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[amorremanet]

@gaymoregirls See, I like Heath Ledger’s Joker, but I agree with Amanda that he got (and still gets) a lot of hype that isn’t entirely deserved bc it was Heath’s last complete role before he died (—and now I’m grumpy at L*to for exploiting that as part of his, ““prep”” for Suicide Squad again, oh joy).

Otoh, Heath also got a lot of over-hype because he was in the Nolanverse, which gets a lot of over-hype as a general rule because it has Chris Nolan at the helm and it’s supposed to be all ~Serious And Edgy And Artsy And Cool, Ooooo~ — I mean, it even has parts that I enjoy, but is the Dark Knight trilogy overall really better than the average comic book movie series, or does it get hyped up because it’s the cinematic cousin of shit like The Dark Knight Returns (which gets over-hyped because it’s supposedly an ~Edgy Deconstruction~ when…… actually, it’s more like “Why Pseudo-Fascism Is Totally Legit If You Are Filthy Rich And Wear A Batman Costume,” by Frank Miller)

Example of this principle in action with someone other than Heath: when The Dark Knight Rises came out, Actual Marxist Intellectual Guy, Slavoj Žižek, put out some “think-piece” about how Tom Hardy!Bane is a the real hero, a crusader for the common people, representing the rising up not of The Dark Knight but of the people who are oppressed and downtrodden by late-stage Capitalism, and this means the movie is totally a crypto-Marxist treatise, even though……… no, man, I’m preeeeetty sure it’s not?

—but, y’know, the movies are Serious And Shit, so Bane must have some legit deep, intentional sociopolitical significance (—I mean, I would say there’s a level where you can read him with that in mind, but it’s not that deep, it’s probably not intentional, and he’s definitely not a Marxist hero or whatever)

and because Žižek is a Marxist Intellectual (which I guess means that he isn’t allowed to just enjoy a movie anymore, he has to come up with some kind of ~Deep Reason~ or other for that), that (alleged) deep significance must be that Bane is the REAL hero of TDKR and blah blah blah, Bane In Leather Pants With A Marxist Paint-Job

…which all goes back to Heath’s Joker because a huge part of him being overhyped, in addition to the whole, “Heath died” thing? Has generally been that he’s a Nihilistic weirdo who spouts off a lot of lines that he cribbed from, like… a badly translated Edgelord’s Introduction to Nietzsche, The Killing Joke, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, the Man Who Laughs story, a badly translated Edgelord’s Introduction to Camus, and some How To Be A Nihilist series on youtube. Because…… being on the nose and open about your ““philosophical ideas”” means you’re Serious and Artsy or something??

So… idk. I enjoy him — and there was definitely always an element of it that came down to The Heath Factor, because I’m fangirl garbage, oops — but it’s also kind of like? He’s the best Joker for the Nolanverse, but trying to apply him to non-Nolanverse Bat-stories isn’t going to work, not because, ““nobody can replace Heath,”” but because he has a very particular mood and way of doing things that only really works as a take on the Joker within the walls and by the rules of the Nolanverse.

Then, his appeal (at least, in my experience) tends to depend a lot on how people feel about the Nolanverse in general. Like, it’s rare to find anyone saying that Heath didn’t create a good performance with the material — and arguably salvaged it from being a complete dumpster fire, given how many things he improvised or went, “hey, Chris, what if we did this differently” about — but a lot of the bigger, broader criticisms of the Nolanverse have a clearly expressed form in Heath’s Joker, so it’s like…… If their take on the Bat-Mythos isn’t something general-you like, his Joker isn’t likely to be high up your list, either

……idk, my favorite reading of him is that all of his “philosophy”-spouting nonsense is actually an in-character tic (—I mean, even by the kinda broken standards of the Nolanverse, the Heath Joker parrots on about “philosophy” more than the average person), and that he’s essentially a pretentious performance artist who woke up one morning and went, “I think I’ll go be a criminal today” because he had an abusive dad, or his wife left him, or he was a US soldier in Iraq and something something Hollywood PTSD, or whatever reason anybody likes, and he has a lot in common with some of the other creative arts people who I went to undergrad with

(namely, the ones who insisted that everything they did was Hella Significant, even when they literally just threw paint at a canvas while on their fourth day without sleep, because it was finals time and their portfolio was still a few pieces short, or who made shit up in all their theatre classes because they didn’t do the work but didn’t want to get called on it, and they were so charming and had a passable familiarity with the terms and concepts, so they got away with it, or similar)

