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@evelili hheyyyyy
guess who finally decided to man up n post. its me. i did. here is fanart that idk if youve seen yet. but i am proud of this one so here you gooooo!!
#mlp art#my little pony#tte#mlp#eqg#equestria girls#sunset shimmer#twilight sparkle#scitwi#sciset#my art#haha she fell aslep#i love drawing them sm#if you look closely you can see some of the infamous and ugly ahh twilight sparkle plushies (that i love! <3) theyre so uglay#and an amogus#and some other stuff too#actually now im starting to wonder if i like this at all#excuse me while i rip my hair out#it took a lot to get me to post this smh 🤦
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Your call
#milgram#milgram spoilers#kind of?#mahiru shiina#haruka sakurai#shidou kirisaki#wow this took a while#fun fact: The Caduceus (two snakes instead of one)#the staff that appears with shidou in his cake birthday art#is more related to commerce; a silver tongue and gentle death than it is to medicine#though it often gets confused with the actual symbol of medicine; the Rod of Asclepius#there's even an exerpt on the wiki page of the Caduceus that talks about how it would be more fitting to see it on the side of a hearse tha#on the car of a physician#now this could easily be a mistake but it fits with Shidous everything so well that I choose to believe it's on purpose haha#but enough of that#chesh art#001#005#006
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God now I’m seriously thinking of an Undertale route with Spamton and Tenna, specifically how they would affect the ending phone call… I feel like if you kill Tenna, especially if you kill nobody else, Spamton goes completely insane forever. Maybe throws himself into the core again, like how Alphys dies if you kill Mettaton.
If you kill Spamton but fix Tenna, though, since Tenna doesn’t know he’s alive… maybe he joins Mettaton’s network but he’s hollow inside? Has no real purpose and no real friends, just shuts himself down every night alone. You know, a neutral ending!
Neutral Route if you kill only Tenna
Spamton spirals even further, tricking himself into believing that he can still fix Tenna, but he soon realizes that there’s nothing he can do. So I believe he would jump into the Core again or do SOMETHING. Either way, his shop is closed down after the player’s choice to kill Tenna.
Neutral Route if you kill only Spamton
I like that idea a lot. He’s always wants to help people and lift their spirits, so being a TV star after being repaired sounds perfect to him. Before his Spinel moment, he thought Spamton had died when he jumped into the core. And so, if the player kills Spamton and later repairs Tenna, Tenna will be conscious again still believing Spamton to have never been alive since the Core incident. However, he quickly finds the evidence of him all through the underground. His abandoned shop, his strange graffiti, and reports and rumours from other monsters that one of the old Royal Scientists used to leave all this stuff, but disappeared suddenly. Tenna realizes if he had just stayed awake and not shut himself off to fruitlessly wait for Chara and Asriel, he could have found Spamton and helped him. He wallows in regret and sits alone in his room every night, watching the same VHS tape over and over, which was filled with little moments of the Dreemurr family before everything went bad, including moments of Tenna and Spamton. …and I realized I could make them even more tragic if I made them fiancés, who then had a falling out before they even got married (the falling out being after Gaster fell into the core and Spamton started losing it and blaming Tenna to deflect his own guilt). Tenna doesn’t even care about the fight anymore and he’s not mad at Spamton. He just wishes he hadn’t been powered off for all those years while Spamton clearly still cared about him and had been trying to fix him up.
#doctorsiren#undertale#deltarune#spamtenna#tenna#tenna undertale#spamton#mettaton#Royal Caretaker AU#undertale au#deltarune au#mettatenna#<- sort of lmao haha I don’t ship them in DR but they could be cute here in UT if Tenna would get therapy 😭#digital art#my art#procreate#doodle requests#I HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH THIS#OUGHHH#except I remade Spamton’s shop using the rectangle select -> colour fill tool#and added more graffiti stuff and that took a while haha#I also spent way longer on Tenna and Mettaton than I meant to lmao#I’m back at it again with ‘Character sits alone and sadly looks at photograph of loved ones’#a common trope within my work LMAO#Tenna and Mettaton are very Jessie and James to me#so I actually referenced a pose of Team Rocket#also after he was fixed up. his plug cord tail was replaced with a microphone tail (Mettaton’s idea)#ANYWAY YEAH I REALLY LIKED DOING THIS ONE#I think Everywhere at the End of Time and similar music like that would fit the Tenna comic#Married Life also ☹️☹️☹️
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pokemagma art raffle request for @homestar1812!
