Tag: awesome

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michelottos:

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asheathes:

WIZARDING SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD: INDIA

India’s Academy of Sorcery boasts an impressive display of flashy colours, from enchanted saris that shift colours sporadically throughout the day, to the lavishly painted exterior of the academy which is situated in a nondescript location along Ganges River. Due to the frightening rate at which the school’s ancient mango tree (jokingly nicknamed “Mammoth Mango Machine”) produces mangoes, students have to endure the perpetually evolving art of mango cuisine at least five days a week. Every year, to the students’ great enjoyment, classes are halted for Diwali to make time for various competitions that take place: firework flourishes and charms for upper-year students (bonus points if it doesn’t set any part of the school on fire), and lantern designing for lower-year students (use of animals, alive or dead, is forbidden).

#is tabu the headmistress bc i’m here for this

#yes!#and there is a gurudwara and a mosque on different parts of campus as well

#you forgot the myriad other festivals which dot the indian calender#lasjdalkjs this would be so fucking cool though#on holi students throw enchanted fluorescent colours which stick on each other#and magically enchant buckets to douse dry people w coloured water#and the HARVEST FESTIVALS#JANMASHTAMI!!#enchanted baby footprints that walk to the shrine !!!!#alsjdlajlk this would be so fucking beautiful kill me#i love this

#you don’t know how much i love this#how many times i’ve thought about this growing up#wondering if my culture was included#I LOVE IT

#INTERNATIONAL WIZARDS GIVE ME THEM ALL#MIDDLE EASTERN WARLOCKS AND EAST ASIAN MAGES ANFNSJSMFJWKA

#I WANT MORE OF THE MAGICAL WORLD#I WANT IT LIKE THIS#I WANT MORE CULTURES#this makes me so happy because we have expanded the world into our own creational ideas#into our own lives and cultures and beliefs#and that’s really amazing

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lizzingwithkriz:

Pregnant Ghost Bat having an ultrasound at Featherdale Wildlife Park

congrats it’s a bat

[delighted bat noises]

I grew up very very close to Featherdale, and went there multiple times as a child. They’re a tiny little zoo specialising in Australian fauna, particularly specimens with albinism, and they have an impressive collection of birds and bats. Everyone goes on about Taronga, and while it’s great, I think Featherdale’s pretty awesome, and a great alternative for those who can be bothered to travel outside Sydney City to the Western Suburbs.

huffingtonpost:

Hey, White America, You Need To Hear What These Ferguson Kids Have To Say

In a new video from social justice-oriented T-shirt company FCKH8, several Ferguson children lampoon the excuses white people give to avoid getting involved in ending discrimination in America and deliver a call to action to stomp out racism.

Watch the full video and see these kids explain how racism is still a huge part of even getting an interview for a job.

randomyayness:

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ursulavernon:

A friend requested I make this, and so here it is, and I offer it to anyone who needs it, with all the authority vested in me by whoever vests these things. Print it out if you need to.

The best art advice ever given to me—ever, ever—was “Don’t be afraid to make bad art.”

You will make a whole lot of crap in your time. Some will be truly awful and some will be merely mediocre. And that is totally normal and totally fine and for the love of little green apples, just keep going, because that’s the only way I know to get to the good stuff eventually.

(I normally feel horribly egotistical mentioning my awards, but I think this counts as using that power for good.)

I assume this applies to written art as well. And I’m very appreciative of the patience of my readers, who allow me to be bad as well as good.

omg. I need this. ♥