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The place in which I spend my life crying over fictional characters. Mostly Harry Potter, Sherlock, Supernatural and Doctor Who, with a mix of other stuff as well. This is not a spoiler free blog.

[wardens-oath]

the only problem with this new election is that i dont even know who i’d vote for

like corbyn hasn’t exactly shown himself to be the people’s champion and who the fuck knows what the lib dems are doing

like i dont want the tories but who is there to replace them???

[ameliajessicapond]

ANYONE BUT THE TORIES is a valid stance and tactical voting is your friend. 

Here is a great spread sheet showing every constituency with reccomendations on how to vote to keep the Tories out of as many seats as possible. Every seat they don’t win this time around counts, basically. At this stage realistically it’s not about getting Theresa May out, it’s about reducing the absolutely terrifying prospect of her with a 140-strong majority in Parliament.

Disclaimer: I’m not exactly Corbyns no.1 fan but for the next six weeks that has to come second to the election.

[wengers-boys]

Don’t make the same mistakes America did. Vote with your head.

[wardens-oath]

thanks for the info friends! i knew tactical voting was a thing but the spreadsheet is super useful!

really comes to something when we’re voting for damage reduction rather than any policies

[pocketfulofgeek]

Tactical voting is basically necessary this election. It sucks, but we need it if we’re even going to have a chance at a better life.

Liveable world now. Perfect world later.

[lilprince]

ANYONE TO GET THE TORIES OUT! Look up who was close to winning in your area last election and vote for them. This is not an election of “but corbyn wah wah” this an election to save lives, literally to save people from dying because they have no nhs, no benefits, no protection from the Tories hate campaign against the poor.

[the-bluespirit]

[notdavidfincher]

What We Do in the Shadows (2014), dir. Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi

[caffeineaffair]

Been feeling kind of blue lately, so I tried to make something cute to counteract it.  A little Otter Tea Time.

[discountliquor]

[orchidbreezefc]

its that time of year

[amyfarrahs-deactivated20161015]

[deepinthesewoods-deactivated201]

A thousand years or more ago When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose names are still well known: Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor, Fair Ravenclaw, from glen, Sweet Hufflepuff, from valley broad, Shrewd Slytherin, from fen

With 31 July just around the corner, I’ve been cooking up a lot of Harry Potter-inspired pieces! This House series was so much fun (Oh and you can now get prints of these in my Etsy *wink wink*)

[as-warm-as-choco]

The French Netflix uploaded this on twitter…….

[starsthatburn]

this is by far the most powerful thing I’ve seen since Trump won and everyone needs to see this

[mayahan]

Matthew H Sharack

[cuteshanghai]

I would love this printed on fabric.

[sayhillyes-blog]

Love this comment on the @nytimes Clinton endorsement.

[madlori]

You know how many stories like this I heard about Hillary? People’s posts on FB, or here, or on Twitter? Stories about how Hillary went out of her way to help them, or extend a kindness, or just reach out and let them know they weren’t alone. Deeds she did with no political upside, no media, no publicity, no reason except her desire to help people who asked for her assistance, or even those who didn’t. Those godmotherfuckingdammit emails revealed time after her time her asking her staff if they could help this person, or that person, or this group of people. And for every story I heard (and I heard dozens) there were no doubt dozens more I didn’t hear.

And we just elected a man who cut off his own disabled nephew’s medical care out of spite.

I feel like throwing myself at her feet and begging her forgiveness.

[my-name-is-long]

this is why the electoral college fucking sucks.

[kaayytiee]

Without the electoral college, the determining factor of the elections would be California, Chicago and New York just because they have more people concentrated in one area. Our system is the best of the best and the people spoke. I’m hurt as well as most of America but the best thing we can do is keep an open mind, accept, and move on.

[my-name-is-long]

So what? Why does it matter if the majority of votes come from one area? If most of the people in the country want one person to be president, then that person should be president. Why should it matter where they’re from?

And that’s not even the reason the college was made in the first place. It was made for 2 reasons. 1. The founding fathers didn’t trust the citizens. They thought the citizens were too uneducated to make a good choice. And 2. It’s easier to count the votes of a small group of people all in one place rather than millions across the country when there’s no cars or internet.

In today’s age, neither of those reasons are valid anymore. There is no good reason for the electoral college to exist. If the majority of people want someone as president, that person should be president.

[morpha613]

Here is why the electoral college sucks:

Without the electoral college, every single vote would count exactly the same.  No vote anywhere in the country would be worth more than any other vote.  Now you may ask, but Raymond, isn’t it like this already?

NO.  IT FUCKING IS NOT.

Take Wyoming for example.  Wyoming has a population of 584,000 people.  They also have 3 electoral college votes. This means that each 194,667 votes is worth one electoral college vote in Wyoming.  Now let’s look at California.  California has a population of 38.8 million people and 55 electoral college votes.  This means that it takes 705,455 votes for each electoral college vote.  

