Stay For The Humour

My blog’s theme is mainly humour, anything I find funny, a touch of fandom related material, and more often than not political posts I can’t help but reblog. Bit of chaos. Enjoy!

[zegalba]

Andersson-Wise Architects: Chihuly Bridge of Glass (2001)

[not-thefandomlife]

Omg I thought this was a scene in a Studio Ghibli film…this is stunning!

[not-thefandomlife]

I thought….I thought this said babies omg

[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.

[not-thefandomlife]

The warning bells I got in my head when Dumbledore said that line about “those who are loyal to me receive help” and then “you must have showed me great loyalty” I felt like he was literally conditioning Harry to see his unquestioning loyalty to Dumbledore as life saving when really we all know it leads to his eventual death.

[dailyflicks]

And now, back again after 18 years, the new adventures of Galaxy Quest!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I ADORE THIS FILM

With all my love :D

[jbk405]

As the saying Goes:

Knowledge is knowing that Galaxy Quest is not a Star Trek film.

Wisdom is knowing that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek film.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

IT IS MADE OF AMAZING <3

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

George Takei has called it a “chillingly realistic documentary.”

It is amazing.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

They should put that quote on the cover of the DVD :D

[not-thefandomlife]

As someone who has never watched this before….why does Alexander Dane look so much like Alan Rickman!

[thestuffedalligator]

There’s got to be a term to describe that like. Extremely specific era of children’s literature where all the books were novellas printed on low quality paper, pumped out on a near monthly basis, and made for series that sometimes stretched into hundreds of books

Animorphs. Goosebumps. Bailey School Kids. Babysitter’s Club. Magic Treehouse. Series that plague public libraries and second hand book stores to this day. A genre that was nearly wiped out overnight by the success of Harry Potter, and the newfound desire for kids to read long form literature

It was like pulp fiction for kids

[onion-souls]

The Scholastic Age

[victoriathevampireslayer]

i wrote my MS in book publishing thesis on this, so like for anyone actually interested i have the real answer. it actually wasnt wiped out by harry potter. this era is referred to in the publishing world as the near death of ya/childrens lit. that’s WHY it was on such low quality paper and why they had series with so many freaking books every single month. it was the final stage of cash grabbing before publishers p much accepted the genre was dead. that also contributed to why hp was rejected so many times, not bc jk is some underdog, but because literally no houses were picking up ya books. and it wasnt a newfound desire for long form. kids/teens had been yelling for years for more long form literature that actually reflected their struggles but the old assholes didnt wanna listen as always. arthur lavine, that old fuck who edited hp, wasnt gonna pick hp up either but his daughter or granddaughter literally begged him. 

ps. it also was literally pulp fiction bc pulp fiction it gets its name FROM that low quality paper you were talking about. its got more wood bits and other less desirable stuff in it so its processed less which saves money and less desirable which also saves money. thats also why it has the best smell bc its the most tree and the least bleach

[deviika]

"I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods."

—Rebecca Solnit

[cuupidd-blog]

“I’m the villain, even in my own story. But you were supposed to play a different role.” Hey, don’t get me wrong, tella and legend are a match made in heaven. BUT I FELT SO BAD FOR JACKS. MY POOR BABY GETS HIS TRUE LOVE AND SHE LEAVES HIM.

[witcheronboard]

Ok I am sorry to my followers for posting this on this blog BUUTTTT I need to rant.

I just finished binge reading this series and let me tell you Jacks broke my heart! Like absolutely crushed it, I feel so bad for my smol baby fate. We need another novel and I need to see him find someone who is going to love him.

