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that theory that the Arkenstone is a Silmaril…it’s doubly implausible, but imagine if nobody knew. If the dwarves were guarded enough of their greatest treasure that…you wouldn’t even need to hide it from that many people, honestly. Mostly a few elves, and all wizards.

and then Bilbo sidles up to Gandalf like, “Thorin and all are holed up in the Mountain, but I think they’re being nuts, so I…kind of stole the Arkenstone, I think.” And (it’s been thousands of years since the light of the trees was doused save for the precious brilliance locked away in Feanor’s gems, since oaths and blood and war that raged until the skies cracked and the earth shattered, and the little people of the Shire have no memory of it at all) he pulls out a fucking Silmaril.

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One of the sweetest things about Way Of The House Husband is that Tatsu hangs out with all the middle aged housewives while his wife is at work and apparently that’s exactly the life he always wanted.

Even sweeter is that Tatsu affectionately calls Miku “the boss” but will also sometimes talk about his yakuza boss without making it clear that he’s not talking about Miku. His old boss would make him do grueling work and often beat him, which results in the women thinking Miku is abusing him.

Their concern for him and assurance that he can always come to them for help is so sweet. Just housewives looking out for a househusband with no judgement.

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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?

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I can be very easily bribed with art or even just really nice comments

Okay.. so suppose you’re a fanfiction writer….

And I’m a fan of your stories…

would it be alright to bribe you with a fanart that i made,

so I can read the next chapter? 

:) just asking…. but srsly tho… can you bribe a fanfiction writer with fanart of their stories?

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This is kind of a weird tip but keep a toothbrush in the shower.

I say this cause I know dental hygiene is one of those super important things that gets so often skipped/forgotten/whatever by mental health.

but like.

once i’m IN the shower, I look for any excuse to stay there. So I have a toothbrush. I have my water pick. If I were smart, I’d put a little bottle of mouth wash in there.

this post is about brushing your teeth but its also about knowing yourself. If you think you’re most likely to brush your teeth while standing at the coffee maker every morning? Put a toothbrush by the kitchen sink.

If doing the laundry has too many start up steps, put your dirty clothes right into the washer when you take them off. Use it like a hamper.

Eat a gogurt for breakfast literally every day if you find yourself skipping it because figuring out what to eat is too much brain.

Just like, don’t be afraid to adapt things to your reality. You don’t have to do things “right” for them to be worth doing. A quick swish of mouthwash when you go in to pee is better than doing nothing at all.

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Lol caffeine has never “woken me up” at all, it either dose nothing whatsoever, or it makes me sleepy. I know it’s supposed to wake you up or give you jitters or energy or whatever, but never has it ever done that for me.

Maybe I should get some things checked out. Although, my parents don’t really seem to care about it, or don’t think it’s anything important, so idk if I’ll actually be able to get stuff checked out. Oh well.

just so people stop (hahahahah as if) asking me the same 3 or 4 things over and over again in tags/comments/my inbox

- no, normal people do not get sleepy when they drink caffeine????? people drink caffeine to wake themselves up / keep them awake. monster etc are called energy drinks. people. please. come on.

- no, normal people do not get heart palpitations/the shakes/headaches/nausea (physical effects that can resemble anxiety/panic attack) from caffeine. if vibrating straight into the shrimp dimension and coming back with a headache was normal, caffeinated beverages would not exactly be popular. you just have a low caffeine tolerance.

- yes, you can have adhd and a low tolerance for caffeine at the same time. caffeine tolerance is a liver metabolism issue. adhd is a brain abnormality. these things are unconnected and the end result is probably something like "i want to take a nap and am also vibrating". uniquely shitty way to get nerfed though, sorry bro.

- unmedicated adhd people get sleepy/relaxed when we have caffeine bc adhd brains are understimulated and caffeine is a moderate stimulant that gets you to just-under-neutral aka "sleepy nap times" zone. if you consumed enough you'd eventually get there but it's really not that powerful a stimulant and you're starting half a lap behind everyone else.

- i cannot believe i have to say this but if you are taking adhd meds then yes obviously caffeine will work more-or-less as expected? you already solved the understimulation problem what did you think the medication was for. "i take adderall and caffeine gets me buzzed" is not a counter-argument to "people with adhd get sleepy on caffeine". you did amphetamine and caffeine at the same time buddy. come on.

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what do I have to do to go to events where people are dressed nicely and there are plates of free cheese cubes

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Angel (orange white and fluffy)

Pixie (grey short hair)

Olivine (grey short hair)

Mimzy (dark grey white and fluffy)

Penny mouse (multiple shades of brown and white and fluffy)

Lavender (dark and light brown short hair)

Violet (black short hair)

(Mimzy and penny mouse are siblings, and lavender and violet are siblings.)

If you have a cat please reblog this with its name please and thank you

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Reblog if you've actually SEEN the movie "The Aristocats"

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Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

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Reblog if you are into Polyamory Shipping/Ship

It can be your OT3, or maybe your OT3+

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Hi, I've seen your reply to jalesidor's post on how fandom becomes ever more important the more one realises how disappointing jkr is. In it, you spoke about how both Harry and Draco are queer-coded in canon. Would you mind to expand on that? Or if you already have, would you mind linking that post or the tag under which I can find it? Absolutely no pressure to do so, just if you like! Thank you!

