjolras very worked up.

Enjolras as a Dwarf Paladin. The dwarf choice was a bit of a surprise. The righteous, justice-seeking paladin was not.

Jehan as a Drow Ranger. As a dark elf, Jehan’s character is bent on subverting the ‘evil’ stereotype by fighting monsters for the good of humanity. Kind of a pretentious hipster though? Refers to the Underdark like it’s a band you’ve never heard of.

Courfeyrac as a Gnome Bard. Chose to be a bard “to impress the baaaabes”. 

Bahorel as a Halfling Sorcerer. Sometimes forgets he has magic and is frequently rolling “to kick him in the shins”.

Combeferre as a Human Druid. He spent way too much time reading up on druidic mythology and can talk about it in detail. His favourite Wild Shape is a giant elk.

Marius as a Half-Elf Wizard. Usually performs pretty well when he remembers to roll the right die. 

Cosette as a Half-Orc Monk. “I love my buff girl.” Will argue orc rights with anyone who will listen, and also anyone who won’t. 

Eponine as a Human Rogue. She said she wanted to stick with what she knew. “Eponine, who are you texting?” “Montparnasse. I want the specifics on lock-picking.”

And of course, Gavroche as a Dragonborn Barbarian bc its cool as hell and no other reason. 

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hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

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I almost didn’t blog this and felt guilty

[lizardgal]

why is everything so much

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[notcayleb]

this is a good post.

[maskedriderbiocore]

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

[habibialkaysani]

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

[honeysucklepink]

This. When I was a kid, there would be roadside tourist traps that sold “Indian” jewelry and clothes that were Made in Taiwan (good LORD shows how old I am) and even my family knew to not buy that crap. But when vendors from the area Choctaws would have booths at the folklife festivals selling authentic wares, they WANTED us to. It was a sharing of their culture and the money went back to native families. The same when my dad visited Oklahoma; he brought back art made and sold by Cherokee artists.

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All cats the same

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Wonder Woman wearing an evening gown over her suit of armor while arriving uninvited to a fancy dinner party with an entire sword strapped to her back ready to kill a man is by far the Biggest Mood of 2017

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Master list of Great Comet Broadway footage

So I decided to make a master list of all of the footage / performances from the Broadway cast of the Great Comet. I will continue to update this list as more videos get released!

COMMERCIALS/PROMO VIDEOS

Broadticket [A.R.T]

2017 Broadway Trailer

Josh Groban Will Leave July 2nd

The Most Tony Nominated Show of the Season

Tony Awards Show Clips

New York Theatre Highlights

BEHIND THE SCENES

In the Dressing Room with Paloma Young

In the Bunker with Mimi Lien

In the Spotlight with Bradley King

CAST RECORDING

Denée Benton

Grace McLean

Brittain Ashford

Gelsey Bell

Lucas Steele

MUSIC VIDEOS

No One Else

Sonya Alone

Charming

In My House

Dust and Ashes

PERFORMANCES

Denée Benton at BroadwayCon

Broadway in Bryant Park

Good Morning America

Today Show

Billboard

Tony Awards

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When Diana does The Thing™

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The land of the Amazons.