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ENOUGH ABOUT BOOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FUCKING COMET IS COMING

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Not queer as in "queer is not a slur" but queer as in "I do not give a fuck if its a slur, you don't get to censor my identity regardless". Queer as in "I HOPE my identity upsets you". Queer as in "my identity is not only a slur but a threat"

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Wish you a very Happy Birthday. I love your siat Cassius and George. May I have something of them please! Lots of love

His family's politics are built on survival.

Cassius understands it - to a point. They didn't join Grindewald. They didn't pledge Loyalty to Voldemort. They've never been anything but mocking and dismissive of Dumbledore.

His family has guarded their neutrality even to their own detriment. Refusing to align themselves means none of them go very far in politics, no matter the faction in control. Several of his family members have died for refusing to take a stand when war comes - from both sides.

The Weasleys and the Prewetts are have never been neutral.

They're all liberal, and always have been, back when they had the money and power for that to piss a lot of people off. It's part of the reason they've lost it. They can't even make themselves stick to ideology, always taking up their wands and their swords and sticking themselves on the front of every battle line.

It's how they'd gotten their power, initially. Godric Gryffindor had been a fan of both lines.

A son of Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett can never be anything but exactly what he was born to be.

Cassius knows this. He knows it so well that it stays his hands and his heart every time they want to stray.

He too is a product of his family's choices. If he chooses George, he either makes a target out of the people who raised him or forces them to cut ties with him entirely. They might not be at war now but peace never lasts.

They've given up more than a son for their neutrally. He knows what they'll choose.

He's proven right. Peace ends. Voldemort returns. It's time for his family to raise their wands in defense of never having to choose.

Cassius knows he can never ask George to be anything but exactly who he is.

In the middle of platform 9 3/4, right in front of his mother, Cassius chooses to be someone else instead.

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How does is feel to date the coolest person on the planet?

Pretty damn cool tbh

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I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:

The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive  hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.

Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.

Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”

I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!

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Nothing makes me want to call math fake as much as the Monty Hall problem. Not even 0.999999... equaling 1. Yes I understand the proof yes it technically makes sense but I just hate the Monty Hall problem so, so much.

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WARNING very graphic visual of Lu-Tens last moments. the footage shows, how prince Lu-Ten son of Iroh second in line. has to fight off on his own, two small hatchlings, both enraged by their pray being stolen. and you can clearly see, how his father, the general, dragon of the west crown prince Iroh, JUST SITS ON THE SIDELINES SIPPING HIS TEA AND LAUGHING HIS BELLY OF!

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Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed

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ok also michael’s plan to torture them for a thousand years wouldve worked if he’d just paired chidi and jason together and eleanor and tahani together as soul mates. eleanor and tahani.. hoo boy they’re self-explanatory but chidi and jason? chidi would have broken down day 1 from ‘wait my soulmate is a man? im attracted to men? wait is it homophobic of me to be surprised that my soulmate is a man? am i bisexual? am i gay? oh my god is that why none of my girlfriends worked out? did i lead women on bc i was too homophobic to realise my own sexuality? have i been in denial my whole life?’ and jason would have to contend with a beautiful jacked academic begging him for wisdom using words he’s never heard before in his life. and then they (chidi+jason and eleanor+tahani) kiss

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one of my personal favorite dichotomies in atla is how iroh, once the top strategist and highest-ranking general of the fire nation, now directs all his energy and considerable tactical experience towards attempting to keep his teenage nephew from throwing himself into life-threatening situations AND IROH REGULARLY FAILS TO PREVENT HIM FROM DOING SO.

he lead a six-hundred day siege and now iroh can't keep up with a sixteen-year-old armed with two swords and a passionate deathwish. zuko's motto is "act first, think never" and he's running rings around his uncle. it's like!!! who's gonna come out on top, iroh's west point education vs. zuko's deep and abiding commitment to always choosing the stupidest possible course of action, and zuko manages to win every single time

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The dread pirate Blackbeard, devil-born scourge of the Caribbean, the Kraken who sends even the bravest men fleeing at the mere mention of his name, should absolutely have an embarrassing boyfriend who calls him my gentle dove, my sweet lamb, my naughty little kitten, and every other nauseating term of endearment he can think of. It’s what Stede Bonnet was born to do.

