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Watch: Bernie Sanders delivered a stirring speech at religious school Liberty University about reaching across the ideological aisle.

baby ginny sitting herself down in professor lupin’s office hours with her eyebrows furrowed and lupin’s like “shit” bc ginny is an excellent student and very observant and contrary and less likely to take shit than even hermione granger and is rather reminiscent of other red-haired gryffindor women he has known

“i know you’re a werewolf,” she blurts

“oh?” he says though he is thinking shit shit shit shit shit

“yes, and I don’t care,” she says forcefully

“oh?” he says again, though he is carefully not feeling anything

“yeah, I know what it’s like to be possessed by something evil. it doesn’t make you evil,” she says

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106. Also, I think we skipped 51.

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Grover: What is going on with you two?

Percy: Come on, Underwood, not this again.

Grover: You gotta admit there’s a spark.

Percy: How many times do I have to say it? She’s like a sister.

Grover: That’s what Luke said about Leia.

Percy: HEY, LUKE DIDN’T KNOW! NOBODY KNEW!

My assumption when I first heard the name Amenta was that it was from the Latin word mens, mentis, meaning “mind.” I think I read somewhere that this was incorrect, but I could be misremembering and I can’t find that post.

Anyways, under that system, Mentan would mean something to the effect of “having a mind” and Amentan would mean something to the effect of “not having a mind.”

The opposite of American is:

un-American (the hyphen is unavoidable, don’t even try)

unAmerican (programmer’s CamelCase has infected the wider language)

unamerican (because fuck caps altogether)

Unamerican (as in from Unamerica, because the “adjective of” and “opposite of” operations commute)

How can I engage with other human beings as full human beings?

I don’t know, I did find a Padma/Sally-Anne fic on A03 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/142827 ; I haven’t read it, so I can’t say if it’s any good.) But she is a rare character to spot.

i challenge you to find a possible harry potter ship that hasn’t had a fic written about it, realistic or ridiculous

it’s impossible

(I’m not getting it because it’s her style, just because I like it.)(Not that there’s anything wrong with getting your hair cut specifically to look like a celebrity.)

How should I get my hair cut? send me suggestions!

Holy crap “Lost Stars” just acknowledged the existence of transgender people in the Star Wars universe. And not only that, but that transition technology and procedures exist and are relatively common knowledge.

I know some people could interpret this as an anti-trans women joke, but it honestly doesn’t read that way to me. This author, Claudia Gray, could have had Dak say something very different, either overly derisive of trans people (we all know how those jokes tend to go) or responding with agreement about how cold it is and not mentioning transition at all. Instead Gray has Dak say “There are easier ways to switch genders you know.” Aka if for some reason Thane wasn’t talking about the cold, it opened up that line of conversation (Perhaps Dak’s reason for saying it within the diegesis of the story). Aka letting any trans readers know that people like them exist in the Star Wars universe in canon, even if no named trans characters have appeared yet (I don’t think they have?).

Idk, this line blew me away and made me really happy. Gray has made people like me a canon part of the Star Wars universe with this line, and not in a way that marginalizes us or treats us as freaks (at least the way I read this line) and that makes me ludicrously pleased.