shit i done did


Dec 14reblog
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kerrimaryberry:

bethanythemartian:

deesarrachi:

seagreeneyes:

granspooky:

chickenspookspecial:

no but seriously imagine being a muggleborn wizard at hogwarts and then when you learn to conjure your patronus it turns out to be a pikachu

#and everyone’s like ‘ooooh what sort of magical creature is this’ #meanwhile the muggle borns are laughing their asses off going ‘PIKA! PIKA’ at you #not but srsly how come muggle borns don’t have a super secret club making inside jokes and snarking right back at elitist purebloods

#i fully support this #muggleborns writing with pencils and pens instead of stupid quills #using muggle slang to answer to insults #teaching their housemates about muggle culture and introducing them to tv shows and books and movies #you have no idea how much i want this #hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home

I mean as a person who’s had to integrate in a foreign culture (which is think is similar to how muggle borns would initially feel in the wizarding world) I know how you, despite wanting to become part of the community, seek out people like you by instinct. Tbh, all the European kids in my town would spend at least the first thirty minutes of any conversation with each other talking about how seriously no Communist is like a dirty word here and why don’t they have Kinder eggs in this fucking place is2g. So it makes sense to me that muggle borns would seek each other out and make inside jokes and dude the new Pokèmon came out bloody hell I’ll have to wait for summer to play it ugh and shit please tell me your mum sent you ballpoints again I seriously cannot deal with all this ink I keep staining everything.

Sorry I vomited words on here omg sorry I just realized

Muggleborns creating a room in hogwarts that’s essentially a magical faraday cage so their tech actually works and they can at least watch Avengers and use a goddamn laptop even if there’s no bloody internet.
(seriously writing everything by hand? I was the one of the first kids in my elementary school to be like FUCK THAT SHIT and start turning in all my papers as computer print offs and using the internet as a research resource, I would find a way and I’m not the only one)

Also they teach the house elves how to make pizza. Because pizza

Dec 6reblog
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bronzedragon:

captainsnippet:

halp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my sister says she wants “tea teas” for xmas. so not fruit teas i’m guessing or green teas but like, earl grey and orange pekoe and etc. i know nothing about tea, so what other teas are there that are similar to those….

So, for some nice non-flavored black teas…

You could go with Adagio’s black samplers - they make a variety of samplers. There’s the Raja Sampler ($10) or the Silk Road Sampler ($15); those are both pretty standard black tea sets. There’s also an $18 sampler set, but I haven’t tried that one and reviews don’t seem as good on it overall. Raja has Irish Breakfast, Assam Melody, Ceylon Sonata, and Darjeeling Sungma Summer (I really like the Sungma Summer, personally, especially iced), while the Silk Road has English Breakfast, Yunnan Noir, Yunnan Jig, and Pu Erh Poe. I haven’t tried Silk Road, but pu erh teas in general have a bit more of an earthy flavor to them. Also, although the Rory Williams Pond fandom blend has sweet potato in it, it really actually brews up as a very nice breakfast tea, much more like a standard black than a flavored tea. Here’s the main black tea link for Adagio; of anything I’ve tried on that page, mambo is the only one I don’t recommend.

Most of the best Earl Greys from Adagio are actually Earl Grey blends with fruity additions, so I suppose I’ll pass on reccing any of those (River Tam is an Earl Grey rose that’s delicious but idk if rose counts as a flavoring - probably yes, so idk if your sister would like it.) Adagio will offer free shipping if you spend over $49 (which would be quite a bit of tea) but they do have a free shipping deal on any order going through Monday for Cyber Monday if you want to buy stuff fast.

For non-Adagio, I know Tranquilitea is a local shop that will ship places (site states it’s about $5 for nearby states to $8.50 if you’re on the West Coast and ordering 2 lbs or less; I’ve no idea about international shipping) - but they do have one of my absolute favorite black teas ever, Organic French Breakfast. It’s $4.25/ounce plus whatever it would cost to ship, with one ounce making about 10-15 cups of tea. They also have some other plain blacks that are nice: Imperial Breakfast is a very good, strong black tea that’s plain and about the same price range as the organic French. (But organic French breakfast, idk how much it would be to ship but I had to recommend it - it’s fantastic.) Their Earl Grey Creme de la Creme is about $3.50/ounce and a creamy but fairly standard Earl Grey. But they do have quite a bit of unique tea, the owners are fantastic about making recommendations, and zomg the Organic French Breakfast this is one of the very few teas I’ve ever bought 16 oz of.  Also, if you want to buy her cheap tins, their shop has the best, cheapest tins of pretty much anywhere (I priced tins out extensively at all 3 sites and also at places like IKEA, Bed Bath and Beyond, and anywhere I could find things that looked like they’d work; they have metal tins for $3.99 that hold around 4 oz., although of course it depends on the volume of the tea as well as the weight - probably holds a bit more black tea than that.) This one’s a family-owned/small business.

The third major tea site I know of is Teavana. They’re super-expensive and mostly flavored teas, but their Golden Monkey is a pretty good standard blend, and I would definitely recommend the Yunnan Golden Pu-Erh if you want to give her an interesting black tea. The pu erh teas are rather smoky (but not smoky like a barbeque, like lapsang souchong - less smoky than that, more earthy and interesting, they make for fantastic iced tea.) The Yunnan Golden Pu Erh is $8/oz with a minimum 2 oz. purchase (like I said, Teavana is super-duper-ridiculously-expensive) but their pu erh is miles better than Adagio’s. (For non pu-erh plain black tea I’d probably stick with Adagio or Tranquilitea, tbh - Teavana’s strengths are in that pu erh black, spicy chai blends, and in some of their individual/unique flavors.)

(Also, if she considers oolong or white tea to be “real tea,” I would have some suggestions for those, but if she doesn’t usually drink white tea she’d probably find white to be too weak. Besides, you probably have enough recs to get started with here.) 

this is a much more detailed response than i could possibly have hoped for. i’m not sure if i feel much more equipped to buy tea or much more afraid :p

halp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my sister says she wants “tea teas” for xmas. so not fruit teas i’m guessing or green teas but like, earl grey and orange pekoe and etc. i know nothing about tea, so what other teas are there that are similar to those….

Dec 1reblog
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I’m so glad to have made such an interesting new friend 

Cherno Alpha

game of thrones meme | six relationships 
(2/6) "When they took his head off, they killed me too"

zemmer:

It just occurred to me that the main reason that “coming out as an ally” shouldn’t be a thing is because if you’re actually an ally, people should already know. Being an ally means calling people on their homophobic, transphobic, and binarist shit. Being an ally means actually doing activism, generally where people can see you. If you’re so meek about it that the bigots in your life would be surprised about you not being one of them, then you might not actually be an ally.

eammons:

dondaario:

dondaario:

roberts rebellion high school au

where rhaegar asks lyanna to go to prom with him even though he was already going with elia and lyanna was going with robert but she agrees and robert throws a hissy fit 

 
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