[inkskinned]

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.

[inkskinned]

you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.

[inkskinned]

#i’m saying if existence is a void at least i’m going down screaming.

it’s been 9 years since i wrote this. i was experiencing 24/7 anxiety so badly that i needed serious medication. these days in the back of my car is an “emergency party box.” when people admit they no longer really celebrate their birthday; i tell them to put the sash on and queue up kesha, we’re going bowling or something. these days i can’t spin around without finding something i am enamored with. these days i list 3 things i’m grateful for before i fall asleep. you’re probably one of them, just by virtue of you existing.

at the time i wrote this, i was suffering through a severe panic attack literally every night. i tortured my brother with constant 2 AM calls just to hear someone else breathing, because i couldn’t be alone in the silence.

i rarely wish i was still 23 even though ironically i had more hope back then. what i can tell you is this: i love the same way, but bigger now. i’ve worn the velvet cape to several business meetings. i spent thursday in a crop top without caring what my stomach looked like.

i told her i like her; i often dress as a witch. i still got glass in my foot this morning. i’ve kissed maybe a thousand people since then and met a million more than that; passing like the shadow of a hammerhead in trains and planes and buses.

i saw you, beloved, there, maybe, on platform in south station. you didn’t speak, but you said: i struggle to give the nothing meaning. the nothing fills up everything. it is just loud and yellowed panicked silence. i can’t stop shaking.

on the roof, birds curl together against the chilled spring wind. the sky outside of the craft store was an iridescent pink. the nothing already had meaning; you are giving it meaning by witnessing.

the act of living, beloved: it’s just decoding how to translate it.

[whereareyourightnow]

New California Republic, just like the Legion. They all have their problems Lucy. High taxes, expansionist tendencies, unpopular foreign policy.

FALLOUT - The Handoff

[drcassandrailly-blog]

[prisoned-soul]

[lovegoods]

[hermiunes]

[autistichalfblood]

Halloween feast.

[slytherinnpride]

“Please make your way to Kings Cross Station and Platform 9 ¾ where you will meet the Hogwarts Express. Term begins on 1 September.”

[armandyke]

Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :) Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :) 

Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE’S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE FLIP WITHOUT DYING?? 

[legionoftuna]

Summer Triathlon: Don’t run too fast, you have to save your energy for a swim and a bike ride! :)

Winter Biathlon: I see you’ve been skiing for five miles now here’s your gun

[catsbeaversandducks]

Catnip is a helluva drug…

Video by Sandra Dee Lutheran

[marauuders]

November 3rd, 1959, a rebel was born.

marauuders challenge | (5/16) characters ➺ Sirius Orion Black, heir of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black

[catsbeaversandducks]

By SEPHKO

[avid-author-activist]

FBCOG SPOILERS

@ my (few) followers: ik I’ve posted about this three times in the last twelve hours I’m sorry but I have a theory I really need to develop here

CREDENCE BAREBONE IS NOT A DUMBLEDORE HE IS A LESTRANGE AND HERES WHY

- surely Albus dumbledore would’ve known about credence beforehand if so? and not left him to a life of abuse over in the americas?

- Grindelwald has been locked up in a New York jail cell for six months prior to discovering this. exactly how on earth did he dig up a long-lost son of an English wizarding family especially when another son of said English family in question doesn’t even know??

- Grindelwald is a known manipulator of Credence. Him telling Credence that he was actually a Dumbledore would lead Credence to believe that he was abandoned by Albus. Who, coincidentally, can’t Grindelwald touch? Albus. Who did Grindelwald state he wanted Credence to kill? Albus.

- 70 years later, rita Skeeter literally dedicates a whole book to the life of Albus Dumbledore. If credence really were related to Dumbledore, she would have blown up about it. “Albus Dumbledore’s Secret Abandoned Sibling!” guys she literally found out about Ariana and Grindelwald, so how on earth would she miss Aurelius (Credence)?

-Kendra Dumbledore died in 1899. Percival Dumbledore went to jail in 1891. Credence Barebone was born in either 1901 (according to the screenplay), 1904 (according to his adoption certificate), or 1908 (according to Ezra Miller, his actor).

