#quotes and references in order are:

[felignis]

hello left right game fandom

[cent-scratchnsniff]

doodles and stuff. struggled with painting until i gave up

[nightsister-merrin-lover]

cal: merrin, if you die do you want to be buried or cremated?

cal: like if you were shot by a stormtrooper today, what do i do?

merrin: go after the stormtrooper and make him pay for what he did to me.

merrin: avenge me, cal.

[odillisea]

I keep seeing people talking about how Dorcas was killed by Voldemort himself and completely misinterpreting it as “she was so strong and powerful that only he could kill her,” which might’ve been what happened, but I feel like probably wasn’t the case seeing as he’s killed plenty of random people throughout the series and she was only really mentioned that one time.

But there could’ve been some other reason as well, rather than “oh yeah she was just really really powerful.” What if the reason Voldemort targeted Dorcas was because she kept talking to her old friends from Slytherin and making them question their loyalties and whatnot, and had even managed to make a few death eaters drop out of the war? Sure, she was a dangerous enemy to have, but what if another layer of that danger for Voldemort’s side was her way with words?

Imagine Dorcas fighting in the war and seeing her old classmates that she quite literally lived with for seven years fighting against her. Imagine Pandora telling her the reason why she couldn’t bring herself to join the order, despite how much she wanted to help, was because she couldn’t make herself do anything to hurt Evan. Imagine her continuing to fight with all her strength, but then tracking down the death eaters she knew from school just to see if she could talk them out of it.

Evan and Barty stayed, of course. They were loyal to Voldemort till the end but they would always leave her, one of the order’s best duellists, completely unscathed. But others would listen to her, growing more uncertain and starting to hold back more or try to leave the death eaters completely. She was a Slytherin after all. She would’ve had both the ambition and drive to find these death eaters individually, and the cunning in her words to make them question their loyalties.

Maybe Voldemort went after her after Regulus died, because he thought she had something to do with him betraying him, and maybe she actually did. Maybe she had talked to him, even if it was Kreacher that was the turning point, and he had to kill her himself because she could genuinely make them lose the war if she kept doing what she was doing. Maybe the power she had that Voldemort feared so much was the power to turn his own forces on him. The power to destroy his forces without a single weapon or wand.

[netscapenavigator-official]

“Whose pussy wet???” “MINE.” “Right now???” “ALL THE TIME!”

Getting On The Same Wavelength (Angela Giarratana & Shayne Topp, 2024)

[tyriongirl]

The Lannisters + Cunning

A Game of Thrones - Tyrion III

A Game of Thrones - Tyrion IV

A Game of Thrones - Tyrion V

A Clash of Kings - Tyrion I

A Storm of Swords - Tyrion I

A Storm of Swords - Tyrion III

A Storm of Swords - Tyrion VI

A Storm of Swords - Tyrion VI

A Storm of Swords - Tyrion VIII

A Feast for Crows - Cersei III

A Feast for Crows - Cersei III

A Feast for Crows - Cersei V

[underratedalpaca]

The main message that the Harry Potter's books send is hope, not the "power of love".

While for Harry as a character and for his arc love is important [see his friendship with Ron and Hermione, his relationship with (the memory of) his mother], for the rest of the Wizards' world it's only the reason why Harry has basically superpowers. He survives Voldemort as a newborn, his wand does random golden magic, he beats with an "expelliarmus" the Dark Lord's "Avada Kedavra" due to this "power of love", but nobody [except maybe Dumbledore? (the things I could say about Dumbledore... but this is for another post)] cares. Never. Like, if all his magic abilities came from the power of leftover pasta, basically nothing would change for the majority of both the wizards and the plot.

But you know what wizards care about, what saves and keeps intact the magic world even during Voldemort's government (like in book 7)?

Hope.

The Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's army, Potterwatch, everybody who fought against the Death Eaters in the Battle of Hogwarts, they were all moved by hope.

