just memories

"No doubt - endings are hard. But then again... nothing ever really ends, does it?"

[days-e]

✧ ☽ Story time ☽ ✧

[crazy-rich-asian-deactivated202]

[algernonmoncrieff]

I made him gay

[trainthief]

there was no stonewall in the batman universe because george clooney personally rendered it unnecessary 

[asian]

[puppyvegeta-deactivated20190313]

Sirius Black? Sirius Black.

[hopelessprinceeridan-archived-d]

team "I'll explain jokes if you ask because leaving people out on a joke isn't funny and you're not elite for understanding it without additional explanation"

[boys-and-suicide-deactivated201]

I don’t want my kids growing up afraid to tell me things. You drank? Okay. You smoked? Okay. You’re struggling? That’s alright. I want them to be able to talk to me without feeling like they’re going to be punished, so they end up isolating and keeping things from me. I want them to feel safe opening up to me without fear or judgment. When it’s hard to trust anyone nowadays, I want them to know I am always here, even when everyone leaves. 

[sunglow-xoxo]

“When you punish a child for their honesty they begin to lie.”

[yaelstiel]

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester.

[out-in-the-open]

Season 11 Quotes

[aurror]

D E L A C O U R

[grapefruitmimosa]

i can’t believe i used to think people my age were adults

[nothisistiffany]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[owlpostagain]

Lily Evans Wasn’t Perfect

Over the course of the books, the people to whom Harry looks up go from static adults to flawed human beings. Most of the time, there’s a distinct turning point. Dumbledore’s moment comes at the end of book 5, Lupin at the beginning of book 7, James in Snape’s Worst Memory. The James moment was particularly important because James ceased to become a perfect martyr father and became a real person with distinct flaws.

And  it bothered me that Lily was never given such a moment.

It’s natural that other characters would romanticize her, and it’s natural that Harry would romanticize her. But she can’t possibly be perfect.

While I can accept that JKR didn’t have a chance to humanize Lily within the books, it frustrates me that so many people in the fandom portray her as this abstract representation of goodness and motherhood and martyrdom.

I’ve seen fics that delve into each of the Marauder’s motivations and experiences in any number of ways, but Lily often remains as blameless and saint-like as she was in canon. 

If we can give the Giant Squid a love interest, then we can give Lily Evans a complex personality.

But too often in fanon, Lily seems to exist to balance out characters like Snape, James, and Petunia. There’s an almost mathematical logic to it. If James is big-headed, then Lily must be gracious, if Petunia is finicky, Lily must be laid-back. Everything negative in James and Petunia is absorbed and inverted.

This is unfair to characters with whom Lily interacts. Petunia is not a very good person, but is it fair to say that the demise of her relationship with Lily is entirely Petunia’s fault? Things are rarely so one-sided. And painting her as the moral savior of James Potter does both James and Lily a disservice.

Lily was not a saint. She was a teenage girl.

Far too often, I hear people arguing Lily/James vs. Lily/Snape in a way that places supreme importance on the importance of James and Snape, while minimizing Lily’s agency. She becomes this inanimate object to be awarded to the person with the most moral fiber.

But no one–not Snape or James or anyone else–”deserves” Lily as a friend or a romantic partner. She’s a human being, not a Quidditch Cup trophy.

It’s damaging and dangerous to reduce Lily to Harry’s perfect mother or Snape’s object of infatuation. Lily is a flawed individual who chose her own path.  She had insecurities, fears, hang ups, and bad habits.  She had hopes and dreams that didn’t involve the men in her life.

And it’s incredibly unfair to pigeonhole and Mary Sue-ize a flawed nineteen-year-old girl.

[rocketlynx-deactivated20141018]

okay so imagine an au where the potters live. harry dates oliver wood briefly. james hears of this and pulls harry aside. stares him in the eye with a deadly serious face “he’s a Keeper”

[a-winnie-or-a-freddie]

You made an entire AU that would alter almost every facet of that series For a pun You’re a beautiful person.

[itsanexperimentjohn]

“Are you serious right now, Dad?” “No, I’m not serious. I’m Dad. He’s Sirius.”

[merlins-total-turnip-head]

this is the au to rule them all

[jimhalperting-deactivated201307]

[farorez-deactivated20201017]

  just hear those sleigh bells jingling

[ludwigwurstlover]

HALLOWEEN WAS LITTERALY YESTERDAY CALM DOWN.

[laoness]

NO IT’S CHRISTMAS

[johnbeyonder]

[thesilverwolf7]

I never want any context for this ever

[if-the-moon-turns-green]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

[attackoneyebrows]

[allisonaergents]

i am clara oswald.