#astronomy

Astronomy. I really wanted to work at Nasa one day. I was looking into university courses back when I was deciding what to study, and there were a couple that I wanted to apply to, as they also had a years work experience in Houston texas, so you could work alongside Nasa in your final year.

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However to do the course, you needed top A levels in physics and maths I think, which I didn't have. So would have had to try and get those A levels as an adult which would have been awkward. And I was also aware, due to adhd, I'm really terrible at focusing on some things for long periods. Like for me I struggle staying focused on academic stuff. But am better staying focused with creative stuff.

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So I realised even though it was a massive passion of mine, I knew it would end up stressing me out more because I wouldn't have the capacity to focus fully enough to do it unfortunately. And so I went the creative route instead, to work with another passion, but that one I'm able to get more engrossed with. And thus less stressed with.

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So I just appreciate space from a distance now. If I didn't have adhd etc issues and was less hindered, you bet your ass I would be doing something in the astronomy field right now.

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Anónimo 👽 Ettoo... Esos griteríos es algo muy soez, basto, ordinario y sexista. Son competiciones como las murgas. En Colegios Mayores Universitarios se hace eso desde épocas lejanas ¿Por qué publican vídeo sólo del colegio de los chicos? Hay vídeo de las chicas haciendo lo mismo. Eso es engaño de podemitas, misandria feminista 😎
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Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (2013)
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Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (2017)
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Pink Floyd - Brain Damage (2011)
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (1994,2014)
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Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (2009)
https://ask.fm/salquial/answers/132267912761
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Pink Floyd - Great Gig In The Sky (1973,2016)
https://ask.fm/salquial/answers/165488019257
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Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar (2014)
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Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (2014)
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Pink Floyd - Meddle (2014)
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Pink Floyd - Money (2014)
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Pink Floyd - On The Run + Sorrow (1994,2014)
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Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (1988,2017)
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Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1990,2013)
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Pink Floyd - Summer 68 (2016)
https://ask.fm/salquial/answers/150341021241
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Pink Floyd - Take It Back (2014)
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Pink Floyd - Time (2012)
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Pink Floyd - Us And Them (1973,2015)
https://ask.fm/salquial/answers/134469254969
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975,2013)
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Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah (2007)
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Plain White T's - Rhythm Of Love (2010)
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Plain White T's - The Giving Tree (2013)
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Poema Arcanus - Omniscient Opponent (2014)
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Poison - Nothing But A Good Time (2010)
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Portishead - Glory Box (2011)
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Prong - Revenge Best Served Cold (2012)
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Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry (2009)
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Puddle Of Mudd - She Hates Me (2009)
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Puscifer - Grand Canyon (2015)
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Pythia - Spirits Of The Trees (2019)
https://ask.fm/salquial/answers/156706953273
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Qantice - Rivers Can't Fly (2019)
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-ˏˋ ꒰♡꒱ long evening walks ꒰♡꒱ smelling flowers ꒰♡꒱ talking to friends and laughing with them ꒰♡꒱ yankee candles ꒰♡꒱ videogames [FFXIV] ꒰♡꒱ friendliness ꒰♡꒱ pasta, a lot of pasta ꒰♡꒱ animals [cats] ꒰♡꒱ music [lo-fi] ꒰♡꒱ plants ꒰♡꒱ japan | japanese culture | japanese language ꒰♡꒱ anime ꒰♡꒱ the sun in your face ꒰♡꒱ rainy, cozy days with books and huge sweaters ꒰♡꒱ autumn ꒰♡꒱ wind chimes ꒰♡꒱ anything cute and girly ꒰♡꒱ anything not cute and not girly ꒰♡꒱ ghibli movies ꒰♡꒱ a good sleep ꒰♡꒱ cicadas ꒰♡꒱ astronomy ꒰♡꒱ geography ꒰♡꒱ sea waves ꒰♡꒱ researching stuff I'm interested in ꒰♡꒱ cheering people up ꒰♡꒱ writing [poems, stories] ꒰♡꒱ drawing [fantasy stuff - even though it looks awful] ꒰♡꒱ mutual feelings ꒰♡꒱ aesthetics [dark, light, romantic academia, cottagecore, fairies, vaporwave] ꒰♡꒱ thoughtful discussions about politics, philosophy etc. ꒰♡꒱ "You recommended me this, so I gave it a try" ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭꒰♡꒱ kaomojis ꒰♡꒱ probably a whole lot of other stuff I am not able to think of right now ꒰♡꒱ storms ꒰♡꒱ ˊˎ-

