Obstinate, Headstrong Girl

Katie, 20. Vancouver. Ravenclaw. Hello! I love all things Jane Austen and Harry Potter, and I also adore Doctor Who, the Vancouver Canucks, Outlander, Downton Abbey, Merlin, LOTR, and anything written by Rick Riordan. My favourite people are Taylor Swift and the Cambridges, and my Star Wars sideblog is padreyamidala :)

[johnbitchsociety]

Ah yes, I love the Romantic poets: John Keats, Samuel Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, and *looks at smudged writing on my hand*

[prollyright-deactivated20260122]

Finding someone who thinks you’re interesting enough to talk to you every day, whether they’re a friend or a lover, is one of the best feelings ever.

[princesconsuela]

[novellaqueen]

do older generations not get fatalistic humor?? like the other day my friend’s parents were hanging around and we were joking and i was like “well no matter what i can always fling myself off the nearest cliff” and they didn’t laugh then later the mom pulled me aside and was like “maybe you should get some help, sweetie” like stfu?? help? in this economy? i don’t think so, debra

[chazzaroo47]

I honestly don’t think they get it as a coping mechanism, they think it’s a cry for help rather than actually helping.

[kingloptr]

i’d even say it’s past just coping and is also now a category of Stuff Kids Got Used To When No One Was Looking; not everyone using that humor is even covering up something bigger, we just stopped thinking fatalistic = taboo/unspeakable somewhere along the line, and most parents don’t seem to know why or how ~

[chainerstorment]

My boss opened a door and missed me by inches, he said “whoops, almost killed you there!” My result of “Oh, if only.” Led to an awkward end of shift debrief.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

This generation shares the same humor as the goddamn Addams Family and the previous generation is the White Sixties Family™ that lives next door and runs away screaming at the end of the episode

[prof-grace-aspen]

I will say that it’s interesting because this kind of humor is very, very prevalent somewhere else…

the military.

Which is honestly a place you would expect fatalistic humor to be common and used as a coping method. You’re one “oops” away from death on the flight deck, one inch to the left and you don’t have a head anymore because the jet that just landed now owns it as a wing-tip decoration. So you joke about it because lowkey you’re fucking terrified it’ll happen, but you’re also desensitized to the danger itself because you face it every single day for 12 hours at a time.

Anyway so we all know the mindset you adopt in the military because of the danger, so to realise that an identical sense of humor has been adopted by normal people should probably tell you something very important about the amount of stress modern young folks experience in daily life.

[a-guys-random-blog]

That last one… it’s true

[thebibliosphere]

It was also common in previous generations that had to deal with say, war and economic depression on a massive scale.

One of my favorite movies is Singing In The Rain which came in out 1952, right on the tailcoat of two world wars and a looming cold one, and for all it’s a cheery happy musical, it’s got this really bleak witty humor too, things like “call me a cab!” “okay, you’re a cab!” or the scene where Don says he’ll be homeless by the next day and Cosmo cheerfully tells him not to be ridiculous…the bank bailiffs don’t open till Monday.

And then quite probably one of my favorite opening lines, where two young girls are watching Lina on screen and one says  “She’s so refined. I think I’ll kill myself.”

Which really resonates with a lot of the things we say now when talking about people we find personally attractive, meaning not only is fatalism not a new trend, but those two girls at the starting sequence of Singing In The Rain are totally there for Lina, not Don. 

You’re welcome.

[littlehobbit13]

So it’s almost as if you can use fatalist humor as a sort of social atmosphere barometer. If fatalist humors starts to become commonplace, you know there’s some growing/widespread social circumstance providing an ever-present tension in people’s every day lives.

