main character:
this villain has killed innocents and destroyed multiple lives in a ripple-effect of death and destruction and chaos. only i can stop him before he hurts someone again, perhaps someone close to me. but in order to stop him i must kill him. if i go through with this.... doesn't it make me just as evil?
controversial: dumbledore would’ve made the right decision taking the 1991-1992 house cup away from slytherin even if harry and co. hadn’t saved the school and stopped voldemort from returning to power
Can I ask why? Genuinely curious here
Slytherin students didn’t have better academic performance and they certainly didn’t have better behavior than the other houses. What they did have was a head of house who would award his own students points for almost no reason while handing out penalties to other houses like candy. If Draco Malfoy answered a question correctly in potions, he’d be awarded ten points, while Hermione giving the same answer would lose ten points for being a know-it-all.
That’s the thing, the game was rigged in Slytherin’s favor. Snape set his own house up to win, through absolutely no merit of their own, seven years in a row with no penalty. Meanwhile Dumbledore is made out to be the one who “just hands victory to his own house” after four members of his house put their lives on the line to save the school from a genocidal mass-murderer.
Gryffindor deserved the house cup because their students saved the school, but even if they didn’t, Slytherin should have had it taken away from them because they didn’t earn it.
I can’t even condemn Dumbledore for letting Slytherin believe they’d won, sit in a green-and-silver dining hall, and then changing it when he announced they’d actually lost, because after seven years of cheating, it’s not enough for them to just lose. If they’d just lost, they’d think they were cheated out of something that’s rightfully theirs. Allowing them to believe they’d just once again been handed an award they didn’t deserve, and then giving it directly to the house that actually did something to deserve it, teaches a valuable lesson.
Anyway, if we’re going to criticize Dumbledore’s abilities as a school administrator for anything, it’s how unchecked he left Snape’s treatment of his students. Even putting aside the emotional and physical abuse he inflicted on his students, there should have been some provision in place to prevent his abuse of the points system before he had a chance to hand it to his own students for ONE year, let alone seven.
There should have been a provision that the current holder of the house cup is ineligible for participation in the next year’s competition. There should be an upper limit on how many points you can take away from another house’s students, and how many points you can give to your own students. Students should be able to appeal unfair penalties to the headmaster.
Point is, Slytherin shouldn’t get an award just because their head-of-house refuses to play fair
And to people who say “but that reinforces the anti-Slytherin perception of the school” - here’s the thing, it doesn’t. What people are quick to forget is that Gryffindor was actually tied for the Cup until the Norbert incident, and when that happened THE WHOLE SCHOOL was shitty at Harry, Hermione and Neville for screwing up the chance at a non-Slytherin victory for the first time in eight years solid. Slytherins were literally going up to them and thanking them for making sure they didn’t have to actually work for their victory, and the other three Houses were giving them the cold shoulder. The whole school was ALREADY tired of Slytherin being handed the win - and please don’t try and tell me Slytherin earned every single win or that Snape was just trying to level some imaginary inherently anti-Slytherin playing field, I will laugh at you.
I see even people who think Gryffindor earned the win lament the feelings of the Slytherins, “OMG the Slytherins rilly rilly rilly thought they’d won again, and that mean old Dumbledore let them think that just so he could have a dramatic win for his precious Gryffindors! Why didn’t he award the points when Harry was still in the hospital wing? That would have been fair! Imagine how they cried that night, how much humiliation they felt! They were so happy and Dumbledore let that happen just to take it away, how could he do that to children?!” What every single one of these arguments manages to miss is that Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw studentsare also children. Are they not? Or are they short adults, obligated to take every loss maturely with a smile and an ‘oh well, guess we just need to try harder next time!’? No. They’re children, and they’re not happy, and why should they be? Three Gryffindor students literally risked their lives to defeat the greatest evil Slytherin House had ever given to the world, and that still wasn’t enough. Slytherin was going to walk away with the win yet again for the eighth time in a row. That’s it, it’s official, there’s no point in trying, bye bye. And then, somehow, miraculously, things are set right. Bravery and cleverness and loyalty and all the things those three Houses most prize, are given their just reward and celebration.
