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Hi I'm Emily. This isn't my gif but I want Cory to be on here. Taking a Break

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[mishasminions]

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT STEVE TRIED TO TRIGGER BUCKY’S MEMORIES BY WEARING HIS LESS DURABLE RETRO!UNIFORM (aka the not-so-bulletproof outfit he wore the last time Bucky saw him) AND BY QUOTING SOMETHING BUCKY SAID TO HIM 70-SOMETHING YEARS AGO

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Okay okay but can we just talk about this?  The entire movie Steve’s worth is defined by what Captain America has become.  He goes to the Smithsonian to see Captain America’s life projected back at him — the boy he was before a footnote, the sickly waif who wasn’t good enough until the army (literally) made him A Man — while he’s there he walks around unrecognized; the entire gag at the mall is based on the idea that this is a 6’2” hulking muscled mass of a guy who absolutely no one recognizes unless he has that star on his chest, because it’s the suit, not the person, who’s been given worth.  And when Steve thinks about the most memorable thing about himself — when he thinks about how to get Bucky back — he goes for that.  He goes for Captain America.  And it doesn’t work; Bucky doesn’t react at all.  Because Bucky always saw through that.  He didn’t give a shit about Captain America.  That “little guy from Brooklyn,” that’s the kid he loved, that’s the one he was following when he died, the one who’s scared voice knocked the memories out of him earlier in the movie.  And it’s only when Steve drops the shield, and the helmet — all of the things that make him Captain America, that make him immediately recognizable to the rest of the country, to the world — when he calls on this one, rogue memory from when they were just kids, from before he was the national ideal of he’s been made out to be since his death…  That’s when Bucky sees him.  Because Bucky doesn’t remember, or care about Captain America: Captain America is just a target.  But Steve Rogers, that little kid from Brooklyn?  Is under him, and dying, and scared…and the impulse to protect is so much stronger than anything else that’s been done to Bucky since then.

[artoo]

everyone: im tired of everything being about skywalkers!!!!

me: i LOVE the skywalkers. i want EVERYONE to be a skywalker. rey SKYWALKER marrying finn. FINN becomes a SKYWALKER. they have TWELVE skywalker kids and end up with 40 grandchildren. in 150 years EVERY SINGLE human being in the galaxy is a SKYWALKER. the IDEAL star wars universe  

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Avalanches start out small

[asajjvxntress]

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT PERCY WEASLEY, WHO WAS THOUGHT TO BE STUFFY AND SERIOUS, WAS THE LAST PERSON WHO MADE FRED WEASLEY LAUGH. 

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FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT PERCY WEASLEY IS STILL A TITANIC ASSHOLE WHO DID NOT EARN REDEMPTION.

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EXCUSE ME? YOU COME ONTO MY POST? MY POST ABOUT PERFECT PERCY AND YOU SAY THIS? OH NO HONEY, YOU’RE NOT GETTING OFF THAT EASY.

Percy Weasley 100% deserved his redemption and you want to know why?! Too bad, I’m going to tell you. For his whole life, Percy Weasley was made fun of, he was teased by all his siblings, constantly the butt of jokes. Whenever he was proud of his accomplishments, his family (besides his mother) shut him down. Prefect? Fred and George made fun of him for bragging, for being excited that he lived up to Bill and Charlie’s shadow. Head Boy? Fred and George teased him, stole his badge because they thought it was funny. Percy was so happy and proud of himself and his brothers tore him down. He was pushed aside for Bill or Charlie or even Ron and Ginny. Sure, his mother was proud of him, but his brothers made sure they made his life hell. When he got his job at the Ministry he was so excited. Right of school he got a job he loved, a job he was sure he was good at. He talked about it a lot but that’s what happens when you’re excited. His parents were proud, but again, his siblings made sure to tease him. When Crouch didn’t know his name, his siblings laughed, Fred and George sent him dragon dung. 

Then he gets the job of Junior Assistant to the Minister. He’s proud because he’s 2 years out of school and has this prestigious position. Of course he’s going to want to share with his family. What do they do? Tell him his hard work meant nothing, that the Minister was using him (and sure, that was probably true, but Percy was so excited). He saw that he and his family shared two very different views and opinions, some words were said, and Percy left. Reminds me of another beloved character that never gets shit about leaving his family from the fandom. Any guesses who? If you said Sirius Black you are correct! Like Sirius, he left home and the family he clearly no longer saw eye to eye with. That’s not a problem. He felt as though he was in a toxic environment, and honestly he was. I do not blame him for leaving his family even if they were for the wrong reasons. (but why does Percy get shit for leaving a toxic family when Sirius doesn’t? interesting) Now we don’t know what happened when he was at the Ministry. He wrote a letter to Ron that was a bit rude, but we’re also seeing this from Harry’s limited POV. Maybe Percy regretted leaving, maybe he loved his freedom and never wanted to go home. We just don’t know. He finally does come home for Christmas in 1996 (HBP), where he openly welcomed by his mother. He was being used by Scrimgeour, but he went. While his mother was welcoming, his siblings are not. He leaves with mashed parsnips in his face. Did he want to be there? No idea, but he went. How do you think he felt leaving? Probably awful. He didn’t go to Bill and Fleur’s wedding, but it was clear from the way his family treated him the year before that even if he did go, no one wanted him there.

