7eye

tyleroakley: cyberfrost: Pokemon Fusion Fan Art: Compilation...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:04:45 -0400

tyleroakley:

cyberfrost:

Pokemon Fusion Fan Art: Compilation 1 “Sinister Ones”

I’M OBSESSED.

Here, have some nightmare fuel.

mydarkenedeyes: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:02:40 -0400

mydarkenedeyes:

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his moonlit scenes and landscapes.

couldvebeenaprincess: “consent is sexy” no fuck you consent is a basic fucking right every human...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:43:46 -0400

couldvebeenaprincess:

“consent is sexy” no fuck you consent is a basic fucking right every human being deserves and we shouldn’t have to sexualize it to convey its importance

davusignavus: rudimentree: davusignavus: i liked the page for my school’s lgbt* center on...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:38:54 -0400

davusignavus:

rudimentree:

davusignavus:

i liked the page for my school’s lgbt* center on facebook and my mom just sent me a message that said

“now all of china knows you’re queer”

please deliver this reply to your mother:

“perfect”

she laughed so hard i think she exploded

opolla: tricksterroxylalonde: ectogasmic: napoleonbonerhard: ...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:58:39 -0400

opolla:

tricksterroxylalonde:

ectogasmic:

napoleonbonerhard:

Thrift Shop 8bit (x)
Macklemore

dude this sounds like really bad ass boss music holy shit??

wow

whoops my hand slipped

allaboardthepartyelk: spookysassyrussian: “What’s going on?...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:16:10 -0400

allaboardthepartyelk:

spookysassyrussian:

“What’s going on? I’m sensing something…” (x)

IM BROKEN. IM DEAD.

THIS IS IT.. THIS IS THE REASON HE PULLED FACES… He was probably like “YOU’RE NOT GONNA GIVE ME LINES?? I DON’T NEED LINES TO BE THE MOST FABULOUS CHARACTER ANYWAY.”

100% true

zrayak: chirart: sometimes if you vomit enough rainbow and...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:19:08 -0400

zrayak:

chirart:

sometimes if you vomit enough rainbow and explanation marks it does make a difference!!!!

This whole thing makes me so happy

glupglup: thisischristmascake: ibelievethesecondpart: sentimen...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:47:19 -0400

glupglup:

thisischristmascake:

ibelievethesecondpart:

sentimentalsanity:

I WASN’T EXPECTING THAT

SWINGING THERE IS A HORRIBLE IDEA

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET ON THE SWING

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET OFF THE SWING WITHOUT FALLING INTO ALL THAT

You know what I would call this piece if I were to name it?

Innocence

tumblr gets deep

this is one of those times when the commentary is entirely irrelevant

moriartyhauntsmydreams: gideongordongraves: cocaine-and-insulin...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:20:12 -0400

moriartyhauntsmydreams:

gideongordongraves:

cocaine-and-insulin:

miakosamuio:

mishastolemywormstache:

sandandglass:

CNN actually researched how much it would cost to go to Hogwarts

#NO WONDER THE WEASLEYS ARE FUCKING BROKE

How exactly did they “research” this? Looks like they just pulled a bunch of random figures out of their butts.

It’s stated in the books that tuition to Hogwarts is “free for all children in Britain”. I don’t know why they thought it wouldn’t be - it’s a British high school, not a college. So there, you just saved yourself $42,024.

In Chamber of Secrets, Mrs. Weasley emptied her entire bank account which contained only two galleons [£10 / US$20] and she managed to buy all five children’s entire set of books and potion ingredients with this, as well as Ginny’s robes, hat, clock, cauldron, and wand!!! And we know she bought all of these as she mentioned having to buy them. The fact that she bought all of these with only £10 pretty much proves how absolutely ridiculous CNNs estimation is.

If you want more proof, the actual cost of Harry’s wand is far over estimated here, and the exact price in both pounds as US dollars can easily be found right within the books! Harry’s wand is bought for seven galleons, a galleon being worth about five pounds [mentioned by JK Rowling in an interview and in FBAWTFT/QTTA] means that his wand was £35, or US$53. So there’s some straight-out-of-the-books-and-word-of-god proof that the figures CNN have given are way off the mark. Not to mention the fact that even if you don’t go to Hogwarts, as a magical human you’re gonna have to buy a wand anyway if you want to do magic.

As for the school books, I’ve done an approximation based on various prices given through-out the books and on Pottermore. While these prices involve a substantial amount of guess-work, I think you’ll agree that my calculation is far more accurate than CNNs:

The Standard book of Spells costs one sickle [29p / US59c]. On the back of my comic relief copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them it says it costs fourteen sickles [£4.60 / US$8.26]. One Pottermore, all text books are one galleon [£4.97 / US$10.17] - however Pottermore currency only uses galleons so it’s likely they have rounded off. Lockhart’s books, the most expensive in the series, are five galleons on Pottermore meaning that the exchange rate in the books puts them around two galleons and fourteen sickles [£14.60 / US$20.80]. If we put a high average on this and assume that all textbooks are approximately a galleon [they are likely much less], and that each year has around seven required reading books, the entire price for seven years worth of books would be forty-nine galleons, which equals approximately £243, or US$367 - and remember, this is the maximum estimated price for the textbooks.