With that one act, Dumbledore told every muggleborn and halfblood in the school “your rights are worth defending, your muggle heritage is not a crime that disqualifies you from being here, and preventing the person who wanted you exterminated from coming back is worth all the reward in the world.” But its the feelings of the Slytherins, the ones who had literally gotten complacent and assumed the Cup was theirs by right, the ones who literally resented having to work for said Cup, that this fandom gives a damn about because they didn’t get what was essentially a shiny toy. Honestly, I don’t trust Snape not to have tried to skew the results back in Slytherin’s favour if Dumbledore had given the points earlier. Apparently, neither did Dumbledore.
It was Dumbledore letting Snape get away with stacking the deck that reinforced anti-Slytherin feeling in the other three Houses, not him saying ‘no, actually, these people are getting a public reward because they deserve it’. Dumbledore showed three quarters of his students that yes, it’s worth trying, worth doing the right thing and taking on the impossible even if it seems like the deck is stacked against you. And he showed the final quarter of his students to not get complacent and assume people in authority will always grease the hinges for you. A whole year of students - Tonks’ year, in fact - went through Hogwarts with Slytherin winning every single House Cup. The other three Houses never once knew the joy and pride of winning - and here’s the thing, the Slytherins never learned what it is to lose, which is an absolutely vital thing to learn. Snape (and Dumbledore, by failing to intervene earlier) didn’t do that year’s Slytherins any favours.
So…like…question for the void. I wrote about 20 pages of original fiction for a class I’m taking. It’s not like this is exactly a first, as anyone who was following me around New Year’s is probably aware–I write so much original fiction, like hundreds of thousands of words, like whole novels–but it is a first that this is a short story I wrote that I’m going to have to share with a bunch of people for editing. And I kind of figured that, hey, in for a penny and all that shit, so as long as I’m having a panic attack about my class reading this thing, I could ask the internet if they wanted to read this thing. Sooooo…anybody want to read 12K of some poor dude named Jack dealing with a city populated of every polytheistic pantheon in human history?
Due to the evolution of bacteria with respect to our bodies natural defense mechanisms, traveling forward in time could kill you, and traveling back in time could kill everyone.
I never thought about this but it makes perfect sense.
epidemiology fascinates me and this post is just so cool to me
Rules: Tag 10 bloggers you want to get to know better.
Birthday: March 12th
Gender: Female
Relationship status: Single and too goddamn busy to mingle.
Zodiac sign: The most un-Pisces to ever Pisces, or at least so I’ve been told
Siblings: Not a one, nay, not a one.
Favorite color: Um, bright red and black, with an option on royal purple.
Pets: Two dogs, one of whom loves everyone and the other one of whom barely deigns to like my parents.
Wake-up and sleep time: Well, I’m in college, so I wake up 7-8 on class days, barring crippling exhaustion. I actually hate sleeping, it kind of bores me to tears and I rarely sleep well, so I do sleep later than that on weekends but it makes me irritable as hell. Sleep? Ahaha…what’s that again? I try to get to sleep around midnight at the latest, but also…college is sort of what happens when you’re making plans, so.
Coke or pepsi: None of the above
Day or night: I am a ‘consciousness’ person. Six in the morning, two in the afternoon, midnight, if I’m awake I’m happy, if I’m asleep or going to sleep I’m not. But I guess night.
Text or call: Phones freak me right the fuck out. No. I always text when I can get away with it, except with my parents and my best friend.
Make up or natural: I usually can’t be bothered with makeup, but even when I take the time I only end up wearing this blood-of-my-enemies shade of lipstick I enjoy.
Met a celebrity: Nope.
Smile or eyes: On others? I generally go with ‘both.’ A good, honest smile should make someone’s eyes light up. On me? Um…my smile is kind of strange-looking, too many teeth, and my eyes are nice, but fairly unremarkable.
Light or dark hair: I ended up with dark brown hair. On other people I generally go for darker hair as well.
Shorter or taller: I’m five goddamn feet tall and I will fight your tall ass.
intelligence or attraction: Both, come at me, I don’t have to choose shit.
Chapstick or lipstick: Depends on how much attention I’m willing to pay.
City or country: CITY. God, I moved out of the Twin Cities when I was a kid and I’ve lived in small towns ever since and all I want from life is an apartment in a city of >1 million people.
