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Just a small correction, if you don’t mind, @teashoesandhair? You wrote that “William IV de Braose regained royal favour with the new King John, but was implicated in the disappearance (and obvious murder) of Arthur of Brittany, the teenage rival of King John to the throne of England, and later died in exile after fleeing Britain in the guise of a beggar. And his son, William V de Braose, had an affair with Joan, Lady of Wales”. Actually, the guy who had the affair with Joan (or Siwan) was William IV’s grandson, also (confusingly) named William.

See, William IV had 4 sons (and apparently 5 daughters): William (V), Giles, Reginald and John. William (V) was captured along with his mother (William IV’s wife Maud) by John, imprisoned, and died there (supposedly by starvation). Reginald had a son, William (known as Gwilym Ddu in some records), and he was the one who had the affair with Joan, and was hanged. Also, yes, his daughter Isabella married Joan and Llewellyn’s son Dafydd.

It was even more incestuous, because John (William V’s son, William IV’s grandson) married Marared ferch Llewellyn (Llewellyn’s daughter, and possibly Joan’s), and Reginald (William IV’s son and the father of the William who slept with Joan) married Gwladus Ddu, who was also Llewellyn’s daughter (and possibly Joan’s). So they were very good at keeping it all in the family.

Also, Joan’s story is kind of incredible and it’s sad more people don’t know about it. I wish more people would be aware of it - just consider the fact that despite apparently catching her cheating on him, Llewellyn took her back after about a year (very uncommon for the time, to say the least). Sharon Kay Penman wrote a brilliant book about Llewellyn and Joan, called Here Be Dragons, which I highly recommend.

Does this mean that people also don’t know about the striking similarities between the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones and events that went down at a certain Welsh castle in 1175

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Sacred Lord save me. Okay, let’s do this properly. Let us accept an axiom that ‘words mean things’. Indeed, it’s beyond an axiom, as it proves itself. Let us expand this statement to ‘words (in other languages) mean things’. Now, let us expand it to ‘Authors WRITING SHIT DOES NOT CHANGE THE MEANING OF THE WORDS!!!’

‘Avada Kedavra’ does not fucking mean ‘let the thing be destroyed. Yes, ‘Avada’ in Aramaic is ‘(be) destroyed’, but ‘Kedavra’ is not ‘this thing’! ‘Davar’ is ‘thing’, but in Hebrew, not Aramaic! Even if it was ‘thing’ in Aramaic, the structure of the statement means what you’re saying is ‘(be) destroyed like/as this thing’, as ‘ke’ is a modifier indicating ‘like, similar’ and also ‘as’. However, ‘davra‘ also means ‘word, speech’ (though it can also mean boat when pronounced ‘dovra’), and so we have the logical statement ‘(be) destroyed as this word/speech’, which, condensed into day to day speech gives us the statement ‘Be destroyed as I said/spoke’.

Tl;dr: Avada Kedavra means ‘Be destroyed as I said’. NOTHING MORE. NOTHING LESS. WORDS MEAN THINGS. AUTHORS SHOULD NOT TRY TO INTERPRET LANGUAGES THEY DO NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND.

harry potter spells + meanings (3/3)

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New promo video for the latest musical!

But we have two important things to consider.

1. I’m pretty sure Haruka can sharpen her sword on her cheekbones.

2. HOLY FUCK MICHIRU

Like we already knew the Ara was strong with Michiru’s actress, but guys.

GUYS

THIS CHIN TILT

We have clearly been very good and this is our reward.

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#JW watches Sera Myu #Un Nouveau Voyage #haruka tenoh #michiru kaioh #just in case you ever doubted it #michiru instantly steals everything #but i kind of love how everything about haruka is so SHARP #her collars #her earrings #her cheekbones #her nose #even her fucking eyeliner

Behold the matched single eye-narrow of Better Than You.

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Tagged by avulle​ for the doing of the thing.

How it works: you shuffle your music library and write down the first 20 songs that come up. Only rule is that you can’t skip any songs. Then you tag 20 people.

