#dare i say mother

[iliveinarainbow]

[saturncherrypie]

sally did the right thing. percy will become his own person because of her decision to protect him first and show him what its means to be an unconditionally loving parent.

throughout the books and this show, you are shown time and time again that the odds are against you. you are more likely to die than survive this shit.

not many of these kids mortal parents stick around because it isnt something they can handle. sally herself knows that she cannot protect percy fully because shes knows there are greater, bigger things out there that she as a mortal cannot comprehend. you can see the how stressed and afraid she is for percy constantly. keeping him away as much as she can before she eventually cant keep hiding him away.

AND THE GODS KNOW THIS they know they are setting this kids up having them. and thats when they swoop in and show themselves. they know these kids will fight blindly for them, will proudly represent them no questions asked because they are now all they have. and when they step out of line they no longer have their protection or blessings. like what happened to annabeth.

sally wanted percy to experience humanity. to see that there is more to his life than his godly side. to show him he doesnt have to do anything if it doesn't sit right with him. because she knew eventually the gods would try pull this shit on him.

[orlesianhennin]

replaying da2 and flemeth really makes act 1

[alicent-archive]

Actually it’s so funny to me, because while Daemon absolutely DRAGS his arranged marriage through the mud and openly slanders his wife at ANY opportunity, Rhea just…didn’t gaf about that man AT ALL 😭😭😭.

Girly was riding horses, handling falcons and her own damn business, and remained completely unbothered by Daemon’s deeply unserious antics until the day she died.

[insane-in-the-membranee]

I can forgive my father for all his wrongs against me, if only he had treated my mother differently. It is an echo, of what my mother says, "He may not be a good husband, but he is a good father." How do I tell her that one cannot exist without the other? He will never be a good father. He is not good to my mother.

—Reva

[greenbirdtrash]

ah yes

strong female character

[taro-wong]

if i had to read these tags then so do you

[starscelly]

bro's beefing with a barn mouse...

dal@wpg 11.09.24

[deadbaguette]

I bet in losing dogs but it’s Thetis about Achilles

[michyeosseo]

I am determined to take Shen Li home.

[vigilskeep]

one thing abt visibly chasind morrigan that’s super interesting is that it makes your ability to ask if flemeth is really her mother actually makes sense when it’s startling how fereldan flemeth looks and dresses when you’re brought there

[charlessmiths-wife]

re8 women if you’d just give me one chance I could fix you make you worse honestly do WHATEVER YOU WANT plsplsplsplsplsplsplsplsPLEASEEE

[anna-jupe]

obx4 episode titles

4x01: The Enduro 4x02: Blackbeard 4x03: The Lupine Corsairs 4x04: The Swell 4x05: Albatross 4x06: The Town Council 4x07: Mothers and Fathers 4x08: Decision Day 4x09: The Storm 4x10: The Blue Crown

[wafflinglumos]

Lily and Petunia have such an interesting and complex relationship and there aren’t enough fics that delve into that.

From what we know from canon, the two were relatively close before Lily’s magic was discovered. We can assume that Petunia’s resentment ramped up when Snape and Lily started to become friends, which was partially because she just didn’t like him and thought he was a weird but if you look at it from a child’s perspective it paints it in a different light, children are easily possessive of things and people, siblings especially, sisters especially.

Her resentment was furthered with their parents treatment of the two. Petunia was the eldest sister, between the two she was the less remarkable, from what we know and can assume from canon, Lily was the golden child, when she received her Hogwarts letter and their parents reacted positively and from what we’re told in the books, ecstatically even, which furthered her resentment even more when she even wrote to Dumbledore asking if she could go to Hogwarts too, but he had told her, though kindly, that because she was a muggle she could not.

Petunia lashed out the only way she knew how to, with resentment and envy, which makes sense really.

If Petunia was already envious of her sister, and their parents put Lily on an even higher pedestal after they found out she was a witch, adding Dumbledore’s words about Petunia not be able to go because she was a “muggle”, then it’d make sense that Petunia would resent Lily, to make her a “freak” in her eyes.

Petunia’s jealousy and resentment came from many things with Lily’s odd abilities, with Lily spending time with Snape, with Lily discovering she was a witch and their parents praising her for that, with Lily’s acceptance into Hogwarts and Petunia’s rejection from it, with pureblood James Potter.

That’s not to say that Lily is at fault or that she didn’t care, we KNOW Lily loved her sister. We can safely assume that she wrote to Petunia throughout Hogwarts, her letters probably getting more scarce as they grew and Petunia had stopped responding, but Lily still sent Petunia a letter when she gave birth to Harry, she still felt that her sister was important enough to her to send a letter announcing Harry’s arrival.

Petunia’s resentment even caused her to marry Vernon because he was everything that Lily was not. He was a boring regular man with a boring regular life. (Which we learn from this part in the books below)

“Mrs Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be.”

However, even with all that envy and resentment, Lily was still her sister, we see this when Vernon and Marge are laughing about Lily being a bitch and Petunia isn’t, we see this when Petunia tells Harry that he didn’t just lose a mother that night but she lost a sister(it’s in the movies explicitly so not book canon but it’s still a thing to note)

Petunia treated Harry the way she did because he was attached to the wizarding world and her sister, yeah Harry was a wizard but he was also the spitting image of James, Petunia must have resented him that much more because Harry was the embodiment of the two things that took away her sister, magic and James Potter. More over, Voldemort killed Lily to get to Harry, Lily died for Harry, it’s not an insane thing to think that that added even more to Petunia’s disdain.

Harry was the embodiment of everything that took Lily away from Petunia, magic, James Potter and the very reason her sister was dead. In Petunia’s mind at least.

To add Petunia treated Harry horrifically and no this isn’t an excuse for her inexcusable gross actions, but an unnecessary long look into the reasoning for it.

[hotvampireadjacent]

“We have seen how the colonized always dream of taking the colonist’s place. Not of becoming a colonist, but of replacing him. This hostile, oppressive and aggressive world, bulldozing the colonized masses, represent not only the hell they would like to escape as quickly as possible, but a paradise within arms reach guarded by ferocious watchdogs.” Frantz Fanon, the Wretched of the Earth (16)

[feelyoubehindmyeyes]

bbc merlin prequel WHEN