smartass-stripper:

raedainfossaest:

18 year old Regulus Black willingly drinks a torture potion and dies alone in a cave so that some day, someone will be able to defeat Voldemort.

Horace Slughorn (albeit reluctantly) shows Harry a part of his past he’s kept hidden for years, even from himself, which is a key part of defeating Voldemort.

Narcissa Malfoy looks Voldemort, a man who is not only notoriously evil but also has the ability to READ MINDS, right in the eye and lies to him for the chance to save her son.

Andromeda Tonks’ entire family is killed at the hand of her own sister and some other death eaters and she still finds the strength to go on and be a guardian to her orphaned grandchild.

But Severus Friendzone Snape, that’s the “brave Slytherin” Harry chooses to name his kid after. Ok, sure.

Raise a glass for Slytherin heroes

saturdaynightbigcocksalaryman:

Who else out here trying to ignore the fact that longtime romantic love just might never be a part of your life

sharplmages:

*hitting depression with a stick* i have to pass this class

halfhardtorock:

daddynobucks:

cricketcat9:

demons:

It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz.  He’s 97 years old, barely 5 feet tall, and he served as prosecutor of what’s been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg; the crime, genocide; the defendants, a group of German SS officers accused of committing the largest number of Nazi killings outside the concentration camps – more than a million men, women, and children shot down in their own towns and villages in cold blood.

Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today. But he isn’t content just to be part of 20th century history – he believes he has something important to offer the world right now.

EVERYONE, absolutely everyone should read this. 

Great article. Take a few minutes to read it. 

Ferencz is still working tirelessly in his 90s to change international law to recognize and prevent crimes of aggression. He’s super hip.

aedeagus:

the united states of america is fucking horrific and repulsive and people have every right to shit talk it but leave fat people out of it and stop acting like having fat people makes the usa a bad place, when you could focus on idk literally everything else

luvkurai:

i didn’t used to understand why people got so emotional over chopped, but the first episode i watched had a dude putting caviar in the blender and i clapped my hand over my mouth and screamed

susiephone:

one of my favorite things about b99 is how jake is best friends with not one, but TWO women, and not only are his relationships with both of them fleshed out, unique, and 100% platonic, but it never even occurs to amy to worry about it. there’s no episode where amy thinks jake is cheating on her or secretly has a thing for gina and/or rosa. no one jokes that amy should watch out for them or keep an eye on jake. after jake starts dating amy, his friendships with rosa and gina are as tight as ever. because contrary to what 95% of tv would have you believe men and woman (gasp!) really can be just friends.

this shouldn’t be as remarkable as it is, but there you have it

wetwareproblem:

twistedkate:

crayolasaurus:

what she says: i’m fine

what she means: the Entire Point ™ of the original star wars trilogy was that Luke Skywalker, the truest Jedi there ever was, did NOT follow the ways of the old Jedi and made his own way. Where his masters told him not to help his friends, not to be attached, not to try and save his father, he DID all of those things, all while staying true to himself and to the light side, using that attachment and love and care to do so. Pop culture and casual Star Wars fans all seem to ignore this fact and idealize the old Jedi ways, even while hating on the prequels, and in doing this they fail to understand the entire moral of the original trilogy. Luke Skywalker is one of the best characters in film history and him and his character arc and significance being so widely misunderstood is just an utter tragedy

@f1rstperson

The old Jedi ways - detachment, thinking yourself above it all, refusing to care about anyone or anything - those ways culminated in Darth Vader. It could never have been any other way.

If there is a point to the prequels, that is it.

Vader was not inevitable (thought something like him was, that was always the apotheosis of the Jedi) - not until Anakin’s fate was entirely in he hands of ever-so-wise detached men. Men who had forgotten how to care for a traumatized young boy, the slave son of a slave who had already seen unfathomable cruelty before they ever knew he existed. Men who pontificated wisely on how apolitical they were as a tyrant seized the throne.

The moment they got their hands on him, the rise of Darth Vader was a foregone conclusion. That is the lesson of those three hated films - the moment you stop loving, you forget how to be kind. You forget how to pursue justice. You will inevitably usher in evil, because you don’t care enough to recognize or stop it.

The only way for the Jedi to be anything but a failed wreck was to reject all of those old ways - to be gloriously attached, to care about the world and everyone in it, to love and act on that love. Mercy, kindness, and justice flow naturally from that path. The only way the Jedi could be worth rebuilding was for Luke to abandon everything they once stood for.

Those ways? Those ways toppled an Empire of hatred.