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Maddy. 22. New Zealand. Previously graduated Otago University with a BA in Classical Studies. Currently doing whatever work I can get. I like Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, tattoos, reading, and various movies and tv shows...

[handsomedogs]

Max💗

[remusjohnslupin]

The Second Wizarding War

[miss-krypton]

WHAT THE FUCK WERE THE WRITERS THINKING

[tanae-briana-deactivated2018010]

The professor gone whoop they fuckin asses

[herdreadsrock-deactivated202401]

HOW I MISS THIS

[black-charm]

LMAOOO “Stupid fucking crayon”

[shelgon]

The Pokémon GO Field Test Details: (Update: 3/29/2016) - 1:10 am

You can customize your trainer

You don’t receive a starter Pokémon (Only applies in the Beta Version)

Only Generation 1 Pokémon are found in the beta.

The stats in the game are the following: Attack, Defense, Individual Defense and Pokémon Defense.

232 moves are program in the game. (137 moves are normal attacks while 97 moves are faster attacks of the original 137 moves)

You can join Team Red, Team Blue or Team Green.

A new move called “Starburst” was found in the data. (Still unknown if the move is exclusive to Pokémon GO or introduce in Sun and Moon) Starburst is confirmed to be a new function of Pokémon Go.

You don’t battle wild Pokémon. You can directly catch them using a Pokeball, Great ball, Ultraball or Masterball.

The game has reference to Google Cardboard.

The game size is 47.97 MB on Android.

Items are divided into 7 categories: Poké Balls, Potions, Revives, Maps, Battle Objects, Food and Camera.

Items found in the beta version are: Pokeball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, Master Ball, Potion, Super Potion, Hyper Potion, Max Potion, Max Revive, X Attack, X Defense, X Miracle X (new item), Razz Berry, Berry Bluk, Nanab Berry, Wepear Berry, Berry Pinap and Special Camera.

The natures are different from the main games. The natures are the following: Stoic, Assassin, Guardian, Raider, Protector, Sentry and Champion.

Day and Night cycle has been confirmed!

The player will have the following titles: at Level 5 is Novice, at level 10 is Trainer, at level 25 is Leader and level 50 is Professor.

Apparently Shiny Pokémon are in the data. (With the same chance of 1 in 8192)There will be three kinds of Pokémon: normal, legendary and mythical.

No mega stones are found in the beta. 

Translated from http://www.cpokemon.com/2016/03/28/constante-actualizacion-filtraciones-de-la-beta-de-pokemon-go/

[bedupolker]

What if Umbreons hunt in packs and use their rings to communicate like fireflies? Four legged crazy moonfox fireflies?

[pettyrevenge]

So I live next door to a couple (a VERY conservative couple) and their twin boys. The boys can’t be more than 8, and like most kids, they like to play in the back yard. Which is totally fine, doesn’t bother me at all. They’re kids and like to run around. What bothers me though is that they love to throw their toys over into my yard. Alot of toys. Action figures, balls, frisbees, rackets, etc.

Them throwing them over don’t even really bother me that much. What bothers me is that the parents keep demanding that we have to throw them back. They don’t ask, they don’t knock on the door and apologize, they just yell over there fence when they know that we are outside and TELL us to give it back. And that bothers me. They also seem to encourage their kids to throw it over to our yard.

So after Christmas I was at the store and saw that they had a ton of Barbie’s, nail polish, Bratz doll frisbees, and balls on the clearance. I bought 5 of everything I could find that I knew my neighbors would hate seeing their sons play with. Every time an action figure gets thrown over to my yard, I will throw a barbie back with it. Every time a ball gets thrown, a Bratz ball will be returned. I already threw a couple nail polishes over and the twins went crazy. They loved it. They’ve had pink, purple, and green nails all week.

It’s been 2 days and not a single action figure has crossed my fence. More importantly, not a single rude demand from the parents to return them. The kids are having fun, and I have pretty revenge.

[handsomedogs]

Elke Vogelsang | Yes, I am the babysitter, so what?

[jaho-12]

Happy 20th birthday, Pokemon!

[thedoctoroftheopera-deactivated]

[peopleasproducts]

Sexism 60’s

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

jesus???????????????

[mockeryd-deactivated20201004]

What the fuck was wrong with men in the 60’s?

[magicaldolan]

advertising is important as it’s the historian’s best resource for identifying the values of an era. but yeah, these were fucked. the 60s was generally as fucked as the 50s. people forget that. 

[yourladydisdain-deactivated2022]

It literally says ‘men are better than women’ in bold type, what the fuck. I knew this was a thing, but that is a lack of subtlety I couldn’t have written into a spoof…

[thatseanguyblogs-deactivated201]

This is the generation that spawned most of our parents… People our parents’ age run Washington. Starting to make sense? When you look to the past, the struggles of the present become a great deal more clear.