Edit: it’s been about…many months since I did this and I totally thought I’d done the thing but apparently I forgot to post it. It’s like 1:30 in the morning so I’m not able to think of 10 people to tag so I’ll go with…uh…okay, let’s see, @bonehandledknife, @amusewithaview, @allgreymatters, and what the hell, my own dear platonic wife, @twistedangelsays. Yeah, that’s four people, I’m dead tired or I’d be able to think of more, sorry, guys.
IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THERE IS A (VERY SMALL BUT APPARENTLY EXTANT) FAN BASE ON TUMBLR FOR THE KENCYRATH CHRONICLES.
Beloved followers and non-followers alike, let me tell you a thing. The Kencyrath Chronicles are up there as my favorite books ever. Not the way I talk about loving Harry Potter–Hogwarts is my home, to coin a phase–or even the way I love everything Robin McKinley has ever touched–and I love her stuff like I love BREATHING, it’s not always at the forefront of my mind but when I go too long without it I ache, go read all of it immediately. No, no, no. This, my love for the Kencyrath Chronicles, is a WHOLE OTHER CREATURE. Just talking about these books makes my hands shake and my bones feel heavy and my blood become a tangible fizzy thing in my veins. Like, if being in love doesn’t feel this good, I’m honestly not interested.
These books are about grand sweeping battles between good and evil and how those grand ideals become petty and ugly and messy as soon as you look closely enough, and how people fight them anyway because it’s their purpose or because it’s their choice or because it’s their people they’re protecting. Magic is rampant, from the great and hated Three-Faced God of the Kencyr people and its ‘blessed’ chosen ones, the Shanir, who are hated and cherished by their own people and by themselves for how close they are to their meddling deity, to the wandering bands of rathorn (ARMORED FLESH-EATING UNICORNS, PEOPLE, HOW MUCH MORE OF A PITCH DO YOU NEED) and the migratory trees (yes, you read that correctly). The main character is wild and casually vicious and desperate to be gentle, and she is loved by people everywhere she goes but she’s never really one of them, and the running joke in-universe is that you can track her progress across the world by falling buildings and burning cities (”…the Riverlands in ruins and you in the middle of it, looking apologetic” is a personal favorite quote). The writing style fucking breathes with power and imagination and magic. I am not a tough sell on books, really I’m not, but these books. Trinity. The fact that these books are not the most popular things since Lord of the Rings fucking breaks my heart, it really does.
So like. Go read them. Immediately. The first two books, God Stalk and Dark of the Moon, are sold as an omnibus called Dark of the Gods, and please forgive their God-awful covers (why is the canonically very flat-chested lead a D-cup? Don’t know, just kind of relieved I read the older edition with the less awful cover). If you’ve read them and you liked them, please please PLEASE COME INTO MY ASK BOX AND NEVER EVER LEAVE.
(On a somewhat related note, I’ve read more books than I could care to count in my life, so if anyone ever wants a fantasy/sci-fi rec, I got you, hit me up.)
It makes me so upset that no one’s made a “meet the dolphins/orcas” thing that isn’t exploitative and abusive to animals (IE, like sea world keeping them in basically bathtub sized tanks).
Like it’d be easy??? Set up a big amusement park/center/whatever near the ocean. Create a pool, which is connected to the ocean. One that animals can freely come and go from. Orcas and dolphins are curious and friendly. If you give them food when they show up and play with them, they’ll keep coming back. Instead of keeping them imprisoned in a tiny pool, just let them come and go as they please. Sure, people will have to hang around all day for a chance to meet the animals (who will come and go on their own time) instead of having down-to-the-minute schedule times,,, but that’s a small price to pay in exchange for having interaction with happy and free animals.
It can be a mutually beneficial thing. You provide food, entertainment, and vet care. And in exchange you get the company/entertainment of the animals. Like I’m seeing all this stuff on how we need to end all contact with marine animals and no we don’t, we just need to start connecting with them in ways that are good for everyone instead of one-sided and abusive.
and some people certainly like the challenge. Love bragging about “I waited 5 hours and got to see them” sort of thing.
