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because I can, because I want to and bc I like changes

+ it’s really pretty and is going to be so organized :)))))))))

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I painted my dog Charlie möter havet ♥

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me: manages to break every weight limit and bagage restrictions the airline has

me: doesn't get caught

also me: buys £5 of british biscuits but eats a whole pack on the plane

me me me: is delayed, exhausted, sweaty and emotional - but back in Sweden!

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PAGE PACK; about me, tags, blogroll

a fresh and quite simplistic pack of themes. i’m actually really proud of these! use colors wisely and here are the instructions for customizing and installing. follow the rules and have fun!

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- a big text box with a scrollbar - 450x250px sidebar image - links for home, ask, archive and theme + theme credit - page title

- sidebar image by rons-weasley

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- page title - links for home, ask, archive and theme + theme credit - you can add more headlines and tags if you want

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- scrollable base for the icons - page title - links for home, ask, archive and theme + theme credit - hover to see the urls of people you follow

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How Hogwart’s see’s the Marauders vs how they see themselves:

Peter and Remus are the most emotional ones. How on earth anyone in school managed to come to this conclusion they have no idea because Peter is stronger than people give him credit for and Remus tends to bottle things up to an unhealthy extent. They can guarantee with almost 100% success rate that if one of them is crying, it’s mister-wears-his-heart-on-his-sleeve Sirius.

Remus is tidy. This drives Sirius and Peter insane because Remus is incredibly, ridiculously, horrendously messy and they’re always picking up after him. He’s rivaled in untidiness only by James, though people do rightly assume that he is a slob. 

Remus is the mother of the group. Where anyone got this notion from they have no idea. He might be the voice of reason but James is the biggest mother-hen of the four of them without a doubt. He’s always the one reminding Sirius to take his cloak, telling Peter to get enough sleep and making sure Remus eats proper meals in the run up to full moon. 

Sirius is a womaniser. This cracks them up because he’s snogged maybe two at most of the thirty girls that claim they’ve dated him. And, though it’s not common knowledge, as Peter likes to say, Sirius is as bent as a butchers hook. (Or as James less eloquently puts it, he’s gay as fuck)

James is the epitome of cool. This makes Sirius laugh and Remus and Peter roll their eyes because James is the biggest dork they know, cool as he fancies himself. Remus and Peter would also have to (grudgingly) admit that Sirius pulls off being cool effortlessly, and, as Remus would point out to James, effortless is the key point there. 

Remus and Peter are innocent. This is the biggest pile of crap James and Sirius have ever heard, it’s simply unfortunate that they are involved in pranks slightly less frequently and have damn good poker faces. Sirius has the worst poker face of all.

Remus is a polite and humourless. Heard from people do not know Remus Lupin well enough, because Remus is very capable of being an absolute tosser when it suits him, as the other three well know. He’s also got a fantastic, dry sense of humour and utilises sarcasm in a way that has them all clutching their stomachs.

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A really terrific profile in the washingtonpost by Soraya Nadia McDonald.

I am so floored by the attention that “Every Single Word” has been getting and humbled that I get to publicly speak about the systemic problem that it highlights. But I’d also like to acknowledge the countless (and often silenced) people who came before me who have been saying this since humans began projecting images of themselves on screen. I dedicate this series to all of us that have been erased or boxed in by mainstream media. And to all allies who have witnessed it and tried to speak on our behalf. Thank you for watching, for sharing, and for your support. 

May this conversation continue long after this surreal media storm subsides, and may it lead to long overdue change.

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I’m fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: ‹Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.›

Colin Firth  (via anditwasmonday)

#YOU MADE THIS WET SHIRT BED AND NOW YOU MUST LIE IN IT FIRTH

(via msdanconia)

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O.W.L. prep

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A Final Word On Pakistan: Imagine that every time you have a lapse in judgment, it gets printed in newspapers around the world: every time you lose patience with your children, every time you scream at someone in traffic, every time you drink too much and do something you regret. Each time you slip up, everyone hears about it. The world is never notified about the 99.99% of the time that you are a completely normal, productive, law-abiding citizen. The world only learns about you when things go wrong. Now imagine what the world would think of you. It’s not that terrorism, patriarchy, and violence aren’t real problems in Pakistan. They exist and the country is battling these issues every single day. Pakistanis are very much aware of the extremism in their midst. The problem is that so many people seem to only be aware of that extremism. Because just as in the hypothetical example above—the other 99.99% of life just doesn’t make the news. When there’s only room in the newspaper for a single column about Pakistan, it’s going to be filled with the most compelling story. And unfortunately, that tends to be the most violent story. And those are important stories. Those are the types of stories that expose corruption, stop genocide, and alert the world to emerging threats. It’s right for those stories to be told. But when those stories are all that we hear, it’s so easy to imagine a world that’s far scarier than it really is. You lose sight of the 99.99% of the world that’s not scary at all. And living in fear can be a dangerous thing. Because if we’re afraid of each other, we’ll never be able to work together to solve our common problems.

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Serier från uppväxten 1/4

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I’m naming them all andrew

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[looks at favourite character] he’s beauty he’s grace he’s totally ace

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iphone backgrounds || disney ladies + watercolor, set 3 (1 / 2)

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‘My Hijab Has Nothing To Do With Oppression. It’s A Feminist Statement’

Not all Muslim women cover their bodies. Not all Muslim women who do are forced to do so. Like freelance writer Hanna Yusuf, who chooses to wear a hijab in a daily act of feminism. In a new video for The Guardian, Yusuf challenges stereotypes by setting out to reclaim the choice to wear a hijab as “a feminist statement.”

For more on on how the hijab helps women reclaim their bodies watch the full video here.

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Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world

- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’

- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction

- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour

- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’

- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc

- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from

- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant

- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white

- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’

- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired

This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American. 

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There's this Thing that y'all don't seem to get.

Gryffindors don’t give a shit about rules. The most hardline of them don’t even care about people. They care about justice. Right or wrong, black or white, there are no shades of grey. If it’s just, it’s always just; if it’s unjust, it’s always wrong. Hermione’s ruthlessness makes her a Gryffindor. She is absolutely sure that she is on the side of justice in everything that she does, and it’s such a Gryffindor trait.

Because Slytherins are ruthless, but they care about rules. Their own rules, usually, but rules nonetheless. They will impose parameters and limitations on themselves just so they have a framework to operate within. If doing something means violating their own internal code, then they’re not gonna do it. Even fucking Voldemort is like that. He broke every single fucking rule the Wizarding World ever put in place, but damn if he’d break his own.

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