my-fandom-life:

fireandshellamari:

katieskarlette:

asdfkljawyetawjtaewkljejltaeyayhaoghai;jadf;gkjak;ygjakwey awetkjawetaya;kyaye a  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeee

No no no this should be illegal this amount of cuteness cannot be allowed to exist in the world I can’t take it no no oh my gawwwwwddddd asdfkeja

Dragon daddy who loves his baby.

katieskarlette:

asdfkljawyetawjtaewkljejltaeyayhaoghai;jadf;gkjak;ygjakwey awetkjawetaya;kyaye a  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeee

No no no this should be illegal this amount of cuteness cannot be allowed to exist in the world I can’t take it no no oh my gawwwwwddddd asdfkeja

my-fandom-life:

excuse me while i cry my life away

Comic depicting a little dragon approaching his curled-up father. “Daddy?”, he asks.
“What is it, son?”
The little dragon looks up at his father with wide eyes and a smile, wagging his tail: “Do you think I could be a pretty princess one day???”
“Son, don’t be stupid”, the father reprimands him sternly. “We’re dragons, we kidnap princesses, we don’t BE them.”
“Oh… okay…”, the little dragon answers sadly.
“Oh…”, the big dragon says, noticing the big tears welling up in the little dragon’s eyes. “Oh, sweetheart, c’mere…”
He sweeps the little dragon up with a giant paw and hugs him tightly. “You can be a princess all you want, baby.”

thenextnarcissus:

morrissarty:

the best of tumblr confusion

YOU FORGOT THE BEST ONE

Ahhhh, internet 😀

[Image description: first picture shows an adult gorilla and a gorilla child sitting opposite from each other, the adult playing with a Nintendo DS (I think). Second picture shows the child reaching for the Nintendo and the adult holding it out of reach. The adult’s face looks friendly in the first picture and decidedly unamused in the second.]

your mother is probably the only one you’ve ever known
who really wanted to kill you
and your mother stopped cars on sunset boulevard
by the length of her legs and the magyar in her cheekbones
though she claimed it was just good posture

and your mother married five handsome men
but swore she only did it for the money
and your mother made ships out of pine cones
and guns out of milk cans
and no human male was calm within fifty feet of her

and your mother told wild stories at the dinner table
till you were cramped and leaking with laughter
she said stalin died from eating two whole chickens all by himself
but she ate only wings and necks and the pope’s nose

and your mother called you ‘dove’ or ‘childy’ and broke your nose
and put your baby brother in the hospital with a fractured pelvis
and your mother dragged you through bean fields and dreams
and turned the hose on bill collectors

and your mother could curse
and your mother stole proudly saying “it’s not dishonest, it’s resourceful!”
and your mother the teetotaler
ran a desoto full of booze into dry counties to buy christmas toys

and your mother ran a red light in a strange town and got the arresting officer
to pay her rent
and your mother fed you, all one winter
by drawing portraits of albert schwietzer with black crayons on old pillowcases
and selling them to suckers

and your mother forgot toothbrushes but taught you to make slingshots
and keep your distance in a fight
and your mother didn’t really care if you went to school
but she told you you were god and rubbed your face
in raw beauty three times a day

and your mother knew if you got hurt even across town
but it never worried her
and your mother made pie out of one saltine and a raisin
and your mother singed her eyebrows scooping you from a fire some claim she set
and drew them on with maybelline forever after

and your mother ran off with a new man and did her best to leave you behind
but you hitchhiked after her
and your mother wore you out with switches, broom handles, belts
and her paralyzing tongue
then snatched your ass from the draft board and hid you for a whole war

and your mother sliced off the top of your skull with her terrible love
and poured in the charred sludge of hate
and there was never a dull moment

and your mother suspects you of plotting against her
and she’s right

Katherine Dunn, via Quinn Norton (via mollycrabapple)

It’s complicated with mothers.

(via sabrinamorgan)

starwhalesinthesky:

Thus the muses spake:

“JK you dealt kinda shittily with Dumbledore and other diversity aspects, so we’re gonna go ahead and fix this ourselves" 

In other news A+ headcanons from the HP fandom. 

everets:

its unsettling how hard it is for people to understand that equal treatment doesnt produce equal results unless equality already exists in the first place. did yall ever take algebra? an inequality will always be an inequality unless you apply different operations to each or either side. its really simple but i guess its hard for privileged people to understand that everyone’s not on a level plane

Yep. This.

stankface:

Nichelle Nichols inspires Whoopi Goldberg to become an actress because she was the first black woman Whoopi’d ever seen on tv that wasn’t playing a maid.

Whoopi gets her career launched by starring in The Color Purple.

Lupita Nyong’o was inspired to become an actress after watching The Color Purple because she was finally watching a film with people who looked like her.

