and everybody wants to rule the world.

private hp multimuse.

[vaememes]

𝚃𝙷𝙴   𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚃𝙴   𝙿𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙴𝚂𝚂   𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂.

these are taken from the starz show with the same title, triggers may be present, proceed with caution, feel free to adjust any you that you deem necessary.

promises are always made, and they are always broken. always.

all my life i have been good. i have been biddable.

you have the look of our mother/father. that doesn’t please you?

i loved her/him/them very much, but i didn’t always like her/him/them.

i hated her/his/their ambition. what it did to us. nothing else mattered but power.

i wonder how you walk in a straight line, your wits are so dismally few.

all this time, i thought you were the petite fleur tremblante.

there’s a symmetry to it, don’t you think?

she/he killed the rightful queen/king, and put me on the throne.

how do you sleep? how are you not bowed down with shame?

how do you not howl with the grief of what you have done?

was this always your plan?

when have i ever had a plan?

i will not be commanded by him/her/them.

his/her/their power, ten times greater in the ballads they sing.

i have never joined you for the hunt or any other blood sport, and i will not start with this.

men are weak, swayed by beauty. women must be stronger.

i am tired of being a trembling flower and hoping it might make them feel their conscience.

but we are women, and we do what we must do.

do you love him/her/them?

what do you see? an innocent?

but he is here to kill your kin and rob [optioanl:place] of what was never his!

if you will not do it for your king/queen, then do it for me!

aren’t you happy about the betrothal?

a betrothal means a marriage, and this marriage means war.

how can i be happy about that?

you cannot be surprised that she/he/they would say that.

it is not simply that she says it. she believes it in her heart.

i’ve never loved anyone else.

but this…did i love you without ever knowing who you truly were?

but there is fear in your eyes.

how will you explain all that blood on your hands?

it is not murder if it is god’s will.

i have no power anymore. i have these four walls and your [optional:family] and that is all.

can you say you have never felt that?

you may disbelieve it if you choose, but you are all i have now.

have a care. he’s/she’s/their just a child!

in twilight years, might we not venture to cherish something for ourselves?

how can i prove that i am with you except to ask you not to die?

i kept my promise and now you will keep yours.

what have they done to us? we are their creatures.

i feel as if I’ve aged a thousand years.

do you feel any different?

he spent his life in brothels and cowsheds. what would he know of politics?

i think they like the war between them.

guard your heart, my [optional:name]. the child is not your own. he/she belongs to the throne.

what does he/she/they do to inspire such loyalty?

i have no love of war, but i do not like your king/queen.

i don’t think i should like to be queen/king, the clothes are all too ugly.

everywhere i look around me, nobles conspire against me.

they smile into my face and then behind me draw their knives.

if only we could work together, we could be a king/queen for [optional:place].

you make it look so easy. you know just what to do to make them love you.

you reap what you sow, [optional:name].

you rule with fear, and you will only get dissent and hatred in return.

i’d rather choose the side i’m afraid of.

your moves are far too obvious.

blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.

unless you plan to hold me down, i shall do it anyway.

we must learn to change, or die.

your smile is almost convincing.

does it bring you the joy you hoped it would?

and that is want you want for me, even now?

it’s intended as a show of strength.

i will walk through my sorrow and i will smile through my pain.

can’t you kill them both? put a sickness on them so they die in awful pain?

i know my curses, but perhaps they’re just wishful thinking.

perhaps i just take good luck and call it magic.

my powers cannot be very strong if we find ourselves as we are now.

all i have wanted, all my life, is to marry a man/woman for love.

i’m sick to death of being cooped up here.

perhaps she knows a chaperone is pointless in your case.

a royal wedding is a business agreement.

i thought we would have longer.

i want to stay and fight.

this is yours now, [optional:name]. your kingdom. your throne.

burn them. and ban the snow from falling. i will have nothing white in [optional:place].

i have dreamed of this my entire life.

so this is how he treats the woman/man he expects to make his queen/king.

perhaps the worst is yet to come.

no one must know what has passed between the two of you.

who would’ve thought, to find us here like this?

we are [optional:surname], [optional:name]. we do not quake in fear.

with you, he/she/they joins the houses.

you knew you would marry whichever one of them won.

it is divine to suffer.

we never planned much after the battle.

you should show more loyalty to your [optional:familyrelation].

we continue to be at odds with another and i regret it.

you will be the peace that ends the war.

who gave the order?

hidden and patient. that will be my motto.

my life is gone in any case.

you’re not afraid? i approach you with a dagger and you do not even flinch.

i thought this was to win their hearts, not threaten them with bloodshed.

there is none to come against you now.

you grant them greater power if you fear them.

i will not have them thinking i’m afraid.

will you at least write to me while you’re gone?

i hope this trip will give us time to know one another, again.

