A tiger is a tiger, not a lamb... Mein Herr!

Jessica. 20-and-something. brazilian. bookworm. nerd. fangirl. this is a: harry potter, klaine, glee, darren criss, fringe, doctor who, the hunger games, the beatles, literature, the mists of avalon, anne rice, king arthur, jonathan strange & mr norrel, rock music, true blood, portishead, sherlock holmes, placebo, LotR and tolkien in general, british awesomeness, game of thrones, tbbt, star trek, percy jackson, musicals and broadway in general - appreciation blog. if you enjoy any of these we totally should be friends.

[everythingstarstuff]

[peterlewis]

frustrating trying to b goth when ur skin isnt pale

[garlicsaucewithdahomies-deactiv]

GOTH HAS NO COLOR. DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT. I BELIEVE IN YOU.

[etakeh]

FYI that first pic? Yes a photoshoot, not a one-off though.  Theresa. 

Every picture more stunning than the one before.

[pop-penguin-blog]

[viralfrog]

[geekinglikeaboss]

gods i fucking cried

[twerkstallion]

This part stood out to me especially

[athena1138]

This is really important, especially now during the holidays. You owe nothing to nobody if they make you uncomfortable.

[ansonmount]

American Horror Story: 1984 | 9x08

[autisticexpression]

The appalling travesty that was BBC’s Sherlock has infested the Sherlock Holmes fandom like a malignant tumour so I want you all to know how awesome the OG literary Holmes was:

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an autistic coded character before people knew what autism was.

The literary Sherlock Holmes was an explicitly aromantic character before people had a word for that.

Literary Holmes solved mysteries not merely for the intellectual stimulation but also out of a genuine desire to do good. He cared deeply about every client. HE WAS NOT A HIGH-FUNCTIONING SOCIOPATH! He could definitely be insensitive and blunt but he was not callous or unfeeling.

Literary Sherlock threatened to beat a guy who was being creepy with his own stepdaughter.

Literary Sherlock learned to grow past his misogyny after a woman outsmarted him.

In particular, he was always respectful to Mrs Hudson, never belittling or talking down to her (the otherwise enjoyable Guy Ritchie films screw this up too). In fact, they got along so well that they were actually a very popular ship back in the day.

Literary Holmes would NEVER call Watson an idiot. He was his only friend who he loved and respected, even if he did get frustrated with him sometimes. He didn’t need to belittle others to feel powerful.

Literary Holmes and Watson broke into a corrupt man’s house and witnessed him being murdered by a woman he was blackmailing. They knew exactly who she was but they let her get away because they were chaotic good like that.

Literary Holmes had HUMILITY: something a smug prig like Steven Moffat will never understand. He could be arrogant but he had a sense of humour and was willing to admit when he was wrong. And he was wrong sometimes because he was a flawed human being, not some gross male power fantasy.

Literary Holmes respected the working class and was often disdainful of the rich. In Victorian England!

Literary Holmes indirectly caused the death of a guy who abused (and implicitly molested) his daughters and he didn’t give a single fuck about it.

At the end of the series, Holmes retires to Sussex to keep bees. Beekeepers are awesome.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

I will reblog this always.

[trixyaasgawd]

[mac-daddy-cheese]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@brattylikestoeat

[londoncallingsigh]

“From the script’s first draft, Larson says she noted the significance of women being involved, in all stages of the film’s creative process.”

[tybalt-tisk]

About an hour ago, I was in Walmart looking for my conditioner because today is wash day for my hair. As I’m looking for my product, this older white lady approaches me and she says, “Excuse me, miss. Please don’t be offended by this.” And usually when white people tell me not to be offended, 9 times out of 10, whatever they are about to say is going to be offensive af.

Anyway, she follows it up with, “My husband and I just recently won our custody battle with our foster daughter and she means the world to us. She’s a beautiful African American girl and her hair looks a lot like yours. But I’m afraid because I don’t know what to do with her hair. It’s a lot different from mines and our other children and we are at a total loss. I’ve tried looking up the YouTube videos and my husband went to the braiding shops so they can teach him how to properly braid her hair, but he’s still pretty new and it will be a while before he gets used to it. Do you have any tips you can give me? If you don’t have the time, it’s okay, really! I just needed a little advice because I want her to look beautiful.”

Y’all. swear I almost started crying on aisle 6. So for the last 30 minutes, I spent my time talking to her and what products to use and how to properly detangle and comb her hair with the proper tools and what not to do with natural hair. And I showed her a bunch of easier to follow natural hair tutorials on YouTube and saved them for her. (I also had to create a YouTube account for her so she could save it for later.) but omfg, she was so sweet, and I could tell that she listened to every single thing I had to say and she took little notes on her little notepad.

And what really filled my heart was the fact that her husband actually taking classes from African braiding shops. And she showed me a picture of him wearing a little sweater vest and loafers in a little shop surrounded by beautiful black women showing him how to braid black hair and even the lady he’s braiding on is guiding his hands. And omfg. Bless these old white people and their black daughter who I know have new loving parents because they are willing to step out of their comfort zone just to make her feel and look beautiful.

