#i don’t actually believe it tbh

[padfootastic]

Your point about how others would view Lily and Lily’s friendship made me think of something. We learn in DH (the chapter where Snape gives his memories to Harry), that two of Snape’s friends used Dark Magic on Mary MacDonald (McDonald? I don’t have the book in front of me and I can’t remember the exact spelling) and Snape just brushes it off as a joke, but this conversation happens in private, so nobody else would know that Lily has issues with Snape’s friends and their activities/morals. Lily later mentions a Mary when she comes back down after he plans to stay outside the Gryffindor common room, so it’s presumably the same Mary. It made me think, what would Lily’s other friends (she’s with a group of girls in SWM and she says none of her other friends can understand why she still talks to him) and her dorm mates think of her continued friendship with a guy who is also friends with two people who attacked their other dorm mate?

see this is something i wonder quite often!!!!

while im not often a fan of equating anything irl with anything in fiction bc it messes w my escapism, i do end up looking at irl examples to contextualise how things might work in the WW. and i keep thinking of someone who knowingly and uncompromisingly hangs out with someone who is basically seen as scum, in all way, while at the same time snubbing the popular kids of a particular group—and i’m gonna be honest, i don’t see it ending that well for them.

there’s a couple more dimensions to this as well. privilege and inequality is layered, right? lily’s a girl snubbing a guy, for once, and if i set aside my theory that Sexism Doesn’t Exist in the ww, it changes things a little too. james is popular, well liked, and an overall good guy by everyone’s measure. to see lily loudly and, often nastily, rejecting him might create this perception of a lofty, arrogant girl with aspirations ‘beyond her station’. not saying it’s right ofc but it happens often enough irl—‘she’s just jerking him around, who does she think she is?’—that it’s a possibility.

there’s, of course, the whole blood purity angle. lily is a muggle born and if i juxtapose irl behaviours to the ww, i think most wixen could be divided into two categories. the outright bigots who want to exterminate/remove/subjugate the muggleborns and the liberals who won’t really say it out loud but hold similar beliefs, either due to culture/tradition/history. they’ll never do anything to actively help the MBs but will always side w their brethren sort. the former would obv use any excuse to decry a loud, confident muggleborn like liky whereas the latter would be hemming and hawwing about how ‘don’t you think she’s a little Too Much? maybe she doesn’t know our traditions—why would she reject james potter? he comes from such a distinguished family, he has all the right qualities…really, i’m not against, them, ykno but if i were here, i would not do that—and shit like that. she definitely loses out on the social hierarchy aspect with respect to james.

and there’s the other thing, like u mentioned. what do the kids themselves think? here’s a muggleborn who’s apparently smart enough to gain certain professors notice and admiration, who comes to school breaking implicit social norms by hanging out with snape, goes on Not Caring about it, publicly rejects & insults the popular guy(s), all of this while presumably doing what is needed to justify/explain her friendships & actions AND navigating a new world as an outsider.

i think even one of those things might’ve led to some form of social exclusion/ostracisation but together? idk man. it really doesn’t seem likely that she had a smooth sailing lol

oh there’s also. the fact that all her disagreements with snape were in private (which makes sense considering they were, ykno, between the two of them) but if she was (possibly) defending him in public but disagreeing in private, then that creates more problems, no? because everyone can see that she’s ok with him but not the other side and that would just lead to more Not Fun things for lily imo.

there’s also the whole angle of ‘what next?’ what happens after she cuts things off with snape? because from everyone’s perspective, the only reason she does so is because he calls her mudblood. because she got personally hurt. not when other muggleborns were being targeted, not when snape was being a dick to people not her—how would her roommates, mary macdonald, feel?

so yeah, so many thoughts around this whole thing lol it’s just fun to imagine. there’s more i was thinking of about AU scenarios where james gives up on her and she’s basically all alone after the swm scene but i cut it off because it was getting unnecessarily long lmao

if u read it til the end, have a cookie bc idk how u managed 🍪🍪🍪

#sorry this ended up way too long for anyones interest 😭😭😭 #my apologies if u didn’t want a weird socio-political analysis of something we have barely any info on lol #the gender thing is something i added for the sake of neutrality lmao #i don’t actually believe it tbh #bc i v firmly disagree w the notion that the wizarding society is patriarchal #it’s not really rooted in anything canonical but i’ll still defend it to death lol #to be clear i’m not like. bashing lily here or anything at all for once #i’m just trying to explore a what if situation where wixen dynamics were similar to irl ones #and how she would be perceived by others #(keeping in mind these are teenagers who are notoriously thoughtless short sighted and cruel) #pen’s asks #i accidentally typed penne asks just now and lowkey considering keeping it lol

