#potter point

[steventureau]

"Daniel Solander

Cape Solander is named after Swedish botanist Daniel Solander (1733-1782), who accompanied naturalist and botanist Joseph Banks on HMB Endeavour from 1768-1771.

A Gifted Student

Solander studied under famous botanist, Carl Linnaeus, at Sweden's Uppsala University. Before Solander completed his studies, Linnaeus sent him to London as his representative to work at the British Museum cataloguing the natural history collections, and to promote the Linnaean classification system. This system became the internation standard for the classification of all species and is still used today.

Unfinished Business

In 1768, Joseph Banks invited Solander to join in the scientific staff on HMB Endeavour on its voyage to the South Pacific. Together, Banks and Solander collected approximately 30,000 specimens including around 1,300 species new to Western science. The number of species they collected demonstrated the need for a classification system that could cope with Earth's biodiversity.

On his return to England, Solander became Joseph Bank's secretary and librarian and went on numerous collecting expeditions including to the Isle of Wight, the western highlands of Scotland, Iceland and Wales. He was also appointed keeper of natural history at the British Museum.

Solander died of a stroke in 1782 aged only 49, leaving much of his work incomplete, unpublished or waiting on contributions from others.

A Significant Legacy

Solander made important contributions to botany through his discoveries and his meticulous categorising of the specimens he and Banks collected around the world.

As early proponents of Linnaeus's systematic biology, Bank's and Solander's work here led to Kamay Botany Bay National Park being nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Area. The national park is important both culturally and scientifically in 'The Rise of Systematic Biology' - the study of biological diversity and its origin.

This includes a taxonomic classification system for categorising organisms into related groups."

[bloodbruise]

the bitches traumatized by saltburn would never survive the fics in my ao3 history

[wolvesandshine]

Sirius: Momma didn’t raise no quitter

Regulus: Actually our mother didn’t raise us at all so I am in fact, a quitter

[littleliterarylesbian]

Sirius: And now! I must leave! My darling Moonbeam needs me!

Regulus: Whore.

Regulus: Oh my god, who said that?

[adharastarlight]

Reg: I'd hate to be straight, imagine all the pregnancy scares

James:

Remus:

Sirius:

Marls:

Lily:

Barty:

Evan:

Pandora:

James: my love, you're trans-

Reg:

Reg: we are never having sex again

Sirius cheers in the distance

[caspervi]

Jegulus Valentines special 🍫

[daddiesdrarryy]

James: I’m so laid back, I only care about 3 things in the world

James: My friends and family

James: Every person on this earth and their opinion of me

James: The crushing psychological weight of being alive

James: Oh, and Reg. I fucking love Reggie!

Remus: That’s more than three, Prongs

[nabulsi]

i keep seeing ppl talking about how theyre ugly sobbing over that shitty pirate show. do you not have shame to care more about a racist antiblack TV show glorifying slave owners, written by a zionist racist supporter of genocide. that you have more tears to shed for that blight on the human race than you do for the millions of palestinians going through horrors unimaginable. where's your ugly sobbing for them?

[linnea-bowiesversion]

Marauders and Reg group chat

Remus: who the fuck added me to the group chat?

Sirius: >:O language.

Regulus: yeah watch your fucking language.

Sirius: OKAY WHO TAUGHT REGGIE TO SAY THE FUCK WORD?!

Peter: ‘the fuck word’

James: You guys use the f word all the time??

Regulus: Merlin’s beard you don’t have to censor it.

Peter: say fuck James.

Regulus: Do it, James. Say fuck.

[undeuxs]

thinking about barty crouch jr master of shoplifting being caught by this pretty cashier named evan who has a truly sharp eye, but evan chooses not to say anything because he thinks barty is cute and wants him to keep coming there

[lexyreader]

whenever I see authors of some of my favorite fics as my mutuals on Tumblr…. I’m actually freaking out, like giggling and twirling my hair 

[regeditt]

*remus, mad at james*

remus: well at least i'm not into tw*nks-

*sirius walks in*

sirius: james is into what?

sirius: moony, i know you’re not talking *gestures to himself*

remus: …

remus: can’t you just side with me for once!!

[mydeadgaywizards]

i've been in the marauders fandom for so long i genuinely forget that james potter is canonically white💀

[uninspired-choatic-angel]

One of the reasons I find jegulus intriguing is that it's james being selfish for once. In every scenario, he puts his friends and their happiness first. Especially with sirius, who he is willing to give everything, for him to be happy. Him wanting to be with Regulus put a strain on their friendship. When he chooses to be with Regulus, he chooses his happiness over Sirius's.

[ddejavvu]

tonight i'm juuuust thinking about best friend!james who has very little boundaries with you <3

this post is 18+, minors dni.

he's your absolute best friend in the world, you probably grew up together or got very close over a period of years, you probably practiced kissing on each other, you spend more time sleeping together than alone, etc etc etc. but lately it's been really hot out, so you've neglected both cuddling and clothes. You're sleeping in a shitty, skimpy bra, and some old granny panties, and james is conked out in his bed, probably in boxers or briefs. you're asleep, but the mattress moves and it wakes you. you instantly recognize the familiar feeling of james getting into bed with you, and you forget that it's too hot to cuddle when you roll over to let him in.

you probably greet him with a sleepy, hi, jamie, that he returns with a gruff, raspy, 'hi, love'. it takes all of his brainpower just to say those words, and he's falling beside you like a tree chopped in the forest. instantly he's snoozing again, cheek smushed against your pillow as he wrestles you into his grip like normal.

except, it isn't normal.

because he's naked, and oh my god you've seen him naked before, and he's seen you, no biggie! you've skinny dipped before, you've changed after a shower, it happens, best friends see everything. but you've never touched him while he was naked before, and his fucking cock is literally laying on the bed right next to you?? hello??

you freeze up but you nudge his arm like jamie,, love

'hm?'

'your cock is out'

'what?'

'your- james, you're naked, your- your cock is out.'

'oh,' he mumbles, like you've told him the weather forecast for the next day, 'yeah.'

'yeah? james, you- get your cock out of my bed!'

'wh- it's bloody attached to me!' he whines, smothering his face in the pillow to get away from your nagging, 's'fine, darling, what, you think it's gonna bite you? jus' go t'sleep, i'm tired.'

he's tired?? he's tired?? his actual, literal dick is just. on your bedsheets rn. right next to you. and he's tired? you really don't know what to say. so you don't, you don't say anything, you just sit there staring wide-eyed at the wall, wondering how in the hell you're going to sleep knowing your best friend's cock is out right next to you. you're desperately trying to tamp down any arousal that rises between your thighs, because he's literally already snoring beside you but there is just something so infuriatingly attractive and arousing about james not caring at all that he's completely exposed, he's just tired and sleepy and lovey and wants to hold you and his brain's not working to tell him he needs to cover up. he just wants to lay with you, pants be damned <3

[daddiesdrarryy]

Harry: Maybe because you’re skinny, and maybe because you’re pretty, you’re used to getting away with things, Malfoy

Harry: But I want you to know that your actions have an effect on others, and I hate you, and you are a horrible person, and not understanding that you’re a horrible person does not make you less of a horrible person

Draco: You think I’m pretty?