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Sam Beckett // In Transition
You’re going to lose people in your life. And realise that no matter how much time you spent with them, or how much you appreciated them, it will never seem like it was enough.
Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
That’s the thing about introverts; we wear our chaos in the inside where no-one can see it.
Michaela Chung (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
I’ve spent my 18 years of life trying to be okay with the fact that humans fade in and out of each others’ lives. No matter how I think about it, I can’t make it sound romantic or poetic. To those who have already passed through my life and to those who eventually will: I love you. I miss you. The back door will always be unlocked if you ever feel like coming home.
jkr doesnt understand anything about america if she thinks the northern and southern states will share the same wizarding school lollll. like the south would have formed its own school anyways after, if not before or during the civil war?
hell east coast and west coast magic has got to be different (european settlers on the east, mexican/hispanic in the whole new mexico, arizona, cali area).
not to mention historically black wizarding schools would have absolutely been a thing bc african magic survived thru slavery hello??? not to mention under slavery and jim crow laws i highly doubt black children would have been allowed to study with white students. you could even make the assumption that white slavers forbade them for using their magic at all (african magic = dark magic and all that Fun Racism)
underdeveloped and struggling to thrive native american reservation schools of magic in the dakotas?
texas has to have its own school on its own school. like its just a given fact. TEXAS WIZARDING SCHOOL QUDDITCH (like texas high school football #texasforever)
and obviously you have the elitist new england schools which everyone assumes is the pinnacle of american magic education lol
The U.S. would have tons of day schools in every region and zero live-in boarding schools.
The U.S. simply doesn’t have the same history of live-in “public schools” that England has and they make no sense at all in an American context.
PLUS all the stuff listed in this post.
J. K. Rowing has zero understanding of American culture or history.
The thing is, America is so heavily colonized that there’s no way the magic here would look similar at all to a European or British wizard. First off, you’re telling me Aztecs, Hopi, Seminole, and Lakota peoples (to name a few) would all have the same wizarding traditions as each other? No, I do not buy it. There would have been a substantial diversity between larger tribes.
Now we have first contact and you’d have Spanish and Mesoamerican magical traditions interbreeding heavily into probably a pretty solid fusion. The French tended to trade openly in the Northeast, and likely wouldn’t have assimilated as thoroughly as the Spanish but more so than the British who tended to just go “ours now, you leave.”
Then come waves of immigration, including the African Diaspora/the slave trade and focusing heavily in the south and northeast. Alongside that, you have French Canadians (Acadians) moving down the Mississippi into Louisiana and giving it a heavy French and Caribbean influence. You have Scotch and Irish immigrants moving into the Appalachians where (in some places) they’re in close contact with Cherokee and similar tribes, and in others with slaves. We can assume those groups would trade magic thoroughly amongst themselves in the few hundred years of living in close contact. You have Latin American immigration coming up through the south west and bringing their Mesoamerican/Spanish hybrid magic where it would be informed by Creole traditions formed by hybridizing French, African, and Native techniques along with the dominant British traditions. The Midwest tends to be Scandinavian, but again their magic is influenced by people they would have had trade with such as plains Indians and French trappers in the north.
Then, of course, Chinese and Japanese schools of magic coming into California where it blends with traditional Mexican schools. You have Puerto Rican, Italian, and Jewish immigrant communities living in close contact with each other as well as whatever hybrid Dutch-British-African hybrid is going on in NYC. That’s not even getting into more recent waves from Vietnam, Laos, and the Middle East, for example.
What I’m saying here is that not only would American magic look like an unholy hodgepodge to a European wizard, but there would be regional variations within the country that would be almost impossible to even work around.
I mean, say what you will about the French and British, but they’ve spent most of the last thousand years in close contact with each other and you can assume that French and British wizards and witches would probably at least know what their magic looked like. We’re talking now about cultures spread across the entire globe taking up residence in one area where they’re now surrounded by people with entirely different traditions. After a few generations, there’s going to be a lot of adaptation and adoption of techniques to the point that your grandparents wouldn’t recognize your wandwork because you’re now using something adapted from a Hmong style with a distinctly Norwegian flare and youre casting it with Incan words.
I mean Jesus, just look at the variations in American food from region to region if you don’t believe me.
I keep reblogging different versions of this post because it just gets better every time I see it
It is the color she wears the first time you meet, hearts pounding and voices trembling as you whisper your hellos. The sun’s rays against an empty sky as you wait for her again. It is the writing on the menu you share when you are too distracted by the way her glasses press against her face to make out the words. The color of the sky and the sunset reflected in her eyes as you realize this is how it is supposed to be. It is the color of the metal that created civilizations and began expansions of life. It is the feeling you get once you realize she is yours.
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Andy Warhol - New Coke, 1985
Terrence was as close to a part of my family as you can be without being of the same blood. He touched so many people in the Bay Area Skate, Music, and Art communities. We all miss him greatly. It sounds cliché but tomorrow is not guaranteed. This most recent tragic, senseless loss reminds me …
Terrence was as close to a part of my family as you can be without being of the same blood. He touched so many people in the Bay Area Skate, Music, and Art communities. We all miss him greatly. It sounds cliché but tomorrow is not guaranteed. This most recent tragic, senseless loss reminds me of that. I’m thankful to be surrounded by an extended skateboard family that I do not take for granted. Hug your friends, hug your kids, try to do good shit daily. Tomorrow is a gift. Terrence’s family asked me to speak at his funeral. It was both one of the hardest and personally meaningful things I have ever done. If you could not make the ceremony below are the words and some photos I collected in the last few days. Keep Pushing guys. - Jim
I think some people are just inexplicably bonded. Drawn by forces beyond their own comprehension, they have no choice but to gravitate toward one another. Destined by fate to keep crossing paths until they finally get it right.
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You’re going to lose people in your life. And realise that no matter how much time you spent with them, or how much you appreciated them, it will never seem like it was enough.
Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
The night of Sunday, August 21st, hundreds of people from family to friends and even strangers, gathered at the Terrence McCrary Memorial Skatepark a.k.a. Berkeley Park, to commemorate the life of a great human being. T-Mack FOREVER.
Special thanks to Taylor Morgan for filming this piece and to all the skaters that came out to show love for Terrence.