—but that’s also clearly not the reading that CNolan wanted the audience to walk away from the movie with (I mean, he clearly wanted us to see Heath Joker as a criminal mastermind and a terrorist — which he really wasn’t subtle about, even by Nolanverse standards, between the, “lol let’s invoke the popular imagery of Osama bin Laden and his video threats” shit, and Alfred and Harvey literally calling the Joker a terrorist when they said shit like, “Should we give in to this terrorist’s demands?” and, “Perhaps both Bruce and Mr. Dent believe that Batman stands for something more important than the whims of a terrorist, Ms. Dawes”)

So, TL;DR: as much as I personally like Heath’s Joker…… eh? There are a lot of very fair reasons why someone wouldn’t like him, he’s over-hyped just like everything about the Nolanverse, and he really only works in the Nolanverse, which limits his appeal by a lot

@megaevolvedthot …I had something more that I wanted to say here before I got distracted and over-talkative at Boxy, but I can’t remember what it was, apart from, “Yeah, I agree. He’s one of my personal favorites because I’m fangirl garbage and have a very non-Nolan-approved reading of him that I like better than the official one……

“……but he really doesn’t have the versatility of, say, Mark Hamill’s Joker, and being one of the most notable Grimdark McEdgelord Jokers — and probably the most popular of them, since the ones who go further in that than he does tend to be in the comics, more contentious with fans, and definitely not as widely-seen as the Nolanverse flicks — affects things in several ways”

—sooo… yeah. I agree, and that thing I just said

[gilmoregellers]

@spiletta42 said:

He’s certainly the most entertaining of them. I ship him with Christopher.

I agree! I find that an intriguing ship, mostly because I wouldn’t have expected to like it but I really kind of do.

@gaymoregirls said:

I prefer Alex but I don’t despise any of them except Christopher

I don’t dislike Alex at all but I definitely find Jason more interesting. IMO Alex was far and away the most normcore of Lorelai’s love interests….

@dollsome-does-tumblr said:

I have grown to love this quality about Jason SO DEEPLY over the years.

I found him so grating when I first watched the show, but he’s endeared himself to me with subsequent rewatches. He’s just so WEIRD, and he knows it, and that’s something I can get behind.

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[ao3feed-strangerthings]

every time you smile i smile

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by gaymoregirls

Eleven and Max get together, though it takes a while and also takes cameos from most of the cast to help Max get her shit together. Feat. Max Mayfield the useless bisexual.

Words: 4201, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, M/M

Characters: Eleven | Jane Hopper, Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Will Byers, Robin Buckley, Steve Harrington, Jim "Chief" Hopper

Relationships: Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley & Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington, Will Byers & Eleven | Jane & Dustin Henderson & Maxine Mayfield & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler, Billy Hargrove & Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield

Additional Tags: Gay, Fluff, Kissing, Bisexual Maxine "Max" Mayfield, Pansexual Eleven | Jane Hopper, Gay Steve Harrington, Bisexual Jonathan Byers, Everyone Needs A Hug, Everyone Is Gay, Useless Lesbians, I Will Go Down With This Ship, Billy is Alive, Billy Hargrove Is Bad at Feelings, I Wrote This Instead Of Being Productive, Gaygaygaygay, this is just gay fluff, Coming Out, Aged-Up Character(s), only by one year tho, Nightwing: Year One, video store, Post-Season/Series 03, Canon Rewrite, robin is a gay mom, steve is a gay dad, Starcourt Mall (Stranger Things), can we talk about how season three had the best setting, those shots tho, and the russian base???, I'm getting sidetracked, I'm Bad At Tagging, Gay Panic, max's internal conflict, Chaos, POV Maxine "Max" Mayfield

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[strangenewgirls]

gaymoregirls ⇉ unknowngays

[bayleybear]

@gaymoregirls I'm gonna reply to you when I'm not drunk but duck yeah captain swan fuck year man

[amorremanet]

omg Kassie i'm bad at these au meme things and i feel like asking for, like, theatre kids au headcanons is disingenuous because can you have a headcanon for your own world? that would just be canon, no? so gimme 5 headcanons for a a hedric college modern au?

the “send me an au and i’ll write 5+ headcanons about it” game

I actually have done that for this game before, though it was a little less, “headcanons about a universe that is already headcanon” and more, “a glorified excuse to talk a lot about the headcanon universe” — but anyway

So, at Hogwarts University, we have Cedric Diggory, one of the History department’s postgrad students, and Harry Potter, one of the undergrads in the Social Policy and Social Work program.