-If Leta truly was the last Lestrange, then how on earth do Bellatrix and Rodolphus exist?

-The movie spent like a whole hour trying to dig up Credence’s past and tying it in to the Lestrange family. If Credence isn’t a Dumbledore, then what else could he possibly be?

[potterlove975]

[maledictus-winchester]

CRIMES OF GRINDERWALD SPOILERS!!

So, let me give u some facts of interest:

Ariana Dumbledore, died in 1899 at the age of 14 trying to prevent his brothers from fighting, we still dont know who took the shot.

Percival Dumbledore, died in Azkaban, he was sentenced to death for torturing some muggles because they torture Ariana when they saw her doing magic at the age of six so around 1891.

After this Kendra (mother) took her and her brothers to Godric’s Hollow, where they met Bathilda Bagshot, she died by one of Ariana’s “explotion of power” In 1899

Albus had to take care of Ariana and Aberfoth, even though he didn’t want to, because he had other dreams.

Gellert Grindelwald was expelled from Durmstrang and moved to his aunt’s Bathilda, thats where he meets Albus, they dreamed of taking over the magical and non-magical world, until Aberfoth stood up to them, they fought and Ariana died trying to stop them, as i already mentioned in 1899.

Credence is 18 in 1926(FBAWTFT), so he was born in 1905, 9 years after Ariana’s death.

We know, because Newt explains this in the first movie, that an obscurus can’t survive without a host, Graves (Grinderwald) is interested in it, and he is looking for a child, I BELIEVE he is looking for Ariana’s obscurial, because in the second movie Albus says to Newt, that an obscurus CAN travel from one body to another, so, what if Ariana’s obscurial treveled from years from body to body, consuming and killing until he found a fitting vessel, Graves also tells Credence he is a squib “i smell it from the moment i met you” comes from a powerful magical family but born with no magic at all, so what if Gellert is right, what if he doesn’t have magic of his own, what if it’s Ariana’s?

[melrows]

holy shit jkr had this planned since half-blood prince

Spoilers for Crimes of Grindelwald ahead: 

In the cave, Dumbledore relives his worst memory. He pleads with Grindelwald to “stop hurting them, hurt me instead” which always seemed out of character for him. He is Albus Dumbledore. He could have fought Grindelwald to save his siblings. 

We know from King’s Cross that at the end of Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s summer together, Aberforth confronts Albus about his neglect of the family. Albus is defensive. Grindelwald and the Dumbledores start to argue, and a fight breaks out. Eventually, Ariana Dumbledore lies dead, and Dumbledore does not know if he or Grindelwald was the one to cast the spell that killed her. 

With the information from Crimes of Grindelwald, it all makes sense!!! 

Dumbledore and Grindelwald make a blood pact that prevents them from fighting each other. When the fight breaks out between them, they cannot harm each other, but Grindelwald can hurt Aberforth (and Ariana) all he wants, and BINGO! Dumbledore is helpless, and can only plead with Grindelwald to stop (hence, his worst memory). In despiration to stop his siblings’ torture, Dumbledore ignores the blood pact, and shoots a spell at Grindelwald, who coutners with one of his own. But neither can attack the other. The blood pact deflects the spells into poor Ariana, who is killed by one of the curses. Dumbledore does not know who fired the spell that killed his sister. 

Beyond that, here’s some speculation: Ariana was sweet and, I imagine, did not start conflict. So if Aberforth confronted Dumbledore, why was Grindelwald torturing both Aberforth AND Ariana (”don’t hurt them, hurt me instead”)?  I think Dumbledore confided in him that she was an obscurial. Grindelwald tortured her by calling out the obscurus, and possibly even trying to rip it from her. If he succeeded, he could have preserved it like Newt did with the one from the girl he met before the first movie. Grindelwald unleashes it in a second-salem orphanage in New York, hoping that it finds another host because “it’s useless without a host,” as Grindel-Graves tells Newt. He then manipulates the obscurial he created into believing they are a Dumbledore. The Dumbledore magic coursing through them and their own tortured soul calls a phoenix, convincing them of the ruse. He tells them they were abandoned by Albus, and he creates the perfect assassin who can kill the one person he cannot.