musings.

tentacrab: “did you get enough sleep?” I love this.

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:49:29 -0700

tentacrab:

“did you get enough sleep?”

I love this.

Our neighbor’s horse just gave birth to a beautiful,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:21:12 -0700

Our neighbor’s horse just gave birth to a beautiful, healthy foal. Life is amazing.

timeless-couture: Derby Season Josephine Skriver photographed...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:28:00 -0700

timeless-couture:

Derby Season

Josephine Skriver photographed by Jason Kim for V #83 Summer 2013

jokerharley2345: J. Scott Campbell has once again OUT DONE...

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:09:28 -0700

jokerharley2345:

J. Scott Campbell has once again OUT DONE himself with the coolest Disney Art I have seen!

An ad that has a secret anti-abuse message only children can see

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:56:30 -0700

An ad that has a secret anti-abuse message only children can see:

http://gizmodo.com/this-ad-has-a-secret-anti-abuse-message-that-only-kids-493108460

This is phenomenal.

"The bike will teach you to be fearless if you let it."

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:56:52 -0700

“The bike will teach you to be fearless if you let it.”

- Only Paulopolis

Beyond the Bubble

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:10:37 -0700

Beyond the Bubble:

Hey guys,

We are creating an expose on what the Goucher ‘Bubble’ is and how it affects us, be it positively or negatively. We will be posting insights by members of Goucher’s community. We will be creating a confidential forum for people to post thoughts. If you could check it out and leave feedback that would be awesome!

itscolossal: Bottom Feeders: Ceramic Objects Encrusted with...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:07:14 -0700

itscolossal:

Bottom Feeders: Ceramic Objects Encrusted with Marine Life by Mary O’Malley (via laughing squid)

I want this so badly.

"You’re a dainty delicate pony, but if you wanted you could definitely kick some ass."

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:57:02 -0700

“You’re a dainty delicate pony, but if you wanted you could definitely kick some ass.”

- Amy “The Protag” McDonagh

alanaisreading: A diagnosis of a mental illness does not have...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:18:00 -0700

alanaisreading:

A diagnosis of a mental illness does not have to be the end of your story.

Photo: Stephen Fry and Carrie Fisher, text: Both successful actors. Both diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.

Photo: Terry Pratchett, text: Had written over 40 books. Kept writing after his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Photo: Abraham Lincoln, text: 16th President of the United States. Ended slavery. Suffered from recurrent depression and suicidal thoughts.

Photo: Florence Nightingale, text: Founder of modern nursing and social reformer. Heard voices, had symptoms consistent with bi-polar disorder, and accomplished most of her great works from her bed.

Photo: Dr. John Nash, text: Won the Nobel Prize for his work in mathematics. Diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Never believe that you are useless. Everyone can find a place in this world.

This makes me tear up a little. I feel like one can come out with a mental disorder just as much as someone can come out with their sexual identity. Why don’t people understand this?

Photo

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:18:30 -0700

Oh okay, Google. Clever. Ha. Google is sassy today,...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:30:23 -0700

Oh okay, Google. Clever. Ha.

Google is sassy today, apparently.

Searching for the annual Happy Birthday to myself present. What do I look for? Knives and Harmonicas.

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:06:00 -0700

Maybe I’ll splurge this year and get myself one of each. dowhatiwant.

Photo

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:11:33 -0700

artchipel: Dan Burgess | on Tumblr

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:10:32 -0700

artchipel:

Dan Burgess | on Tumblr

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:09:37 -0700

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:55:24 -0700

For Andrew. :P

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:55:04 -0700

trying to write the first paragraph of a thing

bitchytbh: cannedmuffins: The Most Gorgeous Book Ever...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:58:58 -0700

bitchytbh:

cannedmuffins:

The Most Gorgeous Book Ever Has No Words Or Pictures, Just Color

This is the RGB Colorspace Atlas by Tauba Auerbach. The 8”x8” hardcover tome is pretty much an encyclopedia of every color in the RGB index. It’s huge, it’s gorgeous, and I want one.

I KNOW WHAT THIS NEEDS

It’s like they were made for each other.

i swear to fucking hell if you fuckers start shipping a book and i pen i will forcibly shove you back into the pits of hell you came from

Sensors alight, the pen trailed itself sensually down the gradient shift from yellow to blue along ample curve of paper, dipping closer and closer to the book’s spine.

“Can you imagine it?” the pen whispered, whirring and selecting #00563F with practiced intimacy. “Just picture it. With your collection and my potential…we can color the world.”

TUMBLR STOP.

