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Selkies are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land. The stories frequently revolve around female selkies being coerced into relationships with humans by someone stealing and hiding their sealskin, often not regaining the skin until years later upon which they commonly return to the sea, forsaking their human family. The legend is apparently most common in the Northern Isles of Scotland and is very similar to those of swan maidens.

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Australia do you take constructive criticism on your wildlife?

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We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe.

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that’s much more interesting and substantive than “brave, smart, evil, miscellaneous”

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No URL because this post came from actual Hogwarts via digital owl.

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Roof would also house a garden which would provide fruit and vegetables, if design is accepted

Huh. Solarpunk Notre Dame. I know people feel that this one building in Europe is getting Way Too Much Attention, but I have to say this is a cool redesign.

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“The panels would store solar power in hydrogen fuel cells, the Paris based firm said. As more than enough energy would be stored to power the Cathedral, the excess could be channelled to nearby buildings.”

“The roof would also house a garden which would provide fruit and vegetables for the city’s poor and homeless. “

“It is one of a number of designs submitted after the French government announced an international competition to design a new roof after the old, timber roof was burnt down in the devastating fire earlier this year.“

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well hold on now……these bitches might just do summ if they go through with this…………….

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@maggieandthedragon

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Leopard print shoes? Leopard print socks? Leopard print pants? Leopard print shirt? Leopard print gloves? Leapord print scarf?

We all know who im talking about

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a leopard

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Hogwarts Classes by Karen Leopold. You can find the artist and other works at their Instagram: @karen_leopold.

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Everybody:

dance now

was kung fu fighting

wants to be a cat

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wants to rule the world

in the club getting tipsy

walk the dinosaur

shots shots shots shots shots shots

have fun tonight

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• needs somebody

• rock your body

• hurts

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CLAP YOUR HANDS

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Talks

Gonna dance tonight

Wants to go to heaven

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i sing literally all

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fred and george weasley on the top floor in hogwarts trying to get slinkies all the way down by predicting the pattern the stairs are gonna shift in

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they actually figure it out, they calculate the exact pattern, and start distributing it

suddenly, students are barely ever late to classes any more and there are significantly fewer incidents of getting lost around the castle

everything goes wonderfully for a week, all the professors are baffled but pleased

until the end of the week when the true purpose for the pattern’s distribution becomes clear. schoolwide slinky race. a thousand conjured slinkies all let loose at the same time. the rustling of the swarm of springs echoes through the halls of hogwarts. the house elves refer to the dreaded Slinky Sunday for centuries

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Trident Throwing with Jason Momoa

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There is a reason this is the last scene in which Okoye appears before the credits roll. It speaks volumes about the power black women possess. Seeing anyone, let alone a black man, submit to a black woman on screen in this way is a rarity.

Gurira thinks the message in that scene is vital for everyone, especially women and girls.

“You expect to use your love for me and our love for each other to actually get me to betray my nation, and I would kill you first. I love that,” she said. “I think women don’t often get to portray that sort of nobility and that sort of integrity, especially [choosing that] over their love.” – Danai Gurira on The Scene™

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Jason Momoa in Times Square, NYC.

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The Gods as John Mulaney Jokes

Zeus: My dad pulled into the drive thru and ordered one black coffee for himself.

Hera: I would always think to my self “how could a person kill someone?” How could a person murder another person? And then I got cheated on, and I was like “Oh Okay.”

Poseidon: Ah! One feels like a duck splashing around in all this wet! And when one feels like a duck one is happy!

Demeter: When I got busted with a one-hitter at a Rusted Root concert I did not serve hard time. I think I got an award.

Ares: He’s not gonna know how to fight back with two little sneakers coming at him! Street smarts!

Athena: College is just your opinion. It’s just raising your hand and being like “I think Emily Dickinson is a lesbian” and it’s like, partial credit.

Apollo: The juke box was three plays for a dollar, so we put in seven dollars and selected 21 plays of Tom Jones’s “What’s New Pussycat”

Artemis: Sometimes babies will point at me, and I don’t care for that shit at all.

Aphrodite: Eighth graders will get to the thing that you don’t like about you. They’ll be like “ha ha ha ha! ha ha ha ha! Look at that high-waisted man he got feminine hips!”

Hephaestus: If you’re an adult male who sees no flaws in his father, you’re an insane person.

Hermes: Some people give off a vibe right away just like “do not fuck with me.” My vibe is more like “hey you could pour soup in my lap and I’d probably apologize to you.”

Dionysus: “Is this whisky or perfume.” I grabbed it, drank all of it. And said “It’s perfume.” And it was.

Hades: I married my wife. I love saying my wife. It sounds so adult. “That’s my wife!” It’s great, you sound like a person. Being married is so nice, I never knew relationships were suppose to make you feel good about yourself.

Hestia: In terms of instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.