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My Name is Victoria. 29. Mexican. Culinary Art graduate. This are random things I like/love :] “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

[lovenotereminders]

Friendly reminder: when people say ‘as long as you tried your best’ it doesn’t mean ‘the best you could possibly have done ever’ it means ‘the best you were capable of at the time.’ Sometimes ‘trying your best’ is just getting out of bed in the morning. Just because you weren’t working yourself to the bone doesn’t mean you weren’t trying your best. 

[biyaself]

[valtsv]

everyone in fantasy novels is horny on main for elves and it’s honestly a travesty like why the hell would you want to marry an elf you’ll just spend the rest of your days growing old in the woods with a bunch of immortal bastards whose heads are so far up their asses they think singing week-long ballads is prime entertainment and say shit like “thou” and “beseech” unironically y'all should be hooking up with dwarves who 1. actually know how to throw the fuck down and let loose at a party 2. will literally shower you in diamond dust and gold they mined and crafted with their bare hands and 3. can sling you over their shoulder like a sack of potatoes with their huge muscular arms developed from hours of said mining and crafting. there’s literally no contest.

[lesbiankiliel]

[mxsentienthouseplant]

Gimmie my dwarf wife, I demand rug burn

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[marauders4evr]

I’ve spent years making post after post trying to pinpoint the exact thing that Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) did differently than J.K. Rowling, which caused him to somehow turn Olaf into an amazing villain while Snape is still causing hatred and controversy in the fandom a decade later.

And after mentioning something in passing in another post, it suddenly hit me what that difference was.

J.K. Rowling approached her character with the mentality that a person can be redeemed if its revealed that they could have been a good person but circumstance and tragedy got in the way. She sees the fact that you could be forced into being a horrible person as a huge tragedy and tries to emphasize what could have been. She doesn’t just do it with Snape (Dumbledore’s another great contender) but Snape’s arguably her biggest victim when it comes to this. She shows you what his life was like and lets you know what could have been if only this had changed or that had changed. And she does so in a way that makes you feel sympathetic towards Snape, enough so that you’re supposed to totally agree with Harry when he names his child after him. Because sure he wasn’t that great but he could have been had the situation been different.

And Daniel Handler begins doing the same thing with Olaf. After books upon books of building him up to be this evil guy, he abruptly releases one of the most tragic backstories in villain history, making you realize that Olaf‘s life could have been a lot different had he not been forced into certain situations due to tragedy and circumstance. And like Rowling, Handler also presents this as something that’s tragic. But here’s where he differs. 

Because Rowling’s stance is: “This character could have been this instead and can you imagine how wonderful that would have been, had it not been for these circumstances?”

Whereas Handler’s stance is, “Well yeah, this is what the character could have been but this is what he ended up becoming and like it or not, this is who he is and this is who he’ll be remembered for.”

Rowling wants you to know that doing horrible things doesn’t make you a horrible person because there could be a rhyme or reason to your actions. A solid grey morality.

Handler wants you to know that doing horrible things does make you a horrible person because no matter what the motif is, you’re still doing horrible things and will be remembered for said horrible things.

Which is infinitely more tragic, infinitely more morally ambiguous, and infinitely more interesting.

J.K. Rowling tried to redeem Snape.

But Handler? Handler managed to redeem Olaf and not redeem him at the same time. Handler made his backstory tragic and he showed the reader exactly how things could have ended up, causing you to sympathize with the villain. But he also showed the reader exactly how things did end up, reminding you that no matter what could have been, it’s not what happened; instead we have this evil man who has done horrible things that are far too heinous to take back, no matter how much he may want to.

And while Rowling and many other YA authors took the approach that it’s never too late to redeem yourself and become the good person you should have been all along, Handler straight up took the, “Nope, for some people it’s far too late and no matter how much they may want to redeem themselves, they never will and they’ll have to die knowing that they are hated.”

And I don’t care how much you love Harry Potter, Handler’s approach to this character and the overall bleak philosophy and moral implications is on a whole other level of writing! I think the only other piece of fiction I’ve ever seen that approaches this philosophy of un-redemption is Bojack Horseman and you can still argue that Handler does it better because he’s able to scale it down so that kids can understand it, even if they don’t want to.

