This Will Never Not Be Adorable

Modern Hogwarts House Aesthetic

Ravenclaw

“The book is better”, reading Wikipedia articles for fun, talks in vine refences, 100% obsessed with Greek mythology at some point, mum jeans and cropped everything, a strong distaste for modern art, too many fandoms, a million tabs open on your phone, stopping mid-sentence to point out a dog 

Slytherin

Listening to albums on vinyl because aesthetic, wearing the same 5 pieces of jewelry everyday, coffee hoe, makes a new playlist for every situation, says “fight me” a lot but cant walk up flight of stairs without getting winded, childhood role model is Peggy Carter, can name their friends third childhood pet but can’t remember what they had for breakfast, walking out of the movie theater at night and feeling like you’ve traveled to another dimension

Gryffindor

Dying your hair in the bathroom sink, wearing sunglasses indoor because “I look cool ok”, always has to be doing something with their hands, candid photos and expert meme usage, gets a new hobby every other week, emotionally unstable, uses cheesy quotes for Instagram photos, lips painted red and messy signatures

Hufflepuff

Instagram is 80% photos of them frolicking in a field, runs an aesthetic blog, horrible puns and purposely bad pickup lines, obscure indie movies, hair dyed every colour of the rainbow, wanted to be a makeup artist, brutally soft, will fuck you up if you hurt their friends, boho chic

Did he just imply...?

*sniffles* I’ve never seen a tag that explains me like this one.

Jake: isn’t it weird that people kill mosquitos just because they’re annoying

Jake: like damn if people did that to other people i would have died years ago

season 6: cas, get out of my ass

season 14: cas, get in my head

not to be “that person who stares at gifs and makes a weird whining noise in the back of their throat all day” but

I’m kinda suffering

A LOT

So here’s some gifs to drag you all down with me

You know if you feel like watching Dean quietly implode via his hand on a loop all day

Edit: yes I know this is the Mr Darcy Hand Clench Thing from Pride and Prejudice (2005), that’s why I made this entire post. I didn’t think it was going to get 15,000 notes out of context of people who know that I know that Mr Darcy did that thing with his hand. 

A piece of popcorn is probably as unique as a snowflake

http://ifttt.com/missing_link?1559677940 (via showerponderings)

So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.

“(In Iron Man) there are no civil wars fought, no city takeovers and hostage threats, no galactic beings intent on destroying the planet. There is only a moneyed megalomaniac who gets shocked into becoming a better person after confronting the ugly consequences of his arms manufacturing business face to face.

… (In) a universe that’s come to include a pantheon of gods, sorcery, and green-skinned rage monsters, powered armor feels pretty down to earth. After all, beneath it, there’s only a man.

That’s another thing that makes Tony Stark, and Iron Man, essential to the post-2010s superhero boom. Stark isn’t quite relatable, per se — few among us can truly relate to a guy with bottomless resources and Robert Downey Jr.’s good looks — but he is, at the core, a human on the quest for humility. Stark is the template for a number of characters brought to screens large and small since Iron Man’s release 10 years ago … After Iron Man, projects centered on swaggering ladykillers with too much money became their own sub-niche in the superhero genre …

That’s not to say Iron Man invented the modern superhero. But it did invent the modern superhero movie as we know it. Taken together, the film was a watershed: It opened the door to a new kind of superhero, and spawned a collection of interconnected films for those heroes to appear in.

So it turns out Tony Stark has a superpower after all: He can bring together heroes from across nations and even galaxies, by doing nothing more than rejecting his industrialist ways.”

– THE WEEK: Why Iron Man was the most pivotal movie of the last decade.

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On this day ten years ago – May 2, 2008 – Iron Man was released and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was born.