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Linny ❤️

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Baz: Did you... did you just smack my ass with your tail?

Simon, holding his tail back: no

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something has been brought to our attention by yummy_lavender_soap on Instagram, and i can’t not talk to y’all about it

the scene where lucius finds jim’s clothing, he looks like he’s been strolling for a while (probably walked past here already) and looks confused as to why there’s suddenly clothing on this rock.

there’s a specific detail abt this scene that makes me lose my fucking marbles, though

do u see it?

DO U SEE IT???

LIKE?????? HELLO?????

THIS WAS IN EPISODE 2!!!! BEFORE THEY HOOKED UP IN THE RATIONS CLOSET IN EPISODE 5!!!

Which makes it either 1 of the following:

- Lucius and Pete have been dating for a while, and they just haven’t had sex yet which is why they had that awkward thing at the end of their “rations rump”

- They HAVE had sex, and they’re just awkward idiots in love by default

- They have not been dating yet, but Lucius developed a crush on Pete in the meantime (supported by the fact that homeboy can not stop staring at him in the first episode) and he put this down bc Pete can’t read anyway and so won’t know what it means

i am OBSESSED WITH THEM AND I NEED MOREEEEE!!!

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Winter time Ginny and Luna :)

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“he doesn’t kiss, nobody likes him” consider that stede’s scary story says just as much about stede as ed’s kraken story says about him. 

consider that stede was the odd boy out growing up. consider that his relationship with mary was perfunctory and very likely passionless - an expectation. it’s clear that they don’t have any kind of affection in their relationship. 

he doesn’t kiss. nobody likes him.

maybe he’d done it once or twice. once on his wedding night, grimacing through a duty-bound and anxious consummation with someone who doesn’t want to be there either, because that’s how he always imagined it, that’s how it is in the stories - falling in love, spending the first night of the rest of your lives together. 

this isn’t that story. 

so there it is, really. stede grows up and he grows older and he learns that the only dreams he can have are the ones he can create for himself. 

he builds a ship to captain because he knows no one would take him otherwise. he hires a crew with regular pay in case he can’t inspire loyalty. he brings his stories because he knows that’s all he’s ever going to know about love or romance. 

he doesn’t kiss. nobody likes him.

when you believe something about yourself so deeply and for so long, it becomes part of you. it becomes true. you forget the possibilities of anything else. the scariest thing ed teach can think of is the kraken. the scariest thing stede can think of is a man who doesn’t kiss, who nobody likes. 

is it any wonder then that stede is surprised when ed kisses him? that it’s a little awkward and a little clumsy, a little uncertain? that stede can lose himself in the moment, but that he begins to panic so shortly thereafter? he knows himself, after all. he’s a failure of a father and a husband and a pirate captain and he’s a murderer besides. a defiler of beautiful things. 

he doesn’t kiss for a reason. nobody should like him. 

it’s not a very big step then, is it, to go back to what he should be. things have changed, though, and he’s very aware of how he doesn’t fit, but he’s used to that. that’s how it should be. he only becomes a little bitchy about it when he catches mary with doug - the reminder of what he cannot have. he doesn’t kiss. nobody likes him. 

but then mary tells him about love, and stede’s realization isn’t just that he’s in love with ed. he also realizes that ed is in love with him. 

it feels easy. it’s just like breathing. they understand each other’s idiosyncrasies, finds them charming even. they expose each other to new things, and they laugh a lot. they pass the time so well together. 

he hasn’t kissed. not really. but ed loves him. and that’s not the scary story it was that night sitting alone on the beach, watching ed run headlong into a future stede didn’t think he could ever have. 

he knows that future is real, though. it’s possible. he’s going to fight for it.