We Four Queens

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Harry Potter is a culturally important work and JK Rowling wrote it.

So many culturally important works of literature were written by people with bad views by today’s and even their time’s standards. Shakespeare? Racist, sexist, islamophobic, xenophobic, anti-Semitic. But we don’t erase his name from those plays. Because if we try and claim that those plays were authorless it gives us an awfully convenient excuse to ignore all of the flaws within them and how we may or may not agree with those flaws on a subconscious level.

In the world of literary analysis these days the author is no longer dead. We don’t do that anymore. The author is a ghost hanging over your shoulder. You can interpret their work any way you want and they can have no say in it. But you as a reader must also acknowledge that their original intentions are there. Their personal history and the times they lived in are there.

Rules: Only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions.

Band/Artist: Watsky

What’s your gender? The Girl Next Door 

How are you feeling? Embrace the Quake

If you could go anywhere? Sarajevo

Favorite mode of transportation?  Limo 4 Emos

Your best friend? Roses

Favorite time of the day? Dent in the Moon

If your life was a TV show? Talking to Myself 

Relationship Status? No Complaints No Conversation

Band/Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen

What’s your gender? Happy Not Knowing / I’ll Be Your Girl

How are you feeling? E-mo-tion

If you could go anywhere? More Than a Memory

Favorite mode of transportation? Drive

Your best friend? Boy Problems

Favorite time of the day? Making the Most of the Night

If your life was a TV show? Right Words Wrong Time

Relationship Status? I Really Like You

Castles Across Europe, Reconstructed 

The built landscape of Europe has been sculpted by thousands of years of war and reconciliation. Kings and Queens, Vikings and Romans, Christians and Moors, all have built castles and forts with the strength of their workers’ hands. But over the centuries, many of these magnificent castles have fallen into ruin. Some were abandoned after suffering war damage, while others just fell out of use.

Here are some of the most unique ruined castles of Europe and, working with designers and architects, a series of architectural renders and reconstruction animations that bring them back to their former glory.

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica clearly has taken those words to heart.

He lives for his people and he practices what he preaches.

A living example of a Manly Man, fighting for the poor and leading a Moral Life.