Harry hesitated, but after all, Ron had been honest with him, so he told Ron the truth…
one of my absolute favorite bits from the hp books that never made it into the movies. though admittedly, the ootp movie had to rly condense a lot. i think the relationship between harry and ron is super underrated/overlooked – there’s so much love, trust, and support between them in this scene.
This is the man you must fight at the gates of Valhalla to prove you’re worthy of that mighty hall
It somehow gets crazier. this teenager trained for months. he staged fights in his parents’ swimming pool to train for this epic match. he choose halloween night for the final showdown. and it was for a school project. he could have chosen any seafood, but he decided on, in his own words, “that big fucking octopus.” magnificent bastard.
Y’all missed the part where he dragged it ashore and divers saw him, got upset and sent some pretty rough stuff to his family. Then, at the Washington Fish and Wildlife meeting, he showed up and was like “yeah, it should be protected.”
Except that the giant pacific octopus is nowhere near extinct and actually doing just fine.
So not only did he wrestle, kill, and eat a giant octopus– he got it protected from hunting in several locations even though the species doesn’t need protecting.
Fucking legendary indeed.
So the only person they need protection from is this guy.
…what sort of school project requires you to wrestle sea life?
That’s just how Washington is
to be clear, the school project was to “draw something from nature.” nobody asked him to wrestle an octopus.
…now, I have misunderstood the spirit of a lot of art projects before but
y’all ever get hit with the realization when you’re in the middle of doing something like, whoa, what the fucking shit this is real life. like this is happening right now. not even when its something crazy i mean when you’re like doing the laundry or some shit
its like you get snapped out of autopilot and suddenly everything becomes physically clearer and louder
Laura/Vex being so shaken by Saundor that the entire rest of the party has to reassure her multiple times that attacking him was the right course of action, despite him having been described to her from the beginning as “the heart of a cancerous tree”
Sam’s Healing Word parody of Cheap Thrills
Flame On, Kiki, Flame On
the casual reminder that Matt can be absolutely terrifying when a frustrated Saundor tells Vex to “just stay down”
Grog gently patting Vex on the head “you did good”
just? all of the casual reminders that they all love and trust each other so much?
that Garmelie/Artagan reveal
“For someone who hates the theater, you sure made quite a show of all of this.” Baby’s First Epic One-Liner, I’m so proud
all of that good, good twinnies content
and, last but not least, perhaps the Most Iconic Moment: “My heart is someone else’s.”
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