ididthistoconfuseyouhahaha asked: [headcannon caused by listening to the song from the end of episode 4] so the resistance is giving finn and rey medals and it's the big hall full of all the resistance fighters and Leia gives them the medals just like originally and poe is standing there in his fancy uniform and finn looks over at him with a huge smile and poe winks at him like han winked at Leia and finn just keeps the huge smile on his face and smiles at Rey and BB-8 and R2 and CPO and Chewie are all there and it’s awesome.
WOW I LOVE THIS. Oh, it’s so great, oh wow, 100% yes.
minutia-r asked: Kencyrath! So, best Caineron: Graykin, Lyra, Cattila, or Gorbel?
screeches in glee
Okay, tough question. I’d say that if you mean ‘best Caineron’ as in ‘best example of the House’s values, etc’ it’d be a hard tie between Cattila and Gorbel, because they’re both good at the underhanded-efficiency thing. Probably Cattila purely for that attitude of unshakeable serenity and ‘yes, this is fine’ that she has at all times, even when she’s being possessed by Merekit elemental spirits.
As for personal favorites…oh, that’s so hard, that’s so hard. I like Lyra a lot because…she’s just kind of a sweetie? Like, she’s very uncomplicated–she knows what she can do and what her limits are because of society and she’s willing to work within those limits to help the people she likes, like Jame.
I like Graykin for…kind of the exact opposite reasons. He latches onto Jame so hard and she’s so desperately unready for having someone bound to her and he’s just as desperate to be bound to someone even though he hates that need–he’s hard and complicated and difficult and does everything in his power to get around the limitations placed on him just to prove to himself that he can, even when getting around those limitations hurts him or someone else. But even through all that I think he genuinely loves Jame even as he kind of hates what her carelessness does to him–because Jame, the terrible destructive queen of my existence, is so careless with him, she has no training for what to do with him and no idea how to care for him–and he’s just such a messy character bound up in a mixed-blood bastard that I’ve kind of got to love him.
My general adoration for Cattila really can be summed up in how determined she is at all times to be calm as hell. Like when Jame and Brier’s ten-command break into Restormir in Seeker’s Mask and come bursting into Cattila’s sanctum sanctorum and she just kind of goes “There’s a secret passage at the back, everyone’s drunk, go on ahead” as if this happens every day. She knows exactly how much of a monster Lord Caineron is and, while she can’t be seen moving against him, she’s willing to let someone else do it and she’ll just sit back and watch, all right? She’s the sort of person I imagine to wait for the end of the final battle, step outside, and criticize the Tyr-Ridan for making such a terrible mess.
And Gorbel. Ah, my boy. I have a lot of very incohesive thoughts about Gorbel, who wants revenge for his dead brothers and who wants to be a good lordan and who wants his father’s approval and who wants to be friends with Jame and who wants all of those desires to mesh for just one minute. His life is a tangled mess and his loyalties are even worse and for reasons that he can’t really pin down, he recognizes Jame–who is terrible and dangerous and blood-drenched and chaotic–as the one solid thing. He orients himself by her, not the way Graykin does, as his leader, or the way her enemies do, as their opponent, but as a landmark, something he can use to tell his position in the shifting landscape of the Kencyrath and their politics and their underhanded tactics. And there’s something about that willingness to orient by her that I think makes him a gorgeously complex character with a remarkably large capacity for empathy and kindness given the way he grew up. (On a less solemn note, I think Twizzle is damn adorable.)
But I’m going to say that my favorite Caineron is Sheth Sharp-Tongue. His determination to let Jame rip apart the rotten scraps of the Kencyrath and Tentir to find the pure heart and the intact bits to piece back together is everything to me. He is the one who figures out how to slide around the bonds of Honor’s Paradox, letting Jame succeed without technically disobeying his lord’s orders. He’s sneaky and sly and clever and daring and I just kind of adore him.
Wow, this got wildly out of hand.
Achilles
roses are red
wine-dark is the sea
my boyfriend is dead
time for a killing spree
Oedipus
roses are red
a hue like no other
you know, valentine,
you’re just like my mother?
Catullus
my girl’s eyes are swollen
her sparrow is dead
but is that just a metaphor
for my dick instead?
Cato
roses are red
space is black like a void
who cares about love
Carthage must be destroyed
Poseidon
Roses are red
like bitter regret
I’m god of the ocean
let me make you wet ;)
Odysseus
My wife is at home
but babe, let’s forget her;
I’ll show you a good time
‘cause Nobody’s better
Athena
Roses are red
violets are red
everything is red
I love war
Apollo
Roses are red
but I haven’t got any
all of my lovers
have turned into botany
Prometheus
I’ve bought you some roses
‘cause babe, I’m a giver
say you’ll be mine
I’ll really de-liver
Zeus
Roses are red
violets are blue
shit, Hera’s coming -
Julius Caesar
Roses are red,
And so is my blood.
What the fuck Brutus?
I thought we were good!
Pompey
Roses are red,
My pate’s on a plate.
Ptolemy got head
On our first date.
Crassus
Gold is not red,
It’s yellow like honey.
Your house is on fire,
So give me your money.
Porcia
Embers are red,
The hottest fire’s blue.
I swallowed these coals
So you’d know I was true.
Cato the Younger
Entrails are red.
You can’t keep me in stitches.
I ripped my guts open.
Fuck all you bitches.
Catilina
I see two bodies.
They’re me and you.
I fucked a Vestal.
I fucked your dad, too.
Clodius
Roses are red,
I have three hot sisses.
I put on a dress
And I nailed Caesar’s missus.
@raisel-the-riveter DEAL WITH THIS IT’S YOUR FAULT.
Cicero
Violets are indigo,
Roses are crimson.
Silver my tongue is,
Like Fulvia’s hairpin.
Mark Antony
Roses are red,
And violets bucolic.
I’m Marcus Antonius
And I’m an alcoholic.
@raisel-the-riveter I CAN’T STOP.
!!! OH MY GOD
OHHHH! I can do this!
Ovid
Roses are red
I’m in exile
I pissed off Augustus
I might be here a while
Virgil
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Roses are red?
Please burn this poem
After I’m dead.
Sappho
Roses are red
Women are hot
I’m really fucking gay
Don’t act like I’m not
Dido
My blood is red
You think you’re a hero?
I hope you drown
omnibus umbra locis adero
(via ripleytwd)
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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 students are 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.
(Source: black-quadrant, via lupinatic)
American sex ed is taught like Dolores Umbridge’s Defense of the Dark Arts class.
“Why would you need to know about sex? If you aren’t having it, there will be no need for protection”
okay but this is the most accurate thing i’ve ever seen? amazing.
(Source: bhujangan, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)