Immolator of Brandywine 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

I'm like any other man only more so.

50% 1 Thessalonians 5:18
50% Jonah 4:9

[Immolator of Brandywine 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 @RobRitchie]

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you. It's almost as if he wanted to draw people's attention to a horrific unpunished traitorous crime and have two or three news cycles about it.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

BREAKING: President Trump announces Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad will NOT be live streamed.

[Robert J. Kuntz @threelinestudio]

A: So according to you everyone, including me, are racists and just won't admit to it?
B: That's right, you're covering up your inherent racism like everyone does.
A: So covering up like lying, then?
B: That's right. You are lying to yourself and others about your inherent fault.
A: So everyone does this?
B: Yes.
A: Which would include you, that you are an admitted racist and iair.
B: Yes but I finally admitted to my fault and so should you!
A: I am glad you are dealing with being a liar and coming around to the truth of your racist disposition. But I really don't trust liars; how do I know that you are not lying and still a racist?
B: ....

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Breakfast for up to 200? In the dry season, it happens at Ithumba.

It’s not just our ex-orphans and their families who stop by either. We’re known on the wider ‘elephant grapevine’, and wild herds with babies and big bulls come to visit too. In the dry season, congregations of up to 200 elephants have gathered at our Ithumba Reintegration Unit in Tsavo East!

Knowing how many wild visitors we get, our catering staff (AKA our incredible Keepers) always leave out plenty of lucerne hay, while the water trough is fed by a nearby borehole with its own desalination plant to boot.

In fact, the dry season one of the busiest times of year for our conservation teams. Discover why in our archival Field Notes article: https://t.co/4sLFHtDcWO

[Immolator of Brandywine 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 @RobRitchie]

One of my favorite books. https://t.co/uKNoZU7ERt

[Immolator of Brandywine 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 @RobRitchie]

@Blackmoor_Film D&D is Friday night.
Fucking your friends is Saturday.
Vary your social life.

[Robert J. Kuntz @threelinestudio]

Sound familiar?

"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make. If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth (facts or evidence), then Fantasy would languish until they were cured! If they ever get into that state (it would not seem at all impossible), Fantasy will perish, and become Morbid Delusion."--J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-stories

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Misheck can’t even take a tea break without Wangalla glued to his side!

Our long-serving Keeper is a real favourite with some of our youngest orphans, and it’s because of him that Wangalla is alive today. When the tiny infant struggled with teething, Misheck would pull his chair outside her stable, armed with a bushel of fresh greens, and pluck every leaf off the branches one by one, selecting only the best.

In the fullness of time, Wangalla’s journey will take her back to the wilds of Tsavo East, where her story began. For now, you can be part of it through an adoption, for yourself or as a gift for someone special: https://t.co/loS0hJV6JZ

[Sean W. Malone | That’s just, like, your opinion. @CitizenAmedia]

You can quibble with takes like these a here and there, but there are so many of them because, no matter what you think of @jk_rowling, she clearly knew what she was doing with Snape and built an essentially perfectly written character.

Her control of readers' perception of Snape is absolutely world-class across multiple books.

You see him as Potter's enemy, because you - like Harry - prejudge him based on his physical description and your awareness of villain tropes. And because you have framed him as evil, you interpret his every action and utterance as evil.

And yet, as with all genuinely satisfying mystery stories, when you actually go back and review the tape once the twist has been revealed, you'll find example after example of things you thought Snape did that were bad only to realize he wasn't wrong or malicious at all.

You think he's working with Quirrell/Voldemort in the first book, because Harry overheard a tiny sliver of a tense argument. Turns out Snape suspects Quirrell and tries to stop him. He's also one of the first to get to the troll and is more than ready to take it on directly.

You think Snape tries to handicap Harry so Slytherin wins at Quittich, when Snape was actually trying to block the curse. Later he referees a match to ensure a fair result and no magical cheating, and you think he's rigged the game.

He follows the kids into the woods to save them from the man he *knew* was a Werewolf in the thrall of the full moon, and you think he's the bad guy because you like Professor Lupin.

He is perhaps the 3rd most effective teacher at the whole school behind Flitwick and McGonagall. He legitimately tried to teach Harry to block out mind controlling spells, while Harry was an ass to him the whole time.

Snape deliberately lies to Dolores Umbridge to protect Harry. And even at the very end when he is headmaster, he does a number of things that seem evil, like attacking Harry at the battle of Hogwarts, and it turns out he's actually helping Harry evade being tortured and killed by death eaters.

It takes a lot of forethought to weave all those little bits of foreshadowing and setup into such an incredible payoff.

The minute Snape's true story is revealed, suddenly the framing in your mind you've held for 7 books/8 movies shatters and you see all those moments in new light. And because it's so well constructed over so many books, Snape's fate is deeply moving.

It's a real testament to Rowling as an author. Few modern mysteries in any medium come close to that level of narrative control. Absutely brilliant.

[Dying Breed Tabletop @DyingBreedTT]

*Me, introducing my character*

"I am Raven Silverclaw, grand master of archery and feared for my otherworldly dexterity and eagle-sight!"

*Also me, on every single attack roll*

[Immolator of Brandywine 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 @RobRitchie]

@alexthechick No, sorry. I meant it as snark. It clearly didn’t come across that way.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Oh, I don't know, maybe he did it because you're running on a platform of "let's take all of Elon Musk's stuff and throw him in the gulag"?

[Immolator of Brandywine 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘 @RobRitchie]

@ShamashAran I’m old enough that I think proposal photoshoots are ridiculous and cringy.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA?

[Wes Myers (itl) @realwesmyers]

We LOVED getting these on deployment. Kids would draw the wildest stuff and teachers clearly weren't reviewing them. They would draw Army men shooting people and blood coming out and then it would say "I hope you don't die." Everyone looked forward to getting them.

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

What are you, cousin of the Gorn or something? https://t.co/gwcWw63BHj

[Leah Rain ✝️🇺🇸🎸🏝️ @LeahRain77]

God bless this judge ..
A drunk diver’s mother was laughing while the victims gave their impact statements to the courts .. so she sentenced her to 93 days in jail !
Every judge should be like this !

[TheBlademaker @TheBlademaker]

Don’t be fooled by TheBlademakAr! He thinks he’s slick changing the e to a. He can’t make knives like this There is only one TheBlademaker!