cosmictuesdays:

camwyn:

graphicnerdity:

It’s all Harry’s fault. Well, partially. I suppose Voldemort can be saddled with an equal portion of the blame. The point is, the Dursleys were just minding their own business when a horcrux was dumped on their doorstep. For the next decade it proceeded to warp their minds, turning them from your garden variety insufferable human beings into horrible, heartless monsters. The fact that they survived such prolonged horcrux exposure without delving into insanity or abandoning a helpless child only solidifies their place among the pantheon of noble and virtuous heroes in the Harry Potter universe.

*Mic drop*

That… actually does kind of explain an awful lot, dunnit.

Damn, that’s some twisted meta.

…I thought this was going to be a “just say no to Horcruxes” joke.


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#Harry Potter #meta #…oh my god #I laughed at ‘Weasley children are particularly susceptible’ #and then I just stopped and stared #oh god

New Tech Could Reveal Secrets in 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls

archaeologicalnews:

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Hundreds of ancient papyrus scrolls that were buried nearly 2,000 years ago after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius could finally be read, thanks to a new technique.

The X-ray-based method can be used to decipher the charred, damaged texts that were found in the ancient town of Herculaneum without having to unroll them, which could damage them beyond repair, scientists say.

One problem with previous attempts to use X-rays to read the scrolls was that the ancient writers used a carbon-based material from smoke in their ink, said study co-author Vito Mocella, a physicist at the National Research Council in Naples, Italy.

“The papyri have been burnt, so there is not a huge difference between the paper and the ink,” Mocella told Live Science. That made it impossible to decipher the words written in the documents. Read more.


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#history #awesome

unmovinggreatlibrary:

 

ursulavernon:

animate-mush:

ursulavernon:

ksonney:

christian-libertarian:

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

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hchlns:

 

universallyemma:

kyraneko:

elidyce:

thatgirlonstage:

fuckyeahdeathlyhallows:

sirlestrange:

#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

sjmillerart:

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