Maybe sometimes it will be obvious, like during war times or in potentially dangerous work environments, and maybe sometimes it’s less obvious, like the younger generation’s views of their future. Either way, from all the comments above, it seems to have somehow emerged as a reliable measure of how things are going for large demographics. That’s rather morbidly fascinating. :D

[cantina-band]

“When you’re backup goalie but you’re just happy to be on the team”

[dannybriereisaliferuiner]

no one is paying this kid a bit of attention which means dude does this on the regular and I love it

[itskind-of-a-checkplease]

Always reblog dancing baby goalie and your team will win the Stanley Cup

[incorrectvancouvercanucksquotes]

Ben Hutton: 'What happens when you put a werewolf on the moon?' is a great question. Probably the best question ever.

Brock Boeser: He'll explode and die because there's no oxygen on the moon.

Ben Hutton: We never said we'd send him up without a suit, you absolute monster.

[fourforyouodo]

I’m Gonna Be (500 miles) is honestly just such a pure, solid good song. The lyrics are cute af and actually resemble a long-term committed and happy relationship and to top it all off you can scream ‘DAHDADADA’ and the top of your lungs in a pub and someone will scream it back to you. 

[susiephone]

when will YA authors realize that the mr. darcy fantasy isn’t “hot rich guy is a huge dick to you” but “hot rich guy fucking respects and listens to you”

[inkbleeder]

“hot rich guy only seems like a huge dick because he has the social skills of an agarophobic lobster.”

[wordmage-girl]

“hot rich guy falls in love with you, respects your wishes when you tell him to fuck off, mends his ways with no ulterior motive and opens his dumb awkward heart to you”

[tiffanyachings]

Dwight Enys; 1x06

What an affront to human dignity.

[fuvkrutherford]

Dad: where’s Jokinen???

Me: I guess Jussi him later

Mom: Stop

[imp-deactivated20171219-deactiv]

do any of you regularly think “FUCKKK i started talking about myself again im so conceited” while having a normal conversation with someone 

[chillyvapor-deactivated20181226]

I’M JUST TRYING TO BE RELATABLE TO HELP EASE YOUR PAIN: a novel

[brockboesr]

why do I find this funny

[lotrfansaredorcs]

One overlooked thing that really sets the Lord of the Rings films apart from other franchises is how earnest they are-

Most movies are so afraid of being “cheesy” that whenever they say something like “friendship is the most powerful force in the world” they quickly undercut it with a joke to show We Don’t Really Believe That! ;)  Even Disney films nowadays have the characters mock their own movie’s tropes (”if you start singing, I’m gonna throw up!”) It’s like winking at the camera: “See, audience? We know this is ridiculous! We’re in on the joke!”

But Lord of the Rings is just 12.5 hours of friendship and love being the most powerful forces in the world, played straight. Characters have conversations about how much their home and family and friends mean to them, how hope is eternal, how there is so much in the world that’s worth living for…. and the film doesn’t apologize for that. There’s no winking at the audience about How Cheesy and Silly All This Is; it’s just. Completely in earnest.

And when Lord of the Rings does “lean on the fourth wall” to talk about storytelling within the film, it’s never to make jokes about How Ridiculous These Storytelling Tropes are (the way most films do)…. but instead to talk about how valuable these stories can be. Like Sam’s Speech at the end of the Two Towers: the greatest stories are ones that give you something to believe in, give you hope, that help you see there are things in a bleak violent world that are worth living for

[scrinch-biscuit]

You’ve heard of SuperWhoLock, now get ready for…

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

my parrot is a fucking dumbass with no sense of self-preservation. proof? he got spooked by a pear - by all accounts a green and tasty friend - and flew into a wall to escape, but when greeted with a sink full of soapy boiling water - by all accounts a harmful, bird-killing abyss - he launched himself into it at top speed and cried when I locked him in baby jail to stop him from killing himself. 

[allandnot]

Please tell your parrot I still love him.

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

he just threw his seeds all over the carpet and laughed about it so I will not

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Your bird is so dumb I love him.

[sheikah]

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir perform their exhibition to “Long Time Running” in the figure skating gala at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games

+ Bonus:

[markstrom]

rare smiles eh.