Also if you compare Hermione to a character like Annabeth functionally they have the same role within the story. They are there to drive the plot and be a walking encyclopedia for the reader/main character. And yet where Hermione gets shoved aside and all the cool shit she does happens in the background you get Annabeth doing badass shit right up front. Like, if Annabeth did any of the shit Hermione did it wouldn't be brushed off the way it was. If Annabeth made her family forget her, turned someone into a bug and trapped them in a jar, knitted hats to free elves, any of that shit then Percy would be beside her 100% he would be in awe and absolutely terrified at her power and dedication. But what we get from Harry basically amounts to "Thanks nerd. Anyways, what's my next task?"
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A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School and Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun collab GFantasy covers
+ 2 bonus doodles for the 2017 cover by Aidairo and Tanaka Mai (in that order) (from this tweet)
+ announcement that next month will have another collab cover!!
(fun fact. yohaji and tbhk have had the only collab gfantasy cover in the past 10 years. also it was both of their first times on a gfantasy cover)
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Just randomly remembered a time in high school where we had to pretty much write a synopsis on the movie we watched as a whole class and I literally plagiarized the Wikipedia synopsis of the movie and got an A+ on that paper and a "Very informative" written at the top... And, I was known for being one of the smartest people in that class... If they only knew...
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what i will say is just. do you believe in the capacity of human beings to change and grow? or is someone forever doomed to who and how they were when they were 12 or 15 or 20 or 30? and to who do we allow that privilege of growth and the benefit of the doubt?
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Im a sucker for Joel giving Ellie lots of compliments and encouragements. It makes Ellie become extremely confident in her skills, she keeps getting better and better at whatever Joel compliments her on, she hold on to those encouraging words like a lifeline.
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What camera do you use?
It's a Canon EOS 20D! I got it secondhand about four years ago now, as a law school graduation gift.
I really only started getting into photography when I was...extremely unhappy in my first post-grad job, and "go for a walk and take some pictures" was the only short-term survival strategy I could come up with that didn't involve food or alcohol. Even now that I'm in a much better place, it's still probably the most unabashedly fun hobby I have, the least stressful, the most serotonin return-on-investment.
I wouldn't call myself anything but a hobbyist. Still, when I was taking those pictures of the entrance to the Lincoln Park Conservatory, one of the docents ambled over. An older Indian gentleman, he asked if I could see my pictures, and I showed him the last couple shots I'd taken. He said they were very nice, asked if I put them anywhere---and I told him truthfully that I have a flickr account, but that's it, I'm strictly amateur.
He said he had been too, in his youth; he'd also had a secondhand camera, gotten his film developed at Walgreens. "You know where the word 'amateur' comes from, right?" he asked. And I, because I did take five years of Latin and conjugated amo amas amat, answered: "Someone who loves something."
"Right," he said, and walked away back to his bench.
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the nice thing about living at work being offline for chunks at a time is the people u used to really dislike seeing on the dash (by no one's fault, promise), it doesn't really bother you anymore when you see them pop up as recs or smth. like. neat. lol. it's nice! it's comforting. i feel like I've def moved on from things, its liberating.
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