[shima-draws]

I’m still so mentally ill over the whole Luffy refusing to eat unless it’s Sanji’s food thing. Like. We KNOW how fucking feral over food Luffy is. He loves food and loves eating so much that he steals it off other people’s plates and out of their hands and is so impatient when it comes to meals that he’ll literally try and sneak into the kitchen to mooch before it’s ready. Or he’ll try to break into the refrigerator. I know Sanji mentioned putting a lock on it at some point bc Luffy literally wiped it clean. He will not hesitate to eat other people’s portions or literally an entire meal meant for a whole ship of people! He’s unbelievably selfish when it comes to food and that’s just SUCH a central part of his character that it’s become almost endearing. Even in Totto Land Luffy didn’t think for a second before devouring everything in sight, including an entire fucking HOUSE, regardless of the consequences or the people it might affect. Homie did not care!! He’s food driven first and foremost!!!

Until Sanji leaves him. Until he decides that eating—something that he loves and brings him comfort—isn’t WORTH it unless it’s Sanji’s food he’s eating. It’s been shown that Luffy has zero self restraint when it comes to food so the fact that he was SURROUNDED by food on all sides on a food themed island and utterly refused to partake in any of that? Even though he hates being hungry and will always make eating a priority over pretty much anything else?? The amount of willpower it must have taken for him to sit there and purposefully let himself starve, for SANJI. Even when food was offered to him conveniently (in the form of syrup rain) he stubbornly rejected that. Because it wasn’t Sanji’s food. Because it wasn’t Sanji who made it, who always puts so much thought and care into the food he makes, who always indulges Luffy and prepares extra because he knows how much Luffy eats and how much he loves to eat. Luffy literally took one of the most defining traits he has and tossed it out the window. For Sanji. I’m going to fucking blow up

#RAGHHH. RAGHHHHHH #One Piece #Sanlu #Lusan #Sanji #Luffy #WCI #Whole Cake Island #Shima speaks #I just can’t get over it. I’ll never get over it actually. #Luffy refusing food. Bc he wants Sanji more. Bc he CARES about Sanji more #HE REALLY SAID ‘Guess I’ll die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯’ #This isn’t even half of it. This doesn’t even tie into the whole ‘I can’t become King of the Pirates without you’ line #Luffy really looked at his utmost goal (becoming Pirate King) and his favorite thing in the world (food) and said #’Without Sanji it’s not worth it. I don’t want it’ #SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP #He’s never done that for anybody else. I am just SAYING. JUST SAYING!!!!!! #Usopp jokingly: What do you want more the One Piece or Sanji #Luffy without a moment of hesitation: Sanji #Usopp: Haha see I—oh. Oh??? #Usopp: Was NOT expecting that tbh. #Luffy: I’ll pick Sanji over food or the One Piece every time :) #Sanji: 😳😳😳😭😭😭 #GIGGLING INSANELY. I CANNOT BELIEVE THEM

[rinchdressing]

klapollo week day 7: aa4 sequel

#klapolloweek2023 #klapollo #apollo justice #klavier gavin #ace attorney #apollo justice ace attorney #i don’t have a very fleshed out vision for a sequel tbh #well okay i do actually but that’s a different idea than what’s going on in this drawing #but basically i believe with my whole heart klavier quits prosecuting after aa4 because. obviously. #and then idk SOMETHING happens and apollo is arrested or something and klavier shows up at the waa and he’s like heyyyy i need to be a #defense attorney for the next week for apollo please hire me #and tbh i don’t know what apollo was even arrested for but okay hear me out. he is absolutely guilty. i think maybe he beat the shit out of #someone. like i just really think he did it. because i like seeing him commit crimes #maybe it’s related to my day 2 drawing where he had a gun that’d be fun. #anyways yeah i don’t know how the trial goes either btw that’s none of my business tbh

[lesbiansanemi]

