Anyone who says "It's just for kids" has never bothered to actually pick up the books and *read them.* Deathly Hallows contains some of the best musings on mortality and what the meaning of life is, I wouldn't exactly level that at kindergartners.
I wonder what she thinks of JRR…
DoD and Congress handle funding and oversight for any "spook" work. And there was a public reckoning on what our spooks were up to in the '70s, called the Church Comittee. What came out then was well, a lot of plots that were never put in action like the "Cuban bombs" because they…
I absolutely love the fact that the journalist is basically Gregory Peck, true embodiment of Lawful Good itself, who I can only assume has subdued the demons flanking him for the betterment of all mankind. I adore this and I am HOWLING!
What Zerda said. I'm invested in this because my strategy when it comes to guys is also to go mute and run in the opposite direction hoping it all works out, but now I'm confused. Teach us your ways, sensei 🙇
So long, you europeans don't get it. If you want to connect to something older than Chevy and apple pie or capitalism itself, something deeply significant to you over here you look to your ethnicity. Becuase when we don't we get stuffed into an artificial construct called "White"…
"Divine intervention" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Rhea Silvia was a vestal virgin and Mars decided to, shall we say, break her vows personally whether she wanted to or not. That's why the twins were abandoned in the first place.
I'm a woman and I'm not constantly thinking about ancient Rome, I'm thinking about ancient Egypt all day everyday. The best ancient civilization hands down!
Everytime I see a comment like OP's I wanna call my linguistic anthropology profs and tell them I have a new example of the hard Sapir/Whorf Theory to show them. 🙄
When people mistake movie isms for things that happened totally different in the books bugs me to no end, so bringing up Dobby & gillyweed is just...really cathartic for me. SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!
And yes to POA, Dumbledore and the memories, but I do think the…
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