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

athenaltena:

ubercream:

mister-smalls:

ubercream:

mister-smalls:

Petition to sit down all the people who make coma theories about Adventure Time and tell them “listen, this fucking show is about the last human living in a post-apocalyptic world where deadly magic has been reawakened following a global thermonuclear war that wiped out the rest of the human species, how much fucking darker do you want it to be”

Even though I thought my first Creative Writing professor was kind of a douche, he made a good point about this. One of our first assignments was to write in this eerie, otherworldly style (we were mimicking a specific author whose name escapes me), so we had to write about eerie otherworldly things happening. It’s no exaggeration to say that more than half the class had a “big reveal” where we find out that the story’s strange events and themes are all in the mind of some person in an insane asylum, or someone having a drug trip.

My professor said something like, “you just successfully wrote a world that feels separate from our own, but got frightened last minute and shoe-horned in normalcy. You showed that you were afraid to commit to something different and interesting.” Though I’m typically a contrarian and a piece of garbage, I am inclined to agree with my professor. I feel like people who write coma theories and the like are afraid to accept that the world of the story is separate from our own. They like everything wrapped up in this crazy little realism box where nothing out of the ordinary happens in fiction.

you win the Best Addition to a Post prize

Thank you :)

This pretty well hits the nail on the head as to why I generally hate coma/dream theories and people who think they’re so fucking deep for coming up with it. In my book it’s LAZY, plain and simple.

(Source: frog-and-toad-are-friends, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

god-is-prochoice:

ldevstuff:

geekandmisandry:

Shout out to abortion doctors.

So many of you put your lives and safety on the line, looking for loopholes, fighting laws and outright ignoring them in favour of the welfare of pregnant people and their right to a safe abortion.

THEY ARE MURDERERS AND SHOULD BE IMPRISONED FOR THAT OFFENCE-AS SHOULD ANY WOMAN WHO WANTS A BABY MURDERED

1. Fetuses, embryos, and zygotes are not babies. Babies are babies. The only time that word means anything during a pregnancy is when the pregnant person calls the very much wanted fetus inside their own body “my baby”.

2. Abortion is not murder.

3. More people die from complications during pregnancy than from abortion procedures (Just in case you give a shit).

4. YOU are demanding the abolishment of a procedure that is 100% voluntary and more often than not enriches the lives of already born people who go through them.

5. Many people with children TODAY have had an abortion in the past.

6. Many people who are pregnant NOW have had an abortion in the past.

7. Many people who plan to have children in the future, and maybe even lots of them, have had an abortion in the past.

8. If Jesus is the reason you’re against abortion, you better think again. Jesus didn’t give a shit.

9. Doctors and providers who offer safe abortions are a godsend. You, however, are like a boil on a warthog’s ass.

10. Shut the ever loving fuck up.

(via academicfeminist)

hogwartsaheadcanon:

harrypotterconfessions:

acesirius:

everybody always makes the marauders out to be super cool and suave but dude

they had codenames

they named their own friendship group

as far as i can tell only aBSOLUTE DORKLORDS DO THAT

how much do you wanna bet the entirety of hogwarts refused to call them ‘the marauders’ and they got all grumpy abt it

The entire exchange between them all during their 5th year exam also attests to this.
1. He’s sitting in my chair 2. He’s wearing my clothes 3. His names remus Lupin??
That’s not even funny ! but they all laughed. And they’ve known he’s a werewolf for how many years at that point? 3? I can’t get over it lolol it is absolutely dorky.

Sirius and James wore matching Phoenix shirts while riding the motorbike together.

Elvendorks.

In addition (and I will categorically never get over this) sixteen year old James Potter doodling Lily’s initials in a love heart on his DADA OWL exam? 

And for god’s sake, they dedicated a significant chunk of their free time to drawing their entire school (and not just any school- Hogwarts, the most convoluted building anywhere ever) and enchanting it to keep track of every single person, not to mention the fucking stairs and the walls that move. This map can see people under the Invisibility Cloak, doesn’t give two shits about Polyjuice Potion. 

They were gi-fucking-gantic dorks. You can bet that their dorm room had more advanced textbooks in it than any other in the castle. You can bet that their homework (despite often likely being done a little close to the line) will nine times out of ten be twice as many inches as they were asked for including moving, colour coded diagrams and insanely complex theory on how to improve the effects of said spell or potion, potential applications that literally no-one would have thought of.

Like the very fact that they’re canonically fucking mischief makers of the calibre of Fred and George, the fact that they caused trouble that way is just textbook behaviour for a lot of really really bright kids? They were goddamn geniuses, and they were bloody bored 90% of the time, so they pushed themselves. Acing transfiguration? No problem, let’s become Animagi to help our best mate. Ancient Runes way bellow our skill level? Fine, we’ll use a combination of that, arithmancy and charms to make a map that tracks people all over the castle.

They were absolute nerd kings, and I sodding well love it.

