I'm just a bit Johnlocked

Gen One of My Little Pony was fantastic because it understood little girls enjoyed playing dress-up and braiding hair but would then turn around and use those prettied-up little horsies to play out some of the most vicious high stakes storylines ever conceived. 

everyone I know raised as a little girl and given only supposedly “girl appropriate” toys acted out the darkest most brutal shit with them, I swear to god, every time I played at girl’s houses when I was a kid they got out their barbies or ponies or polly pockets and weaved a tale that typically had at least two murders, a suicide pact and a satanic ritual.

Wait… so… people raised as boys didn’t roleplay horses enslaving humans/blood sacrifices to the gods/trojan war style epics over lost loves? Weird.

I remember reading a very eloquent post a while ago about how teenage girls will go on to read and write really dark, fucked up fan fiction about their favorite cartoon characters and it was analogized to having a paper shredder in their heads. Everything aimed at girls is saccharine and sweet while women and girls are faced with the reality of misogynistic violence that becomes more and more visible as they grow from children to teens. Play as children and fan fiction as teens and adults gives them the outlet for their thoughts and desires that come out when they’re shoving cartoons through the mental paper shredder.

After fighting with my dad for years on the fact that Dean is bi, I finally won the argument by showing him this gifset. He now agrees with me that the showrunners need to actually acknowledge Dean’s bi-ness if nothing else. His exact words were 'Dean, my dude, those aren’t hetero reactions.’

Bowser respects gender non-conforming Mario even if he WASN’T INVITED

This is the first time ive seen this meme used and it wasnt only in character but also literally sounds like actual dialogue from the series itd paired with

i gotta stop u right there

JKR said that Hagrid still works at Hogwarts in 2017, which means he’s still been alive these past few decades, and I just really hope someone took him to see How to Train Your Dragon.

that someone’s name is charlie weasley and they both cried 

PADALECKI “Houses of the Holy” was the first time we ever talked about angels on Supernatural. [Jensen] and I both were like, “Whatever your religious beliefs, whatever ours, we’re not here to proselytize. We’re here to make a serialized television show, but we want it to be universal.” So we actually had a conference call with Eric Kripke, and we were like, “Hey, man, we don’t know how we feel about this.” ACKLES We didn’t want to be a mouthpiece for writers’ religious views, because it wasn’t the show that we had signed up for. Our argument was: “We trust you. You’ve done good by us so far. However, this is our one concern, and we’re just bringing it to the table so that we can discuss it.” PADALECKI And they heard us out, and I think that’s why they waited another year and a half before introducing our second and most famous angel. I think it’s the one time we’ve ever called them together with a complaint. Because I’m not a writer. I don’t want to be a writer. I enjoy my job as an actor. But that was legitimately like, “Listen, if you’re going here about religion, I don’t want to be a part of it.” MISHA COLLINS And now amazingly, 11 years later, so much of the show has been hung on biblical lore and mythology that is actually drawn from the Bible. One interesting thing for us is that we end up talking along the way to priests and pastors and ministers, or even nuns, who love the show. ACKLES [To Collins] You and I went to the Vatican. We went in St. Peter’s Basilica, and there was a priest there from South Carolina. He was a fan of the show, and he did a private mass for us in front of the mural of Michael slaying Lucifer. He goes, “I thought this would be appropriate for you guys.” COLLINS That was pretty magical. ACKLES It was amazing, but my point being that we’re in one of the most religious places on earth, and they’re catering to people from a show that deals with religiously inspired storylines. PADALECKI But not telling the story that the Bible tells. ACKLES That’s the out. That’s where we get a pass is that we’re not trying to tell the story of the Bible. The writers take inspiration from biblical elements and then elaborate on them. So when we got into that original discussion, Eric came back with: “We’re not here to tell the story of Jesus Christ. We’re here to take that element and use it as inspiration for the story.” I think that alleviated any concerns that he and I had. And at the same time we really trusted Eric and still do to this day.

god is real but you can only see him behind the 7/11 at 3:34 am after you down 6 and a half 5 hour energys

this post and “I’m gonna take 1000 benadryl and fuck my shadow self” are really their own unique category of post and it’s my favorite category

Don’t forget about “self care is drinking two jack in the box coffees at 7 pm and gaining enhanced vision of the shadow people you often see in the corner of your eye”

harry potter, surprising literally everyone, retires from being an auror to make ceramics in a cottage in the hills. “i don’t know,” the boy who lived said in a statement. “becoming a potter just seemed right, you know?”

I’ve been on this site for how long and I am in shock it took this long for a potter joke

#youre a hazard harry

I’d been trying to put into words my issue with the idea that genderbent versions of characters are somehow automatically, innately transphobic, and I think you pretty well nailed it.

Originally, it was called ‘genderswap’ or ‘genderswitch’, which was rightfully criticized for reinforcing a binary view of gender. Hence why it is now ‘genderbend‘. Things can bend in many directions.

Yes! And all sorts have their place because all of them are exploring the experience of an under-represented group (or two) in a different way.

The fact that the seatbelt alarm turns off after a certain amount of time is so fucking symbolic.