fly by feather

hey!! just letting you all know that i created the Camp Hafblood room in doodleordie for PJO...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:38:22 +0000

hey!! just letting you all know that i created the Camp Hafblood room in doodleordie for PJO doodles!!

pondsie: “It is important to fight and fight again, and keep...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:37:52 +0000

_{“It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated”}

_{Gryffindor | Hufflepuff | Ravenclaw | Slytherin}

likechildreninafairytale: happy new year 2014 quick reminder that this year probably more than one...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:23:05 +0000

likechildreninafairytale:

happy new year 2014 quick reminder that this year probably more than one of your favourite characters will die

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Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:22:16 +0000

earthnation: left 2013 cute entered 2014 cute

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:19:50 +0000

earthnation:

left 2013 cute

entered 2014 cute

"The basic plot, which cannot be ignored even in the films, is that Harry, Hermione and Ron give up..."

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 15:18:41 +0000

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The basic plot, which cannot be ignored even in the films, is that Harry, Hermione and Ron give up everything for their political struggle. They drop out of high school, they go illegal, defy the government, belong to an underground organization [The Order of the Phoenix], operate out of safe houses and forests and even raid offices of the government and banking offices. This is all done in principled opposition to the Dark Wizard Voldemort and a corrupt bureaucratized government that has been heavily infiltrated with his evil minions. This is revolutionary activity. But the movie version does not present it as such or emphasize these radical aspects of the plot, thereby entirely missing the dramatic sweep and action present in the first half of the last novel.

The novels recognize the importance of alternative media for political struggle. The mainstream press [The Daily Prophet] is shown as unreliable and unprincipled, eventually deteriorating into a fear-mongering propaganda machine for the Voldemort-controlled bureaucracy. For a while the alternative but above ground media [The Quibbler] publishes the real news, but it ceases to print after the daughter of the publisher is kidnapped. In the book, friends of Harry [Lee Jordan, with Fred and George Weasley as frequent guests] start broadcasting the real news from an underground radio station, encrypted with a password. This radio station becomes a critical link for the resistance, which is scattered and weak. Although we are treated to some radio broadcast updates in the movie, they are delivered by a disembodied and professional sounding voice, not our friends the Weasleys. This undermines the important message - a guiding principle behind the media coop - that in a serious situation it becomes necessary to produce your own media and not to rely on ‘professionals’.

The novel makes it clear that in this phase of the struggle the characters romantic lives take a backseat to their political activity, as Harry breaks up with the love of his life [Ginny Weasley] so as to avoid making her a target for Voldemort’s forces, who are known to use torture and kidnapping as tactics. The ‘love triangle’ that becomes the focus of the movie isn’t even really present in the books. In the books, the relationship between Harry and Hermione is totally platonic - Ron is shown as jealous, but the feeling is entirely without foundation. In the book Harry says to Ron: “I love her like a sister and I reckon she feels the same way about me. It’s always been like that. I thought you knew” (pg 378, DH US Hardback). This conveys that men and women can be close comrades and friends without being involved romantically. But in the film, Harry and Hermione are shown dancing romantically, and Harry’s line to Ron about his brotherly feeling towards Hermione does not even make it into the film. This completely undermines the important message that jealousy is counter-productive and has toxic effects, which is an important feminist message for young people.

”

- How Hollywood Defanged Potter’s Radical Politics (via girl-germs)

smolronan: At least half of the victors have instructed their...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:57:55 +0000

smolronan:

_{At least half of the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can’t be your sunny personality.}

castellanpride: [art] Apollo drifted down from the porch....

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:57:28 +0000

castellanpride:

[art] Apollo drifted down from the porch. “Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce the new Oracle of Delphi.”

“You’re kidding,” Annabeth said.

sarroora: guiltyhipster: dannybird22: guiltyhipster: I have...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:54:59 +0000

sarroora:

guiltyhipster:

dannybird22:

guiltyhipster:

I have a headcanon that the Queen from Tangled is a huge bookworm like her daughter Rapunzel and that books are (or were) her escape. For eighteen years, her books distracted her from the pain of losing her only child.

One step further:
What if she also read stories to the children at orphanages because she wanted the feeling of reading to a child? Then one day a little boy said how much he loved the Tales of Flynnigan Rider. And she gave him that book because he was so sweet. He was so grateful that he promised that one day he would pay her back. And he did.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

^^^^ I ACCEPT THIS HEADCANON AND THAT HEADCANON TO THE FULL EXTENT OF MY BRAIN’S CAPABILITY

beautiful-lion: Snow

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:54:16 +0000

beautiful-lion:

Snow

iipercy: but guys blood of olympus comes out this year

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:54:07 +0000

iipercy:

but guys blood of olympus comes out this year

vincecartersisgone-deactivated2: collections that are raw as...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:51:23 +0000

vincecartersisgone-deactivated2:

collections that are raw as fuck ➝ basil soda s/s 2011

gryfflndor: art

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:49:08 +0000

gryfflndor:

art

snowqueenelsa: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter represented by...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:39:55 +0000

snowqueenelsa:

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter represented by the Princesses (and a Queen)

gryfflndor: the rewards of our victory (insp)

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:36:45 +0000

gryfflndor:

_{the rewards of our victory}_(insp)

vvankinq: melark: loki-lulah: GET OUT NOW. how rue’d nO

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:18:02 +0000

vvankinq:

melark:

loki-lulah:

GET OUT NOW.

how rue’d

nO

kadonneita: not like you think, all darknessand silence. There...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:16:50 +0000

kadonneita:

not like you think, all darkness
and silence. There are windchimes
and the smell of lemons, some days
it rains, but more often the air is dry
and sweet

season3saywhat: imagine dragons voice WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:15:36 +0000

season3saywhat:

*imagine dragons voice* WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE

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Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:13:36 +0000

theroguefeminist: inverts: heretherebdragons: dancingloki: pr...

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:11:09 +0000

theroguefeminist:

inverts:

heretherebdragons:

dancingloki:

prochoicegeneration:

Best post

Also, Lily Potter would have never wanted an abortion, because she was a financially well-off white woman starting a family in a happy marriage with a secure place at the top of wizarding society.

The question you should be asking is what if Merope Gaunt, an impoverished and uneducated single woman who escaped from a severely abusive family only to become pregnant with the unwanted child of a man who wanted nothing to do with her, had had access to an abortion and not had immense social pressure brainwashing her into carrying to term?

Perfect commentary is perfect.

it got better

just reblogging this because it should be reblogged always and it was relevant