For the minimum, we need to consider that the Weasleys get a lot of things second hand, with Ginny’s copy of A Begginers Guide To Transfiguration being described as “a very old, very battered copy” - likely no more than five sickles. If they got all their books around that price, it would cost them no more than £14 / US$21 for the entire seven years worth! So school books, far from being US$516, fall somewhere between US$14 and US$367 for the entire seven years at Hogwarts.

Next we have robe, glove, cloak, and hat prices - these are never mentioned in the books or on Pottermore, so I can’t account for that. However I seriously doubt it’s as a high as they’ve got here. Considering books in the wizarding world are generally much cheaper than in the muggle world, I think it’s fairly safe to assume that clothing is as well. Likely a maximum of a galleon for a single set of robes.

They’ve also forgotten a huge number of things - cauldrons, potion ingredients, scales, and star charts, among others.

So yeah, I really don’t know where they came up with these figures. It looks like some guy just wanted to make a story about how expensive Hogwarts would be and put a bunch of American college figures together and thought “yeah, this looks good.”

Do not fuck with a fandom.

This is the greatest.

i hope CNN knows Aguamenti because they just got buuurrrnnned

banasmagiccastle: rosedai: clockworkvaudeville: davidmichaelbe...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:46:24 -0400

banasmagiccastle:

rosedai:

clockworkvaudeville:

davidmichaelbennett:

officialsteampoweredgiraffe:

So this happened.

Yup. Deal with it.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

WHAT IS THIS

WHAT IS THIS

im done

why is this band so good

abandon-everything: La Niña effect over the Tasman Sea...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:27:30 -0400

abandon-everything:

La Niña effect over the Tasman Sea by Irenaeus Herok

adamjford: Random Musing: On MRAs

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:33:23 -0400

adamjford: Random Musing: On MRAs:

pollums:

fucksgiver:

I sent this to a blogger I follow who was discussing MRAs, and I just thought it belonged here too.

The real problem with 99.9% of MRAs is that they’re not Men’s Rights Activists, they’re anti-feminists.

There are problems facing men, and rather than blaming the…

This is a pretty solid and straightforward explanation. Useful for anyone trying to hold a conversation with MRAs about the problems with their approach.

hobbitdragon: saint-just: happyfuckingcamper: I require...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:41:37 -0400

hobbitdragon:

saint-just:

happyfuckingcamper:

I require cuttlefish in my life.

these cheered me up when I was in the middle of completely breaking down tonight

i mean how can you feel sad looking at these cute little cephalopods

eee!

shermansgallifreyan: oxboxer: feferipixies: the-fandoms-are-co...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:55:40 -0400

shermansgallifreyan:

oxboxer:

feferipixies:

the-fandoms-are-cool:

everythingis19:

cosmicsyzygy:

Look, I made a gif of this most awesome wizard at the Leaky Cauldron!

DUDE IS READING ‘A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME’ BY STEPHEN HAWKING

I NEVER REALIZED

are you serious

I always assumed wizards just ignored science, because the fact that “magic” exists, can explain anything. But there are MuggleBorn wizards, ones who, until they were eleven, lived in the real world and learned science and things. Did they all just abandon that normal, muggle knowledge, like Harry did? It’s always been there, itching in the back of my mind.

FOUR FOR YOU SCIENCE WIZARD

YOU GO SCIENCE WIZARD

can we point out that he’s doing wandless magic too

like voldemort couldnt even do that shit

molly fuckin weasley couldnt fuckin do that

who are you

Quick, somebody write a book series about the adventures of Magic Prodigy Science Wizard!!!

PLEASE SOMEONE JUST DO IT

Alan Baker had no use for wands, of course. If one were to Prior Incantato his outdated, duct-taped rod of walnut wood and dragon heartstring, its most recent use would have been the enchantment of the long-lived neurons in Alan’s own mind. This enchantment, possible only for those who were capable of seeing themselves as a complex amalgamation of neural impulses, allowed him to bypass both wands and words. Alan did this, not for show, not for power, but because wandwork distracted him from his reading.

Unfortunately, there was no legal spell to get rid of barflies.

“Hey- hey mate, you gotta- gotta minute to-“

Sobrius, Alan thought, placing one hand on his neighbor’s forehead without looking up. He pondered whether or not to cast a silencing barrier, even in violation of the Leaky Cauldron’s safety code.

“Thanks,” said the now-sober man, “Readin’ more of that Muggle trash, I see.”

