Okay but the Hat was just like, “Sure kid whatever” when Harry requested against Slytherin. What kind of conversation was this?
NO NEVILLE I CAN’T DO THAT YOU HAVE THE HEART OF A LION
THE WIZARD OF OZ WILL GIVE YOU COURAGE NEVILLE
HAKUNA MATATA NEVILLE
DO NOT RECITE THE DEEP MAGIC TO ME NEVILLE I WAS THERE WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN
Okay, I’ve seen this post a couple of times & something just occurred to me.
Harry was pretty 50/50 Gryffindor/Slytherin from what I remember the hat saying (and according to the wiki blurb on hatstalls having a fairly equal split of traits from more than one house is the common cause of them) so when he asked not to be put into Slytherin the hat was fine with taking that preference into account and put him in Gryffindor. (Also the fact that the hat said he could be great and powerful in Slytherin and Harry’s response was pretty much no I don’t want that pretty clearly demonstrates non-Slytherin traits.)
On the other hand, the above doesn’t mention the hat being at all indecisive about where to put Neville. The hat wasn’t going “hmmm this is tough you’re pretty Gryffindor but you’re kind of Hufflepuff too”. It was probably more like “Yep! Gryffindor for sure!” Followed by Neville being all “No I’m totally a Hufflepuff!” and then proceeding to argue with the hat about it for almost 5 minutes. (Which when you think about it is a super Gryffindor thing to do.) By the end the hat was probably like oh my god kid you’re so Gryffindor you’re practically Godric’s heir shut up and get sorted there already!
“You’re practically Godric’s heir!”
As Neville pulls the sword of Gryffindor from the depths of the hat seven years later, the hat must have been so fucking smug. Like “oh yeah kid, this is such a Hufflepuff thing to do. Charge in with a blade and the bare basics of a plan that basically boils down to ‘I trust Harry, kill the snake.’ Helga would TOTALLY have done that. Oh wait! Did I say Helga? I MEANT GRYFFINDOR!”
Everytime I see one of those articles about "subtle signs that men just don't pick up on!" I feel a moment of hope until I realize that the article is, again, telling guys we just can't WAIT for them to keep droning on at us.
“A Facebook user recently commented that the Eagles had “played like they were wearing tutus!!!”
Our response:
“With all due respect to the Eagles, let’s take a minute to look at what our tutu wearing women have done this month:
By tomorrow afternoon, the ballerinas that wear tutus at Pennsylvania Ballet will have performed The Nutcracker 27 times in 21 days. Some of those women have performed the Snow scene and the Waltz of the Flowers without an understudy or second cast. No ‘second string’ to come in and spell them when they needed a break. When they have been sick they have come to the theater, put on make up and costume, smiled and performed. When they have felt an injury in the middle of a show there have been no injury timeouts. They have kept smiling, finished their job, bowed, left the stage, and then dealt with what hurts. Some of these tutu wearers have been tossed into a new position with only a moments notice. That’s like a cornerback being told at halftime that they’re going to play wide receiver for the second half, but they need to make sure that no one can tell they’ve never played wide receiver before. They have done all of this with such artistry and grace that audience after audience has clapped and cheered (no Boo Birds at the Academy) and the Philadelphia Inquirer has said this production looks “better than ever”.
So no, the Eagles have not played like they were wearing tutus. If they had, Chip Kelly would still be a head coach and we’d all be looking forward to the playoffs.“
Happy New Year!”
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Drag them!!!!!
I don’t have a horse in the football or the ballet race, but as a former dancer and lifelong Philadelphian, this belongs on my blog.
You don’t have to start being better all at once just because it’s a new year. Even if things aren’t great right now that’s okay. Just take care of yourself.
“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”
As someone who has held several management positions with hiring responsibility, this is true. The boss at my last job informed me before I conducted my very first I interview,
“You can’t outright ask someone if they have a car or have kids. That’s technically illegal. But you need to know because sometimes they can be deal breakers. You can just say ‘Do you have reliable transportation?’ and ‘Do you have any current circumstances that could impede you from being successful at work?’
To which the last one most people fumble and would say, “Well I have kids, so sometimes they could get sick. But that’s not often.” But then your potential employer could mark it down on your interview notes nonetheless.
I thought that maybe it was just my own employer. But now I noticed that I am asked both of these almost every time I interview for a job.
Language is very sneaky. Be careful how you answer. Corporations can be snakes.
