harry potter 1: this cat is actually a teacher at hogwarts. solid beginning, pretty good work here. 7/10.
harry potter 2: this tree is actually a monster that’ll destroy your car, and this book is actually uhhhh a teenage boy’s ghost, but no animals. disappointing. 3/10.
harry potter 3: this evil dog is actually a man and your godfather. this large wolf is your year 9 teacher. that deer is your spirit from the future/past due to a time travel loop.
your best friend’s pet is a war criminal.
this is where we completely and totally peaked, folks. 11/10.
harry potter 4: this cup is actually a portkey and this man is actually a completely different man. the original man is locked in a trunk. nobody is a cat BUT rita skeeter is a beetle, and now she lives in a jar. 6/10
harry potter 5: uncertain how much tonks can become an animal, but even if she did it would just make her a furry, so 0/10.
harry potter 6: harry was far too busy being obsessed with draco this book to do anything else. harry wouldn’t have noticed if hedwig was actually morrissey. unrateable.
harry potter 7: in a horrifying twist of events, we have a person revealed to actually be an animal as Bathilda Bagshot turns out to be a giant fucking snake in a human costume. Who let that happen? Who cleared that? I need names and answers. -2/10
post-books information about nagini: no. -10/10
+1 for book 4, you forgot that Malfoy was briefly a ferret
i’m a fraud and a fool. harry potter 4: both a beetle AND a ferret. 8/10
@goosegoblin This is Fluffy erasure and I will not stand for it. How has everyone forgotten the 3 headed dog who falls asleep to music and bites the shit outta Snape??
hey its almost april and im gonna just say: don’t just not light it up blue. abstaining from that just tells them that they need to try harder to spread it to more people.
participate in RedInstead, which is the most common autistic created,acceptance-based counter to LIUB.
Daughter of the mathematician Theon, Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. She was educated in Athens but is more famously linked to the city of Alexandria, in Egypt, where she was born. It was in Alexandria that she taught, becoming the head of the Neoplatonist School of the city, and it was there that she met her tragic end.
From a young age Hypatia was encouraged by her father to work on both body and mind. She was sent to Athens, where she studied the works of the great philosophers of the city, later returning to Alexandria to teach and eventually become the head of the city’s Neoplatonist School.
Never marrying, Hypatia was able to dedicate all her time and energy to the study of philosophy, mathematics, literature, oratory and astronomy. She was also an inventor.
Hypatia lived in a time of change: during her lifetime the Roman empire was in obvious decline, at the same time that the Christian faith saw a unparalleled rise in its power and popularity. It was in this context that the philosopher became involved in a feud between Orestes, the prefect of Alexandria and Hypatia’s personal friend, and Cyril, the Bishop of Alexandria.
The tensions in Alexandria increasingly rose. Cyril was against Hypatia, her free thinking and her support of Orestes, and started to spread rumors about her. Hypatia was called a witch, a worshipper of Satan and was blamed for the situation with Orestes. In 415 she ultimately became the target of Christian anger and was murdered by an angry mob.
Her death, an extremely violent one, became a symbol, and Hypatia’s place in history would be the one of a martyr. One of the greatest minds of her time, victim of religious fanaticism and political disputes.
remember when you could say stuff like “the earth is round” or “nazis are bad” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree
remember when you could say “we shouldn’t attack children with tear gas” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree
remember when you could say “you shouldn’t let your children catch fatal, preventable diseases” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree
@big-mood-energy is presenting some Big Mood Energy.
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
The fact that women need this in order to feel safe sucks.
Yeah, and look! They’re single use. So someone’s making a profit off of rape culture and women feeling too scared to drink in public. Great.
(But it would be MY FAULT if I got drugged because look! There’s a product to prevent it.)
What? Most fucking drug tests are single use like that, I’ve got a couple of test kits myself and the strips are only one use.
@jade-the-fox Yes, but what’s the point of developing a product that does what everything else does? I usually have more than one drink if I go out. If I only bring one tester, then I’m stuck by that logic. Or I have to buy more. Which. Why? And some women can’t drop $15 a week to make sure they don’t get roofied. They can make it better. That’s all I’m saying.
The fact that women need this in order to feel safe sucks.
Yeah, and look! They’re single use. So someone’s making a profit off of rape culture and women feeling too scared to drink in public. Great.
(But it would be MY FAULT if I got drugged because look! There’s a product to prevent it.)
What a shitty ridiculous point.
Women need products to feel safe.
This is a good product. Fuck anyone who thinks otherwise.
@zarabithia It’s a fine product. That wasn’t my point at all. Women shouldn’t NEED it to feel safe. And if you’re going to develop some kind of drug test that’s portable and user friendly, at least make it re-usable to a certain point. Otherwise, it’s just like tampons and birth control: something else I have to purchase in order to be “responsible” woman.
