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Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:18:19 +1000

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f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Artist Shintaro Ohata Seamlessly Blends...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:13:25 +1000

Artist Shintaro Ohata Seamlessly Blends Sculpture and Canvas to Create 3D Paintings

When first viewing the artwork of Shintaro Ohata up close it appears the scenes are made from simple oil paints, but take a step back and you’re in for a surprise. Each piece is actually a hybrid of painted canvas and sculpture that blend almost flawlessly in color and texture to create a single image. The cinematic figures are sculpted from polystyrene while the backgrounds are made from traditional painting techniques.

Fus Ro Dah: rinwolfy: mypocketshurt90: supervaca: thegoddamazon: grimybear: white...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:12:00 +1000

Fus Ro Dah: rinwolfy: mypocketshurt90: supervaca: thegoddamazon: grimybear: white...:

rinwolfy:

mypocketshurt90:

supervaca:

thegoddamazon:

grimybear:

white people colonized and took over the world to compensate for their lack of lips

I’m still mad they took over the world for spices and centuries later don’t use any of that shit in their bland ass…

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Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:08:14 +1000

"People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are..."

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:06:26 +1000

“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”

- Neil Gaiman (via shylocks)

infinitenap: (x) I’m sorry ma’am there was nothing we could do

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:05:22 +1000

infinitenap:

(x)

I’m sorry ma’am there was nothing we could do

thegreatgame: I’m so done.

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:04:10 +1000

thegreatgame:

I’m so done.

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Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:01:41 +1000

alymuffin: prongsmydeer: Rebloggable by request Reasons Why...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:56:56 +1000

alymuffin:

prongsmydeer:

Rebloggable by request

Reasons Why I Don’t Think James Potter Bullied Snape

“James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other, it was just one of those things, you can understand that, can’t you?” -Sirius Black, OOTP, p. 590

“Well, Snape was a special case. He never lost an opportunity to curse James so you couldn’t really expect James to take that lying down, could you?” -Remus Lupin, OOTP, p. 591

“…it was also enchanted to forever repel (as insultingly as possible) the curiosity of their nemesis, Severus Snape.” -JK Rowling, Pottermore, Marauder’s Map. The term nemesis, as defined by Dictionary.com means “an opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.” Implying they were on equal footing. As in anything Snape received, he paid back in full.

In Snape’s Worst Memory, James attacks Snape with a common jinx (that Snape himself invented) and Snape retaliates with a dark curse. What makes anyone think that Snape was incapable of using one to incapacitate James or Sirius?

Snape had a group of friends who grew up to be Death Eaters and who harassed Muggle-borns in school. I’m sure they attempted retaliation on the Marauders. It doesn’t make any sense that they would choose not to fight against those who they most likely hate most, meaning that Snape would have just as much ability to double-team James.

It takes a certain amount of compassion to dedicate your life to saving innocent people, and James was a member of the Order of the Phoenix. If he really harassed and tortured Snape to make him feel like shit, as is implied by many, I doubt he would have enough compassion to join an organization based on protecting everyone (read: you would have to save people you hated sometimes).

Literally everyone who talks about James other than Snape loves him. Dumbledore, Hagrid, Sirius, Remus, everyone. Surely if he was that terrible to someone, at least one other person would hate him, wouldn’t they?

Great points that I’ve always thought were overlooked by many people. More points to consider:

James grew up in a privileged, blessed household, yet he empathizes with nearly everyone, esp minorities. Peter was a talentless underdog, an outcast, a no one. Sirius coming from a repressing, abusive household. Lily as a muggle-born, and muggle-borns in general. Don’t even get me started on Remus and his lycanthropy issue, that is downright stunning how James handled that.

Snape invented spells designed to hurt other people. James suspended him in the air, Snape attempted to slice his head open. One of them was intending to humiliate, the other was intending to maim or kill.

“Well, they [James and Snape] did rather detest each other. Not unlike yourself and Mr. Malfoy. And then, your father did something Snape could never forgive.” “What?” “He saved his life.” (Dumbledore, SS/SP). This is an important parallel between James and Harry; in the end they both saved Snape’s and Draco’s lives respectively, despite their animosities towards another. The differing factor between these pair of rivals was that the Potter boys had enough capacity for compassion that they succeeded in saving the lives of their enemies.

