Running across the pond

Hello! Welcome to a blog filled with a random assortment of posts on fandoms, books, running, writing, traveling, and tea.

[kitkat-allison]

5-year-old kid on Halloween: Trick or treat!

Me: Awh, and what are you supposed to be?

Kid: Frankenstein!

Me: Ah, well that is where you are wrong. You see, sweet summer child, Frankenstein was not the name of the monster, as so many people wrongly believe. Frankenstein was the name of the man who created him, without any of the nuts and bolts that you have poking out of your neck, may I add. Therefore, your costume is completely ill-informed and incorrect. However, if you stand by your declaration that you are Frankenstein, and that your monstrous appearance is simply symbolic of his nature as the true monster of the story, then your efforts are, in fact, commendable. Here, have a bonbon.

[sp00pyjo]

i, martin luther, arrive at the church,

95 theses: posted Roman Catholic Church: outraged papal bull: burned

I am forcibly excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church

[cilly-murphy]

Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters

[dadcrone]

it’s funny when well meaning progressive types who haven’t read the bible try to be like “yeah jesus was pretty chill” when jesus was demonstrably the least chill person ever 

[anz-momo]

[whenthesecondsun]

Why do you have all those cloud babies scattered around your staircase

[lynati]

Someone swept out from under the bed, I see.

[keian44]

@pyrrhy

[kitkat-allison]

me, looking at the current state of the world, crying:I wish none of this had happened...

Gandalf, materialising in my conscience, smiling kindly: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil.

[danielodowd-deactivated20170124]

[annabellioncourt]

There’s a lovely old English myth that if someone who truely loved and trusted the werewolf called it by name that it would turn back to human.

Others include throwing their human clothes at it and it’d turn back but that’s a bit less romantic

[mothfishing]

#ok i understand ppl would take the romancey route here#but imagine the werewolf’s mother#or grandmother#some wizened old woman or middle aged woman#with wrinkles or hands toughened from years of labor#just going out into the woods#where even the men with axes won’t go anymore#and facing down the ravening beast#and saying#it’s time to come home

[the-golden-ghost]

I actually like the “throwing clothes at it” better cause now I’m picturing Grandma stomping out of the house at 3 AM in her slippers, arms full of clothes and facing down this horrible, snarling beast.

And then she just starts flinging clothes at it like “GODDAMN IT JEFFERY IT IS THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING YOU GET YOUR PANTS ON AND COME BACK INSIDE RIGHT THIS MINUTE”

[confessionsofanoperaghost]

This is the best thing ever

[persephoneed]

things you may have forgotten because of the movies/fanon

luna lovegood has dirty blonde hair (book 5, chapter 10)

lily potter has dark red hair (book 1, chapter 12)

neville longbottom has blond hair (JKR interview)

hermione granger has bushy hair (book 1, chapter 6)

james potter is tall (book 1, chapter 12)

at seventeen, harry potter is the same height as his father so he is also tall (book 7, chapter 34)

peter pettigrew is fat (book 3, chapter 10)

severus snape has yellow-ish teeth (book 3, chapter 14)

ginny weasley is fucking awesome (books 1-7)

[memewhore]

[accras]

Good times

[j-nnofsuburbia]

[robalyn]

the highlighted area is where Jason Derulo knows what the girls want. london to taiwan.

[kittiesinqueerland]

new york to haiti

[glowcloud-archive-deactivated20]

greenland is right out

[venusian--eye-deactivated201606]

ummm no offense but new york to haiti should be measured as the area between the two latitudes, not the longitudes. this graph is incorrect and vastly underestimates the total region of the earth in which Jason Derulo knows what the girls want

[queerqueerspawn]

Even measuring that way, Greenland remains right out, as does the entirity of Brazil.

[enthralled-by-victor-blog-b-blo]

Have we considered measuring by neither latitude nor longitude but in all area that would extend perpendicular from the diagonal of the two places? There are many different interpretations of the data, and until more is available, we ought not conclude anything at this point.

[queerqueerspawn]

In light of that, I posit this alternative map of regions where Jason Derulo is potentially claiming where he knows what girls want:

As we can see, if we assume that model, the vast majority of the area where Jason Derulo knows what girls want is either open ocean (the Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea) or sparsely populated (the northern Sahara, the northern Arabian Desert, various desert portions of Iran and Afghanistan, and the southern Tibetan Plateau). Four of the ten most populated countries on the planet have no territory in it (Nigeria, Brazil, Japan, and Indonesia), and two which do have relatively little territory in it (the US and Russia). It is suggested that for all his boasting, Jason Derulo does not know what a probable majority of the world’s girls want.

[shitshilarious]

Perhaps Jason Derulo’s intention was never to proclaim to be omnipotent to the interests of the female gender. Perhaps he was instead expressing his humanity, or the limits of his knowledge. I applaud Jason Derulo. Jason Derulo is not just another 2 dimensional character. Jason Derulo has depth.Jason Derulo has limitations and has come to terms with them. Jason Derulo knows Jason Derulo. Thats why he makes it a point to say his name so much.

[thatsthat24]

But again, Greenland is right out

[torchlake]

[greatfay]

Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children.

(found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987)

‘Damn the boy’

[vivienvalentino]

Hidden Figures (2016) I Dir. Theodore Melfi

[badsciencejokes]

A PHD is taking your B.S. to a new level.

[valedeahlive-deactivated2021090]

a family can be two parents, their lovely stanford dropout daughter, her taxi driver boyfriend, his bodega working best friend, his lazy underage cousin, the lazy underage cousin’s graffiti vandal boyfriend, the bodega worker’s beautiful girlfriend, her boss/basically mother, her lesbian co-worker, and the piragua man that sells delicious piragua up and down the neighborhood

[forcewakens]

“Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”  -G. D. Anderson

[badhpideas]

charlie is never seen in the movies because he is secretly off seeking fame in the muggle music industry under the pseudonym ed sheeran