you hit my car with your body

You're strong enough to make your own path

[avocado--toast]

I think the most Gemini thing my dad has ever done is one year he threw himself a reverse surprise party for the sheer drama of it. What is a reverse surprise party? you may ask, well let me tell you. So he invites over all his friends and family and then in the middle of dinner he stands up and announces that it’s not a regular dinner, it is in fact, his birthday dinner (his exact words were “Surprise! …. it’s my Birthday”) cue everyone looking panicked, because oh god I don’t have a gift, I don’t even have a card, but my father, wine glass still in hand assures them not to worry and reveals a pile of presents he got for himself and wrapped for everyone to pick one and give it to him as their gift. And honestly? My father is such a legend.

[being-john-malkobitch]

Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence

[collegiate-confession]

Incoming college freshmen: you might think u can do an 8am, you might even think u can do a 9am. But the truth is, u can’t even do an 11am.

[curriebelle]

“DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!”

I reblogged a post earlier today talking about how some movies are actually much better than the books they are derived from, and it got me thinking about this infamous moment from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Now, I really love thinking about media, and one of my pet projects is the translation of stories from one medium to another.

One of my pet peeves is when people sink into that “the books are better” mentality, often condemning the movies simply because they changed things from the books

This line is a great example of this mentality in action. It’s one of those things that bothers people immensely about the Goblet of Fire movie. People don’t like this particular line for one simple reason. In the book, the scene goes like this:

“Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire, Harry?” Dumbledore asked calmly.” (pg 242, GoF)

While in the movie, Michael Gambon grabs Harry by the shoulder, asks him the question quite angrily - almost shouting - and shakes him as he does. Here’s the scene and its lead-up so you know I’m not trying to misrepresent it.

Fans like to hold this moment up as emblematic of how the Harry Potter movies don’t understand the characters - e.g., they think Dumbledore is angry and panicky while he’s much calmer in the books. I think this moment is emblematic of how people don’t understand how adaptations work.

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I read today that Hamilton’s “Uh do whatever you want, I’m super dead” line was apparently inspired by Griffin McElroy, and now I can’t…not…know that. It’s like finding a weird, impossibly shaped puzzle piece that allows my mind to connect “I am inimitable, I am an original” to “you wanna fuck an onion” with frightening ease. It has possibly changed my perspective on Hamilton more than any other reference in the show???

[soaringsparrows]

It’s real, by the way.

[wreckurs]

me trying to cope: it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter it

[meangirlnurse]

it’s impossible to  objectively describe what soup is

[meangirlnurse]

cereal with milk

[meangirlnurse]

i mean but soup can have solids in it too (veggies, meat, potato……)

why isn’t cereal a soup

[meangirlnurse]

ok this is actually the best answer i’ve ever gotten and i’ve been joking about this with people for y ears but

milk soup

[meangirlnurse]

some soups are served cold

[meangirlnurse]

sweet soups exist

[meangirlnurse]

good definition, but it technically does still include cereal

[nekosedey]

what if cereal…. IS soup

[meangirlnurse]

CEREAL IS SOUP

this definition technically includes like….pudding and yogurt too, tho, i think

[meangirlnurse]

they said “much of the time.” there are also soups that don’t contain any of those things, e.g.:

soups that are broth only

soups that only contain noodles

matzo ball soup 

[lioncunt]

soup contains water. there ain’t no water in fuckn cereal

[xxyeehawxx]

Milk is approximately 87% water

If I may play devils advocate, cereal could also be considered a salad, with the dry cereal being the main meal, and the milk being a dressing or condiment. Before yall wanna talk about how salads only consist of vegetables, may I remind you of fruit salad, potato salad, pasta salad, bean salad, and the ugly cousin, jello salad.

[lioncunt]

yeah well my body is 60% water but u don’t see me chillin in a bowl with some carrots u feel

[maskedlinguist]

So, hot cereals (oatmeal, cream of wheat, etc) are forms of porridge, ie grains cooked in either a milk or water preparation. Lexically, porridge derives from pottage, which is unquestionably a soup.

Cold cereal is trickier as it has no stage of being cooked in the liquid prior to being served, nor is the liquid cooked beforehand the way most soup broths are (pasteurization is a technically different process from my understanding; I’m also not getting into the hairy subject of the preparation of milk substitutes).