I really hope our paths cross again one day, Mrs Cicilia. 💖💕

[knifefightscene]

[gumx395]

1) pigtails aren’t long enough to “pull on” anymore

2) her bangs are more choppy and fun rather than seductively “framing her face”

3) her boobs aren’t half a foot off her ribcage (I’m guessing they made her wear a padded bra in Suicide Squad)

4) Her skimpy clothing looks more like a choice rather than the tired “women’s clothes strategically ripped” trope

5) she’s not wearing a fucking dog collar

[letsboldlygomotherfuckers]

it looks like she dressed herself and had fun with it as opposed to it being painfully obvious a man dressed her

[profeminist]

6) The camera is centered on her face not her chest.

[cantabilechaos]

You see this is what people should be talking about when they say it’s a character’s “choice” to dress a certain way. Skimpy clothing doesn’t have to scream “I’m here for you to consume” it can be “I’m wearing this because it’s fun and whether you like it or not isn’t my problem”

Also we all know Harley is a disaster bisexual and that gloriously hideous outfit is perfect for her

[jenniferrpovey]

Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:

Excalibur.

In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).

From the “Lady of the Lake.”

Here’s the thing.

In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).

Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.

In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.

The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.

But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.

But….but…

The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.

IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake  as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…

…but as a jacked smith in an apron.

[you-had-me-at-hallow]

I have a headcanon that Hermione insists her children attend some primary muggle schooling before Hogwarts, just as she had done. Now, imagine Arthur Weasley attending his grandchild’s science fair, being the ultra proud grandfather….and yet also completely geeking out over absolutely EVERYTHING.

[jamiesshelves]

Canon

[themiscyra1983]

“That is a volcano, that is a VERY SMALL VOLCANO, how - young lady, how did you make this? Baking soda and food coloring? MARVELOUS!”

[worlds-of-ink-and-paper]

the kids would love him.

[bluefirecas]

Never have I ever loved anything more than I love this

[hexcoderose]

All the muggle teachers would think he was being so adorable, “pretending” not to know how potato batteries and mini-volcanoes work, fawning over the hard work the kids did on even the simplest the projects. And he comes every year, because after the kids have aged out (”gone on to some boarding school in Scotland,” the teachers say over bad coffee in the break room, “they didn’t seem the type”), he gets an honorary invitation to the fair every year, because he never stops making the kids feel smart and good. 

[elfwreck]

“And this airy-o-plane, it flies by means of a… rubber band? Did I hear that correctly? No magic at all? Doesn’t flap its wings like a bird? MARVELOUS! What an ingenious method of flight!” *looks around* “You, sir! With the ribbons! This child deserves one of those prizes!”

[hamelin-born]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

This is so wholesome. 

Arthur Weasley, as the Science Fair attendee we all deserve.

[darthmelyanna]

After a couple years Arthur Weasley brings his own ribbons. They shimmer in a way that makes everyone wonder what kind of ink he uses—“secrets!” he tells anyone who asks—but they’re beautiful. They’re coveted even more than the official ribbons, because they remind you that while he was heaping praise on you, you felt magical.

[fromchaostocosmos]

Arthur Weasley the Science Fair-y Grandpa  

[admiralkatcornwellfan]

this post came back and it is even more amazing than it was before

[anxietyproblem]

I need this mug

[blackgirloutrage2-blog]

PAY ATTENTION! This is how you weed out the men who deserve your time and the ones that don’t. These dudes are literally telling you who they are, but y'all refuse to listen. Your safety comes first.

[dynastylnoire]

I’m in a FB group where dudes 30 and older were having full tantrums over this post. These are the same guys that admit:

Not deleting nudes post break up

Not believing when women that were sexually assaulted

Not believing sex with a partner that is sleeping is rape

Etc.

Please do not date people that take issue with your protecting yourself.

[adreamdeferred]

i deadass took a picture of my dates license and sent to my homegirls in the gc. and turned on my location. yea you cool but it’s always about me and my safety.

[dandridgegirl]

Men who aren’t trash should already know this is commonplace. One of my last dates even offered to take a picture together for my safety text.

[furbytheminx]

Men who get mad when women try to protect themselves are just telling on themselves, nothing more.

[on-your-knees-darling]

All you people out there talking about “spreading my private information” like you don’t drive around with your liscense plate out there for everyone and their mom to see all day every day. Sit down. Shut up. She didn’t ask for your social security number you absolute acorn. Your plates are public knowledge.

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

but what if things work out and everything turns out better than you imagined? what if things change and your depression has been lying the entire time? you never know. life has a funny way of coming together sometimes. so don’t give up, and wake up every day knowing that the future is full of good people and small successes and beautiful things that will make your heart swell. it will all be worth it in the end. believe in that.

[theweirdsister]

trust auntie Jessie in this: things get better, they really do. <3

[rodrickheffeley]

robert pattinson could do spider-man but tom holland couldn’t do twilight

[r-mad]

robert pattinson could do everything and no one could do anything robert pattinson did

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

Every Twilight movie was another level of hell, and anyone even partially involved came out strong from the fire forging iron in their bones. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are unkillable.