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Have you ever wondered where books come from?

Well then, let me show you, because that’s what I do for a living.

Right now, it’s this time of the year, and the little ones have just freshly hatched:

You’ll notice they’re still blind and naked when they hatch. So I make them little coats to keep them warm during their first winter:

See how they happily line up to put them on:

See? Better. Now they’re ready to go and explore the world.

And if they make it through the winter and we take good care of them, they will grow up to be strong and wise like their older fellows:

So, in case you were ever wondering, now you know.

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The ultimate procrastination: procrastinating on procrastinating. 

to my fellow students preparing for finals: get off tumblr. do your work. procrastinate later.

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AMERICA!!!!! GET IT TOGETHER!!!!!!! 

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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens 

SAN BERNARDINO, CA—In the hours following a violent rampage in southern California in which two attackers killed 14 individuals and seriously injured 17 others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Michigan resident Emily Harrington, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep these individuals from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past six and a half years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

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What if, instead of teaching women that they have to raise their hands to speak at meetings, we taught men to be more reflective and circumspect; instead of telling women to tamp down their emotions at the office, a man was told that he didn’t appear committed enough to the job because he’s never shed tears over it; instead of pushing women to take public credit for their work, we publicly admonish men who don’t properly acknowledge others’ contributions? I was just invited to a seminar on public speaking skills for women — where’s the class on listening skills for men?

Leveling both sides of the playing field — Medium

PREEEEEEACH.

(via tiffanyb)

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A book without women is often said to be about humanity but a book with women in the foreground is a woman’s book.

Rebecca Solnit’s magnificent response to Esquire’s “manly” reading list. Also see Solnit on what reading does for the human spirit.  (via explore-blog)

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we are taught, from a very early age that a prince kissing an unconscious princess is the epitome of romance. and then we are shocked when boys grow up thinking no resistance = consent, and girls grow up believing this is how love should feel.

marina v., gendered. (via findingwordsforthoughts)

YAS 🙌

(via smartgirlsattheparty)

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me, about to watch a movie: once again it is time to switch off my Feminist Sensibilities, so that I can enjoy this piece of entertainment rather than becoming Incensed and Outraged.

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19 Banned Books If They Were Made Appropriate

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Freedom of Speech

I find it absolutely hilarious that at the same time the student protesters at Yale and University of Missouri are being demonized as persecutors of free expression, Starbucks is being condemned as conforming to a PC liberalist agenda, because their free expression did not include snowflakes on already red christmas-themed cups. So apparently, when people paint swastikas, or wear culturally appropriating halloween costumes, or spew vitriol against individuals who practice Islam, or individuals who are transgendered, that is protected from social condemnation because of freedom of speech, but when a company chooses to not take one more step in celebrating a Christian holiday, even though it has already decorated its stores in christmas ornaments, then that company deserves public backlash. It seems to me that microaggressions (and in mizzou’s case actual threats of aggression) toward any group that is not made up of white, Christian, straight, cisgendered males is totally fine, but not taking every possible step to celebrate white, Christian, straight, cisgendered males is part of an evil agenda.  

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from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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These are some facts that J.K.Rowling let slip in numerous interviews. Facts that tell us what all happened nineteen years later, with our three heroes, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine and other wonderful characters,

~ Azkaban no longer uses Dementors as guardians.

~George Weasley married Angelina Johnson and had 2 children named Fred and Roxanne. 

~Harry made sure that the Wizarding world knew that Snape was a hero and on Dumbledore’s side.

~Slytherin House became more diluted and was no longer solely pureblood; however its dark reputation lingers. 

~Harry lost the ability to speak Parseltongue. 

~Umbridge was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned for crimes against Muggleborns.

~The Resurrection Stone is now buried in the Forbidden Forest after being pressed into the ground by a centaur’s hoof.

~ Voldemort’s curse on the DADA position at Hogwarts has been lifted.

~Viktor Krum fell in love with a woman back home in Bulgaria.

~The Death Eater’s Dark Marks eventually faded to look like a scar. It will no longer burn or hurt.

~ The Quibbler is back to publishing articles about the lunatic fringe & is appreciated for its unintentional humour.

~Members of the DA still have their coins, as they are like badges of honor. 

~Neville Longbottom worked as an Auror before moving on as the Herbology professor at Hogwarts.

~The remaining Death Eaters were killed or imprisoned in Azkaban for their crimes, with the exception of the Malfoys.

~Luna Lovegood married the grandson of the Newt Scamander, author of ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ 

~Firenze survived his wounds and was welcomed back into the Centaur herd.

 ~Harry will never become Headmaster of Hogwarts since an academic career just isn’t him.

~Hagrid was still working at Hogwarts by 2017, at 88 years old.

~Draco Malfoy really cares about his son, Scorpius Malfoy. He is growing him up to be a better person than he was.

~Centaurs realized that “pro-human leanings were not shameful.

~Draco and Harry never became friends, but they did come to understand and appreciate each other better.

~Hermione tells Scrimgeour that she is not planning to embark on a career in Magical Law. Ironically, that’s where she ends up.

~After his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted infant-like form that Harry sees in the King’s Cross-like Limbo.

~Harry would  take his family to visit Dudley’s when they were in the neighbourhood (occasions dreaded by James, Albus and Lily).

~Aberforth is still at the Hog’s Head “playing with his goats”.

~The number of Dementors have been greatly diminished because despair and degradation have been lessened in the world.

~Arthur Weasley fixed Sirius’ motorbike and gave it to Harry.

~Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting on a bit”) as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. That position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx that kept a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year.

~Hagrid never married, although he had a relationship with a giantess.

~Kingsley Shacklebolt became the Minister of Magic after the Second Wizarding War.

~Harry will not train to be an animagus; his “energies are going to be concentrated elsewhere and he’s not going to have time to do that.

~Audrey Weasley is wife of Percy Weasley, and they both  have 2 daughters, Molly and Lucy.

~In the aftermath of the war, the Order was disbanded once and for all.

~Luna has twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander with Rolf Scamander.and apparently  travels the world, looking for mad creatures.

~Hermione advanced the rights of magical creatures & eradicated the old pro-pure-blood laws in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

~The head of the Auror Office as of 2007 is Harry Potter.

~Lavender Brown was attacked by Fenrir Greyback. Hermione saved her but she was already injured. What happened to her later on was never really told.

~Neville Longbottom’s students were impressed when he showed them his Dumbledore’s Army’s Coin.

~Harry, Ron and Neville didn’t return to Hogwarts for their 7th year. They went straight to get training as aurors and Neville went to work as an auror before becoming a Professor.

~Harry sometimes visits Hogwarts to give talks on DADA.

~Hermione is James’ godmother.

~Hermione Granger was the only member of the trio who returned to Hogwarts to complete their seventh year.

~Ron worked with George in WWW for some time and then became an Auror.

~Ginny became a professional Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies and become the senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.

~After the war, Hermione found her parents in Australia and restored their memories.

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This is everything I wanted when I woke up today.