Sometimes I just think about Soi Fon. Like that shit was so insane. Easily one of The characters of all time. You’re going to give me a woman who hates the physical manifestation of her soul because it’s loud and explosive and she doesn’t think it’s “proper” that it suits her, but it’s so obvious it does because she’s angry and stubborn and loud and explosive!!! And then the fact that she never ever calls upon that physical manifestation of her soul until things are so dire it’s practically that or death? The fact that in so many ways she lets her emotions build and build and build until they quite literally explode???? And then!!! AND THEN!!!! Add in that she hates her bankai because it’s “inappropriate” for an assassin… for her role as captain of the Stealth Force… the position she inherited from Yoruichi after she abandoned Soul Society for Urahara… She despises the physical manifestation of her explosive nature, the nature she hides until she can’t, just like she shoved down her feelings for Yoruichi, the betrayal, the hurt, the love, until she quite literally couldn’t anymore and it all came back up in a BANG!!! Like god… oh my god, no one will ever do it again and kubo did not deserve such a cool fucking character in the least

#bleach #soi fon #yorusoi #<— because like this definitely feeds into it #like I refuse to believe soi fon didn’t have some form of romantic feelings for yoruichi like it’s so OBVIOUS #also like add in the lesbian angle to this??? #oh… MY GOD it just makes it so much more intense #hiding from your feelings and swearing up and down they shouldn’t suit you that they’re not right for you #even though they obviously are #I can’t fuckin do it man #it’s been YEARS but the soi fon brain rot is still just SO strong #I really did fuckin imprint on her #but tbh in general I hate to give him any credit but kubo did kinda go off with characters who hated/hid their bankai #like the whole thing of hating your soul hating your very being #unparalleled. wish he actually did anything cool with those particular character arcs #like the soi fon ikkaku and yumichika character arcs could have been PEAK #(also don’t even get me started on the three of them being some of the uh… um… well ya know a teeny bit queer) #it could have been so good #but again kubo can’t write and hates gay ppl so lmao #wild that he genuinely created some of the coolest queer characters ever kinda on accident #like whoopsie #anyways I’ll shut up now #kaz rambles

[gio-cosmo]

The p3r dlc really has me walking around Tartarus with the Junes theme playing in the background. What a time to be alive.

#“Gio did you seriously spend 200 dollars on the aigis deluxe addition and then pay 35 dollars for a dlc are you fr??’’ #“Gio they are practically stealing ur money away from you at this point what on earth are you doing’’ #IDK 😭😭😭 #nahhh I’m actually kind of broke now I’m getting worried abt my money supply ☺️ especially considering I’m still jobless ☺️ #I might be getting a job at a dishwasher soon tho 😯 #urgh I can’t believe people actually have to work….society…. #tbh I’ll probably end up backing out last second as always bc I don’t want to wash dishes :( #why would I wash dishes when I could be writing or drawing :( #urgh #agghhhh #persona #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #p3 #If I actually do end up getting the job (doubt) I genuinely bet I’ll last a week before either quitting or getting fired #like fr 😭 I’m cooked #I have the worst work ethic ever it’s actually crazy #HELPPP WHY AM I RAMBLING ABT MY JOB TROUBLES UNDER A PERSONA POSTTTT #LMAOO #I lovveeee oversharing on the internet 💕🫶 🎉 #anyways every days great at your Junes and whatnot #wish I could work at Junes smh #the junes theme song would make it bearable #BEARable haha get it haha bc teddie is a bear and teddies the mascot haha #persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 golden

[padawansuggest]

Haaaaaaaaawt take but I hate the elf on the shelf tiktoks they are literally gaslighting their children into thinking some entity is committing cruel acts on them in their sleep and I don’t think that shit should be allowed. Children should feel safe in their sleep and also those adults should die??????

#elf on the shelf #I have literally never seen an elf bit that was funny #and every fucking one I’ve seen this year has infuriated me tbh #why are y’all so fucking dickish to your toddlers they don’t deserve this shit #I don’t give a fuck what your reasoning is those littles are actual people #and no one deserves to be fooled into believing an entity is messing with their life

[moghedien]

finished the mushroom quest for Omeluum last night and I’m like “yeah Mr. Mindflayer imma totally drink this goo and induce a seizure so that you can go into my head and provoke the tadpole that wants to turn me into a mindflayer. Let’s kill the defenses preventing it from doing that so we can check it out, I see no issues”

and the whole time I’m just imagining my beloved girlfriend Lae’zel holding her bigass sword like a batter preparing for the pitch so that she can lob my head off the second the consequences of my actions come for my ass

#what is my neck but the tee for Lae’zel’s baseball #the baseball is my head #the fact that she didn’t fucking behead me the second I started seizing was remarkable willpower on her part tbh #you know I failed those saving throws #anyway don’t worry about that horrible experience I just put you through Lae’zel #I’m taking her to the crèche next so we can definitely get these tadpoles out and be cured for real #she’s been telling me it’s going to cure me this entire time and I believe her and that nothing bad will happen there #(I actually haven’t seen specifically what happens at the crèche but you know I’m expecting it to be terrible) #lae'zel #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[goldensunset]

#yozora is the most likely to actually happen (maybe? he still seems like a villain tbh) but can you imaginnnnnne the other two options <3 #or y’know it could just be riku (assuming he actually gets there safely but i still firmly don’t believe he will) #but that’s not nearly as interesting as throwing a major former antagonist into the mix suddenly! #kingdom hearts #kh4 #kingdom hearts 4 #mine: kh

[27-royal-teas]

put on your war paint ….

