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Gene Wilder’s nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman, explaining his uncle’s decision not to make his Alzheimer’s diagnosis public
(via valencing)

uacboo:

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/29/gene-wilder-alzheimers-diagnosis/?s_campaign=tw&utm_content=buffer53053&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

“They said Wilder did not want to disappoint “the countless young children that would smile or call out to him, ‘There’s Willy Wonka'” or expose them to the cruel realities of the disease.

“He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world,” the family said.”

Selfless to the end. RIP Source: stat news.com

alumbramento:

Gene Wilder (1933-2016)

babeimgonnaleaveu:

^{“Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it.”}

^{R.I.P.  Gene Wilder (June 11, 1933 - August 29, 2016)}

zodiacsociety:

Originally posted by anamartinezl1

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ARIES: At their best, Aries are strong protectors for those who are having a hard time defending themselves. They know just want to say to motivate a person and give them strength to fight another day. They also will fight for their own self since they view themselves an underdog; they will confront anyone who gets in their way. They are honest and will give real advice that other people may find tough to give. They have a true interest towards other people’s hearts when they are trying to help. They thrive on competition and winning but are good losers if they happen to lose only because they are sure that they will fight and win another day. They have faith in the future making them fearless individuals who will keep pushing through until they get to where they are comfortable to be; any kind of waiting will make them feel uncomfortable. Their best self is being strong fearless protectors.

TAURUS: At their best, Taurus individuals are genuine and kind. They have a strong concern with the happiness and welfare of others. They are constantly looking out for their friends, loved ones, and family’s comfort and safety. Careful not to waste money on frivolous things, they like to spend it on their loved ones just as much as they spend on themselves. Though they are patient they know when to crack down and be stubborn about certain things, they don’t like to sacrifice too much of what makes their own self happy. They will not give up on the important things in life, and that is something anyone who is close to them can rely on. Their best self is having standards and being strong enough to keep them even when the going is tough.

GEMINI: At their best, Geminis are popular and well loved by their peers for their amazing humor and intellect. They have no problem keeping in touch with all of their friends on a regular basis because they have such a gift of gab and love being able to have some kind of constant communication. They’ll love you more if you can keep up and hold a conversation with them. They try to never live a boring existence because they do not view life that way. They will bring energy and excitement into anyone who is willing to be their friend and have as much curiosity about them as they have for people. They enjoy debates and discussing all sorts of topics; this is especially true because they about so many different things that they can surprise people from all walks of life! At their best, they are easy to talk to and can melt the walls of even the most secretive of people!

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kateordie:

indiedrone:

fullblownpanic:

americanhorrorstoryforreal:

fiona-supreme-of-my-heart:

fullblownpanic:

indiedrone:

but mom how will other people know that you, a white Texan, are a Christian

same

Jesus

I bet those two are couple now..

I’m gay

me too

This is such a great story

the-djentocalypse:

mammamoon:

DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY YOU HAVE SUCH A STRONG URGE TO SQUEEZE THINGS BECAUSE THEY’RE CUTE

there was an article about it and it said there is nothing to satisfy how you feel about the thing being so cute so the natural human urge is to kill it so it will stop being cute

We are dark people

ibarfraindows:

tastefullyoffensive:

How God Created Animals (via boredpanda)

Previously: Dad Tweets

TAKE A COW AND MAKE IT A BEAR

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

glorfindely:

diversehighfantasy:

goseiwonder:

fihli:

fihli:

hear me out: all-female remake of lord of the rings

hear me out: all-female racially diverse remake of lord of the rings

Isn’t 2 humans, an Elf, 4 Hobbits, a Dwarf and a celestial being in a corporeal form already racially diverse?

Well, at least in how most high fantasy uses the word “race.”

No.

If every fantasy race is imagined as entirely white it absolutely does not count as racial diversity. The implications of a world where every race (or every race that matters) is white are quite the opposite, in fact, and point to conscious or unconscious white supremacy.

feel free to re-imagine the characters as any race you want, but please understand that, in context, tolkien’s characters (almost) all being canonically white does not “point to conscious or unconscious white supremacy”

you see, tolkien’s mythology was intentionally written as stories for the english people. they had no mythology of their own - all of “their” stories had originated from other cultures. middle earth originated as an alternate history of europe (especially england) as it may have been told from an ancient english mythological perspective. 

as the professor himself wrote:

“I was from early days grieved by the poverty of my own beloved country: it had no stories of its own … Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story… which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country.”

