#she is not a damsel in distress

[blitheringmcgonagall]

Of course Lily was ogling James (ruffling his stupid hair, showing off with the stupid snitch). Sirius laughs and says “Nah, she didn’t” hate James - especially when he deflated his head and was made Head Boy.

Lily is described as vivacious, cheeky and talented. She’s not scared of anyone - popular, big headed jocks (James) - she shouts at him to stop bullying Snape, she calls him a git and says she’d rather go out with the giant squid. She’s not scared of Sirius either - and he can be pretty caustic in canon. She’s not scared of wannabe death eater bigots (Snape) - after he insults her/calls her a slur, she tells him his pants need washing and refuses pointing blank to forgive him and go back to being friends, telling him it’s his choices that caused the end of their friendship, not hers. She’s not scared of Voldemort, refusing his offer to join him.

She’s well able to stand up to her sister too, turning teacups into rodents to annoy her.

She and James are soulmates, we are told that’s what matching/complimentary patronuses means. Sorry not sorry.

Jily are a BAMF couple, personally fighting Voldemort three times.

We see Lily and James laughing as Harry zooms around on his mini broom that his godfather gave him for his first birthday - James is rather anxiously running after him, Lily is just laughing.

On 31st Oct 1981, we see James playing with Harry and entertaining him with coloured puffs of smoke as a doting dad, just before he throws himself in front of Voldemort to try and save his wife and child.

Anyone who thinks someone with that personality would date anyone who she doesn’t like knows very very little about psychology (but guess who does know a lot? Uh-huh, exactly) / has very little common sense 🥰🥰🥰🥰

how tf do people think jily is toxic/abusive whatever???? like the idea that james blackmailed lily into dating him is so wild. he absolutely, very clearly, did NOT.

she didn't like him at first because he was an arrogant prat & was rude to her best friend. we know in 5th year james was crushing heavily on her but was still an arrogant prat being rude to her best friend. though lily in 5th year,, she picks up on all his little gestures & was clearly watching him when she was sitting with her friends by the lake (so like,,, very clearly was into him.. why else is she fucking just watching him play with a snitch instead of chat to her friends she was with). james makes that comment (A JOKE) that he'll leave severus alone if she goes on a date with her... ofc she goes off on him. rightfully so. if she wants to make james leave severus alone, then she can easily duel him (shes clearly duelled him before from the way sirius & james act when she gets her wand out) & then she stops being friends with severus because he called her a slur/his general blood supremacy getting more,, hardcore i suppose. and during sixth or seventh year her feelings for james intensifies i suppose, he matures a bit more, & they fall in love... very naturally & cute & sweet or whatever.

the idea that lily was forced/blackmailed into dating james is EXTREMELY sexist, framing her as some woman with no agency who can't defend herself against a man & 'sacrifices' herself to him to save another man from 'sexual assault'... that is absolutely not it.

lily is a talented witch & a highly skilled dueller, as well as stubborn & witty & brave & sticks up for herself and others.

[azriaann]

went for medieval + renaissance kind of vibes :) i love princess and knight nalu MWAH

[normasshearer]

CLASSIC HORROR HEROINES

GAIL RUSSELL as Stella Meredith in THE UNINVITED (1944) dir. Lewis Allen

[sohardlovingyou]

The infantilization of Melissa is insane btw, like she's top 3 most competent and sane doctors on the er, she was the primary caregiver of her sister with special needs and it's practically the only one that didn't make a life threatening mistake in the whole shift so shut up

[ptieuca]

buffy & angel + each other's lap

[avengerdaisy]

Emma Swan and Killian Jones in OUAT, 3x22 There's No Place Like Home

[wishchip106]

LET HIM GET UP LET HIM GET UP

[satinsafefromreality]

[cassieelainedraws]

[anjelia3]

"I've had it! Spike is going down. You can attack me, you can send assassins after me, that's fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend."

[purrincess-chat]

If you ever think the fandom is quiet, just know that it's as active and toxic as ever on tiktok and Twitter. I just read a comment with my own two eyes in a conversation about the love square where people were shitting on Ladrien, and one person came in to be like what's wrong with Ladrien, I like it...

And this person legitimately said, "Oh, so you like it better when the girlfriend saves the boyfriend and not the boyfriend saving the girlfriend."

Which, first of all, did we forget Riposte exists, but secondly and more importantly, I remembered that 90% of Ladrien hate is just internalized misogyny.

Because what's wrong with a girl saving a boy? What's wrong with the girl being the strong one? What's wrong with a boy being saved by a girl? Sit with your bias, babes. Then rewatch the show again because I think you missed a message.

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

I am not by all means a mafia trope fan... but revenge stories? High stakes drama? Sign me up for that short @when-life-gives-you-lemons-if !!!

[boxheadpaint]

I just need to know is that Cackletta paired with Peach? If so, fascinating, I wish to know more - if not, I entirely understand the coincidence of two people standing next to each other in a dynamic does not equate to them being A Pairing

yeas

Reasoning: funny

[potatounicoorn]

The female cultural icon of all time and a piece of white bread <33

[sarafangirlart]

This unsurprisingly made me think about Andromeda

[geniemillies]

i gave up painting midway but was feeling all nice and cheesy so i draw pookies, i hate them sm the dummies 😔🫶

something abt tamlin being bridal carried does something to me. we should all carry him like a princess as we frolic spring fields. also, niamh very stronk

one of these days i will be evil and draw bright chemicals injected into her veins and it will not be pretty but im in my cutesy art period rn where im nice and draw my ocs happy and loved (it won't happen again)