“Mad Max: Fury Road. Say anything bad about Fury Road and I will plant you on a fucking spike. This movie is too good for the Oscars. They should have pulled the movie from consideration and set up their own award ceremony for it, complete with tricked-out hot rods and double guitars. If anything, the Oscars will just ruin this movie. If George Miller wins, I want him to mount the statue on the hood of a ZZ Top coupe and drive it over the corpse of Jack Valenti.”—Drew Magary, the 2016 Hater’s Guide to the Oscars. (via wraparoundcurl)
Where are you? Apparently not on Tumblr, that’s for sure.
So: anyone who likes…er…books, and asskicking heroines, should read them.
They have many names. Collectively they are the Chronicles of the Kencyrath/Kencyrath Chronicles/God Stalker Chronicles. The first book is Dark of the Gods/God Stalk.
They are at least fourteen kinds of awesome.
Probably more. And the heroine has cat claws.
By the power of awesome! Go! Read!
Some of you are bound to have read them.
Right?
Hell yes, I have read them. Multiple times. And I, too, too have sought for others who have read them. Fans of Jamethiel Priest’s Bane unite! All those who are willing to cheer on Kindrie as he struggles through his soulscape, cheer with me! Everyone who wishes they, too, could kick Tori’s ass just a little bit for being such a noble puppy, join me! And all you who long for your very own Marcarn who would gladly follow you into the bowels of hell not only because of honor but especially for love and respect, come on!
OH MY GOD. HELLO. HI. WE EXIST. YOU EXIST. I HAVE LOOKED FOR OTHER FANS OF THE KENCYRATH CHRONICLES SINCE I GOT A TUMBLR.
Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles,
tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they
don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight
them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit
space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely
as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the
process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and
accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually
happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.
So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown.
Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don’t realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They’re just like “yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience”.
THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE’S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING
vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core
humans: we’re going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast
vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast
humans: hahaha yeah
humans: it did tho
vsa: IT EXPLODED
humans: it exploded twice as fast
I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they’re unique wacky superscience shenanigans.
So if “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is be believed, you can fiddle duel the devil for your soul. My question is, does it only work with fiddles, or any contest? Saxophone duel? Guitar shred-off? Can you challenge the devil to a rap battle when he comes for you?
Even though I play piano I want to see someone fight for their soul with the tuba.
The Devil went back to Georgia and his thoughts were dark and cold That Johnny kid had screwed him and he still needed a soul. When he came across this young man blowin’ on a tuba and playin’ hits And the devil took one look and said “You know what? Fuck this shit.”
Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.
I’ve gotten more angry asks about this post than I have actual reblogs.
I literally put my coffee down, stared at the screen and said “Holy shit…”
I have recently been puzzled by the Pottermore sorting quiz. From simply looking across Tumblr, I have found out that a lot of my fellow Hufflepuffs, including me, have been placed into Gryffindor on Pottermore.
This has led me to wonder about the Pottermore sorting process, and my Ravenclaw side has kicked in curiosity. I want to find out how accurately the Pottermore quiz sorts people.
So, I am asking everyone to please REBLOG and state the house they identify with and what Pottermore placed them as. You can use the tags to say it if you want, but make sure you do BOTH parts of the question. And be specific- tagging #hufflepuff and #gryffindor does nothing for me.
Example: #i am a hufflepuff #pottermore put me in gryffindor
If I get enough responses, I’ll give you all a detailed analysis with pretty graphs. :)
Thanks for the all of the responses so far guys! I don’t have enough to make accurate conclusions yet (And I only have 2 responses by Gryffindors) but I’m already seeing some interesting stuff. Keep it up!
Signal boosting FOR SCIENCE!
…also, you might want to specify what you want for people who’ve Sorted multiple times, because I know a number of people have done multiple Sortings, either on old Pottermore or new - in those cases, do you want a person’s first Sorting, or what a person gets most often? (Also, are you separating the pre-renovation 7 question quiz vs. the post-renovation 8 question quiz? The only difference is the addition of the animal question, but that may be enough to alter results.)