"Ingo meets Larry. The ultimate 'I LOVE MY JOB!' vs 'It's a living'"
#they're vibing 👍#thank you for such a good request! this was so fun to draw <3 apologies that it took me a while to fulfil#muppet man meets normal guy#ive not drawn submas in forever tbh its nice to be back#and never drawn larry before! :O#submas#sbms#subway boss ingo#subway master ingo#larry pokemon#pokemon larry#gym leader larry#pokemon#pkmn#pokemas#(i guess??? i imagined this would happen on Pasio haha)#// tikart#ingo#larry#// tikposting
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A bit ago I was looking through the g1 timeline wiki and I saw that Skyfire and Starscream now had a 5 million year old age gap and I was like oh? That makes their dynamic so much more interesting especially how innocent he was portrayed in fire in the sky, I also wanted to share my hc on why Skyfire never brought up Starscream again
#fun fact in the marvel comics it was skyfire that was created on earth and the dinobots that were deactivated for millions of years#the marvel comics released alongside the cartoon so thats pretty funny#ik they dont have ages but the concepts are interesting 👀#i dunno i like toxic skystar cause if starscream treats his trine like that I can only imagine how he treated skyfire#like he did look for him but from how fast starscream threw him away did he really like him or did he only like the idea of what skyfire is#I think starscream did think he cared for him in his own way but not in a way skyfire would want to be cared for#after all he did tell skyfire that he would be the second in command when he took over#I think#ehh dont quote me on that its been a while since i watched that episode#I do think Starscream would be like this without Megatron#he deserves the credit for all of the hard work he puts into being a ruthless war criminal smh#am I really going to continue the trend of creating long comics for all of my art that get over 1k notes?#prolly not but I was drawing this comic before I posted that haha#transformers#transformers fanart#transformers g1#skyfire#ratchet#starscream#jetfire#jetstar#skystar#mentioned at least#maccadams#edit I colored in the remaining panels they bothered me too much 😭#and i also changed my caption sorry for editing so much rip
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♫ I do what I want/Crying in the bleachers and I said it was fun/I don't need anything from anyone ♫
(ID in Alt) you guys ever think about your own posts and get upset?? Anyway Damian Wayne I love you I'm so sorry your life is like that
#dc comics#dc#damian wayne#dc robin#batman and robin#alfred pennyworth#dick grayson#bruce wayne#lyrics are ofc from American Teenager by ethel cain#the lyrics are a bit too specific to specifically be a damian song and the verses talk about like. christian church and substance abuse#but thag chorus???? ohhhh baby#its also stephcore btw. to me at least#ANYWAY this took. forever and i did while feeling sick/off in the run up to my period so frankly it's a miracle it got finished at all#but yknow for now im fairly happy w this one. played around w the colours and challenged myself to really put my all into the linework#there's some details here n there that r wrong (failsafes design is. all kinds of wonky) but like. who give a shit#anyway my brain and hands are on vacation for the next few days <3#btw the blood on damians hands is a reference to the upcoming B&R cover (for 11 or 12 i think?) where damians-#-beating the living daylights out of bane. B&R has mostly been chill n slow so far but these issues...ohhh i am SEATED#uhh anyway yeah <3#OH WAIT#mine#< haha. art tag i always forget
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was having trans marty thoughts again and i came to a realization about this scene

