#and it's ok

[maxdibert]

I’ve never been very critical of Lily, but lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about SWM, and I don’t think I like her anymore.

Her defense feels so unenthusiastic that it seems like she only did it because she felt she had to, you know? I understand that when thinking about defending a friend, the idea of using some violent spell might come to mind. I’ve seen many comments saying, "She couldn’t use aggressive spells because she was a prefect," but was something as forceful as a Flipendo or anything similar really necessary?

Why didn’t she use Confundus, Accio, Expelliarmus, or Incarcerous? These are spells that wouldn’t harm anyone, but she didn’t even try. At no point did she make even the slightest effort, and her entire show of bravery seems pointless to me. She didn’t ask Severus if he was okay during SWM, and I highly doubt she did during their earlier conversation. From my perspective, she seems like someone who imposes her own will and opinions on others—it’s clear when you see how quickly she loses patience when Severus starts questioning the people she hangs out with.

I've always thought that even if their friendship was quite diluted for me and how I operate ethically and emotionally towards my friends, there’s no coherent explanation for why Lily, as Severus' supposed friend, didn’t throw herself at James and crack his head open with punches. It’s something I would’ve done even if the person wasn’t my friend. I would never have allowed anyone to be stripped naked in the middle of the schoolyard—it would’ve seemed barbaric to me. And it’s not like I was some hero defending victims of bullying; it’s just common sense. I mean, I remember my teachers didn’t do anything either, and in my school, at most, there were insults or verbal taunts, but it never escalated to anything worse.

Once, a guy threw a ball of tinfoil at a girl walking next to me (she was in a lower grade and had cognitive issues), and I turned around and gave him a piece of my mind. I remember the cool posh girls in my class stood up to a group of younger girls who were mocking a classmate and told them off completely. We did that for things that were purely verbal and never physical, and yet we never normalized certain types of violence, even if it wasn’t directed at our friends.

What I mean is that if someone had dared to strip one of my friends naked in the middle of the schoolyard to laugh at them, that person probably would’ve ended up leaving the school. I swear I would’ve subjected them to such a level of psychological abuse, mental torture, and cruelty that they’d have left. That’s, of course, after giving them a good beating because if I were Lily, James would’ve ended up toothless. Nobody would’ve been able to stop me. If someone had done something like that to one of my friends, I would’ve gone crazy—I wouldn’t have been able to control my adolescent anger, and I swear I would’ve smashed their entire face and then hit them with whatever I could get my hands on. After that, I would’ve started a super cruel revenge plan, like spreading rumors that their dad was a child abuser or something like that. I swear, if James Potter had dared to touch any of my friends, I would’ve ruined his life.

But that’s just how I am—I’m very territorial and protective. Maybe the problem is that people didn’t matter as much to Lily. Maybe, deep down, she was more like Severus and Petunia than people think, putting herself first, then her closest loved ones, and letting the rest fend for themselves. And if defending a friend meant putting herself at risk, she wouldn’t lift a finger.

[beggars-opera]

I'm now imagining the 14 year old volunteer who loves history coming in and, I don't know, asking me to figure out what the 18th century equivalent of a Stanley cup would be (an actual question she asked last week), and then someone busting through the door yelling "WHY ARE YOU INTERACTING WITH A MINOR YOU CREEP", with her mom standing right there

[byazzarts]

I don't think that you need this info but sometimes when I see people using wrong tags under their posts it makes me feel very annoyed...for example, there are too many NSFW pics tagged as #angel, #cute or something like that, but I'm not sure that it's actually related to these images... Like please give me normal pics of angels when I'm searching for ones, I don't want to see photos from NSFW photoshoots on my fyp

[cacw]

I am writing down the most important notes

[untildarknesscomes]

I don't ship satosugu, but the way people will bury their heads so deep into the sand to deny its canon implications is so wild to me.

Pointing at that relationship chart on twitter as a gotcha, like, okay?.. If anything, the fact that Suguru is considered the “best friend” while the others are referred to as “students”, “classmate”, “teacher” is the biggest indication that Suguru was the only person Satoru actually and genuinely cared about. If they weren't boyfriends, there could at least be unrequited feelings type of thing going on from Satoru's side.

“He would only date older rich women” y'all ever heard of bisexuality? It's been a thing for centuries, fyi. I personally always hc'd him as a bisexual homoromantic (or in this case, sugurumantic) due to that one time when Gege said Satoru couldn't open up to a woman, and now I think Gege pretty much confirmed that.

At the end of the day, it's all fiction and we can hc anything and everything we want, but bullying the shippers and outright rejecting Satoru's feelings when there's literally NO OTHER REASON to why they censored his last words towards Suguru other then the obvious outrage it would stir up within the fans is... a poor choice. If you want to be illiterate, fine. You hate the ship, cool. But stop acting like that small part of the fandom are the insane ones and they're ruining the series for wanting two Ken dolls to kiss.

[thelunaticghost]

i fucking hate birthday

[noccolibroccoli]

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

[maudiemoods]

If life is a never ending loop of dirty dishes and laundry then that means life is a never ending loop of home cooked meals and comfy clean clothes

[time-to-leave-machine]

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

[windwenn]

This drawing made me realise that actually I love the comfort zone and I would like to go back into it. Also that I must draw more tigers.

[mroddmod]

the queen of the disco or whatever

[deathtokillian]

As a kid learning about the holocaust, I never understood how people could let Nazis rise to power. But now I’m watching it happen in real time.

[kidrat]

U can watch Star Wars so many times and it doesn’t prepare u for how dumb Star Wars is. For one thing I think we gloss over how kenobi (who has definitely been at the club. Please.) describes the mos eisley cantina as the worst most villainous place ever and then u get inside and it’s a pack of muppets vaping

[happyheidi]

~ via mignonettetakespictures ~

[useless-englandfacts]

uk journalists having to report through gritted teeth that there were no riots last night as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumbered the racist rioters across the country