Me: REMEMBER when sheriff Forbes got CANCER and they all tried to CURE HER WITH MAGIC but they had to eventually realize THEY COULDNT HELP HER and Caroline lost her MOM and Damon lost his BEST FRIEND and when Caroline was so overcome with pain she had to turn off her humanity so she wouldn’t feel it anymore and then she BURNED HER MOTHERS LAST LETTER WITHOUT READING IT and I still feel that pain to this day
Me: AND WHEN STEFAN ALMOST GAVE UP LIVING AND ALMOST DIED IN THE COLD AND DAMON BEGGED HIM TO KEEP FIGHTING TO STAY ALIVE
the most painful social interactions are when you miscalculate someone’s meme literacy and reference something and the person/group doesn’t get it and u have to half-heartedly explain it knowing FULL well it’s 0% funny if people don’t have the full convoluted context of the joke and u feel the flames of hell start to lick at ur feet as they all give u a pity laugh
For my entire life, I have called the man who won the presidential election, be they a Democrat or a Republican, by their rightful title.
I’m not a sore loser. For my entire life, I have called the man who won the presidential election, be they a Democrat or a Republican, by their rightful title of President of the United States. I didn’t vote for Ronald or either George, but to me they were always President Reagan and President Bush. Under no circumstance will I be calling Donald Trump “President Trump,” or “Mr. President,” “POTUS,” “King,” or any other title that he may very well claim as his own.
I do not respect Donald Trump. Furthermore, my self-respect is not trumped by my respect for the office he will soon presumably hold. In fact, my respect for the office itself has deteriorated to almost nothing as each passing day brings him closer to it.
He is the man Mitt Romney described as “a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.”
He is the man Rick Perry described as a “barking carnival act.”
He is the man Michael Bloomberg described as a “demagogue,” and added, “I’m a New Yorker. And I know a con when I see one.”
He is dangerous and disgusting. He is an offensive, conniving, self-absorbed, misogynistic bigot. He is a self-obsessed liar. He is a gross and gaudy materialist. He is an arrogant, thin-skinned, egomaniac.
Over the course of the primaries and presidential campaign, PolitiFact, the widely respected nonpartisan political watchdog, evaluated 340 different statements made by Donald Trump. Sixty-one of them were outrageous “pants on fire” lies. An astounding 114 of them were absolutely false. Another 63 were mostly false. That means 70% of the unique statements made by Donald Trump and fact-checked by Politifact were mostly false, completely false, or outrageous lies. Another 51 of those statements were deemed to be only half true. When it was all said and done, only 4% of what Donald Trump said was determined to be completely true.
His first wife, in a sworn deposition, stated that in a rage he raped and assaulted her. Ivana later said she didn’t want her description to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.
He then began an affair with his soon-to-be second wife while he was married to his first wife.
He has no moral compass. His life is not guided by any redeemable ethics or values.
While he was married to his third wife, he was recorded openly bragging about his attempts to sleep with other married women, then proceeded to explain how he forces himself on women he is attracted to by kissing them without permission and, when he wants, Trump stated that he will “grab them by the p—y.”
At least 16 different women have now accused this man of either sexual assault or sexual harassment. Many of these women told their friends and family about the incidents when they took place at various points over the past few decades.
Donald Trump’s lack of personal morality alone prevents me from having any respect for the man. His election was not a magic potion for me in which I now suddenly forget what he has said and done to so many women. It might work that way for Mitt Romney or Ted Cruz, but I’m simply not willing to look past these things. None of us should.
In the primaries, Donald Trump shared a white supremacist meme falsely claiming that 81% of white murder victims are killed by African-Americans. This was a complete fabrication. The overwhelming majority of all murder victims are killed by people within their own race. In the wake of sharing this, he refused to apologize for the damage it caused or its inaccuracy. That’s not his way.
He has done these things over and over and over and over again. Fortune Magazine did an entire spread on his online ties to white supremacists. White supremacists have openly professed their love and admiration of him. Neo-Nazi’s openly performed the Nazi salute in response to his victory.
Donald Trump openly proposed banning all Muslims from entering the United States. He bragged that he would deport 450,000 undocumented immigrants per month for 24 straight months until they were all gone.
His campaign was built on the momentum of these early xenophobic promises. It was what allowed him to separate from the pack of his 17 different opponents.
Again, the man made himself an enemy of the people I know and love.
His election has not stopped his foolishness.
He attacked the cast of Hamilton on Twitter. He repeatedly attacks the cast of “Saturday Night Live” on Twitter. He attacked a union leader on Twitter. He told outright lies about the millions and millions of fake votes that were cast in the presidential election.
This month alone Donald Trump has twice invited Allen West to Trump Tower in spite of the fact that West shared a meme on his Facebook page advocating for the full extermination of all Muslims from the world.
He nominated a new head of the Environmental Protection Agency who has actively sued the EPA.
He nominated executive after executive from Goldman Sachs in spite of saying during the campaigns that Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton would be beholden to the firm.
He nominated Rick Perry to head up the Department of Energy when Perry himself famously said he would disband the department. Furthermore, Perry sits on the board of Energy Transfer Partners — the company overseeing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
He nominated the CEO of ExxonMobil to be his Secretary of State.
