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there're worse places to waste time

[setheverman]

Ideal number of teeth?

as many as i can get my hands on

[matchbox-mouse]

Foggy day pierced by little needles of sunlight in Lynn Canyon.

[matchbox-mouse]

British Columbia is spellbinding. Fog, water, and trees.

[princesscheeto]

Packed and ready for the holidays

#CheetAndNach #PackedLikeSardines

[cleverdeception]

American students: our educational system is shit and we hate it, this is torture not learning

American students: *meet homeschooled person* ????? No you have to go to real school or you won’t learn anything

[timewaster19]

American student: “Ugh I hate high school. I hate the drama and how everyone’s always gossiping about me. I hate these assholes can’t just leave me alone? BTW, I hate having no friends and... being alone all the time...” 

American student: “Homeschooling? But how will you make friends and socialize?” 

[tafelisa]

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

David Carson (via tafelisa)

[becky-made]

David Carson at TED.

David Carson on Design + Discovery

“Why not experiment? Why not have some fun? Why not put some of yourself into the work?”

[stu-815-deactivated20141003]

Ray Gun Magazine

Ray Gun es una revista de rock alternativo de los 90 que tenia como director artistico a David Carson. La revista se caracterizaba por los diseños experimentales con la tipografia.

[julianajohnsonphoto]

[movienightstheseries]

We actually enjoyed an episode?! In this mid-season finale, it’s laughs aplenty as the women (not girls) try to throw a Christmas party, Parker attempts to steal their Charmed DNA, Macy wears (pants), and Galvin passes out on the toilet. Jingle hell is other people, Archie.

[artist-aivazovski]

The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-shipwreck-on-northern-sea-1865

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

Armaros…Angel of Undoing by  Allen Williams

[lbibliophile]

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

[wizardtowizard-blog]

Who gave you the RIGHT?

[bonnini]

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

[marauders4evr]

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

[not-a-bit-good]

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

[marauders4evr]

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

[theotheryongbok]

[my-sun-is-gone-deactivated20180]

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

[gehayi]

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

[frostyemma]

well… well, shit

[a-fangirl-summary]

what

[mintedwitcher]

Oh shit. Its been updated.

[garrettauthor]

…I’ve been in the “Dumbledore was on the darker side of morally grey” camp for years but this…this. Holy shit. Oh no.

[theorclair]

If Harry’d grown up in the wizarding world, he wouldn’t have had the blood protection, and thus would have died at the end of book 1.

Oops.

[reasonandempathy]

…Why wouldn’t he?

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

a collection of underrated tweets, part 2

(the series)

[timewaster19]

Using social media at this point i my life, is like spending the day going into each room in my house, hoping a friend is there, only to find it empty, but instead of calling him up or going outside of my house to see him, I just keep going into the same rooms over and over again till I fall asleep. 

[prokopetz]

Random Headcanon: Link’s androgyny isn’t just an artefact of the Zelda franchise’s art direction - and neither is it particularly unusual. Sexual dimorphism among Hylians is legitimately much lower than among real-world humans; if Link and Zelda swapped clothes, you’d never be able to tell who was the girl and who was the boy.

Consequently, Hylian society depends heavily on clothing to establish gender roles, to the extent that it’s a severe faux pas to question someone’s gender presentation. If they’re dressed like a girl, then they’re a girl - even if they were dressed like a boy yesterday. That’s why nobody ever remarks upon the fact that Zelda and her heroic alter-ego Sheik are different genders; it’d be gauche at best to bring it up.

[stellarsylph]

Good post op

[parpatarts]

explains why i can be banned from gerudo town, change clothes in front of the guards, and then be welcomed with open arms

[quantumghosts]

shit, this absolutely provides an explanation for it that isn’t just “lazy game mechanism” and is honestly such a solid demonstration of how people should approach genderfluidity. 

doesn’t matter if the first time you met the person they presented as male, if they present as female now that means they’re a woman and they’re welcome into gerudo town no questions asked

[wombatking]

Also, Link and Zelda 100% do swap places often and you can’t tell me otherwise.

[gayrika]

“Princess Zelda, Ganon has made his way into the kingdom! What should we do?!”

“HYAH”

[faranae-moved]

Holy shit this is a good fucking post and additions thank you OP and company

[timewaster19]

This honestly sounds very plausible 

[timewaster19]

I don’t care about Rick’s depression.

We’re supposed to feel bad for Rick from “Rick & Morty” for having depression, and it’s to excuse his awful behavior. But I don’t think it does. For three reasons:

* Lots of people have depression, and they can manage not being abusive to the people that should matter to them

* Being depressed for living in a “meaningless” universe doesn’t make his depression magically special. Depression is painful regardless of the cause. And it’s actually dumb to be depressed over that, cause the alternative is to live in a universe that serves god (more on this below) and we can still having personal meaning in our lives. 

* I don’t want to say his depression is “his fault”, but if all the interpretations I’ve seen are right, then all he has to do is try to change his way of thinking, which is something he can do. 

About the alternative to a meaningless universe: The reason why the universe is considered “meaningless” seems to be because there isn’t a creator to give things official meaning. So if this is so, then a universe that has meaning would be one where there is God, which means the “meaning of life” is to be a subserviant to God, to be his slave. Now which is worse: to live in a universe that has no “official” meaning, but one where we can give our lives personal meaning, or one were there is “official” meaning, but that “meaning” is to be a slave?

I think all the Atheists know which one is better, and why that option isn’t depressing, but a blessing.