#back to the future#bttf#bttf fanart#marty mcfly#lorraine baines#lorraine mcfly#kit does an art#drew this one a while back and was hoping to save it until i compiled enough doodles in the same genre#but i like it better as a standalone picture bc it's funny so. here you go#poor marty he had so much going on in this scene alone#and if you think about him being trans it just adds another layer to that#1. just woke up from getting hit by a car#2. realized he wasn't dreaming and he definitely is in the past#3. that's his mom. in the past#4. his mom is HOT in the past. wasn't she born a nun or something this is wrong and terrible and he hates everything about this realization#5. where are his pants. why does he have no pants where are his pants. they're halfway across the room??? why are they over there#6. HIS MOM IS HITTING ON HIM???? his mom who is objectively hot in the past is hitting on him and he's in her bed with no pants on and ohhh#oh god. she took off his pants. to look at his underwear. and guys usually have something noticeably under the wear don't they. oh shit#7. SHE TOTALLY NOTICED. SHE'S GONNA ASK AND HE'S GONNA HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT AND IT'S GOING TO BE SO AWKWARD AND BAD#8. there's no way someone in the 50s is gonna get it she's either going to think he's a girl (problem 6 is taken care of but replaced with#perhaps an equally uncomfortable experience) or like. they're going to stone him or something he doesn't know how they react to this stuff#in the 50s#luckily for marty the last 2 problems never happen but that still would've been a very stressful minute just thinking about it#she was so perplexed by the purple underwear ig she just didn't notice haha.#kit yap session#for the tags. as usual
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11.05.2025 🐍 today's anthy!
i drew this around lunar new year ... when i wasnt feeling quite well haha ... i think i stopped working on it because there was a lot of negative space where the ''2025'' is and still is to the right of it ,it looked really empty but didnt know what to do with it. i wish i could remember what brushes i used for texturing, maybe i couldv done that to the background to make it more interesting. but i found this again yesterday when i was organising my files and added the lettering (numericaling ?❔❔❔) and the snake eye drop. which i remember i kept trying to do over and over before i stopped working on it months sago but it just wouldnt turn out right. it came to me pretty easily before i fell asleep last night though. i guess it just needed some time
#hello anthy!#少女革命ウテナ#5.25#2025#📺#its unfinished but i dont think it needs to be worked on anymore#i dont feel the same when i drew it and oddly enough i like it as it is#thats been happening more recently too#i can say i like my art now. outloud even. it feels like i skipped a few steps but its a very novel feeling#on a completely unrelated note i saw sinners in theaters a few days ago and it was so amazing#and idk if this had anything to do with it but i slept the entire day afterwards i think it took a lot out of me lmao#the divinity of art ... i feel like i had a spiritual experience in theaters#im so happy i got to see it with surround sound in theaters#if anyone is on the fence about watching it i really think you should go see it#immediately after while we were walking out of the theaters i said i want to watch it again !!!#if i had any money i wouldv told my friend to leave me there so i could watch the last showing lmao#iv been listening to one song in particular on loop and to fall asleep to if uv seen it u can easily guess which one haha#unrelated to that song the villain is also one of my favourites now#i even said to my girlfriend hes up there with akio for me - actually hes above akio to me in my best villain gallery ghfdjkhg#waiting for all my friends to watch it so i can talk to them about it bc i tried looking for discussion abt it online#and what iv been seeing is giving me hives. goodness.
