Pamela

Better to be late, then to arrive ugly.

[rainparadefromhell]

JAREN PLEASEDBXHDH

[ellenripleyworshipper]

benvi really gave us childhood enemies to friends to one sided to lovers to betrayal to hurt to unrequited (devi’s side) to friends to best friends to lovers 😭😭😭

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#It’s All About The Growth 

[marcy-playground]

This is how all rape trials should go. Especially those of people who work in the sex industry because, unfortunately, some people take their profession as consent.  

[ashilesun]

[jewishevanhansen]

[whitefluffyyeti]

Shameless “Gallavich”

[lubricates]

Remember Jake’s best man proposal to Charles?! MADE CHARLES THE HAPPIEST BEST MAN IN THE WORLD!!! 

[peralta-mac]

you are my fire

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the one desireeee

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believe when I say

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I waNT IT THAT WAAAY

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AINT NOTHIN BUT A HEEAARTACHE

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AINT NOTHIN BUT A MISTAAAKE

[peralta-mac]

NOW NUMBER FIVE

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I never wanna hear you say

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I WANT IT THAT WAYYYY

[peralta-mac]

number five. Number five killed my brother

[peralta-mac]

brooklyn nine nine is the definition of chaotic good

[emmaduerrewatson]

You shouldn’t have killed my mom and squished my Walkman! 

[worldstyles]

Dylan O’brien + Tumblr (2015 edition)

[gaytectives-deactivated-deactiv]

at work we have a family of three huskies who come in for daycare and everyone calls them “the mafia” it makes me so happy because occasionally out of nowhere someone over the radios will say “we’re sending in the mafia” and then three huskies barrel their way inside and usually slip and fall on the tile ajfjajg

[gaytectives-deactivated-deactiv]

the white one is zephyr but everyone calls him the godfather and his sisters follow him around everywhere and they’re a tiny gang which i love

[4935058-452485-deactivated20170]

this is the only pure post

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[lbibliophile]

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

[wizardtowizard-blog]

Who gave you the RIGHT?

[bonnini]

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

[marauders4evr]

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

[not-a-bit-good]

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

[marauders4evr]

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

[theotheryongbok]

[my-sun-is-gone-deactivated20180]

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

[gehayi]

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

[frostyemma]

well… well, shit

[a-fangirl-summary]

what

[mintedwitcher]

Oh shit. Its been updated.

[garrettauthor]

…I’ve been in the “Dumbledore was on the darker side of morally grey” camp for years but this…this. Holy shit. Oh no.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[lorem64]

I’m so confused why he would think cookie dough would give him salmonella??? What parent told him this. There’s no chicken in there!

[ankaa-avarshina]

Two words: Raw eggs.

[lorem64]

?? What kind of world do you live in where Raw eggs carry salmonella or are in anyway unsafe

[ankaa-avarshina]

Don’t ask me, ask them Americans. I’m an Asian just passing the word on

[phantoms-lair]

*deep breath* Though the risk is small, raw eggs can carry samonella.

MORE THREATENINGLY Raw wheat can carry E. Coli. However, if you don’t mind making your own cookie dough, you can easily make it safely.

Take your standard recipe. Omit the eggs. Eggs serve as a binding agent to hold the cookie together. Since we’re eating the dough raw, that’s not needed. Take the flour, put it in a pan and bake it at 350 for 7 minutes. Any E. Coli is now dead.

Just mix the rest of the ingredients together as the recipe is called for and BAM, perfectly safe edible cookie dough.

[crayyola-deactivated20220827]

Thank u so fucking much for this wisdom

[antique-scarecrow]

wait you’re telling my i can get E, Coli just FROM EATING FLOUR straight from the bag???

[kingantlion-deactivated20231130]

Why..why are you eating flour straight from the bag?

[loverlache]

Adam & Eric. Toxic? Or simply a well written, interesting narrative...

Okay so this is a long one. So we know that Adam bullied Eric for many years. We know, as we’ve heard from Eric, that this scared and shamed him for a long time. On the face of it, he should NOT have any empathy for Adam at all, least of all end up in Season 2 in a relationship with him. I understand totally why this is perceived as a toxic ship. 

But I wanted to go through a few things however as to why I think this is, in fact, an amazing and fabulous storyline, which has so far been handled extremely well and makes sense… so is worth seeing through to the end of the show/ in Season 3 if you are a person, like me, who believes bad people can turn good if given the chance.