#Toby speaks #toby’s art #fall out boy #fob #patrick stump #pete wentz #Andy hurley #joe trohman #youngblood chronicles #ybc #the youngblood chronicles #ok. im actually SO so proud of this #first art in forever and it’s GOOD. like. im over the moon tbh #also: me posting art instead of dumb song musings for once #ignore the shadow of eraser by the paper patrick is holding. i forgot he lost his hand #in addition also ignore the hand #clearly I don’t know anatomy #also you would not believe how difficult it is to find ybc screenshots of Joe and Andy online #also I can’t draw birds #Also I’m going to stop tagging now #but wait there’s more #srar #save rock and roll #ok that’s it

[binkus-bonkus]

I love that people can project onto characters but as soon as they start to force those projections onto me or others is when it’s a problem.

Like zelink are siblings or sheik is trans or zelda is a man or Link is trans or Link is gay.

Like that’s great!! Put your identity into the characters you love! OC-ify those bitches.

JUST DON’T FUCKING FORCE IT ONTO EVERYONE ELSE. YOU’RE NOT COOL YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE AND YOU’RE TAKING AWAY THE ABILITY TO CREATE AND PROJECT FOR SOMEONE ELSE

If you can project these things onto characters THAT AREN’T YOURS TO BEGIN WITH so can everyone else.

So respectfully shut the fuck up and let others cook and project and find identity in the characters that they love without you forcing your opinion or your identity or your projections onto them.

I’ve always found it weird when others gatekeep characters they don’t own. Don’t do that shit. It’s weird af.

#I see this a lot in the zelda fandom tbh #and it’s really discouraging sometimes #I love projecting onto characters and giving them traits and personalities i can be more emgaged with or can relate to #but when bigger creators in the fandom space start pushing their agendas and calling other fans stupid for not believing the same opinion #that’s when it becomes a problem #just because I don’t believe that Zelda is trans doesn’t mean I’m stupid #stfu actually #let me have my opinion without pissing people off because yours doesn’t align with mine #maybe this is just a tumblr thing lol #or maybe i need to find new zelda enhoyers to follow

[deus-ex-mona]

series i’m gatekeeping from my family vs series i’m ✨ok✨ with my family knowing i’m into:

#‘why do you gatekeep hw from your irls?’ well. the thing is. i just ✨don’t want to✨ #and. like. i’ve already led my family to believe that i bought bl manga when i was buying idol sengen at animate #so i think im already past the point of no return in that regard. so. um. yeah. #thank you village vanguard for the unexpected μ’s content in 2k24 you truly are yappa saikyou #i s w e a r falling back into my ll phase almost 10 whole years after i first got into it is unexpected tbh #compounded with the fact that i can now actually afford whatever im looking for. so. like. my wallet is in crisis lol #i had just reached my savings goal last month but now i’ve overspent bc i saw great deals on resold honoka-chan hoodies and i couldn’t help— #so now i have 2 identical hoodies lol. but i’ll keep one of them safe in its packaging bc im unwell like that ig #my merch whaling is out of control i s w e a r but my oshis are just too cute aaaaaaaaa #i probably should open another savings account instead… maybe that’d keep my spending under control… #b u t for now honoka-chan jersey im looking for you #tfw ur oshi is decently unpopular amongst the fans so hardly anyone resells her merch lmao #so ig the relatively fewer fellow fans she has are more dedicated to her than fans of other more popular characters lol #but at least her stuff (when resold) isn’t as overpriced as the actually popular members (birb and tomato) #so my wallet isn’t crying as hard as it could’ve been? ig? hunting for almost 10 year old merch is a pain fr though #either way. the grip idol series have on my wallet is truly insane #i wonder how many bags of chips i could’ve bought with the amount i’ve spent on hw and ll merch to date… #at least a thousand… i think. maybe even 2 thousand if my past gacha game whaling is taken into consideration… #…this is probably why it’s important to have a decent paying job ig. #oh well. at least i may be making b a n k this month with how much ot i’ve had to do this week so far… #i hope i won’t have to work till 5am again over the next 2 days… that had been a horrible experience. #help what am i even talking about anymore why am i having a life crisis right here and now u m. #anyways. dni if you dislike honoka-chan. thanks for coming to my crisis rant. see you when the last stage mv drops ig ok byeeeee

[heavencasteel420]

I don’t actually believe this, but I do think it would be funny to introduce this point to tired years-old discourse: even if Nancy did cheat on Steve, it would be chill because she gets a freebie after he falsely accused her of cheating via extremely public libel in S1. Not her fault he manifested it!!!

