batbetbitbotbut:

accio-shitpost:

the wizarding world, of course, has mood rings that actually work

#this sounds like a cheap public education cut #‘hogwarts can’t afford a guidance counselor but we got a bunch of weasley wizarding wheezes mood rings; one for every student’ #harry: ‘hey mood ring how am I doing?’ #talking mood ring: ‘depression & ptsd bro’ #harry: ‘nice. and water is wet. good work mood ring’ (tags via @lullabyknell)

oh my GODS

also consider: moody rings. they’re regular talking mood rings, but they sulk.

also also consider: once fred and george meet Alastor Moody, they start to sell Moody rings.  they look just like the other rings but they tell you nothing about your mood, instead they yell CONSTANT VIGILANCE at intervals just long enough (several days, sometimes more) that you’re caught off guard every single time.  george has been reading some muggle self-help books for joke shop ideas.  “it’s mindfulness,” he says, “it grounds you in the moment”.

there’s a display rack in Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes that’s solely for the mood/moody/Moody rings, unpackaged.  they all look alike.  which kind do you want?  good luck!

after the battle of hogwarts, george wears two rings. they both seem to indicate properties that theyre moody rings but george knows thats not true. theyre the real ones.

fandomfelix:

yunisverse:

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s possible for characters vs. what the audience sees. (This might feel really obvious or redundant to talk about, but I just need to get the words out of my system)

In Steven Universe, when a character can’t do something, it’s a bit of a big deal. They struggle with it, they fixate on it, entire episodes may be dedicated to this thing they’re unable to do. When a character can do something, but doesn’t, it’s never focused on or called out. But when it does finally happen, it underscores a huge moment for that character.

As early as episode 10, it’s confirmed  that Amethyst is able to bubble Gems. The action itself is not a big deal for her. Maybe she’s done it lots of times offscreen, where the audience hasn’t seen it. But since it’s our first time seeing her do this, it underscores her growth in this character arc, as she sends her tormentor and kindred spirit away.

On the other end of things, Garnet’s refusal to ask questions in the present ends up being a highlight for her backstory–she’s only shown asking questions in the far, far past, to highlight her very first moments of being in comparison to how firm and completely certain she is of herself now.

One can assume that Greg has always had some manner of social life outside of Steven and the Gems, but it has never once been mentioned who his friends are or what he does when he’s not working or hanging out with Steven. To wait until after he’s reconciled with Pearl to mention any sort of social action underscores how much he was letting the past get in the way of his friendships before this point. Considering this same episode is about Pearl doing the same for her social life highlights that further.

No one ever calls out these actions, or lackthereof, within the show. Things that aren’t happening lay in wait, to emphasize important moments in a character’s development.

All this is to say…

boy howdy they must be saving up Pearl shapeshifting for an absolute doozy.

Now THIS is a post that aged well

chefpyro:

chefpyro:

chefpyro:

Sheik is the clear winner.

• Tetra, while badass, is a child.
• Spirit Zelda, while more powerful when possessing a Phantom, has not been trained to fight properly.
• LBW Zelda is powerful, but Sheik can do everything she can + ninja stuff.

zacarper:

‪some of y’all have never been scarred by your father, banned from the fire nation, set on an impossible quest to find the avatar, & then hunted down by your own younger sister and it shows

probablybadrpgideas:

Many bad roleplayers godmod other player’s characters.

Go one step ahead and godmod other players.

sabertoothwalrus:

I hope the sequel brings back deku scrubs!!!! And makes Zelda playable!!!! Aahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

bogleech:

hexmaniacmareen:

bogleech:

what-even-is-thiss:

that-catholic-shinobi:

authorgirl1111:

fandomlockedfan:

anchirotleep:

hopeful-weirdo:

hello-kitty-senpai:

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

Wow I don’t understand math at all

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

I think my brain just stopped working

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something.

Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion.

Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick.

If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

prideprejudce:

prideprejudce:

prideprejudce:

tbh the best way that i explain to other people what it feels like to live with an anxiety disorder is the one time when i had to get a fingerprint and background check done for a job and i, someone who has never received so much as a speeding ticket my whole life, spent thirty minutes panicking that i would fail because i might secretly be a criminal and have no idea 

theatricaldynamite:

tiger-in-the-flightdeck:

automaticfave:

tippingvelvets:

today at work a little kid came in to order their birthday cake and their mom was like “(deep sigh) tell them what you want on your cake” and the kid was like “ELSA” and the mom was like “(deeper sigh) and?” and the kid was like “SHARKS”
that kid literally ordered a princess elsa and sharks birthday cake and i have literally never in my whole life been more excited to see the end result of an order ive taken.

little kid cake orders are the BEST! one time there was like this 5 yr old girl and all she wanted was a komodo dragon themed cake…

she got it

That cake is more impressive than anything I’ve seen on any of those Fantabulosity Cakes shows, oh my god.

My cousins’ asked for Star Wars and Ballet. The person who made it really ran with the idea.