ameliorate

i'm trish, seventeen. emotionally unstable and spontaneously combusts.

[inmoriarty-blog]

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[inmoriarty-blog]

[humanoidhistory]

[humanoidhistory]

Close-up views of the Helix Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope, 2003.

(HubbleSite)

[wildlinging]

…your own burden is a crueler one, I fear. You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done. Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

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Vivienne Gucwa

[oh-butter]

u know that feeling deep in your tummy where u just dont feel comfy and u feel sad and sort of want to cry but not about anything specific its like your entire body is just upset and unnerved all the way to the core almost like ur just longing for something but dont know what

[piecessl]

[i-donline]

Araki by Araki. LOOK.

[awwww-cute]

[melodyzucker]

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | first look

[isnt]

The only reason I’m staying in school is so I can provide for my future dog. 

[jirnkirk]

[soft weeping] harry james potter

[saltwaterandroses]

why are you so fired up over feminism and rape culture

because i woke up from a nap with a boys hands sliding down my jeans and when I left him with a black eye he told everyone i was a bitch and a slut that he used for sex when I had never had sex at all

because my close friend was raped in her dorm room and now she can’t get in bed without checking that the door is locked 3 times

because “she was asking for it” is still said

because no doesn’t mean no in todays society

because i can’t wear shorts in 90 degree weather without being oversexualized

because the phrase “boys will be boys” is still in existance

BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT AND SOMETHING TO BE FIRED UP OVER

[oliviareallylikes]

pair of gloves, England, circa 1603-1625

[surreelust]

[batmansymbol]

one of the most important things to me about harry potter is its portrayal of happiness. in the harry potter world, happiness isn’t just a feeling—it’s a weapon. look at how harry and his friends fight: with riddikulus, laughter stymies a creature made of fear; with expecto patronum, the very memory of happiness beats back the grim forces of depression.

the weaponization of positivity stretches beyond that. fred and george weasley’s inventions, meant for laughter, turn into arms against umbridge’s regime. and after their departure from hogwarts, their joke shop becomes not only the single bright spot in diagon alley (literally & figuratively) but a hub of defensive magic. the whole weasleys’ wizard wheezes narrative serves as maybe the clearest example in the series that happiness can act as both shield and sword.

there is something deeply empowering in a depiction of happiness as something so tangible and usable. as a profoundly depressed person, i often feel myself scrounging for happy memories and clutching them close; i find myself grasping for laughter in the dark. the physicalization of expecto patronum is not a quantum leap from reality. the boggart’s laughter as combat fuel, the weasleys’ levity as not just a choice but a difficult and defiant one—it’s all familiar.

the series has its share of darkness, but it revels most in the light. it lets us believe that the act of joy is not small, trivial, or inconsequential. happiness is something not just to be lived—it is to be wielded, on your own behalf and the behalves of the people around you, to battle against the world’s heavier elements. harry potter teaches us this.

[shanshankuo]