no offense but like…..reblog the fics you like. there is nothing more discouraging than having people read your fic without leaving kudos or any form of response. comment if you like it! send them a message! use the tags to talk about how you liked it! share the work so that others can read it too!
too often fic writers deal with people hounding them for updates, but never any feedback. end the cycle. reblog the fics you like. talk about them. share them.
let autistic people infodump about their special interests without laughing at them or telling them they’re annoying. that kinda shit is what wrecks someone’s self-esteem and makes it even harder for them to form relationships bc everyone has told them they’re annoying and that their interests are stupid. don’t do it
forgot to add: this goes for ppl w adhd / add that have hyperfixations as well
anyway shout out to all my girls with strong jawlines and broad shoulders y'all we are so beautiful it’s unreal and don’t ever let anyone tell you different
ur personality is defined by ur favorite line in hallelujah
tag your favorite line of hallelujah
“tag your favorite line of hallelujah” scans to Hallelujah.
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you tried to read the words as prose but noticed how its scansion goes and now you can’t unhear the tune, so screw ya recall the phrase you love the most then once again reblog this post and tag your fav’rite line of hallelujah
Because - the statement seems so ordinary, when you first hear it. It’s just another badass phrase from the trailers generalizing how the world is bad, and Diana is too good and too young to go out and be trying to protect it.
Then I remember how Hippolyta suffered.
She too was once a hero. She too fought to protect mankind. She was also young, daring and adventurous once.
But she lost.
She lost her sisters, mothers and friends in war. She watched her clan be killed, slaughtered mercilessly and endlessly at the hands of Ares and his soldiers - and this battle must’ve been so traumatizing for her to the point that when she managed to lead the remaining Amazons to victory, she demanded that the gods give her a safe haven, where she and her sisters could live in peace and safety. She swore to protect her Amazon family, and her island allowed for them to live in isolation, while kept safe from the dangers of man.
Zeus granted her a child - and you can imagine Hippolyta’s love and tenderness towards this child, the first child the Amazons had seen in centuries. Hippolyta poured so much heart and tears into raising Diana. Training her to be the best warrior, protecting her, spending time with her as mother and daughter. Watching Diana grow. Braiding her hair. Feeding her by hand, and laughing as she told her daughter stories. Helping Diana hop onto and adjust her saddle when she was old enough to ride a horse. The two of them leaving the rest of the group whilst on hunts, and laughing as they raced each other on horseback through the luscious forests and coasts of Themyscira. Hippolyta watching nervously as Diana shoots her first arrow, and being unable to hide her pride when Diana helps her opponents up to their feet again after knocking them down.
This daughter, this woman is nothing like any other Amazon. Diana is a born warrior and a natural leader at heart, but there is a warmth to her voice and a tender love when she meets with others.
Hippolyta worries for Diana’s innocence.
So when Steve crashes on the island and brings word of war raging through the world, and Ares is the prime suspect, and Hippolyta catches Diana in the act of stealing God-Killer and the Wonder Woman armor, she is heartbroken.
Here is her daughter, the pride of her life, one of the greatest people Hippolyta has ever known - being selfless and brave, just as Hippolyta once was herself. Diana is determined to go out and save the world, she is young, she is innocent - and she will see and face many horrors, horrors that even Hippolyta herself cannot understand.
As any mother would, a huge part of Hippolyta wants Diana to stay home and be safe. Man’s world has betrayed the Amazons before, and Diana is too young and naive to understand. Her only daughter - what if she doesn’t return?
But another part of her understands. Diana has what it takes to be the ambassador between Themyscira and the rest of the world. Diana can’t stay here on this island her entire life - the true test is out there, where danger lies.
Hippolyta willingly gives up her greatest love for the sake of the betterment of mankind. She gives up her only daughter and the future queen to the Amazons to a lost cause, and her beloved child will see pain and torture like no other before.
