Bell & Book & Candle

🌙Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.🌙

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

Cute dude I really like: *makes cute joke about his very present father*

Me: hahahaha yeah...so my dad is a con-artist.”

[kaedien]

americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip

[systlin]

…I have seriously considered driving 16 hours just for that gumbo from that one diner in New Orleans. 

And I have driven 6 hours to pick up bees before. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

I’ll drive 12 hours to have breakfast at a Diner outside of Glacier National Park before they run out of Apple Pie.  I don’t even eat Apple Pie but my sister loves thiers and her plane wouldn’t get in until after they run out.

It helps that we have large sections of extremely senic countryside with little to no traffic, which is different than driving in through many small cities with stop-and-go-traffic for two hours.

[copperbadge]

We also have no other option. Our major cities are SEVEN HOURS APART and our trains are exorbitantly expensive and always late. 

WE HAVE TO DRIVE SEVEN HOURS, WE ARE FULL OF EMPTINESS AND THERE’S NO TRAIN. 

[thelibrarina]

“We are full of emptiness and there is no train” may be the actual motto of millennials and gen-z.

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

Short adorable story that might lighten the apathy on this post (you know I love ya’ll):

My dad is by no means even a decent parent, he’s kind of like the eternal stoner dude and wasn’t around much when I was a kid. BUT my childhood favorite story is about my Dad and it has always inspired me to see the best in people:

When my mom got pregnant with me, my parents weren’t exactly in love or even together but they decided to live together throughout the pregnancy so my mom wouldn’t be alone. This was probably the only point in my dad’s life where he really stepped up: he did chores, ran errands, painted her toe nails when she couldn’t reach them, made her bubble baths, and always made sure she had her food cravings satisfied. Well, eight months into her pregnancy (it’s January) she had an overwhelming craving for crawfish and in Texas it was still too early in the season. So my dad drove 10 HOURS to New Orleans, bought live crawfish and drove another 10 hours back to Texas with them in a bucket full of ice in the passenger seat. He then made her what she to this day says was the best meal of her life and never asked anything in return. Even though they weren’t in a relationship and didn’t end up together...

That’s love.

[hogwartscastle]

AHHHH! I’m soo excited! awfsdcaeferferjf 😍✨❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

😭❤️❤️😭❤️😩❤️😩😱😭❤️😩

[lbibliophile]

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

[wizardtowizard-blog]

Who gave you the RIGHT?

[bonnini]

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

[marauders4evr]

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

[not-a-bit-good]

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

[marauders4evr]

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

[theotheryongbok]

[my-sun-is-gone-deactivated20180]

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

[gehayi]

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

Dumbledor needs Harry to feel like an outcast, not only because he’s easier to control that way but also to make Harry forever see Dumbledor as his savior. Leaving him with the Dursley’s resulted in Harry growing up with zero affection. No one to hold him when he cried or kiss his ouchies. No one to teach him self worth. So when Dumbledor welcomes him into this world of love, warmth, and acceptance he is not only humble but eternally grateful to Dumbledor for bringing him into this world...except, Dumbledor is the only reason Harry grew up outside of it. He could have placed Harry with a loving and protective witch or muggle family but he chose to keep him in an unsafe and unloving place because it would secure Dumbledor’s place as Harry’s gaurdian angel. There’s a lot more I could argue about the tragedies Dumbledor set up so his plans for the wizarding world would be made a reality, but I’ve ranted enough...for now.

[herwordlessness]

traditional celtic folk music makes me go buck fucking wild. i don’t know what it is, if it’s just in my blood or if it’s a past life or just ‘cause it’s objectively soulful but I hear that fiddle and I immediately transform into this heartbroken irish widow in 1787 with a shawl draped over my shoulders staring over the cliffs of moher, waiting for my ghostly lover to return from sea

[sherlockdoctorwhonerdy]

Me when I went to Dublin

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

This is a big mood

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

How is she not a registered sex offender?

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

In Texas we get fired for being gay butbyeaj sure

[bripnk-deactivated20230214]

I know he’s the literal antichrist but it’s 2018 y'all

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

I mean obviously he’s alive while the rest of the world (maybe) dead so (maybe) hail Satan?

[30minutememes]

[xxxtictacion]

Hey uh op…. where’s your url…

[thyrell]

there’s no url because god sent this post down to us

[hawberries]

houses

[coffeeniastudies]

types of students : doughnuts 

glazed doughnut : coffee drinker, handwritten notes, libraries, studying out loud, aesthetic photographs, lots of stationary 

jam doughnut : messy notes, disorganized, bursts of energy, sweet snacks to share, washi-tape 

chocolate doughnut : competitive studying, easily distracted, an iced drink in hand, doodling, double checking notes 

chocolate sprinkles doughnut : study groups, laughter, big sweaters, hot chocolate, travelling 

cinnamon twist : bullet journals, neat handwriting, always carries a notebook around, quiet, sweet 

doughnut holes : tired, small handwriting, tea drinker, procrastinator, lots of cute stationary, binge netflix series 

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

Jam Donuts

[omnipotentdarkness-deactivated2]

Amityville

[horrorandhalloween]

[taros]

lol everyone talks about their dream job but honestly my dream is not having to work

[reinamysterio]

^^

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

I have education degree, love my students, love my job HATE WORKING. My dream job is to be a well taken care of house cat.

[sharkcuterie]

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

Literally every man I have ever known

[nicollekidman]

oh my fucking god 

[dragonkittymom95-blog]

I dream of being able to say this to my ex

[dailythecrown]

#mood

[lucreziaborgiad]

At long last, I know who I am and what I represent. […] A woman, in my own right. A woman for the modern age. And above all, a woman who is free. Free to live, to love – and free to break away.