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

HOZIER SENTENCE STARTERS | accepting.

@multasfacies​ said: ❝ would things be easier if there was a right way ? ❞ dorcas @ tommy

his eyes study her for what must be mere seconds , but he learns a lifetime’s worth of knowledge from it regardless. how often has he done this ? yet still he learns. and he never tires of it. it’s dangerous to indulge. it’s more dangerous to want to. 

❛ in my experience , the right way is never the easiest , but . . . ❜

but that may be a personality trait as opposed to an objective observation. the right way would entail letting her go. or never letting her leave. the right way would be any way other than the one he wishes to take. but he isn’t a prince , and this isn’t a fairy tale. and to be good or right is to be someone other than who he is. 

that isn’t an option. not anymore.

❛ is that what you want , dorcas ? easy ? ❜

his fingers find the edge of her jaw , tracing a path he may as well have worn to the bone by now. he’d never thought of himself as a foolish boy. he wouldn’t dare. but when he looks at dorcas , he knows it to be true. he knows looking her in the eye is the most foolish mistake he has ever made. 

and yet , he continues to make it every chance he gets. 

❛ easy , it would bore you. and i am not in the habit of boring you , am i ? ❜

[sewerology]

HOZIER  LYRIC  MEME: PT. ONE

a  compilation  of  various  lyrics  from  my  Lord  and  Savior,  HOZIER.

TAKE  ME  TO  CHURCH:

❝ every  sunday's  getting  more  bleak. ❞

❝  we  were  born  sick,  you  heard  them  say  it. ❞

❝  the  only  heaven  i’ll  be  sent  to,  is  when  i’m  alone  with  you. ❞

❝  i’ll  tell  you  my  sins  and  you  can  sharpen  your  knife. ❞

❝  to  keep  the  goddess  on  my  side,  she  demands  a  sacrifice. ❞

❝  that’s  a  fine  looking  high  horse. ❞

❝  we've  a lot  of  starving  faithful. ❞

❝  no  masters  or  kings  when  the  ritual  begins. ❞

❝  there  is  no  sweeter  innocence  than  our  gentle  sin. ❞

ANGEL  OF  SMALL  DEATH  AND  THE  CODEINE  SCENE:

❝  toying  somewhere  between  love  and  abuse. ❞

❝  shaking  the  wings  of  their  terrible  youths. ❞

❝  no  more  alone  or  myself  could  i  be. ❞

❝  bloody  and  raw,  but  i  swear  it  is  sweet. ❞

❝  and  lease  this  confusion,  i'll  wander  the  concrete. ❞

JACKIE  AND  WILSON:

❝  so  tired  trying  to  see  from  behind  the  red  inj my  eyes. ❞

❝  no  better  version  of  me  i  could  pretend  to  be  tonight. ❞

❝  'cause  with  my  mid-youth  crisis  all  said  and  done,  i  need  to  be  youthfully  felt.  ❞

❝ we'll  steal  her  Lexus,  be  detectives,  ride  round  pickin'  up  clues.  ❞

❝  lord  it'd  be  great  to  find  a  place  we  could  escape  sometime.  ❞

❝ every  version  of  me  dead  and  buried  in  the  yard  outside. ❞

SOMEONE  NEW:

❝  you  knew  who  i  was  with  every  step  that  i  ran  to  you. ❞

❝  would  things  be  easier  if  there  was  a  right  way ?  ❞

❝  honey,  there  is  no  right  way. ❞

❝  there's  an  art  to  life's  distractions. ❞

❝  some  like  to  imagine  the  dark  caress  of  someone  else. ❞

❝  i  guess  any  thrill  will  do. ❞

❝  the  stranger  the  better.  ❞

TO  BE  ALONE:

❝  never  felt  too  good  in  crowds. ❞

❝  all  i've  ever  done  is  hide  from  our  times. ❞

❝  but  you  don't  know  what  hell  you  put  me  through. ❞

❝  it  feels  good  to  be  alone  with  you. ❞

❝  there  are  questions  i  can't  ask. ❞ 

❝  we  should  run  away. ❞

FROM  EDEN.

