#would anybody actually read this?

[starflungwaddledee]

For the shipaganza

What if...

what if Coo and Starflung had a slumber party? Where they stargaze and do fun slumber party stuff? They deserve it (not forced ofc!!!)

you're right! i think they deserve it, too!

*✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ valentines shipaganza masterpost ✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ⋆˙⟡

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm still thinking about how ashamed I was (and am) with being open about my pain because I am so young. It's so hard to feel worthy of having your pain taken seriously when the people around you insist that young bodies are always in pristine, untouched condition and that you must earn your pain through aging. Never is it considered that young people aren't lying or being a hypochondriac for expressing their pain.

Young people can be in life-altering pain. Young people can have debilitating pain. It doesn't matter what age it happens because pain doesn't discriminate. Complaining about pain and doing things to prevent needless pain aren't something you have to "earn" through aging.

If you want young people to be in less or lesser pain, then encourage them to do whatever they can to minimize it. Don't downplay what they're experiencing. Not everything is a lie, not every experience that is different than yours is exaggeration or deceit.

[greenerteacups]

thoughts on Ginny and Harry as a couple?

There are a lot of people who find their romance in HBP forced. I don't think it's forced so much as underwritten, and the books don't get the chemistry quite right (though the movies certainly don't, either). There's potential, but they just don't get enough actual scenes of substance (besides Harry thinking she's pretty or feeling jealous of Dean) for a lot of readers to buy that they're not only in love, but deeply enough in love to break up, get back together, and wind up married.

That's not to say I don't see the appeal. There's a very cool scene in Book 5 where Harry's doing a woe-is-me-Chosen-One act, and Ginny effortlessly puts him in his place about it by reminding him that she was possessed by Voldemort at eleven, which is a rare glimpse into her character and also a great synecdoche for their relationship — Ginny is a grounding presence who, like Ron and Hermione, isn't going to be awed by his past adventures because she knew him before they happened. In that respect, Ginny's probably one of the few women Harry could feasibly wind up with, because he only ever seems comfortable around people (let alone girls) who can see past the Chosen-One schtick and treat him like a normo (see: Ron, Hermione, the Weasleys, Luna, Hagrid). True to type, he doesn't get interested in Ginny at all until she's ditched her celebrity crush and ceased to view him as an idol, because in his heart of hearts, Harry wants to be a normal boy, and it's stressed over and over that part of what he likes about his relationship with Ginny is how normal it feels. He kind of has a horribly supercharged version the celebrity dating problem: after the Battle of Hogwarts, anyone he meets is going to know him first as Harry Potter, Chosen One, Boy Who Lived, and Actually Fucking Resurrected Messiah of the Wizarding World, which is... I mean, it's possible that there are witches out there who could get over that, but Harry's not an extroverted guy, and I'm not sure how he'd go about finding them. Ginny's the one who's been there since the beginning, doesn't need anything about him or his past explained to her, and actually likes him for who he is.

When you look at it that way, it's not surprising he married his high school girlfriend. She's one of the few people still alive who doesn't see him as a demigod.

[dantes-paradiso]

would any of my precious mutuals be willing to read an excerpt (like one paragraph) of the story im writing? (just wanna make sure its interesting)

tagging some of my mutuals who i think would be interested!

@hanespiritu @caramelmiacchiato @spineless-lobster @andy-the-depressed

[robotpussy]

why is some white bitch on here telling people to watch a video of a black woman getting shot at by the police....

[buds-and-baubles]

everytime someone says fanon is better because comics are bad/hard to read and use the example that 'comics are also bad because what if the poor poor people with learning disabilities have trouble reading them? are you going to be ableist?' owes me and other people with learning disabilities who read comics 500,000 dollars per statement each.

[coquelicoq]

There are 60 million people in Britain. There are 200 million in America. (Can that be right?) How many millions of English-speakers other nations might add to the total I cannot even guess. I would be willing to bet, though, that in all those hundreds of millions not more than 50, at the outside, have read A. Roemer, Aristarchs Athetesen in der Homerkritik (Leipzig, 1912), a work untranslated from its native German and destined to remain so till the end of time. I joined the tiny band in 1985. I was 23. The first sentence of this little-known work runs as follows: Es ist wirklich Brach- und Neufeld, welches der Verfasser mit der Bearbeitung dieses Themas betreten und durchpflügt hat, so sonderbar auch diese Behauptung im ersten Augenblick klingen mag. I had taught myself German out of Teach Yourself German, and I recognised several words in this sentence at once: It is truly something and something which the something with the something of this something has something and something, so something also this something might something at first something. I deciphered the rest of the sentence by looking up the words Brachfeld, Neufeld, Verfasser, Bearbeitung, Themas, betreten, durchpflügt, sonderbar, Behauptung, Augenblick, and klingen in Langenscheidt's German-English dictionary.

