Since Spooky Week Starts This Week 

I need this in my fcking life

R18 Sanzo/Zosan One Piece Doujinshi for sale! I need money quick so hoping to sell these as a lot. Repeat, need money, am selling because we need cash badly!

Will accept PayPal for quick payment & I’ll ship asap.

These are heavy and I don’t really want to split them… but make me any offers if interested! No lowballs though, please. These are good condition & fairly old comics. Yes, they’re lemony (on the citrus scale).

Included is a 2 page spread with a cute Sanji paper doll, lol.

This… this is the best thing I ever drew. I will never top this.

renaming my character was so worth it, Snape saying bruh is my new favourite thing

I feel like I'm like one if the only people who think that Snape's love for Lily was just plain our creepy and fucking weird and obsessive. Yes you found argue with me that James was like that too but James matured meanwhile here's Snape clutching her dead corpes like can we get this dude a different love interest. Maybe like idk Voldemort voldy seems very interested in Snape.

What the Bennet family is doing during quarantine...

- Mrs. Bennet would be panicking.

- Mr. Bennet will have locked himself in his library by day 2. 

- Jane is making WAY too much tea. 

- Lizzie is sneaking out every morning to get her walk in and hanging in her father’s library reading to him. 

- Mary knows everything there is to know about the virus, and won’t stop talking about it.

- Kitty is coughing which is causing Mrs. Bennet to panic even more. 

- Lydia is complaining about not being able to see the officers. 

BONUS:

 - Darcy isn’t impacted. He hasn’t left his house in mon– weeks… He hasn’t left his house in weeks.

- Bingley is speed walking laps around Netherfield because he’s worried about Jane and in desperate need of socialization and movement.

i’ve seen so many negative reviews of Bridgerton concerning it’s ‘forced diversity’. Which is what one would take away from it if you only watched the first 10 minutesIf you stopped to watch the whole thing, you’d see it’s anything but forced. 

Consider our historical context here:

Around the time the story takes place, the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade would’ve been nearing it’s end, with debates over slavery in England reaching their peak. Not to mention, that by this time, India had been colonized.

Many black and brown people began to make their way into English society, and not only the lower factions. While the vast majority of us lived in poverty and cruel conditions, there were some of us who managed to make it out on top. There is documented evidence of our existence in Regency Society. We were simply hidden from the gaze of the world for so long because for so long we have allowed the oppressor to write all of our history. 

Not only that, but Queen Charlotte has long been rumored  to have been biracial, coming from the Black Branch of the Portuguese Royal Family. Therefore, having a black Queen Charlotte might’ve been more historically accurate than having a paper white one

Therefore, on all counts, the diversity in Bridgerton cannot be considered forced, but rather, long over due. We have always, and always will be, part of your history, whether the delicate sensibilities of white conservatives can handle it or not. And every time a black/brown creative makes it to a place of power, a place like Bridgerton created, we come a little bit further out of the wings and into the limelight. This very sentiment is reflected in arguably one of the most poignant scenes in Bridgerton: (minor spoilers)

When Duke Simon and Lady Danbury are discussing love, Lady Danbury comments on just how they got to their position. She tells Simon that thanks to the love between one of their own, Queen Charlotte, and the King, they were given an opportunity to rise.

(side note: while this is very important historically and plot-wise, it was also very refreshing to witness. very often in stories of romance and drama, the struggles of poc are sidelined in favor of a more frivolous tone. Bridgerton addresses it head on, in a realistic way) But, by having a person who looked, spoke, and lived like them in a place of power, they were able to come that much closer to living a fully realized life as peers of their white counterparts. Bridgerton manages to not only deliver a sharp commentary on the state of historical revisionism and the state of inclusion in society, but also describe their own experience. Bridgerton’s diversity is far from forced, it is historically accurate, it is relevant (both in our world and theirs), and it adds a level of nuance and depth to their world, that I had not expected from it. It immerses you in it’s world further, and it gives me and other black and brown folks like me a world in which I can finally see myself reflected in the way that our ancestors paved the way for. It is exactly what historical representation should be.

In conclusion: WATCH BRIDGERTON IT IS SO FUCKING GOOD

snapchat, insta, and quidditch=games that gryffindor just can’t lose. 

amazing illos & hilarz captions created exclusively for SparkNotes by the awesome @sasmilledge

Mudblood : Snape

⪼ COS - Aragog

“I’m quite surprised the Mudbloods haven’t all packed their bags by now,” Malfoy went on. “Bet you five Galleons the next one dies. Pity it wasn’t Granger–”

The bell rang at that moment, which was lucky; at Malfoy’s last words, Ron had leapt off his stool, and in the scramble to collect bags and books, his attempts to reach Malfoy went unnoticed.

“"Let me at him,” Ron growled as Harry and Dean hung onto his arms. “I don’t care, I don’t need my wand, I’m going to kill him with my bare hands–

“Hurry up, I’ve got to take you all to Herbology,” barked Snape over the class’s heads, and off they marched, with Harry, Ron, and Dean bringing up the rear, Ron still trying to get loose. (HP/CoS, )

[Hypervigilant Snape has an uncanny ability to sense and punish Gryffindor aggression against any Slytherin, especially Draco. But here, Ron spends several minutes under Snape’s supervision lunging at Draco, growling death threats, forcibly restrained by two other Gryffindors. Snape might miss the occasional moment, but not a struggle that lasts for the entire walk to the castle doors. Through careful use of the passive voice–“his attempts to reach Malfoy went unnoticed” –Rowling hints that Snape saw Ron’s anger but let it pass unremarked. We don’t know yet that Snape has any history around Slytherin boys wishing death on Muggle-born girls. We only know that something about Draco’s comment override’s Snape’s usual eagerness to take Draco’s side against Gryffindors, the only instance such a thing happens in the series.]