❝  there's  something  tragic  about  you.  ❞ 

❝  there's  something  lonesome  about  you.  ❞

❝  get  closer  to  me. ❞

❝  idealism  sits  prison,  chivalry  fell  on  it's  sword. ❞

❝  innocence  died  screaming,  honey  ask  me,  i  should  know. ❞

❝  babe,  there's  something  wretched  about  this. ❞

❝  oh,  what  a  sin. ❞ 

SEDATED:

❝  just  a  little  rush  babe. ❞

❝  to  feel  dizzy,  to  derail  the  mind  of  me. ❞

❝  you  and  i  nursing  on  a  poison  that  never  stung. ❞

❝  something  isn’t  right. ❞

❝  i  keep  catching  little  words,  but  the  meanings  thin. ❞

❝  we're  slaves  to  any  semblance  of  touch. ❞

❝  darlin’, don't  you  stand there watching. ❞

❝  free  and  young, and  we  can  feel  none  of  it. ❞

WORK  SONG:

❝  is  that  the  kind'a  way  to  face  the  burning  heat ?  ❞ 

❝  she/he/you  give  me  toothaches  just  from  kissin'  me. ❞

❝  no  grave  can  hold  my  body  down. ❞

❝  i  was  three  days  on  a  drunken  sin. ❞

❝  heaven  and  hell  were  words  to  me . ❞

LIKE  REAL  PEOPLE  DO:

❝  i  had  a  thought,  dear. ❞

❝  why  were  you  digging  ?  ❞

❝  what  did  you  bury  ?  ❞

❝  honey,  just  put  your  sweet  lips  on  my  lips.  ❞

❝  i  could  not  ask  you  where  you  came  from.  ❞

❝  we  should  just  kiss  like  real  people do.  ❞

IT  WILL  COME  BACK:

❝  you  know  better  than  to  look  at  me  like  that. ❞ 

❝  you  know  better  than  to  talk  to  me  like  that.  ❞

❝  don’t  give  it  a  hand,  offer  it  a  soul. ❞

❝  jesus  christ,  don’t  be  kind  to  me.  ❞

❝  don’t  let  me  in  with  no  intention  to  keep  me.  ❞

❝  you  don’t  understand. ❞

❝  honey,  don’t  feed  me,  i  will  come  back.  ❞

❝  that’s  a  kindness  you  can’t  avoid.  ❞

❝  give  me  mercy.  ❞

❝  you’ll  hear  me  howling  outside  your  door.  ❞

[stagnantsaints]

every time i make a move to come back here, something stupid happens irl and i am sincerely sorry

[stagnantsaints]

So I’m about to start my last 8 weeks of grad school, and I might try to make a comeback once I settle into my capstone. For now, if you wanna stay in touch with me and follow my writing, feel free to find me at any of THESE LINKS !

[ofadeadgod]

                             𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙜𝙤𝙙 ?                private arthur pendragon of arthurian literature ft. verses of various tellings

                                                promo credit: dakosresources 

[iiraeth-archived-deactivated202]

RICHARD SIKEN SENTENCE STARTERS [EXTENDED]

– So I really liked the original meme here, so much that I ended up buying the poet’s book Crush to read. 

Inspiration hit and here are 79 lines, categorized by poem. Feel free to change pronouns and any names!

SCHEHERAZADE

❝Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.❞ ❝Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means we’re inconsolable.❞ ❝Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.❞ ❝Tell me we’ll never get used to it.❞

DIRTY VALENTINE

❝There’s a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I’m about to burst into tears.❞ ❝I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth.❞ ❝You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.❞ ❝I’m sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.❞

LITTLE BEAST

❝I like him and I want to be like him, my hands no longer an afterthought.❞ ❝Someone once told me than explaining is an admission of failure.❞ ❝I’m sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.❞ ❝History repeats itself.❞ ❝There are many names in history but none of them are ours.❞ ❝You could drown in those eyes, I said.❞ ❝But damn if there isn’t anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.❞ ❝What would you like? I’d like my money’s worth.❞ ❝Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.❞     ❝I couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.❞

