July 2011
I went to the HP 7.2 premiere last night and definitely have Harry Potter on my brain. Instead of updating my blog about the premiere though, I went ahead and posted about my husbands Harry Potter hair.
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via bloodandmotion)
“I think I always felt I didn’t want to publish again until the last film was out because Potter has been such a huge thing in my life. I’ve been writing hard ever since I finished writing Hallows, so I’ve got a lot of stuff and I suppose it’s a question of deciding which one comes out first. But I will publish again. In a sense it’s a beginning for me as well as an end.”
—J.K. Rowling, on her up and coming works! (via papercrushed)
Sometimes I wish I could un-read books
just so I could read them again for the first time.
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
—Advice to Sylvia Plath, from her mother (via likebookends)
Listen
Miley Cyrus: Rumor has it Daniel Radcliffe has a crush on me.
Daniel: I… what’s her name?
“Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, as the American public stands by in shock and awe. In other news, millions of sick and dying American children and adults still don’t have healthcare, to the shock and awe of absolutely nobody.”
—Jon Stewart (via maenadmagic)
We Can Slay It (Buffy Art)
Hi, could you please post my Buffy shirt design?
It’s the first thing on my blog.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/tomtrager/t-shirts/7432321-we-can-slay-it-buffy-the-vampire-slayer
Thank you,
Tom TragerAmazing shirt! How cool is that :D
“As Harry Potter was the only other thing I was passionate about, the doctors gave consent for me to leave the hospital and collect the fifth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, from the local book shop. I was so ecstatic to have the book and excited to begin reading it, but there was never any hint of your imminent arrival and the way you would change my life so drastically. Luna, you instantly captivated me. I didn’t know why but there was something about you with your upside-down magazine, straggly blonde hair, and the honest, abashed way you stared at people without blinking that fascinated and perplexed me at once. You laughed hysterically at one of Ron’s quips and didn’t stop to excuse yourself and feel ashamed when it became clear that everyone found you strange. Throughout the book, I found myself waiting for your brief appearances and wanting to know more about you and why you were the way you were. You baffled me, not because you were odd (though indeed you were), but because you were… perfect. But it was a different kind of perfect to the perfectly thin, smiling magazine girls I simultaneously idolised and reviled. It was the way you carried your oddness like it was the most natural thing in the world. You didn’t market your oddness as your defining feature the way some insecure teenagers do, in guise of confidence and security. And nor were you oblivious to the awkward and uncomfortable feelings your oddness provoked in others. When, unable to comprehend how you wore your oddness so honestly and unashamedly, your peers reverted to mockery and bullying, you recognised this as a reflection of their own deep-seated insecurity and calmly let them carry on, quite above your head. You weren’t trying hard to present a certain aspect of yourself that would boldly identify you in the world. And that’s when it occurred to me how bizarre and positively ridiculous it was to apply the word “weird” to describe you, when you represented the most natural and unpretentious state possible to be; you were yourself.”
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Evanna Lynch, in part of her Dear Mr. Potter letter, where she describes first reading about Luna while in a recovery programme for anorexia (via holymotherofhnng)
Luna Lovegood is one of my all time favorite characters, and I love how Evanna perfectly explains why :D
“
Nurse: My, my, my. What do we have here?
Howard: I slipped and fell.
Nurse: Yeah, we get that a lot. What is this?
Howard: It’s a robot arm.
Nurse: Where’s the rest of the robot?
Howard: I only built the arm.
Nurse: ‘Cause that’s all you needed, right?
” —The Big Bang Theory, “The Robotic Manipulation” (via bbtquotes)
Hahahaha! This is still hilarious.
Learning to Eat with a Prettier Plate →
growingwings.net
My most recent blog post is about my struggles as a picky eater, and learning to eat a much bigger variety of foods. Also, it’s about pretty vegetables.
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.”
—Frida Kahlo (via creatingaquietmind)
“Now it’s strange to see myself with a nose.”
—Ralph Fiennes (via voldemortoutbitches)
