Any Day Woman

The personal dumping ground of a 24 year old theatre and music junkie.

[wilwheaton]

(via 681syyqpo3g61.jpg (526×537))

[roach-works]

hey so, as a man who works with other men, here’s a quick relationship tip: if he doesn’t much like cats, that might be just a personal preference. if he hates cats, if he tells you he hates cats as soon as he hears that you have a cat and love your cat, he’s an asshole. he’s telling on himself.  

every guy i’ve ever worked with that makes a point of telling me how much he hates cats as soon as i mention that i have a cat and love my cat, is always someone who is regularly cruel for fun and who laughs in the breakroom about the mean things they do for fun to their girlfriends and children. 

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

I wish I could articulate all the ways this makes sense and why it makes sense and stuff but it’s just like… something something misogyny something something resentment of creatures that don’t need you and don’t hang on your attention and approval all their lives.

[theseancequeen]

My dad gave me this exact same advice when I was a kid. “Anyone who hates cats is a control freak and an asshole.”

[fivefve]

Source

[marlinspirkhall]

I explained what a himbo was to my dad yesterday.

Dad: (nodding) The man from the ghostbusters reboot

[marlinspirkhall]

We watched this film exactly once, 4 years ago, and all my dad retained was that Kevin was a himbo. Respect.

[deadladyflowers]

[malglories]

wish i could go back to eden and give eve a vibrator

[justareallyboredfangirl]

what hozier song is this

[brattylikestoeat]

[genderfluid-lord-licorice]

i am being seduced

[helgasbattleax]

I have been seduced

[lesbianshepard]

muppet version of knives out where daniel craig is the token human and changes nothing about his performance

[velvetkisses28]

No one :

Me : *Going absolute feral at 2 am*

I HAVE TO LEARN LATIN AND FRENCH. I HAVE TO LEARN PLAYING PIANO AND GUITAR. I HAVE TO WRITE A POEM ABOUT THAT BOY I SAW IN THE LIBRARY. I HAVE TO TELL THE MOON HOW PRETTY SHE IS.

[nasa-cryptid]

wow! congrats, yall!

[alurdunfinn]

I, for one, welcome our new trans gods

[cockyroaches]

I love the implication that the Singular Christian God has been replaced by. Every trans person. We are now a unity

[hampop]

Whats a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God? What’s a God to my Trans friend Hailey who works at Kroger’s?

[hermionejeanblr-deactivated2022]

y'all be like “all draco wanted was to be loved and appreciated” but i remember he explicitly wanted muggleborns petrified, hagrid fired, harry expelled or killed multiple times and buckbeak’s head on a platter

[wearywanderer]

And he was loved. Like, Draco was the most explicitly loved child outside of the Weasleys, in the whole darn books.

[pleurocoelus]

Fandom’s nice!Draco does not exist.

[lytefoot]

Seriously. Like, you know that one of the rhyming plot points in Deathly Hallows is Harry being saved by a mother’s love for her son twice, right? Lily’s love for Harry, and Narcissa’s love for Draco. Draco’s mother loved him enough to lie to the Dark Lord’s face.

Lucius’s love for Draco is essentially the driving force of Draco’s entire arc in book 6. Voldy sets Draco to kill Dumbledore to punish Lucius for his failure at the Ministry. This is explicitly stated in the text. Why? Because watching Draco suffer and fail is the worst thing that could happen to Lucius.

I read a fic once that described 11-year-old Draco Malfoy as “exactly what you would expect from a baseline male child if is doting adoring father was Darth Vader.” Draco’s problem doesn’t stem from not being loved; it stems from the fact that the people who love him are objectively terrible people.

We don’t actually have explicit evidence that Narcissa is terrible outside her participation in her family’s shunning of Andromeda. However, we don’t have any evidence that she isn’t terrible, either. We do have evidence that Lucius is terrible in his own right: he set up a little girl to be possessed for a year and then die in order to score points over a minor political opponent. Voldy didn’t put him up to that s***, that’s all Lucius.

This is a really uncomfortable story. We don’t want to think that someone as awful as Lucius could also be a good father who adores his son. So a lot of people rewrite the Malfoys into terrible parents as well as terrible human beings, and deprive Draco of his own history.

Look. I get it. You want to write Draco a redemption arc. We have a societal addiction to redemption arcs. At the same time, you understand that redeeming bullies is poisonous to victims. So you want to turn Draco into a victim himself. Don’t do that. It’s lazy.

I maintain that if you want to give Draco a painful and eloquent redemption arc, part of his struggle comes from the fact that he has to recognize that his doting parents, who love him very very much, are also horrible people. You know the racist uncle you block on Facebook? That’s Lucius Malfoy. Except if the racist uncle was actually like, murdered people. And also he’s the uncle who pulled quarters out of your ear and let you keep them when you were 7, except instead of a quarter he bought you an entire quidditch team. You really don’t think that’s a more difficult road to redemption than “poor Draco just wanted to be loved”?

[lalalandlala123-deactivated2021]

I think the fact that Narcissa’s pretty much the wizarding world’s version of a Nazi sympathizer is evidence enough that she’s terrible.

[vivithefolle]

Narcissa’s a terrible person because she let Lucius set up Ginny Weasley to be murdered.