“I am historically minded. Middle-earth is not an imaginary world… The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.”

people from europe, are, of course, mostly white, so it naturally follows that the people living in an alternate history of europe would be white - as well as the fantasy creatures borne out of european mythology. including a lot of non-europeans in it would make no more sense than native american mythologies featuring white people, or japanese mythologies featuring black people, and so on.

basically, middle earth = europe, southern areas = africa, and eastern areas = asia. there are poc in tolkien’s arda but most (not all) come from places outside middle earth, which makes sense when you put it in a real world context. 

diversity in fantasy is great, but please do not assume that everything that does not meet your criteria of diversity is automatically racist. thank you

Good post

arachnofiend:

sarellathesphinx:

karlosmadera:

So it’s 3AM and It’s just occurred to me that the most telling scene in the entire Harry Potter franchise is the scene following the announcement of the participants of the Triwizard tournament.

When Harry’s name is pulled out of the cup, literally one of the first things he is asked is “did you ask an older boy to put your name in the cup for you?“ or something to that effect, insinuating that, that was something nobody prepared for and that it was something that totally would have worked if anyone had been smart enough to figure it out.

However, in an earlier scene a student is turned into a hundred year old man when they try to artificially age themselves with a potion and put their name into the cup. Meaning someone trying to dangerously age themselves with potion they aren’t familiar with was something the teachers genuinely considered to be more likely than someone asking for fucking help from another student.

In other words, the wizards in Harry Potter’s world are so reliant on magic that it doesn’t occur to anyone save for people like Harry that asking for help is even an option in a given situation. This explains why wizards are so fucking ass-backwards at everything, they’re so confident that their magic is capable of doing everything for them that it has never occurred to fucking anyone that perhaps asking for help from the muggle world might be of some use.

Think about it, the wizarding world hasn’t changed in hundreds of years while in that same space of time the muggle world has figured out fucking space travel. I know it’s a cliché to say to say someone could have fucking shot Voldemort, but seriously, somebody totally fucking could have, he killed like 50 people, he was effectively a terrorist, if anyone in the wizarding world bothered to ask for help from the muggles instead of just telling them there was an invisible asshole flying around shooting death curses at everyone, they may have been able to help. 

Pretty much the only reason Voldermort thinks he’s better than muggles is because he’s able to kill them with impunity using magic, something he’s only able to do so easily because muggles don’t understand what magic is. Voldemort is basically like a fucking disease, he’s an invisible, lurking entity preying on mankind from the shadows like a cowardly piece of shit. You know what else did that? Smallpox and we stomped that to death the second we understood it. That’s the difference between muggles and wizards, when muggles don’t understand something, they figure it out.

And here’s the kicker, the only reason muggles don’t understand magic at all is because the wizarding world deliberately withholds information about it. However, even if the wizarding world kept doing that, it’d only be a matter of time until a muggle figured out what magic was and how to stop or harness it because that’s what humanity does, it pushes past what we think is impossible to see what’s on the other side. We didn’t understand the sun as a species originally and now we use it to power satellites and smartphones.

The wizarding world isn’t a realm of infinite possibilities, it’s a universe of strict limitations where boundaries are never questioned. The muggle world is where the real magic happens. That’s why during the course of the Harry Potter books, which are set between 1991 and 1998, the muggle world (our world) discovered dark matter, cloned a sheep and invented fucking MP3s while the wizarding world were literally paying some dipshit to figure out what the purpose of a rubber duck was.

Wow, I really shouldn’t think about this stuff when it’s like 3AM, it gets kind of dark.

#the wizarding world prides itself on standing still#because they think they’re already at the pinnacle#but they’re not and one of these days they’ll find that out the hard way

“Oh, he just turns invisible? Right, we’ll get a SWAT team with heat vision goggles on it. You can expect your Dark Lord dead in about an hour.”

famefox:

lildevilshellbell:

I spit out my soda reading this.

This is priceless.