Alan closed his eyes and counted to three, but when he opened them, the man was still there. Alan lowered his “muggle trash” in defeat, meeting the baggy, bloodshot eyes of the wizard sitting across from him.

Alan leaned forward, placing his hands steeple-like on the table. “Mr. Fletcher, do you know why time turners don’t send you into space?”

“The sky, y’mean? Cause they’re fer time turnin’, not apparation.”

Alan had to take a deep breath. “No,” he replied, “If time turners weren’t anchored to anything, the Earth’s rotation alone would be enough to ensure a time traveler’s demise. But someone at the ministry was clever enough to anchor them to a carefully guarded object that never moves relative to the Earth.”

“Fascinat’n,” slurred Mundungus, whose eyes had glazed over once it became clear that Alan didn’t actually have a time turner on him.

“But time turners are still very limited,” continued Alan, more to himself than to Mundungus, “They can’t go more than seven hours back, and not forward at all, and only in increments of one hour, and they only work on Earth… no, they’re very clumsy, if one truly pauses to think about it.”

“What’s yer point?”

“My point is that while wizards are slowly stagnating in their backwards remnant of the Dark Ages, Muggles are making progress, ever reaching for the light. Do you know that they don’t need magic to craft a hand of living silver?”

“Bah,” was Mundungus’s only reply, “You’d be best mates with that Weasley nutcase at the ministry, you would.”

Alan stood up, silently casting an infantes gelata to check for paradoxes. “I don’t know why I bother with you,” he sighed, “you’ve just wasted another two minutes of my time. Perhaps I bother because I have time to waste.”

And he twisted, as if to apparate, but instead faded out of existence with a distinct vworp. The air swirled in the wake of his departure, blowing back Mundungus’s straggly ginger hair.

“Muggleborns,” the short wizard muttered, then turned back to his drink.

••••••••

Thirty minutes earlier, Alan lounged contentedly within his quieting barrier, stirring his cup of tea absently and rereading one of his favourite Muggle books. He wondered, vaguely, which planet held the nearest sapient life, and what their magic would look like…

burtmacklin: webissance: This 2009 image captures the scene on...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:39:17 -0400

burtmacklin:

webissance:

This 2009 image captures the scene on a foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine, when a digital billboard crashed and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky.

#this sits right on that border between hilarious and terrifying

Terminate? Y/N

alphacaeli: likeafieldmouse: Candida Hofer - Libraries...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:32:53 -0400

alphacaeli:

likeafieldmouse:

Candida Hofer - Libraries (published 2005)

Always reblog beautiful libraries.

Hey Valjean

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:31:43 -0400

bluecoolkind:

boisterousstarlet:

shoutpolesforeyes:

That’s a nice jacket you’ve got there.

I wonder what color it is.

You are fucking with me

it’s real y’all

"Free speech is the right to speak your mind without government censorship and without fear of..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:04:14 -0400

“Free speech is the right to speak your mind without government censorship and without fear of extralegal retaliation like harassment or violence. That’s all!

Free speech doesn’t include the right to speak your mind on any forum anywhere. The government may not prevent you from speaking, but private parties, like blog owners or corporations, aren’t required to let you use their property as your platform.

Free speech doesn’t include the right to be believed or to be taken seriously. People may mock, ridicule or laugh at what you say, or they may reject it outright.

Free speech doesn’t include the right to be listened to. People who don’t desire to hear your opinion can hang up on you, block you on social media, change the channel, close the browser tab. Free speech doesn’t give you the right to bombard people with harassing messages or otherwise force them to pay attention to you against their will.

And free speech doesn’t include the right to suffer no consequences whatsoever for your expressed opinions.”

- Free Speech vs. Freeze Peach (via brute-reason)

OH HEY this is a great article from Adam Lee that explains the pun I took my name from and the basic philosophy behind how I think censorship should work.

(via freezepeachinspector)

This is important.

i-ship-it-like-fedex: oldeforce: airbornranchdressing: too-...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:04:04 -0400

i-ship-it-like-fedex:

oldeforce:

airbornranchdressing:

too-schway-for-words:

miyabixlemon:

rt-hon-harry-koschei-saxon:

lostlead8r:

paellamagica:

Just gonna…dump pictures of my new OTP here..

What have you done to me tumblr….Im shipping them so hard right now…

I ship it.

Other girl looks like a Gyaru

SHIPPING IT WITH EVERY FIBRE OF BEING

hey tumblr, rememer this?

omg theyre back, whats their shipping name?

creamsicle

otpswillruinyourlife: sweethwords: halloa-what-is-this: Reques...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:03:56 -0400

otpswillruinyourlife:

sweethwords:

halloa-what-is-this:

Requested by delenaxlocked

OMG. This perfect. PER. FECT.

never before have i seen a more beautiful gif set holy motherfucking cow