They first met each other during one of the unofficial, only barely organized, by the students and for the students games of football, when they got put on the same team and butted heads about strategy, with a lot of openly sarcastic snark from Harry, and a lot of passive-aggressive dry snark from Cedric, and a lot of eye-rolling from their teammates because there is a time and a place for ineptly flirting at each other without entirely realizing that you’re doing it, and neither of them is, “during a game, what the Hell, guys”

Everyone else on that team, from Ginny (Harry’s ex and his best friend’s sister) to Viktor (who’s a big deal footballer but he really doesn’t like being reminded of it, or how it’s impeded all of his academics, and anyway, he’s Cedric’s roommate and they used to be boyfriends) had a Super Awkward time of it because eventually, it became obvious that Harry and Cedric were not listening to them, were totally off in their own world during all attempted discussions of strategy, and were probably going to be super into each other

The snarkfest finally ended when Harry sort of accidentally tackled Cedric while trying not to faceplant after hitting a slick patch of mud too quickly and sliding, after which: 1. Ginny took over as captain, and dragged Viktor into being her co-captain, because she decided that if Cedric and Harry couldn’t share the co-captain spot without flirting and being ridiculous at each other, then screw them, they don’t get to be co-captains anymore;

and 2. even if she hadn’t, they would’ve calmed down anyway, because abruptly ending up sprawled out with Harry on top of Cedric made both of them have an, “oh shit, he’s hot” moment, which really knocked the wind out of their unintentional snarky argue-flirting and made both of them much more cooperative

For her part, Cho is really glad that she was on the other team for all of this (though, at the time, she was really not into this arrangement because she got stuck with Draco, Zacharias, Pansy, Oliver, and Roger Davies as some of her teammates, and Cho mostly likes Oliver and Roger, but all five of these people kinda suck to be on a team with for various reasons).

But she’s grateful now because on one hand, she and Cedric dated before they were in undergrad, and he’s one of her best friends. On the other hand, she and Harry briefly dated, and it ended amicably.

And on the tentacle, she’s currently in a Something with Ginny that isn’t yet officially anything because neither of them is sure what she wants but they keep flirting with each other but in not very direct ways, and okay really, it would’ve been Awkward And Messy for Cho to be on a team with Ginny while two of her exes were being even more inept at flirting than Cho and Ginny have been

Cedric has this problem where he doesn’t know how to ask for help when he needs it, because:

1. he’s legitimately gifted (which has given him kind of a Thing about working hard enough to prove that he isn’t just coasting by on his natural talents and aptitude, which usually means that he will work himself almost to the point of a complete breakdown, succeed, and then learn almost nothing from this since he didn’t actually have said breakdown so it’s probably okay to keep doing this — and he still feels like it’s not enough and maybe he’s not actually good at anything)

2. a lot of people whom he cares about rely on and look up to him (which kicks him in the responsibility and makes him feel like he has to always be there for them, and he gets that he is allowed to ask people to be there for him in turn, but he only actually lives that idea in certain specific ways that usually do not involve any of his actual problems)

and 3. he kinda has a chip on his shoulder about whether or not he can actually handle anything on his own, and about doing all of the work to prove that he can, because he was sort of an awkward and sickly kid, and between his Mum verging on being overprotective and Amos over-hyping Cedric for every. single. accomplishment. he ever had, in ways that Cedric finds over-the-top and unnecessary, Cedric got stuck worrying about whether or not he could handle anything

This is all getting particularly problematic because Cedric has pretty much no idea what he’s going to do after finishing his postgraduate work (which he started because he had no idea what he was going to do after finishing his undergrad) and he feels like he can’t ask anyone for help without letting everyone down and somehow hurting them horribly.

Someone, please. Help this boy.

