#in the best ways

[kait-bait8]

You either ship romione because you think both Ron and Hermione are perfect or because you know they’re both deeply flawed. There is no in between.

#romione #Ron Weasley x Hermione granger #Harry Potter #I love them guys #but they only work if you understand that Ron is obnoxious and bullheaded #and Hermione is obnoxious and bullheaded #and they’re really both kind of the worst #in the best ways

[caramelizedpopcirn]

Ever since I told bestie about my newest fixation, she's not mad.

She's driving me nuts when she sends me photos

At least she wasn't there when I was playing re village, that was my mess 🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #tiktok #bg3 #bg3 astarion #neil newbon #SHE'S MAKING IT WORSE #IN THE BEST WAYS #ughhh i love her #but I'm feeling FERAL #she's not helping 😭😈🥹

[staycalmandhugaclone]

Hi it's @clone-anon

Being pregnant was not super fun. It's not that you thought you'd have rainbows and glitter lining your path every day, but it wouldn't be half bad if your body could cut you a break. You tried to take it easy where you could, but it seemed too soon to take it easy.

Hunter sat down next to you and pulled you close. He placed a kiss on your head and nuzzled his nose in your hair, just wanting to make sure you knew he was there.

"It's gonna be okay," he said.

"I know," you were quick to reply. "I don't regret this."

"I'm not saying you regret it," he said with a knowing smile. "I'm saying it's okay if you feel bummed right now, but I promise we'll get through it together."

You understood what he meant and nodded a little. Hunter placed his hand on your stomach, trying to sense anything he could and somehow tell your baby that their dad was there too and he'd always be there for the both of you.

"Come to bed with me," he said softly.

It was getting later and you couldn't deny you were tired. Hunter got up and held out his hand like he always did. You smiled up at him and took it. You got ready for sleep and got into bed. Hunter helped you adjust any pillows that could be in a better position, but also made sure to be close. You talked about how things were going and what might be around the bend while laying in bed with dimmed lights. When you were ready, he turned the lights out and you shared a kiss.

"I love you, mesh'la," he said.

You took his hand and kissed each knuckle. "I love you too."

My dearest... the sobbing puddle you've reduced me to... I really... really needed this today... Sweet, patient, considerate Hunter being so supportive and gentle... my heart... Thank you

Just to fill everyone else in, I've had some potentially concerning issues popping up since Friday. So far, nothing's been confirmed, but some pretty scary words and warnings have been thrown around with the full admission that my midwives don't know exactly what's going on. I'm waiting for some tests, but it's been pretty stressful. And painful, though I was far less concerned about that until I learned that it could mean my little one's at risk...

All this to say, sorry I haven't responded to anyone recently. I see and adore your comments, I just haven't been in a state of mind to be particularly social...

@clone-anon, again, thank you. This perfect bit of comfort means so, so much

#clone anon blessings! #Really hit me in the feels #in the best ways #pregnancy is scary #and uncomfortable #really scary when things don't go quite right #dad hunter melts my heart #so much love for this #star wars #star wars the bad batch #tbb #hunter #dad hunter #tw tokophobia #tokophobia #pregnant reader #hunter x reader

[belethlegwen]

#stolen from twitter #editted to make it readable #howl's moving castle #Howl posting #I finished the book the other day and god damn #I love the movie and the book both so much #but they are WILDLY DIFFERENT #in the BEST WAYS

[mermateys]

Serving that “we’re in on the joke that you’re never gonna get” vibe.

#cats that ate the canaries #always with the matching inside-joke-isn’t-this-ridiculous faces #rhys darby #taika waititi #our flag means death #ofmd #smug mugs #that’s what 20+ years of friendship does your honor #vanity fair lie detector #2022 #wwdits press tour #2014 #ministers of mischief #in the best ways #taika and rhys

[her-satanic-wiles]

okay so i just found out that daddy (the most popular sugar brand in france) is selling limited edition packets where they replaced the 'daddy' branding by 'papa'

i didn't notice it until today, but i guess i have a sugar papa now lmao

-french anon

Why is this my favourite thing omg? If I could draw I'd draw this 💀💀

#seriously #this is so crackhead material #in the best ways #mel answers #french anon

[sunwarmed-ash]

The time has come again for me to rewatch Queer As Folk

#queer as folk #this show changed me #in the best ways #we need more queer media #it is CRUCIAL for the survival rate of minor queers #by minor queers i mean youths #it was the only place i felt seen as a youth in the early 2000s #i finally didnt feel alone

[audoneout]

I know how Jesus feels because I absolutely saw Brennan doing fucky fae time shit coming a mile away and yet I was still as betrayed as Erika

#worlds beyond number #worlds beyond number spoilers #this ginger fuck listened to the ancestors with this one #the lad had to do it to us #truly I knew one at that table would betray me and likely they all will tbh #in the best ways #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #erika ishii #lou wilson

[foxieflower]

-holds my and @gluskincasual dnd versions of Eddie and Waylon-

I love these idiots so God damn much, UGH.

Granted, I'm known for my stupid ability to get obsessed with my own ocs but these two have just skyrocketed themselves to the top. Aywin's original version no longer exists, he's now just the most perfect version of himself. And hell if I didn't just make make the most gorgeous tiefling out of this man. Like, God damn.

#im literally just out existing as a normal functioning person #and just cant stop thinking about them doing silly little things together #GOD I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #giant big tiddy goth tiefling boyfriend Eddie #and smol magical boy half-elf Waylon #literally the perfect couple #im so god damn hapoy to rp these boys with youuuuuu #just fuckin #the devil fell in love with the sun and they're dragging us all to hell #in the best ways #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #THEM #weddie #my art #waylon park #eddie gluskin #foxie thoughts #vanquish the tiefling #vanquish #aywin the half elf #aywin #vanquish and aywin

[ruledbythemoons]

this year has honestly been so insane…

#in the best ways #my brain got so big this year thanks to my therapist and my meds 💗 #reflecting 💗

[wizard-laundry]

heeppy hoolida

#listen #likes are appreciated but here on tumblr the best way to show the creators you love that you care is by reblogging their stuff #sharing is caring #i know that i always appreciate when i see art reblogged from the people i follow that i wouldn't have come across on my own #<3<3<3 #EDIT: added alt text to the images

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

#when the date went so wonderful that you don't even mind that you forgot your umbrella at home #crowley is doing his best and aziraphale appreciates it very much #aziraphale's very special version of pride and prejudice can't get wet #so you gotta use the four year old newspaper you found in your bentley #I am not mentally ready for season 2 #it will change me in a way that I cannot even explain #thank you neil gaiman love of my life fr #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #aziracrow fanart #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tenannt #micheal sheen #neil gaiman #digital art

[bratbait]

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited

#I’m sorry for the rant I feel very strongly about this #I have more Barbie History if you want it #I did a full dive into Barbie History for a uni project and it was the best thing it changed the way I see her forever #she’s EVERYTHING he’s just her boyfriend Ken #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #carrot.txt

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

#high fantasy #tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #to be clear i don't mind courtly intrigue high fantasy #it's fascinating and it's fun and it is absolutely still high fantasy cause JRRT doesn't have a monopoly on how high fantasy should be writ #what i object to is the idea that it is the only or the best way to write high fantasy when we have such a stunning counter example