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i feel like james cameron thinking anyone wants four avatar sequels is a state of being that could only be experienced by a man

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50 years ago, Mister Roger’s Neighborhood debuted on television.

There’s a quote of his going around after what happened in Manchester: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”

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Evan Rachel Wood at the 2017 SAG Awards

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I’ve been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.

Hell or High Water:  David Mackenzie (2016)

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Remember that movie in which Jack Black was a teacher and building a rock band and when a little black chubby girl asked to be a singer he only said “sure! let me hear you” and the moment she started using her beautiful voice his lit up like all of his dreams came true, PLUS the same little girl was scared that people would make fun of her because she was fat and he started listing awesome singers with some weight on and included himself and told her that people wouldn’t laugh because she is awesome at what she does and that is all that matters PLUS that it’s ok to enjoy food?

Also, when a little boy asked to be the band’s stylist he just said “sure, go ahead fancy pants” like, there wasn’t a single second of questioning it, he went into “ok, that will be your position then” right away

That fucking movie is an hour and a half of Jack Black teaching kids to love themselves disregarding all of the stereotypes

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me on monday: its going to be different this week!!! i wont get discouraged by small issues and i’ll stay on top of my work!!

me by 4 PM that afternoon:

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She's a witch.

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Be impressed.

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Me, when a kid in my class is misbehaving on the playground and I catch their eye from really far away.

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I think the best case that Rowling made for her canon pairings was the scene where they first encounter the Veil in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry is immediately drawn to it, of course, hearing the call of the dead. Hermione, who has repeatedly been able to resist the charm of mysticism and grounds herself in logic and rationality, insists that she can’t hear anything and that there isn’t anyone there (both of them are right, of course, in a way).

But here’s the trick: Ron doesn’t seem impacted either. He just says “I’m right here, mate.” And is able to help Hermione get their friends away. (And it isn’t the first time. Ron also demonstrated immunity to the charm of psychological magic as early as their first year when he recognized the Mirror of Erised as a dangerous influence.)

But Ginny is a different story. In front of the Veil Harry, Neville, and Luna all stand entranced. None of them is a surprise, they have all had to deal with death and lost people too soon, so one can argue it’s their loved ones they are hearing. But Ginny is also captivated and needs to be dragged away.

Why her? Well, her susceptibility to the mystic has been long established. She opens her mind and becomes possessed by Riddle in her first year. She recognizes the danger of the music box’s noise and is the one to slam it shut. It’s not a weakness, but rather a way of thinking and feeling the world and one that she has learned how to balance and control (arguably better than Harry).

So the lines become clearly drawn. Ron and Hermione, despite their differences, are both grounded in realism. Harry and Ginny are more open to the unseen, almost spiritual quality of magic and the possibilities of things beyond this world. 

In one subtle scene, Rowling proves that the best indicator of a good match is not necessarily in the obvious, outward show, but rather in the subtleties of how our minds work, how we see the world, and how compatible those mechanisms are.

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