#and I hate the double standard for her

[kenneduck]

tiktok told me I can't touch grass anymore

[seriousbrat]

Why do people like Lily? From what we've seen of her in the books she seems like a charming and good hearted person but also someone who is shallow, judgemental, a social climber, a classist and immature. Why do people make her out to be this feminist, kind hearted role model that is always morally above others and everyone likes her because she is oh so kind and great? It makes me cringe. From the text we can see that she had a black and white thinking, was shallow and probably self righeous, always thinking she's right and not being able to see the perspective of others. (We can see this in her interactions with Snape) So why do people love her? Do people really need a 'girl boss' in every fandom? There always seems to be one that's just made up by the fans. It looks like people just need a character they can point at and say "see we care about female characters, this one is oh so great, she can't do no wrong, worship her please." 🙄

Look, no offence, but... what? 'Shallow, classist, judgmental, social climber' what? Where are you getting this? Because she stopped being friends with a boy who literally called her a slur? Because she criticised that boy for defending and befriending people who were bigoted against people like herself? Like sorry but I think I'm entirely the wrong person to come to with this kind of thing. I fully disagree. I could not disagree more.

Black and white thinking? The opposite. Lily remained friends with someone who espoused the exact opposite of her beliefs for way too long. Not just her beliefs, but her right to exist. She tolerated Snape (and I do love him as a character, but still) way more than she should have, objectively speaking. That's the opposite of black and white. She was way too understanding, way too empathetic with him. She didn't judge Snape hard enough, in my opinion.

Nah, look idk what you were hoping with this ask but I'm sorry, I'm generally a staunch Lily defender and I heavily disagree with what you're saying. It's not that I think she's a perfect person, she certainly has her flaws like anyone. I don't think that she should be idealised, I think she should be given complexity like any character, but neither do I think she's classist (esp since she's meant to be working class) nor particularly judgmental nor shallow nor immature. I love Snape but he was terrible to her. He befriended people who wanted her dead. Lily didn't owe him anything, and her """righteousness""" as you say is not only entirely justified, but objectively speaking she should have dropped that bitch way earlier.

Why do people (including myself) love Lily? Because she was a good person. Because she was brave and decent and kind. She remained friends with Sev for years despite peer pressure and common sense and she defended him without hesitation. She dedicated her life to fighting for what was right. Lily is a good person. She's not inherently, morally above others, she's not perfect but she was a good, kind person, the way her son is a good, kind person.

Not that difficult to understand imo, unless you have way higher standards for male characters than female characters. Not everyone has to like or be interested in Lily but pretending she's somehow worse/less worthy of interest than Snape, James, Sirius, Regulus, etc (and I imagine you've got to be a fan of some of these marauders era characters if you're reading my blog) because she dropped a guy who wanted to join a fascist group that wanted her dead is absolutely ridiculous.

Lily is so kind and great. Her act of bravery and sacrifice is what kickstarts the entire HP series. Sorry. Like absolutely not, I completely disagree with you about Lily's character. People liking a female character doesn't mean that they have a shallow 'girl boss' approach to that character, and I find that a condescending explanation for why people like myself might be fans of Lily Evans. Maybe, and you perhaps should consider this, us fans of Lily just enjoy and are interested in female characters the exact same way we might be interested in male ones.

Look I don't want to be mean, but can't you tell from my icon, which is clearly supposed to be Lily, that I love Lily? Lily is one of my favourite HP characters. I really don't want to be rude but I'm absolutely the last person who'd share this viewpoint.

[melonisopod]

Faust is wearing a wedding dress and pulls a sword out of her tits: Wow what a great EGO! She looks so pretty!

Don Quixote has long hair and isn’t silly one time: She looks like a stereotypical gacha waifu!

[katyspersonal]

Thinking about that time when a popular artist was a prick to me personally (claimed that I "baited" them for a conflict when all I did was pointing out something in lore contradicting their claim, without any rudeness or condescension, and basically told me to go hang out with other autists instead of bothering them) but the reason I blocked them was not that, it was the fact that they've admitted on not even caring about the source material and just using scraps from it to do their own thing. Priorities hfngkfngj

[buffyspeak]

#go off king

[starlooove]

Call me jaded bitter and black but I’ll never care about the nuances of the police fill in on tv. Like we already have to deal with the ‘my dad is a cop :(‘ or ‘my broke brother joined the military’ irl why the fuck am I wasting my brain power on Caitlyn or vi. Like we know materialistically the authority of being a cop can get u what u want faster and that emotionally u either need strict routine with an outlet for ur violence or ur so used to it that u have to be a cop. I still fucking hate u tho like idc about how sad u are about being privileged and I said cop fill in but it’s really every kind of that character on tv like Zuko esque sorry I genuinely have less empathy for you than I do for other people idc

[iwasbored777]

Me trying to figure out why people are still mad at Gwen for going through Miles' sketchbook without asking but no one is talking about how he turned himself invisible and was spying on her, listening to her conversation with Jessica and following her to another dimension without her approval:

I have no problem with them both being like this but why are the stupid things she does demonized while the stupid things he does are being romanticized?