In my businesses class my professor told us that the bus counts as reliable transportation. You do not legally have to say “I take the bus” just say “yes I do have reliable transportation” and leave it at that. Do not over share. DO NOT OVER SHARE. The second question just say no. If your kids are sick call out as if you are sick. I don’t have kids but I myself can get sick and that doesn’t hinder my ability to succeed so kids getting sick shouldn’t hinder you. When I call out I give as little info as possible. No one needs to know why you call out. They can’t ask about your “illness” because it violates HIPAA if they do. So as long as you don’t offer more info than you need to you should be okay.
There are only 20 women in the U.S. Senate, and 23 states have never had a woman governor. Massachusetts is one of them, and while the state’s government is still male-dominated, women — all women of color, in fact — are shaking up the Boston City Council.
Priyanka Chopra’s character Alex Parrish is one of the most exciting new heroines on TV. While the crime-fighting FBI recruit’s strength may be most obvious in her physical prowess, the root of her empowerment is far more nuanced — and based in feminism. Chopra nailed it in just 3 words.
Honestly, I hate the way everyone makes fun of Kylo Ren. I mean, I actually give a shit about this child. I want to know what happened. I want to know why he's clinging to the worst parts of himself. I honestly never cared about Vader's motivations, but then I was six years old when I first watched Star Wars, and I saw him be totally OK with blowing up entire planets full of people. I don't think the prequels were ever going to work for me, because Vader was never human enough for me to care about what made him that way. And to an extent, I think that's why Return of the Jedi doesn't work for me. Luke's obsession with redeeming Vader never moved me. But Kylo Ren... he's a villain I can relate to. His anger, his rage. I've lived in a world where everyone has told me to be a better person by not being angry, and, you know what? Not all of those people had my best interests in mind. That fact, however, did not change the fact that living in anger is not... sustainable. So, I care about Kylo Ren, and I want him to be saved from himself. Because I see parts of myself in him.
But what if Anakin isn’t ignoring Kylo Ren? What if that great pull Kylo feels towards the Light is Anakin Skywalker desperately trying to save his grandson from his own fate, the way his wife and son tried to save him?
what if Anakin is literally constantly standing behind Kylo Ren, sputtering with ghostly frustration, going, “No! No! No! Do not do that! Do NOT do that! oh for fuck’s sake.”
This is almost certainly what is actually happening.
Seriously, Hollywood keeps making weird-ass fairytale movies. And they really ought to take a note from this insane new Taylor Swift video for “Out of the Woods,” which does for fairytales what her “Bad Blood” vid did for action movies.
queen of the universe, space mom™ to many, professional badass, slayer of the galaxies. my fav
Here comes the General.
RISE UP
Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve been waiting for. The pride of the Resistance: Leia Organa!
Check it– Can I be real a second? For just a millisecond? Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second? Now I’m the model of an interstellar general, The adulated Ald'raanian Organa whose men are all Lining up, to put me up on a pedestal Forgivin’ me my relatives Establishin’ my elegance and eloquence But the Rankor is in the room The truth is in ya face when ya hear the Order’s lasers go–
PEW
Any hope of success is fleeting How can I keep leading when the people I’m Leading keep retreating? We put a stop to the bleeding as damn Hux breaks Hosnian Where’s the Force? And worse–
WE ARE OUTGUNNED!
WHAT
OUTPLAYED!
WHAT
OUTNUMBERED OUTWEIGHED!
VVOOM VVOOM VVOOM VVOOM VVOOM
We gotta fight or else we’ll fade! Ayo, I’m gonna need a Right-hand aide.
Black Lives Matter, a loosely organized movement protesting violence against black communities by law enforcement and pushing for institutional police reforms, brought many stories of black people killed by police to the forefront in 2015.
OK, so I just finished re-reading Preacher, and I'm kind of shocked and amazed that they're actually going through with this, because I'm still finding it hard to believe that a TV show is being made from a story that is essentially a Texas-Gothic retelling of His Dark Materials/Babylon 5 (pick one) and Jessica Jones.
i love rey’s flowers and her doll and her helmet and her little sand sled and i love it when she licks her plate after eating her little meal of insta-bread and i love it when she puts the helmet on just for kicks and i love the way she sleds down the sand dune and i love the goggles she made out of a stormtrooper helmet and i love rey living in the iron carcass of an AT-AT and i love rey scrubbing her salvaged metal parts and glancing at the old, weathered woman across from her, wary of her own future, her hope wavering and then growing stronger still. i love her wistful, bouncy little leitmotif. i love rey
