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me: logs in after being away for like 16 billion years

me: sees that one of my modern marauder aus haS 3000 NOTES

me: Nice™

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‘It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.’ World premiere in London’s West End in 2016 | more here

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slytherins + descriptions

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No one else is going to die. Not for me.

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Looks 10, is actually 25: Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces

Looks 25, is actually 10: Aries, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn,

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To Harry Potter - the boy who lived!

Witches and Wizards across the United Kingdom, October 31st, 1981  (via katiekatebarton)

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Harry Potter Locations: Gringotts (3/?)

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An open letter to tumblr @staff / @support about the 10/29/2015 update:

Dear @staff / @support,

I know you must have spent time and money to implement this recent update that changes tracked tags to search, and I appreciate your attempts to improve this website. However, these recent changes are not user-friendly. They reduce the functionality of your website, and here’s why:

1) This new update is upsetting, and it’s more than just “Oh look, tumblr moved all the furniture 2 inches to the left again.” You said you’ll “periodically slip the best new [tracked tags] posts right into your dash.” I noticed. In case anyone besides my followers actually reads this, I’m a fan of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) book series, and ASOIAF is the main focus of all of my blogs. I used to be a fan of the popular tv show adaptation, Game of Thrones. My love for ASOIAF remains strong, but I cut ties with the tv show after HBO raped Sansa Stark, one of my favorite characters in the books. 

But now, @staff, you’re slipping the best new posts about Sansa Stark being raped right onto my dash! You’re slipping the best new posts about the latest Game of Thrones/Sansa Stark rage-blogging right onto my dash! Not too many! Just enough to completely upset me, and make me shut down the computer for several hours! I just want to be able to go into the Sansa Stark tag when I choose to do so, and to scroll swiftly past the rape posts to find the pretty fanart. I do not want any posts on my dash from people I don’t follow. 

Tracked tags allowed me to mentally prepare myself before looking at sensitive topics / tags / content that I am interested in. I used to be able to choose how and when I wanted to look at that content; you’ve taken that choice away from me. 

2) This new update is inefficient. I used to have 19 tracked tags. Now I have 19 bookmarks saved in a folder in my browser. Now, I don’t know when any of those tags have a new post in them. This morning I clicked on 19 different links trying to find the latest content for my blogs; out of those 19 tags, 3 of them had new content in them, meaning I wasted my time with 16 of them. I track a bunch of obscure tags for minor characters, so is this what I’m going to have to deal with from now on? I already waste enough time on this website. The least you could do is allow me to waste that time efficiently. 

Tumblr users are busy people. Despite the infantilizing language often used to make announcements on tumblr, apparently 85% of tumblr users are adults 18 or older, and presumably a lot of these people have commitments like work, school, and family. We don’t always have time to scroll our dashboards and sift through 5 million reblogs of the same cat post to find the latest news and the latest content we want to see. 

Even when I didn’t have time to scroll my dash, I could spend 2 minutes to glance at my tracked tags and immediately see which ones had new content in them. Even working 5 days a week, I could always keep my blogs updated because tracked tags told me right away when there was brand new content I wanted to see. I wasn’t searching for that content. I wasn’t sifting through my dashboard like a miner panning for gold. The content I wanted was right there waiting for me. 

I think I understand what you were trying to do. This streamlines the tumblr experience, with “tracked tags” now slipped onto the dashboard. By slipping posts onto the dashboard, I’m guessing you were trying to have us spend more time on the dash (where your advertisements are, incidentally) and less in tracked tags. I’m also guessing you were trying to deliver content to us faster. 

But it doesn’t work. This is not how users actually use your website. Tumblr is supposed to be fun, and all you’re doing is making it frustrating and upsetting.

Please, I don’t know if anyone, let alone anyone in a position of authority, will actually read this, but I’m begging you: put the tracked tags back. In all my years on tumblr, I’ve only ever seen you restore one feature that you had previously taken away: rebloggable asks. Please, make tracked tags the second thing you restore. 

Please, bring back tracked tags. 

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PURE BLOOD. CHASER. SLYTHERIN.

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Happy Halloween!

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Fun Halloween AU: James and Lily Potter don’t die

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I have seen your dreams, Ronald Weasley, and I have seen your fears.

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Incredible minimalist poster of the Marauders from Harry Potter. Design by Sevilla Seas.

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Draco and Lucius - Two sketches that unintentionally fit together. XD

The first one is a quote from “A Very Potter Sequel” and Lui was just a random sketch. ^-^

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Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.

                                       ∟sirius black

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the stupidest thing in the entire harry potter series was when they go down to the slytherin dormitory and it’s all dark and slimy and freezing and shit. as if lucius malfoy would let his son live in squalor like that. the house with the highest concentration of spoiled purebloods are happy to live under the goddamn lake? no.