[goddessofwisdom18]

the witnesses, the barrister and the judge vs the defendant

my art featuring lyrics from pink floyd's the trial /

a court of wings and ruin chapter 61 /

carolina by taylor swift /

nyt article speculating on taylor swift's sexuality /

outer banks season 3 episode 6 /

barbie (2023) /

text post by @irontrashglitter /

a court of thorns and roses chapter 46 /

my art of the trial part ii

[lesbiansanemi]

The things I want to say about mei mei’s character and the way the fandom reacts to and treats her vs the way they treat male characters who do shitty things… but I know y’all would crucify me

[heir-less]

I feel like a lot of people, just, have not been paying attention if they're talking about how there's no substance in H&M's work. What there hasn't been is much media sensationalism, which is what people confuse with success.

Harry quite literally was on the stand testifying against the UK's most ingrained right-wing institution less than a month ago. Something that was huge in its revelations and unprecedented for a British public figure royal or otherwise. Since leaving they've done a lot of direct action and community building as well. Meghan has literally used her position to directly lobby Republican politicians for paid leave and social support. The substance is there and while they can be doing so much more to increase their platform, calling them "edgeless" is pretty ignorant.

[kushanna]

not to come here and compare traumas but like... out of the four siblings, rosa's definitely the one that got the worst load. the thing is with the others it was something that developed over time, their bad relationship was something that evolved as they grew up, the horrible environment in that house was something that they all experienced at the same time as it progressed and as they grew. but not rosa... she was practically thrown into a terrible situation when it was already established, with no explanation or chance for a different outcome. not any possibility of a miracle for rosa!! if the other three weren't able to nurture positive feelings for one another while they themselves were children, imagine for rosa, when they were all already grown and angry and hurt and frustrated... they obviously wouldn't be able to have an ounce of affection to spare for her and instead she had to deal with constant harassment from all sides. plus if you take, for example, eva, even if still very haunted and resentful and having literal nightmares about her family at night, she at least managed to go out there later on and build for herself a life she could love, to have people to love and who loved her, she had hobbies lmao. but not rosa... she's nothing more than a constant walking ball of anger and resentment, completely alone except for the one person she has and constantly rejects, making terrible decisions all the time and she's got nothing to even distract her from it... when was the last time rosa felt real, unrestrained joy? and how much did it last? she saw a woman die violently in front of her when she was 12. that fucks you up

[hahaoatmeal]

Both Elias and Annabelle used people's deaths to get what they want, but see the difference is that I support women's wrongs. I do not support men's wrongs. I hope uou underwtsandn

[roseville]

thought dump

[brittlekombu]

I need to complain about the fucking Foxy Pirates arc in one piece yall im so mad. I hate cheating so so much and that makes this so hard to watch. I just violently hate it. It feels extra worse because G8 the arc before this one is also counted as filler and it was so fucking good like I loved it and for this shitshow to come after is so infuriating. The beginning of this arc was so good to me like yeah lets help this stranded dude get back to his nomad tribe with his extra long cute horse and im just seething that i have to watch this waluigi knockoff and his annoying crew cheat and cheat and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it because if they do its insta lose.

[cappucosmico]

the most devastating shit on earth is that i had a friend in middle school who was like my ride or die. but her only "social media" was Google Fucking Plus. so naturally i have lost her in the wastelands of that shitstorm. but i cannot find her ever again bc she has like The most common name on god's green earth so one facebook search for people with her name in the bronx yields like a million fucking results. so imagine if she's not even in the bronx anymore. 10 million results

[capinejghafa]

thank you so much for including me in your beautiful kanej fic series it truly means the world to me💗

and this was too long to type in the tags but tough_n_dumb comes from “if you’re gonna be stupid you better be tough” :) (i do act like a fool most of the time though so it fits)

i love your fics so much and i love that you're writing so much kanej right now so i appreciate you! your fic about inej going through it made me feel so much that now i need more of this kind of inej fics (which i have no idea what that says about me and i won't examine it further). this is also me being like while i don't always leave a comment (and i'm trying to do better!), i am reading :)

i had to figure it was a reference to something lol