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#Harry Potter #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Month: January 2015
Most common cause of death in Georgia is Russian invasion…
See Ursula? It is NOT Mothman in WVa
Mothman strongly resembles a small Balrog. I think they’ve just confused their taxonomy.
Mothman doesn’t cause death – he merely presages it! Gosh
Oh no! I will not take by swayed by Moth-apologists! Mothman shows up, people die! The first few times, okay, sure, maaaaybe it’s a coincidence, but once the bridges start falling down, it’s Mothpocalypse Now!
Typhoid Mary thought she was just unlucky, too, but she was directly responsible. When will the world learn that If Mothman does not wash his hands before preparing food….
…wait, I think I got confused there. Um.
Moral of the Story: Mothman Should Not Cater Your Child’s Birthday Party For Multiple Reasons.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
#that is a human as a rat as a cup
That was a long 12 years for Wormtail.
Can you imagine how differently their lives would’ve gone if Ron, in trying to transfigure Scabbers, had actually transfigured him back into a human?
Just take a moment to imagine McGonagall’s reaction if Peter Pettigrew had abruptly appeared in her classroom from Ronald Weasley’s rat.
Take a moment.Or if Ron had fucked it up a little worse and couldn’t get ‘Scabbers’ back and McGonagall had take him to disenchant him and next thing we know there’s a naked Peter Pettigrew sitting on McGonagall’s desk and the kids in that class learn six new swear words, a hex they will never dare to use, and a fear of Minerva McGonagall’s wrath that will be with them until the day they die.
Ten and twenty years later first years are being pulled aside and warned never mess around in Transfiguration seriously the last time a kid mucked something up in that class Professor McGonagall used two semi-legal hexes, took down a Death Eater and sabotaged the rise of the Dark Lord before Potter had time to get his wand out.
What most of Hogwarts learned first on that otherwise-unexceptionable day was that Professor McGonagall could sure scream loud.
Professor Flitwick’s Charms 5th-year Charms class was close enough to catch the full effect, and the door had been left open besides; en masse the students recoiled with shock and a miscast Hiccuping Charm broke one of the windows (out which the entire flock of ravens they were practicing on escaped to the Forbidden Forest where they only had to worry about centaurs, rather than annoying young humans with wands).
Up in the Divination Tower, Sibyl Trelawny preened over her foresight to have warned her students of an unprecedented catastrophe likely to occur before the hour was out.
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#Harry Potter #fanfic #oh look an update #I don’t remember whether I reblogged the earlier version of this or not #but anyway here’s a version with a fic attached
I’ve drawn a few creepy twisty Odos before, but I really wanted to explore what it might’ve been like in the show aand I wanted to draw more Odo being twisty. So this little comic sprung out of that!
This was a fun exercise and I learned a lot while putting it together. Like how much I love drawing Quark.
I mistook this for an excerpt from an official comic and was wondering where I could buy it.
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #comic #fanart #awesome #fun with shapeshifting
So my friend Jake’s mom has like every Star Trek book ever made—the companion guides, not the novels. They’re all lined up on a shelf in order. I can’t sleep, so I plucked out the DS9 companion and started thumbing through it.
I get to one page and there’s a black and white picture of Damar kneeling over Weyoun 7’s body. Underneath it the caption reads:
“This scene wasn’t so much about Worf breaking Weyoun’s neck as Damar’s reaction to it,” Behr points out.
And I’m dying because that’s the best random fact I could have learned tonight.
From elsewhere on the same page:
Some of the best touches, however, remain Moore’s, such as the demise of Weyoun Seven. “I just knew it was going to be a fun moment,” Moore chuckles. “Weyoun would just get a little too close and say and say the wrong thing—and Worf would break his neck. And then Damar would laugh. It was gold.”
My night is 400% better than it was before I opened this book. Learning how much the neck snapping scene cracked up Rene Auberjonois is like getting a present I wasn’t expecting.
Also apparently after Damar quit drinking they lit Casey Biggs differently, to make him appear more human on screen.
This book is amazing.
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#Star Trek #DS9
WELP.
Stop what you are doing.
Read those.
Right now.
I’ll wait.
If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:
This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”
This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”
The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.
They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.
Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.
A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.
YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.
MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.
I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.
This shit is important.
Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.
Reblog this.
holy shit
Not fucking surprised. I knew that the FBI was conducting a dedicated smear campaign against him and that anyone lobbying for Black civil rights was officially considered a communist sympathizer, therefore a threat to national security. MLK had just led / been part of the biggest civil rights march in history (where he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech); it makes a lot of sense that the government of the day would decide he was a threat to be “neutralized in any way possible”, as the line goes.
