I know this should stop being surprising to me at some point, but do the people crying for us to not ship snarry (or any adult/any minor or aged up character that was once a minor) know how old these ships are? Like, I was shipping Snarry pretty aggressively after ‘The Tea Series’ came out in, IIRC, 2001. For like, the next 20 years all was good until suddenly (and it was suddenly) kids in droves decided morality should apply to all fiction. I still get whiplash from this. Like, do the kids actually think they are going to change my mind? Or are they just having a morality circle jerk with themselves?
Like, I get teen sex is down from when I was in high school. That’s great! But…some of us had great sex in high school too. Like, you can’t pretend like we weren’t screwing in high school, sometimes with college guys. It was not a small number of us either. Most adults I know were banging in high school. Some of us also may have had fantasies about our teachers (LOOK one of my substitute teachers was a Marlboro Man model ten years before he started teaching, you damn right I thought he was fucking hot).
But that’s the fantasy. That’s what we write. You can’t say our experiences are not worthy to translate to fiction. Snape is like my Marlboro Man and Harry is me. This is valid. Every adult had these kinds of fantasies when they were younger (ie: ‘Hot for Teacher’ by Van Halen). And it’s fun to revisit those fantasies in fiction…because that’s where fantasies live. In fiction. Amazing.
Snarry, Snamionie, Snaco, and whatever else, is not going anywhere.
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I’m sure Dumat being defeated the same year andraste was born means nothing
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that andrastes mother was part of a tribe who helped the grey wardens fight and defeat dumat the same year she was born, meaning that she could have been a fetus affected by the taint in the proximity of a dying arch demon
And the fact that nobody knows which grey warden killed dumat, as seven wardens died from injuries from his death throes, and therefore we cannot actually identify a warden who absorbed his soul, means nothing
And I’m sure it is a complete coincidence that andraste had dreams and visions of the being later referred to as the maker her whole life, and behaved strangely, talking about hearing lost voices and seeing strange auras. That absolutely doesn’t sound like anyone else we know
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something I like about Blue Sargent is that she’s so believably seventeen years old. she misses her mom and yearns to keep her friendships and also to pursue her future and grow. she insults her cousin to her face but loves and is very protective of her. she wears fingerless gloves to cemeteries to look cool even though she knows trying to look cool will bite her in the ass, she monologues about how if she opens her pink switchblade she’s sure she’ll cut herself as a sensible teen but also monologues about how she looves the idea of herself as a badass with a switchblade, and then she does indeed open it and cut herself and connects it to her emotional hurt. she’s both self-conscious and confident, and highly pretentious. She’s a one thousand year old condescending brat who wishes she was surrounded by fellow one thousand year old condescending brats at all times. she’s impulsive and idealistic and empathetic and sensible and stubborn and judgemental and curious and compassionate and playful and fiercely loving. she’s a fanciful sensible thing, she’s good but she’s not nice, she’s brave because she’s full of fear. I love her
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We need more weird historian rep in Doctor Who. The companions are too normal when faced with the prospect of time travel. I want a companion who makes a list of super specific historical destinations related to their dissertation. I want somebody whose first reaction to finding out that the Doctor is a time travelling alien is to create a Microsoft Word document and ask, “What caused the Late Bronze Age collapse?”
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I love how Eric Bogosian told a journalist he found biting so hot.
I know that old man was begging Rolin to get in on the action when he saw Sam and Jacob giving out hickeys left and right and the show passing Assad around like a blunt.
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rewatching gravity falls for the first time since release—spotting so many small foreshadowing details i never noticed. stan screaming when he first saw the wax statue of himself, gideon exclusively calling stan “stanford,” the room that dipper and mabel fight over in the body swap episode clearly being fords, stan grabbing the glasses off the table and polishing them sadly. i know there’s probably more i missed, too. it’s such a good show.
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DP x DC Camp
The Batfam force Damian to go to summer camp to socialize with kids his own age and have some normal childhood experiences
That’s all well and good, but normal does not describe his cabin’s councilor, one Daniel “for the love of Ancients call me Danny” Fenton
Between the son of the bat and a Fenton, camp is going to be weird
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