The look on his face was 100% “MY PEOPLE”.

30th ANNIVERSARY - 1985

Person Who Does Not Have Anxiety: STOP BEING ANXIOUS, YOUR LIFE WILL BE SO MUCH EASIER :-) JUST DO WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE, DON’T LET A SILLY THING LIKE ANXIETY STOP YOU!!

I met with someone today who regarded the following advice rather highly and enthusiastically so maybe it’ll be helpful to you as well. This person is about to be a sophomore in college and I told them:

If you’re searching for a feeling of a job well-done, you have to be the one to create your own measurements of success. You can’t wait for someone else to let to you know when you’ve succeeded, especially after you leave school. Your boss will probably not give you grades or gold stars for the work you are expected to do - because you’re paid to do it.

Nobody will validate your uniqueness as much as your parents, so appreciate them for their enthusiasm but realize their support is anomalous.

Work a job for at least 3 months full time where you take orders from others and clean a toilet that isn’t yours. Seriously. Clean up someone else’s shit. Do it. It’s the most important job you will ever have because it will teach you what a shitty job is all about. Everything else afterwards is manageable, and if you can find enjoyment in that sort of environment you are leagues ahead of people who have coasted into fortune.

Life is unpredictable in every sense of the word. Embrace uncertainty. Welcome change. Learning is awkward and growing is painful, but those things are not to be avoided. Challenge yourself intellectually and socially, and the payoff takes the form of humility and appreciation. Value those traits. They shape you like the malleable person you are.

“This is my favourite place to go to remember how big and old our planet really is”

like they’re all just sitting in dumbledore’s office and karkaroff goes “well word on the street says that krum has a crush on that granger girl”

“damn,” says dumbledore, “I wanted harry to rescue her. well, what about the delightful miss chang?”

“no,” says bagman, “we’ve got her down for diggory”

Someone on /co/ asked for Pearl dressed like Holly Golightly awhile back- I didn’t forget ya, anon, doodled this but got a little sidetracked