HAHAHAHAHA IM CRYING

This is beautiful. Thanks, tumbla.

madelinelime: accioharo: the-kirin: cocaine-and-insulin: miak...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:48:06 -0700

madelinelime:

accioharo:

the-kirin:

cocaine-and-insulin:

miakosamuio:

mishastolemywormstache:

sandandglass:

CNN actually researched how much it would cost to go to Hogwarts

#NO WONDER THE WEASLEYS ARE FUCKING BROKE

How exactly did they “research” this? Looks like they just pulled a bunch of random figures out of their butts.

It’s stated in the books that tuition to Hogwarts is “free for all children in Britain”. I don’t know why they thought it wouldn’t be - it’s a British high school, not a college. So there, you just saved yourself $42,024.

In Chamber of Secrets, Mrs. Weasley emptied her entire bank account which contained only two galleons [£10 / US$20] and she managed to buy all five children’s entire set of books and potion ingredients with this, as well as Ginny’s robes, hat, clock, cauldron, and wand!!! And we know she bought all of these as she mentioned having to buy them. The fact that she bought all of these with only £10 pretty much proves how absolutely ridiculous CNNs estimation is.

If you want more proof, the actual cost of Harry’s want is far over estimated here, and the exact price in both pounds as US dollars can easily be found right within the books! Harry’s wand is bought for seven galleons, a galleon being worth about five pounds [mentioned by JK Rowling in an interview and in FBAWTFT/QTTA] means that his wand was £35, or US$53. So there’s some straight-out-of-the-books-and-word-of-god proof that the figures CNN have given are way off the mark. Not to mention the fact that even if you don’t go to Hogwarts, as a magical human you’re gonna have to buy a wand anyway if you want to do magic.

As for the school books, I’ve done an approximation based on various prices given through-out the books and on Pottermore. While these prices involve a substantial amount of guess-work, I think you’ll agree that my calculation is far more accurate than CNNs:

The Standard book of Spells costs one sickle [29p / US59c]. On the back of my comic relief copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them it says it costs fourteen sickles [£4.60 / US$8.26]. One Pottermore, all text books are one galleon [£4.97 / US$10.17] - however Pottermore currency only uses galleons so it’s likely they have rounded off. Lockhart’s books, the most expensive in the series, are five galleons on Pottermore meaning that the exchange rate in the books puts them around two galleons and fourteen sickles [£14.60 / US$20.80]. If we put a high average on this and assume that all textbooks are approximately a galleon [they are likely much less], and that each year has around seven required reading books, the entire price for seven years worth of books would be forty-nine galleons, which equals approximately £243, or US$367 - and remember, this is the maximum estimated price for the textbooks.

For the minimum, we need to consider that the Weasleys get a lot of things second hand, with Ginny’s copy of A Begginers Guide To Transfiguration being described as “a very old, very battered copy” - likely no more than five sickles. If they got all their books around that price, it would cost them no more than £14 / US$21 for the entire seven years worth! So school books, far from being US$516, fall somewhere between US$14 and US$367 for the entire seven years at Hogwarts.

Next we have robe, glove, cloak, and hat prices - these are never mentioned in the books or on Pottermore, so I can’t account for that. However I seriously doubt it’s as a high as they’ve got here. Considering books in the wizarding world are generally much cheaper than in the muggle world, I think it’s fairly safe to assume that clothing is as well. Likely a maximum of a galleon for a single set of robes.

They’ve also forgotten a huge number of things - cauldrons, potion ingredients, scales, and star charts, among others.

So yeah, I really don’t know where they came up with these figures. It looks like some guy just wanted to make a story about how expensive Hogwarts would be and put a bunch of American college figures together and thought “yeah, this looks good.”

Do not fuck with a fandom.

It’s stated in the books that tuition to Hogwarts is “free for all children in Britain”.

“Did not do the research” doesn’t even begin to describe this “study”. XD

Hahaha.

This reminds of this article I found about why the HP universe is secretly terrible. One of the things they pointed out was that HOW ARE THE KIDS EVEN LITERATE THEY DON’T TAKE ANYTHING BUT MAGIC CLASSES.

Yes, which they start at eleven, giving them years and years before that to… learn how to read.

IDK about you, but i know people who have gone through college who still have really bad reading comprehension, so the fact that they don’t have a well rounded education and have such incredibly power really unnerves me.

Herbology = Environmental Biology

Charms class : public speaking
Potions= Chemistry
Astronomy = Science/physics

Care of magical creatures = Natural Biology/ Marine Biology if applicable
Ancient Runes: languages

Arithmancy = math

Flying = could be construed as physical education

History of magic = history, duh

Muggle Studies = history/sociology/psychology elements

Also, some classes have “theory” and practice eg lecture and lab

That is just a few of the classes offered, how is that not well rounded? Also being literate does not equate whether someone should or should not have power. History time! Harriett Tubman, founder of the underground railroad freed 300-500 slaves and was illiterate.