Team JKR

raritarous: trcunning: pippinstewardofgondor: inebriatedpony: ...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:37:55 +1000

trcunning:

pippinstewardofgondor:

inebriatedpony:

Science!

what the fuck is this science bullshit

gif 1, explosive polymerization of p Nitro Aniline Video

gif 2, Sodium Polyacrylate mixed with water Video

gif 3, Sodium Acetate Video

gif 4, the smoke is vaporized wax, can still catch fire and travels back to the wick Video

gif 5, Ping Pong balls + Liquid Nitrogen in a trash can Video

gif 6, electrical treeing

gif 7, heating Mercury Thiocyanate

gif 8, ferrofluid sculpture Video

gif 9, flammable gas lit in a glass jar Video

idontwantyourbullshit: so I found this on my facebook And I would just like to point out, that if...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:13 +1000

idontwantyourbullshit:

so I found this on my facebook And I would just like to point out, that if Lily Potter had an abortion, the prophecy would never had happened, Lily and James would be alive, Sirius wouldn’t have been in Azkaban, Remus would be doing god knows what and Wormtail would possibly still be on Voldemort’s side. That being said, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore, and the rest of The Order of The Phoenix would have stopped Voldemort.

The prophecy would still have happened, just with Neville (assuming that Alice Longbottom didn’t also abort). Everything else is true regarding the Marauders, but the prophecy would still have taken place.

It's NerdyHBIC, Bitch: theravennest: Every time someone screams for the “old days” of a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:15:03 +1000

It's NerdyHBIC, Bitch: theravennest: Every time someone screams for the “old days” of a...:

theravennest:

Every time someone screams for the “old days” of a normal Companion but uses Rose as an example, I want to slap them in the face with this:

Don’t front like the Bad Wolf story line wasn’t just as fantastical as Donna’s Doctor meta-three way, Amy’s crack in the wall,…

Martha and Mickey. The only two New Who companions who were never anything other but wonderfully, brilliantly human and badass because (not in spite) of it.

How can you all sit there and be rude to Amy? Does that not make as low as she was? Think before you speak. Harsh words are what caused her actions in the first place.

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:11:18 +1000

I both agree and disagree. I’ll admit that there are several people all over the internet who are blatantly trolling. They’ve realised that Amy will rise to the bait and they’re taking the opportunity to poke her with a stick, to say things about her restaurant that are literally impossible, to threaten her cats (and despite all her problems she obviously does love her cats) or to say horrible sexist things about her that do not have anything to do with her poor cooking, her terrible treatment of other people or her obvious issues. (It’s also worth noting that all this brouhaha is offering the Bouzaglos publicity they simply do not deserve).

However, there are other people who are simply pointing out the truth. That she and her husband do not allow the staff to have any tips. That Amy fired a waitress simply for asking for confirmation when Amy verbally gave her two different locations of where the food was to go. That Amy called said teenage waitress a poisonous little viper. That Amy and Sammy berate and harass customers who don’t like her food, and were seen shoving one and using homophobic language against him and his male partner. That two of the three dishes Gordon Ramsey ordered came out visibly undercooked despite a very long wait. That their staff turnover is unbelievably high due to the treatment the staff receive. That Amy dismissed every piece of constructive criticism Ramsey offered her even when there was video evidence that she was in the wrong. That Amy posts photos of other people’s work claiming to have cooked it herself and admitted on camera to serving frozen ravioli to people claiming it as her own. That Amy and Sammy both outright admitted on camera that Ramsey’s job as far as they were concerned was not to fix their nightmare of a restaurant, but to fix the nightmarish fact that some people dared criticise Amy’s food. That Amy and Sammy threw a huge tantrum on several different social networking sites and then tried to claim that they were ‘hacked’.

These things are unacceptable, and it isn’t a surprise that people (especially anyone who has had experience working in a kitchen or in the food or hospitality industries in general) would react with horror and disgust. I want the drama to die down too, but pointing out facts calmly and reasonably (which Ramsey actually did) isn’t harsh words, and doesn’t make someone as low as she is.

"Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:40 +1000

“

Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”

Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
[….]
You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”

”

- Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via cunicular)

lights-of-antarctica: assorted-goodness: Take a trip to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:02:21 +1000

lights-of-antarctica:

assorted-goodness:

Take a trip to Rapture.

Stare at the gif for at least 30 seconds. Then look at at any of the images of Rapture.

(via: Reddit user supergalacticcaptain)

Okay, I normally hate these things, but this was really fun.

pleasestopbeingsad: Street harassment is not a compliment.

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:58:59 +1000

pleasestopbeingsad:

Street harassment is not a compliment.

conflictedcontradiction: vincisomething: aramatientediada: lan...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:48:48 +1000

conflictedcontradiction:

vincisomething:

aramatientediada:

languageek:

Languages ranked from easiest to hardest for English speakers - Infographic found here.

Portuguese and Spanish are close of englich? o.0
Dafuq man!

Fact: About 80% of portuguese native speakers are brazilians.

And brazilian portuguese is kind different from everyone else

fuck i’m trying to learn korean

but at least i know some- i know the characters

Where’s German on the list? I’d imagine in easy, but still.

Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:39:43 +1000

Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?:

literaryreference:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.

I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Gamesmovie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.

I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.

sharpflatpianoforte: does anyone else read the lips of people on gifs to figure out what part of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:35:39 +1000

sharpflatpianoforte:

does anyone else read the lips of people on gifs to figure out what part of the text they are saying idk bye

nerdyhbic: blackfireuponus: thedailywhat: Stats Pr0n of the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:35 +1000

nerdyhbic:

blackfireuponus:

thedailywhat:

Stats Pr0n of the Day: U.S. Map of Hate Speech on Twitter

Since June 2012, Dr. Monica Stevens of Humboldt State University in California has been mapping more than 150,000 geotagged tweets that contain homophobic, racist or abliest language. The result is the Geography of Hate, an interactive map of the U.S. which reveals the hotspots of “hate tweets” across the country. A deeper analysis of the project is available at Floating Sheep.

And of course my state is right in the middle of it. I’m not surprised.

Not surprised by the spot of hate I see in California’s central valley.

Why aren't more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:35 +1000

nerdyhbic:

bluandorange:

monetizeyourcat:

dancepunksnotdead:

You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?

It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift

holy shit!

fucking COOL

This is fucking fantastic!

In the moments before she dies, a woman whose hair used to be bright ginger is visited by a man in a bowtie. She does not know who he is and thinks about giving him a piece of her mind till he moves forward and presses his fingertips to her temple. Memories flood her mind. People and planets and places she had saved alongside a long streak of nothing rush back to her. She remembers being the most important woman in creation. Then with a smile on her face Donna Noble closes her eyes and sleeps forevermore. The Doctor simply looks on with tears in his eyes as his best friend leaves this world with the only gift he could give her.

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:48:24 +1000

donnanoble-the-sasstronaut:

mrloopysquirrel:

wHy

hello yes, 911 send me an aMBULANCE

joyfulldreams: inuysha-link-lover: algrenion: i think there should be AU’s and then there should...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:47:16 +1000

joyfulldreams:

inuysha-link-lover:

algrenion:

i think there should be AU’s and then there should be UA’s

because Universe Alterations would be a good name for when your characters are in the exact same universe but you’re altering just a couple of plot points or a few character traits

EVERYONE WE ALL NEED TO MAKE THIS A THING

GOD THIS WOULD MAKE SHIT SO MUCH EASIER

prongsmydeer: Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:35:10 +1000

prongsmydeer:

Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.

buzzfeed: George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:00:31 +1000

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

thelastasiantimelord: son-of-mercury: theramen: starry-dawn: ...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:44:56 +1000

thelastasiantimelord:

son-of-mercury:

theramen:

starry-dawn:

merrymethods:

That cat is not even playful, he is downright -concerned- about this fucking penguin aelinawhwa

CAT: ARE YOU OKAY SMALL WIBBLY ANIMAL

S-sir? Sir, what are you-

Sir, are you-

Sir, please stop.

