raeadropofgoldensunshine:

• ah, the scalene triangle
• loving Cole Sprouse
• hating Cole Sprouse 
• the tons of “social experiment” memes that followed
• the first wave of Actual Cannibal Shia LaBaeuf memes from before there was even a video for it
• trying to trick “hipster” blogs into reblogging fandom content 
• the whole strict dichotomy between fandom and hipster blogs as a whole tbh
• “I was here here before MTV!”
• 12.9 year olds
• “what is air” and “my ovaries” 
• non-tumblr people were peasants
• nice legs daisy dukes
• slideshows with comic sans and sometimes making your mom or sibling comment on some cringey show they’d never seen
• homestuck
• tumblr user pizza (what ever happened to them???)
• tumblr user the-vashta-nerada 
• Nine In The Afternoon jokes/references all the time??
• imagine how is touch the sky
• “you tried” stars and all the variations thereupon
• do she got the booty?
• “can you give me directions to the olive garden?”
• night bloggers 

add more help me relive the past 6 years i’ve wasted on this garbage website

shiralipkin:

thelilithnoir:

startrektrashface:

schumie:

keeveet-talks:

obstinatecondolement:

I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off. 

Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

When men decided they liked them.

this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces – early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions – but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

I propose we call this “mentrification”

YES

it-grows-perhaps-the-greater:

Boggarts are produced by emotional trauma.

Ron and Harry hide in the wardrobe in the Hogwarts Staff Room after learning that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a Basilisk. They overhear McGonagall telling the staff that Ginny had been taken into the chamber by the heir, and the heir had written “Her skeleton will lie in the chamber forever” onto the wall. Ron’s younger sister was almost certainly dead. She had been taken into the Chamber of Secrets to be the prey of a giant snake that can kill people simply by looking at them. He’d seen her grow up beside him, watched her first steps, seen her ride her first broom, and now she was gone. And he learned about it standing in that cupboard. It must have been his worst fear come true. Then, the next year, a monster appears in that cupboard, feeding off the fears of everyone around it.

Then, the next boggart we see lives in the writing desk in Grimmauld Place. That place was full of traumatic moments, but I think that the boggart was created when Walburga Black realised that Regulus was missing, and probably dead. She had two sons; one she disowned for parting from his family’s beliefs. The other was her pride and joy, her youngest child, the only heir of the pureblood House of Black. And then, one day he goes out and he doesn’t come back. The house elf knows something but he can’t tell her. I think her grief and anger and fear over the realisation that not just one, but both her sons were now lost to her is what created that boggart. I think she sat at that desk and wrote letters to everyone she ever knew asking if they had seen her son, and that boggart was created when her worst fear came true. Her son was gone and he was not coming home.

Both were created when someone’s worst fear came true. Both were created when somebody lost a loved one. Because isn’t that everyone’s worst fear?

hogwartsfansite:

championoftheravenqueen:

sometimes I think about how J K Rowl/ing was told that “she didn’t know enough about HP” when she joined a fan site. When I was younger I heard the story and thought “HAHA I bet they feel stupid!” and now with all of (gestures vaguely towards HP canon from the past few years) they might have had a point 

tilthat:

TIL that soldiers in the German Army are allowed to disobey any order they think would violate human dignity.

via reddit.com

Yup, it’s almost like we learned or something.