Tumbling Monologues

[starshollowconfessions]

[ryanpfw]

Watching this scene from The West Wing.  The side of the West Wing with the Oval and the Roosevelt Room was always designed to show off the grandeur of the White House, and the bullpen was the working office with fluorescent lights and cubicles.  The room across from Leo’s office always has the door closed and I’m assuming they used it to store equipment for filming.  Every now and then I think they dressed it as the area where the press worked.  I just threw on this episode from Season 6 and it’s funny to see the door left open for this shot.  I think it’s the one time in the series you inadvertently have that mix of real office and pomp. 

[ryanpfw]

[ryanpfw]

#The American President #I'm With Her

[ryanpfw]

Watching some Season 7 West Wing episodes.  Anyone notice they redressed the entire White House bullpen as Vinick campaign HQ?  It’s always closed off in the WH scenes and they added opaque doors so you can’t see through from the lobby.  Same layout.

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[ryanpfw]

Things that make you go hmm....

[marauders4evr]

Have you ever thought about how Harry wasted a huge opportunity when he dropped the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest?

Okay just imagine if he had kept it.

He dies, comes back, defeats Voldemort…

Only now there are over one-hundred people who have died in just The Battle of Hogwarts alone. Not to mention all of those names that were read on the radio throughout the year. (And everyone else who died before then.)

So the Golden Trio gets this idea…

They quickly spread the word and pretty soon, Harry sets up a room in Hogwarts with nothing in it but a desk and a chair. He sits in the chair behind the desk and calls people into the room one at a time.

Harry insists that the Weasleys be the first to enter. And so George walks in, puffy-eyed but smiling, and asks Harry what the big secret is.

Harry then plops an ordinary pebble into George’s hand.

George is very confused until he hears his name being whispered from behind him. George turns and of course there’s Fred. And the two twins are able to properly say goodbye to one another.

Harry then allows the entire Weasley family to come in and they all huddle around Fred’s spirit and are able to say goodbye. And of course Mrs. Weasley drags Harry out from behind the desk and he joins the family hug.

Are you crying yet?

Because I am.

But let’s keep going.

Mrs. Weasley’s hand brushes against the stone and Fabian and Gideon appear to say goodbye to their sister.

After the Weasleys finally leave, Harry brings Dennis in so that he can say goodbye to Colin.

Harry then individually brings in the family member(s) of the unnamed one-hundred students who died during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Harry then brings in Luna so that she can say goodbye to her mother.

He brings in pretty much all of Hogwarts so that they can say goodbye to Cedric.

He brings in Aberforth so that he can say goodbye to Albus and Ariana.

He brings in those who want to say goodbye to Snape.

He brings in Kreacher so that he can say goodbye to Regulus.

He brings in the rest of the house-elves so that they can say goodbye to Dobby.

And when Harry is done letting everyone else say goodbye to their loved ones, he closes his hand around the stone.

The first one to appear is a beautiful white owl who flies over to Harry and allows herself to be affectionately petted.

Then of course the others appear, just as they did in the Forbidden Forest on that fateful night. Harry doesn’t talk to them for too long, he’s grown up a lot since the Mirror of Erised, but he is able to make peace with his loved ones’ sacrifices.

And even then, he still keeps the stone.

He doesn’t use it again. Not personally, anyway. In fact, he stores it in a dusty box on the mantel in his house. He doesn’t use it. But he doesn’t forget it, either. Because he needs it for one last task.

And when the boy with the turquoise hair is old enough to understand, Harry gently sits him down and places a stone in his hand.

And Teddy Lupin meets Remus and Nymphadora.

[brixiepants]

Okay I wasn’t crying til that last one

[tlsdaily]

[ryanpfw]

Internal Affairs

What's this with a settlement Jack Raydor reached with the LAPD?

[ryanpfw]

I've reached that awkward stage where I'm starting to dress like Buzz.

[hchlns]

[fuckyeahdeathlyhallows]

sirlestrange:

#that is a human as a rat as a cup

That was a long 12 years for Wormtail.

[thatgirlonstage]

Can you imagine how differently their lives would’ve gone if Ron, in trying to transfigure Scabbers, had actually transfigured him back into a human? Just take a moment to imagine McGonagall’s reaction if Peter Pettigrew had abruptly appeared in her classroom from Ronald Weasley’s rat. Take a moment.

[elidyce]

Or if Ron had fucked it up a little worse and couldn’t get ‘Scabbers’ back and McGonagall had take him to disenchant him and next thing we know there’s a naked Peter Pettigrew sitting on McGonagall’s desk and the kids in that class learn six new swear words, a hex they will never dare to use, and a fear of Minerva McGonagall’s wrath that will be with them until the day they die.

Ten and twenty years later first years are being pulled aside and warned never mess around in Transfiguration seriously the last time a kid mucked something up in that class Professor McGonagall used two semi-legal hexes, took down a Death Eater and sabotaged the rise of the Dark Lord before Potter had time to get his wand out.

[redathene]

#Her Royal Highness Minerva McBadass#hp (tags from emeraldcitynerdfighter)

[ryanpfw]

Home for the Holidays

I'm not sure what I love more - that Cory and the guys missed Shawn's arrival because all the screaming audience members drowned out the door closing, or that the writers blamed their missing it on their obsession with a cheese tray.

[friedle18]

Another sweet Tweet from Mr Matthews…I mean Friedle! 😉

[thiscallsforphilosophy-deactiva]

Some motivation from the doctor.

[anabundanceofashley]

I definitely needed this right now!

[officialstarscream]

there are guys in my dorm who decided to play cards in the elevator

[mibunookami-blog]

see what intrigues me about college isn’t the intellectual pursuit or the bonding or whatever, its the fact that people have the freedom to do random shit like this

[haedia]

Okay, everybody, I have a story about random shit in college. When I was in college, there was a particular class I took where, no matter what time you walked into class, if you made it into the room before the professor, you wouldn’t be counted late. I mean, that’s a pretty cool policy, given how some professors are really obnoxious about attendance. 

Well, one time, a fellow student of mine was running late to class. As she reached the edge of the building, she saw her professor making it to the front steps (super long rectangular building here). He looks up from walking and he sees her. He then points to his watch, gives her a well-meaning “Look who’s late” face, and walks on inside.

What he didn’t know, though, was that this particular student was like freakishly good at bouldering and related climbing skills, so she was just like “Fuck it” and SCALED THE BUILDING!

She tapped on the window of the 4th floor classroom (the floors had like 20ft ceilings, so, she was quite a ways up there), nearly making one student piss himself. They opened the window, she rolled through, onto the floor, and slid into her seat about five seconds before the professor opened the door to the classroom. 

He did a double take, started to say “How the hell d—” when a security guard ran in, red-faced and panting, pointed at her and bellowed “STOP DOING THAT!”

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