Sir

Are you okay?

I can’t remember if I blogged this or not but oh my fucking cute.

kreedcher: lupinatic: never-was-and-never-will-be: harrypotter...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:46:48 +1000

kreedcher:

lupinatic:

never-was-and-never-will-be:

harrypotterconfessions:

I’ve always wanted a relationship like James and Lily. Because even though Lily stubbornly rejected him, he still chased after her. I would imagine that if she was mad at him, James would still chase after her. Because he loved her. I finally found a boy that pushes my buttons, and will chase after me. And instead of “I do”, our vows will be Harry Potter quotes. “Always.” And “Until the very end.” Because I’ll still love him until the end of time, always.

This is really not healthy. Boys who ignore your repeated “no”s because they go against their own desires are not safe boys to be around. They are not boys who love you. Boys who love you respect you. [And girls who love you respect you. And people who are third-gendered or gender-queer or agender respect you if they love you.] People who love you respect you. People who respect you listen to you the very first time you tell them no.

You called it “stubborn” for Lily to reject James when they were fifteen. Why did you do that? Isn’t it possible that she genuinely didn’t like him back then? If you liked a boy, you wouldn’t make him chase you, would you? You’d say yes the first time he asked. I hope you would, anyway, because it’s also extremely unhealthy to set up a relationship dynamic where one party is constantly being forced to prove themself to the other party and put up with bullshit mind games purely so that the other party can feel special.

I don’t like how most of the fandom entertains the idea that he asked her out every Hogsmeade weekend, month, week, day, hour, minute. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: there is no evidence that he asked her out before the lake incident, no evidence that he asked her more than twice (at the lake and in seventh year when she presumably said yes) and absolutely no evidence that he stalked her, or even followed her around. No evidence of ridiculous nicknames on his part, no evidence that she felt anything but mild scorn and disappointment toward him in the first years of their relationship. Absolutely nothing.

I highly doubt James had to be told ‘no’ repeatedly, he was no fool, though maybe a little too loyal and trusting in his friends innate character. He would have known from her reaction that she wanted nothing to do with him right then, and after he cooled down he probably realized that if he really wanted to be with her he’d have to grow up, that he’d have to grow up anyways because the war in the outside world was showing no signs of going away.

I always thought that he spent much of sixth year trying to resist his childish impulses and urges to hex Snape and his merry band of bigotted fools, that Lily and Dumbledore both saw this and that it was why they both began to consider him, Dumbledore for head boy and Lily as a friend, and later as a boyfriend and husband. They saw that he was trying to mature of his own volition, regardless of reasons, and admired him for this. There aren’t many humans willing to actually address their ugliest flaws, much less correct them.

That all being said, Lily did not get together with him because of his determination/stubbornness/pig-headed foolishness, she got together with him because he grew past the nastier parts of his spoilt-child personality and let the bigger part of him that was good, funny and compassionate shine through.

It’s all well and good if you use ‘always’ and ‘until the end’ as your wedding vows, the sentiment is wonderful, but do so for the right reasons.

I agree. OP seems to have a fanon-influenced view of Jily rather than a canon-influenced one. Is it really so hard to believe that the girl he liked telling him a long list of reasons why he made her sick and why he was no better than Snape (someone he desperately despised who had just used a word so offensive James couldn’t even bring himself to repeat it) might have made James pull his socks up of his own accord? The comment by never-was-and-never-will-be is appropriate for the sort of relationship that OP described, but there’s no reason to think it describes canon Jily.

thatonechick42: You forgot Monster’s University. ALSO...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:26:23 +1000

thatonechick42:

You forgot Monster’s University. ALSO NOVEMBER.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:53:09 +1000