So, I don’t really have a music library, so this is what’s on my phone... Also, kudos for getting me to actually post something on Tumblr, but after that list, I felt obligated.

1 Ocean Soul - Nightwish 2 חולמת - דין דין אביב ומוש בן ארי 3 Wild Child - Enya 4 Love Will Have Its Sacrifices - SOLES 5 Christ Child’s Lullaby - Kindred Voices 6 The Fallen - The Hobbit 3 OST 7 Beethoven 9th Symphony, Movement IV 8 ילדה קטנה - משה פרץ ואגם בוחבוט 9 Field of Innocence - Evanescence 10 Far Over The Mist Mountains Cold - Instrumental - The Hobbit 1 OST 11 Tenshi Souzou Sunawachi Hikari - Utena OST 1 12 Restless - Within Temptation 13 Guren no Yumiya - Shinjeki no Kyojin 14 Frodo’s Lament For Gandalf - Adele McAllister 15 I Sang of Leaves of Leaves of Gold - Adele McAllister 16 The Howling - Withing Temptation 17 כי הנה כחומר - אודליה ברלין 18 Gothic Sanctuary - Nightwish 19 Sagitta Luminis - Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica OST 20 God’s Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash

Not tagging anyone, but any of my followers (no doubt stunned at me actually posting) are welcome to reblog/comment.

This is the Music Challenge

(I guess?)

Tagged by mr-wintergarten​ for the doing of the thing.

How it works:  you shuffle your music library and write down the first 20 songs that come up. Only rule is that you can’t skip any songs. Then you tag 20 people.

1. ふたつ星 - 五木ひろし&都はるみ 2. ひこうき雲 - AKB48 3. Time and You - AILI thanx to SATOMI 4. I Was Here - Kristin Chenoweth 5. Android Syndrome - DONGHAE & EUNHYUK 6. I Want It All - Karmin 7. 千の風になって - 秋川雅史 8. Melodies - Madison Beer 9. Tiger Rag - Louis Armstrong 10. マジスカロックンロール - AKB48 11. The Little Things Give You Away - Linkin Park 12. ゆるぎないものひとつ - B’z 13. Goodbye to the Circus - Aqua 14. Planet Hell - Nightwish 15. Reflection - Lea Salonga 16. 弾丸ファイター - SMAP 17. もっと強く - EXILE 18. Digital Love - Daft Punk 19. Nobody Else But Me - Kristin Chenoweth 20. Anything Goes!! - BENI

I don’t even know twenty people on tumblr.  Here’s three: sageofthesky inquisitivefeminist spiralingintocontrol

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Me: *is watching "Spy" and enjoying the heck out of it*

Rayna Boyanov: Whatever, fuck you.

Susan Cooper: I knew you liked me!

Raina: *starts to be led away, but before she gets into the car*

Susan Cooper: Hey! Fuck you, too.

Raina: *smiles at Susan with genuine fondness*

Group of Teenage Girls in the Audience: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww *group giggle*

Me: *looks over at them* *nods in approval*

#spy #spy spoilers #i was so happy when they did that #i felt it too girls! #you vocalized the feelings in my heart #bb femslashers #you go girls #four for you girls #audience reactions #things that are awesome #rose byrne #melissa mccarthy

I cannot thank you enough for this, @elle-subterfuge

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#this is my favorite thing about michiru ever

Sailor Moon Super, Episode 106: The Bond of Destiny! The Distant Days of Uranus

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“I’LL NEVER LET GO JACK”

“PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS”

“Wait. We missed something somewhere.”

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smoo told me to draw zutara week stuff so instead i drew some modern au gaang. sorry for my shitty handwriting.

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These are beautiful. How did I not know about them sooner?

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tvtropes + michiru kaioh/sailor neptune 

“Oh, maybe you misunderstood. A world without Haruka is hardly worth saving.”

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perfection is tiring

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tvtropes + setsuna meioh/sailor pluto 

 “Quietly watching over someone from afar is a kind of love, too.”