#STUN!

[saintsenara]

you said voldemort is obsessed with james in canon? I need receipts? (love your meta)

cheers, anon!

i say a lot that voldemort is canonically a simp for wee jamie p - and i'm right to - but i should probably clarify that i'm being slightly facetious when i do.

it comes from the fact that, in philosopher's stone, voldemort really gasses up james when telling harry how his father died:

Yes, boy, your parents were brave... I killed your father first, and he put up a courageous fight... but your mother needn’t have died... she was trying to protect you... Now give me the Stone, unless you want her to have died in vain.

he then repeats this in goblet of fire:

“Very good,” said Voldemort softly, and as he raised his wand the pressure bearing down upon Harry lifted too. “And now you face me, like a man... straight-backed and proud, the way your father died...

except we know from deathly hallows that what actually happened is that james ran into the hallway without his wand, flailed around uselessly, and then immediately died.

why would voldemort say he fought bravely, then? easy! because he thought james was hot and would, therefore, do anything to help him beat the flop allegations.

and who among us can say that we haven't gone out of our way to minimise the embarrassing traits of the object of our affections?

[rearobservatories]

This angle proved to be extremely effective. It has drastically changed how we view selfies at the observatory. :P

[kavaleyre]

• The Hanged Man •

“Compared to what Falin went through? This is nothing.”

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[stunning10s]

[pleazagirl3]

Pleazagirl3:

[splendidfemalelegs]

So elegantly sexy

[legendarygladiatorbeliever]

[stuff-i-wanna-post]

The legendary scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Phoebe Cates

[rearobservatories]

Not everything is so serious in rear studies. Some times we take a load off and cuddle up against a nice bum.

[feminineambrosia]

Wow! Alisa Amore is a goddess

[ghostlywriterr]

The Baltic sea by Arvydas Ciuksys

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

[stunning10s]