Sirius says in GoF that during Hogwarts, Snape was in a gang full of future Death Eaters, some of who were mentioned: Rosier and Wilkes, the Lestranges, Avery and Mulciber (GoF, Padfoot Returns). That’s a large gang, far bigger than the four Marauders, especially when you consider that James and Sirius were the ringleaders and Remus and Peter didn’t participate in most of their activities.

Dumbledore, Hagrid, McGonagall, Sirius, Remus, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Mad Eye Moody, Emmeline Vance, Elphias Doge, Dedalus Diggle, and Hestia Jones spoke highly of James (hell even Peter knew James had compassion enough not to kill him).

When Hagrid gives Harry the photo album of his parents in First Year, he says that he owled all of Lily and James’ old school friends for photos of them. All of those people loved Lily and James, and kept photos of them long after school, and after their deaths.

At the end of the day, James and Snape both treated each other like shit, but they had their reasons (despite how petty those reasons were, to them it was of utmost importance, we’re not living in their shoes and experiencing the same level of animosity), and it’s unfair to say that Snape was simply an innocent victim when we canonly know that he wasn’t. You can even say that James bullied a bully. Snape was a racist bigot who felt that a minority were subhuman and not on the same standard as he was. He joined a terrorist organization whose purpose was to torture, incapacitate and kill Muggle-borns and Muggles. His greatest virtue was his ability to love a single person in his life, however his compassion ends there.

People are all too willing to judge James based on SWM alone, when in fact JKR had been building up the goodness of his character in all seven books. James was capable of showing kindness to everyone but Snape; begrudging him for that is unfair because the feeling was mutual. At least James had the decency to step in and save Snape’s life at one point; Snape wasn’t capable of doing that for him even years later.

rimkimginny: #oh robb #that’s your storyline in one sentence

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:50:13 +1000

rimkimginny:

#oh robb #that’s your storyline in one sentence

sofisoph: dbowkercreative: “And what are we, then?...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:48:07 +1000

sofisoph:

dbowkercreative:

“And what are we, then? Idiots?”

“That’s not what I meant.”

heh Jethro’s face in the second gif

don’t make me laugh timelord, i’m a sorcerer.

bake-me-cupcakes: “That’s their job as a human being” by...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:46:08 +1000

bake-me-cupcakes:

“That’s their job as a human being” by rocketrictic on Flickr.

sleevemacquey: #he was no dragon #cause he just got BURNED

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:38:05 +1000

sleevemacquey:

#he was no dragon #cause he just got BURNED

pleatedjeans: shockingblankets: Sherlock Holmes is not dead...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:35:17 +1000

pleatedjeans:

shockingblankets:

Sherlock Holmes is not dead masterpost, incase you wanted to see them all in one place. <3

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Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:32:52 +1000

rneerkat: rehabbed: rneerkat: someone hit me in the head with a bottle of alcohol and it was very...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:32:41 +1000

rneerkat:

rehabbed:

rneerkat:

someone hit me in the head with a bottle of alcohol and it was very champainful

*crowd boos*

more like crowd booze ha ha am i right

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Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:25:53 +1000

ugh: abaddonned: okay but can we just appreciate how fucking classy and...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:00:53 +1000

ugh: abaddonned: okay but can we just appreciate how fucking classy and...:

abaddonned:

okay but can we just appreciate how fucking classy and stylish abaddon is

like when we first see her and think she’s josie she’s wearing that red lipstick and her eyeliner has those pretty ass wings and she’s got her hair up and she’s in that dress with those pearls and henry’s…

inspiredmefromtheheart: pentha: edsdick: Ed Sheeran ft....

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:41:13 +1000

inspiredmefromtheheart:

pentha:

edsdick:

Ed Sheeran ft. Passenger - No Diggity / Thrift Shop (cover)

“this is about as gangster as two folk singers can get”

their voices are amazing.

reblog again

thekhooll: Life Before Photoshop -1950 Bruce Mozert was...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:39:51 +1000

thekhooll:

Life Before Photoshop -1950

Bruce Mozert was renowned for being pretty innovative, coming up with underwater tricks to make these scenes seem as real as possible including using baking powder to create the powdery “smoke” coming out of the underwater barbecue.