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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

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.

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If you could be in any Broadway musical, what would it be and what role would you play?

#men who admit they love musical theater are the men that one should never let go of #marry me #I’m NYC bound if he ever does Broadway #one of the best interviews #Chris Evans talks to fans #Chris Evans

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Steve name me one time between Basic and going into the ice that you actually followed orders. ONE. TIME.

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I have feelings about this.  I’m supposed to be doing work, but its hard, so I’m gonna explain them instead.  Right from the start of CA:TFA we see that Steve really specifically wants to be a soldier.  He knows there’s all sorts of various ways to support the war effort, but not, specifically he wants to fight on the front lines.  

But Steve is never a particularly good soldier, in fact, he very specifically isn’t a good soldier.  Steve is a good man not a perfect soldier.  Steve NEVER has any success when he tries his hand at being a regular soldier, or even a supersoldier.  In CA:TFA he ends up working with the Howling Commandos, almost entirely outside of the regular military structure and that’s when he manages all the serious heroics and really lives up to his potential.  In Avengers at the beginning he tries to be a good soldier for a while and tries to follow Fury’s orders, but for the first half of the movie Steve is lost and miserable and visibly hiding behind his USO Tour “Captain America” persona.  But its only when he goes off on his own, breaks into store rooms and steals Fury’s proto-type tesseract weapons, that he really gets anything done (before that he gets batted about by Loki and sort of wanders about at loose ends), and he doesn’t really get back into a leadership role and really become actual Captain America again, until he steals a quinn jet with Natasha and Clint.

And despite that, in CA:WS he’s back at Shield, trying to be ‘the greatest soldier in history’ and ‘follow orders’, and… not doing that at all…

So where does Steve’s abortive fascination with being a good soldier come from?

Partly I think its an expression of his very obvious depression.  I’ve seen about umpteen criticisms of Steve’s ‘we have our orders’ line to Tony in Avengers but I think that the fact its out of character is the point.  Steve is miserable, and lost, he doesn’t know what makes him happy, he doesn’t know what he wants to do with himself so he follows Nick Fury’s orders, because he has given up.  

But also I think that even though Steve doesn’t really want to be the sort of person who follows orders, he to a certain extent wants to want it, sort of as the equivalent of a very bright girl who plays dumb in class because she’s been told no one likes smart girls.  The good soldier is very much the model of ideal masculine success that Steve would have grown up with but wouldn’t have ever been able to achieve   

Which is ironic given that the ideal male icon most of the cast of the Avengers probably grew up with… is Captain America.