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slowly falls, slowly dies, slowly it crumbles right under my eyes
@jumalanpelko
#this is my 5th jumalanpelko fanart i think if i count the pmv as one artwork... :'3#really recommend this comic!!!!!!!#art#starlingfawn's art#artists on tumblr#2025#music art#music#jumalanpelko#jumalanpelkofanart#suncat#<- <3#cw blood#cw eyestrain#jumalanpelko fanart#i love black midi. i did not know what song to put until last minute#i was going to go with an of montreal song because i've listened to a lot of om [mostly hissing fauna] this week but changed my mind.#because i couldn't find a lyric that fully clicked with this piece. i am listening to gallery piece as of speaking suuch a good song#need to get into om so bad i've been listening to hissing fauna for like a year but i need to get into the other albums#what i've listened to so far has been great though!!#do i even tag this as black midi. i don't even know if i should tag my music art under the names of these bands#like i really. really!! love bm. but i don't think my furry art will resonate average black midi fan on tumblr#anyways!! the birds on the bg are house martins. origibally there was no symbolism behind them#but due to their whole migration stuff [they arrived a few weeks /month ago here where i live!!]#maybe they can symbolize change.... the passing of time maybee#i'm a big ornithology nerd idk if i've mentioned that but birds have been a lifelong interest.!#this took a while haha. i made it within the span of a week and rendered it so many times before settling on these colors#i gave up but returned to it today because i'm currently sick and don't have much to do#except requests and artfight.. which i still have to work on#i love high contrast backgrounds ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ i love drawing scene bgs too but i'm in a solid color bg phase
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Slightly Unfinished Lorelai comic
That I've been sitting on for several months forgetting to work on it so I'm just releasing it now. I say slightly unfinished cuz I didn't get around to coloring and shading everything
Wet cat UPON THEE




























Something tells me this isn't about cake....
Anyway, so fun to make Lorelai have a breakdown over cake ...representing.. things. She's sobbing over cake my poor little meow meow ❤️❤️ she's trying
How Lorelai looks if giovanni or rick saw her rn:
she's doing so well since molly left 100%
#i don't know how to draw cake but that's okay Lorelai also has no fucking clue how to make it look good either ❤️#my art#MDN art tag#ee fanart#it would have been perfect if i had finished this in time for their birthdays but alas#lorelai blyndeff#ee lorelai#molly blyndeff#epithet erased#epithet erased fanart#prison of plastic#prison of plastic spoilers#THIS TOOK FOREVER TO dESCRIBE IM FREE HAHA auuuggghhh#epithet erased prison of plastic#i don't remember my usual tags anymore it's been a while since i've posted ee stuff welp
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hey can u give me interactive fiction recs? i went down a rabbit hole with wayhaven and infamous and i need something to fill a void 🙏
Hi, sure i’ll list some of the blogs on here from ifs i’m playing and enjoying and I hope something will fill the void haha
If you like wayhaven try and check out:
@barbwritesstuff Bloodmoon and Thicker Than - the themes are different but you get vampires and werewolf in modern times creating a bond with others peers plus you have to solve mystery and navigate powerplays so they’re both very fun!
@vapolis Remember You Will Die - it’s a bit darker theme wise(cyberpunk/sci-fi), but the MC is so fun and unhinged and the RO’s as well haha
@vendetta-if Vendetta - again different theme but you have complicated family, you get cool powers and the fighting scenes are chef kiss imo
Instead if you liked infamous:
@pressplay-if Press Play - it’s music themed. It’s an esclusive interview with the members of a retired famous band after years since they disbanded. The author said it’s a tragedy and your MC is probably not gonna have an happy ending with the ROs so you’ve been warned haha
@apt502-if Apartment 502 - Kind of has a New Girl/Friends vibes. It’s a slice of life, you move to New York and get a new job, meet new people but you also lose someone… it has sooo many choices and opportunities for customising your MC, fyi your MC is not gonna have an easy time in the beginning just so you know
@loveandleases Love and Leases - slice of life, you get to move on after a break up and some family drama. Lots of nice ROs with different vibes and personality, also I’m a sucker for these sitcom like ifs cause I love to see how it goes and evolves!
I’m add some fantasy options ‘case I really like these too.
(Some of them have some warnings so i suggest read those before checking out the actual if!)
@virtues-end Virtue’s End - I’m a sucker for the aesthetic of this if, gives me gothic fantasy Middle Ages with a little bit of Bloodborne vibes sprinkled in there and I’ve been loving all the chapters (also Shea has me and my mc in a chokehold hahah)
@night-market-if The Night Market - I really admire and appreciate the world building of this if (also love all the hints at mythology and take on some religions in it) and how it’s not all so black and white for the characters, in the sense that even if I don’t agree with the choices of some characters I still get where they’re coming from and for me that’s characters well written that I enjoy!