After quite a bit of thought, I believe I’ve finally put my finger on what it is I love about Eliot’s running “it’s a very distinctive ____” gag, and I think it’s largely down to how Christian Kane delivers the line every time. It’s a potentially ambiguous line, by which I mean that it has the potential to work equally well in two opposite ways. The first–and the one that you’d be most likely to expect out of this sort of character archetype–is a sort of smug superiority. “It’s a very distinctive haircut. If you’d bothered to pay attention,” the line would seem to say, “you would understand that.” The sort of line that says one thing but means another, says “this difference is easy to spot and understand” but means “of course you didn’t recognize the difference, only I, with my superior experience, intellect, and understanding, could do so.” False modesty at its peak.
But instead, the line always comes off as almost … defensive? “It’s a very distinctive watch,” said with a snap and a scowl. It isn’t weird that he knows this. Everybody knows this, he is just like everybody else, why are you still looking at him like that this is COMMON KNOWLEDGE IT’S NOT WEIRD, OKAY? It’s dismissive–not of the person he’s speaking to, but of the idea that he’s just done anything remarkable.
Because that’s Eliot Spencer’s self-image in a nutshell, isn’t it? He doesn’t have any skills that couldn’t be achieved by hard work and a refusal to give up. “I can take the punishment; it’s what I do,” he says, and if you watch him fight, it’s true; he’s not always the best, he doesn’t necessarily dodge every hit or land every one of his perfectly, but he doesn’t. Fucking. Go down. (”Anybody wanna do what I do? I get punched and kicked.” Self-describing his place on the team, it’s still about taking punishment rather than doling it out, despite the opportunity to accentuate the unique skill-set he brings to the team.) “Sometimes I crush it, sometimes it’s crap,” he tells Parker about his cooking, because it’s a skill he’s still honing, one he’s still adjusting as he goes.
I just love that the show had this opportunity to give us a running gag about a character with a stunning amount of practical knowledge, and chose to use it to create a more sympathetic character.
So I had to return a book to the library today and I came straight from the horse farm. I went to the front desk because it was an item on loan from another library and I wasn’t sure if it had to be checked in differently. The librarian said no, it could get returned in the normal slot but she could take it and check it in right away.
It was only when I got back to the car that I realized I had walked into the library covered in dirt from head to toe and handed back a book about grave robbing.
nothing fucked me up more than hearing the line “now they’re going to bed and my stomach is sick, and it’s all in my head but she’s touching his chest” in mr brightside and REALIZING THAT SICK AND CHEST DON’T RHYME… ….SH E’S NOT TOUCHIGN HIS CHEST…..
But what if they just happened to cast Andrew Garfield as the boyfriend in Deadpool 2, and someone in the movie is like, “hey, you look just like Peter Par-” but Deadpool tackles them before they can finish and then just looks directly at the camera and is like, “this is my boyfriend, Pete Parkley, and he is definitely not Spiderman because that would be a serious breach of licensing rights.” and then he just grabs Pete and tows him away by the suspicious red spandex collar poking out over the top of his T-shirt
dont ask me for relationship advice because i will always just tell you to break up w/ them and throw their shit in a dumpster because i do not understand the concept of allowing anyone to treat you poorly this is a zero tolerance zone
SO my freshman year of college I had a friend/roommate who was dating a guy kind of off-and-on and there was one particular instance where he made her cry for like…four hours straight. And she asked me for advice after about the second hour of her crying on my lap, because apparently I seemed like a good shoulder to cry on (and I genuinely didn’t mind, I got that she was upset, but it confused the fuck out of me because most people opt for the word ‘terrifying’ to describe me). And I was like “…dude did something you’d already asked him not to do and he made you cry for multiple hours. This is not the first time he’s made you this upset. Dump his ass immediately.”
Yeah, two years later, they’re still dating (still off-and-on, seems to be pretty much the same situation), but we’re not still talking.
hi okay if you don’t know any hijabis/muslims personally, you might be wondering how it “works” and im here to answer ur questions!!