In some fanfics Narcissa is like “oh no, those poor children, you can’t do that to them husband of mine, imagine if it was your son” but in canon that never happens. Ginny can die and she won’t bat an eye because as long as it’s not her own child she doesn’t care.

So yeah Narcissa is NOT a nice woman. Not at all.

[disneyprinceronweasley]

Remember when Draco said if your wondering what that smell is a mudblood just walked in and she didn’t do shit? What a great person!

[solvskrift]

this is why it baffles me to see edits or meta about draco where he is labelled ‘misunderstood.’ he was every inch the cruel, bullying racist he presented himself to be. ‘misguided’ might be more appropriate, because it was it was his parents’ own attitudes that helped shape his behavior, but he was never misunderstood. with the malfoys, what you see is what you get. narcissa wouldn’t have given two shits about saving harry’s life if it hadn’t meant buying her time to find draco during the battle - harry knew this. he had seen draco in the castle earlier, but he had zero way of knowing if he was actually still alive at that point. he knew full well narcissa would act purely in her and her family’s own best interests, and he used that to his advantage.

[peetamaellark]

It keeps on getting better!!!!

[tamquamm-alter-idem]

The malfoys are a bunch of self preserving, bigoted gits but they LOVE each other. To the point of not giving a shit about literally anything else. Oh and I love this post.

[aletheiawriting]

Ways to find a plot when you have characters and a setting

… but only characters and a setting. 

You have a world. A universe. A setting. Good! Describe what happens in it normally - describe your main character(s)’s daily life. Now, what would destabilize this routine completely? If many things could, write them all down. Pick your favourite idea(s). Plots are born from change: everything was going normally… until it wasn’t.

Make a list with all the goals/motivations of your main characters. Can the plot revolve around your characters going after these goals? 

Which goals are more important? Focus on those. 

Are different characters’ goals in conflict with each other? Conflict is usually what propels a story forward. 

What could go wrong in your character’s pursuit of their goal? Make it go wrong.

If you don’t know your characters’ goals, go back to the drawing board; they probably need more development.

If there’s not enough conflict of different motivations, make a new character who creates conflict!

How do you want your main character to have changed by the end of the story? Do you want them to be less selfish? To have come to terms with a part of themself? To have learned something new? Write down ideas that could accomplish this change. 

If you can’t think of any way your character could be changed (read: improved) by the end of the story, go back to the drawing board. They might be “too perfect”.

Notes: 

The change that triggers your plot can be anything. It doesn’t have to be the start of an epic war that will bring forth the apocalypse, it can be your character meeting a new person who shakes things up in their life, or anything you want!

Motivations can be anything. It doesn’t have to be something grand - if your character’s motivation is to just live a quiet life, you can still come up with a plot that will get in the way of that goal! 

Character development can be anything, as well - you don’t need a cliché moral to the story; your character doesn’t even need to change in a good way, if that’s not what you want for your story!

This is what I’ve found works for me, but if you try it and it doesn’t, or if it sounds way too sententious and strict for you - that’s okay! Take it with a grain of salt! Maybe you think your characters are just fine and don’t need more developing even in the situations in which I recommended you “go back to the drawing board”, or maybe you have better ways of coming up with a plot. That’s fine, the writing process can be very personal!

[haonsowmqpoznwk-blog]

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

This is the bare minimum of decent human behavior for ANY gender. If you are an adult and someone who is not an adult wants to have a relationship with you, it is your duty to, at bare minimum, turn them away.

[glorious-spoon]

and like... having crushes on adults is a Normal Adolescent Thing, but it doesn’t mean they’re ready for--or for that matter, want--an actual relationship with said adult. it’s a goddamn developmental phase for kids working out their sexuality, and treating it as a chance to get laid is fucking monstrous.

[bendingsignpost]

Recommended tactics to deal with a child hitting on you:

“kiddo”

“buddy”

inform a friend to ensure you’re never left alone with them

refer to own age in conversation

“yeah, I know I look young, but you wouldn’t BELIEVE how awkward it is being mistakenly hit on by a teenager!”

upon that child turning 18:

“Happy birthday, kiddo!”

“Have you registered to vote yet?”

“Man, being a baby adult was so hard, good luck with that”

[awed-frog]

And as a reminder, teenagers often have crushes on older and/or unavailable people like celebrities precisely because psychologically/emotionally they’re not ready to have a relationship. On a subconscious level, fantasizing about someone you know you can’t be with allows you to experiment with your emotions in a safe way. And obviously an adult taking advantage of that will disrupt the entire thing.

[sadburgerboogie]

THE ONUS AND RESPONSIBILITY OF SELF-CONTROL IS ON YOU, ADULT.

NOT THE CHILD’S.

[theangrytherapist]

www.theangrytherapist.com

[liberalsarecool]

Staffers have more morals/decency than Senators.

[prokopetz]

Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.

Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.

Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.

Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.

Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.

Weekend at Bernie’s of the author: Insisting that the author would personally endorse your interpretation of the work if they happened to be present.

[excitementshewrote]

[hellenhighwater]

I’ll admit that this one has cemented itself in my psyche

[megan-renee]

obsessed