I’m not going to lie I spent the majority of the second and third book shipping Tella and Jacks. Like I love Legend but Jacks has been waiting his whole (villainous, yes I am aware) life for his one true love to restart his heart and he found THE ONE, like there won’t be another one, and she loves someone else??!! Talk about short end of the stick 😭😭😭 I relate so much rn

I also feel like he was ready to take the plunge and love Tella WAAYYY before Legend was. Like, I may be biased, but first in best dressed type situation right there 🤷🏻‍♀️

[hatin]

i wonder if i will still use tumblr in 5 years

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

The (un)funny thing about this (seven year old) post is that seven years ago the internet was such that one could reasonably imagine that in 5 years there would be other, better platforms that would make tumblr sort of outdated and cringy. Now the alternatives to tumblr are Corporations Spying On You, Absolute Hellhole Of Discourse Over Tumblr Screenshots, Corporations Spying On You, Tumblr Posts But In Video Form While Corporations And The Chinese Government Spy On You, That Platform You Signed On After The Titty Ban Spread Mass Panic And You Never Used Since, and reddit

[jiskblr]

[not-thefandomlife]

I don’t even know that much social media to cover half of these 😂

[saisew]

The only Met Gala look that mattered 💙

[tiktoksnow]

The amount of serotonin it gave me to watch this grandma react to her new galaxy light 🥺

It’s dark in here- *gasps in excitement* OHH SARAH!

OHH SARAH! *giggles like a little kid* OHhHhH!!

My ceiling is filled with blue lights… and stars and everything!!

OH Sarah! I can go to bed at night looking at this. OHHHH it’s beautiful!

[ittybittytittydiaries]

ppl forget the innocence of the elderly… if there was ever a glimpse of them as a child, this is it

[jung-hooked]

“I can go to bed at night looking at this!” 🥺✨

I love grandmothers. I miss mine every single day. This is beautiful.

[haileyhurts]

I have one! I’ll deadass be in my room with it on listening to music and disassociating for hours 😂

It has a buncha colors but these are my faves

Purple bc insanely gorgeous 100/10 just beautiful

Then the light blue/green makes me feel like I’m underwater, 11/10 love to imagine I’m drowning

And then dark blue bc it feels like I’m in space, 10/10 would love to go there and stop breathing

[yanderrre]

@haileyhurts where did you get it?

I would love to cry my eyes out in a room this pretty

[haileyhurts]

@yanderrre you can just go to galaxylight.com or if you dont feel like typing: shorturl.link/galaxy

[bassbabe]

My cat trips balls when I use mine 😂 the stars are lasers so she goes nuts thinking it’s a 1000 laser light toys!! Still cracks me up every time

[baguettegazette]

Same energy

[not-thefandomlife]

I present to you the 2021 Met Gala ladies and gents

The Met Gala theme this year was “American independence”

The 2021 Met Gala AKA the one where NO ONE UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT

Kim, sweetie pie, hunny bun, what is going on with this outfit? It’s screaming serial killer

This Met Gala is a group of people who forgot to send the “what we wearing text”

Everybody looks like they are headed to a different event

And there were some really GHASTLY looks

Like I just really don’t understand what happened this year.

If you think you seen looks from the Met Gala you have misunderstood. This years Met Gala was cancelled…erased from memory. We shall not talk about this!

[preservable]

i just took an online vision test that tells you what color your eyes and at first i’m like, “yeah ok like that will work”

BUT THEY GOT IT RIGHT…

how’d they know I have hazel eyes based on those questions?????

here’s the link if anyone else wants to try it

[animal-factbook]

IT GOT MINE RIGHT TOO… What kind of sorcery is this?!?

[durtysoufblakkduude-blog]

Wow wtf

[southernintrovert1996]

That’s weird. I wasn’t expecting it to be real. Brown eyes

[not-thefandomlife]

Errr I can’t tell if y’all are doing that thing where we don’t reveal the obvious and I’m being oblivious to it right now

But….I got no answer at the end lol

[eroscestlavie]

someone take me out. either in the date way or the assassination way

[not-thefandomlife]

You’re welcome to choose ☺️

[teratofreak]

Is that a promise?

[overlord-surgeus]

Road trip who’s coming

[milfy-moved-deactivated20250902]

[lakevida]

wire mother...

[keeping-thin]

Reblog this If: You’re ashamed of your weight Youve been called fat before You have thought of killing yourself You have self harmed You are trying to lose 10+ pounds

[the-lost-lilith-deactivated2022]

All of the above baby 🥵

[starvingman]

yes

[pissvortex]