i was brought in on a palanquin

we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.

If I had a nickel for every big name Harry Potter fanfic writer who started their own cult, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Oh man, are we talking about Snape wives?? I because every time I remember them I just have to stare off into the distance for a while.

I’d have three nickels.

What is a Snape Wife? Someone fill me in on all these Harry Potter cults 😂

when the second half of that last sentence hits you like a brick in the face

Wait, what were the other two HP cults?

Thank you, and also, now that I have googled these, I’m pretty sure there was a reason I forgot all of this.

I wish I could go back to five minutes ago when I didn’t know that Snapewives existed

If you’re interested, YouTuber and Tumblr commentator Strange Aeons has videos on all three of these.

Rex and Ahsoka deserve a forehead touch.

Just found out that in the book Shane says "sometimes I do, kinda" in response to Yuna saying he hates Ilya and I have never been so thankful for a dialogue tweak in my LIFE like are u kidding me #myshane would never say he hates Ilya even as a joke while introducing him to his parents are u fucking insane

I've recently been doing a lot of reading about what makes the Romance Genre™ the Romance Genre™ and as it turns out the most important thing a story needs to be a romance is that the couple have to be unambiguously happily together in the end. That's it. Apparently, if this isn't true of your couple in the end then your story cannot be of the Romance Genre™, then it's just literary fiction. And this is actually such an insane revelation to me like I can't stop thinking about it because it explains why so often when I've attempted to read Romance™ and 9 times outta 10 I'm annoyed because I feel like these characters get together and it costs them being interesting. I cannae get over that the reason so much romance sucks ass is because the only hard rule is basically "these people MUST be together even if it would be better if they weren't because god forbid the reader is confronted with the notion of impermanence" like....I can't really explain the depths of how silly I find this rule and how much it goes against what I find compelling to read/write about wrt to romance. It's akin to finding out that the Hayes Code is fully enforced in 2026 and everyone agreeing the Hayes Code is how movies should be made because otherwise it doesn't count as a movie. That's how this revelation of "you haven't written a romance story™ unless your characters unambiguously live happily ever after" makes me feel. I personally prefer to think of romance as a method, as means, as a set of knives to cut characters open and go rummaging around for hidden treasure that can't be found any other way, if you will. Who cares if the characters will live "happily ever after"? Here's a better question, are they even yet living?

It's a bit like how the genre convention of a detective story is that the crime will be solved. It would be much more realistic if that wasn't the case (at least some of the time), but that's not what people are looking for when they reach for an Agatha Christie book!