#lily propaganda

[ghostnotoast]

I'm having withdrawal symptoms from waiting for the new episode to come out, and this has been buzzing around my head since this part came out (also I wanna talk about my wife Lily)

Relistening to this part twice made me cry I'm not even gonna lie but weirdly enough it made me think of the end of season 1 where John gets a taste of being the king for a split second but then chooses to go back to Arthur. After he returns, he says:

"But it was in that time in the hospital, that month alone. Trapped in this body without you, when something changed"

"I found meaning. I found that the challenges of life within the boundaries of death were not only acceptable, but could be meaningful. That without a purpose I could forge my own. Is that humanity?"

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it was Lily who was fully responsible for giving John humanity - if anything, that's the mistake Arthur makes in season 3 when comparing John to Yellow (which John calls him out for). It was Arthur who laid out the pieces, and Lily was basically the one to make it click.

Buttt I think reducing John's reason for humanity to only one thing is almost a disservice- because developing a sense of self is so much more complex than that.

It was Arthur's love, it was the stories and thoughts he would share with John, it was being in awe of seeing trees and nature again after so long of living in the dark, it was hearing music, it was listening to the radio, it was the joy he felt after they complished something and he was finally able to feel something other than fear, it was seeing the wraith help them, it was holding a cute baby and picturing her future as a pianist, it was seeing her mother and recognising that she had just lost something priceless, it was having to hold onto hope that anyone is capable of redemption, it was defending and having empathy for the widow despite what Arthur had said.

The last moment is paralleled in season 3 with their conversation about Yellow. Listening to all these makes me realise just how much Yellow missed out on.

Arthur no doubt played a massive role in helping John find humanity and meaning, but honesty? I don't know if purely being with Arthur is what made John who he is. John himself has a conscious and had to make decisions on his own and, on multiple occasions, fights Arthur about ideology with basically little to no outside influence (e.g, their infamous first divorce).

Despite all that though, I still do think Arthur was one of the biggest reasons, I mean just look at Yellow 😭 I'll write an entire essay about him one day

But this entire yap session was basically me trying to imagine what exactly was so special about that month at the hospital because let's be real if I were John I would go crazy BUT sometimes i just imagine John being there, in a hospital without Arthur, being able to do nothing but think

He thinks about the bright clear blue sky he saw, a bird that landed on the windowsill when they were at the library, he thinks about how alive this world is compared to where he came from, he thinks about the radio that's playing, he thinks about the piano, and then he thinks about Arthur

And I imagine he looks at Lily, at her tending to them, at her chatting to them, at her turning on the radio for them so they're not bored and even though people would call all these extra bits of care pointless - she does it anyway, and she does it for them, and John is there to witness this, and that's the moment where it clicks.

I imagine it sort of being like being moved back to see a finished puzzle and finally understanding what you've been making this entire time after spending so long up close looking at individual pieces

And I think that's what the witch didn't understand about John's story. Lily's care was the climax of John becoming John, and even though John acknowledges that for her it was probably another Tuesday - it still doesn't dampen the fondness and love he has for her, he just loves for the sake of it

[galacticghoste]

Dose anyone remember Paleta Payaso???

I always loved getting them as a kid, also found them funny that they always looked silly looking.

Also Gave Silho Twinkle Toes bc they were my fav pare of shoes growing up.

heres some old sketches

Duvalin were good too those candys called de la rosa were so fragile though knowing Silho she would probably easily break them

[doodle17]

My God these psychics GAY!! Good for them good for them..

I colorpicked the flags from these screenshots :)

Also bonus D'art because I can't leave my son out

They've been in the queue since Thursday get em while they're still warm

[sickness-stricken]

Uh… the cost is FASCISM, Lily.

For someone who wants to be a bread tuber so fucking badly I would hope you know that.

Media literacy is the thing that makes you able to think for yourself in the face of propaganda. That’s why it’s so damaging that “maybe the curtains are just blue” has sent back English classes for generations to come. That’s why not being able to work out subtext in the media you consume in your off time is so alarming, because when faced with actual news and politics you have to apply those same skills. And if you can’t do that, well… you’ll just be fed whatever looks the most appealing to you in that moment. It’s why the alt-right Youtube pipeline targeting teen boys is scary, because they don’t know better yet and are just believing whatever the person they deem a likeable authority figure says. Sound familiar?

Not to parrot Ethel but I think she had the right idea when she said that Lily was trying to teach her audience not to adopt Queer as a label, but it applies heavier here. If Lily’s dwindling fanbase is taught that media literacy is just a dumb buzzword that people use to feel smart, they’ll be less inclined to think for themselves and dissect her media takes as factually incorrect, which in turn keeps them away from digging into her past.

Scary shit happening in the studio today.

[nyxunderwood]

Just started writing a new post-Hogwarts Prongsfoot AU, featuring memory loss, consciously uncoupled Lily and James, and Harry Potter as the world's tiniest Sirius/James Stan 🐾🦌⚡️ Synopsis

In 1978, just three weeks shy of his graduation from Hogwarts, Sirius Black died a hero, defending his friend, Peter Pettigrew, from a Death Eater ambush. Five years later, James Potter is the only one who believes Sirius is still alive. 