@louroth Ouroboros - darker theme, apocalyptic vibes but with some magic and fantasy in there. I like the different MCs you can make and you also have some monster options for the ROs, if you like that!
@ataleofcrowns A tale of Crowns - The setting for this if is one of my faves and all the ROs are captivating yet diverse along with their backstory and I love the building of the MC as well (check out D storyline if you like the angst of A’s in Wayhaven, they’re very different but the angst hits good)
@coeluvr Crown of Ashes and Flame - I really like the setting and, again, you can seek vengence, if you want, and the characters are all interesting and you can get a nice dose of angst if that’s what you like
@llamagirl28 The Bastard of Camelot - again really enjoy the theme of Arthurian legends and the spin the author chose. You get a lot of options for the ROs to pick from and you can also choose the type of relationship you’ll have with your parents AND you get a dragon (read the warning before playing and make sure you’re comfortable with what you’re gonna read)
@intimidatingpuffinstudios The Soulstone War Series - again fantasy with magic, dragons, an interesting plot, you get a donkey and the RO’s are all hot hahaha
@fallenhero-rebirth The Fallen Hero Series - superhero themed but in an apocalyptic world and you play as the villain! It was one of the first if’s I’ve played and I still replay it every once in a while cause I really like it!
I’d have added more but the list was already long so maybe I’ll do a part 2 hahah!
#sorry if this took a while but irl got busy#like i said if you want more titles i have more haha#hope you find something to fill the void in the meantime#thanks for the ask!#interactive fic
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made another uquiz! which asoiaf dragon would choose you as their rider?
#feel free to reblog + tag your results!#i got moondancer :)#there's thirty options HAHA it took a while to make fr#uquiz#asoiaf#asoiaf uquiz#uquizzes#hotd#house of the dragon
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“To whom,” Alfred rasps, pausing to clear his throat and establish his sense of decorum, “May I ask, to whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?”
The creature stops, blinks its owlish eyes at him, and lets out a bark of laughter.
“Forgive me,” it says, still chuckling lightly, raising a hand to rub at the back of his neck. Alfred is suddenly struck by the feeling that this creature is not as timeless, nor as old or as wizened, as it wished to present itself. “I am making a terrible first impression. My name is Phantom, current High King of the Infinite Realms.”
Contractual Obligations by me!!!
I couldn't get the image of Ghost King Danny out of my head, so here he is!! Acrylic on canvas, and I'm so happy with it - he came out a lot better than I thought he would 😅
#danny phantom#dpxdc#ghost king danny#phanart#dpxdc big bang#dcxdp#ahhhhh here he is!!!!!!! it's king phantom ahhh!!!!!!#i didnt add his aurora halo and i feel like a fraud ���� but it wouldnt have fit and also im very scared of adding it#and he has a massive honking stonker of a nose 🤣 sorry my boy by the time i realised i couldnt change it#this is... my first fanart#(and its of my own fic - thats bad isnt it haha)#i hope you all like it!!!! its not something i normally do but i couldnt get it out of my head#hey uh... hey.... what do i do with a 30x40 canvas of danny phantom fanart?#like. what do i do with that? is he just gonna float around my room for a while?#probably#ALSO my mum showed my dad and he said 'you did that? that's amazing' and im pretty sure thats the most amount of praise hes ever given me#which affected me way more than it should#he took a picture of it and mum was like 'he's going to show that to everyone' and i dont know how to explain to them its fanart#of a cartoon that aired 20 years ago 🤣🤣#anyway!!!!!!!! hope you all like it!!! please read the fic and then give some love to my wonderful artists#they went above and beyond for this like wwooooaaaaahhhh#art that I will never forget 🥰#love you all goodnight!!!!!
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how can lily be a good person if she married a bully?
