Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

macklesufficient:

*sniffs air*

what a beautiful day to remember that lily evans got married fresh out of high school and then at the age of eighteen joined an underground politically radical vigilante sect and was in all likelihood not a snobby goody two shoes

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au ideas you never asked for

cinnamonskull:

musicalxtragedy:

bravespidey:

• “HEY STOP! YOU’RE STEALING MY NEIGHBOR’S DOG! WHAT THE FU – oh, they hired a dog walker? hahaha haha.. ha… carry on”
  
• “i’m in the nurse’s office a lot with migraines and you’re always in here organizing her tongue depressors and i really don’t think you go to this school so what gives”
  
• “the building manager neglected to tell me the window washers would be coming by today so excuuuuuuse me for thinking that twenty three floors up was high enough that i could dance around in my office without being seen”
  
• “you’ve been awkwardly inching your way towards the human sexuality section of the bookstore i work at for like fifteen minutes are you looking for something in particular or –?”
  
• “you and your friends have been playing the penis game in the library for the last five minutes and none of you have gotten above a quiet yell and i’m really just trying to study over here so i’m gonna put an end to this by winning the game”
• “it’s 2 in the morning and i was just trying to get home but i left my sunroof open all day and now there’s a squirrel in my car and it scared me and i drove into a pole – would you please stop laughing you’re a cop. you’re supposed to be helping”
• “my favorite band dropped a new single today and i’ve had it on repeat for seven hours and i can see you judging me but that isn’t going to make me shut it off"
  
• “hey new neighbor it appears that your dog likes me a thousand times better than she likes your partner and they’re really jealous and i’m sorry but not really because hellloooooo there”
• “you can’t get tattooed drunk, come back in the morning and if you still want my name on your ass we’ll talk”

HAHAHA THE LAST ONE

Last one was my fave too!

(Source: josighah, via wingedlioness)

Can fandom bring back the concept of a squick?

msilverstar:

jmathieson-fic:

animatedamerican:

buckyballbearing:

No for real in 2k15

Can fandom bring back the concept of a squick

A “squick” was a trope or topic that made the reader deeply uncomfortable, even might cause anxiety or intense emotional reactions

Everyone’s squicks were personal and diverse, and it was considered polite to say, “sorry I can’t read this because it squicks me, but you have fun in your corner doing what you doing”

Can we bring that back and reserve “trigger” for MI people who mean “if I see this I will have flashbacks and dissociate for hours”

I wasn’t aware this concept had fallen out of fandom.  Seriously, bring it back, it’s useful as hell.

Key to the concept of “squick,” as it was first explained to me lo these many years ago, is that it is not a value judgment.  If I say “mpreg is gross,” that’s a negative statement about mpreg (and, by extension, about those who enjoy writing or reading about it).  If I say “mpreg squicks me,” that’s a value-neutral statement about me and my emotional reactions and how they affect my enjoyment of fiction.

And, as OP says, it does not carry the implications of intensity or trauma that “trigger” does.  (Although I will point out that a trigger doesn’t have to cause flashbacks or dissociation.  There are people a lot better qualified than I am to talk about that.)

Yes, yes, yes please to all of this!

squick: Something that makes you go “ewwww” and wish you had never seen/read it. Something that makes you deeply uncomfortable. Something you’re not interested in reading/seeing/thinking about, ever.

trigger: Something that you associate with/reminds you of a past trauma (mental, emotional, or physical) and therefore triggers your personal reaction to trauma (be it flashbacks, panic/anxiety attacks, unhealthy behaviours, a crying jag, whatever).

Please, please, please don’t use them interchangeably.

I may have reblogged this before but it’s worth doing again: such a useful concept. 

(via johanirae)

Anonymous asked: what's the weirdest thing about university

jerushapendletons:

how nothing is surprising or abnormal

like you can be sitting in your kitchen at 2am eating pasta sauce out of a jar with a spoon and the only thing you think is “this is really tasty i wonder what it would be like spread on toast”

or going into the library and seeing someone sat at a computer wrapped in a duvet and thinking “that’s a genius idea”

or seeing someone sitting in a lecture with a 2 pint bottle of milk just swigging from it and just being jealous

literally anything goes. no one is gonna question your habits bc guaranteed they will have done something equally bizarre

dignifiedrice:

Current Me: I came back in time four weeks to tell you … you’re about to watch your new favorite movie. 

Past Me: ‘K. 

Current Me: It’s the fourth installment in a series. 

Past Me: … Okay … 

Current Me: It’s an action movie about cars, essentially a two hour car chase scene. 

Past Me: But I hate – 

Current Me: Yeah, I know. Listen. It stars the dude who played Bane in that shitty Batman movie. It was directed by the same guy who helmed such classics as Happy Feet, and Happy Feet 2. 

Past Me: I – 

Current Me: His most recent live-action film? Babe 2: Pig in the City. 

(via bonehandledknife)

little-jonny-hairflips:

fur24:

raptorific:

I’M SO ANGRY

SOME 16TH CENTURY ASSHOLE WROTE “GOD B W YE” IN A LETTER AS AN ABBREVIATION FOR “GOD BE WITH YE”

AND IT APPEARED AS “GODBWYE”

WHICH WAS THEN READ AS “GOODBYE”

AND THAT’S WHY WE SAY “GOODBYE”

BECAUSE OF 16TH CENTURY CHAT SPEAK

I hope there’s proof to back this up because that’s hysterical

as the proud holder of an english degree i can confirm this as fact.

(via thepainofthesass)

morethanslightly:

parvasilvi:

morethanslightly:

“The Rashomon Job” episode of Leverage was perfect. “Multiple people tell the same story in very different ways” is one of my favorite tropes, and God, it was so good. I love these characters. I love this show.

Ikr! To be honest, Gina Belman really makes this episode for me, the many wonderful accents she does as Sophie Deveraux just bring me so much joy. And it’s so much fun to rewatch this episode and look at how they all viewed the different players and their own roles.

Her accents! And also that fact that Parker apparently perceives everything Sophie says as nonsense! I was gasping with laughter by that point.

Also I love that Leverage is a show about people who care about each other and have fun together. It’s not all dire stakes and doom and gloom all the time, even if they do deal with serious issues sometimes. I just love watching people building friendships and families together, especially if the people in question are complete weirdos. Leverage <3 <3 <3

(via bonehandledknife)