Excited to share Chapter 1 in the next few weeks. Watch this space for updates 👀

[kazbiter]

thinking of her (that deleted scene where gansey just goes on and on about how good ronan looks next to the pool table for like an extreme amount of time)

[enbysiriusblack]

marauders ship battle

submitted propaganda:

dorcas/marlene

most tragic ship ever. also lesbians. and enemies to lovers. they're like every tragic romantic myth all in one. dorcas literally went on a killing spree to avenge marlene?? fucking true love, mate. they’re everything to each other. also butch4butch rep!!!!

“Different houses, opposites attract”

james/lily

the og canon ship that is SO overly hated when they've got it all. hot couple. rivals to lovers. head boy and girl. stem gf and frat bf. unrequited for a bit. they just GET EACH OTHER. vote for bambi's shot parents guys!!!

"hes so ridiculously down bad for her. (one sided) enemies to lovers?? hello? he fell first and she fell hardest :3 lily really did have nobody left except for james. and then he died too and she was left alone for like 5 seconds"

remus/sirius

“It’s the best ship lmao”

“i think it's obvious”

“they are absolutely adorable, slow burn, best friends to lovers”

“oblivious idiots”

"angsty as anything (Sirius spent twelve years in azkaban and Remus spent twelve years believing that his bf had a hand in the killing of their vests friends) excellent demonstration of how you can have many soulmates"

[2hoothoots]

happy birthday*, Raz!

*we don't have a canon birthday for Raz, but his old myspace page says his sign is capricorn (dec 22-jan 19), so I go with that for my headcanon! as for why the 30th, well...

i just think the irony is kinda funny :p

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

was meaning to write a serious and thoughtful meta on this shot as the show's first use of metatextual framing (a story within a story) linking its premise to the war movie as a genre (the show as a fascist gothic work) but yknow what. scratch all of that lmao. the only thought that matters is: the moment you really start thinking about the show as a reactionary post 9/11 power fantasy, you can't stop.

[olivestones]

Brings you back with silly art

[feral-radfem]

All of y'all pretending like heterosexual women are the only ones who experience misogyny, or experience the most misogyny, are not (just) being homophobic, you're being misogynistic.

You're denying women's sex based oppression is real or it's severity. So maybe sit down and shut up and realize that we are still women despite the fact that we are not sleeping with men. You have the ability to make the choice not to sleep with men too. It's not an inaction unique to homosexuals.

I will spread any feminist praxis I want, and if it's insulting for me to reiterate the ideals we preach in these spaces because I'm a homosexual then you can go ahead and be insulted. SSA women have just as much claim to these spaces as you do because we are women and these spaces are for fighting misogyny, which we all experience. It's not just for tackling the misogyny y'all are uncomfortable with, it's for tackling all of it. Get with the program, ladies.

[moongothic]

I have a doubt with the Crocomon theory I don't know if you have explained it before but Luffy was 17 years old when he met Crocodile and Crocodile was 44 that means that he should have had Luffy at 27 years old but Oda said in a sbs that Crocodile became a Warloed when he was 25 years old and after that he went to fight WB so that mean he was already a man when he was 25.

I have discussed this before in depth, in this post in particular where I broke down the known Crocodile timeline and what's "needed" for Crocodad to be real, but TL:DR;

Ivankov said they knew Crocodile when he was still "considdered a rookie"; we don't know when exactly that would be in the timeline

Although Ivankov knew/first met Crocodile when he was a "rookie", that doesn't mean Ivankov transed Crocodile's gender when they first met, that could have happened years later

All that does change is that Crocodile can't be stealth trans as we had assumed, it just means he has to be openly trans

And I do want to point out that Oda can retcon/change things (or make mistakes), he's done it in the past, he's not perfect (and that's fine). So Ivankov's line about Crocodile's rookie days could have been a minor writing mistake and could get retconned if Crocodad Real, or yeah, they could've just met in Crocodile's early 20s and he could've transitioned after 27.

[yuripoll]

[persephoneprice]

me every morning checking the persephone price tag knowing no one else ever posts about her

[cruesuffix]

bc of your last repost I genuinely gotta ask like,,, what do you smoke or like drink and all of that?

I know that this probably seems weird af so don't worry you don't have to answer if you don't want to!

hey anon! to be very honest with you… i don’t smoke at all! i know that sounds weird because of my last repost but im under the “i don’t smoke but i also don’t judge ppl who do!” gang. i also don’t really drink that much (well really, i don’t drink at all). i will have a glass or two on special occasions but im not a big fan of alcohol tbh. like… i’ll have a glass of wine at christmas but i think i just can’t really bare the taste of most alcoholic beverages. i probably sound a bit lame, but yeah. like i firmly don’t do drugs and stuff like that, but im the first person to advocate for harm reduction and destigmatizing addicts and addiction. like imo while i know the harm of cigarettes are like… deadly and all that, i find that my generation has such a distain for them that they should also be having for the vapes they smoke daily. just because yours is cotton candy flavoured doesn’t make it any more healthier than a regular cigarette… and also they just look so goofy. i just hate how ppl judge smokers in general, but i especially hate when they get hypocritical about it.

(also i think that post highlights how easily influenced kids are. had vapes been demonized and regular cigarettes been promoted as the healthier option… you’d see a lot of them running around with a pack of marlboros.)

ok enough yapping about this, but don’t worry about sounding weird, it’s not even a weird question imo!