scarletjedi:

perpetuallyfive:

It’s so weird sometimes reading discourse about media outside of tumblr, because there is this barrier that comes from refusing to see social justice implications that are so god damn apparent. Like when I see people elsewhere saying over and over that Kylo Ren is hugely disappointing because he seemed like a scary badass and it turns out he’s a whiny kid throwing a tantrum, I’m baffled. Because that’s the point???

Because entitlement is terrifying and hurting people isn’t actually cool or manly. Doing horrible grimdark things doesn’t make you an awesome badass; most of the time it makes you a tantrum-throwing child fixated on your own preciousness. The movie just presents that without comment and it’s SO CRAZY to me how many people could watch that and come away from it without understanding what’s so evident. 

Like I’m sorry the last several years of television and movies have programmed you to believe that the white boy villain all in black is such a necessary and important fixture that he must be the coolest thing in the entire story, but the fact that Kylo takes his mask off when he’s facing down Rey is not a misstep along the way, it’s the fucking destination. The entire fucking POINT is that he is small and weak while she is awesome and strong. Being a shitty person doesn’t make you more grown up and more of a badass. Doing the right thing makes you awesome in the face of other people’s fuckery.

It’s just so strange that there are people who need to have this explained, I don’t GET it. It feels so fucking blatant.

In the new ghostbusters, too. Hell, they practically spell it out–the scene where he’s going on about how he’s an ignored genius in front of four ignored geniuses that are dismissed by even him because they’re women-doubly so for Patty because she’s black-and even though he’s stolen the work from two of them–and people walked away from that saying “the villain was whiny/terrible” and don’t understand that the scary part of that guy was how common he is.

the-goblin-cat:

arayewriter:

prongsno:

sirius black getting so drunk one night that he transformed into padfoot and ate everything that dogs cannot eat and he wakes up the next day and he’s like whAT THE HELL DID I dO and he’s on edge for the next couple of days crying ‘am i going to die’

 james has to remind him that he’s not really a dog but then remus is quiet for a second before going ‘but he ate it as a dog’ and they’re all like stumped for words until peter asks mcgonagall a ‘totally hypothetical’ question about eating things whilst in animagus form 

I bet all the Hogwarts teachers get an unreal amount of “totally hypothetical” questions from students.

“Hey Slughorn wtf’s a horcrux? Just for laughs”
-Voldemort

animentality:

honeybeelily:

animentality:

Some people are really offended when I don’t wave back or acknowledge their nod when we happen to pass on the street but like…

If my glasses aren’t ON, you literally have to be half a foot away from me and talking for me to know it’s you.

And sometimes even then I’m not totally sure who I’m talking to, don’t be offended.

I’m blind and I’m terrible with faces, names, and people in general. Have mercy.

I think about story plots to write when I walk so I’m completely oblivious to my surroundings. 😂

I have music in my ears and movies playing in my head.

So my eyes are both poor overall and emotionally distracted.