Q: Do you like.. wear it all the time?? (re: do u shower in it?? do u sleep in it?? when was the last time u sAW UR OWN HAIR??? )
A: Nope! To put it simply, we wear the hijab when we are around strange men. And by strange I mean men who are not directly related to us. That means I can show my hair to women (does that include trans women & nonbinary women? thats up to the individual hijabi). It also means I don’t have to cover from my brother/father/uncle/grandfather/child. I would have to cover from my male cousins because you can technically marry them (note: this is only one of the reasons we cover! it’s not only to cover from possible suitors lol. Just bc I wouldn’t marry a gay man, doesn’t mean I don’t have to cover from him. The quran says to cover from men and not from women. that’s pretty broad and open for interpretation. I keep it simple for myself- I cover from all men regardless of their sexual orientation. I don’t cover from women regardless of their sexual orientation. This could differ from one hijabi to another). I also would not have to cover from my husband if I were married. Lastly, we don’t have to cover from any young boys who haven’t been “through puberty” yet. I guess it’s up to the individual to decide when that is as well.
Q: It seems kind of sexist to me that men don’t have to wear hijab, but women do…
A: Actually, men have their own hijab. (It’s not the turban you may see some men wearing, they are Sikhs, an entirely different religion.) Men have their own modest dress code to follow and are expected to follow the same rules the women do action-wise. Remember that equal does not have to mean identical. It wouldn’t make sense to ask men to cover their boobs or women to grow beards (we’ll come back to that later).
Q: I always hear about women being forced to wear it… That’s oppression and wrong.
A: I completely agree. “There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion” (2/256). That’s taken directly from the Quran. Forcing someone to wear the hijab is a sin. Furthermore, many Muslims believe that hijab is not required/is only preferred/is optional. There’s a lot of interpretation involved in religion. It totally depends on the person and their own beliefs.
They way a Muslim chooses to wear their hijab also differs from person to person. Some women choose to cover their entire body. Some wear abayas (the black dress) and niqabs (the veil that covers the face). Some wear a simple scarf to cover their hair and dress “modestly” (this, again, depends on your interpretation of what modest means). Some just cover their hair. Some show a some of their hair. Some wear turbans. Some dress modestly, but don’t cover their hair. Some only wear it on certain occasions. (more here on the diff types of cover)
For men, some choose to grow beards (many believe this is just “sunnah” which means it is preferred, but not compulsory). Lots of men don’t follow the rules set for them. That can be due to personal beliefs, but I won’t deny the misogyny apparent in the Muslim culture (note: culture, not religion) probably has a lot to do with that.
Q: Do women only wear hijab for religious reasons?
A: No. I mean, that’s probably one of the most prominent reasons women choose to cover their hair, but there are many different factors. In many cultures, hijab is considered a thing of beauty. It’s a fashion statement. It’s tradition. It’s a part of their identity. It keeps them in-tact with their religion and it identifies them as a Muslim to other Muslims. The reasons are endless, but I think you get the picture.
Q: I heard hijab is just keep men away.
A: As @angrymuslimah put so eloquently: Hijab is not to prevent men from looking at women or “protect them” from men. Hijab is not for men, or to help men control themselves - it’s for women themselves, to empower women. Men in Islam have a responsibility to lower their gaze and respect a woman no matter what she is wearing or what she looks like.
Q: Can women ever take the hijab off for safety reasons? (ie: heat exhaustion/possible attacks by islamophobes)
A: Totally! You’re obviously never supposed to compromise your health for anything, regardless of your religious beliefs. I once got asked if it would be okay for a women to remove her scarf when playing soccer in serious heat and my answer she could if she wanted to (again, she can do wtvr she wants), but playing soccer is optional. there’s a difference between wanting to play soccer and really having your life in danger. If hijabis choose to wear the hijab while playing soccer in 100 degrees, they’re badass and props to them for sticking to it even when it got hard, but that’s kind of the point of hijab. Again though, your health always comes first.
Q: I see hijabis sometimes and I want to compliment them/tell them it’s pretty, but I don’t want to be disrespectful.
A: It’s totally okay to compliment us! Please do! I live for the validation of strangers! For real, though. Just think about it this way, if you can say it to a non-hijabi and not offend her, you can probably say it to a hijabi. You can compliment anyone on their scarf regardless of wear it is on their body.
Q: Can I wear the hijab if I’m not Muslim?