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Sadly, there is a point beyond which this living religion stuff has to end. Amateur astronomers (especially in the US) seem to like denying that theirs is primarily a romantic hobby. They like making up rationalizations and acting like they are building up towards the minor contributions that can be made to the professional game (variable star observations, comet-hunting... all mostly a case of the adults indulgently letting the kids pretend they are being helpful). I never bothered with this. To me amateur astronomy has no practical utility. If you want to actually contribute to science, you pretty much have to go pro. Most serious astronomy requires cameras for long-term exposures, computer processing and so forth. Actually, most of the serious stuff isn't even at optical wavelengths. You do radio. A veil of science drops between you and your religion at the more advanced levels of astronomy. As a junior in college, in 1996, I was accepted into a summer school in astrophysics at the Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), a leading astronomy center in India, next door to the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT, the largest in the world for meter-wave observation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Metrewave_Radio_Telescope ). It would have led on to IUCAA's PhD program. It was one of the most important career forks in the road for me. I decided not to go, and took a robotics internship at a defense lab in Bangalore instead. Part of it was that I'd realized by then that if I went professional, the romance would end up in the backseat. When I came to the US in 1997, I finally had access to a rich amateur astronomy scene. I could afford fancy telescopes, join groups of well-equipped and knowledgeable enthusiasts, and so forth. But I never did get into it, partly because I never lived in parts of the US with lots of good seeing nights (either light pollution or winter gets in the way). But mostly it was because something turned me off about the American amateur astronomy scene. In a way, the scene has almost too many resources here. You can basically spend a whole lifetime pursuing the ever-more perfect equipment hoard, keep trying to compete with the professionals with their Hubbles, Arecibos and GMRTs, and so forth. Many American amateurs remind me more of photographers and gadget-philes. Not a bad thing, but it isn't about the romance of the night sky for them. (I did peripherally retain an interest though; my PhD was about scheduling large interferometric space telescopes.) So to answer your question, what is so amazing about the night sky? It is the Vatican City for atheist-romantics. It doesn't need to change. You don't need to see new things. Looking up at Saturn's rings every so often is like going to church. A visit from a comet is a festival to be celebrated.

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️ ️️ ️❀ sarah elaine peakes
️ ️️ ️❀ sixth year &. ravenclaw
️ ️️ ️❀ daughter of jimmy &. delia peakes
️ ️️ ️❀ pureblood
️ ️️ ️❀ quidditch player
️ ️️ ️❀ good at astronomy &. flying
️ ️️ ️❀ bad at potions &. divination
️ ️️ ️❀ aspiring, curious, precise, straight
️ ️️ ️❀ jealous, stubborn, proud, petulant
️ ️️ ️❀ face claim - shay mitchell

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️ ️️ ️️ ️️ ️ever since sarah was born, her parents have been proud of her; growing up, she had been quite an intelligent kid with a passion for quidditch. her father, jimmy, often used to go to quidditch matches and once even to a championship with her.

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️ ️️ ️️ ️️ ️sarah's sagacity earned her a spot in the ravenclaw house ━ it's almost like home for her. although her parents were in gryffindor, they're not less proud of their daughter. it is needless to say that sarah is part of the ravenclaw quidditch team ━ taking part in quidditch matches herself was a dream of her ever since she was a kid.

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️ ️️ ️️ ️️ ️she can be really priggish and gets fairly jealous sometimes ━━ two characteristics that get her into trouble repeatedly. seems like she's just a little too confident of her looks and skills.

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Yes and no... meaning that whether there is / was / will be life somewhere out there or not that important if you'll never be able to get in contact with each other.

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So theoretically there may be life but practically it's like there isn't. That life is unreachable with current technology thus it's completely irrelevant to me.

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The science about universe is generally based on theories, a lot of them,.. there are so many theories and scientists don't agree..

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Between theory and reality there's a wide gap. Theories are just theories unless proven. So called scientists are playing with mathematics but it may be completely unrelated to what's actually happening
( physics).

