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

jebiwonkenobi:

It seems like the first rule of magic, or at least the first limitation mentioned, is usually ‘you can’t bring back the dead.’

And I know it makes sense from a writing standpoint, but I also wonder if it comes from somewhere else. If that’s just the first, most common human response to hearing that magic is possible.

Maybe the first question was, ‘Are the dead still going to stay dead?’ for so long that people stopped needing to say it, that it just got answered right away. Yes, the world will still hurt. Chin up, you can make fire from your fingertips. Maybe you can hurt it back.

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teawithpotter:

yarrayora:

darlinghogwarts:

The sorting hat didn’t listen to Harry, and yelled for everyone to hear, “Slytherin!”.

Seeing Harry’s distress, Ron Weasley’s eyes narrowed in determination. Minutes later, as Ron’s name was called by Minerva McGonagall, and as the sorting hat was lowered onto his head, all of the Hogwarts residents knew without a doubt what the sorting hat was going to say.

Imagine their surprise when the sorting hat instead said with resignation in his tone “Slytherin”

• RON BEING OUT OF HIS BROTHERS’ SHADOW
  
• EVEN THEN HIS FAMILY STILL LOVE HIM ALBEIT BEING A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED
• RON AND HARRY CALLING OUT ON SNAPE’S UNFAIRNESS
• THEY BOTH DEFENDED THE MEEK GRYFFINDOR NEVILLE
• STILL BEST FRIEND FOREVER WITH GRYFFINDOR HERMIONE
• SLYTHERIN RECOGNIZES HIS TALENT AS A CHESSMASTER AND TRY TO TEACH HIM HOW TO APPLY IT IN REAL LIFE
• SLYTHERIN RON

Yasssss

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rant incoming in 5…4…3…2…1

darthstitch:

It always pisses me off whenever fic writers forget that Steve Rogers also had a shit-ton of Bad Things to happen to him or at least marginalize it because Bucky had it worse. 

Look, I’m not arguing that it isn’t true.  Bucky’s definitely had the worst end of the whole deal so this isn’t and this shouldn’t be a contest in which, “Your pain and experience is worse, so you should get help and we’ll just ignore the other guy.”

Consider the shit Steve’s gone through:

a.  Has PTSD.  Possible suicidal tendencies.  Depression. 

b.  Has no other family or relatives to go home to - by the time Steve wakes up, any possible support system he might have had is long gone.  The Commandos are either dead or too old.  Peggy Carter is the same.  Bucky, of course, is out of the picture.  Steve has never come home from his war.  Never.

c.  Was apparently isolated by SHIELD in the first few days of his awakening and then pretty much manipulated into joining the group.  Also, the first thing SHIELD does to him is lie.  Nick Fury also lied to him about Phase 2 and while I don’t doubt Fury’s got better intentions than someone like Alexander Pierce…. that is not a good way to treat a man who’s led covert ops and been around spies in freakin’ World War II. 

d.  SHIELD is actually HYDRA and has been torturing and brainwashing and fucking over Steve’s Best Friend and Only Family.  So basically, Steve died for nothing. 

e.  The entirety of the whole Winter Soldier mess. 

f.   Everything special about you came from a bottle.  I honestly think those words still haunt Steve, especially in the wake of the whole Winter Soldier shitstorm. 

g.  Is still expected to be Captain America, beacon of hope and justice and right and he still pushes on, even as he deals with a world that’s vastly different from what he knows, with people who constantly remind him that he’s out of touch and out of sync, even if it’s in a good-natured, teasing way, even as he comes to grips with the fact that Bucky, his best friend, will never be the man he’s known and the fact that he should have jumped after his friend on the train, even as Bucky, with his memory all FUBAR’d, jumped after him on the helicarrier.  TL;DR - Steve deals with a poison stew of grief and guilt and anger on a daily basis. 

Seriously, the only one I’ve seen who pretty much just comes close to understanding the crap he’s gone through is Sam Wilson.  Who gets that it’s not a contest of who got the worst experience - just recognizes that Steve is also in pain and hurting and shouldn’t be shuffled aside and told to “walk it off” because Bucky is the tortured POW, not him.  TL;DR:  Steve Rogers also needs a hug.  A LOT of hugs.  A LOT of kindness and understanding.  Especially from the people who are supposed to be his friends. 

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Possessiveness 101

babychubbuff:

littlemousling:

Totally cool: “Hey, do you want to be exclusive?”

Red flag: “No one but me is allowed to touch you.”

Totally cool: “It makes me feel weird when you flirt with other people, can we talk about that?”

Red flag: “If you loved me, you would stop being friends with them. You KNOW it makes me jealous.”

Totally cool: “I hope we’re together forever. I’m so in this for the long haul.”

Red flag: “If you ever left me, I would kill myself.”

Totally cool: “Your mom is really unkind to me, can we try to minimize how often you bring me when you visit her?”

Red flag: “Your mom hates me, you need to stop talking to her. She’s trying to ruin our relationship.”

Totally cool: “I love you so much, oh my god.”

Red flag: “It’s a good thing I love you so much, because no one else would. You’d be alone forever without me.”

Other important red flags to keep in mind: someone who wants to jump into emotional/financial co-dependence very fast (like moving in together right away, or becoming each other’s only confidantes right away) and won’t take no for an answer; someone who tries to minimize how often you leave the house or interact with other people; someone who threatens you or themselves or your family or pets or possessions or financial future; someone who uses guilt to keep you from leaving a relationship.

Very important reminder: You do not need a reason to leave a relationship. Neither does the other person (or people). A relationship is over when one of the people in it says it’s over, period. Obviously it’s kind to take the end of a long relationship seriously, but abusers and manipulators have lost the right to that conversation. Lie if you need to–your safety is much more important than their feelings.

Trust your instincts!

I will reblog this forever

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catandkitty:

unpaid internships are oppressive and should be illegal i’m not being cute or funny they are 100% designed to reward people with greater access to resources and i’m fundamentally opposed to hiring for unpaid labor every internship should be required to provide at least a nominal stipend

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