David Foster Wallace was like, Art must be sincere! We must use every tool in the linguistic toolbox to cut through sentiment and dishonest cliche and build fresh ways to reveal the power and reality of unironized emotion.
And Mister Rogers was like, Basically the same thing, but without any shame or pretense or fear of sincerity.
John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via xeram)
the fact that there’s a multimillion dollar SAT prep industry, and that students who can afford to pay for such prep score significantly higher, is proof enough that it’s a heavily slanted test
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Hello Queen of Genovia
I’ll reblog it every time I see in my dash. EVERY. TIME.
I hate that people marginalize her and say that people like Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis are “America’s new best friends” because yeah okay they’re great and have some awesome qualities, but Anne Hathaway always handles everything that gets thrown at her with such grace and poise. She presents her thoughts and opinions in a way that is eloquent, yet she is not arrogant or pompous. She stands for some really really important causes and is just all around an amazing role model for girls and young women and children and men and kangaroos and martians and just every living creature everywhere ever.
Maybe this time when I read Order of the Phoenix Sirius won’t die
He died.
I read somewhere that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.
lord of the rings meme: seven locations [2/7] → “Then Pippin cried aloud, for the Tower of Ecthelion, standing high within the topmost wall, shone against the sky, glimmering like a spire of pearl and silver, tall and fair and shapely, and its pinnacle glittered as if it were wrought of crystals; and white banners broke and fluttered from the battlements in the morning breeze, and high and far he heard a clear ringing as of silver trumpets.”
do you ever remember that harry is only 18 years old and he’s been accused of sleeping with 410 women and breaking up 3 marriages and he can’t even get a tattoo without being surrounded by thousands of girls and he has no privacy and never actually gets to just be an 18 year old kid
For a minute I thought you were talking about Harry Potter and I was really confused
I was trying to remember when this happened in the books.
A corgi leading a conga line of pugs on an adventure.
Gandalf no
Imagine your favorite character barging into your room this moment, grabbing your hand, and taking you with them into their world
Lets be honest though most of us would be dead within a week
But it would be a bloody brilliant week