A VOTE IN WYOMING IS WORTH 3.5X MORE THAN A VOTE IN CALIFORNIA.

It literally takes 3.5 times more votes to get 1 electoral vote in California than it does in Wyoming.  How tf is that fair?

Don’t come in here and tell me how it’s the best system and without it the only determining factor would be certain cities.  How does that even make sense?  Without it, a vote in New York City is worth the exact same amount as a vote in any other city, or town, regardless of population.  I personally would like my vote to count for exactly the same as anyone else.  My vote shouldn’t count as less because I live in a more densely populated city.

[rootqueen-deactivated20240223]

What a good explanation! ^

[dexer-von-dexer]

Okay buckle your seatbelts, because I just learned of a potentially really awesome thing

It’s called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) and it just might save America.

You see, the whole Electoral College system has gotten on people’s nerves over the years [citation needed/s], and some states have opted to allocate their Electoral votes to whoever wins the popular national vote, no matter what. The map of states that have signed that compact looks something like this:

All the green states are the ones have adopted the compact, and all the yellow states currently have the compact under review.

Furthermore, all the yellow states are states that Trump won. Turning those electoral votes over to Hillary, the winner of the popular vote, would give her the presidency.

Now the Electoral College apparently doesn’t actually cast their votes until December 19th, which means that if the compact is passed before then in those four states–Missouri, Arizona, Michigan, and (most importantly, as it has the largest number of Electoral votes) Pennsylvania–then those states’ Electoral votes will go over to Hillary and she will win the presidency.

Of course, that leaves just over a month to get four state governments to pass an agreement into law. In any normal situation, that would be nigh-impossible. But the nation is essentially in crisis mode right now, and with enough attention maybe this can get fast-tracked through. Or even if it doesn’t, drawing attention to the mere fact that this compact exists may help motivate Electorates to vote against their state and towards the overall will of the country.

Either way, share this information. There’s still time.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

#NPVIC #NotMyPresident

[politicalmachine]

americans: please learn from brexit. please realize that a “””protest vote””” could very easily lead to making PRESIDENT TRUMP a reality

[fandoms4lifejusticefornone]

It’s Sher-Rock Holmes

[micdotcom]

[mrajtheartist]

Originally posted by apotterthing

[justjavis]

I’ve never seen anyone reach as much as Hillary

[missboston1399]

👀<=== Rollin em

[blackkesha]

REACH

Bitch said “raw peppers”. Is that what she really think black folk doing? Eating raw peppers?

[blackkesha]

lets call her Hillareach Clinton 

[thesoftghetto]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[runawaymarbles]

Um guys Hillary Clinton’s love of hot sauce is well documented and goes way back. Like from an article about what they ate in the white house in the 90s it says that she had 100 different kinds of hot sauce and she’s really big into chili peppers and eats raw jalapenos 

So it may or may not be what she thinks black people are doing but it’s definitely what she’s doing.

this is not a new thing

she is just really really into peppers

[runawaymarbles]

OK me pulling receipts for Hillary’s love of spicy food is like the least weird thing to happen in 2016, but I’ve found some more: but here’s her belief in eating raw peppers as of 2008 and here is her always bringing Tabasco sauce on official trips 

And here is a slate article pointing out that if she predicted this particular Beyonce song that far back and started carrying hot sauce so that she could try and seem cool twenty years later then she should be president based on her foresight alone. 

[jon-lox]

hillary hot sauce receipts

[defectivegembrain]

never thought I’d read the sentence “Hillary Clinton’s love of hot sauce is well documented and goes way back”

[faokryn]

Hillary needs to stop trying to present herself as everybody’s cool grandma and start presenting herself as the stone cold bitch who’s gonna make uncomfortable, unbroken eye contact with Putin as she unblinkingly bites into a raw habanero

[mllemusketeer]

reblogging for that last comment

[sweeneysays]

WAIT IT GOT BETTER.

[bates--motel]

My unproblematic fave: Richard Ayoade

Describing “All About That Bass”

On “Blurred Lines”

[am-i-a-cheerleader]

You know why Harry Potter is amazing? 99% of fan theories, headcanons and meta could be canon because Harry is about as observant as a brick wall. Did Slytherins come back to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts? Did Draco Malfoy enjoy crossdressing? Was Hermione transgender? Who knows, certainly not Harry

[q33r-deactivated20190402]

Harry didn’t notice Hermione time traveling around him for a whole year or his own teacher’s hand writing

[zoevioletlorenzo-deactivated202]

Harry didn’t notice that he was a wizard

[the44th]

The glass is just gone I don’t know maybe that just happens with snakes sometimes.