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Since we see the past (light that travelled thousands of years) we're just speculating.
Some of those stars, planets may no longer exist..

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It's like Schrodinger's cat.. there may be life out there or not, until we actually get there we'll never be certain.

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Generally I don't care about universe, astronomy and what happened somewhere out there.

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Why? To me (someone with no intention of going there) it's not practical. There's no use of that knowledge for me. No way to apply it, just curiosity, boredom.. It's useless knowledge.

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We live here on Earth yet are so eager to escsape from existing problems that we're willing to go to another planet.

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Instead of solving earthly problems we look at the sky, searching for god (that we possibly made out as to find comfort, pity.. since we're weak to accept death,chaos..religion is a shepherd, believer is a sheep), life somewhere out there.. fantasizing in order to escape from this man made hell.

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A mere excuse to neglect what's important... Humans are pathetic, would rather "live" in a fairytale with happy ending (delusions) than in reality they won't accept...

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Sooner or later delusions break. You can't deceive yourself forever. It's funny how people are mad when you wake them from the dream.

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Belief of afterlife (second chance) is enough to describe how weak we are. Life doesn't simply give you a second chance. So mind your decisions.

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I may seem pessimistic, but it's just logic. Hope dies last. Thus I hope that I'm mistaken ;)

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Bide your time and hold out hope.

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️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️ ️ENQUIRIES 001.️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ @AFIERYROSE
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️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️since scorpius wanted to be a part of HER business so much recently, then elladora was going to make it a point to get herself involved in HIS business too. scarlet evans was a lost case; the WHOLE of hogwarts knew about what they had going on. . . or what they DIDN'T have going on────── WHATEVER. either way, no one knew about the OTHER part.

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️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️it was easy, considering ROSE was close to a lot of the ravenclaws. . . or WAS she? either way, it didn't take elladora long to find her at all; she'd snuck her into the astronomy tower, and into the dorms that, for some reason, hadn't been USED in a while. where were queenie and leona DOING? ella flings her wand onto her bed, spinning around the face the GINGER.

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️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️' well. . . i guess he has a TYPE. ' arms cross, and the devious smile that shapes onto her reddened lips is almost GENUINE. ' rosie. . . ' head tilts to the side. ' -we grew up together, always around the POTTERS, spending christmas and easters together. ' had they been that close? probably not, but elladora basically had the POTTER name, she was that close.

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️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️' if you and scorpius have a THING going on, i thought you'd at least come to ME. after all, i have all the gossip about him. ' and honestly, ella would much rather scorpius have a torrid affair with ROSE WEASLEY than the other girl; at least THIS one had some GOOD fire in her. was fire code for BLOOD? . . .maybe. ' -you want in on scorpius malfoy, i can help. '

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️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️️ ️hopefully, ella's intel wasn't WRONG. but then again, even if it was, she had a plan. maybe then, she could at least get rid of EVANS────── scorpius had been different ever since they'd spent the attack together; the attack that ella still couldn't bear the THOUGHT of. ' and don't act like you haven't been giving him the LOVEY eyes either. ' she points a finger at her.

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️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️' ──────SO. . . are you going to make a MOVE? ' ella
️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️️️️ ️️️ ️️️️ ️ ️ ️crosses her arms. ' or am i going to have to HELP you? '
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A lot of important things have been discovered throughout the centuries & I do not feel comfortable enough to attempt to call one of them The Most Important Discovery Ever™.

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If Nikola Tesla as a child, looking at lightning during a thunderstorm, would have believed the parents' explanations that this is a manifestation of God's wrath, we would not use electricity.

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What about the theory of evolution and natural selection, which has become a key description of the mechanism for the development of all life on Earth?

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And the discovery of atoms? And the theory of relativity, which transformed all the theoretical physics and astronomy of the 20th century and overshadowed the 200-year theory of mechanics proposed by Newton?

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And if the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming had not discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, we would still die from such diseases as a stomach ulcer and scarlet fever, and so on.

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Gravity? We learned why objects fall down, & why planets revolve around the sun through this discovery.

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And there are a great many truly brilliant discoveries made by the great scientists. Without all this, the world to which we are accustomed, would have looked very different.