#can you imagine #again I don’t actually believe this #(I also don’t believe she cheated on him because he had fair notice that she might be done) #(the medium—skipping town with Jonathan after Steve told her she was BS—is the message) #but I do kinda think this every time someone is like #‘I wrote a fic where Nancy is called out for cheating on Steve!’ #or writes meta about how she ‘needs to face consequences’ #like. what more would you have done to her. you sickos. #tbh one of the most revealing comments I ever saw #was a post that was like ‘the show acts like it’s fine that Nancy broke up with Steve’ #I know they didn’t mean that but they kinda meant it

[francesderwent]

the most infuriating thing about the Roy-Keeley-Jamie love triangle (other than everything) is that I would have believed Roy with the kindergarten teacher and I also would have believed Jamie with Roy’s sister so there was. no reason. to leave the resolution of the triangle up in the air. we didn’t need to leave anyone out in the cold. let Keeley pick, and then give us a snapshot meetcute of the other couple! that’s all it would have taken!

#tbh I also would have believed Jamie and the kindergarten teacher! #‘I don’t mind cleaning up a mess’ fantastic would you like to meet my friend Jamie??? my best friend Jamie?????? #but actually they put Jamie in a room with Phoebe and had them be friendly and they introduced me to this bright young woman so full of lif #whom we know next to nothing about EXCEPT that her former partner is absolutely unaccountable #I dunno I just think her and Jamie!!!!!!! I think she deserves a boy who’s grown up and become a better man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #cate liveblogs!

[stillcarmine]

house of hades is bullshit for a lot of reasons, but rn my top one is that frank and leo reverted back from “frank, you’re amazing!” to… whatever was going on before that

#tbh i don’t remember there actually being a lot of leo making fun of frank #but franks inner monologue says he still was #which?? #leo valdez #frank zhang #valzhang #fraleo #hoh #heroes of olympus #hoo #house of hades #I don’t believe you r*ck #give me the friendship you denied them #mine

[nowis-scales]

I don’t think I’m ever going to recover from the time I was reading someone else’s analysis of Ryoma and Hinoka’s sibling relationship, and they were hitting a lot of the points I would also make, and I was gearing up for them to say exactly what I say — “Takumi and Sakura get left out with them because they grew up teaching themselves to be almost exclusively dependent on each other for emotional support, that’s why they’re close” and then the person writing the analysis is like:

“And that’s why I think Ryoma is secretly in love with Hinoka, and she might even romantically love him back!”

#I feel like I took psychic damage that day #And like in fairness the person who wrote the analysis wasn’t celebrating it or anything #but I just genuinely have no idea where they got that interpretation. and it’s not even the only time I heard it #I’ve read both the English conversation and then the translated conversation (from the same source that believed this mind you) and I #… still do not see it honestly #Am I… am I the crazy one? Is this a common reading? I’m a little afraid to know #Cause people generally don’t actually think about Ryoma n Hinoka outside of them being Takumi’s ‘mean’ siblings tbh #So I can see this as being an easier interpretation for some people

[goldensunset]

I BEAT CYNTHIAAAAAAAAA

#AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA I CAN’T BELIEVE IT #90% of the damage done to her team was either residual poison; rocky helmet; or recoil #i was juggling my team with revives and spamming toxic and occasionally embargo #that was the epitome of a lowlife strategy on my part. i barely used attack moves at all #and i WON. while being woefully underleveled #dude i am over the moon rn that was so satisfying #scummy? yes. but let’s face it i wasn’t gonna have time to actually grind and set up a team to beat her in a clean match #but like. i didn’t cheat. i played by the rules of the game. i used the tools available to me #heheheheheheheh #goldie plays pokémon black #oh dude i will remember this forever…… #i don’t know how many tries that was. not actually that many tbh only like 3 or 4 #not counting me soft-resetting a couple of times while still on spiritomb when i got off to an unlucky start