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This was part of a vintage "joke reel" from a local television station. This version never aired, of course, it was recorded after the normal track was done and passed around internally and around Washington DC by way of VHS tape.

This is still the most effective damn union ad I've ever seen

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vampire appreciation week 2021, day one favorite vampire fiction: being human (2008-2013) ⊹ you forget that we are not like you. deep down, we’re human.

terracottahearted

No one watches it anymore but here’s a quiz to find out which vampire from Being Human you are

no one watches this show anymore but I'm bored and I miss these characters. (these vamps appeared in more than 2 episodes, so the old ones o

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@drjohnweston

#just was rewatching #also got ivan

flotsamandjetsamofdeath

A cheery reminder

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#hufflepuff

cigartate

Suddenly you’re 21 and you’re screaming along in the car to all the songs you listened to when you were sad in middle school and everything is different but everything is good.

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This makes me so happy

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Give me my Kate Bishop Neflix series.

endreal

And on the topic of Cary Elwes... (Iocane Powder in The Princess Bride)

Remember that scene in The Princess Bride where Westley challenges Vizzini to a battle of the wits—you know, the one with the iocane powder?

The last few times I watched the movie, something about that scene didn’t set quite right with me, and I’ve been developing a theory about what’s really going on.

Westley was involved in a battle of wits against Vizzini, a battle which, necessarily, involves a certain amount of deception. I think that Westley was deceiving Vizzini about his use of the iocane powder.

Westley describes iocane powder to Vizzini as being “odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.”

When presenting the poison to Vizzini, Westley also gives him the explicit instructions “Inhale this, but do not touch.”

While I believe Westley may truthfully have spent several years building up a resistance to the effects of iocane powder, I propose that rather than poisoning both goblets as he claimed to have done, Westley didn’t pour the iocane powder into either cup of wine!

Especially since the iocane was in powder form, I suspect that rather than being an ingested poison, it was an inhalation poison!

Vizzini wasn’t poisoned when Westley poured (or didn’t pour) iocane powder into the wine goblets, but when Westley told him to waft the vial of iocane powder. Since iocane powder is odorless, Vizzini wouldn’t have noticed that trace amounts of one of the “more deadly poisons known to man” had been introduced into his system…trace amounts that were still enough to kill a man within minutes.

And since iocane powder came from Australia, and it’s well documented that Australia is home to some of the most venomous species of plants and animals on earth, there’s no reason not to believe that such a small quantity iocane powder could have killed a man of Vizzini’s stature.

Westley had already won the battle of wits before it had begun, and was simply stalling for time until the poison took it’s effect.

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endreal

This is, in all likelihood, the most important post I’ve ever made on this blue-bordered website.

greenekangaroo

holy shit.

readingrobin

I think this theory can be disproved as Humperdink also smelled the vial.

endreal

And I think that if it is @quillbit-reads, then that’s no fun! Consider this, friend:

Word for word, you probably remember when Prince Humperdinck first comes across the “picnic” scene, and he says the following:

“Iocane. I’d bet my life on it. And there are the princess’s footprints. She’s alive, or was an hour ago. If she is otherwise when I find her, I shall be very put out.“

That means at that point, Humperdinck’s hunting party is an hour behind Westley-as-Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup! And it’s clear from the way the leaves move on the surrounding plants that it’s a breezy day. It seems extremely reasonable that a vial that’s been left open and exposed to the elements for 60 minutes or more and contains no more than trace amounts of a toxic powder fine enough to effectively be aerosolized would no longer have efficacy enough to kill a man, especially one with as robust of health as Prince Humperdinck! (Can’t stand the dude, but credit where credit’s due - he’s never portrayed as a wimp. A conniving coward, but never a wimp).

What do you think? :)

Ultimately, the mark of a good headcanon is that it enriches your interaction with the story. Take your favorite ideas, find the holes where there are details unaccounted for, and let your imagination create something wonderful! Thanks for your thoughts!

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Illustration series based on my favorite Harry Potter Quotes.

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Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban. The few owls that managed to battle their way through the stormy sky to deliver mail had to be nursed back to health by Hagrid before they could fly off again.