allthecanadianpolitics:

This is actually how these two finished the 200m Semi-finals.

spaceclarke:

Olympic runners Nikki Hamblin (New Zealand) and Abbey D’Agostino (USA) were well into the 5,000m heat when a collision sent them both hurtling to the ground. Abbey opted against giving chase to the rest of the pack in order to help rival runner Hamlin back upright. 

D’Agostino however, hit the ground seconds later with an injury of her own. Despite urging the other runner onward, Hamblin returned the favour of stopping to help and wouldn’t continue the race until her competitor was back on her feet. Both were determined to finish, undeterred by the fact they were unlikely to put in a serious bid to qualify. 

An injured D’Agostino then went on to limp the remaining 4½ laps for a painful 7 minutes and crossed the finish line to hug the woman she had helped; who then helped her, before being carted off in a wheelchair. 

The pair had never met before, finishing with a time of 16.43 for Hamblin (29th) and 17.10 for D’Agostino (30th). Neither qualified for the upcoming final but have since been reinstated by the organisers and if fit enough, they will be allowed to compete.

INTJ Things

jaylittlefox:

• Getting adrenaline rush from solving problems
• Silently judging everyone
• Love for studying – my own interests
• Being that one smart kid in the class that all teachers love
• Social awkwardness
• Adjusting your behavior and responses depending on who you are talking to
• Loving your alone time more than people
• Being able to improvise quite well, but sticking to your plans to play it safe
• Ending up doing all the group work on your own, because everyone else just wastes time chatting and procrastinating
• Not caring about your emotions to the point that most people stop caring about them too more like hiding/downplaying them
• A good book and a cup of tea is much better than any social event !!!
• Being somewhat afraid of failing at every single thing you do  – fear of failure is a big thing but not with everything. 
• Being a nerdy weirdo
• Love for stationary
• Mastering new skills very quickly
• Being a bit old-fashioned
• Being lowkey afraid of your emotions, because others might use them against you
• People have high expectations of you
• Having deep knowledge in many topics

e-louise-bates:

I am always baffled by “Narnia Hogwarts Sorting” posts which put Susan in Slytherin. Susan’s moniker in Narnia was “the Gentle.” She not only hated killing animals/people for her own protection, she also hated to beat someone who had already lost once, even though she knew she easily could. She was fooled by a prince’s appearance of chivalry and courtesy into favoring him, but once she saw his cruelty and pride revealed, she rejected him utterly, though he would have made her a great queen. She took a motherless boy-prince under her wing and was almost an elder sister to him, simply out of compassion.

In England, she was not particularly good at school, leading people to think of her as a pretty face and nothing more. And in The Last Battle, we learn that her falling away from Narnia was not the result of ambition or cunning, but rather because she had forgotten her true worth. She settled for the cheap imitations of grace, beauty, and love that the world offered instead of the deeper truths of Narnia and beyond. She accepted other people’s devaluation of herself as just a pretty face and worked to mold herself into that image, what she thought others wanted of her. She got muddled over what it truly meant to be “grown-up,” because her understanding wasn’t deep enough.

But to the Narnians and to Aslan, she was always a queen, even when she nor the “real” world could see it.

Susan is a Hufflepuff if ever I saw one.

spookyjoshs:

Tyler: the thing that attracted me the most to Jenna at first was how unimpressed she was with me. and for some reason, I couldn’t get enough of that

tylerjosephs:

@joshuadun: @jennaajoseph please, do I have your vote?
@jennaajoseph: @joshuadun Wow, I get a HBD from you and your drumset. Thanks, Joshua!!

My Cat Can Kick Your Dog’s Ass! Seriously.

23devil:

kittehkats:

Amazing Maine Coon Cats

photo sources: 

imgur, 

JulieCelik, 

titan_tamer, 

dailymail, 

thesun, 

unknown, 

barbara_khadeeva, 

imgur, 

unknown, 

milkyway_scientists, sortra.com

the rum tum tugger is a goddamed giant

The Force Awakens Characters in Tolkien’s Universe

ewokshootsfirst:

notbecauseofvictories:

