Hiya! This is my Holiday Giveaway 2.0, as you can probably guess by the banner, which is much less lazy this year (albeit still sorta lazy.) Since my last giveaway went so well, I figured I may as well do it again this year! ‘Tis the season.
So! Let’s get on with it.
PRIZES
1ST PLACE – 50 holiday loot boxes!
2ND PLACE – 24 holiday loot boxes!
3RD PLACE – 11 holiday loot boxes!
Just like last year.
And for the rules –
RULES
– You don’t have to follow me, but, I’d appreciate it.
– Everyone gets one like, and one reblog each. (There’s no point in reblogging more than once, anyways! It doesn’t change your odds.)
– Yes, it’s for all platforms (PC, PS4, & XBone)
– RNG decides who wins, not me. Don’t be mean to whoever wins if you don’t.
– You have to have your ask or your IMs open so I can contact you should you win.
– You have 24 hours to respond to my message, if you don’t, I’ll pick someone else.
This will be running from December 11th-December 25th.
You know Sebastian Stan. Even if you don’t realize you do, you’ve probably wanted to punch him during his time as Carter Baizen on Gossip Girl, been charmed by him (and later scared by him) as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier in Captain America, and reveled in his adorable ditziness in Logan Lucky. His recent turn as Jeff Gillooly in Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya, however, has probably got you wondering how you slept on his potential as a serious actor for so long – but he’s been showing us what he’s made of for years. You just haven’t been paying attention.
Stan first began grabbing our attention around the time of the aforementioned Gossip Girl; while he didn’t star consistently, whenever his smooth-talking, smirk-wearing Carter Baizen appeared, he lit up the screen. You loved to hate him in all his sleazy glory, and it came as no surprise when he was cast in a slew of high-profile projects afterwards, including Rachel Getting Married and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.His breakthrough (and the role that perhaps made him a mainstream name), however, came when he starred as Bucky Barnes in Captain America, the loyal best friend of Steve Rogers. As the doomed Bucky, Stan brought humanity and charm, and seamlessly transitioned to playing the villainous brainwashed assassin Bucky turns into in the sequels that followed. He’s not just dramatically talented, either; the guy’s got comedic chops, and his hilariously filthy turn in The Bronze is a testament to just how wild he’s willing to get. These performances – from a soapy teen drama to indie flicks and a massively successful superhero franchise – demonstrated early on that Stan was capable of carrying just about anything. And then came Jeff Gillooly.
In Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, Stan makes the perfect villain – but not in the way one might expect. Stan’s Gillooly is a mustachioed loser, a total bumpkin who initially seems to be well-intentioned, but he’s got a mean streak, the kind of temper Tonya has become accustomed to (and perhaps seeks out) thanks to her abusive mother. Stan totally plays against type here, but we believe every moment of it (even when we don’t want to). He’s perfectly capable of popping her across the face and becoming utterly despicable, but Stan manages to bring a surprising amount of empathy to the role – something most actors likely would have failed to do. There’s a complexity to Stan’s Gillooly, a depth that makes you wonder what his truth really is and how he ended up in this situation. You may certainly not be cheering for him in the end, but the balance he strikes between hothead and cool, collected (unreliable) narrator later is a feat to witness.
Stan likely won’t get all the attention he deserves for I, Tonya due to Margot Robbie’s star-making turn (and Alison Janney’s top-notch supporting role), but it will undoubtedly lead to more industry respect down the line – respect that is long overdue. He’s more than just a dreamboat here to fulfill your wildest theatrical fantasies. The next time you start to write Stan off, don’t. He’s well on his way to being the recognized as the A-list actor he’s been all along.
a harry potter au where potions is taught by gordon ramsay
neville: *messes up his potion*
gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you
neville: an idiot sandwich
no no no!
Imagine that this is Gordon Ramsay a la Masterchef Junior
Neville: *messes up the potion, realizes it, starts crying quietly*
GR: What’s going on?
Neville: *explains how he messed up*
GR: Oh gosh okay…we can fix this, don’t cry, see, it’s fine now? Just be more careful when you’re adding the Newt’s eyes, all right? Drop them in gently. There we go. No more tears.
Neville: *giggles wetly, wiping eyes*
Yes, he only screams when he’s dealing with people that claim to know what they’re doing and clearly dont, when he’s teaching he’s very kind and patient because they’re still learning.
He’d probably do the bread thing to Malfoy.
nononononono. I get that Malfoy is a bit of a twat, but he’s still a kid. It’d be the teachers fucking up that he’d have trouble with.
Ramsay: All you had to do was treat it with a fucking Beozar!