SEASIDE IMPROVISATION

❝Tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.❞ ❝You do the math, you expect the trouble.❞ ❝Draw a circle with a piece of chalk. Imagine standing in a constant cone of light. Imagine surrender. Imagine being useless.❞ ❝A stone on the path means the tea’s not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody’s angry.❞ ❝The stone inside you still hasn’t hit bottom.❞

THE TORN-UP ROAD

❝There is no way to make this story interesting.❞ ❝I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that I ran out into the street to prove something.❞ ❝Tell me we’re dead and I’ll love you even more.❞ ❝And he knew it wasn’t going to be okay, and he told me it wasn’t going to be okay.❞ ❝But the minutes don’t stop.❞ ❝And words, little words, words too small for any hope or promise, not really soothing but soothing nonetheless.❞

LITANY IN WHICH CERTAIN THINGS ARE CROSSED OUT

❝You will be alone always and then you will die.❞ ❝So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog of non-definitive acts, something other than the desperation.❞ ❝I’m sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.❞ ❝You want a better story. Who wouldn’t?❞ ❝I can tell you already think I’m the dragon, that would be so like me, but I’m not. I’m not the dragon. I’m not the princess either.❞ ❝Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.❞ ❝And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.❞ ❝Shut up. I’m getting to it.❞ ❝For a while I thought I was the dragon.❞ ❝Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal.❞ ❝You still get to be the hero.❞ ❝What more do you want?❞ ❝Are you there, sweetheart? Do you know me?❞ ❝Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.❞ ❝There is something underneath the floorboards.❞ ❝I arrived in the city and you met me at the station, smiling in a way that made me frightened.❞ ❝This doesn’t look that much different from home.❞ ❝Love, for you, is more than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying.❞ ❝Okay, if you’re so great, you do it–❞ ❝Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time.❞ ❝I have told you where I’m coming from, so put it together.❞ ❝When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.❞

A PRIMER FOR THE SMALL WEIRD LOVES

❝And you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn’t do.❞ ❝Because you are weak and hollow and it doesn’t matter anymore.❞ ❝And the boy who loves you the wrong way is filthy.❞

UNFINISHED DUET

❝He wants to be tender and merciful.❞ ❝He meaning you.❞ ❝Do you love yourself?❞ ❝I don’t have to answer that.❞ ❝It should matter.❞

I HAD A DREAM ABOUT YOU

❝I don’t think I can take this much longer.❞ ❝In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.❞ ❝In these dreams it’s always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge.❞ ❝Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.❞ ❝I borrowed your shoes and didn’t put them away.❞ ❝You didn’t show up. I kept waiting.❞

STRAW HOUSE, STRAW DOG

❝You have a cold cold smile.❞ ❝Watch me, just watch me.❞ ❝I swallowed crushed ice pretending it was glass.❞ ❝I don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.❞ ❝You can sleep now, you said. You said that. I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that. You weren’t supposed to.❞

PLANET OF LOVE

❝And you play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.❞

WISHBONE

❝You saved my life. I owe you, I owe you everything.❞ ❝Let’s not talk about it, let’s just not talk.❞ ❝Don’t bother. You never mean it anyway, not really, and it only makes me that much more ashamed.❞ ❝Please, for just one night, will you lie down next to me, we can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up…❞ ❝Do you see what I mean? Do you see what I’m getting at?❞ ❝If you love me, _____ , you don’t love me in a way I understand.❞ ❝Do you want to go home now?❞

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Da 5 Bloods (2020) dir. Spike Lee

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

what are your thoughts on petunia?

hi hello, sorry i haven’t been around here much. umm i try not to have many thoughts about petunia at all really lol? she was an enabler of an abuser and thus was an abuser herself. her character has... a bit of a personal touch to her for me, in that i was more or less raised by someone quite like her, so yeah. any thoughts i have about her are pretty negative, and i don’t see any valid reason she could ever possibly have for being the way she was. vernon was more scared of her than she ever was of him, which only goes to prove that she herself was as much a monster as he was, and so no one can say ‘oh well she was in an abusive relationship, she had no choice’ because no. she had a choice.

