Hook's Lovely Swan

  Andrea: Wife, mother, writer. Multifandom, but mostly OUAT, Arrow, iZombie, and Z Nation. Favorite ships include Captain Swan, Bellarke, Red K, Frozen Jewel, Frankenwolf, Scarlet Queen/Red Knave, Olicity, and all things Ariel & Eric.  This is not a spoiler free blog. This is also not positivity blog. I criticize flaws as I see fit, particularly writing flaws. You have been warned.

[hook-and-hope]

#Good Form, Killian #Gentleman

[odonowest]

one year of captain swan: 298/365

[tesb]

I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix whose tailfeather resides in your wand gave another feather… just one other. It is curious that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) dir. Chris Columbus

[russiansandgod]

[funeralmarketsuperstore-deactiv]

please serve her she is very hungry she walked an hour just to get here she has 8 children

[communistbussy]

they’re just confirming that she wants 4

[ohbellamy]

bellarke hiatus positivity meme: six looks

[dinneratgrannys]

[miithridatism]

[hook-and-hope]

[strawberrynesquikphilosophies]

Draw the Squad

[themarvelssource]

Captain Marvel (2019) #1 Artgem Variant 

[hook-and-hope]

[murphyswhitehair]

Can’t believe my favorite show is cancelled, I hate everything

[hookslovelyswan]

[pileofknives]

Attention all customers: our store will be closing in five minutes. If you are present in the store after closing you will be hunted for sport.

[archiveofidentityconstellations]

“And remember: the sky is the limit! You can be anything you want to be!”

“Thank you. I want to be a secretary.”

That stopped them short. “What?”

“A secretary,” she repeated.

“But…” they trailed off, dumbfounded. “Why? You could be a CEO, a scientist, a law–”

“I don’t want to be a CEO,” she said. “I want to be a secretary.”

[archiveofidentityconstellations]

They scoffed. “You want to answer phones all day?”

She smiled. “Yes.”

“Schedule appointments?”

“I like organizing.”

“Be a second banana?”

An affirmative nod. “I’m skilled at helping.”

“I just don’t understand,” they said. “HOW could you be okay with all of this?!”

“I enjoy the work.”

“BUT YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE!”

“I know.”

“Then WHY?!”

She shrugged.

“Because I want to be a secretary.”

[dangerously-human]

Honestly though, this is very similar to my mom’s experience. She’s always been super bright, but has realized as she’s gotten older that intellectual pursuits just aren’t her jam. She dropped out of her PhD program to have kids, and although she has her master’s and was a pretty good school psychologist, she hated having to make huge decisions. She’s a church secretary now and loves it, and she’s GOOD at it; she’s letting her school psych certification permanently expire this year with zero regrets. If you can be anything you want, that includes the things we don’t tend to value as highly as a society. Not everybody is built for or wants the “respectable” careers.

[clearlyweepingrebelel-deactivat]

My grandma did this to me, saying that i didn’t want to get stuck on the outside, making coffee and filing papers. The thing is, that’s exactly what I’ve always enjoyed the most, making and organizing things. That would be enough for me.

[mothnem]

Nobody seems to realize that if you tell people they can be anything they want to be they will. And not everyone WANTS to be doctors or lawyers or CEOs or scientists. Sometimes, they just want to be a secretary.

[jumpingjacktrash]

it took me a LOT of therapy before i was able to shrug off the effects of the Gifted Child Upbringing enough to realize that what i really wanted to be was a house husband and Local Queerdad who writes novels sometimes. god, i’m so much happier now.

ain’t nothing wrong with an ordinary life. don’t let anybody tell you you have to be the top dog to be worth anything.

[lumadreamland]

[jheselbraum]

Like. I’m a firm believer that porn online shouldn’t be within kids reach (those “are you 18” checkboxes for life) but. Like. Ok first of all, just ban cp? It’s not hard? Cp is what got you into this mess just ban it. Second of all, you could increase the age of sign-up from 13 to 18. Third of all, you could do what deviantart does and just. Require birthdays at sign-up. If your blog is flagged as nsfw, you can’t interact with minors. You want to follow an nsfw blog? Prove you’re an adult. You’re an adult but don’t want to see nsfw content? Safe search (that actually works).

It’s not hard to make a functioning website, but staff doesn’t seem to want to do that.

[arrowdaily]

LADIES OF ARROW: Felicity Megan Smoak

“Look, I really hate to be the one to break this to you, Oliver, but you are not the boss of me. And I am the one who decides whether I need anyone’s protection.”