The phrase “they do not deserve you” carries more weight to Queen Hippolyta than it possibly could to anyone else, and honestly, its so overwhelmingly heartfelt and sad - and this movie is going to be so kickass I could never put it into words.
tiny american civics lesson for those here and abroad who woke up going “uh, so the travel ban is lifted because one judge in seattle said so? I mean, cool, but really?”
that’s how the whole fucking system is supposed to work.
we’ve got 3 parts to how laws are made and enforced in America: Executive (the president), Judicial (the court system), and Legislative (Congress).
I know we’ve not done a good job in the past few weeks showing this, but it is a system of checks and balances. we were very much explicitly not supposed to ever have a king or a king-like executive. that’s why it took them so fucking long to write the founding documents, because there weren’t many good examples of that method, at the time.
anyway, the president can do stuff with executive orders (though tr**p has very much overreached, surprising nobody), and then the other two parts of the wobbly-ass tri-corner hat holding up the rule of American law get to exact checks and balances against it.
right now? It’s the judiciary branch going “hey there slow your roll you unmitigated disaster of an executive branch.”
sometimes, if Congress can get 2/3 of them to agree, they can do much the same thing, but I currently heavily identify with:
Anyway if the three don’t agree (for example, this morning), we end up with a situation called a “constitutional crisis,” which, despite sounding like a lost Hamilton song, is actually a large problem that’s gonna be a shitshow to sort out (andhopefullyendsupwithSOMEONEgettingimpeached).
but we can have this shitshow, because we don’t have a king. we never have, we never were supposed to, and yeah it’s been an awful two weeks of us remembering that we don’t, but hey! the american rule of law! it was vaguely well put together!
(another side of this philosophy is that, you know, we get to hit the voting booths EVERY YEAR, GO VOTE EVERY TIME, MY GOD, and also, impeachment doesn’t involve beheading someone)
I’m so like…amused and frustrated by people who are just SO indignant about the protests happening today.
Like, listen up ya Cheetos, you spend all day monday singing praises about how great MLK was.
You don’t get to pitch a fit on Friday when people do the same shit he did.
Oh but they are blocking roads! They are shouting and making people feel uncomfortable and it is inconvenient! Yes, you french fry. What do you think MLK did?
I never understood how Harry could have been so well adjusted. He grew up in an abusive household and there aren’t many signs that he did, except when he’s actually with the Dursleys or in their house. Shape and Riddle were both abused and have traits that reflect that, but Harry doesn’t.
There are a lot of traits resulting from abuse that Harry has. His reluctance to trust adults to protect him, his saving-people thing, his aversion to asking questions until he can’t bear not asking, his passive-aggressiveness (usually in the form of sassing someone back), his willingness to use mind games to reach his goals when necessary, and that’s just off the top of my head. There’s more evidence of abuse in his behaviour than we see in Snape, Sirius and Riddle combined IMO (unsurprisingly, since the majority of the story is told through his eyes).
Too many people act as though the only traits one could possibly have from being abused are the ones where you continue the cycle, and it’s an attitude that’s prevalent in real life too. If you aren’t aggressive, don’t overreact to small slights, don’t have a desperate need to control everything around you, don’t immediately lose all self-control when confronted with something that reminds you of the abuse, etc, then many people feel that’s evidence you weren’t ‘really’ abused. Not really, not badly, not like the people who do lose it at others and are thus the ‘true’ victims of abuse. And that is blatantly offensive to so many people who have worked very hard to make sure the cycle ends with them and they never cause the same sort of damage - damage that was often caused by a ‘bad’ survivor becoming an abuser in turn, mind you.
IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.
ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME
‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’
THANK YOU
BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE
BREATH - THE NOUN FORM
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE
WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY
WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER
THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)
DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN
WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)
WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING
BAWL- TO SOB/CRY
BALL- A FUCKING BALL
YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT
AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.
THANK YOU.
*slams reblog*
IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.