A: There is no specific way to wear a hijab. there is no specific fabric. We get our scarves from h&m and forever 21 like everyone else. There is nothing that identifies a hijab as a hijab except the wearer. So if you want to cover your hair for your own religious/personal reasons, you can do it! That doesn’t make it a hijab! The only thing that makes it a hijab is the wearer labeling it as a hijab. As long as you aren’t doing that, you’re not being disrespectful or appropriating our religion. (wearing it out of respect if you’re in a mosque or a predominately muslim country is also okay!)
I would however, advise against wearing it as a fashion statement. It’s not a style or accessory.
/So this got really long and I’m stopping here but I haven’t even really made a dent in the hijabi discourse. If yall have any more questions, you should ask your friendly neighborhood Muslimah! I promise, we won’t be offended, we just want yall to know the truth.
Every time someone tries to explain the metaplot of Supernatural to me, it basically ends up sounding like redneck Dragon Ball Z. I’m sure there’s some nuance I’m failing to grasp here.
Care to elaborate on that?
…I’m not even offended, just absolutely curious. From the stuff I’ve seen and heard about Supernatural I can’t see the connection.
Mostly, I get the impression of a show that doesn’t know how not to escalate.
Every threat’s gotta be quantitatively bigger and badder than the one that came before. Every deus ex machina’s gotta be shinier than the last one. Every season’s gotta end with a massive eleventh-hour powerup for our heroes, only for the next season to raise the stakes enough to put them back in the underdog position.
It’s like, you beat the Devil himself? Well, now you’ve gotta fight the Devil’s cousin Phil, who has conveniently gone entirely unmentioned up until now, but he’s totally twice as evil.
That last paragraph was literally supposed to be the most ridiculous hypothetical example I could think of, and people are messaging me to say “his name was Metatron, not Phil”. I can’t even make fun of this show.
I think it’s time for entertainment to stop obsessing about Saving The World because we just don’t CARE. Stop endlessly raising the stakes, entertainers!
Saving one person? I’m right there with you.
Saving a small group of friends/family? Ohhhh my heart.
Saving a subculture/community? This is my jam. YES. YES.
Saving a city? Maybe as a finale. Sell it to me and we’ll see.
Saving a country? I’ll just about allow it.
Saving the world? LOL NO.
Saving the Universe? Slow down Doctor Who, nobody cares.
Saving ALL OF TIME AND SPACE AND HUMANITY AND HISTORY AND PLUTO AND GRAVITY AND GOD AND ALL THE ANGELS? oh my god, are people still watching this? have the advertisers fallen asleep, or
There is a reason why charities put faces in their ads. It is because the actual number of, say, homeless LGBT youths is too big to comprehend - it just seems like too big of a problem for you to do anything about. So charities “introduce” you to the face of the problem - here is a crying teen, her name is Layla, she’s homeless, you can help her right now, she just needs 80 cents a day to change her life. If charities begged you to open your wallet and SAVE THE UNIVERSE you would glaze over and walk past. The universe? People can’t even comprehend climate change. We can barely stay on top of our social circles. We just about understand our own local politics.
Once you get past a big number, human interest drops off - it’s sad to hear that 3,000 people died in a natural disaster, but we care more about one girl not being allowed at her prom. This is why news teams focus on the shot of the lost teddy bear, or the terrified child clutching their starving kitten - these are the small problems that make the big problems seem Real.
There is a concept called Dunbar’s number - the amount of humans that each human can care about. It’s thought to be roughly 150 people, the size of your theoretical “village.” Your friends, family, coworkers, Internet buddies, neighbors - there genuinely is a limit to how many people you can fit in your heart. It’s the average amount of friends that people have on Facebook.
At around this number of people, true democracy is said to break down, because you can no longer offer all voices equal weight and must start electing spokespeople.
150 people is about the limit of our comprehension.
Stuff that tugs the heartstrings? Saving the tiny inbred Wizarding World. Saving people who remind me of my friends and neighbors. Saving the local library. Saving the spaceship full of people. Saving the sufferers of a disease. Saving this particular dog. Saving a marginalized community - honestly, this is the plot of almost every Discworld novel, and there are over 40 of those and we never got sick of them.
But yeah, don’t try to get my attention by putting The World at stake. I’m not even sure I like most of it.