[archopv-blog]

meta ab neville + teaching herbology

let me preface this by saying that neville doesn’t start teaching at hogwarts until he’s well on in years. he’s no younger than forty when he begins teaching , and even when he first begins teaching , it’s not consistent or permanent. he commits to being auror. he commits to helping kingsley clean up the ministry. he takes his position very seriously , and he becomes one of the greatest aurors the wizarding world has ever known since , you know , alastor moody and his parents. he does help rebuild the school , and he ensures that the ministry no longer interferes with the studies of children. he basically blocks and barricades any chance anyone thinks of having to get in minerva mcgonagall’s way, and that’s just that. 

now it’s not that he never wanted to teach because he ALWAYS wanted to teach , but it wasn’t the right time for him. he had a bigger purpose , a calling if you will , and it wasn’t to follow in his parents’ footsteps or shine their legacy. it was to make sure that the sacrifices of himself , his family , and all of his friends were not in vain. yes , of course , neville wanted to prove himself. he went into auror training with both a lot of confidence and a lot of feeling like he had not yet done enough. and teaching would always be there. he visited hogwarts often , always checking in on things. he kept in touch with who he could and maintained his ties to his school. 

by the time he does resort to teaching , he’s had a full career in the auror department. he was its head for several years and then the head of the entire law enforcement department, and he helped overhaul nearly every department and office within his own department because he felt that was a necessary thing to do. he feels accomplished. he’s seen so much, and he’s done so much , and by the end of it , he’s convinced he doesn’t owe anyone else anything else. 

now teaching is his passion. absolutely , at the end of the day , neville wants to HELP. and he wants to give students a better experience than many of the ones he had in school. he wants to be a good teacher , a helpful teacher , and he wants to ensure that every child that comes through his classroom —and , eventually , his house when he takes over head of gryffindor because who else would really?— feels welcome and safe and cherished for their skills rather than discredited for their flaws. neville is so damn jolly and happy and comfortable in and out of his skin when he goes back to hogwarts. he’s a role model. he’s a friend. he’s a confidante. he’s everything you would want in a teacher you see for seven years , and he loves going to work every single day. 

and the plus about it all is that he gets to relive his days in hogwarts in a way where he isn’t being bullied. he isn’t walking into a classroom terrified. he isn’t being looked down upon or undermined or taken advantage of.

every single day , in hogwarts and this house , we celebrate neville fucking longbottom. 

[thehopefulquotes]

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

— Albert Einstein

[stagnantsaints]

OKAY SO FULL DISCLOSURE. as of late , being on tumblr is just… not it for me. it hasn’t been all that fun or all that comfortable. with school and my own personal works in the mix as well, the rpc just doesnt feel as beneficial as it used to, and i just dont think im getting what i used to get out of it. it’s not as open or inviting or interactive as it was when i first started here, and it’s… disheartening to say the least. on top of that, tumblr just keeps playing whack-a-mole with my blogs, flagging them for no reason. either that or sessionbox is crashing, frustrating me to no end, so while i dont wanna make any permanent or major decisions because i do very much still adore all my partners and my plots / threads / etc. , i think i’ve decided on a solution for now. so for the moment: 

i’ll be pushing more of my threads to discord. mutuals feel free to add me hispyrrhicvictory#3596 if you wanna write or even just plot and scream about stuff and see how it goes. if you do wanna write, i can set up a server for us, no problem. just please let me know who you are in the comments or something before adding me. i dont accept requests from people i dont know. i also only do basic discord. no bots or anything like that, and i won’t be rping anywhere else apart from there and here for the time being. it’s just too much. 

for those who wanna continue writing with me here on tumblr, that’s completely fine and i appreciate you. just know all my blogs will run on a queue, and it will be stringent. i might post a reply immediately if i’m feeling it , but i won’t push it. i also won’t be on the dash too much and will be relying heavily on my interest trackers. i’ll try tossing random starters to those subscribed to muses each week so that nothing is one - sided, but that’s really the best i can do right now 

my activity is better on discord but not perfect. i have a lot going on and projects i’m trying to work on and finish before i graduate and have less time to do so. i did make a writing blog (but that’s already been flagged too so we’ll see) and you can ask for that url on discord if you’d like

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

vctoires​.

victoire  tries  her  best  not  to  look  too  shocked.      although teddy is quite a familiar figure in england,  she still feels the distance.  he’s not as close as her figure skating teammates,  or the her cousins in yeosu,  but victoire feels relief from the offer.  if anyone would understand why she’s overwhelmed at the burrow,  it would be him.      “   with the amount of magic the entire family has,  you’d think they’d be able to leave their house unwatched for a little while.   “      she chuckles,      “   but yeah,  i’m in.  are you going to side-along me?   “