(via lupinatic)

sapphicwerewolves:

my fav linguistic trend is how younger ppl use “like” to signify paraphrasing and how older ppl dont get it. i’ll say something along the lines of “he was like, ‘fuck off!’” and any older person in the vicinity will be like “did he really say that??” no i was paraphrasing, hence the use of “like” instead of “said.” try to keep up, sandra

(Source: werewolfbehavior, via dyinghistoric)

lupinatic:

raptorific:

hufflepuffbeater:

raptorific:

controversial: dumbledore would’ve made the right decision taking the 1991-1992 house cup away from slytherin even if harry and co. hadn’t saved the school and stopped voldemort from returning to power

Can I ask why? Genuinely curious here

Slytherin students didn’t have better academic performance and they certainly didn’t have better behavior than the other houses. What they did have was a head of house who would award his own students points for almost no reason while handing out penalties to other houses like candy. If Draco Malfoy answered a question correctly in potions, he’d be awarded ten points, while Hermione giving the same answer would lose ten points for being a know-it-all. 

That’s the thing, the game was rigged in Slytherin’s favor. Snape set his own house up to win, through absolutely no merit of their own, seven years in a row with no penalty. Meanwhile Dumbledore is made out to be the one who “just hands victory to his own house” after four members of his house put their lives on the line to save the school from a genocidal mass-murderer. 

Gryffindor deserved the house cup because their students saved the school, but even if they didn’t, Slytherin should have had it taken away from them because they didn’t earn it. 

I can’t even condemn Dumbledore for letting Slytherin believe they’d won, sit in a green-and-silver dining hall, and then changing it when he announced they’d actually lost, because after seven years of cheating, it’s not enough for them to just lose. If they’d just lost, they’d think they were cheated out of something that’s rightfully theirs. Allowing them to believe they’d just once again been handed an award they didn’t deserve, and then giving it directly to the house that actually did something to deserve it, teaches a valuable lesson. 

Anyway, if we’re going to criticize Dumbledore’s abilities as a school administrator for anything, it’s how unchecked he left Snape’s treatment of his students. Even putting aside the emotional and physical abuse he inflicted on his students, there should have been some provision in place to prevent his abuse of the points system before he had a chance to hand it to his own students for ONE year, let alone seven. 

There should have been a provision that the current holder of the house cup is ineligible for participation in the next year’s competition. There should be an upper limit on how many points you can take away from another house’s students, and how many points you can give to your own students. Students should be able to appeal unfair penalties to the headmaster. 

Point is, Slytherin shouldn’t get an award just because their head-of-house refuses to play fair

And to people who say “but that reinforces the anti-Slytherin perception of the school” - here’s the thing, it doesn’t. What people are quick to forget is that Gryffindor was actually tied for the Cup until the Norbert incident, and when that happened THE WHOLE SCHOOL was shitty at Harry, Hermione and Neville for screwing up the chance at a non-Slytherin victory for the first time in eight years solid. Slytherins were literally going up to them and thanking them for making sure they didn’t have to actually work for their victory, and the other three Houses were giving them the cold shoulder. The whole school was ALREADY tired of Slytherin being handed the win - and please don’t try and tell me Slytherin earned every single win or that Snape was just trying to level some imaginary inherently anti-Slytherin playing field, I will laugh at you.

I see even people who think Gryffindor earned the win lament the feelings of the Slytherins, “OMG the Slytherins rilly rilly rilly thought they’d won again, and that mean old Dumbledore let them think that just so he could have a dramatic win for his precious Gryffindors! Why didn’t he award the points when Harry was still in the hospital wing? That would have been fair! Imagine how they cried that night, how much humiliation they felt! They were so happy and Dumbledore let that happen just to take it away, how could he do that to children?!” What every single one of these arguments manages to miss is that Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students are also children. Are they not? Or are they short adults, obligated to take every loss maturely with a smile and an ‘oh well, guess we just need to try harder next time!’? No. They’re children, and they’re not happy, and why should they be? Three Gryffindor students literally risked their lives to defeat the greatest evil Slytherin House had ever given to the world, and that still wasn’t enough. Slytherin was going to walk away with the win yet again for the eighth time in a row. That’s it, it’s official, there’s no point in trying, bye bye. And then, somehow, miraculously, things are set right. Bravery and cleverness and loyalty and all the things those three Houses most prize, are given their just reward and celebration.

With that one act, Dumbledore told every muggleborn and halfblood in the school “your rights are worth defending, your muggle heritage is not a crime that disqualifies you from being here, and preventing the person who wanted you exterminated from coming back is worth all the reward in the world.” But its the feelings of the Slytherins, the ones who had literally gotten complacent and assumed the Cup was theirs by right, the ones who literally resented having to work for said Cup, that this fandom gives a damn about because they didn’t get what was essentially a shiny toy. Honestly, I don’t trust Snape not to have tried to skew the results back in Slytherin’s favour if Dumbledore had given the points earlier. Apparently, neither did Dumbledore.