Harry really values his ability to keep a low profile. Unfortunately for him, this ability is borderline non-existent because:

1. He’s the son of that famous footballer whose father invented Toaster Strudels or something (it was actually the Sleekeazy line of hair products but almost nobody remembers that, since Harry never talks about it, and his hair never behaves and he has no idea what hair products do what, so no one thinks to associate him with Sleekeazy), and that one big deal activist who made her name vehemently, openly opposing that one disgraced former Tory MP who was in good with Thatcher back in the day but these days, he’s gone even further to the political right and he’s trying (once again) to make a comeback by capitalizing on increasing Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments to make people vote for him.

2. The Potters died in really shady circumstances when Harry was very young, which sorta led that guy’s big fall from grace, and a huge custody nightmare because Harry was supposed to go live with his godfather and his father’s BFF, that wayward disowned, gay, bipolar son of that one noble family who are some of said ex-Tory MP’s biggest supporters, who’s managed to establish himself as a writer, but Lily’s parents initially started voicing Concern about Harry living with him, because at the time, he was:

a. undiagnosed, so a lot of his symptoms were seen as Just Sirius Being Sirius and, “just Sirius being Sirius” was periodically dangerous (mostly to Sirius himself but… still in ways that concerned Harry’s Evans grandparents);

b. nominally single, officially “straight,” and sharing a place with Professor Lupin from the History department (who was a postgrad, then), but that was all a façade, hiding their on-off Thing, where they were kinda together, but sometime not, and sometimes, “together but allowed to see other people as long as they talk about it if it ever gets serious (which it never really did but still)” — and oh boy, there was a Mess when that all came out during the custody nightmare (not least because Petunia and Vernon entered the discussion by being homophobic all over it, and making matters way, WAY worse when some trashy tabloid journalist outed Remus’s HIV status);

and c. a person of interest in the investigation of James and Lily’s deaths (which never amounted to charges and was eventually dropped, but not for lack of trying to pin it all on Sirius, on the parts of a few choice assholes).

3. Harry is a pretty gifted footballer himself, and a pretty good student, and friends with that loudmouth activisty girl who took advantage of an obscure and underutilized academic option to design her own program (combining history, law, political science, and social policy), and the youngest son of that family of impoverished minor nobles who act like they’re all about family values but are secretly an abusive shit-show, oh and he’s not actually a student here anymore, he left school to go into some nebulous but profitable startup with his twin brothers, but Harry and Hermione are still here, so he hangs around so often that most people don’t remember that he doesn’t even go here

(overall, Ron and Hermione are equally notable but in very different ways and for very different reasons)

and 4. Harry also spent his entire adolescence accidentally foiling that dickbag ex-Tory MP’s plans to try and make his comeback, and aside from all of the shit that he was embroiled in as a toddler, his godfather being kind of a Big Deal in several ways, and his “uncle” being a member of the university’s faculty, Harry just keeps drawing attention to himself without meaning to.

Someone please help him, he just wants to not have to deal with all of this attention, it is so frustrating

ngl, one of his favorite things about Cedric is that Cedric does not treat him as Famous Harry Potter, and manages to strike a rare balance between acknowledging the effects of this shit on Harry’s life and treating Harry as a real person without giving him any special treatment for better or for worse because of who his parents were, or his accidental teenage activism, or his talent at football, or any of that

(—like, seriously. Ron, Hermione, Luna, Cho, Remus, and Sirius are the only other people Harry would list as having done the thing consistently. This isn’t really fair to some others in his life, but he’s also pretty sensitive about all of this, so unfair as it is to some people in his life, it’s understandable that his list is so short)

Their first date happened kind of by accident.

See, it started when Sirius got asked to come have a reading and talk on campus, and of course Harry was going to go because it’s Sirius and his new book is really good and even if Harry didn’t like it, he’d still go because it’s Sirius.

Cedric showed up with the intent to just enjoy it and hopefully ask some questions during the Q&A (like, this boy showed up with an entire page of possible questions in his notebook, and that had already been whittled down quite a lot, and even as he went into the auditorium, he was still debating which one he wanted to ask most)

This particular event had open seating, rather than assigned seating, and Harry…… was sort of not sure where to sit, when he showed up. Like, he picked out Ron in the crowd first… but then noticed that Ron was sitting with Viktor, and looking kinda bored while Viktor looked eager, and yeah, there was a brief feeling of, “What the Hell, I should go over there and ask why Ron didn’t tell me he had a date with Viktor, who cares if I ruin their moment, what the Hell Ron” — but Harry decided against it because Ron hadn’t had a date in a while, and ruining it for him would’ve been a dick move