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it is quite interesting how satanism and cults are a backdrop for this as this is advantageous for them to have knowledge like this to maybe manipulate or control people or make them go astray
I didn’t know about the jewish roots or their book on magic but in almost all religions there is a lot of study revolving around heavenly bodies and their impact on us like hinduism has it’s own obsession with it as if it determines our entire life and in Islam a lot of prominent figures were astronomers but muslims after that influenced by hinduism and occultism mixed astrology and astronomy together and started believing in a lot of things they weren’t supposed to be into. I mean sure there is stuff like how we’re all connected to the universe or how moon influences waves of the sea and maybe blood flow I don’t know much about that and how black magic can be accurate about things but still other than how it’s haram it’s also absurd to have a system that classifies all humans in the world into twelve discrete categories. There’s a lot more diversity and everyone’s environmental conditioning even if they are the same initially just makes it all the more complex.

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Sigh.

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Because of our limited knowledge, there are things that we can only theorize about and there are things that we can only believe to be true even without sufficient evidence. This applies to many things, from evolution to dark matter to God to what you think about your neighbor or the President. The difference is, there are things that we can investigate and confirm immediately as soon as we get access to it (like is it true that your neighbor or your president is such and such? As soon as you get access to their past or personal records, you can confirm it), and there are things that we can only investigate and confirm later in the future after we invent better tools for observing and measuring them--if, we will ever have the ability to do so, that is; and maybe there are things that we can never investigate like soul and death and afterlife and God.

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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️@venomouslestrange
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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️❛ SLYTHERIN FLING ❜
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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️ATTITUDE? oh sometimes he just like to get on her nerves. if slytherins could act so sarcastic— why could she not? oh right, she was a GRYFFINDOR. ❛ girls’ DORMS? oh gosh— are we going to start naming them now? ❜ she shook her head, trying not to laugh. nate could CERTAINLY end up in the dorms. . . but WHO? madi would never admit that he could have a one night stand— she was somehow too JEALOUS of him. was it true? did she like potter and yaxley— without a doubt. but the was somehow BETTER.
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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️the way the boy called her LOVE. . . it sent chills down her body. nate was perfect in EVERY WHICH WAY— which she thought was IMPOSSIBLE. of course the context was not the BEST. potter and yaxley were not BAD? . . . then what were they? madi looked at the boy, brows knitted. she was unsure where he was going with this. ❛ fall in LOVE? that’s it? ❜ well, get a load of it lestrange, she saved her heart for him— PRAYING he would not throw it away.

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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️madi remembered when she had first saved eyes for him— fifth year ASTRONOMY. it was in professor fortier’s class— they were having a night out; telescopes pointed towards the stars. they had been learning about jupiter’s moons. while everyone was looking up, she was looking at nathaniel lestrange. his slytherin buds hissed and laughed at his side, leaving the girl in awe. . . her eyes scanning EVERYTHING. he was. . . WONDERFUL. she could never tell him how much she loved him though, she was too SCARED.

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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️that was NOT the answer she was expecting. ❛ oh? is that ALL you can say? ❜ heat flushed her cheeks— maybe she should have just kept QUIET. she knew that slytherin girl. . . ELAINE KINGSLEY was good at that. ❛ DENY it? ❜ maybe madi was not the girl she saw in the mirror. doubt seemed to boil under her skin, and she clenched her hand that was not on his. but his skin felt cold now— whether it was her or not, she could not tell. only if she could have taken it BACK. ❛ i. . . ❜ she looked down, SHAME washing over her features.

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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️❛ is THAT what this is about? ❜ she scoffed. ❛ i should have known that you were going to say that. ❜ he leaned in— if she had moved she could kiss him. eyes flickered to his lips. . . TEMPTING. she shook the thought away, but his last remark is what threw her over the edge. ❛ you know what— maybe i am WRONG. ❜ she sighed, running her fingers through her hair. this was UNFAIR. she did not want to move her hand, but it was the best scenario. the muscle in her jaw tightened— holding steady. ❛ then what’s YOUR decision? ❜

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️ ️ ️ ️ ️ ️❛ is it to make i don’t like EVERY single slytherin boy? ❜ she rolled her eyes in annoyance.

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