Fairy Lights

Mara. 28. Aroace/queer. She/her pronouns. Fandoms, feminism, and sometimes cross stitch. Protector of all your hated female characters. Abby Yates is an asexual lesbian. Formerly mylittlscorpion, philtheavenger, and fishfingerslovecustard.

[tackminyard]

harry can’t duel

harry can’t duel

harry cannot duel

he only uses expelliarmus and he cannot duel

even if he’s dueling the FUCKING DARK LORD

[quillsand]

Imagine the conversation ministry officials must be having when they see his auror application:

“He’s Harry Potter!”

“I know but that doesn’t change the fact-”

“Harry! Freaking! Potter!”

“We still need him to attend extra duelling lessons-”

“We can’t put Harry Potter in extra duelling lessons!”

“He only ever uses one spell-”

“Yeah, but he’s really good at it.”

[coloneltomarry-deactivated20180]

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Harry Potter, the boy who dared to ask, “why study all these other spells if I can get really good at yeeting everyone’s wands out of their hands”

[abbyyatez]

Are you kidding? Harry is GREAT at dueling. DADA is the only class he ever truly excelled at. He picks up jinxes and defensive maneuvers far quicker than most and once or twice even better than Hermione (remember he scored higher than her on their year 3 DADA end of year exams? The only year they both took the test and had a competent teacher?). Harry has fast reflexes, good impulses, and is a powerful spellcaster (he cast patronus as a 13 year old which is practically UNHEARD of). He is able to effectively lead the DA to the point that the members are well prepared to assist in the battle for Hogwarts. This requires him to have mastered a number of dueling spells - how could he be an effective teacher if he didn’t know the spells himself?

Harry is great at dueling, but he chooses to avoid it when possible. He does not like being violent, but he WILL defend himself and his loved ones when he needs to. His whole life has been filled with people who want to hurt him - his relatives, Snape, Malfoy, Voldemort, the list is endless. It would be so easy for Harry to resort to violence to solve his problems, he has innumerable examples to draw inspiration from.

But he doesn’t.

Harry could be a master dueler, wreaking havoc and pain on the battlefield. Yet, despite his potential to excel at offensive magic, the spell Harry Potter is most well known for is the disarming spell. A spell that does not injure the target. A spell the prevents further violence from occurring.

That is no accident.

[abbyyatez]

This is still the best response to a post I’ve ever written on this godforsaken website, and I’m glad to see it still getting reblogged occasionally.

[abbyyatez]

I’m gonna take a week or two break from tumblr. I’m stuck scrolling and not sleeping and I need to break the cycle. Peace ✌️

[hopeless-awkward]

[spanishlandia]

[yasmin-khan]

bonus:

[fakeeleanorshellstrop]

#confirmation that The Good Place is millennial culture™

[kylorenema]

me @ drake when i heard he was texting millie bobby brown:

[saratrantoul-archive]

someone: omg please read this post! its so good! dont scroll past this

me, gazing at the literal wall of text before me in despair:

[atheistj]

Incorrect Tolkien quotes

[artist-formally-known-as-xazz-d]

I legit don’t know how this is an incorrect quote

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Kenyan ban on lesbian love story Rafiki is lifted

Shortly after the news that the film would premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival the film was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board “due to its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law”.

Producer, writer and director Wanuri Kahiu successfully sued to have the ban lifted so that the film could be screened in Kenya and she would be eligible to submit her film for a Foreign Language Film Oscar.  On September 21, 2018 judge Wilfrida Okwany ruled in Kahiu’s favour writing, “I am not convinced that Kenya is such a weak society that its moral foundation will be shaken by seeing such a film.”

The film will now be screened at some point in Kenya before the October 30th deadline for a minimum of 1 week to ensure Oscar eligibility. 

Rafiki is the story of the teenage daughters of two warring politicians who fall in love with each other despite prejudice from their friends, family, and society at large. The film has U.S. distribution, but no official theatrical release date as of yet. It will be released in France on September 26, 2018 and in Norway on November 16, 2018

[keybladesoras]

Shuri and her amazing sass.

[spicyh0tramen]

I just read “Hufflepuff isn’t a house where you can stick people who don’t fit in the other houses”

But the thing is? It literally it is, Helga Hufflepuff said she would take the rest.

She preferred the loyal and hardworking for her house, but felt that everyone should have a chance. Not a Gryffindor, a Slytherin, or a Ravenclaw? Not a loyal, hardworking Hufflepuff either?

Well that’s okay. Helga Hufflepuff founded her house believing anyone should be given a chance at Hogwarts. Those four archetypes aren’t all that matter, and if you don’t fit any of them Hufflepuff will still welcome you. 

Godric/Rowena/Salazar were perfectly happy to say “You don’t fit into our houses, you can’t come to Hogwarts” and it was only Helga who was willing to say “You might not fit my ideals of a student, but you can still be in my house”

Like. I think that’s super cool. I don’t like it when people shoehorn Hufflepuff into being one and the same like the rest of the houses, sure, loyalty, hardworking, kindness.. that’s the priority.. but it’s truly a place for everyone. And that’s where Hufflepuff’s kindness shines the most.

‘I’ll teach the lot And treat them just the same.’

‘Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest and taught them all she knew’

Hufflepuff’s pride as a house comes not only from loyalty, hardworking, toil, and kindness, but from diversity. Something the other founders did not realize the importance of.

[societyofbadgers]

I never really thought about this- but you are 100% right.

[abbyyatez]

Omg this lady at the nail salon is talking to her daughter loudly on speaker phone and I’m about to strangle her.

[melynskeys]

Peter Kavinsky + calling Lara Jean “Covey”

[owedbetter]

scarlett johansson is shaving her head to play aang as we speak

[sunfortune]

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

I keep wanting to make a joke about how Bilbo Baggins is the ultimate queer representation, this being a joke about how the word “queer” meant simply “out of the ordinary” in Tolkien’s vernacular and so the narrator of The Hobbit repeatedly calls Bilbo queer when pointing out ways his behavior deviates from the norms of hobbit society, but I hesitate to do that because enough people say stuff like that to be mean-spirited and flippant that the whole format is ruined.  So, like, insert your own joke here I guess.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Really, though–and I suppose this is what the youths would call a “headcanon”–I am actually 200% here for gay Bilbo.  He’s financially well-off and very respected in his community, but even at the age of 50 (which I think is, like, early 30s in hobbit years) he lives all alone and pretty much keeps to himself.

So he’s a bachelor, and you might even say he’s a confirmed bachelor, if you know what I mean.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Bilbo Baggins is an aromantic asexual because his only love is bacon and pipeweed and his only lust is for adventure.

[disneyadaptations]

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)

[highfunctioningfool]