The Battle of Hogwarts comes and Percy comes back. Yes, comes back. He went back to the family he left, he apologized for leaving and for being ‘family disowning, ministry loving, power hungry moron’ (as Fred put it), which he takes full blame for being. What happens next? Fred welcomes him back. Then his parents. Then George. They did not need to do this, but they did because they were family and they still loved each other. Percy fights in the Battle and ends up going up against Pius. He makes the “Hello, Minister, did I mention that I’m resigning!” joke which shows that his limited view has been expanded. He finally saw what was wrong with this Ministry, with what was happening around him (though this may not all be his fault, he surrounded himself with people who also had very limited knowledge and views). When Fred is shown dead, it is Percy who is crying over his body, Percy who tries to protect his body and hide it. Wonder how guilty he felt after this happened because he made Fred laugh and then Fred dies. We don’t know what happens to Percy after this but we clearly know he has a very fierce love of his family and that he was really and truly sorry. 

So TLDR; Percy loves his family and was very sorry and hurt by them. He 100% deserved his redemption even if you don’t think so. And if you don’t, don’t comment on other people’s posts about him saying rude things about Percy because you will be proven wrong. Thank you and have a good day. 

[youpromisedmebroadway]

Also, Percy was a caring person. In Chamber of Secrets when all her brothers are dismissing her and not paying enough attention to what she’s going through, Percy actually takes notice of Ginny. He actually sees something’s up. As well in Chamber of Secrets, he’s so far the end of his brothers’ jokes that when he’s seen to be visibly upset about Penelope being petrified. They just pass it off as him being worried the Basilisk will attack prefects which is just plain RIDICULOUS for anyone to think. Even if they didn’t know about Percy’s relationship with Penelope, she was (as they so keenly note) a prefect and in his year SO HE OBVIOUSLY KNEW HER AND THEREFORE WOULD BE UPSET. But no one thought to see how he was, or if he was okay. When you’re on the end of sibling’s jokes and constantly reminded how they don’t care, it can really drag you down. Fred and George rarely make fun of Bill for being a prefect and Head Boy (and when they do it’s barely made a deal of because they make it clear they think Bill is cool), so how does this look to Percy? He’s not around when Ron gets made prefect and the twins make a lot of fun of him, so to Percy he feels like Fred and George hate him because of the constant jokes. And as much as I like the twins, a lot of their behaviour comes across as childish bullying. 

Again, in defence of Percy, not only did he get a job he was very proud of after only 2 years out of school, but in his view his family were choosing a boy they’d only known for four years over him - they’re son and brother. How would that make you feel? Percy was never as close to Harry as the others, mainly because they were very different people and didn’t have a lot of common interests. Percy obviously liked Harry (shown throughout the books in his support for Harry) but still, to him he wasn’t as one of the family as much as the rest of them seemed to feel. 

And finally, at the beginning of Order of the Phoenix he is 19/20 years old. He is very young, very impressionable and very eager to please, on top of being ambitious. He chooses to join the ministry in spite of what’s going on because he doesn’t see clearly - yes refuses to see clearly. But that doesn’t make him a bad person. He made a mistake, and this is a mistake he probably realises more and more as the time between OotP and DH (with a huge wake up call in DH) but he’s so tied in now he can’t leave because (let’s be honest) he would probably be killed if he did. AND THEN HE DOES LEAVE. Percy was a gryffindor like all the others. He was brave and took a stand in the end, and that is redemption. But it also important to realise that his actions are understandable. If you can forgive Snape for the decisions he made when he was young (and also a lot older, at 33 bullying 11 year olds mind), then you can forgive Percy for walking out on his family as a teenager.

tl;dr percy put up with a lot, made a bad decision which is understandable, and he deserves forgiveness (and also an apology from his family)

[milesgmoralles]

[youpromisedmebroadway]

Me: why didn't I get full points for annotations

English teacher: you just wrote "savage" every time Lady Macbeth spoke

[micdotcom]

Watch: When Mitt Romney makes the same points as John Oliver, you know shit’s gone south.

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this is ‘the villain helps the heroes take down a more evil villain’ trope come to life

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I agree with mitt holy shit @datewithadeathstar

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[90s90s90s]

The original character descriptions of Friends

[youpromisedmebroadway]

I have printed and bound my dissertation! I’m actually really proud of it. because a year of research and it’s DONE

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I went home and Googled the statue to see what the internet had to say about this mysterious black man, and I found that the New York City Parks Department website did not mention the presence of a second human being in the monument at all. Instead, it read: “The work, set in a picturesque pink granite steele designed by architect Henry Bacon, features a heroic-sized Lafayette standing next to his horse.” Lafayette and his horse. His horse. Nary a mention of the grown man standing there, blanket over his shoulder and a look on his face like he’d rather be someplace else. I was perplexed, and then angry, and then curious. I went to the library. The statue, by Daniel Chester French, had been commissioned when a Frenchman turned Brooklynite named Henry Harteau died and left the city $35,000 to cast a monument to his celebrated countryman. (Lafayette and Harteau are identified on the statue’s base, and it was dedicated in 1917.) He asked that the statue be based on a painting called Lafayette at Yorktown by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon. The painting was actually of two men named Lafayette; one was the familiar marquis, and the other was named James Armistead Lafayette. The marquis was white and James was black. Still, I wondered: Were they brothers? Why did they share a last name? It turns out that James Armistead was an enslaved man from Virginia who enlisted to fight against the British and ended up working as a double agent. The information he acquired helped to win the battle of Yorktown; hence, the heroic painting. He served under Lafayette, and the two men became such close friends that the marquis successfully petitioned to have James made a free man, after James’s own request for manumission was denied. (Apparently, they were only freeing “slave-soldiers” who fought in the war; being a “slave-spy” didn’t qualify.) James Armistead then took the name of his friend out of affection and gratitude. He lived a long life and become a farmer and a family man.

The Invisible Black Man on a Prospect Park Statue (New York Magazine)

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how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH

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English Person: *Points at an apple* Apple

French Person: Non c’est une fucking pomme 

*800 years of war*

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