#James Coward

[pairs-studio]

[grrl-beetle]

James Coward

[kishpancho]

JAMES COWARD Filter Shirt via Neighbour

[punkysdilemma-blog]

HAUTE SKATE RAT:

There is a look bubbling up all over fashion at the moment that I like to call Haute Skate Rat. I was a skater through my teens and early 20s in the 00′s and I keep seeing these classic signifiers of that period reimagined as refined premium staples. 

The look is sort of Dickies as done by The Row, or Lemaire doing streetwear. The classic work pant becomes Yohji-fied by James Coward in English twill, staple sweats we would have got from Champion or Russell (still made in the USA back then, and bulletproof) have been paired back, washed soft and reimagined by Lady White Co., Danish minimalists like Jan Machenhauer and Berner Kühl are doing late 90s slacker gear in premium double face nylon and Japanese poplin. The L.A. based jeweller Sophie Buhai has done a tough but refined take on the sort of chains that were standard at the time (though similar ones can be copped on the cheap from places like the vintage showroom) 

When it comes to shoes though, despite many attempts, no one is doing it better than vans LX so stick with the original in that case. Do not attempt this look with anything other than thick white sports socks. 

I haven’t included possibly the originator of this look, skater turned pattern maker and designer Evan Kinori but just about everything he makes fits the bill.

1. Berner Kühl Beste Dev. Two Double Sport 009 jacket black $1,625 2. Lady White Co. Textured Full-zip Solid Grey $220 3. Jan Machenhauer Fred shirt $225 4. James Coward straightforward stitch pant $330 5. Sophie Buhai Harvey sterling silver bracelet $1,275 6. Vans Vault Slip On Authentic LX $75

[kizzyedgelll]

westerns + scenery ↳ the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford (2007) dir. andrew dominik

@pscentral event 27: scenery

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

Harry is an orphan, so nothing has to be more important to him than his own sense of what is right. And having always had to rely on himself to get through life, he is self possessed and self directed enough to have a very strong sense of right and wrong. And he holds himself to that scrupulously. He always does what he sees as the right thing; he will not be talked out of it. There isn’t anybody he wants to make happy more than he wants to do the right thing.

For Draco, his obligations to others, his family specifically, is the sum total of his idea of the right thing to do. From his perspective, his social and even moral obligations are limited to safeguarding the wellbeing (and when possible the prestige) of his family.

People think of Draco as a bad boy, but he’s actually very conventional. He’s a dick, but his views are not at all controversial in his social circle. When Draco realizes that toeing the party line has brought him to a place where he has to face MUCH more violence than he is capable of tolerating, he has to start thinking for himself and. Well he gets his shit absolutely rocked.

He’s working his ass off trying to protect and uplift his family, but they didn’t show him the same courtesy, not in the ways that matter. Like he got seven top of the line broomsticks when he was twelve, but also. His parents brought home a mass murderer to live in their house and taught him that this was a consummation devoutly to be wished.

And once he meets Voldemort and gets put to work for him, it’s clear that Voldemort is volatile and capricious and his goodwill cannot be counted on as reliably as his explosive anger and vengefulness. And if Draco can see it now, he must think that his parents had to have seen it before.

He has to confront the fact that his parents will cheerfully witness and participate in a level of violence and destruction that he cannot countenance. He can’t be directed by them anymore. He can’t be like them anymore. So what’s his guiding star? Who can he be? What is he supposed to do with his life if not what they’ve asked of him?

There is such an interesting contrast between the two of them! Their characters are at odds in such a fun and fascinating way! After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry has discharged his most significant and pressing obligation, and it’s time for him to heal and regroup and figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And Draco is in the same place but arguably with an even more significant blow to his sense of self. Neither of them can go back to the way things were, but for Harry that’s a huge relief, and for Draco, it’s terrifying.

Harry is an extremely empathetic and generous person, and I think he would see himself in Draco’s rudderlessness and feel impelled to commiserate. And I think Draco would no longer have much reason to pretend that he hasn’t always found Harry incredibly magnetic, before he even knew who he was.

[dailyflicks]

ZOOEY DESCHANEL as DOROTHY EVANS The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik

[acewitch-writes]

I love Canon Remus and all of his flaws. Enough of this "Casanova of Gryffindor Tower" BS, Remus is the cowardly lion of Gryffindor tower. He values bravery because it is something that he lacks and yet still strives to be. He has an ingrained sense of shame and self-loathing and an inferiority complex that stems from society's contempt and marginalization towards Lycanthropy, a condition he was cursed with from a very young age. He wasn't a leader, he was a follower. A blind follower who believed to his core that he was unworthy of love and respect because of what he was.

Which opens the door to what I believe to be Remus' greatest flaw: His unwavering, unquestioning devotion to Albus Dumbledore.

I think Remus saw Dumbledore as the perfect encapsulation of Good. He was everything that Remus desperately wanted to be, everything that society was determined to believe a werewolf could never be. And maybe, if Remus could earn (and cling to) Dumbledore's favor and make him proud, he would prove to the world and himself that he is Good, too, in spite of his lifelong curse.

Remus felt that he owed Dumbledore a debt he could never hope to repay for allowing this chronically ill little boy into his school when no werewolf before him had ever been given such an opportunity. So many of Remus' choices in canon stem directly from this imagined debt that he had dedicated his life to paying. Hell, he didn't even hold a grudge against Snape for OUTING HIM to the entire wizarding world simply because Dumbledore trusted him.