Then, he spotted Hermione… right as Luna sat down with her and they picked up where they’d apparently left off in some debate or other that Harry couldn’t hear so he just imagined that it was another round of Hermione reading Sirius’s poetry as sociopolitical commentaries first and foremost, while Luna primarily reads them as poems, looking at how the language and choice of images create certain emotions and stories and word-pictures, rather than what those things mean in a broader sociopolitical context, and probably arguing about the place of the author in interpreting literature

(He wasn’t that far off. Add in some stuff like, “Luna ffs why did you bring gummy bears to a poetry reading” and, “Did you do something special with your hair? …Oh, wait, you’re just not wearing any Sleekeazy’s in it, are you? …It looks really pretty and I’m sorry your internship’s been pressuring you into wearing it for the sake of looking quote-unquote professional” — and then you’d basically have what they were on about)

This process repeated itself with Cho and Ginny, then with Dean and Seamus, then with Lavender and Parvati, then with Angelina and Katie, then with Fleur and Tonks — it was only different when Harry noticed Draco, then Zacharias, because ugh, fuck shit dammit NO, there is not enough money in the world to pay Harry to sit next to either of them — and finally, he noticed Cedric sitting on his own

Faced with the choices of, “go ask Cedric if he can sit next to him and risk rejection” or, “sit alone and feel lonely, and risk Remus coming to sit with him and feeling like a loser because ugggh, one of his godfathers actually came to sit with him so he wouldn’t feel lonely which was well-intentioned but just kind of reaffirmed Harry’s feelings of loneliness and loserdom, and ugggh, he loves you, Uncle Moony, but why this”

……yeah, Harry went and asked if he could join Cedric

Cedric was really confused about why Harry seemed so hugely relieved to have been told, “Oh, sure, please — God, it’s kinda lonely with all the couples in here, right?” because?? Like???? Cedric goes out of his way to try and be kind and welcoming to everyone (even when they’ve shared incidents like the football game arguing and accidental tackling), and he got worried that he’d done something to make Harry feel like he didn’t like him or didn’t want him around

But there wasn’t really a lot of time to worry about it before the presentation started

So, instead, Cedric just waited until it was done and then asked if Harry wanted to go get dinner or something, because it was Very Important to Cedric to make sure that Harry knew that he was genuinely welcome

And well, first, they had to duck over to see Sirius before he got to signing books for people, because Sirius doesn’t always read his texts before just going, “shit, where is my godson” (or whatever) and getting really caught up in things, and Remus regularly forgets to charge his phone, lets it die, and doesn’t notice until someone (usually Sirius, Harry, Minerva, Marlene McKinnon, Mary MacDonald, or Tonks) goes, “what the fuck, why does your phone keep going straight to voicemail”

Like, you just can’t go, “okay, text Remus and he’ll go tell Sirius because he’s more responsible” because neither one of them is actually that responsible about this particular point — so Harry wanted to just congratulate Sirius, let him know that Harry would be staying at his and Remus’s place that night instead of at his, Ron, and Hermione’s place, and go, “oh btw, I’d stay here longer but I think the hot guy I accidentally tackled a few weeks ago just asked me out so I’m sorry for blowing you off but I’m gonna go out with him now”

(Sirius is always touched when he’s reminded that Harry loves him that much, but he’s also confused about why Harry felt a need to apologize for that because his opinion on all of this is, “why didn’t you just text me then, shut up at talking to me and go get some with Hot Football Boy”)

(Harry’s not even going to try to go, “I can’t text you bc I never know if you’re going to read them before you call up Ron, Hermione, Professor McGonagall, and the campus safety people to try and find me despite how I texted you that I was going to bed early or something.” He’s done that too many times to think that the message ever sticks with Sirius for long.)

Either way, Harry burned up a lot of his, “communicating with other people in an effective way” points because he didn’t ask Cedric if he’d meant this as a date date until two-thirds of the way through dinner, and his reaction to Cedric’s, “……I hadn’t thought about that one way or the other? But I’d like it if it were, if you did” was, “???? so is it a date date or not what??”