• Rey is patrolling the Greenfields border when she hears the shrieking. “I didn’t know there were lady-rangers,” the hobbit with the shock of bright-orange hair says, after Rey has beaten off the goblins attacking her and snarled a warning at their retreating backs. 
  “And I didn’t think halflings ventured so far from home,” Rey answers, helping the little one to her feet.
• Her name is Bertina Baggins the Eighth, although her long-suffering parents, who made the grave mistake of giving all their children ‘B’ names, have since resorted to calling her BB-Eighth. 
• “Do you have any family?” BB-Eighth asks, and graciously lets it pass when Rey flinches and does not answer as to why so young a woman is alone in the northern wild.
• It takes Rey two bowls of gruel and several hours to earn enough trust to get more than that out of BB-Eighth. She’s carrying a message from one of the elves who pass through the Shire on occasion, a friend—supposedly it is a map to the secret hiding place of the great grey wizard, Skywalker. 
• Her elf friend was tasked with bringing it to the Grey Lady of Gondor, but he was being chased, cornered by orcs of the Black Army before he could escape.
• “And now you are going to Rivendell?” Rey asks, trying not to sound too amused. “Have you ever been outside Hobbiton before?”
• This is—somehow—the story of how Dunedain Rey ends up on the road to Rivendell, with a tiny chattering hobbit at her side.
• Finn is one of the soldiers from Far Harad, pressed into service of the dark army, but wracked by doubt around fighting in this strange land, this strange war. When he is told by the Nazgûl-prince to slaughter the village, he cannot even raise his bow.
• The captured elf is no secret (an object of fascination, they have no such creatures in Far Harad) and it is not hard to march him away from his guards, to convince him to help steal one of beasts the orc captains ride into battle.
• “I’m better with horses!” he shouts as Finn clings to him desperately—he was taught to string a bow and wield a spear and grapple with a man, not ride things into battle the way they do in the north, and now this mad elf is trying to get them both killed by heading towards exactly where they took him from.
• Unfortunately, in the flight their mount is wounded, and they plunge over the edge of a cliff—when Finn comes-to, it looks like the elf is dead beneath the carcass of the beast. 
• When he stumbles towards the road looking for civilization, he finds a pale woman with a deadly staff and what looks like a child, with a shock of bright hair.
• “You stole her friend’s cloak!” the pale girl snarls as they struggle, and it takes Finn several tries to get her to listen to his story.
• They steal horses from a nearby town, and Finn gets a very quick lesson in how to shoot from the back of a moving animal.
• The Grey Lady of Gondor—Steward of the White City, Lady Leia of House Organa—is somewhat notorious for marrying a mercenary who served in the armies of Gondor. She is very notorious for her rumored origins, that it was the dark Witch-King who gave her birth along with her brother. (Rumors of Istari blood do not fade, too full of strangeness and fascination to be quelled.)
• She is tragic for the loss of her son—a casualty of these warlike times, they say, stolen on the road, killed, taken. She does not speak of him.
• When Rey—just Rey, Rey of the north, dressed in white beneath her armor—he is the only one familiar enough with the Black Lands to retrieve her, and destroy the terrible siege weapon they are building. (To be fair, the aging mercenary and his hairy Druedain are a surprise.)
• There is still a sword. It still fits to Rey’s hand, even though the Nazgûl-prince (just a boy, after all, beneath the heavy metal mask) reaches for the reforged blade of the Witch-King.
• And at the end, there is still a wizard, dressed in grey, on an island that all of Middle Earth thought lost to the great and terrible wave.

@abadpoetwithdreams

scipia-of-the-stella:

kyraneko:

cinnamonrolltoogayforthisworld:

gaelissfelin:

accio-shitpost:

tbh people mock harry for going back to rescue fleurs sister in the second triwizard task but harry knows dumbledore better than anyone else. he probably looked at the situation and thought “would dumbledore let an eight year old drown just because fleur couldnt do this bit? yes. yes he would.”

it’s also possible he was acting off of the lessons he learned in the abusive dursley household. that’s why he does a lot of his so-called “hero complex” shit. he takes a lot of personal responsibility for other people bc he learned growing up that “no one’s here for you, no one will help you, you will not catch any breaks”. he helps bc if he didn’t, who would? certainly not the dursleys, and that’s what he grew up with.

he does things by himself and the two people he actually trusts, bc he’s learned that authority figures are no help and will only make things worse. he takes situations at face value bc he’s never seen other options in his life, he’s never HAD other options in his life. speaking very personally, that was a serious marker of abuse that i saw in myself – i never thought abt escape, or what i could do to improve my situation, bc i didn’t even see that as an option. the options were survive or don’t, deal w it or don’t, acclimate or implode.

maybe he wasn’t thinking abt what DUMBLEDORE would do, what anyone at hogwarts would do. maybe he was acting off what he knew the dursleys (his main authority figures) would do. the dursleys would let the girl drown. and harry was there, and harry could do something, and so harry did. he took personal responsibility for fleur’s sister’s safety bc all his life he’s learned that authority figures cannot be trusted to do so.

people characterize these aspects of harry as a “hero complex” or a “stupid nobility” or a “lack of common sense”, but i don’t agree with that. i can’t put my finger on exactly what it is. it’s not completely unhealthy; it’s even very useful and responsible on occasion.

it’s called “complex ptsd” and if you get out of the abusive situation before you’re old enough to understand how fucked up it was, like Harry did, you don’t end up with the classic flashbacks so much, just atypical behavior patterns and a high risk of other shit. That’s why Harry is so fucked up by everything that Umbridge does, it’s because he’s being retraumatized in his safe space.

