RAVENCLAW: “Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.” –Leslie Jamison (The Empathy Exams)
Honestly during the battle of Hogwarts I feel immensely cheated at not having more Peeves v. Voldemort time because Peeves can’t die and is a complete asshole and I just really want that interaction in my soul of how furious Voldemort would be with Peeves for just existing. Voldemort can’t banish or kill Peeves so he would be trying to direct his Death Eater troops with Peeves floating three feet to the left repeating everything Voldemort says in a mocking high-pitched voice.
IT’S MY FAVORITE GARGOYLE BACK AGAIN FOR WINTERTIME.
I want to know the exact conversation that lead to the creation of this abomination
Ye olde German architect: “ok, it’s time to put in the rainspouts and last night I was out with the lads and Hans had too much and the point is I had the FUNNIEST idea…” *Holds up drawing*
Ye olde German Architect Supervisor: * snorts beer out of his nose.* “YES. BUILD IT IMMEDIATELY.”
This, like Joerg Sprave, is going in my book of ‘things that happen when you leave Germans alone long enough to get bored’.
He made it with filmmaker and BLM activist Sol Guy and you wouldn’t know from the title, but it’s actually a short film, not a documentary, about Darren Wilson being a fucking liar.
Tumblr completely erasing the work of a Black activist/artist while simultaneously finding ways to slander an LGBTQ Jewish person at the same time due to literally not bothering to find out what the film was about in the first place? I’m shocked.
Never cut a baby’s nails before it’s a year old or they’ll grow up to steal. Bite them off. (My family is absolutely insistent on this one. All of us had it done).
To ease a toothache, drink water from a cobalt blue glass. (Unicoi, TN)
Whisper the name of a deceased friend or relative into the mouth of a cave with your message, and your prayers will be carried to them. (Mars Hill, NC)
Expectant fathers should carry mugwort in their pocket to help ease the mother’s delivery (Erwin, TN)
To say anything bad about artists, writers, or musicians while walking through a Jonesborough will call criminals to your home. (Jonesborough, TN)
If there’s a knock at the door and no one’s there, don’t open the door, it’s the devil. (East TN)
Rub an apple on a newborns tongue so they will have a sweet singing voice. (VA, TN)
Killing a cricket invites bad luck. (NC)
Go out the same door you came in to avert bad luck (East TN)
To cure fits in children, turn their shirt inside out and burn it. (TN, NC, VA)
If someone lies down on a table, they’ll die within a year. (NC)
To prevent mares from miscarrying, put a black donkey in the same pasture. (VA)
If an unnamed baby gets sick, give it a name and it will get better (TN, NC)
people that dont have characters squawking in their heads constantly always tell me how much they wish they could write characters like me because “theyre so alive and well rounded and full of depth!” and im just like thats because that bitch is really in my head the only thing keeping her from crawling into existence like a child of athena are the laws of nature
Consulting Witch 