I'm going to break this down because it does legitimately seem to be an issue for so many people. I received quite a few asks about this a few days ago so I'm just going to address it generally here. Apologies for the length of this, I tried to cover everything I could think of. Let's get two things out of the way first:
Firstly, if you truly believe James was an abuser, and you're seriously asking how a woman could ever marry an abusive man, this is indicative of a fundamental lack of understanding about how abuse works. This is victim-blaming rhetoric. Abusers are predatory, manipulative, and often extremely charming, and they have a specific methodology for ensnaring their victims. I highly recommend Lundy Bancroft's book Why Does He Do That for further reading on how abuse works. The reality is that women marry abusive men all the time, and it doesn't make them bad people. If you believe otherwise we simply have nothing to talk about here.
Second, the question of whether or not James ACTUALLY changed his behaviour is irrelevant here, so I'm not going to directly address it either way. The main thing is that Lily BELIEVED that he had changed, whether or not he actually did, and we know this from Harry's conversation with Remus and Sirius. We also know she wasn't aware of the full extent of the bullying, as she didn't know the details about the prank.
For the purposes of this I'm going to adopt the perspective that James never changed, had 0 character development, and was secretly a terrible person the whole time. To be clear this isn't what I believe-- but I think it's helpful to start from a similar place.
Onto the main points:
An overly forgiving nature can be a flaw, but it doesn't make someone a bad person.
Nor does it make them selfish. Even if I concede that James was irredeemably evil as a person, the fact that Lily believed him to be better than he was, even if she was wrong, makes her at worst naive, not selfish. In fact, I'd argue that it's a sign of empathising with someone too much, which is sort of the opposite of selfishness. We know that Lily had an overly-forgiving nature, because she demonstrates that with Severus when she's willing to overlook his associations with the worst people of all time. And as we know from the fact that her friends were openly critical of it, and that she suffered as a result of it, her friendship with Sev was hardly 'convenient' for her. That she forgave him and overlooked his behaviour, and defended him, despite the fact that it was actively inconvenient for her, indicates empathy (and probably too much of it) not selfishness. Being overly forgiving is an established character trait of Lily's, as she tells us she "made excuses for [Sev] for years." Making excuses for someone you love is a flaw, but not one necessarily rooted in selfishness. Again, it was actively inconvenient for Lily to make excuses for Sev. It's also a very human flaw, not one that makes her a bad person-- especially when you consider that Lily's capacity for forgiveness had its limits, as she demonstrated with Snape.
To forgive is an act of compassion... it's not done because people deserve it, it's done because they need it.
anyway with that buffy quote out of the way, lets move on
Lily owes Snape nothing.
I'm sure people will disagree, but, objectively, she just doesn't. They are not friends at this point. He has demonstrated consistently that he doesn't have enough consideration for her to stop rubbing shoulders with people who literally want to murder her, including a boy who attacked her housemate. So why is Lily expected to take into account his feelings and his history with James? Which leads right into:
It's a massive double-standard for Lily to be blamed for marrying James when Snape isn't afforded the same for associating with Death Eaters.
I mean, think what you want, but to me being a mass murderer intent on exterminating an entire subset of the population (talking about Voldemort and other DEs here, not Snape) is like, maybe, a tiny bit worse than being a bully in school. But what do I know. Snape willingly joined up with such people, knowing perfectly well what they wanted to do to Lily, the woman he loved, and everyone like her. If Lily's choice in husband makes her a selfish person, then by your own logic Snape is completely irredeemable and you should probably delete your blog about how misunderstood and babygirl he is.
Sometimes people marry or befriend terrible people.
