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I have books. You don’t read. You don’t understand. You don’t...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:55:45 +1000

I have books.

You don’t read. You don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds. To travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than your own family. To live with them. Have you ever loved anything? Do you have any idea? (x)

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"The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:53:39 +1000

“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends that don’t help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don’t increase you will eventually decrease you.”

- Colin Powell (via agentlemenscoup)

“There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:20:10 +1000

“There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh god, I’ve got to see my friends cause I’m too content being by myself.” (Endless list of perfect people: Drew Barrymore)

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glockgal: I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:20:52 +1000

glockgal:

I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add race to it, and it became, ‘Well she’s too Asian’, or ‘She’s too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It’s a very strange place to be. You’re not Asian enough and then you’re not American enough.

with source

"The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself."

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:05:14 +1000

“The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”

- Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You (via erraticintrovert)

lightspeedsound: manybodies: lightspeedsound: lunapics: thesh...

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:38:00 +1000

lightspeedsound:

manybodies:

lightspeedsound:

lunapics:

theshells:

I can’t stop laughing at Harry running the fuck away, the boy who lived ladies and gentlemen.

….You realize, of course, that Hermione Granger lit a teacher on fire when she was eleven, and kept a person alive in a jar for a year when she was fourteen, and studies dark and forbidden magics for kicks, and is one of the brightest and strongest witches of her era. If she came at me, even wandless, I would apparate to Neptune to get away from her.

Hermione Granger also:

punched Draco Malfoy in the nose for being an idiot

purposefully performed a confundus charm on whatshsface WHILE HE WAS FLYING just so Ron would win (omfg that is so fucking dangerous)

literally pulled a fucking Bourne Identity on her parents and managed to set them up in fucking Australia (jesus christ she literally made it so that she NEVER EXISTED wtf that’s so fucking 007)

Convinced the Ministry of Magic to give her an incredibly dangerous and volatile device that allowed her to ALTER TIMELINES COMPLETELY (just because she was so smart, literally, that is the reason, her “potential”)

Has enough basic survival skills and badass magic to literally disappear to the middle of nowhere and flourish AND figure out Voldemort’s plot with Harry

Hermione also figures out not only what Voldemort’s plan is, but generally how to beat it, WAY BEFORE VOLDEMORT EVER DOES. Why? because she is just that much smarter and better at magic than everybody else

in conclusion: Voldemort wishes he could be as awesome as Hermione, that’s why he wants to kill her so bad.

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist.

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Used the Power of Research and Deductive Reasoning to Make Sure Harry Didn’t Die”

Hermione Granger and “That time I figured shit out and literally ended up petrified for the cause and it took my friends weeks to figure out that I had the research on me”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Was a Time Lord”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Realized I was Hot and Smart and Saved Harry’s Ass with Research. Again. All the Time. Really, He Would Have Died Without Me.”

Hermione Granger and “That time Harry was too emo to actually do shit so I did shit in his name because I am the power behind the throne clearly also PS fought evil deatheaters and won”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I told Harry about the Dangers of Copying off Somebody’s else’s work that wasn’t mine and OH LOOK I WAS RIGHT”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I let Harry Decide Where to Go and What To do and we ended up wandering the forests of dean for like 5 months before saving his ass at Hogwarts”

"Fan fiction is making teenagers better writers and better satirists, and allowing them to explore..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:53:23 +1000

“Fan fiction is making teenagers better writers and better satirists, and allowing them to explore sexuality in a way decided by them rather than dictated by the entertainment industry. A purity ring doesn’t carry much meaning when Ron Weasley is pulling it off with his teeth.”

- The Guardian. (via lucyripley)

“A purity ring doesn’t carry much meaning when Ron Weasley is pulling it off with his teeth.”

(via satanic-pony)

afternoonsnoozebutton: Tip for all my student readers: if...

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:54:22 +1000

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document.

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laurelwreath: somethingsomethinginmay: So here are the source...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:20:24 +1000

laurelwreath:

somethingsomethinginmay:

So here are the source links.

FIRSTLY here is where I got Tony Abbott’s (LIBERAL/NATIONAL) list of policies

HERE is section 18C of the racial discrimination act

Basically, we’re fucked. Welcome to Australian Politics.

I swear I’m not going back to Australia if he gets in.

Describe your perfect date.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:40:37 +1000

Describe your perfect date.

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rydek: R.I.P. MSN, the only messenger that allowed me to send a giant unavoidable popup of a pig...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:43:26 +1000

rydek:

R.I.P. MSN, the only messenger that allowed me to send a giant unavoidable popup of a pig shaking his ass to funky techno music to my conversational partner if they were ignoring me

comealongstormaggedon: lesreichenbachfinn: When...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:06:18 +1000

comealongstormaggedon:

lesreichenbachfinn:

When people turn to fictional characters, it’s often because they want an escape. The stories of these people shelter us from the storm of our daily lives; they save us, if only for a little while. But when we really give in, become invested, let ourselves be vulnerable, something changes. We begin to feel that we know them. It’s no longer just an escape, but part of us, something that makes us who we are.

These characters teach us that incredible adversity can be overcome. That people can love each other forever. That life can be an adventure. That magic can be real. And even if these miracles have never happened to us, we begin to go through life believing that, someday, they could.

If anybody ever tells me that storytelling isn’t important anymore, I’ll show them this post.