And yet, at the end of the day, Handler’s entire philsophy of how you might not be able to redeem yourself can really be summarized in one gif:

[janothar]

I feel like this stems fundamentally from Handler’s Jewishness as opposed to Rownling’s Christianity.  Christians believe we’re all sinners, but we can be saved at any time in life through Jesus (details vary by sect).  On the other hand, Jews believe that there ARE things that cannot be forgiven, evil deeds that you cannot be redeemed from after they’ve happened…

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

Because forgiveness involves being forgiven, and you can’t forgive someone for murdering you (because you’re dead)

[axmxz]

exactly. In Christianity, there is a third party to forgive you on the behalf of the victim, and they have the right to do that by virtue of being God and having gone through the ultimate suffering and humiliation, ie. crucifixion. In absence of this magical figure, redemption becomes much trickier.

[taxonomyy]

It’s Elfish Presley’s birthday

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[n64thstreet]

Title screen from Pokémon Snap, by Nintendo.

[shirotsugi]

Zootopia Favorite Moments 1/?

↳ Bobby Catmull the Cougar Cub 

This little guy is adorable, I’m so glad I finally found his name!

[did-you-know]

All people with blue eyes can be traced back to one person who lived near the Black Sea less than 10,000 years ago. Source Source 2

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Now when I see a person with blue eyes, I’ll know they’re a descendant of Ocean-Eyed Slut Man.

[saturdaesundae-deactivated20230]

You leave great grandpa ocean-eyed slut man alone, he was just living his life

[i-want-cheese]

Actually, since this was determined using mitochondrial DNA, the ocean-eyed slut would be a woman, not a man. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down by mothers.

[zohbugg]

Gram-gram knew how to party

[gay-jesus-probably]

dear ocean eyed party gram-gram thank u for spreading your weird eye mutation and giving every fanfic writer a reason to know an unholy amount of synonyms for the word ‘blue’.

[dontexpecttomakesense]

Hello, would you be interested in...

[nickyvmlp]

I’m listening

[thevictoryfire88]

Me too

[ace-pervert]

@bulbasaur-propaganda

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via lowghen)

[avatar-14]

MAKE HIM REGRET

*spec prep*

BEING BORN

*spec prep*

[thenatsdorf]

Timelapse of maine coon growing up. [source]

[daco-broman]

he dancin

[mrzizz]

A Happy Dead Mariachi for Dia de los Muertos  

[ruinedchildhood]

[georgiew1984]

EWWWWWW!!!

[animusrox]

[disneydreamdaze]

[sleepy--fox]

… Was a friend

[greyeyedwolfie-deactivated20181]

I think I reblog this every time it comes up. I make paper stars and sometimes it does make me feel better

[walkonmemories-deactivated20180]

i never knew how to make paper stars, so i looked up for tutorials on youtube.

when i’m lonenly, which is translated to most of the time, i make them; green, yellow, pink, blue, white, purple.

and, believe me, it’s kind of a relief to make them. not only for the colors and cute shape, but also for the fact that the time i spend makin them i am entertained and don’t have to think about my loneliness anymore.

i learnt how to make them like two months ago, by the way. and i have made over 300. 

it’s awesome. 

[randompintobean-deactivated2016]

I’ve been wanting to see this story again.

This is for everyone. Guys, girls, both, neither, and more.

When you’re upset, make a star. When you’re stressed, make a star. I make them in school when the teacher yells at our class for being lazy or dumb. I make them at home when I’m in my room, wishing someone would notice my feelings and give me comfort. I’ve always made them with whatever I had around, and write a number on each and every one because its therapeutic. I can see how far I’ve come and how many times I haven’t given up.

Right now I’m at around four-hundred and seventy, and it really puts everything into a perspective.

Thats four hundred and seventy times that I could’ve given up. I’ve gotten pretty close on some of them - scarily close, but every one of those stars is a reminder to keep pushing forward, because I wake up every day and on my dresser is a box full of stars, and when I’m happy I think of how far I’ve come.

I think this idea should be passed around as much as possible. Its calming and distracting from and panic I feel. It gives me something methodical to do: Fold here. Fold there. Crease that line. There you go, Create. Produce. Make something solid and focus on it. Make another if you need to. Write a number. Fill up the jar, box, drawer.

And when you’re breaking and feel everything crashing down, you can look at your stars and think:

“See? I made it through alright. I can give it another go.”

[alienhazy]

syndhdsalty

[cherryxblossoms-deactivated2020]

punkjackaboy Thanks babe ❤️ #sweetesthusbandever

[theoneandonlyespa]

I finally found the original! I’ve reblogged this once years ago and never found it again, I am SO HAPPY 😱😂😃👏👍

[naamahdarling]

I love this comic so much. And the stars … I love making these things. It’s a good way to keep your hands busy and your mind quiet when you’re in a lot of pain inside. Also, they’re really flippin’ cute.

[335am]

i actually make these and it’s super helpful