Similar to the first point, lack of judgement is a flaw but not one that directly indicates selfishness. Again, remember, Lily believed James to have changed. She believed, whether or not she was wrong, that redemption is possible. It's extremely common for women to date and marry terrible men, unfortunately, and to be blinded to their flaws. There are many possible reasons for this. I guess you can argue that the desire to be loved is inherently selfish, but that still wouldn't make Lily notably selfish at all, rather just a normal human. Plenty of people have had the experience of dating someone who is terrible or being friends with someone who is terrible at some point in their lives, and it doesn't automatically make them terrible themselves. People make mistakes and have poor judgment occasionally. Her actions in SWM suggest she would not have tolerated nor validated any cruelty from James towards others, had she been aware of it. Anyway, once again if you're holding Lily responsible for James's actions you need to also hold Snape responsible for the actions of his buddies. If it's selfish for Lily to associate with a bully (who she believed to have reformed) it's straight up devoid of any humanity whatsoever for Snape to KNOWINGLY associate with people like Mulciber, Voldemort, and Bellatrix. I don't actually believe this btw, I'm just following the logic through.
Furthermore, it's completely unfair to blame Lily for, in particular, the past actions of her husband.
As we clearly see in SWM, she did NOT tolerate his behaviour during the years before they started dating. James's behaviour is simply not Lily's responsibility, and neither is Snape's. It's not her job to fix them nor pay for their mistakes, nor should she have to investigate and tally up all their past wrongdoings when making her own choices. If James was actively being a menace and Lily was just watching going 'teehee' I'd understand this more, but again, she was NOT aware. Based on her behaviour in SWM, this would be out of character for Lily.
Someone having a moral stance you personally disagree with doesn't automatically make them a bad person.
If your moral stance is that James's past actions are completely unforgivable, and you could not personally date someone who did what he did, no matter how he evolved as a person, that's perfectly fine. As I've established, Lily was not aware of any continuing wrongdoing, nor would she have validated or supported it had she been aware. Lily's belief was that the person she was currently dating was a good person. She believed in redemption and second chances. If you personally do not believe in redemption or second chances, I'd question why you even like Snape, but ultimately that's your prerogative. However, believing otherwise doesn't make Lily a bad person nor selfish, even if you personally disagree or think she was wrong. People are allowed to be mistaken.
Snape was probably less relevant to their lives than you think.
Like to be quite honest, they were fighting a war and priorities had shifted, as they often do in adulthood. Lily ended her friendship with Sev, and after Hogwarts James and Lily almost certainly had no association with him whatsoever. Is Lily expected to continually self-flagellate over Snape for the rest of her life? Is she expected to take him into account in every decision she makes, forever? Believe it or not James and Lily existed separately to Snape, rather than as extensions of his character. They moved on. Snape didn't, that's what makes him beautiful-- and yes there's a reason why Snape couldn't move on, but, again, that is not Lily's responsibility. It seems reasonable to me that, particularly given the extreme nature of her circumstances, Lily would take into account first and foremost the actions she observed from James in the present, rather than what he did in the past. See above re: Lily owes Snape nothing.
Being selfless, kind, or a good person doesn't make one perfect.
When I say Lily was selfless, I do NOT mean that she was flawless. If this is your takeaway I worry for you. Also, enough about the Virgin Mary lol. Anyway, humans are complex, and selfless people are capable of selfishness on occasion. Everyone is. A certain amount of selfishness is not only normal, it can be a good thing and necessary for protecting yourself. When Lily ended her friendship with Sev, it was something she was doing for herself, so in the most technical sense (and it's still a huge stretch) it can be viewed as selfish. Nobody is or should be 100% selfless all the time. So even were I to concede that she was selfish in marrying James (which I don't) it doesn't preclude her being a selfless person in general.
Being selfless, kind, or a good person doesn't make a female character 'unrealistic.'
