If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate endings and watch them panic again as they all try to find the last ending.
do u ever just think about the fact that molly weasley saw HARRY POTTER, the boy who defeated voldemort, and went “i’m gonna knit this kid a christmas sweater”
what i love thinking about is
in the book ron says he told his mum that harry wasn’t expecting any christmas presents and that’s why she sent him them
and knowing ron can be a bit scatty/oblivious he probably didn’t mention it til like two days before christmas
so i just like to think of molly sitting up all night knitting harry his sweater and baking him homemade fudge or whatever because she’d be damned if she’d let harry go present-less at christmas
Or maybe Harry is just as dismissive. Like, Ron is dreaming aloud of him mom’s homemade fudge and asks Harry what he wants and Harry shrugs “the Dursley never give me anything, last year I got a half-used eraser” and Ron is like 0_0 because what, no one is going to give a gift to his new best friend? So he takes poor Errol telling Percy it’s an emergency and Percy’s like no! and Ron’s like HARRY NEVER GETS CHRISTMAS GIFTS YOU GIT and Percy’s like Oh. Ok. Write mom. And Ron’s letter is mainly MOM HARRY NEVER GETS CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM HIS MUGGLES WHAT DO I DO and then it’s December 23 at night and Arthur is ready to go to bed and sees his wife get the yarn and the knitting needles out again and Honey I thought you were done? Did we get another child while I was at work? YES, she answers, furious. Ron’s new friend, little Harry. If I get this done by tomorrow morning I can make a batch of fudge and send Errol back with it. And that’s when Arthur Weasley realized they did get another kid when he wasn’t looking but, honestly, once you went past the five kids mark you stopped counting.
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Did we get another child while I was at work?”
“YES”
I had just finished making a set of posters to be printed out as flyers and printed large-scale to go onto bulletin boards.
Client: The posters look great. Can I get you to print out 50 flyers each and then print out each poster at 40in. x 40in. for the bulletin boards?
Me: I can print the flyers right now, but I’ll need some time to recreate the posters to print them 40 x 40.
Client: Why? Just print them out as is.
Me: Well you asked me to make the posters proportional to an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper so that we could print them off easily as flyers. I just need to adjust the posters so that I can print them out 40 x 40.
Client: Right, but I like the layout you have now. I would prefer if you just printed them out like this… but 40 x 40.
Me: Ok. Are you asking me to center this poster and extend the background in order to square the poster?
Client: No, I like the poster the way you have it now. I just want you to print it out 40 x 40. Like, when you go to print, type 40 in. in the height and 40 in the width… I can show you if you want.
Me: I appreciate that, but that actually isn’t the problem. When I go to print this poster— I can either set the height or width at 40 in. but not both.
Client: Why not?
Me: I made the poster proportional to a sheet of paper.
Client: Right.
Me: The poster is rectangular…
Client: Right but I need it printed out as a square.
Me: Exactly, so all I have to do is recreate the posters to make them square.
Client: But I like them like this, I would rather you just print these posters at 40x40.
Me: If I do that, the poster will be distorted.
Client: I think it’ll be fine.
I print out the poster, distorted, at 40in. x 40in.
Client: This looks horrible, it’s so stretched that I can’t even read it. I need you to redo this poster.
For my friend’s halloween party, we wanted to play some adult versions of kids’ party games. One of these was “pin the condom on Gaston” (from Beauty and the Beast).
We found a picture of naked Gaston online, and emailed it to the university printing service. But, because we wanted it A3, we had to send it to the print shop, where people print out your thing and hand it to you, rather than just sending it to the self-service printers.
Eventually, it fell to me to go down to the print shop. I told the girl working there my id, and she went and printed it out, picked it up, glanced at it, and froze.
I tried to explain, but she didn’t want to hear it. She handed me my A3 picture of Gaston, with an enormous penis, and wouldn’t meet my eye. I folded it in half to stop anyone else from seeing it, then fled the scene.
The party went really well!
-University of Otago
what horrible decision will the staff of this website burden us with next
only 1000 blogs a month actually used the reblog function we’re replacing it with a print option. print out your favorite posts and hang it up on your wall.
for my 12th birthday my mum got me a book and i already had it so i was like ‘oh well, now i have 2 copies!’ so i looked through my book shelf aND REALISED THAT THE BOOK SHE GAVE ME WAS THE BOOK I ALREADY HAD
MY MUM STOLE SOMETHING FROM ME AND GAVE IT TO ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY
why did this even get notes i was sad for days
NONE OF YOU better sleep on A Wrinkle In Time next year! This is the first time an African American Woman has been in charge of a Live action movie with a budget over 100 million! It’s made several characters from a well known story who were thought to be white Woman of Color, like Mrs Who and Mrs Which, DOCTOR Kate Murry, and her children!
Even if it doesn’t look like your kind of movie or it doesn’t look faithful to the book, please support it and give it a chance! Ava DuVernay is making history, support her and A Wrinkle in Time!