So just to be clear, An African communications officer (who Nichelle never would’ve played if not for MLKJ encouraging her about representation) inspired the lead actress in the best black film of all time (which was based off a book written by a black womanist) where the women carried the weight of the film, which led to an African actress to get the role in a high profile film, directed, written by and starring black folk before even graduating school and now has the most nominations I’ve ever seen from someone so inexperienced.

But by all means, keep making racist powerpoints about how representation has no affect on anyone just because you don’t see color.

What Depression Feels Like (For Me)

ftm-transscribed:

I have what is clinically known as a “double depression.” That means I have two kinds of depression at the same time. The first is known as “dysthymia”, which means that generally, every day, I feel kind of blah or under the weather. I’m not quite full-blown depressed, but I’m not having as easy…

Except for the psychotic stuff (and hey, I know that song!), this is exactly what it feels like for me.

All the hugs to you, dear stranger. You deserve all the happiness in the world.

What Depression Feels Like (For Me)

sammymontoya:

enjoy this 8 page comic i drew in 1 day and inked in 2.

no one who knows me in real life would ever believe all the fluffy romantic comics I draw;;;

alternate title is: I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ON DWARF BEARDS

Sooo adorable.

airagorncharda:

I have a lot of sympathy for teen Snape, but no sympathy for adult Snape.

This has been bouncing around in my head for a while and I feel like I need to get it out.

I’ve seen a lot of Snape hate on tumblr… and I understand why. He’s a very screwed up individual, and basically everything he does to and around Harry Potter is inexcusable.

He torments students, uses grudges against people who are long dead to excuse humiliating and traumatizing eleven-year-olds, displays blatant favoritism in his classroom, is a bigot and a bully, would have happily seen Lily’s husband and son (her priorities) die as long as she (his priority) lived, and pulled a massive dude-bro friendzone move. Also he was a Death Eater by choice and possibly/probably contributed to Neville’s parent’s being tortured into complete dissociation from reality. 

And I’m not defending him. I don’t think those actions are defensible. I think all of those things make him an abhorrent human being. By the time Harry gets to know him, my assessment is that he is undeniably a bad person.

However

Most people seem to think that his history, as shown in OotP and DH, was meant to redeem him and failed to do so, or was meant to further villainize him.

I disagree.

I think the point of his back story is not actually to try to redeem his actions OR cast him as a villain. His back story shows us that he could have taken a different path.

The person he became was a result of bad choices. He started off in an abusive home, latched onto those who showed him kindness and pushed away everyone else with force. He was bullied terribly and alienated from many of his peers due to his appearance, his house, and his flawed personality (which was largely designed to survive his abusive home situation).

His life was horrible, and I have sympathy for that. He hated himself, and I have sympathy for that. I have sympathy for his pain, and how he was trying to take control of his life. He made bad choices, which is a very human thing to do, and does not necessarily make someone a bad person.

This is paralleled strongly in the story of James Potter, who made many horrible choices, was a disgustingly self righteous bully who put other people’s lives in danger for his own amusement and treated Lily poorly as well, and then became a very good person who she deemed worthy of her love and sharing her life with. 

It is paralleled in Draco Malfoy who made many horrible choices, and then came to regret the situation those actions had put him in, came to realize his mistake in making the choices he had made.

It is paralleled in Regulus Black, and Peter Pettigrew, and Helena Ravenclaw, and Narcissa Malfoy, all of whom made bad choices up to a point, and then made one immeasurably valuable choice without which all would have been lost.

It is even paralleled in Remus Lupin, and Albus Dumbledore, who made mostly good choices throughout their lives, but became partly defined in Harry’s memory by the bad ones.

And it is also paralleled by all the characters who had every opportunity to make bad choices and didn’t. Neville, Hermione, McGonagall, Lily, Fleur, Luna, etc.

The message of Severus Snape as I see it— the message of so many characters in the Harry Potter series— is that choices make you who you are. The value of a person is the choices that they make, and they can always, always change for the better by making different choices. 

Severus Snape made many bad choices, most of them later in life. If different events had influenced him in his teen years, if he had been strong enough to make different choices, he could have been a very different person, possibly even a very good person.

People call him a lot of bad things, and although they are not wrong, in my opinion boiling him down to those terms devalues the message of his character.

I will always personally have a soft-spot for teen Snape because I identify with the pain and the anger in him that comes from being bullied and humiliated.

I do not begrudge Lily in any way for separating herself from a toxic situation and individual. I wish, however, that he had had more than one friend, and that he had had friends in his own house who he trusted enough to be vulnerable with.

Teen Snape always read like a wounded animal to me. If he had been able to be cared for in the right way, without harming those trying to help him, he could have adjusted in a functional way. There’s a potential there for him to have become a good person.

Adult Snape should know better, and thus, adult Snape is reprehensible to me, where teen Snape is sympathetic. Teen Snape is in pain and lashing out without intent to harm, adult Snape is lashing out for the satisfaction of causing others pain.

He became a bad person. He was not always that way.