Hi anon! Sorry for the delay in answering; I wanted to do the question justice. I could have thrown some stuff at you off the top of my head, but that didn’t feel right—at my core, I am a Ravenclaw, and I could not bring myself to half-ass this. (For those who haven’t seen the referenced post, you can find it here)

Before I get into my personal analysis, I want to note that there has been a lot of discourse on this topic over the years, so many of my ideas didn’t actually originate with me, they just got incorporated into my mental cache of HP analysis. If you search the tags “canon drarry” or “drarry in canon” or any variation thereon, you’ll get a bunch of posts where people pull excerpts and explain how extremely not heterosexual the things happening in them are. @iamnmbr3 in particular has written a ton of these (which I didn’t realize were all by the same person until I started trying to track them down!), a few favorites being Arthur Weasley clearly thinking Harry’s got a crush, this hilarious list of canonical interactions, Narcissa’s very accurate understanding of how aware Harry and Draco are of each other, and that time Harry got beaned in the head by luggage because he was watching Draco change. Others classics include when @big-draco-energy got an ask about how Harry assumed that Draco must be a Death Eater if he was preoccupied enough to not care about their rivalry (and was right) and when @northward had a great observation about their obsessions with each other.

Seriously, this scene, y’all!

Possibly the most quoted line in Drarry fandom

And now, on to my own thoughts!

So first off, I want to say that some of the things that I’m going to flag as unintentional queer coding are rooted in stereotypes, and that that doesn’t mean that I believe in or condone said stereotypes. However, media often uses stereotyping as a lazy shorthand, and I think that that should be taken into account in this context, because it means there’s a reasonable assumption that people would interpret some character traits and scenes through that lens.

Secondly, so much credit to my amazing friend @mxmaneater, who actually HAS A FOLDER of photos of super gay moments from the books, which saved me a lot of time trying to dig up quotes that I knew existed but wouldn’t have been able to easily track down.

And finally, these are my personal interpretations. I’m not any sort of academic, and we’re all aware that JKR does not believe that she wrote Harry or Draco as queer. I’m hoping folks can be chill and take this in the spirit that it’s intended: as one possible reading. Your beliefs about the series and the characters are your own, and I’m not here to tell you you’re wrong just because they aren’t mine, so please extend me the same courtesy!

Now, without further ado, here we go:

Let’s start with Harry, because that’s the easier lift here. The Harry Potter books are written from a third person limited perspective, which means we only see things from Harry’s point of view and are privy to his thoughts. I can’t find a link, but I know that it’s widely quoted that JKR at some point used the fact that the books are from Harry’s perspective as justification for the ways in which some people or events were portrayed. The answers on this Quora post about pro-Gryffindor bias in the books do a good job of explaining the idea of Harry’s point of view skewing the point of view of the series.

So if we accept that the books reflect Harry’s thoughts and feelings about things, we’re left with the unmistakable fact that he frequently observes how handsome various boys and men are. We have physical descriptions of Cedric Diggory, Bill Weasley, Sirius Black, and even Tom Riddle that clearly illustrate admiration. Additionally, although it’s largely unflattering, it’s often noted amongst fans that we get full physical descriptions of Draco extremely regularly—we know his hair and eye color pretty much from the get go and hear about them often, as well as his outfits, his swagger, his smirking and ‘leering’ (yes, she really uses that word), etc.

Some very heterosexual observations on men from the perspective of one Harry James Potter

Sure, Harry never explicitly says he’s into men, but let’s keep in mind the time period the books were placed in and the type of family that Harry was raised by: there is a very real chance that Harry wouldn’t have been aware of the idea of bisexuality and therefore would never have questioned his own orientation. Because he knew he liked girls, so of course he wasn’t gay! To many folks who later realized they were some form of not-straight, particularly bisexual and/or pansexual folks, this is a pretty common experience: not really registering that checking out people of multiple genders is not actually something that everyone does. *Stares vaguely into the distance while pondering all of the girls I didn’t realize I was crushing on until many years later*

Plus, as I’ve mentioned before, there’s the symbolism of the whole ‘literally being raised in a closet, abused for being a ‘freak’, and forced to keep his truth a secret because the people he lived with were ashamed of him’ thing. To queer people raised by homophobes (or anyone who knew people in that situation), this isn’t even the slightest bit subtle, and the fact that JKR either didn’t notice or is in denial about it is truly bizarre to me.

Draco is a little harder to pin down without delving into stereotyping, so I’m just gonna go for it: Draco is a textbook Drama Gay™. He’s performative in his speech, using a lot of flamboyant gestures; he constantly performs over the top reenactments for his friends; he makes buttons and sews costumes and does drawings and generally just goes through a lot of effort to pick on his ‘rival’. The only scenes where we see him in something that could be read as a heterosexual romantic relationship are with Pansy Parkinson, whom he doesn’t seem remotely interested in; she reads more like a prop that he puts up with to project a particular image. Also, at one point we see him flopped across her lap to have his hair pet, which is definitely a thing that I remember happening during rehearsals back when I was involved in high school theater (and almost never by people with compatible orientations).

And then there’s this scene:

Someone once made a post about just how gay this whole thing is: pointedly grabbing the biggest bowtruckle, whispering in Harry’s ear, smirking over his shoulder while walking away, etc. (If anyone can find it, please send me the link and I’ll add it to the list of other people’s thoughts that contributed to all of this.)

So, that’s what I’ve got for you! Someone could probably write a whole research paper on this (and hell, maybe they have), but hopefully this at least somewhat explains my assertions of queer coding. As a reward for reading all of this, please enjoy a bonus scene of Harry NOT being attracted to a man:

Poor Ron. Maybe next time, buddy.

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