[kissing-whiskey-deactivated2019]

Hey Everyone, just an FYI…. This is not over. This is not exclusive to “our parents generation”

Oh hey look, a Hardee’s ad

[asharomi]

These advertisements had to go through layers of people. Someone said, “this is my idea” to a room of people and then sold the idea for money.

[alackof-color]

Reblogging with the updated commentary 

[arcaneloquence]

Bringing this back, because it’s important to acknowledge that this gross bullshit persists in our culture today. Stomp on this crap.

[juiciercouture]

This reallllly fucking pisses me off holy shit

[thatgingeone]

Well this is thoroughly depressing

[ultrafacts]

The same thing is done with racing horses. Except that they use a goat. [x]

(Fact Source) Follow Ultrafacts for more facts

[absolutepie]

HELLO FAST CAT I AM YOUR DESIGNATED DOG FRIEND

[vancity604778kid]

Opponents would literally attempt to kidnap each other’s goats in an effort to upset the horse and cause them to lose the race. [x]

[ultrafacts]

[actuallyasisterofbattle]

I have a weird derailing question. Is this the origin of the idiom about getting someone’s goat?

[crowmeme]

As a matter of fact, it is!

[thatsthat24]

I just learned so much from this one post.

[mediamattersforamerica]

This 11-year-old understands more about the importance of representation than all of the adults at Fox News combined.

[horusyounggod]

Wow

[kurotsuchi-sterling]

A whole new generation believing in themselves not allowing any supremacy standing in their way

[gician]

So precious, so intelligent.

[edwardspoonhands]

Fuckin’ white boys and their dogs…want to take a guess what kind of person was picking these books for us to read? 

[thatgingeone]

This is something I’ve been considering a lot lately cause when it comes to classroom literature I want to make sure lots of different groups are represented (I actually read a really good book aimed at 7-10 year olds recently about a transgender girl called ‘George’)

[geekstudio]

It’s time for the 2nd Bookworm Giveaway!

We had one of these two years ago and it was a huge hit so here it is again. A little improved :)

There will be TWO winners!

PRIZES Each winner will get: - one Amazon Fire Tablet - tons of ebooks!

Books Included:

Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling

Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins

Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan

Divergent series - Veronica Roth

Game of Thrones series (The Songs of Ice and Fire) George R.R. Martin

Narnia series - C.S. Lewis

Maze Runner series - James Dashner

Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare

Odd Thomas series - Dean Koontz

Torchwood book series

Alex Rider series - Anthony Horowitz

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

Paper Towns - John Green

Looking for Alaska - John Green

Heat series - Richard Castle

Ender’s Game Saga - Orson Scott Card

The Chemical Gardens trilogy - Lauren DeStefano

Dresden Files series - Jim Butcher

Howl’s Moving Castle series - Diana Wynne Jones

Chrestomanci series - Diana Wynne Jones

Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell

Graceling Realm series - Kristin Cashore

Summer Falls - Amelia Williams

The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

Storm series - Richard Castle

The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Discworld series - Terry Pratchett

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman collection

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams

The Hollows series - Kim Harrison

Sunshine - Robin McKinley

The Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop

Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher

The Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson

The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind

David Gemmel collection

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky

Warm Bodies - Issac Marion

The Young Wizards series - Diane Duane

Stephen King Collection

Dangerous Women - George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois

The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snickett

The Cirque du Freak series - Darren Shan

The Demonata series - Darren Shan

The Ranger’s Apprentice series - John Flanagan

Virals Series - Kathy Reichs

Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Reboot - Amy Tintera

Vampire Queen Series - Joey Hill

Nature of Desire Series - Joey Hill

Guild Hunter Series - Nalini Singh

Psy Changling Series - Nalini Singh

Valdemar Series’ - Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes Lackey Collection

His Dark Materials Series - Philip Pullman

Temeraire Series - Naomi Novik

Safehold Series - David Weber

Chronicles of Vladimir Todd - Heather Brewer

Song of the Lioness Quartet - Tamora Pierce

Hollow Earth - John & Carole Barrowman

Chaos Walking Series - Patrick Ness

1984 - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Matched Trilogy - Ally Condie

Alice in Wonderland Series - Lewis Carroll

Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks

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[handsomedogs]

Angela Hay | Harley & Oakley

[prongsxdoe]

Ok but someone tell me why Harry didn’t grow up to be the best Defense Against Dark Arts professor Hogwarts has ever known

[aweephoenix-deactivated20151226]

RIGHT??? what is up with this he becomes an auror crap?? Harry would have loved being a teacher and watching his students improve throughout the years. Revamping the curriculum because if he could teach kids as a child himself how to cast a patronus, perhaps everything they think of as only NEWTs levels and beyond really just weren’t taught well before. 

Making him become an auror just makes him continue the fight he was forced into as a child and didn’t enjoy, Harry enjoyed teaching the DA. Why wouldn’t he chase after doing something he loves with his life????? And then he’d be able to train the next generation to make sure that they can protect the world, too. 

