mutie-menace:

mutie-menace:

mutie-menace:

hey guys just wanted to let you know i might die updates soon

so: a huge earthquake just hit my area and my stuff is sort of screwed. there’s a gas leak in my house and we got a lot of damage, and on top of that there’s a tsunami coming, but we’re headed to high ground so i’ll be physically safe

my family is safe but we had to shut off our gas and our heat, which. isn’t ideal in an alaskan winter but we still have electricity. our house is standing but there’s structural damage and our chimney literally fell off to somewhere?? it’s one of those little pipe ones so we haven’t found it but it means we’re getting a lot of cold air. it’ll be a while before the government gives us money to make sure our house doesn’t fall apart if they do at all. in the meantime we need to get some more blankets and maybe one of those plug in heaters? uhhh. things are pretty screwed up in my city right now. lots of bridges and roads are looking like this:

if you guys wanna send me some money for supplies while we figure out how to get heat back that would be pretty good, i know i’ve been making a lot of donation posts recently but i didn’t get enough to hold us over after getting hit this hard

https://www.paypal.me/Zillennial

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manrepellent:

mjalti:

I really … don’t know what the mom expected… I really do not

bladefights:

I think I want my next piercing to be through my heart with a wooden stake

thebvnnykvlt:

I’m accepting Xmas presents this year. My wishlist so far is either the replica of the Megalodon shark jaw with five rows of 46 teeth (Carcharocles megalodon, extinct aprox 2 million years ago) for $27,000 or I could settle with the Short faced bear articulated skeleton standing 10 feet tall (Arctodus simus, extinct aprox 11,000 years ago) for a meager $19,000.

K, thx

roguepaladin:

thiccestybutolder:

I see a little silhouetto of a man

justatransgirlwitch:

Can we all do a solid for my family friends kid Maddox? The letters can be completely anonymous, i’m sure he would appreciate them regardless! Pretty please no religious symbols or sigils and all that jazz lets just give him some awesome Christmas cards!

bookportal:

gehayi:

my-sun-is-gone:

since1938:

marauders4evr:

not-a-bit-good:

marauders4evr:

bonnini:

wizardtowizard:

lbibliophile:

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant.
The young werewolf.
The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude – well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

Who gave you the RIGHT?

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

• Wow. Lots to think about.