And it makes a lot of sense that the mainstream media wouldn’t report it when the government was found guilty. Does the mainstream media report anything prejudicial to the government as a whole? They do not. They report plenty of stuff prejudicial to individual politicians, and they print a fair number of op-ed pieces saying whatever their target audience thinks about current wars etc, but something huge like this? Something that would upset the “official” view of The Great And Awesome Progress Of Civil Rights As A Government-Supported Thing From The Emancipation Proclamation To The Present Via Martin Luther King To The First Black President? NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE.
Personally, my bullshit alarm started ringing at “enemies of freedom”. Also, Source 1 is Wikipedia, whose own sources don’t make the trial look very legit from what I can tell, and Source 3 and Source 5 are both from conspiracy-theorist sites.
Bringing this back because I saw a similar post going around today.
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#Martin Luther King Jr. #conspiracy theories
(tagged by cosmic-llin)
Name: Brin
Nickname: See above
Birthday: November 14th (no, I was not conceived on Valentine’s Day)
Gender: Female
Height: 5’3″, which would be a nice round number in metric (1.6m) except nobody ever asks for my height in metric
Favourite Colour: Blue and green, hence the icon
What time & date is it there: 10:15 AM, Sunday, January 18th, 2015
Average hours of sleep I get a night: Usually around 8.75, but I’ve been waking up half an hour early the past few days
Lucky Number: Dunno
Last thing I googled was: “T&C”, which turns out to stand for “Terms and Conditions”
Most used phrase(s): I think “Here’s hoping” a fair bit, but I don’t say it out loud much
What I last said to a family member: “Good night!” (nobody else in my family is awake…scratch that, I can hear Mom moving around upstairs, but I haven’t spoken to her yet)
One place that makes me happy: The Cherry Hill Public Library made me happy, but this is present tense. Hmm…perhaps the Tim Hortons (chain coffee shop and, more importantly, bakery) down the street.
How many blankets I sleep under: On my bed, I have a fairly thin weighted blanket, a thin blanket, a medium blanket, and a duvet. I mix and match depending on the temperature. Last night it was the weighted one with the medium one on top.
Favorite Fictional Character: Dunno
Favorite Beverage(s): Chocolate milkshakes
Favorite food: Not sure. Maybe American-style Chinese chicken fingers. (Canadian-style uses a fluffy batter I don’t like. Luckily, there are occasionally places here that do the American thin, crispy batter.)
Last movie I watched in the cinema: Mockingjay Part 1. I enjoyed it: it actually held my attention the whole time, which is high praise coming from someone whose video attention span isn’t very good.
Dream vacation: I’d settle for finally getting to go to Disney World. We keep having to postpone it. We were aiming for September 2014, then December 2014, then right now, and now it’s September 2015. (Hey, wait a minute, the lunar eclipse at a reasonable hour is in September. I wonder if we’ll be there for it. *checks date* Probably not, it’s very near the end of the month.)
However, it’d be nice to go somewhere new (I’ve been to Disney World before, though not for a long time). Someplace outside the Eastern time zone (which I’ve never left) and inside the Anglosphere. BC, maybe. Australia would be neat, though of course it’s too hot right now, and I wouldn’t trust myself or anyone in my family to do left-driving, and because of the discrepancy between exchange rate and cost-of-living I’d essentially be paying a 60% foreigner markup on everything. Still, it would be neat.
Dream Wedding: *shrug*
Dream pet: When I was a kid, I wanted a pet corn snake. I was turned off from the idea by learning that I’d have to feed it mice, but maybe an insectivorous snake, or maybe I could deal with the mice thing now.
Dream job: I wish I knew.
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#Brin talks about herself for a *reason* this time #oh look an original post #meme
comparativelysuperlative I attended a gaming night last night and there were two Nates attending and I was like “yay! I will meet comparativelysuperlative!” and they turned out to be COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND UNRELATED RATIONALIST NATES
plz obtain a less common name thank you
#1 most exciting Nate! And Nates are a disproportionately awesome segment of the population, too. I’m flattered!
(How does finding out they’re not me even come up? I feel like in that situation I’d think it’s too awkward to bring up directly so after failing to collect enough information to announce “I KNOW YOU FROM THE INTERNET” I’d just assume it’s probably someone else.)
Your surname is right there on the “About” page of your WordPress. Assuming neither of them shares it, that’s how to find out they’re not you. If one of them does share a reasonably common surname with you, that’s not enough evidence to assume, but it is enough to ask.
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#reply via reblog
I can’t stop laughing.
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Julian Bashir #they say it’s very hard to get a shot of Bashir’s face looking normal #and indeed when I paused an episode on him he had his cheeks puffed out in resignation #(it was…hang on…’Chrysalis’)
“Well that really put the frosting on the drake.”
-said after the mage cast ray of frost on an assault drake
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#puns
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