The Order hoped to defeat Voldemord in the first magic war. With Harry, they thought they won. Many brave wizard died during that war, but when the Dark Lord came back, the rest of the order keept fighting until he was defeated. The last thing Dumbledore told Lupin and the rest of the Order was that Harry was their best hope.

Dumbledore's Army was born to fight against Dolores Umbridge's reign as High Inquisitor. They knew the world they were living in was dangerous, and they wanted to be able to defend themselves, hoping to survive. They then rebelled against the Death Eaters who were teaching at Hogwarts, hoping that Harry, Ron and Hermione could destroy all the Horcruxes.

Potterwatch was created to tell people who rebelled against Voldemort that Harry was still alive and fighting, to keep hoping. Trought Potterwatch we hear stories of wizards and witches who risk their life and safety to protect muggles. It exist, to quote the broadcast's final sentences, to "Keep each other safe. Keep faith." To keep hoping things will be better.

In the battle of Hogwarts fought and died many people, hoping to defeat Voldemort and achieve a better world.

James and Lily Potter died to protect their son from Voldemort, after fighting in the Order hoping in the wizard's world's freedom.

Remus Lupin and Tonks died in the Hogwarts battle, after joining it with an 11 days old son. They left the world hoping that their death would have helped creating a better world for their son to live in.

The Minister of Magic tried to convince people that Harry supported and agreed with them, because the Boy who Lived is a simbol of hope for the whole magic world, and wiches and wizards were losing faith in the government, and it's hope what helps win the war, not only powers.

Without Hope, nobody would have fought against Voldemort, and Harry would have been useless.

[hpseeker99]

Tonks: Make no mistake. Not only am I party rocking, but I am also in the house tonight. Harry: But are you shuffling? Tonks: Everyday. Kingsley: What language are you two speaking??

[squidkidnerd]

why doesn't the wiki have any of order's quotes and just the stuff from the jelleton field guide. seriously. come ON. you literally can't replay most of the cutscenes in side order. i wANT TO REMEMBER WHAT ORDER'S PERSONALITY IS, GODDAMNIT

[felignis]

hi so for some reason neither of my reblogs show up in the tags so i had my bestie screenshot these so i could repost them and not have to download everything ever.

[tunabunk]

“… There’s something fantastically different about you… Baby Angel.” 💙💛

[nightsister-merrin-lover]

cal: what did the mermaid wear to her math class?

merrin:

cal: an algae bra!

merrin: no.

[fatehbaz]

[D]omesticated attack dogs [...] hunted those who defied the profitable Caribbean sugar regimes and North America’s later Cotton Kingdom, [...] enforced plantation regimens [...], and closed off fugitive landscapes with acute adaptability to the varied [...] terrains of sugar, cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations that they patrolled. [...] [I]n the Age of Revolutions the Cuban bloodhound spread across imperial boundaries to protect white power and suppress black ambitions in Haiti and Jamaica. [...] [Then] dog violence in the Caribbean spurred planters in the American South to import and breed slave dogs [...].

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Spanish landowners often used dogs to execute indigenous labourers simply for disobedience. [...] Bartolomé de las Casas [...] documented attacks against Taino populations, telling of Spaniards who ‘hunted them with their hounds [...]. These dogs shed much human blood’. Many later abolitionists made comparisons with these brutal [Spanish] precedents to criticize canine violence against slaves on these same Caribbean islands. [...] Spanish officials in Santo Domingo were licensing packs of dogs to comb the forests for [...] fugitives [...]. Dogs in Panama, for instance, tracked, attacked, captured and publicly executed maroons. [...] In the 1650s [...] [o]ne [English] observer noted, ‘There is nothing in [Barbados] so useful as … Liam Hounds, to find out these Thieves’. The term ‘liam’ likely came from the French limier, meaning ‘bloodhound’. [...] In 1659 English planters in Jamaica ‘procured some blood-hounds, and hunted these blacks like wild-beasts’ [...]. By the mid eighteenth century, French planters in Martinique were also relying upon dogs to hunt fugitive slaves. [...] In French Saint-Domingue [Haiti] dogs were used against the maroon Macandal [...] and he was burned alive in 1758. [...]

