RoonilWazlibMalfoy

he/him, chaotic dumbass, lover of Snape, writer of fic

[evenmyzefronposter]

Bro. I feel like 95% of the time I spend in fandom spaces is just spent defending Snape and getting attacked by snaters. And it's cool, because I love him, but I'm so tired of it. Can I just say some of the things I love about him for a minute without all that? Not that I'm really asking permission. Ima do it anyway.

I adore his snark. Give me "It is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent." Give me his little sarcastic Umbridge bow. "Would you like me to do it now or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?" The way he knocks Lockhart on his ass during dueling club. The sass on that man, am I right?

I love a self-satisfied Snape. "Yes, Potter, that is my job" with his eyes all bright. "You think he is mistaken? Or that I have somehow hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?" so sarcastic, because he knows that is exactly what he's done. Amazing.

I love his strength. He has been through some shit. He was abused and bullied, groomed into a creepy cult where he had to serve an insane person. He's been manipulated so many times and he's seen people die. But he still has this inner strength. He's still a good person who tries to protect everyone that he can and who tries to catch and stop people who are doing wrong.

He's freaking brilliant! He's over here modifying potions and creating brand new spells back when he's still a student. He was a potions professor not long after he graduated. He can brew wolfsbane, an apparently very complex potion, for someone he doesn't even like as if it's nothing. And he can fly! Like, no one else other than Voldemort is out there doing that, but look at our boy Snape. He's so talented.

I actually love that he isn't nice. Because he doesn't have to be nice to do the right thing (and sometimes in his case, its arguably more effective that he's not). It just makes him so damn relatable. He gets annoyed and he's got a short temper. And it's not that he should be like that, of course. He's kind of an asshole. But with all he's been through and all he's done, I get it. I'd be irritated af if some kid refused to listen to me and melted through iron cauldrons in their ineptitude. Or if one student was constantly helping other students cheat and constantly waving their hand around, loudly trying to prove how clever they are. Or if some famous kid was risking life and limb on an almost daily basis while I was trying to protect him. Lol I digress. I see you, Snape.

I love his style. I love his greasy hair and his crooked teeth and his prominent nose. I love his sweeping black robes and his black fingernails (is that last one canon or fanon? Its canon to me, either way. I will die on that hill.) He just has a certain kind of aesthetic and I'm completely here for it. He's not conventionally attractive at all but he's so lovely.

I don't know. Sometimes it's exhausting to always have to defend and never be able to just appreciate. So I wanted to love on him a bit.

[redstonedust]

why do US patriots think they own "red white and blue" there's a lotta red white and blue flags out there. "i stand for the red white and blue" yass me too let's go costa rica 🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷 let's go laos 🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦 fuck it up liberia 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 nepal get triangular with it 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

[nymph1e]

If you like:

Found family forged in fire

Cats

NBC Hannibal (you'll get it later)

Male main characters who go against the tough guy emotionless stereotypes

Cartoonish gore

Rule of cool applied liberally

Crying (you'll be the one crying)

Some of the best damned fights and confrontations you have ever come across

Edge of your seat action where you have no idea what's going to happen next

Faith in humanity amongst the darkest of situations

Death games

Extremely well written female characters

Fantastic worldbuilding

The tag "crack treated seriously" on Ao3

Rpgs

AIs deteriorating into insanity

Dinosaurs with feathers (and feather boas)

Feet (??)

Then I am BEGGING you on my hands and knees to read Dungeon Crawler Carl. The audiobooks are phenomenal, the series is completely available on kingle unlimited and the first episode of the audio drama is free on Soundbooth Theatre. Literally one of the best series is have read in YEARS.

[moonmint]

Sometimes a family is you, your ex girlfriend's cat who now has the intelligence of a person, and the shapeshifting indentured servant you tricked into being your manager.

[badsciencejokes]

Love the puns from Pun Hub

[gauntletqueen]

Allow me to add my favorite

[heyitsrink]

Small collection of doodles as I work my way through the Running Close to the Wind audiobook. Clearly I'm having a great time.

[andalusiapunk]

so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”

hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.

“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”

[sourcedumal]

I need this to be force taught at all companies

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

your yearly reminder that Baby It’s Cold Outside is a song about a woman having CONSENSUAL sex, at a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. The female singer is offering up the token demurrals society expects her to, because it’s expected, not bc she doesn’t fully intend to stay and have awesome sex with a dude she’s into. The male singer knows this, and is in turn offering her an excuse to give to the neighbors in the morning (“it was too cold for me to go home, the only responsible thing to do was spend the night at his place. because of the weather, get your minds out of the gutter”). A 1950s audience would have understood all this, but the nuance gets lost in a modern age where women are actually allowed to say yes when they mean it.  

