honestly the idea that this Dumbledore

was thirsting after this Grindelwald

is just too big a stretch for my suspension of disbelief. Magic, unicorns, childhood trauma manifesting as a physical representation of destruction- that’s all cool.

But don’t try to make me believe that Jude Dumbledore Law wanted to grind on Coleslaw Head up there.

THIS

TEA

I mean, would you rather have that this mayonnaise vampire or would you rather have 

him?

i mean, the dewy eyes, the salt and pepper, the slight five o clock shadow, the square jaw, the perfectly manicured eyebrows… and he doesn’t look like he’s going to die at any moment

if i looked like my mustache attended KKK rallies, i’d probably transfigure myself to look like Colin Farrell too

Coming into a fandom late

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

Accuracy at its best

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

all of this shit…lol

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

This gets better every time I see it. 

@fuboos-mess

Being in a dead fandom…

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

The accuracy hurts.

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

This just gets better..

@mi-kleos

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

Fandom hell in general

Yes.

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

Being in a fandom that actually works together

Why is this so true? All of it.

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

I love this. and it’s gotten better

Being in a fandom, PERIOD.

Being in a fandom that turns on you

When you like two characters who are on opposite sides of the shipping war.

Finaly, when you RESPECTFULLY try to present an articulate counterargument to an anti supported by both visuals and textual support as evidence.

Hahahahahahahah!!!!

When you remember a fandom you have not been active in for a while.

“God is dead.”

Why “la manzana” is also “city block”

This is a really weird thing that people don’t explain very well when you learn Spanish from textbooks, but you sometimes see la manzana “apple” also listed as “city block”… the other word they use is la cuadra

First let me start with la cuadra because it’s much easier to explain. Latin America for the most part uses la cuadra; it has to do with “square”, the idea being that four streets make a city “block” as a square. Easy geometry.

So now there’s la manzana and that’s more common for Spain.

And when I was learning Spanish no one ever explained why it was “apple” or “city block”, but somehow we were told to remember it by thinking of “the Big Apple” like NY.

Anyway. The origin behind this word is really vague old Spanish.

The word it comes from in the context of “city block” is not “apple”… the word in older Spanish was mansana

In Spanish today the word manso/a is typically an adjective and it means “meek” or “docile” and you see it when you talk about animals, or the Bible los mansos heredarán la tierra “the meek shall inherit the earth”

But the term el manso means something very different in terms of feudal society. And it’s all about land terminology. In Spanish el feudo is “a fief” or “a fiefdom”, aka a land controlled by a feudal lord who was then subject to the baron/duke who was subject to a king and so on. 

The aristocrats gave out los mansos to the peasants to work the field, a manso is best translated as “parcel (of land)”. The word manso here is related to the word “mansion” which is “the residence/domain of a lord”… so a manso is the land that a feudal lord would give out to be worked and people would live on the land and work it for them. Collections of mansos were called mansanas and the peasant farmers who worked the mansos earned money and provided services for the lord as subjects.

So the term mansana shifted over to manzana because S/Z are weird. The term had always had to do with a tenant farmer who deals with a land lord, and collections of their houses became manzanas “city blocks” which makes more sense if you assume that people were very much more agricultural before the Industrial era. Once the feudal system in Europe was more or less abolished, mansana became obsolete or linked with la manzana “apple” which comes from completely different etymology.

BTW manso/a meaning “meek” is the same word as el manso “parcel”; the two words came from an older Latin word meaning “to remain”. A docile animal would remain and not run away at the touch, and people built homes called “manses” and large ones were “mansions”, so they meant homes that were occupied by someone rather than an empty farm house. A “manse” is probably something similar to a “cottage” but very often became “abbeys” where a priest would live, and often farm communities had a priest nearby because Spain was ultra religious during the Medieval period especially during the rise of Isabel (and her husband Fernando, who were the Catholic Monarchs los reyes católicos) and leading into Spain becoming part of the Holy Roman Empire.

