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Just the regular potterhead, nerdfighter, starkid, gleek girl next-door. May the wind under your wings bear you where the Sun sails and the Moon walks. - J.R.R. Tolkien

[micdotcom]

Watch: “In case you need more convincing there are many fundamental things Bernie and Hillary agree on”

[elloellenoh]

So important!! Please vote blue!

[siawrites]

Considering [T]Rump will be the most likely Republican nominee?

Vote Blue.  For the love of god, vote Democrat.

[dreaming-shark]

I just had this conversation with a friend of mine on facebook. I love Bernie Sanders and want him to be our nominee, but it’s important to remember: When they were in the senate together, Clinton and Sanders voted the same way 93% of the time. That 7% does make a difference, but not so big a difference that I’d risk a Trump presidency.

[tittily]

“Bernie himself has said that, ‘On her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and president than the Republican candidate on his best day.’ If Bernie believes that, his supporters can too.”

[pipistrellus]

an entertaining thing to do would be to replace every instance of “for ritual purposes” in any archeology article with “for funsies”

[cwtchpup]

#experts think stone henge was probably built for funsies

[jamespottver]

make me choose ♡ @richavdgansey asked: tessa or emma

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

[thesistersstark]

1.01 // 6.05

Sansa + Making her own Northern clothing

[kelseyridge13]

Teenagers are critically engaged and thoughtful readers. They do not read Looking for Alaska and think ‘I should go have some aggressively unerotic oral sex.’ And they also don’t read The Outsiders and think 'I should join a gang’ or read Divergent and think, 'I should jump onto moving trains.’ So far as I can tell, that kind of narrow, prescriptive reading seems to happen only inside the offices of school superintendents

John Green (On the Banning of Looking for Alaska)

[buffysummers]

What if she is the one?

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

[tfios-tatwd]

[rasoir-emousse-deactivated20140]

[emmaduerrewatson]

[dandelioncraft-deactivated20181]

I am an environmentalist. Absolutely. I see a lot of posts exclaiming “We’re destroying the earth!!” And yeah. But we’re destroying the earth’s ability to be habitable to humans. You know, those lanky things that drink water out of plastic bottles and think that when we die the earth will too?

Nah, earth will not die. It will breathe itself clean of us. It will cleanse itself in wind and fire, ash and ice. We will not see how beautiful it is because we are destroying ourselves, destroying our ability to live, destroying our future generations. So recycle and fight climate change and argue with politicians but aim their own deaths at them, not the death of the planet because they don’t care about the ocean and forests, they forget that we come from them. They care about themselves so remind them.

[frolicingintheforest]

I love this.

[gideonseymours]

miscommunication as a plot device makes me angry

if you just talked to each other but no

[squirrelstone]

on the one hand i agree with this but on the other hand one of my coworkers rented an alpaca from a petting zoo and brought it to work because my boss said she wanted an alpaca sweater but the guy didn’t hear her say sweater and didn’t want to upset her by asking why the fuck she’d want an alpaca

[libraryoftheancients]

I think that highlights a good genre difference: miscommunication in drama is frustrating, overused, and just kinda shit. Miscommunication in comedy is fucking hilarious.

[cute-guysxx]

[reneewvlker]

ya lit meme ( 1/7 friendships ) » the gangsey 

What happened was they drove to Harry’s and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn’t hold any more bowls and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they’d found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting.

[problematic-blackthorn]

I love how Emma is portrayed!

She’s the top Shadowhunter of her time, and she doesn’t even really believe she is! She isn’t depicted as this super love struck woman who needs to swoon over any guy. She just so happens to be in love with Julian, but she doesn’t lose herself in it as far as her personality goes. She doesn’t feel the need to dress different, or even really act different. Literally, no one else knows Emma has feelings for Julian, but Christina, and that’s because she’s not doing the things a lot of female characters do when they have a love interest. She is seriously so beautiful, but isn’t even aware of it. Inside her head you can see her vulnerability, and see the way she worries about those she loves. Her anxiety, and worries are internal where as Julian wears it on his sleeve.

It kinda slightly bothers me when people compare her to Jace. I love Jace, but Jace was kind of a dick towards downworlders, and he was so cocky about his skills as a Shadowhunter, and about his looks. This threw me off about him.

Emma is like Emma, and I do understand how you would compare her to Jace & Will with the burying her feelings, and shrugging it off like she’s not bothered by it, and the general recklessness I get that, but she is seriously a Carstairs deep down. She is more like Jem than anyone else I think. Caring, modest, brave, and selfless.

She didn’t even have to think twice, this woman proudly took a whipping she knew Mark couldn’t take, and she couldn’t stand the thought of Julian in pain like that. She would do anything for those she loves.

She is seriously so badass, and she needs to stop being shadowed by the other great Shadowhunters.

[aranelb]

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare Chapter 19 - Boadicea

[fangirl-mess-deactivated2019030]

I’m just sitting here not knowing what to do with my life until Lord of Shadows comes out…..

[blairwaldorfings]

“I always get the last word.”