Although slave hounds existed throughout the Caribbean, it was common knowledge that Cuba bred and trained the best attack dogs, and when insurrections began to challenge plantocratic interests across the Americas, two rival empires, Britain and France, begged Spain to sell these notorious Cuban bloodhounds to suppress black ambitions and protect shared white power. [...] [I]n the 1790s and early 1800s [...] [i]n the Age of Revolutions a new canine breed gained widespread popularity in suppressing black populations across the Caribbean and eventually North America. Slave hounds were usually descended from more typical mastiffs or bloodhounds [...].

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Spanish and Cuban slave hunters not only bred the Cuban bloodhound, but were midwives to an era of international anti-black co-ordination as the breed’s reputation spread rapidly among enslavers during the seven decades between the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865. [...]

Despite the legends of Spanish cruelty, British officials bought Cuban bloodhounds when unrest erupted in Jamaica in 1795 after learning that Spanish officials in Cuba had recently sent dogs to hunt runaways and the indigenous Miskitos in Central America. [...] The island’s governor, Balcarres, later wrote that ‘Soon after the maroon rebellion broke out’ he had sent representatives ‘to Cuba in order to procure a number of large dogs of the bloodhound breed which are used to hunt down runaway negroes’ [...]. In 1803, during the final independence struggle of the Haitian Revolution, Cuban breeders again sold hundreds of hounds to the French to aid their fight against the black revolutionaries. [...] In 1819 Henri Christophe, a later leader of Haiti, told Tsar Alexander that hounds were a hallmark of French cruelty. [...]

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The most extensively documented deployment of slave hounds [...] occurred in the antebellum American South and built upon Caribbean foundations. [...] The use of dogs increased during that decade [1830s], especially with the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835–42). The first recorded sale of Cuban dogs into the United States came with this conflict, when the US military apparently purchased three such dogs for $151.72 each [...]. [F]ierce bloodhounds reputed to be from Cuba appeared in the Mississippi valley as early as 1841 [...].

The importation of these dogs changed the business of slave catching in the region, as their deployment and reputation grew rapidly throughout the 1840s and, as in Cuba, specialized dog handlers became professionalized. Newspapers advertised slave hunters who claimed to possess the ‘Finest dogs for catching negroes’ [...]. [S]lave hunting intensified [from the 1840s until the Civil War] [...]. Indeed, tactics in the American South closely mirrored those of their Cuban predecessors as local slave catchers became suppliers of biopower indispensable to slavery’s profitability. [...] [P]rice [...] was left largely to the discretion of slave hunters, who, ‘Charging by the day and mile [...] could earn what was for them a sizeable amount - ten to fifty dollars [...]'. William Craft added that the ‘business’ of slave catching was ‘openly carried on, assisted by advertisements’. [...] The Louisiana slave owner [B.B.] portrayed his own pursuits as if he were hunting wild game [...]. The relationship between trackers and slaves became intricately systematized [...]. The short-lived republic of Texas (1836–46) even enacted specific compensation and laws for slave trackers, provisions that persisted after annexation by the United States.

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All text above by: Tyler D. Parry and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas". Past & Present, Volume 246, Issue 1, February 2020, pages 69-108. Published February 2020. At: doi dot org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020. February 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[takemetodragonstone]

hey universe i know i begged you for inspiration and motivation but i just wanted to be able to write the next chapter of my fic not to be possessed by a sudden whim to upend my entire life to pursue an astrophysics degree

[blue-dream-rhapsody]

My mom, about five minutes into Farewell My Turnabout: Oh my god Phoenix is such a girldad

Me (vibrating from the effort of being normal about him): Yeah the fandom loves to say that

[sendmyresignation]

deeper into major labels and while i disagree with a lot of it its become more of a fun intellectual exercise since now it's much clearer sanneh is in his own critical zone instead of just going total summation mode.