Working that out took them a good five minutes of vague as fuck, noncommittal back and forth

They eventually decided on it being a date date, but still

Five

Solid

Minutes

Shitty last headcanon is shitty because it’s 1 AM and I lost control of my life and this post and I’m tired but: so, Cedric and Viktor have a dog. She’s a mutt who Cedric found at a shelter a few years ago and fell in love with because she just looked like she needed a home so much. Her name is Lady and she’s very friendly. Before Harry met her the first time, Cedric did tell him that Lady is very friendly, but he didn’t really specify how friendly she can be when she decides that she likes someone.

She decided that she liked Harry immediately after meeting him

So, while he was waiting for Cedric to finish getting ready, she came over and put her head on Harry’s leg… then brought over a toy and made the, “play with me please please please” face at him and he indulged her because awwww cute……

And then Harry isn’t really sure what happened, but he wound up on the floor by Cedric and Viktor’s coffee table (which is perpetually buried under a stack of books), with a large dog sprawled on top of him and alternately nuzzling and licking him

Viktor had to come save him because Harry didn’t know what to do and felt bad about trying to tell Lady to get off because anytime he does that with Sirius and Remus’s dogs, the dogs get sad and Harry feels like he just seriously hurt their feelings and he doesn’t know what to do

As opposed to Crookshanks, who Harry can be blunt and cranky with, because Crookshanks is only marginally nicer to Harry than he is to Ron, and fine, cat, if you’re going to be an arse, Harry’s going to just pick you up and relocate you when you sit on his things or try to commandeer his lap when he’s trying to work

Hermione and Sirius both wish that there weren’t so much slightly vague enmity between Harry and Crookshanks, and Ron and Crookshanks, but Hermione and Sirius are both biased as fuck because Crookshanks is always nice and well-behaved for both of them

Viktor still took pics first, because it was cute and he figured that Cedric would want to see it

He was right, and Harry, personally, is just thankful that nobody put the pics on social media

[yoprodigalizzie]

I suddenly feel the need to post this! I miss you girls! 😢 . . . . . . . #HonorThyFriends #DishonorThyFriends #GaymoreGirls #GilmoreGirls #KahelAtBughaw (at National Museum of the Philippines)

[strangenewgirls]

hepalienvevo ⇉ gaymoregirls

why reserve a url if i never use it??

[bayleybear]

@gaymoregirls ACTUAL Judge Judy dressed as Randy Savage.

[amorremanet]

@gaymoregirls I’m such a loser about Star Wars sortings, tbh. At least with the prequels, where my opinions are just like, “Mace Windu deserved better, Obianidala for great OT3, and Palpatine went to Durmstrang because I refuse to allow him into any House at Hogwarts and making him a Squib is rude to Squibs, and holy shit, fuck that guy, like seriously (I’m sorry, Durmstrang, but your school does have a history of being into the Dark Arts and I’m not making him a Squib)”

THAT SAID: I can totally see Hufflepuff!Padme, it is a Good headcanon; Finn is a Hufflepuff, probably a Ravenclaw secondary, though I begrudgingly admit that Gryffindor also has a case; Poe is a Hufflepuff, but absolutely a Gryffindor secondary; Rey is a Hufflepuff, and a Slytherin secondary;

KyBen is a Gryffindor who keeps trying to push his way into Slytherin by acting like an edgelord and being all, “I work in a goth bar. Bartending. IN THE DARK!!!” by way of trying to make people think he’s a Slytherin (it has not worked. Like, at all);

I do not WANT to admit that Leia is probably a Gryffindor because I’d rather have her to myself in Slytherin, but Leia is probably a Gryffindor; Luke is such a Hufflepuff, like…… he has a Ravenclaw streak, too, but… oh my god, Hufflepuff; Phasma went to Durmstrang and thinks Sorting is fundamentally stupid and a waste of time;

Slytherin!Han annoys me because it’s so cringingly obvious (and it makes Kylo trying to push into Slytherin when he is so obviously a Gryffindor sort of squiffy, but if one puts Anakin in Slytherin — and tbh, it’s gotta be either that or Gryffindor for Anakin; he isn’t curious enough for Ravenclaw and all his Hufflepuff behaviors or values eventually go back to either Gryffindor or Slytherin places — then I guess it can work), but I can’t make a good case for anything else, like they’re all tenuous at best; Lando Calrissian is a Hufflepuff, I will fight you;

and General Hux is that douchebag who goes, “why doesn’t Harry ever just shoot Voldemort in the face with a fucking GUN, it would be so much easier” every single time he has more than two light beers, and every single time, he thinks it’s hilarious and new, but really, everyone just wants to punch him (and tbh, somebody really should)