Slughorn: It was a stressfu-
Ramsay: How long have you been teaching potions?!
or
Ramsay: So you’re going to raise this boy SPECIFICALLY so he can die as part of your twisted little scheme?
Dumbledore: It’s for the greater good, professor.
Ramsay: The greater fucking good?! *holds two slices of bread either side of dumbledoor’s face* What are you?
My favorite Gordon Ramsey moment is from the latest season of Master Chef Jr.
Gordon had run in to help a group of struggling kids with a team challenge and one of the older kids, a 12 year old boy, wasn’t passing attention while taking a pan out of the oven and not only spilled all the food but scalded Gordon.
It’s clear Gordon’s leg is in pain. He’s been badly burned without warning. But he doesn’t scream. He doesn’t yell, not even in pain, and he doesn’t go off on the child who is now frozen in fear. He calmly tells the child to set the pan down and to close the oven, safety first. Then tells him to go restart the food he was making, calm instructions.
My husband and I grew up in abusive homes where any mistake meant parents getting angry (my husband is terrified of spills or broken glasses because that meant beatings growing up, for me, anything going wrong, that could upset my mother, even if it wasn’t my fault meant screaming and emotional abuse).
I didn’t know someone could be so calm. That someone could not get angry, and put aside what they’re feeling (in this case a lot of physical pain) and not take it out on those around them, even when someone around them had messed up, because that person is a child.
Gordon Ramsey is a survivor of child abuse himself and as an adult, the most non-abusive person ever when it comes to kids.
im going to cry can gordon ramsey be my parent this sound so beautiful
Please take a moment to picture Gordon Ramsay taking over Potions when Snape becomes the DADA professor (instead of Slughorn) and not only being horrified when he realizes how terrified the students are that he’ll verbally abuse them when they mess up in Potions class but when he overhears how Snape treats students. Like can you IMAGINE the level of RAGE and CONTEMPT that Ramsay would harbor towards Snape? The asshat wouldn’t have made it to the end of HBP. Ramsay would’ve hexed his ass to kingdom come.
Rebloging ALL of this because Chef Ramsay is THE MAN!
-HC
Chef Ramsay would have become the kids’ favourite teacher and you can’t take that away from me.
Imagine him dealing with Umbridge
Every time I reblog this post, I swear to God, it only gets better.
okay, okay, i wasn’t going to reblog the ENTIRE THING, but it devolved into a Gordon Ramsay/HP crossover drabble, and some of you might appreciate that ~Taiga
there’s actually a whole, complete(ish) fic for this!
Last Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced a proposal for new rules that would allow for a “ fast lane” of Internet traffic for content providers who are willing (and able) to pay a fee. [1] The proposal reverses the FCC’s previous commitment to net neutrality and open internet and allows ISP’s like Comcast or Verizon to slow down and censor services that don’t pay the toll.
We have to be totally honest, this situation is seriously grim. But there is still hope. The FCC already knows that the Internet community wants net neutrality, but they think they can put their spin on these new rules and sneak them through. If we can prove them wrong right now with a massive public outcry, we can literally save the Internet once again.
We need to stop the FCC now. Big business groups are already ramping up lobbying efforts with the FCC in swarms since Wednesday’s announcement in support of censoring the open Internet and to ensure this dangerous proposal moves forward. [2]
This is a critical moment. In the last few weeks more than 65,000 people have taken action with us. Can you help us get to 80,000 by the end of the day today?
we’re almost ¾ of the way there!! c’mon guys, every bit counts!
will it ever stop
fucking signal boost
IF YOU ARE NOT SIGNAL BOOSTING THIS YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
IF THE U.S. FALLS TO THIS IT WILL OPEN OTHER DANGEROUS DOORS INTERNATIONALLY.
Start a civil war against the US government.
Signal boost for my us followers
I try to keep the things I reblog as blog/mun-centric as possible, but this is something I just can’t let slide.
I’ve been following this cause since last year. I’ve signed petitions, I’ve called representatives, I’ve been to protests, the whole nine yards.
This right here? This is not a joke. This is seriously happening, guys.
Remember the Wikipedia shutdown? That was to protest this right here. If you haven’t taken action against this yet, frankly, what is wrong with you? If this doesn’t get stopped, we’re going to lose the thing that brings us all together unless we shell out huge sums of cash to these corrupt bastards.
Do not just sit there and keep browsing.
Do not scroll past this.
Fight.
yo this shit important okay? im pretty worried myself
30 min later, not much progress.
an hour and a half. my grandma called and I didnt take it so i could eat this… i hate everything
i’d rather be eating anything but this
two and a half hours…. my mouth will never taste normal again
Borne Ceaseless 