brayflox's longstop

I'm Rowan.

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my headcanon is that whenever Hisoka jacks off all of these sounds play in sequence

[genderoftheday]

Today’s Gender of the day is: Toad

[bakugoh]

[spectral-fusion]

It’s not the size of the boat but the motion of the ocean, darling!

[mrowlpig]

Xephosian (zefosi:ɑn)

ajd. 

 1. To use or place something in a wasteful and ineffective way

Rythian: I placed these torches in a very xephosian fashion

(x)

[fallingivy]

It bothered me that there were no Squibs allowed in Hogwarts. Fine, I can get that Squibs would not be able to do any wand magic, and would not be able to fly a broomstick. They still apparently possess enough innate magic to see the school and other magically hidden locations. Out of the classes at Hogwarts that the kids take, a Squib could take and benefit from the following classes: History of Magic, Astronomy, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, MUGGLE STUDIES, Potions (there will be little foolish wand-waving here), Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, and partially theoretical classes on Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms.

That’s a long list of classes. And some of them are particularly upsetting to me because there’s stuff like History of Magic being left out- that’s their own history they’re being barred from learning. Since Squibs are often forced into the Muggle world, a Squib would make an ideal Muggle Studies teacher and would no doubt be able to teach a more realistic and informative class than someone going off of biased wizarding texts. Squib kids looking into living in the Muggle world would absolutely benefit from learning Muggle studies, especially if they’re from a mainly pureblood family who doesn’t venture out all too often.

And then there’s the rest of them! Arguably you could have a Squib gifted with prescience, and Divination is supposed to be a very accessible branch of magic. Squibs being excellent at taking care of magical plants and animals and making groundbreaking advancements, Squibs working in tandem with each other to breed different magical herbs for potions, Squib potion masters creating all sorts of amazing concoctions. Squibs working with muggleborns and using logic and science to advance magic theoretically, Squibs being huge pro-muggleborn/pro-muggle advocates, Squibs making star charts and Squibs going into the muggle world to use their healing potions in their jobs as nurses and doctors.

Squibs being so completely shut out of magical education was such a sore point for me in the books, especially viewing the treatment of our only prominent Squib- an angry, bitter, glorified janitor often at the mercy of brats with wands. I’m not justifying or endorsing his abusiveness at all, but this was an awful character to use to explore people without magic in a society that bases your worth on it. A lot of time Rowling seems to validate Wizarding prejudices more than she challenges them. While I really enjoy reading the headcanons about Hogwarts being very accessible to people with disabilities, I can’t bring myself to see that as the case with Squibs being treated as they are. 

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Bolding mine. Squibs always read to me like the learning-disabled of the wizarding world and the fact that they were just sort of shoved under a rug is such a perfect metaphor for how students with disabilities are treated in most schools BUT IT DIDN’T FEEL LIKE SHE WAS CRITICIZING THE ACTION and just. So much about Hogwarts gets so gross the more you think about it.

[allobrien]

Imagine the absurd amount of selfies Narumi would have clogging up his phone if DSRK was set in modern times.

[nnjar]

"Who’s been a bad boy?"

It’s not a true (cheat) police AU unless there’s some kinky handcuff play going on off camera.

[megaten]

Everyone's dancing furiously

[mitakita-deactivated20150422]

you can see the quality deteriorate

[megaten]

Do you ever have those moments where you think “all in all musubi doesn’t seem that bad”?

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I hung out at Rowan's free company's house this morning and while trying to jump onto things we shouldn't normally be able to jump onto we clipped through and subsequently got stuck underneath the shelves and couldn't escape (twice; my shelf fiasco not pictured)

[rockethideout-blog]

IT WAS HARROWING...

[teenidolevilking-moved-blog]

white backgrounds i am boring! 

also this:

[livvyplaysfinalfantasy]

There’s something really disturbing about this woman’s attitude. She hardly seems opposed to the idea that so many people living in Sector 1 had to die for AVALANCHE’s cause. Most of what troubles her is that their deaths were frightening and painful. It’s as though she sees the deaths of so many Midgar citizens as inevitable.

mollythoughts/ but then again, this woman lives in the slums of midgar - arguably the worst part of the entire world to live in (with maybe the exception of lower junon). since we don’t get a look at what the other slums look like, we only have 7 and 5 to go on, and they’re not exactly portrayed as the exemplar place to live. it’s mentioned before you even get to the slums - these people don’t live here because they want to. VII is a pretty shady game in some aspects, and right now i’m thinking mostly about the turks and all of the on-the-side stuff that Shinra does, but it really wouldn’t surprise me if poverty is absolutely rampant and there are people dying in the slums every day. i’m also now thinking of the sick general in the pipe. sure, it might not be a kind thing to say, but this woman’s logic might not be particular to just her. she’s talking about a majority of people that probably don’t have the same living circumstances as people in the slums, but with only a single point of view to go on, it’s understandable at least to me that she wouldn’t want their suffering to be prolonged like some peoples’.

[livvyplaysfinalfantasy]

[livvyplaysfinalfantasy]

You don’t even want to know.

[sayfaahtmah]