[icanhelpyouthere]

thisthisthisthisthis

[parseltonquinq]

YES. I can just picture Professors Potter and Longbottom joking about students and the other teachers during meals, playing mini pranks on Headmistress McGonagall, who’d purse her lips and remind them that they were adults, then look away before they could catch the twinkle in her eye. All the students would either have a massive crush on them or admire them or both. Harry is the only teacher capable of taming Teddy (who became known as the prank king, comparable to the Weasley’s twins) and eventually James, Al, and Lily. He develops connections with each of his students and teaches them according to the way he’s noticed they learn best and his classroom becomes a usual hangout for students, as he’s always got food and a “lame dad joke” that everyone secretly loves.

I could go on, but I have to stop myself before I get too into this.

[iammultitudes-deactivated202110]

Okay, this now officially drives me nuts because this would have made SO MUCH SENSE. And not only because of Harry’s temperament. Yes, he would have LOVED teaching DADA, but do you know who else wanted to teach DADA? Tom Riddle. Voldemort cursed the position so no one could stay for over a year, and Rowling said that the curse broke upon his death. It would have brought the Prophecy’s plot line to full circle, because it shouldn’t have been anyone other than Harry who became the first un-cursed DADA professor. It would have been just another part Harry vanquished.

[hogwartsaheadcanon]

And how important would it be to the students as well, and to him being able to progress with a comfortable, normal life? Because every witch/ wizard in the UK  goes through Hogwarts. The first year after the war, he starts, and the students all come home at Christmas or in the summer and their parents are all ‘WOW you’ve been taught by HARRY POTTER what was he like?” And all these students who are totally over it already like “I don’t know, just… he’s just Professor Potter. He’s just Harry. He makes shit jokes and hands out chocolate in lessons. He’s just a really great guy.”  And over the years it stops being people yelling ‘The Chosen One’ or ‘The Boy Who Lived’ in the streets. He goes in to Diagon Alley with his family and everyone’s like ‘Oh my god, Sir! Hi! Look, it’s Professor Potter!’ And no-one wants to know how it felt to die or what vanquishing Voldemort was like- they want to tell him how their doing, and chat with him about how they want to go into the Aurors or Dragon taming, or what they’re doing now. They want one of their favourite teachers to meet their kids, reminisce about old lessons.

But of course, everyone still knows it’s Harry Potter. And it becomes like a thing among the students, whenever anyone feels low on confidence or like they’ll never achieve things in life, and someone’ll cut in like ‘Of course you can. Harry defeated the greatest Dark Wizard in memory, and he’s a massive dork who’s a little bit frightened of his wife and kids, still trips over the trick step, didn’t get the date he wanted to the Yule Ball and spills pumpkin juice all over his robes regularly. He’s human just like you, and if he could do that, you can sure as hell make the DMLE if that’s what you want.”

Like Harry and Neville being constant reminders to all their students that heroes are just people- just real, normal, faulty people. (And then can we also have Ginny Weasley, taking some time off from playing professional Quidditch so she comes to do a few years as the flying coach. And her first year Harry goes down to the pitch with a few of the 7th years he has under his wing, and Ginny being, as always, vaguely terrifying but in an incredibly attractive way. And all these 7th years just gaping at her like ‘Woah. You are married to her?!” And Harry just massively smug like ‘Yeah, I know right?’)

[jakewyattonline]

drew this for a silkscreen-process ghibli zine with zine hug.

really excited to see how it comes out in print.

this was a lot of fun, i liked the process and file setup a lot. i may try to screen some prints for the 2016 con season if i can find the time.

-jake

[swan2swan]

I was on the bus thinking about Harry Potter tonight and I remembered the part where the Dementors all show up at the Quidditch game, and I remembered how they were all looking up at Harry, and I wondered why they would all be staring at him, and then I realized that it’s because he has two souls in him.

[pieandhotdogs]

On this note, wouldn’t that also be a reason why Harry would have had a more negative reaction than his friends (even Ginny)? He was hearing his mother’s voice as she was protecting him, which in itself was his worst memory. but the Dementors were also forcing the piece of Voldemort to relive its worst memory as well… The memory of being ripped apart by the curse that backfired. No wonder Harry passed out so often.

[sasskarian-archive]

I literally never thought about that.

[puppyvegeta-deactivated20190313]

omg…

[marauders4evr]

HOLY

[arctic-hands]

Oh FUCKING HELL, you just made me realize that it wasn’t Harry’s memory that was his father telling Lily to take Harry and run, and it wasn’t Harry’s memory of Lily screaming.

Here I was, just eating a cup of applesauce under the 14-year-long assumption that the reason a small infant was able to remember something was because this was a fictional world of magic, but no, now this entirely reasonable and somewhat less terrifying bubble has burst and I’m never going to recapture that innocence. 

I’m going to fucking bed.