It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek. Accio? Literally “I summon.” Lumos? Fucking “light.” Expelliarmus? Expel weapon!! Ooooh I wonder what Levicorpus does– you Dumb Ass Bastard. You ILLITERATE. It’s called Levicorpus, it lifts someone’s body, it LEVIES your goddamn CORPUS-
Hermione ghost wrote this
Counterpoint: Hogwarts actively discourages students from taking Latin or Greek because if they knew either one every single magic twelve year old would be trying to mash up twenty words and make their own Ultimate Spell instead of using the Good Standardized Spells Known Not To Explode Magic Schools
I have a feeling that last point is aimed at the ravenclaws…
I ALREADY do terrible things to Latin for entertainment so Hogwarts has a point
eucalyptus trees are full of flammable oil that causes the trees to explode during forest fires, killing other trees and spreading its seeds to grow in their place. koalas survive solely because nothing else in their environment Wants To Eat The Fucking Bombs
• He got issued a gun that the police chief says he has to carry around, no matter what.
• Turns out, he’s actually pretty good with a gun. He can throw it like a boomerang and hit a criminal right in the head it’s great.
• The second he learned he got the job, Dick went to the nearest Dunkin Donuts so he could properly play the part of a cop by eating donuts with coffee.
• Whenever the Red Hood is in town, Officer Grayson is always the one who insists he be the one to go after him. The night usually ends with him bringing Hood in with handcuffs and laughing when Hood says he’s going to tattle on him to someone named Alfred. Hood escapes later that night, of course, but no one can ever figure out how he gets out so easily even with Officer Grayson guarding his cell. It’s a mystery…
• He regularly emails “Which Brooklyn Nine Nine Character Are You?” quizzes to everyone in the precinct and calls them by the name of their results.
I’m going to re-reblog this so I can expand why I love this.
Main reason:your take on Dick with a gun is the funniest thing I’ve ever read
But also, I have some things to add:
Dick doing crazily acrobatic things that normal people can’t do just out of habit
I.e. does a front flip off of a car and lands on criminal guy, knocking them to the ground.
Just launching himself over fences
Pausing a chase because,”That kid’s handstand form was awful and needed tips.” (He still catches the guy afterwards)
Making one liners whenever he arrests someone but before he reads their rights
Thinking about it, there’s no way at least one cop has never suspected that he was a robin
Because he just did everything out of habit
Like, he couldn’t help it
How else was he supposed to jump a fence?
Was he not supposed to pretty much do a gymnastics routine in order to jump across a chasm and catch the bad guy? Because he definitely could.
“How did you tear the shoulder of your uniform like that?”—“Oh, I was doing a front handspring in order to get over this one box, and I must’ve tore it when I launched myself over the box.”
Dick being FREAKING amazing at writing reports from “day 1” of his job (let’s face it: he’s probably written hundreds before he was a police officer)
The police officers just learn to accept it though
They might be cuffing some robber and they’ll watch Officer Grayson walking around on his hands because he’s bored and the robbers are like,”???” But the cops are like,”Oh, he just does that. We’ve learned to accept it.”
“We’ll be fine, there’s no way they could’ve gotten over that one fence as fast as us.”*Cue Officer Grayson jumping down from the roof of a three story building*”You were saying?”
Dick:does a back handspring—“FRICK IT’S OFFICER GRAYSON!”
New Officer:Captain? I think that Officer Grayson is Nightwing…. Captain:Oh yeah, we all know, but we pretend not to know because we all like him.
1) xkit. if you don’t have this i honestly don’t know how you’re surviving on tumblr. there’s so many add-ons that they have that make everything about rping so so so much easier. you can find them under new xkit. don’t forget, the old xkit is no longer working so make sure you use the new one!
2) threadtracker. if you’re like me, once you draft something to reply about it, you forget it’s even there. so threadtracker is a lifesaver honestly. and now they even had a quickadd browser extension that makes everything even easier. you just pull up your thread, click the little button on your browser and it pulls it right up for you to type in your name of choice and voila all done. you can even stick on starters that you owe, or even replies that you need to do for starters made for you. easy peasy!
3) sessionbox. this is mostly for people with multiple blogs. this little fancy extension allows you to be logged into multiple blogs all in one window. so no more having 500 chrome profiles to be on all your blogs at once. this lets you have them in one window with multiple tabs to make things so much easier. you can name them, give them different colors, and all that good stuff to separate them. it’s honestly a definitely lifesaver too.
4)the email trick. so a lot of people probably know this one. but it’s a quick little trick for making new blogs. instead of having to worry about making a million different email addresses and remembering them all for every single blog you have, you can do a nice little shortcut. all you have to do is take whatever email address you want and add +whatever to it. so, example: blahblah@gmail.com being your base email and say you’re making a blog for a character named fred, you would make it blahblah+fred@gmail.com or something along those lines. then you can definitely keep up with the email. and yes, it does still work with the yahoo junk too.
5) stylish. this is a nifty little ad-on that is somewhat similar to xkit, in that you can change the way your dash looks. i have a few things added to it to make my eyestrain less than it normally is with brighter colors tumblr has set up on here. they have a ton of things for tumblr too that you can do to change it. just do a tumblr search and see what they have that you can use.
6) rph blogs and musings blogs. honestly there’s a ton of them. dear-indies is one of my go to blogs for a lot of things. you can find icons, manips, tutorials, and masterlists all over their blog. (masterlists are a great way to get started in a new fandom as well, fyi.) doing a few searches on here will bring up plenty of them if you just take a few moments to look. there’s a ton of resources out there for rpers.
7) f.lux. if you have any eye problems like me then sometimes screens are way too bright no matter how low you have the brightness set. so f.lux is this nifty little thing that dims your screen and gives it a bit of a yellow tint based on the time. it helps make whites not so bright and glaring in your face, especially at night. you can set it up however you want it, to lessen the tint or make it darker. if you’re prone to migraines from screen brightness this thing is amazing. and you can always just switch it off when you’re working on something color sensitive like icons or things like that!
8) mycopper. if you make your own icons and such, but don’t have the time or means to cap your own episodes, this thing is pretty great (i’m actually using it right now). it downloads entire photo galleries in a few minutes. all you do is download it (safe download), go to the gallery you want to download (make sure you’re actually inside the gallery and not in the gallery list), copy and paste the link into my copper (usually has the word thumbnail inside it), choose where you want to save it, and download! it’s really great and definitely easier than going through and saving one by one (which i used to do).
everything above has a link to something that’s either a download or the website for more information except the email trick. that’s all i can think of right now. i’ve been around for awhile and definitely have my dash and rp blogs set up in ways that are easy to navigate and work with thanks to all these awesome resources. ♥
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