[amorremanet]

@gaymoregirls yes, it is!! I got it for Christmas and I’ve been reading it for my thesis-novel, and… I don’t agree with him on all his points, but I’m enjoying it so far, and agree with him or not, I would kind of love to get coffee with him and talk about how some of the superhero flicks and comics that have come out since he first published the book might have affected what he thinks now, or how he might apply his ideas to them (like The Dark Knight Rises, for example, since it was even more explicitly political than The Dark Knight — and he’s harping on that one and Batman Begins rather a lot — and people writing about TDKR didn’t miss that and oh my god, I would so love to talk to someone else who might call Slavoj Žižek out on why his heavy metal Communist take on Bane In Leather Pants is actually kinda bullshit, if you pay attention to the movie and then try to find the sociopolitical commentary without putting Bane into your bullshit heavy metal Communist leather pants)

[amorremanet]

okay, so @frankendag tagged me in a, “followers i want to get to know better” meme

gender and sexual orientation: dfab & gender-vague (it’s complicated and it’s kind of a mess, and if, “glitch pokémon” were a gender, i’d probably just go with that, since that’s how it feels to me 98% of the time) // lesbian

star sign: aquarius/pisces cusp

height: 5’8”

hogwarts house: slytherin with an undeniable ravenclaw streak

favourite colours: black, pink, and purple

favourite animal: well, specifically? this precious little baby sweetheart — her name is pistol, she’s a pit-mix, my sister adopted her in 2011, and she’ll be 7 in march. she’s one of my favorite people in the universe. but more generally, uh. i love most animals, tbh? cats, dogs, snakes, tapirs, octopodes, squids, pandas, platypodes, penguins, ferrets, sharks…… animals are just really Good and i love them?

average hours of sleep: incredibly variable, probably about five to six most nights

number of blankets i sleep with: several that are sort of heaped together in a nest, but i usually only wrap myself up in one — it’s one of those, “tie it together” kit blankets, with a pattern of cartoon frogs and bugs on it, and my no romo soulmate, meggles, made it for me for christmas one year. she calls it the, “biblical plagues blanket,” because frogs and locusts were two of the plagues in exodus and biblical history/archaeology/studies/“bible as literature” stuff is one of my special interests

favourite singer/band: ………uhhhh, good question. hard to pick. but fwiw, my ipod says the last thing i listened to was nirvana’s “about a girl.”

favourite fictional character: ……right now, i’m just going to cheat a little and say: my oc’s. they may not be anything special or whatever, but they’re mine and i’m pretty fond of them. they’re my little weirdos, and idk, i have a little bit of a preference for sebastian right now, but it’s only because he’s the pov/focal character for the first novel, and i have an admitted authorial bias for pete, but i love all of them, so ♡

dream trip: somewhere quiet where i can be with my brother-in-all-but-blood-and-annoying-legalities, my meggles, and my better half, despite how tony lives in new york, meggles is in alaska, and astrid lives in australia

dream job: my guys, i just want to write my lgbtiq, neurodivergent/mentally ill/disabled mutant superhero novels and get paid for it (preferably without having to sell the rights for a tv show or whatever, unless i can have enough input and enough of a say to keep them from whitewashing, straight-washing, cis-twisting, erasing any of the characters’ neurodivergences/mental illnesses and/or disabilities, and so on)

when was this blog created: ………november 2009.

current number of followers: mumble mumble 2,331 but idk how many are bots or inactive blogs or what-have-you bc i’ve had this same blog since 2009 mumble mumble mumble

what made you decide to make a tumblr: i was modding an hp roleplay on insanejournal, and my co-mod told me tumblr was fun, so i made one and i did basically nothing with it for a while because…… *shrugs* i didn’t have that much to do just yet

pass it on: …so, i tag — @bizeke @praxidicespawn @dardrian @damiansalizar @gabbythegawd @gaymoregirls @rebellionposterboy @sikenesque @stopcallingmebitch @saralanceing @witchlockmonsterfox @scarlettwitchery @solvola — and literally anybody else who wants to do it can just do it and blame me (and conversely, if any of you lot who i tagged don’t want to, then no pressure, it’s cool ♡)

[bayleybear]

@gaymoregirls if I was gonna start blacklisting again n*tella would be on the top of my list with Cumber-man and DC movies.