derinthemadscientist:

snapslikethis:

my child co-founded an informal harry potter club at school last week. this week, all clubs were officially disbanded by the teacher. in an ironic twist, my child (who hasn’t read ootp yet) said today, ‘but that doesn’t mean a group of friends can’t get together and talk about harry potter. we just can’t say that we’re a club’

Life imitates art pre-emptively

prokopetz:

Really, the amazing thing is that these two characterisations are totally consistent with each other.

I mean, sure, when you’re playing as him, it’s 100% clear that he’s an emotionally fragile bumbler whose idea of legal strategy boils down to immediately taking the most foolish risk he can think of until one of them succeeds by sheer luck, and who has to resort to reading people’s minds with literal magic to make up for how oblivious he is.

But from the outside, without the benefit of insight into his internal monologue, what that looks like is facing off against a freakishly perceptive and thoroughly unpredictable madman with a million contingency plans, including counters for strategies you haven’t even thought of yet.

arthistorycq:

Saints aren’t always kind and generous off the bat. Sainte Foy is a fine example of a mischievous saint who enjoyed playing practical jokes on worshippers and demanded tribute before performing any kind of miracles. (Girl is lookin’ out for herself first) 

Our newest edition to the writing team, Sydney Gobin, takes us in depth into Sainte Foy’s life, behavior, her home at Conques Abbey and more in our latest issue of The Medieval Magazine.

Read individual issue here: Hagiography – The Medieval Magazine

Subscribe monthly or yearly here: Full subscription to The Medieval Magazine

appendingfic:

merrybitchmas91:

chiibinomonodamon:

This ship is so f*cking cute and I hope they get married.

Not just cute, this is incredible. The male love interest tells the female protagonist, “The person I think I know is partly my own fantasy. I want to know the real you.” Need more shows/movies/everything like this 

Before that, he’s sad she’s dating someone else, and tells someone, “it’s not her fault I didn’t ask her sooner”.

He’s like the anti-Ross