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt, i, 1, p 17

[thelingering]

*exasperated sigh lol* changeeeeee is hardddddd

[piratehunted]

till all the seas run dry

"Oi! Are you Shimotsuki?" Turning to his left, he squinted a bit against the sun and leaned over the railing to see a young man around his own age, dark hair mussed and a huge duffel bag slung over his shoulder. His face was open and friendly and his bright eyes stared up at Zoro expectantly. "No, uh… she's in the shop," he offered, gesturing vaguely downwards towards the door. Then, his brain catching up, he continued, "are you… Garp's… new tenant?" Apparently the boy found the question amusing, because his face split into a huge grin and he broke into a peal of laughter. "Haha, yeah, I guess that's me!" he stated, still smiling up at Zoro. For some reason, it made Zoro want to smile back.

Roronoa Zoro, university student and florist, meets someone for the first time that he already knows.

-- relationship: monkey d. luffy/roronoa zoro rating: explicit word count: 27,976 chapter count: 7 tags: modern au, flower shop au, zoro is good at math, too many hidden references, mentioned nami/vivi, mvp sanji, developing relationship, angst and fluff and smut, most of the strawhats are just cameos so don't read specifically for them lmao, minor spoilers through wano act 1

[teddybeartoji]

I LOVE THE WAY YOU WRITE TOJI a lot of people just straight up make him an asshole in a not so affectionate way

NONNIEEEE:(((((((((((((((((((( THAT'S THE BEST COMPLIMENT EVER I LOVE HIM SOO SO MUCH AND IT MAKES ME SO FUCKING HAPPY WHEN PPL SAY THAT THEY LIKE THE WAY I WRITE HIMM OH MY GODDDDD:(((((((((((( THANK YOUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ILYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am a massive massive softie toji truther i think he's definitely a grump and finds it hard to open up but when you finally swivel your way into his heart? he's so done for. i think he's THE best husband material and idc if anybody says otherwise he's perfect to me<3333

[dreamersdwell]

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[its-cartooncrazy]

How do I get people into paranatural

[cantbgirlie2]

I want a twilight and house md crossover where carlisle and the cullens were in new jersey for some stupid reason a few years before going to forks.

House spends the entire time trying to figure out qhats up with this weird young doctor, and he ends up getting so close to figuring it out that the cullens move to forks so they don't have to change their identity again.

[rosykims]

my boyfriend and all of our male friends are so excited that im playing rogue trader + subsequently getting into warhammer but i dont have the heart to tell them im SPECIFICALLY playing for the breedable hot men. like. dont leave me alone with the figurines lol bc im going to pookify them thats a promise not a threat

[flugame-mp3]

AHHH... the fact that sam actually reads the journal instead of just burning it, just to be really thorough, and discovers it's the painting that needs to be burned instead via the context clues... so he doesn't have to burn the firsthand account journal from a woman in 1520s florence... or the rest of her belongings... this makes my museum work oriented brain (and heart) extremely happy.

[free-luigi-mangione]

i feel like i need to specify some things here.

y'all gotta stop slandering Luigi about his biology knowledge. he took AP biology courses. he'd mentioned on reddit that he already had prior knowledge of basic molecular biology, cell biology and genetics when he was trying to join a bioinformatics course. i was distinctly impressed by his knowledge of human anatomy while going through his replies on r/spondylolisthesis. i know he could have buffed up on his knowledge of spondylolisthesis specifically, but even if it is so, it was impressive. and honestly, it doesn't feel that way. reading up on a particular issue that you suffer from will most likely give you a kind of surface level knowledge on it but not more. he definitely put in effort to know a lot about his own issues and related issues. OR he just has quite an impressive level of knowledge about human anatomy, which shouldn't be surprising given what we know about him rubbing shoulders with biology courses and being interested in newer biological developments. he's not just a random tech dudebro, he does in fact know biology.