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Doctor Who meme | undernoticed quotes | (1/?) | The God...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:48:21 -0400

Doctor Who meme | undernoticed quotes | (1/?) | The God Complex

“I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe”

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seeking: husband who will do this cosplay with me.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:31:14 -0400

seeking: husband who will do this cosplay with me.

azura-skye: Rose Tyler: an accepting BAMF.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:25 -0400

azura-skye:

Rose Tyler: an accepting BAMF.

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mrv3000: In the first one he looks like someone stepped on his...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:25:13 -0400

mrv3000:

In the first one he looks like someone stepped on his inner puppy. Second one: sorry not sorry.

infelicities: literally me

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:23:25 -0400

infelicities:

literally me

cnnbreaking: responsibilities

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:23:02 -0400

cnnbreaking:

responsibilities

tinyglowingscreens: imtoolaceytodoanything: bondoge: why do i still have to go to school i...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:19:11 -0400

tinyglowingscreens:

imtoolaceytodoanything:

bondoge:

why do i still have to go to school i thought slavery was abolished in 1865

that’s an interesting fact, where’d you learn that?

rereadingharry: interretialia: De Minervali Scholae...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:55:14 -0400

rereadingharry:

interretialia:

De Minervali Scholae Hogvartensis!

About the Tuition at Hogwarts!

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 love you, fandom.

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alittlecoconuttart: [Article excerpt] New Study Shows Hillary...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:02:12 -0400

alittlecoconuttart:

[Article excerpt]

New Study Shows Hillary Clinton’s Face Makes Women More Confident

Tess VandenDolder Apr 25th at 1:07 pm

In the study individual men and women were asked to give a speech in front of a panel of six strangers. For some there was a picture of Bill Clinton on the back wall and for others there was a picture of Hillary. Overall the men spoke longer and were judged as better speakers than the women, except for the group of ladies who spoke while looking into Hillary’s baby blues. That group blew the men out of the water as far as the length of their speeches and overall confidence and success in conveying their ideas publicly.

The conclusion researchers drew from this study was that when women are exposed to powerful female role models in leadership positions they gained instant boosts in confidence and the ability to achieve at high levels. ”Female political role models can inspire women and help them cope with stressful situations that they encounter in their careers, such as public speaking,” the authors of the study wrote. ”A lack of female powerful role models leads to a vicious circle, because if women fail to take leadership positions, they also fail to provide role models for junior women to follow.”

Littlefinger was only a mask he had to wear. Only sometimes...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:36 -0400

Littlefinger was only a mask he had to wear. Only sometimes Sansa found it hard to tell where the man ended and the mask began. Littlefinger and Lord Petyr looked so very much alike. She would have fled them both, perhaps, but there was nowhere for her to go. Winterfell was burned and desolate, Bran and Rickon dead and cold. Robb had been betrayed and murdered at the Twins, along with their lady mother. Tyrion had been put to death for killing Joffrey, and if she ever returned to King’s Landing the queen would have her head as well. The aunt she’d hoped would keep her safe had tried to murder her instead. Her uncle Edmure was a captive of the Freys, while her great-uncle the Blackfish was under siege at Riverrun. I have no place but here, Sansa thought miserably, and no true friend but Petyr.

boxlunches: lady-bodhisattva: I’m a Christian, and even I can...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:55 -0400

boxlunches:

lady-bodhisattva:

I’m a Christian, and even I can recognize how ridiculous it is for people to oppose gay marriage based on the grounds that “The Bible defines marriage as one man and one woman.” That’s simply not true.

If these are barbaric and no longer acceptable practices, then I think we can say that prejudice against queer people is also barbaric and no longer acceptable.

And here is one of the many reasons I don’t wholly agree with the Bible, despite believing in God.

keithjacks: lilmisssunshinee: stfunithingas: Being an atheist is okay. Being an atheist and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:22:24 -0400

keithjacks:

lilmisssunshinee:

stfunithingas:

Being an atheist is okay.

Being an atheist and shaming religions and spirituality as silly and not real is not okay.

Being a Christian is okay.

Being homophobic, misogynistic, racist, or otherwise hateful person in the name of Christianity is not okay.

Being a reindeer is okay.

Bullying and excluding another reindeer because a he has a shiny red nose is not okay.

In conclusion, no one wants to play your reindeer games you asshole.

sbahjification: neocarleen: llisbeth-salamanderr: “Love the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:19:51 -0400

sbahjification:

neocarleen:

llisbeth-salamanderr:

“Love the fetus, hate the child.”

America makes it near impossible for a woman to stay autonomous—hard to get family planning resources/make the choice of getting an abortion, and harder to get child care support after the baby is born. Leaving women destitute and dependants everywhere.

Look at Canada! Not only do we give almost a full year off, it can be either maternity or paternity. That’s right, daddy can stay home with the baby while the mother goes back to work. And the leave can be also be split between them. For example, the mother could take six months, and then the father could take the other six. Did I also mention that the parent on leave continues to receive pay and is guaranteed their job back?

#I think we make fun of Canadians so much because secretly we want to be them

prinzessinfantaghiro: I love how the producers of GoT managed...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:15:03 -0400

prinzessinfantaghiro:

I love how the producers of GoT managed to translate this sublte yet passionate love story between Cersei & Wine. It’s such a thoughtfully created inversion of usual love tropes, and yet it rings true, because we see the evolution of this relationship that is such an integral part to both of their character developments.

I can’t wait to see how they handle her steady descent into alcoholism. Since by book five she’s a pretty big lush, and getting overweight from it.

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