That’s probably a lot of info but I had the same exact question for YEARS so I did so much research on this. But la manzana for “city block” is more Spain. 

( @bookworm428​ )

I mentioned this in passing 2 weeks ago and I got 2 or 3 people asking me about why an apple was a city block and HERE IT IS! except it’s not technically “apple”, it’s an archaic homonym.

There’s also some belief that it’s related to the French word for “mason” or “stoneworker” and not manso (or Latin mansio), but it’s even more lost because we have the word mansión “mansion” which meant “large manse”, but competing with it is la finca “estate/plantation”… if you see la finca come up as “farm”, you’re not totally wrong but la granja is “a farm”, and la finca is more like “large farm house” or “plantation house”

In that case manzana might have been mansana “a group of manses” or “a group of stone buildings/houses”. It gets a little iffy because of French’s influences on Spanish in terms of what French meant vs. how it’s interpreted now so, for more on that. I’ve also attached Hispanoteca’s article on this though it is in Spanish

This explanation is so satisfying. 😌

VC Characters as “Whose Line Is It Anyway” Prompts

Based off this post

Louis:

Lestat:

Armand:

Daniel:

Marius:

Claudia:

Nicolas:

Thorne:

David:

Khayman:

Maharet:

Mojo:

You know the thing that makes Interview with the Vampire stand out from other vampire novels is that Louis comes across as a serial killer, really. His charisma, compulsion to kill, the weird philosophy he uses to excuse what he does… He’s the worst. And, for me at least, the best thing in the book is the way it makes you feel sorry for him - and feel bad about it because in the end he’s just a creep. And a monster. And I’ll never forgive the other books reducing him to this sad prettyboy who must be protected from everything. Sure, he might be the most human of them all but never because he is innocent but because he represents the worst of humanity. 

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (via bookish-nerd-girl)

That Dj Dead Space was wearing Dead Space space suit.

P.S.: Congrats to all those who can read that text…

Why do you say such things?

Me: *bangs fists on table*

ARMAND

*in the tune of Roxanne*

Armand

You don’t have to put on the blue tights

Hunt the streets for victims

You don’t care if it’s wrong or if it’s right

Y'all this was suppsed to be a passionate warcry lmfao

I can't I unhear this lol

in any language, we know this pain

this is fucking funnier in spanish

Boardman, Oregon | by u/prairieg8

Top 5 Heartbreaking Moments in The Vampire Lestat that the Graphic Novel Accidentally Made Hilarious

Do any of you guys have The Vampire Lestat GRAPHIC NOVEL cause it’s great. 10/10. 

HERE’S SOME OF MY FAVORITE PARTS.

05. The Beautiful Reunion of Louis & Lestat in Which Proportions Aren’t a Thing

04. When Lestat & Gabrielle Reject Armand so he Cops a Tude 

(Bonus: Desperate pleading.)

03. When Marius Fights Off the Coven Ass-Naked and Armand is Traumatized

02. When We Get the Abridged Version of TVA and Meet Child!Armand

01. When Lestat Recounts IWTV & Claudia Breaks His Heart

I can't even... 😂

So Google does math for you??

division

square roots

dividing percentages

IT EVEN FOILS

beautiful.

i just checked ALL of these on my calculator and they are all correct

all. fucking. correct.

DAYUM, SON! IF ONLY THIS WAS AVIALABLE WHEN I WAS ON SCHOOL >:(

HAH! You kids. When I was in school, it wouldn’t help because we still used Roman numerals back then!

AHAHAHAHAHA-

oh my god

i’ll just be over here shutting the fuck up right about now

you can even solve geometric problems

or plot graphs

even 3D graphs!!!

Reblob to save a life

just reblobbed

reblobbing to help those in need

@monstersinthecosmos. What are you doing to me? This random post appeared in my feed and it made me think of Marius and I actually laughed out loud. There is more to the post, but I was laughing too hard to focus beyond doing math in Roman numerals. 😂