Seriously, the Dursleys would have not only let her drown, they would have let her drown so they could blame Harry for it afterwards. (Although the loudest “Potter, too busy winning to care about anyone else” voice in his head would probably be Snape’s.)

Incidentally this is even more clear in the first and second books, to me. Because Harry DID go to adults and say someone’s trying to steal the stone, and what did the adults do? Did they say, yes, we know, we’re taking precautions, real, good protective measures? Noooo. Did they say, thank you, we’ll look into it, even? Noooo. They said, don’t be silly, it’s not your concern, nothing to see here, little boy, run along and do your schoolwork.

And they said this to a boy whose entire life experience has never involved an adult that can be depended on. And they lied, lied about their own knowledge, said “that’s silly” when they know “that’s true.” And they were too convincing: since he as well knew the truth, what they ended up convincing him was that they didn’t know. And it fit right in with his expectations. Adults, whether actively malicious (the Dursleys, Snape) or well-meaning but oblivious (Mrs. Figg, Harry’s primary-school teachers, the other Hogwarts teachers), can’t be depended on. If anything’s got to be done, Harry and his friends have got to do it himself.

Second book, same thing—they’re headed for the teacher’s lounge to tell the teachers it’s a basilisk, and overhear the teachers saying that Ginny Weasley’s been taken by the monster, and they need to close Hogwarts, and their only plan to rescue Ginny is to send Gilderoy Lockhart—knowing full well he’s a fraud, a coward, and no match for a Cornish pixie, let alone a basilisk. Once again, the adults are flat-out useless and if anyone is going to save Ginny, it’s gotta be Harry and Ron. 

Notably, this is after another ball-drop on the part of the adults: when Harry’s been framed for underage magic and locked up in his room and starved by people who have every intention of keeping him out of Hogwarts forever, it’s other kids, Ron, Fred, and George, who go rescue him, and when the adults find out, one of them punishes and scolds and the other is only interested in how his car worked.

In book three, we meet a couple of adults that are competent, helpful, and willing to listen—Sirius and Remus—and the other adults come in and the end result is, one’s fired and the other has to go on the run lest he have his soul sucked out by dementors. Dumbledore does listen and give them the necessary hints, but it’s Harry, and Hermione this time, who have to do the work.

And then in Order of the Phoenix, in comes the smothering bullshit about how he’s too young to be in the Order and needs to leave everything to the grownups, after the grownups have dropped the ball four years running and are batting zero on the trust-and-listening factor—no wonder he threw a tantrum, I would’ve thrown a tantrum, he was fucking entitled to one.

“Well, that was a bit stupid of you,” said Ginny angrily, “seeing as you don’t know anyone but me who’s been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels.”
Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he turned on the spot to face her.
“I forgot,” he said.

 – OotP

“he does things by himself and the two people he actually trusts… it’s not completely unhealthy; it’s even very useful and responsible on occasion.” – @gaelissfelin

…this.  Harry sees people as: a. him and people he trusts, b. people to be evaded, and c. people in need of help.  When he gets backed into a corner (Voldemort inside his head, heading down the trapdoor alone, off to the DoM alone, into the Forest alone), the circle of people he trusts shrinks down from the DA/OotP, to the Trio, to just himself.  Harry never wants to be a hero or gets off on it, he’s just a person who’s suffered from the bystander effect and doesn’t want to be a bystander himself.

…that’s what it is, why it’s useful, I think.  It’s not a hero complex, it’s an anti-bystander complex.  Sometimes it only takes one person standing up.

siriusly-not-over-remus:

aenramsden:

emnneryn:

I like to think that Rita Skeeter totally lost whatever renown she had after the war and so Harry and Ginny and the others like to pick up her stories for fun without worrying about the effect it’ll have on their image? Like Harry just idly turns a page every morning and goes, “Oh, we’re getting a divorce.”
And Ginny yawns as she fetches two coffee mugs and says, “Is it because I’m snogging Neville?”
“No,” says Harry, “it’s because I’m snogging Neville.”
And Ginny slams down her mug and says, “Goddamnit, Harry, let me have my affair in peace, would you?”

They have this sort of conversation in public, sometimes. Especially in places (the Leaky Cauldron, the Three Broomsticks, etc) where they know that it’ll get back to Skeeter.

I like to imagine that the kids get in on it as well. Like Albus and Scorpius can be over heard in the Great Hall with the latest Potter Family gossip

“Did you hear that your dad is leaving your mum for my father?”

“I thought mum was leaving dad for your mum, Scorp?”

“No that was last week. Your mum is with your aunt Luna right now.”

“Ah, my mistake. Pass the pumpkin juice.”