As Stalin said, "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.“
I am…a little in lust with this post. Everything is so accurate and so exactly what I’ve said in my eternal complaints about SPN that I am a little in love with all of you.
okay but IMAGINE FINN AND REY CHECKING WITH POE ABOUT WHETHER SOME ASPECT OF THEIR CHILDHOOD WAS HORRIFYING
Rey: “what is the normal number of times to go to bed hungry?” Poe: “ZERO. ZERO IS THE NORMAL NUMBER OF TIMES TO GO TO BED HUNGRY.” Finn: “that CAN’T be right. What if they give you enough calories but just artificially stimulate your hunger reflexes to prepare you for survival situations in the future?” Poe: “…what the fuck is wrong with the First Order?”
Reblogging because I swear this is a conversation type that kids of abusive households have with each other/their happy household friends a lot and I think about this thing a lot.
Yep. Yep it is. The ‘let’s compare scars’ talk. It’s more of a problem when you accidentally drop something into conversation with someone from a normal situation, because then the whole conversation goes off the rails and you’re left there going “Okay yeah sure you’re freaking out and I see that but I thought we were talking about what we were going to do for dinner and I’d like to finish that conversation, please.” And I think of THAT kind of conversation a lot with regard to Finn and Poe and Rey.
what i mean when i say i want a villain to get a redemption arc: i hope this asshole sees the error in their ways and, after deep conflict, achieve forgiveness in a last final act to do good before dying painfully a-la anakin skywalker.
what i mean when i say i want a villain to turn into a good guy: i hope this douchebag sees the error in their ways and, after years of crawling for forgiveness and doing everything in their power to fix their wrongdoings, they truly turn to the light and dedicate themselves to a life of good a-la prince zuko.
what y’all mean when u say you want a villain to get redemption or turn into a good guy: i hope this pretty-faced asshole gets a slap on the wrist by the hero and can continue to be a douchebag but now with the narrative’s moral support.
its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager
oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.
The sorting hat didn’t listen to Harry, and yelled for everyone to hear, “Slytherin!”.
Seeing Harry’s distress, Ron Weasley’s eyes narrowed in determination. Minutes later, as Ron’s name was called by Minerva McGonagall, and as the sorting hat was lowered onto his head, all of the Hogwarts residents knew without a doubt what the sorting hat was going to say.
Imagine their surprise when the sorting hat instead said with resignation in his tone “Slytherin”
RON BEING OUT OF HIS BROTHERS’ SHADOW
EVEN THEN HIS FAMILY STILL LOVE HIM ALBEIT BEING A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED
RON AND HARRY CALLING OUT ON SNAPE’S UNFAIRNESS
THEY BOTH DEFENDED THE MEEK GRYFFINDOR NEVILLE
STILL BEST FRIEND FOREVER WITH GRYFFINDOR HERMIONE
SLYTHERIN RECOGNIZES HIS TALENT AS A CHESSMASTER AND TRY TO TEACH HIM HOW TO APPLY IT IN REAL LIFE
When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal
this actually happened to me during my math final and i didn’t think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me ‘you didn’t have to take the final! why didn’t you tell me it hurt?!?!’ and i told him i’ve had cramps worse.
he gave me 100
This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they don’t teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.
Basically, if you’re feeling any sort of pain, even if it’s menstrual cramps, don’t hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if you’re out of school and home even make a doctor’s appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad there’s something they can do to improve that as well.
I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart
Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If you’re still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)
When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Here’s the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!
THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry – “Why didn’t anyone do the rebound test?!”
Shakespeare would seriously laugh so hard if he found out how seriously people take his works. Like, he would probably cry from laughing so hard if you told him that his plays were considered high-brow literature. “It’s all dick jokes and sword fights,” he’d say, “do they seriously tell my dick jokes to schoolchildren? And the kids aren’t allowed to laugh? Do the teachers know they’re telling dick jokes? Oh my god that’s fucking hilarious. Wait until I tell Anne.”
“You’re telling me my fourth most popular quote on Goodreads is that dick joke from Twelfth Night? And people actually think that when I said ‘greatness,’ I meant like, high standing and shit, and not dicks? Oh my god. Oh my god. This is the greatest day of my life.”
