mycontagiouslove

The place for all the other loves of my life.

[mycontagiouslove]

I basically only ever go onto tumblr anymore to see if @itreallyatemyhand updated TLAT.

Why am I rereading this. It’ll only end in heartbreak.

[romance-incubomp3-deactivated20]

So, I want to talk about complaints people have been having about David Tennant talking about his character, Kilgrave. First of all, David NEVER says the things Kilgrave did were OK. In fact, he specifically says that his actions should not be condoned at all. I think why people are complaining about it is because he discussed empathy for the character. Okay, people need to understand something. David Tennant is an ACTOR. It is his job to see through the eyes of his characters, and know where they are coming from. So yes, he had to look through the eyes of Kilgrave while playing him in the show, and feel the emotions he had. As an actor myself, I know that to play a character, you have to “be” that character. No, it doesn’t mean you are going to become a serial killer because your character is, but you have to portray that characters feelings and hopes and goals, and in order to play a portray a character well, you have to “empathize” with their goals. David Tennant, while he discusses the empathy for Kilgrave, specifically says that the things he did were inexcusable and horrendous. He understands where the character’s behaviors are coming from, but he never, ever says that those things were excusable. Don’t get upset at actors for doing their jobs right.

[mycontagiouslove]

Wasn’t this a large point the show was trying to make?? Was Kilgrave always a villain or did poor parenting and his condition cause him to become one?

Not saying what he did was right but it’s not like he could turn off his powers. I’ve had wonderful kids say very horrible things to me in normal moments of anger and frustration. He was abandoned at 10? and asks for food and shelter and anything he needs and gets it without anyone being able to teach him otherwise. We can see by his behaviors he never emotionally ages past this 10 yr old tantrum-y self. So yes his actions are deplorable but I do have empathy for his character.

[saberfiretiger]

“You’re not Ten anymore.”

[mycontagiouslove]

I haven't been on tumblr to find all the fun Jessica jones Doctor who crossover bits.

[malnourishedmermaid]

Day of the Doctor // Heaven Sent

[star-force-8]

The day you lose someone isn’t the worst. At least you have something to do. It’s all the days they stay dead.

The Doctor (via for-whom-trenzalore-calls)

[countedhairs]

[5-sossage]

“You were a shooting star amongst ordinary stars.” -Jack (1996)

R.I.P Robin Williams

[gettingahealthybody-deactivated]

Thank you.

[grangerbread]

remember that time in harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 when voldemort dropped dead?

me neither

[draco-theever-malfoy-deactivate]

remember that time Harry was clever and fixed his wand with the elder wand /before/ breaking it and throwing it off a cliff?

me neither

[grangerbread]

remember that time when wormtail strangled himself to death in the deathly hallows part 1 because he was indebted to harry?

me neither.

[noramachwitz]

remember that time when lupin wanted to go horcrux hunting with the trio because tonks was pregnant and he was scared shitless?

me neither

[grangerbread]

remember that time when luna and harry went to the ravenclaw tower in search of the lost diadem and nearly got caught by the carrows but then mcgonagall showed up and saved their arses?

me neither

[asexualfeministagenda-deactivat]

remember when peeves -

right

[fabianprewett-archive-deactivat]

remember how harry looked just like his dad and his mum’s eyes?

lol jk pretty sure he was adopted

[tathrin]

Remember that crucially informative flashback to when James and Snape had a hex-slinging fight and then Snape called Lily a Mudblood and it was like the defining moment of his life and also the whole reason why anything happened ever?

Oh right no James just like hexed him for no reason and then I guess there were tears or something I dunno.

[polyglotplatypus]

Remember when Dobby did more than almost kill Harry during 2nd year and then proceeded to help him and Winky during the next 5 years so that his death actually meant something?

nope surely that never happened

[ass-seen-on-tv]

Remember when Dumbledore said it calmly

[digenovanicolo]

We always end up here

[pixar]

Friendship is boot-iful.

[libraryjournal]

[abookishtype-deactivated2025011]

It needed saying. (Artist unknown)

[mrbarnes]

I’m sick of losing people. Look at you, with your eyes, your never giving up, your anger, and your… kindness. And one day, remembering that will hurt so much that I won’t be able to breathe.

[relient-kay]

Today is the day that Doc and Marty McFly go to in Back to the Future II.

10/21/15

So therefore, it is unacceptable not to listen to Hello McFly today!

[edwardspoonhands]

It’s Weird

Sometimes you accidentally run across a group of people on the internet who hate your brother and you’re like “YOU DON’T KNOW THAT GUY WHAT ARE YOU THINKING YOU PRETENTIOUS GOOSEBUTT!” and then I have to remember that, like, people just have opinions and it’s fine to not like a “famous” person even if you don’t really know them.

Like, I FRIKKIN DESPISE NICKLEBACK. I don’t really even know why. I know I don’t like their music and their lead singer looks like a guy who used to beat me up in high school. And so I occasionally make jokes about how I don’t like that guy and how I wish he would die in a hole. 

But I don’t actually want him to die in a hole and, if we hung out, we’d actually probably get along. And, of course, I’d never tell Chad to go die in a hole to his face. But then, by the nature of the internet, sometimes I (or John) run across people who dislike him just because he represents something that they’re rebelling against, or that they dislike people who like his books, or because he once said something that they didn’t like and that’s all they know about him. And I read those posts and people are so mean and it seems so real to me because I’m real and he’s real and he’s my brother and you can’t just listen to somebody say something mean about your brother and walk away.

Except I have to because it’s the only thing I can do because I’m a 35 year old man with a lot of internet power and if I said something to them about it, it wouldn’t just come with a ridiculous imbalance of power, it would also just be an inappropriate intrusion on someone’s weirdly public private life. And, anyway, it’s fine to build your identity in whatever way you want to do it, even if that’s defining yourself in opposition to my brother (or whatever construct you have in your mind that gets labeled “John Green”), who is in fact a very nice guy, but I understand that I’m not going to convince you of that.

So instead I just run to Tumblr to leave a long-ass text post and say, “WAAAAH, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO DON’T LIKE MY BROTHER!!!” 

[mycontagiouslove]

Dear @edwardspoonhands, as a person who loves her sisters, I will beat those people up for you.

[beeishappy]

Thanks, Doc.

[fdelopera]

I’m not crying there’s just a DeLorean in my eye. :’)

[bill-11b]

Yo.

[a-joyfuljourney]

[princesconsuela]

[punkystarshine]

Tatiana Maslany putting on the shirt a fan gave her that says, appropriately, “Strong Female Character.” PaleyFest, October 2015.