I mean, it’s weird to think of cereal as a soup, but I’m not going to state for sure it isn’t.

[notcuddles]

Cereal is absolutely a soup.  A weird, lazy breakfast soup.

Theoretically, you could argue that the time of day the food is consumed is the key.  I don’t think there are any breakfast soups that aren’t cereal or porridge.  

[funereal-disease]

Pho is traditionally a breakfast food, I think. And some people drink broth in the morning instead of tea or coffee.

[thisoneshade]

Things heating up in the soup fandom

[brainstatic]

The prosecutor who subpoenaed and cross-examined Hitler in 1931 for a murder trial against four brownshirts was a Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten. The three-hour testimony left Hitler so unnerved and humiliated that he forbade anyone speak Litten’s name in his presence, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Today, the German bar association is called the Hans Litten Association, and every year they give out the Hans Litten Award for excellence in the legal profession. That’s how you commemorate history. 

[viria]

Quests are hard and nerve-wracking things even for the most experienced of us…The only thing that can possibly be scarier is a crush. 

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

do kids these days even know what endless 8 is

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

all you young anime fans with your attack on titans and your maid dragons will never know the sheer hell of the time The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya went in to a time loop story arc and made the same episode 8 times and broadcast that same episode 8 weeks in a row

they didn’t just air the same episode eight times

they made the same episode 8 times in slightly different ways

different camera angles, different shots, different outfits

eight times

eight weeks

the same episode

[andrusi]

I don’t know or care what the prevailing opinion on haruhi suzumiya is these days but if it doesn’t include “endless eight was one of the greatest moments in the history of trolling“ then modern society is wrong

[katiemcgrath]

H A M I L T O N Lin-Manuel Miranda

Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me. America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me. You let me make a difference, a place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up. I’m running out of time. I’m running, and my time’s up! Wise up! Eyes up! I catch a glimpse of the other side. Laurens leads a soldiers’ chorus on the other side, my son is on the other side, he’s with my mother on the other side washington is watching from the other side. Teach me how to say goodbye

Rise up! Rise up! Rise up! Eliza! My love, take your time, I’ll see you on the other side. Raise a glass to freedom…

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[nineprotons]

“Got the morbs” should be a thing.

[breelandwalker]

Victorian slang is AMAZING, and select phrases really need to make a comeback.

“Bitch the pot” - Pour the tea (HOW RELEVANT IS THIS!?)

“Bang up the elephant” - Absolutely perfect; super stylish

“Well, that’s shot the bale” - Something that has missed the mark entirely

“Church-bell” - A woman prone to gossip

“Chuckaboo” - A dear friend, a bosom chum

“Beer and skittles” - A great time (see also: Irish Gaelic “craic”)

“Butter on bacon” - Something overdone or too extravagant

“Cupid’s kettle drums” - Breasts, particularly large ones

“Gigglemug” - A cheerful smiling face

[thecuriousviolet-deactivated201]

All of these??? Make me smile??? They’re so weird and wonderful I love them??? Especially bitch the pot because that’s something I could totally hear myself saying…that and chuckaboo

[thebibliosphere]

I worked in a Victorian tea house in my youth and I’m telling you, you haven’t lived till you hear a the 98 year old lady (this was some 15 years ago) utter the words “bitch the pot” because it was what they used to say when the tea house first opened and it just sort of stuck through all the generations.

[nuggsmum]

@theblackthrone I expect these phrases to become part of our daily conversations.

[tomhiddleston-kikibfairy]

I love all of my chuckaboos on here!

[mywildandpreciouslife13]

Adding these to my random comments in class

[lookiamnotcreative]

4-page promotional preview of  怪談囃子, a short manga appearing in the October issue of Bunch Magazine! COMING SOON TO ONLINE ORDERS NEAR YOU.

I lol’d when I saw this on twitter, so I lunchbreak translated it here. Usual shit wording apologies and caveat emptors apply.

(The source is here. This is only a sample and it’s for promotional purposes, so it should be fine to do this…?)

[muuutant]

You ever just realize how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?

[cherrylipstateofmind]

swift: Oh you like calling me a snake well yeah guess what i am one and my new album is called reputation because all you people do is bash my reputation and now im dark and grungey instead of your happy pop star. all your fake stories is hurtful and saddening

everyone:

[hugo-cumboss-deactivated2017092]

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