Remus trusted Dumbledore wholeheartedly. And Dumbledore personally saw to Harry's placement with the Dursleys. Why should Remus have considered, for even a moment, that Harry wasn't safe? Certainly far safer than he would have been with a monster in close proximity, as Remus believed himself to be. In his mind, staying away from Harry was what was best for Harry. Until Dumbledore needed a favor, that is.

It's reductive to suggest that Remus failed Harry (and by extension, James) for putting his trust in Dumbledore to do right by Harry. James and Sirius trusted Dumbledore, too. They all did. Stripping away all of the nuance and blaming the abuse Harry suffered on Remus is simply unfair. NO ONE helped Harry, not even those who were fully equipped to do so, and Remus was the farthest thing from being equipped to take that on, what with being an impoverished werewolf living in a society that reviles his very existence. The only person who could have saved Harry from the abuse was the very man that placed him in that home, the very man that Remus revered with blind conviction.

[lexithwrites]

New throuple alert—Barty is the freaky scary one, Regulus is the grumpy quiet one, and James is the happy outgoing one (and they’re animals in bed together)

[lilithofpenandbook]

It makes me SO MAD when people say "there are kind Slytherins 🥺🥺🥺" and show a picture of fucking SLUGHORN

Slughorn? You mean "oh I didn't think a muggleborn would be this talented" Slughorn?

Slughorn as in the Slughorn who told Tom Riddle, a child KNOWN for being a lil twisted, about HORCRUXES just to look good?

Slughorn who didn't even notice a fucking cult being formed in his own house???

People like to blame Dumbledore for the cult, but tell me why it's his fault and not the HEAD. OF. HOUSE? Dumbledore isn't an all powerful all seeing wizard! He's a human who happens to be intelligent and skilled at magic but NOT All Seeing! How is he gonna know Tom Riddle's forming a cult when one) he wasn't even HEADMASTER and two) SLUGHORN was Tom's head of house and should have been aware of it happening UNDER. HIS. NOSE?

Like, even in Snape's time, where the fuck was Horace Slughorn? Where was he when the Mauraders were abusing his own student? Where was he when Lucius and the others were grooming the younger children? Where was he when all of this was happening?

Yes, McGonagall should have disciplined her students. But Slughorn's under a greater responsibility to protect his. Yes, headmaster Dumbledore should have probably intervened in the cult forming. But Slughorn's under a greater responsibility to intervene and inform the headmaster.

For fuck's sake, he wasn't even a good teacher! How did a 16 year old child manage to correct all the incorrect potions in the book and not the FUCKING. TEACHER?!

Horace Slughorn is NOT a "kind Slytherin".

He's the worst one.

[pairs-studio]

[grrl-beetle]

James Coward

[etoilesombre]

The age difference between Silver and Flint came up earlier, and now I'm thinking about it.

I think we are supposed to see Silver as somewhere in his mid 20s. Flint is at least 10, and probably more like 15 or 20, years older, and has been one of the most famous and feared pirates for the past 10 years. And I'm just thinking about how we make fun of Silver for thinking such crazy things about Flint, but, assuming Silver had been in or familiar with the American colonies or the West Indies, he would have been hearing stories about Flint since his adolescence. He very possibly *thinks* of Flint as a competent adult to his child, even if that is no longer the case. Is it really such a stretch to think that he controls the weather? Literal legend.

[ermdotorg]

keeping things interesting... i hate them (i love them)

[niceonejames7]

i will never get the regulus hate and him getting reduced to a death eater when he was only 17 when he died. he was still a CHILD!!!

sirius ran away from his home when he 15, two years younger than regulus when he has died. before that, sirius bore the brunt of the hit. he ran away because he had no other choice. he would've died in that house, they would have let him rot. sirius didn't abandon regulus, he was a teenager who needed to escape a home which hated him viciously.

but some of you seem to forget that regulus was also a kid. I'm not saying I'd do what he did, but as a younger sibling, i understand his actions. in his perspective, in his 'little brother' perspective, the only person he loved left him. the only person who protected him left. and maybe that thought was a bit selfish, selfish in the same way sirius leaving was. but he was now alone, and the single target for his mother's vehement hatred. because for his mother, maybe regulus wasn't as hated as sirius, but he was a reminder of her failure of a son. the unresolved, twisted grief and anger and hatred that she felt for sirius translated towards regulus. he was alone in that house, seeing the consequences of leaving.

he knew what would happen, then why would he leave? a year later he's in his fifth year and he knows he can't leave or he'll have no one. not sirius, not his family. so he believes what his parents tell him, and he praises the dark lord and he takes the dark mark as his parents want him to. as he sees his friends and family do. regulus joins the death eaters and sees a determination that he can't find in himself. almost no one seems like they were forced here like he was. they want to be there. they believe in their cruelty. he realises he doesn't.

regulus black died on his first mission where he defied the dark lord because he was sure he would have nothing to come back to.

because that was difference between them. sirius had james, he would always have james. regulus had no one.

[kizzyedgelll]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik

I can't hardly recognize myself sometimes when I'm greased. I go on journeys out of my body and look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who's gone so wrong. I've been becoming a problem to myself.