quirkbooks:

Literary baseball cards! Collect them all! 

• me during the whole episode: *yells 'what the fuck'*
• me at the end of the episode: *whispers 'what the fuck'*

_{Harry Potter chapters [7/198+epilogue]
↳ The Sorting Hat}

_{“The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts.”} 

Afraid.

"Make no mistake: Every regime that tortures does so in the name of salvation, some superior goal, some promise of paradise. Call it communism, call it the free market, call it the free world, call it the national interest, call it fascism, call it the leader, call it civilization, call it the service of God, call it the need for information, call it what you will, the cost of paradise, the promise of some sort of paradise, Ivan Karamazov continues to whisper to us, will always be hell for at least one person somewhere, sometime." - Ariel Dorfman in The San Francisco Chronicle. Untying an ethical question on torture / Happiness for all is one justification (via protoslacker)

stuffedoreo:

futurefutures:

Appropriate response to cat calls. 

haha I love them!

"Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars.
I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would’ve been if they’d stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it’s up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn’t through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think." - Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via missshirley)

New followers?! 

Hi guys! For some reason there are a lot of you! And you all seem to like Doctor Who. Well just FYI, this is my main blog but I also have a doctor who blog with the URL “definitelyamadmanwithabox”

If you’re interested, check it out :)

“its an invisibilty cloak,” said Ron, a look of awe on his face.