The CIA is openly saying that Russia, who is a close ally to the CEO of Exxon Mobil, deliberately and successfully fought against Hillary Clinton to sway the results of the election in favor of Donald Trump.
I don’t care if Kanye and Jim Brown kiss his ring and take affectionate selfies with Trump every day for the next four years, that foolishness means nothing to me. Trump is a terrible human being and his many flagrant violations simply preclude me from ever being able to muster up enough respect to even call the man Mr. Trump. I damn sure won’t call him President Trump. Not now. Not ever.
chamber of secrets: fawkes is described as the size of a swan. a heart stopping moment. 8/10.
prisoner of azkaban: no mentions. 0/10.
goblet of fire: fawkes again mentioned as the size of a swan. just as exciting as the last time. 8/10.
order of the phoenix: fawkes once more mentioned as the size of a swan. a happy occasion as always. cho's patronus is a swan. a thrilling and heart warming moment. 10/10.
half blood prince: no mentions. disgusting of a book this size. 0/10.
deathly hallows: when neville opens the portrait of ariana the portrait is said to have 'swang open'. When the only mention of a swan is inside another word you know it's a bad read. 1/10.
Probably never going to return to my old Tumblr habits, but I needed to vent, and didn’t feel like eloquently writing 140 character tweets so... feel free not to read lol
I have been verbally abused since I was 9 by kids, teachers at schools. In 2001, my 4th grade teacher singled me out for talking and giggling one day (I was incredibly talkative - stemmed from my desire to be liked) while we were listening to the song “I’m proud to be an American” and told me, “I’ve noticed you find joy when people are sad” ...............................
She honestly had issues... she used to cry over Princess Diana’s death like they were sisters. Apparently, you can hear the singer’s voice crack at one point, because he was thinking about Diana, who was his friend? And she pointed it out every single day. Right, did I mention? She made us listen to it every single day. So my talking and giggling as a 9 year old who has no idea about the ugliness of the world while she was sad about Diana was apparently a sign of lucifer, I guess. I even wrote her a letter when I changed schools asking how her dog was (she was suing her husband for being mean to their dog?? idk)
That was the earliest I remember the hate directed at myself. I had heard people scream curses at my parents before, but that was the first I was ever made to feel like an outsider.
And then in the 5th grade, a girl named Kerri called me “Osama’s daughter”. Considered changing her name for a hot minute... decided facts are important, and I will not compromise because I am building to a point here..
I was literally 10 years old, and so was she. Yet she had heard enough hatred that she thought to call me this. I went home and I was too scared to share this, because my parents are immigrants and they were already terrified. But my neighbor, Amanda, overheard it. She told her mom, who called the principal and fought for me. She was/ is such a badass. She would drive her jeep and smoke her cigarettes and she made me my first neopets account and the email address that I needed to set it up. And she put on acrylic nails for me for my 12th birthday because she thought it was ridiculous that someone was trying to charge my mom $60 to do a 12 year old’s nails. Anyway, this woman, who still is my neighbor and I really hope is doing well even though I’m too busy and self obsessed to say hi, and to whom my parents are forever indebted (they keep reminding me!!!) because she drove me to school every morning for a year since the elementary school starts later, and they worked 8-4, defended me!!!! for no reason!!!! She didnt have to!!! But she did!!!! And the teacher made Kerri write me a note that said she was sorry. And everything was fine and great and happy. (sidebar - I do hope Kerri is doing well, and I don’t mean to aim any negative energy toward her. She was 10. She probably repeated something her parents said. It doesn’t mean she ever was or is a bad person)
And then it happened again. Different people. Different school. Throughout high school. My favorite was when I left AP Bio during a movie, and I told a kid, Tyler, in the hallway to please stop picking on someone and he turned around and said “I will burn your house down” and then followed me all the way back to my classroom. That honestly may not have been race/ religion motivated but I will never forget it. Another time, a kid named Mike called me a raghead, behind my back, and my friend showed me his AIM message (looool AIM omg) and I honestly didn’t understand what I was supposed to say. So I just said “but I don’t wear a rag on my head” and then I shut up and tried to forget about it, as always.
I am now 25, and I actually do wear a hijab. And it kills me that girls who also wear it will make up stories about the hatred they face. Because it is there. I have felt it since I was a child. We all have. It exists. You don’t need to lie and create it, because the truth will always be seen. And the lies take away from the truth. And the lies also take away from the good that people like Amanda and her mom did/ do for people like me, who find themselves in situations where they feel defenseless and forgotten.
man: has anyone ever told you you’re beautiful?
me: oh no sir, today is my first day out of doors and papà forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity
albus dumbledore and that time he hid something that voldemort wanted in his school and defended it with protections so weak that three eleven-year-olds could get through them
albus dumbledore and that time he didn’t shut down the school when a giant fucking snake was wandering around it
albus dumbledore and that one time he sent two traumatized teenagers back in time rather than be like “hey maybe give this dude a trial”
albus dumbledore and that one time he didn’t figure out a member of his faculty was a death eater under polyjuice
albus dumbledore and the exact wrong way to handle a teenager who has post-traumatic stress disorder
albus dumbledore and the point at which you should really realize that keeping secrets is unhealthy
albus dumbledore and the year he continued to fuck everyone over from beyond the grave