What even is this argument, honestly. Like do you just not believe in the existence of good women irl? Suspicious. I would gently suggest that if you find it unrealistic (or boring) for a woman to be a good person, that's maybe something you should take a closer look at. If your automatic assumption about a woman is that she must have married a man for his money, I would also interrogate that belief.
idk she was a teenage girl, pls develop some empathy
once you come down from your podium in the unholy tribunal, it might be worth considering female characters (and women in general) as human, and not just avatars who simply react to the emotional turmoil of men. At absolute worst you could assume that she was tricked by James (which I still disagree with, but it's a slightly more generous reading) or was blind and naive. All of which are more understandable than, for some reason, assuming she was a conniving bitch who wanted to hurt Snape and selfishly marry into wealth. Ultimately her decision to marry James probably had nothing to do with Snape at all. She was 21 when she died. Bad judgment is common at that age, and it's not necessarily a product of selfishness at all. Look, I'd understand this whole thing more if everyone was in their 30s. But is it not the teenage girl experience of all time to date an asshole? Do you have no empathy for that situation? Like I said, I'm arguing this based on the idea that James was completely irredeemable; would an abuser not abuse his girlfriend too? Would someone who is evil and cruel in all respects not also display cruelty to his wife? Can you not summon up an ounce of empathy for a 17 year old who might have thought, as many young girls do, 'I can fix him?'
To conclude, I think that the idea that Lily marrying a bully makes her a bad person is just rooted in lack of empathy for her as a character. Despite spending hours dissecting every last thought process a man might have had, there's no attempt at all to try and understand Lily's motives, rather they're considered exclusively from the perspective of Snape's emotions. This is unfair.
I don't doubt that it hurt Snape's feelings for Lily to date and marry James. But Snape's feelings are no longer her concern. She owes him nothing. Sev called his best friend a slur publicly and joined an organisation that wanted to murder her, with no respect for her feelings at all. They are no longer friends, and he has no right whatsoever to expect her to consider his own emotional needs anymore, and her choices no longer have anything to do with him. Nor should they have.
Whether or not you think it was a mistake for Lily to marry James, that's Lily's problem. Not Snape's. If you truly believe James was a monster, logically it's Lily you should be feeling sorry for. The fact that there's no empathy for her to be found, and that people revert so quickly to the Top 100 Misogyny Classic of 'she must be a gold digger' speaks for itself.
#also sorry this took a while haha ive been working on it bit by bit for a few days#lily evans#pro lily evans#anyway let it never be said i have no defence against this ridiculous argument lol.#meta#lily
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Sirius: From now on, we'll be using codenames. You can address me as 'Eagle One.' Mary is 'Been There Done That', Remus is 'Currently Doing That', James is 'It Happened Once in a Dream', Marlene is 'If I Had to Pick a Girl'. Lily, you can be... 'Eagle Two'.
Lily: Oh thank Merlin.
#took me a while to figure out who'd be who haha#james and lily breathing a collective sigh of relief there#dont bash me for not knowing where to put peter#marauders#marauders era#harry potter#sirius black#james potter#lily evans#remus lupin#reading#fangirl#books#marlene mckinnon#mary macdonald
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Honeymoon pt.5 - Shaaloani
Aetherically, there are some striking differences; but in form alone the similarities to The Qitana Ravel are uncanny. That such ruins could exist both on the first and the source.... This has given me much to think about. Come, you two, let us freshen up and make camp before nightfall. Our adventures may continue tomorrow.
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#ffxiv#ffxiv gpose#wolgraha#wolshtola#y'shtola x wol#y'shtola rhul#g'raha tia#Arsay Nun#graharshtola#dawntrail#dawntrail spoilers#Tent mod is by magic mods on ko-fi#a minor canon adjustment for arsay and the gang#they get into tender valley while trying to do a treasure map lol#my idea here is that estinien and arsay bonded over doing a treasure map so he left one with the bar staff to surprise her with#when she inevitably stopped by#call it a wedding gift i suppose haha#as for the researcher - Arsay will bump into the guy at a slightly later date#the first tender valley image is a reference to my miqomarch2023 quitana ravel gpose set lol i wanted to do a fun call back#arsay just loves old ruins from ancient civilizations she thinks they are so cool!!#and yes I know shes holding her weapons like a viper but then doing a ninja attack its not important#i think making yshtola's dress took as much time as making all these gposes lol#it was worth it tho she's so cute in it#ill take some glamshots of it at some point lol
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