⪼OOTP - Snape’s Worst Memory

Ah, Evans, don’t make me hex you,’ said James earnestly.

‘Take the curse off him, then!’ James sighed deeply, then turned to Snape and muttered the counter-curse.

‘There you go,’ he said, as Snape struggled to his feet. ‘You’re lucky Evans was here, Snivellus –’

‘I don’t need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!’

Lily blinked. ‘Fine,’ she said coolly. ‘I won’t bother in future. And I’d wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus.’

‘Apologise to Evans!’ James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.

‘I don’t want you to make him apologise,’ Lily shouted, rounding on James.

‘You’re as bad as he is.’ ‘What?’ yelped James. ‘I’d NEVER call you a – you-know-what!’

[Lily blinked: she was surprised to hear Snape call her a ‘filthy little Mudblood.’ she hadn’t been expecting it. Snape could not endure being told that he owed his relief to Lily’s willingness to put herself on the line for him. We don’t see in this memory how we’ll they know each other, but her surprise shows that it’s something that hasn’t happened before. The betrayal causes enough of a change in her attitude that she calls him by the same name that the bullies do and made her own sexually humiliating observation. James’s outrage shows that he thinks his own behaviour was morally superior to Snape’s hate speech, a view that Lily does not share. She tells James he makes her sick then leaves. James covers for this loss of face by resuming his bullying and playing to the crowd.]

[Rowling gives us a clue (to why Snape is so shaken) in the chapter title ‘Snape’s worst memory.’ We don’t see the whole memory, but for her to give it that title, we can assume that we have seen most or all of what we need to know. Snape is not the one who labels the memory this way; the chapter title is a message from author to reader. The bullying is bad, but Snape has been through worse: these same people tried to kill him the sexual humiliation is bad, but that’s not it, either, or the scene would not have cut off before the attempt to remove Snape’s pants. Rowling is showing that it was Snape’s own response to Lily that makes this his worst memory. His shame is one reason why he orders Harry not to tell anyone what he saw. We know from other characters, such as Lupin, that shame can drive people to secrecy that is nearly impossible to break. Surely, nothing else in that memory would be newsworthy enough for Snape to forbid Harry to speak of it; nobody would be surprised that teens bullied another teen or that bullied teen struck back]

⪼ DH - The Prince’s Tale

And now Snape stood again in the Headmaster’s study as Phineas Nigellus came hurrying into his portrait. ‘Headmaster! They are camping in the Forest of Dean! The Mudblood –’ ‘Do not use that word!’

[Phileas Nigellus Black wass running into his portrait with news of Harry and Hermione’s location. Snape has been looking for them for months to give them the sword of Gryffindor, but even so, there’s something else so important that he interrupts this long awaited announcement.

In this final memory from Snape, Rowling is making a deliberate parallel to Dumbledore, letting us know without ambiguity that Snape is just as steadfast on issues that matter. When Draco had Dumbledore at wandpojnt in the top of the tower, he referred to Hermione with a slur.

(’ Please do not use that offensive word in front of me,’ said Dumbledore. Malfoy gave a harsh laugh. ’ you care about me saying’ Mudblood ’ when I’m about to kill you?’)

Snape and Dumbledore are equally clear that they fight for the rights of muggle born, just as Snape and Dumbledore both sacrificed the chance to save their own lives because they used their last moments to protect Harry instead]

tyler dancing to chlorine via his instagram story

on narcissa malfoy

i always joke with my friends that the malfoy family is matriarchal, partly because i, personally, would let narcissa boss me around in a heartbeat, but also because i actually think there’s a solid canon backing that she’s like. the Head Bitch of the family. especially later on in the series. (it’s also why i think reading lucius as abusive is a misreading of their relationship, but whatever.)

just in general, i will never understand the reading that she’s meek or timid. we see so little of her character but with what we do see, she defies voldemort twice (lying about harry and going to severus for help), doesn’t shy away from standing up for herself/her family, seemingly holds the family together when lucius has his fall from grace, is not the least bit scared of her sister, and is more than willing to throw hands with her son’s rivals in public. to me, she’s very much lucius’ equal, even if she isn’t a sadist like her husband or sister (and i suppose there’s not a whole lot of canon material on that either way, so you can’t say for sure what she is). her capacity for compassion does not automatically make her kind, nor weak, especially since her compassion does not seem to extend past her family. 

personally, narcissa gives me a lot of lady macbeth vibes. particularly the whole ‘look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.’ (‘s also why i think she’s aptly named—daffodils are pretty and poisonous.) but back to my point: 

the example of narcissa’s authority pre-everything going to shit is obviously this:

which is easily passable as an insignificant win in a family discussion, but then 

you’ve got

stuff like

this

i haven’t read the books in a couple of years, so these examples are just the ones i can pluck from the top of my head, but i think it’s very interesting that narcissa is generally the one who defends the family, who lucius and draco turn to for guidance, and who is also just. the only malfoy the other death eaters seem to really respect (dh era).

there’s also the matter of movie canon, which i’m pretty eh with, but i do prefer the malfoy family ending in the films to the one in the books. and the fact that it’s narcissa who instigates it—who gets draco to come to them after he’s ignored lucius’ call, who walks away and calls for lucius to follow (and then he does)—is a nice representation of the authority she has in the books, i think. and then there’s also this:

which i could wax poetic on for hours, but it’d mostly just be shippy ramblings. 

anyway. tl;dr: the timid, meek narcissa you sometimes see in fanon is ridiculous.