It was Dumbledore letting Snape get away with stacking the deck that reinforced anti-Slytherin feeling in the other three Houses, not him saying ‘no, actually, these people are getting a public reward because they deserve it’. Dumbledore showed three quarters of his students that yes, it’s worth trying, worth doing the right thing and taking on the impossible even if it seems like the deck is stacked against you. And he showed the final quarter of his students to not get complacent and assume people in authority will always grease the hinges for you. A whole year of students - Tonks’ year, in fact - went through Hogwarts with Slytherin winning every single House Cup. The other three Houses never once knew the joy and pride of winning - and here’s the thing, the Slytherins never learned what it is to lose, which is an absolutely vital thing to learn. Snape (and Dumbledore, by failing to intervene earlier) didn’t do that year’s Slytherins any favours.

curdlemilkstealbabies:

Let’s talk about Natasha Romanoff.
Let’s talk about her NOT being Hydra.
About the fact that a notoriously skilled ex-KGB agent joined SHIELD, and Hydra decided not to recruit her.
Something about her behavior before or immediately after she defected to SHIELD tipped them off that she wouldn’t join Hydra if they revealed themselves to her, that there was nothing they could offer her that she wanted more than she wanted to join SHIELD.
Let’s talk about how from the first days of her redemption arc this ruthless assassin displayed morals that told Hydra they couldn’t take her in, and skills that showed they couldn’t take her out.
Marvel still hasn’t given us a Black Widow prequel to show us why, but Natasha Romanoff wasn’t Hydra and I think we should talk about that.

(via clockwork-mockingbird)

jesussbabymomma:

jesussbabymomma:

For anyone who has ever stained their underwear with period blood…..put your stained underwear in a mixture of ¾ ice cold water and top it with a ¼ of peroxide……mix it…….give it about an hour or two……let it dry……and ya got brand new, blood-free underwear

Reblog to save your favorite pair of underwear (and a life)

(via lupinatic)

iwasawas-strings:

legolokiismighty:

theprettiestboy:

sillysadskeleton:

mazarinedrake:

Donald Trump is exactly the kind of person that Jesus would have thrown out of the temple and beaten with a stick, and the fact that so many self-identified Christians want to put him in office tells you pretty everything wrong with white American Christianity. 

Because Jesus had authority at temples and beat people.

I 100% can’t tell if you’re joking here but he actually did chase people out of a temple at least once for using religion for their own selfish gains, complete with literal table flipping and improvised whips

So really it’s not that he would have trump thrown out as much as he would storm in and accuse him of turning his father’s house into a den of thieves before upending a table on his head

Dude, Jesus not only chased them out, he broke stuff they were selling, let loose all of their animals, and fucking flipped all the money-changing tables.

Jesus 100% would have been chasing Trump out with a table leg.

Canon Jesus 10000% better than fanon Jesus

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

feferi:

there has been a pretty far-reaching trend on this website to blog about the effects of mental illness and trauma on emotional regulation and an aggressive campaign to get people to not only understand but accept boundary-crossing behavior from people because it is a reflection of their mental illness/trauma, as far as to imply that you are ableist if you are not able to tactfully handle and accept someone else’s dysfunctional coping mechanisms and behavior despite your own discomfort. i see this most often with posts about bpd but there are other topics as well. i haven’t commented on any of it because it’s not a pie i wanted a finger in, but it has over time led me to develop severe discomfort around people who follow that line of thought to the point that i have disengaged, unfollowed, and unfriended many people who agree with it.

the stuff i’m seeing passed around now about “supporting perpretrators” in addition to survivors is the horrifying track down which that train of thought has sped, because what people don’t seem to understand is that mental illness and trauma do no make you an exception to the boundaries of those around you. it is necessary to be aware of the ways that survivors and mentally ill people may lash out emotionally at those they are close to but it is not actually necessary to be “accepting” to the point that it is harmful to you. your emotional boundaries are important, more important than whatever obligation you feel to “accommodate” someone’s trauma.

it is not “okay” that survivors sometimes display manipulative/abusive behaviors towards the people around them and it is important to handle these situations with tact, sure, but not to the detriment of setting your own boundaries and checking the behaviors in question. when friends i know are mentally ill/ trauma survivors have lashed out at me with emotionally manipulation tactics in times of great distress, i have supported them afterward, but i have always followed this up with a discussion about how these kinds of behaviors can not and will not continue or our relationship will end. this is not “ableist” or refusing to support survivors’ trauma, it is setting strong boundaries within the context of supporting each other and providing the community in which we all can heal. what is important here is that these are isolated incidents – learned defense mechanisms arising in times of panic and stress – and not consistent grabs for power. these are not people following the deliberate, overarching pattern of actions abusers use to isolate and control victims, and their actions are easily distinguishable from such.

my point is that this discourse has allowed people to blur the line between these behaviors and abuse when it comes to community support. we should support abusers in our communities as well, they say, because otherwise we would be isolating vulnerable marginalized people who are just struggling with their own trauma. this is exactly what abusers want. this is not a radical attitude. abusers depicting themselves as helpless victims of emotions and circumstances out of their control has pretty much always been the abuser party line. there is nothing productive or useful or valid about carving out community resources for “accountability” in ways that perpetuate bad abuse politics and logics that have been used to silence survivors for years and years. you cannot support survivors and also support their abusers by continuing to welcome them in the same community spaces, period, and it takes some ridiculous mental gymnastics to pretend otherwise.

(via determamfidd)