If we really believe in Eric, we should support his choices - and the show writers. Eric (the show writers) showed Eric is extremely capable of making good choices in Season 1. He is open and accepting, and seems to hold no grudges, even when his Dad gave him a hard time and tried to get him to play down his natural exuberance. So if Eric - who is after not shamed by who he is nor no longer scared in any way by Adam - is therefore open to Adam’s redemption, we should be too. So although Otis is correct when he says Eric must challenge Adam, which he does (I don’t think he is correct that Eric self hates though) - we should also trust Eric. He sees something in Adam worth investigating beyond his physicality, and we should follow through with him whether or not he is disappointed or not in the end. 

Eric is empathetic and forgiving and his actions towards Adam are in keeping with this. Eric also understands anger and pain. Although he has a supportive family, Eric is as far as I can remember the only person OTHER than Adam who has meted out violence to others in this show. Remember when he punched Anwar in Season 1 and was frankly horrible to teacher Hendricks? Eric himself has first-hand understanding of when awful pain leads to something toxic and threatens to change a person for the worst. He forgave himself - and is now open and understanding enough to forgive others. 

Eric really wants to be needed, and knows Adam needs him. Eric sees for himself that Adam is in pain. And, perhaps in part due to his religion which helped him, he is brave enough and actively interested in helping to forgive and support Adam to fix himself. This may not be wise in the long run if Adam doesn’t deliver, but it appeals to something Eric needs I think. You can see how much the small things that Adam does - eg turns around to look at Eric as he leaves - gives Eric such a thrill as he recognises the influence he has over Adam. He loves that the small things with Adam mean so much. 

Eric is increasingly maturing - but he’s not that serious a person. Rahim was lovely - but NOT the right kind of guy for Eric, at least who is he right now. Eric likes silly things, he plays the fool, gets ridiculously excited, and is not especially serious although he shows often great maturity and good self-awareness. Rahim wanted to engage with Eric, but could not reach him on the same level. Rahim was too together, too grown up. Now he may be the right kind of person for Eric in the future, but Eric would need to be quite different or change quite rapidly for this to work now. Adam, also being quite silly and often hilarious, is just more at the same stage.

Adam is listening and changing with support - he shouldn’t be abandoned now. Adam made huge strides throughout season 2. But he did that with help. On his own, he’d still be trying to meet Eric in the dark. It was Eric’s refusal to enable him on that, that then prompted him to self reflect and decide yes, Eric was right. From this, we got their last romantic scene. So when people say he should ‘not be in a relationship’ I would say - yes he shouldn’t ONLY rely on Eric to support him Eric shouldn’t ‘take on’ Adam alone - Adam really needs people. He needs Eric, but also friends like Ola and at least his mother. And if they are all happy to be there, who are we to stop them.

Adam is trying to be better for the sake of being better, not to win Eric. When Adam says to Eric he understands that he hurt him, at this point Adam is simply saying what he thinks he should say because it is correct, rather than in a last bid to get Eric back. I think this moment is very underrated and beautifully done. He does, later on, try to get him back of course  - but in that moment he was doing the right thing because he knew it was the right thing and Eric needed to hear it. He then also asks his Dad to let him come back to school because he wants to find the “thing he is good at” - finally showing us that Adam has (without at that point being in a relationship with Eric) ready to stand on his own two feet and take responsibility for his own happiness. Later on, we also see him take a significant risk in asking Eric for his hand as his mother makes it clear love means pain. Eric could easily have turned him down. This is why Eric’s mother was so excited about his ‘bravery’ - there was real risk of more pain, when Adam arguably already has had enough. But despite that risk Adam had faith that somewhere that spark between them was still there and he was ready to take a risk if Eric was. At this point, they move on with a clean slate.  

So in season 2, Adam is a honey. Yes a troubled honey and one who has done some awful things in the past, and still needs quite a few things pointed out to him to get him fully on track. But a person who is able and willing to change, has had a very poor male role model, and is bringing happiness as he does change, deserves a team around him - not to be sent off to ‘get it together’ on his own to ‘protect’ perfectly resilient people like Eric who afterall have made clear they want to help and they care.

So what does ‘He can hold your hand, but can he catch you?” mean?

Rahim is not wrong when he makes this point. Adam is on a journey - a journey which can go backwards as well as forwards. And Adam and Eric have to a great degree built their intimacy to date on instinct and things left unsaid than the reality of being with each other and making things work. 

Will Adam have enough wavelength to work on himself and well as help Eric when Eric needs him to actually help, not just not do things that hurt or the things Eric asks him not to do? I sense we will see this very thing tested in Season 3 and sadly I think this means we’ll see bad news for Eric. 

And I suspect Adam will fail - at least to start with. But I also think we may see Eric be tested too. How is less clear, but I think it may be something to do with Adam’s bisexuality. Either way, I think Season 3 will be about them making changes to solidify their relationship together, whereas Season 1 was Eric’s change and Season 2 Adam’s.