I was lonely so I chose you

Grab-bag of whatever I come across, from cats to social commentary. Into Avatar, Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce & Harry Potter. Expect a lot of flowers and landscapes, bits of history, music, fashion, cute animals, linguistics, and bad puns. Tag navigation in header box :)

[heathens-and-kings]

“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.

A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.

I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,

“I am the manager.”

[owawaaa]

a thing for one of my favorite posts on this site

EDIT!!!: THE WRITER’S NEW URL IS ohdionne!!! Please credit her instead of facingthewaves! (See please that facingthewaves is empty now, no posts and no customization!)

[jaw8jaw]

Salvador Dali silver-gilt cutlery, 1957

[sevenpensieves]

Sirius is very good at spouting bits of excellent personal philosophy, but he does not always live up to them. For instance, he says in Goblet of Fire that if you want to know what a man is really like, ‘look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.’ But Sirius loathes Kreacher, the house-elf he has inherited, and treats him with nothing but contempt. Similarly, Sirius claims that nobody is wholly good or wholly evil, and yet the way he acts towards Snape suggests that he cannot conceive of any latent good qualities there. Of course, these double standards exist in most of us; we might know how we ought to behave, but actually doing it is a different matter! Sirius is brave, loyal, reckless, embittered and slightly unbalanced by his long stay in Azkaban. He has never really had the chance to grow up; he was around twenty-two when he was sent off to Azkaban, and has had very little normal adult life. Lupin, who is the same age, seems much older and more mature. Sirius’s great redeeming quality is how much affection he is capable of feeling. He loved James like a brother and he went on to transfer that attachment to Harry.

JKR. (via courtesiren)

[sashayed]

I know everyone’s already told you to read the transcript of the Martin Shkreli jury selection – more than 200 potential jurors were excused – but really, seriously, if you need your faith in Americans strengthened, you gotta read this excerpt from the Martin Shkreli jury selection.

[praial]

Rachel Newling

[praial]

Valle de la luna, Desierto de Atacama ,Chile

[gyldenstjerne]

[ximacloudx]

I’ve got 99 problems and Sirius Black going from an abusive home to having his best friends murdered to spending 12 years falsely imprisoned to never having his name cleared before his untimely death is all of them

[gyldenstjerne]

[gyldenstjerne]

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[theminttu]

“You’re looking scrawny, Carver. Do the Grey Wardens not feed you at all?”

I got to thinking about the Hawke siblings and how Everything Is Fine :—-)

[louminx]

| ZEVRAN ARAINAI | DA:O+ | Docked |

“Stay with me. I can offer you shelter, good company and… all of my heart.”

[sasskarian-archive]

…OH.

[minwrathous]

from The Art of Dragon Age: Inquisition [x]

“Treat any red lyrium you encounter as if it were poison. Do not go near it, do not attempt to destroy it… and most importantly, do not attempt to use it.”

[itsbyrosie]

How to pat cats 

[dangerouswomansarchive]

[high-yellaaa-deactivated2018122]

when you thought she couldn’t get no finer.

[20aliens-deactivated20200625]

USA. 1985 Ferdinando Scianna