"Taking your own life... Interesting expression, taking it from who? Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your death is something that happens to everyone else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it!" - Sherlock Holmes I unapologetically swear a lot. I am a fat, pansexual, agender, anxious, depressed piece of shit. I think I am funny but I am probably not and I don't at all understand why people spend their time on me. "You could pour hot soup on my lap and I'll probably apologize to you." - John Mulaney
trans folk its ok to change ur name as many times as u want because its ur name and u dont have to listen to what anyone tells u. if people are bothered by u changing ur name they dont rlly care
hey! i was wondering how come you love goyle so much?? i never see a lot about him in fandom so i was just wondering? i love your blog!!
hello to you too wonderfun nonnie !! alright, not surprisingly, i have gotten this question quite a few times. no, gregory goyle isn’t much around the fandom and i personally have not seen a whole lot of development for him in fanfics and the fandom - at least, not to the extent of other characters. which is fair, even though he is portrayed as a close friend of draco malfoy he doesn’t get a lot of screen time, focus, or character development. so why do i love this obscure character (who, from what we know about him isn’t all that attractive) so much?
because of the potential. some people may agree with me and some people will not - that’s fine. everyone has their own opinion. but i personally like to believe that a lot of the hardcore pro-pureblood anti-mudblood students are that way because of the teachings and firm beliefs of their parents - they were forced to have their parents beliefs and never had the opportunity to form their own. they never had an opportunity to make their own choices, they were dragged right into their parents’ circle. so when finally faced with the reality and severity of it, and away from their parents and in the real world or in school surrounded by people with other beliefs, they have the chance to test out new waters and form their own beliefs.
now, onto gregory goyle. gregory goyle is often overlooked for a few well-known reasons: hes not super important to plot most of the time, he’s in draco malfoy’s shadow, he’s not attractive, he’s not bright, he really doesn’t have much beef with harry. i’m not really denying any of that. i just have this headcanon that he nearly gets kicked out of hogwarts for his poor grades and has to get someone to tutor him. on top of everything canon going on, behind the scenes he is getting tutored (by someone who is not pureblood or a pureblood who doesn’t follow the strict “pro pureblood” beliefs). he finds a passion for potions (all it requires is creating something - with his hands, judging the look and smell of the potion, and when he takes it out of an academic sense and into a practical sense he gets good at it). he learned to put school course facts into ways that he understands and can remember (history of magical wars phrased as if it were quidditch; which “team” won, which “tactic and maneuvers” did they use, their “colors” are their beliefs, their “team” is their name/country/identifying factor).
when separated from “stronger opinionated and passionate purebloods” such as malfoy’s early school year voiced opinions, he slowly starts to get out. he is by no means a genius and by no means a kindly saint, but he begins to form his own opinions and develop intelligence. also, he does make it on the quidditch team as beater (totally my position as well) and does show that he has the ability to care for someone with how he treats malfoy. it’s not quite a “gentle giant” belief, since gregory does have a mean streak to him and a need for control (as seen when he is amazing with the unforgivable curses), but there is the capacity for kindness and the ability, though needing to be developed, to look past someone’s exterior (or blood) and see what’s underneath. also a talent for the things that require practical application, less book knowledge. also, i think that if someone (a possible romantic person) were to take the time to focus on him - not for being friends with draco and not for the family he comes from but just in the effort to get to know him better -, someone who is willing to put up with the barbs he bares on the outside to see what is beneath, then there would be something unexpected that could care deeply under there. maybe i’m just a romantic.
idk. i also have a weird friendship headcanon here.
“I also think it’s weird in movies, when someone has amnesia, and they wake up in the hospital, a lot of times surrounded by friends and family, but when they open their eyes they go ‘WHO ARE YOU?!’ because that’s not how you act when you don’t recognize somebody. That’s very rude. It would be chaos out there if every time you saw someone you didn’t recognize you went ‘WHO ARE YOU?!’. I always try to be really polite in life, so if I had amnesia, you’d never know it! I’d wake up and they’d be like ‘Hi John, we’re so happy you’re awake’ and I’d just be like, ‘Oh, hey man… How’s it going? Oh hey dude, nice to see you again’ because that’s how you act when you can tell that someone recognizes you and you have no fucking clue who they are.”
Idk if you were actually looking for an answer but I talk about this with my therapist a lot so heres his wisdom:
Laziness=You don't want to do a task, so you choose not to, and you're fine with that. You either dont care if it gets done or you figure someone else will do it.
Procrastination=You want to do the task, but you put it off because it seems difficult/boring/time consuming.
Executive dysfunction=You want to do the task, and intend to at that very moment. There is no significant reason not to, but you can't because your brain is having difficulty transitioning between activities.
The key difference, he points out, is that if you experience guilt or shame from not doing it, then it's NOT laziness, because those feelings indicate, on some level, a desire to complete the task.
The latter two have more overlap imo, but for myself, I think of it as whether you are having trouble confronting the task itself, or just the transition.
So i’m not really in Supernatural fandom, but my roommate is and I’ve seen the series (except for the most recent few episodes), and I wanted to share a revelation I had.
Some fans have noticed the inconsistency between the episodes “After School Special” (4x13) and “Bad Boys” (9x07).
The flashbacks in the two episodes should only actually be a few months apart. But in “Bad Boys” Dean is shown to be a fumbling teenager who has his first kiss…
We don’t see him and Sam together, but the glimpse we get of Sam is a little kid playing with a toy plane out the Impala’s window.
In “After Schools Special” Dean is portrayed as a towering badass love ‘em & leave 'em sex god
And Sam is a realistic highschool freshman.
Anyway… I figured out why this makes PERFECT SENSE! Because “After School Special” is a Sam-centric episode, and the flashback we get is thus shaped by his POV. So remembers himself accurately, but remembers Dean as this mature badass.
On the other hand “Bad Boys” is entirely Dean’s POV, so he remembers himself accurately, but remembers Sam as a sweet little kid, even though he should have been pushing into his teens at the time.
So in other words Dylan Everett (2013) and Colin Ford (2008) accurately reflect high school aged Sam and Dean at the same time. Brock Kelly is just how Sam saw Dean. And the little kid with the plane is how Dean saw Sam.
"The private prison industry is set to be upended after California lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday banning the facilities from operating in the state. The move will probably also close down four large immigration detention facilities that can hold up to 4,500 people at a time.
The legislation is being hailed as a major victory for criminal justice reform because it removes the profit motive from incarceration. It also marks a dramatic departure from California’s past, when private prisons were relied on to reduce crowding in state-run facilities."