❛  yeah , well i - i think that’s the thing. sort of take it for granted and all , y’know? ❜ his nan doesn’t use as much magic as one would expect from her considering the stories he’s heard of her family , but he reckons that’s his grandfather’s influence , and her grief as well. teddy never minded it much , and even now , he drove his granddad’s truck more than he apparated. not to the burrow though. he promised harry he wouldn’t bring it around uncle arthur. still , he found a childish wonder in magic and what it could do for him. it could take him away , even just for a little while. and in pictures , it let him know his parents, his granddad.

nonetheless , harry was the one doing teddy a favor as opposed to the other way around. he’d even made kreacher swear he would stay in his room. ❛ yeah , of course. ya wanna go now ? we can pick up something for supper on the way if ya want. ❜

[raininwallflower]

Bro the “we can disagree but still be friends” is true about things like tv shows and shit but not fucking human rights

[abbf26]

the inherent horor of being trans is knowing you are the single touchstone a cis person will probably ever have

im reminded of when i went to sit my philosophy exam and had an ex-officer as an invidulator. he asked me if i was trans, something i had no obligation to answer. but if i didnt, i would be cagey. i would now paint an image of all trans people being rude in his mind, so i said yes

that invidulator asked me why, as a trans student, i should have my rights respected if there are so few of us

and instead of rightfully getting pissed off, i had to remember that i am currently representing a community of millions to a single man in a room with just the two of us in it. i could be the deciding factor on how he conducts behaviour with trans people in the future. what if he gets called to invidulate again in 20 years time and has another trans student? what if he remembers the one he met before, and instantly assumes he knows our community?

so i explained to him why i should have rights. and i used my words carefully, because if i slip up even once i have now put a trans person in danger, because he has made a choice based on me

trans people dont get to be angry. cis people always joke about how we demand a space, or we demand the right name, or we demand they bow down to us

think very carefully, did that trans woman demand that you use the right name, or did she correct you? did that trans man hold you at gunpoint, demanding you let him piss in public, or did he look like he wanted to use the disabled toilet to avoid bothering you all together. did the nonbinary trans person have you on your knees begging for forgiveness, or did they ask nicely for you to be mindful of their pronouns?

the transphobic narrative is one of victimhood, meanwhile if i even use the wrong tone cis people will act as a child does, and they will demand that the next trans person they meet apologise

every trans person you meet is aware of this too. we're all very tuned into the fact that we are ambassadors, and that we never asked to be that. i dont want to have to very carefully consider 'will a curt answer mean someome later dies', but every day of my life i do

and cis people need to know that. to be trans is to literally walk on constant eggshells of cis fragility. its why when we see a new trans celebrity we have to desperately hope they dont do stupid fucking shit like caitlyn jenner did. because now everyone thinks trans women are like her. because now negotiations for our right to exist unmolested have gone back another 20 years

and tbh, cis people are pathetically weak. a trans person asked you to use the right name? that did not happen in a vacuum. that trans person has met 50-60 cis people today who refused

and guess what? we get tired too

[sweetirons]

I reached 100 gifs of condor S2!  & more to come (: | 

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

HERE’S THE THING ABOUT JA.MES PO.TTER. He was a bully. He made a lot of harmful decisions and stupid mistakes. He saw the culmination of that example in the incident at the weeping willow , and he canonically came to the realization of that harm they’d caused. He saved Snape. He reprimanded Sirius. He worked to be a better person. And he subsequently became so. Not because Lily loved him or chose him or fixed him, but because he himself saw the error of his ways and the harm that could be done by them. He chose to change, and he did that. 

HERE’S THE THING ABOUT SI.RIUS BL.ACK. He was a bully. He made a lot of harmful decisions and selfish mistakes. Coming from an abmysmally abusive home, he was seriously mentally ill, and there was of course no help for it. Nearly ruining his friend’s life and almost killing a classmate did not teach him the lesson as easily as it had taught James. It took constant reinforcement from James, and the war allowed him to take out his anger. It was Harry that made him want to be better, but that wasn’t immediate either. He doesn’t really learn the lesson until he’s in prison, but he definitely did his time. He learned from it, and he did his best to be better. He never was perfect, but he tried, which is more than was ever expected of him.

People can grow and change. People can become better. That’s kind of the point.