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Mostly Harry Potter Ravenclaw/Thunderbird INFJ

[sideralatheneum]

I just think they’re neat :)

[feketeribizli]

three likes and ill post the biblically accurate destiel confession scene i drew

[feketeribizli]

ok there have it

[ruby-white-rabbit]

Night Vale had some of the BEST one off quotes that would just suckerpunch you in the chest leave you breathless

Like the one that stuck with me was this one:

"when a person dies and no one will miss them, the mourning is assigned to a random human. This is why sometimes you just feel sad."

It's been almost 11 years... It haunts me in a good way

[ruby-white-rabbit]

Know what? Tell me YOUR favorite WTNV quote. I wanna know what lingers in people's minds after all this time

[slowmo420]

“Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”

[neosatsuma]

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present.”

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

@magpie-lesbian found it and you are so right.

“And now, traffic.

“Think of a number. Any number. That number is how many thousands of years old a certain rock is.

“That number is how many times someone has cried in their life.

“That number is the lucky number of an unlucky man who is yet to realize he is unlucky.

“Think of a number. No, think of…numbers.

“Picture all of these abstract representations of human thought, all of them forming an imagined pattern, as all patterns are imagined, and picture how those abstractions describe, in specific ways, real moments that exist.

“Picture numbers.

“There is a woman who lives at 531 Beachwood Street. Her phone number starts with a 3 and ends with a 5. She smiled 18 times yesterday. She is currently thinking of 3 things she needs to do. There are actually 4 things she needs to do. She has forgotten 1 of them.

“She touches the doorknob 2 times before committing to its turn. She has 2 eyes. She has 2 hands. She has 2 more chances to make her life what she thinks it should be.

“But she doesn’t know it yet.

“Think of a number.

“Yes! That’s the one! That’s the one that describes an infinity of disparate truths about our disparate universe.

“Also, the roads are looking clear.

“This has been traffic.”

[mwagneto]

2018 was five years ago let that sink in

[mwagneto]

no fucking way💀

[mwagneto]

no no guys you don’t get it i made this fucking post in 2018. as a joke. i was like hah could you imagine it being 2023? could never be me! and then completely forgot until right now when someone reblogged it and i was forced to face the horror that it is, in fact, the year 2023 right now.

[glumby]

let him live potter !!

[l0vegl0wsinthedark]

HARRY STFU AJSHWHJSSNGAGA

[nite-in-galesque]

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[mamisketches]

ᵂⁱᶻᵃʳᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵂᵒʳˡᵈ! ᴸᵘᵏᵉ

"Julie didn’t expect to fall for a guy because of how he pours Butterbeer. But then, she’s never worked food service at the Wizarding World theme park before."

For my dear friend @pearlcaddy Wizarding World Fic Series!

If you haven’t read them, hop over and do it now. 💕 And make sure to leave lots of love!

❌no reposts please!

[academic-ana]

“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”

— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via leofarto)

[lierdumoa]

I was reading an interesting article years ago about collective memory. There have been a lot of thinkpieces over the years about how humans are getting lazier and worse at remembering things thanks to technology. There’s a tendency, particularly in the western world, to behave as if memorization was all people did prior to the internet. 

But outside of artificial school test-taking environments, human beings have always relied on the collective memory of their close peers to keep track of information. Anyone who’s ever worked clothing retail knows that no single employee has the location of every item in the store memorized, but as long as you have enough people working the floor, nobody will ever have to waste time searching for an item because at least one employee is bound to remember which rack it’s on.

TL&DR - brains were never designed to function in isolation. 

Testing the intelligence of an individual in an isolation is never going to give you an accurate idea of a person’s true intellectual potential.

TL&DR TL&DR

Two (or more) heads is better than one.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

My maternal grandfather was a math professor at the City University of New York. He died before I was born, but he passed a key bit of wisdom to my mother, and she passed it on to me:

The important thing is not knowing the answer, it’s knowing how to find the answer.

It our era of text and alphabets, that’s often knowing how to look something up. But for most of human existence, there were no alphabets. So knowing how to find the answer meant finding the person who knew the answer.

All human knowledge is cooperative.

[thereigning-lorelai]

JULIE MOLINA’S GUIDE TO BEFRIENDING A THREE GHOSTS (insp)

[essayofthoughts]

To clarify with regards to a few things yesterday: there are some basic rules involved with being on the internet and a lot of those rules have been drastically eroded by things like facebook, instagram and official twitter accounts.

But this is tumblr. We come here for the fact that we can be anonymous here. That we can use a pseudonym and it can stick. I have several friends who only know me by my URL - because this is where we met and we’ve not transitioned that friendship into the fleshmeat world.

The rules of the internet as I was taught them, as I generally keep to on tumblr:

Do not share your full name or, if your name is unusual, any of your name online. Use a moniker, a nickname, or part of your URL.

Do not share your location beyond broad areas such as country or “near to [city]”. Do not make it easy for people to find you IRL.

Do not post pictures of yourself. I cannot tell you how unsettling it is to see people who’s blog icons are themselves. If you are not a public figure don’t do this.

Further rules regarding interaction:

Never assume you know someone. Never assume the person you’re talking to is telling the truth. Even if they are telling the truth, remember you are only seeing the parts of themselves they are letting you see.

Do not allow a parasocial bond to drive an interaction; if you’re anonymous they won’t know who you are and even if you’re not, you are a stranger to them. No matter how familiar they feel to you, that’s not true for them.

If you are meeting anyone from the internet pick a neutral, public place, and if you’re still a child or teen, take a trusted adult with you.

From this, some of my own rules:

If you’re anonymous, I have no idea who you are. You are a stranger to me. If what you’re sending isn’t an ask related to the blog topics or an active ask game please ask yourself if you’d say the contents of your ask to a stranger on public transport. If the answer is no, don’t send it.

If I say no or otherwise make clear I am choosing not to answer a question, that is not an invitation to ask me again. Doing that is treading on my boundaries and likely to result in a block (if you’re off anon) or me turning off anon (if you are anon).

Unless we actually speak on a regular basis in DMs or on other platforms - and even then, sometimes! - we are not friends. I know this can hurt to hear because parasocial bonds are like that, but you need to remember this. If the other person doesn’t know you personally as a person who exists in their life, you are strangers, not friends.

Please feel free to reblog this and even add your own rules and advice.

[deaniel]

michael’s gonna wear him to the prom

[petermorwood]

Hailing frequencies closed. :-(

[asamisbitch]

lmfao stop pushing heterosexuality??????? on a fucking angel?????? hes not a man??? hes possessing one? ????? ? stop pretending he even has a label????????? just let him love who he loves??????? what?????

[cccrystalclear]

Ms Granger

[heartstoppercentral]

Photo booth photos shared by Alice Oseman

[pyxiscowboy]

charlie spring is a character that can be so personal 🍂

[tofublock]

the nights have never felt this bright