I just got reminded of the line (referring to Gwen) “she was my MJ” from No Way Home. as if MJ is a role to fill and not, y’know, a whole ass person
Marvel “treat women as more than replaceable love interests” challenge: failed
In SWM, we have this iconic monent:
“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.”
“Apologize to Evans!” James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.
“I don’t want you to make him apologize,” Lily shouted, rounding on James. “You’re as bad as he is. …”
“What?” yelped James. “I’d NEVER call you a — you-know-what!”
“Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you’ve just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can — I’m surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK.”
... In which Lily says James Potter is as bad as Severus Snape calling her a mudblood. And she expands on that, equating James being a show off, conceited, walking around and hexing people for trival cause is equal to calling Lily a mudblood. It doesn't seem like the insult from Snape meant that much to her by this comparison of it equalling petty silly teenage dunderheadedness that isn't even personal to Lily. Pissed her off, certainly. Hurt her? It doesn't seem so.
I contend that the "mudblood" moment was of little importance to Lily - it was only a trigger, a last straw, the final pebble to break this friendship. But to Severus, it was a mountain; he didn't understand or see what had been building on Lily's side and of course he hung the fallout on the tip of the iceberg that was all he could see.
That was mean of her. She had no obligation to stay his friend but given his apology attempt and their 7ish years of (best on his sidd) friendship, she cannot have not understood how big this was to him. She chose to kick him away instead of just shutting the door.
Me when I defend Snape so much and remember that Snaters brush me off as just “some Snape apologist” even though I actually have so many criticisms of his awful actions, love his deep-rooted flaws and complexities, love to analyse how much his horrible childhood shaped him out to be for the rest of his life and how it turned him into what he hated most (a bully), and usually the only times I defend him are when his haters misconstrue what he did and make up fanon claims about him, not because I can’t handle when they say anything bad about a character I love, but because I simply can’t handle when people misunderstand his character (for better or for worse):
lmao this ended up being so wrong
I’m so fucking pissed about how Kwite was treated with his allegation vs how Dr**m is still allowed to have a platform even after all the horrible shit about him has come out.
Like, Dr**m is allowed to still go onto YouTube and still has tons of fans even though the shit he did has been corroborated by multiple people, while Kwite got his reputation destroyed because some idiot decided to ~do a little trolling~ and drag his name through the damn mud and everyone immediately jumped to the worst assumption. Holy double standards, Batman, this is all just so shitty.
And I’m willing to say that part of it is probably because Dr**m is white while Kwite isn’t
short answer: no, quite the opposite actually
long answer: after seeing that post make its rounds yesterday, i posted on reddit detailing my attempt to get in contact with the production lead, phyre, to have her fact-check the screenshots from that post. we talked, she answered all my questions and pretty much debunked the claim that they're only being given "$250 total" for their work. case closed.
and then dream himself came swinging from behind with a proverbial metal folding chair :P
he left an essay in the comments of my post, complete with citations! for those of you unfamiliar with reddit, here is his post + the screenshots of his discord convos that he linked
the narrative that dream is taking advantage of his young fans and exploiting them for cheap/free labor is false, and in fact, he paid them 3x the final amount. once the original deadline was missed, he didn't rush them further and gave them extra time. this can all be corroborated by phyre herself on twitter.
Any Snape fan who has the strength to argue with Marauders stans and Snape-antis on TikTok has my utmost respect.
that "jack manifold is the best ally because he's not afraid of gay people" post hits different after ranboo got cancelled because he mentioned the joke that Fans made about him dressing like a lesbian, and tommy getting cancelled because he said he understands lesbians (because he also likes women you see), and finding out that the "was hitler a lesbian?" joke technoblade has been cancelled for a solid 4 months in a row for was in response to a skull thought to be hitler's turning out to be a woman's, and tubbo getting cancelled for accidentally writing "happy ptide," and techno getting cancelled Again for helping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the trevor project without apologizing to twitter first and-
maybe cc's would be less afraid of talking about gay people if people didn't act like That
to me, lily is like that girl who swears she's liberal and progressive but she has a racist bf
Girl I’ve been thinking about this but Sirius literally would pick James over Remus in a heartbeat
l i t e r a l l y. canon!Sirius would pretty much have no problem if Remus died if it meant that James could live, people need to understand that Sirius loves James more than ANYTHING. There’s no way he would ever pick anyone over James. And if he were to ever be in a romantic relationship with either James or Remus, it would 100% be James.