Also the “hey what’s in this drink” thing was a common joke at the time, where the punchline was that there was in fact nothing in the drink. the woman’s making a joke that she wouldn’t do this if she was sober, oh goodness no! it’s only a joke bc both she and the man are in on the punchline: she is sober, and is only staying bc she wants to

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

my tags: The female singer IS saying yes but using an outdated social script that doesn’t translate well to the 21st century. this song was funny and sweet to 1950s audiences bc it was about two people having fun and hooking up, and using the winter weather as an excuse

#it’s a fun song about having fun sex while being snowed in together. which as i say it i realize is ABSOLUTELY a fanfic trope  #they were SNOWED IN TOGETHER. and there was only ONE BED  #OH MY GOD THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED 

[pfdiva]

#i like this song best when i can see the singers#and some of this energy comes across#when you can see the grins she’s giving him#the shared joke they have

[totallybemused]

It’s fun and naughty and collaborative!

[gildedshivers]

Summer is officially over…but I’m reminiscing the warm, lazy days. Here is a scene with young Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black, and Severus Snape intermingling…enjoying the sun on the Hogwarts lawn. This is a commission for @thessakenway who asked me to illustrate her OT3 in a beautiful way. 

Some details to note: I was asked for all three to be interacting/touching in a very subtle way. I paid a lot of attention to their body placement in order to best convey that naturally. Narcissa is lying on Lucius’s chest, about to touch his face. Lucius is looking at Narcissa, one arm under and hand around her waist. Snape is not third-wheeling; Narcissa is fingering his tie, and Lucius has a pinky looped around Severus’s hand. All three are fully clothed, but the sexual tension is there if you pause to look…hidden in plain sight. 

[cryingbard]

That's not fair.

(If you want to see me vent I'm on tiktok, @cryingbard)

[kavinskhhy]

Darrow and Lysander by iparwing

[visit-ba-sing-se]

I could have lived in peace (emotionally stable) but my enemies (author i admire a lot) brought me war (devastating character death)

[almabel]

The Reaper and the Martyr

[a-polite-melody]

“Focusing on fixing sexism instead of worrying about transandrophobia is going to benefit trans men more. Also, worrying about transandrophobia instead of sexism is like discarding women and instead trying to put trans men into male privilege to fix the problem instead of fixing sexism.”

I mean.

First of all, sure, fighting sexism will help many people. Absolutely. Cis women. Trans women. Trans men.

But would you tell a trans woman to stop fighting transmisogyny because it’s only helping her and other trans women? Would you tell her that fighting for transmisogyny is counterproductive and just putting trans women in a better position instead of fixing sexism? I sure hope not! Typically people who think that way are radfems. But it’s what you’re doing to trans men in conversations about transandrophobia right now, so I’ve gotta point this out.

And also, fixing sexism doesn’t magically fix transmisogyny or transandrophobia. Discarding either conversation to “just focus on sexism” will not be beneficial overall. Just a couple quick examples: even in places where abortion is fully legal trans men will still struggle to access it, even in places where cis women have full access to a space trans women will still struggle to access it.

We don’t need to have only one conversation. Conversations about sexism, transmisogyny, and transandrophobia have to exist in tandem with one another.

And I’m definitely bringing this back around to the fact that discarding other conversations to focus on “the only actual real problem” when that “only actual real problem” is sexism also rings a lot of radfem alarm bells in my head.

[mikedawwwson]

"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

[niki-smith]

A good day to reblog this, I just found out The Deep & Dark Blue is on another new ban list, this time in Colorado. Hooray.

[uncanny-tranny]

"Trans mens' masculinity is so fragile haha!"

Perhaps it may seem like a trans man's masculinity is "fragile," but consider why that may be for a moment. For so many trans men, we are forced into roles we don't want to be forced into. A daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, a future mother - you get the idea. We're told that we're only valuable if we uphold these roles, and if we don't, we face the consequences. Perhaps you may not see it, but the "fragile masculinity" of trans men is closely related to a trauma reaction or a trauma trigger. If you know what it's like to have to hide huge swaths of yourself, and to instead force yourself to conform, then you will likely understand what it's like to have to go through that 24/7/365. it is, frankly, mental agony, and that mental agony leaves a scar. It might fundamentally change the ways which you interact with the world. It changes how you see yourself and the sense of value you may or may not have. And it's traumatic to know that who you are is seen as inferior to a non-zero amount of people.

Trans men have every right to fragile masculinity. When you fight to be who you are, you might become defensive of that fight you so diligently fought. Making fun of the trauma responses of trans people isn't productive, nor is it cool or quirky or even remotely funny. It just shows that you lack a sense of nuance in these complex subjects.

[mysteriesbooks]

anyone else relate far too hard to a neurotic, anxious roomba? Or is that just me Anyway, above all else, be brave!  (sticker and such)