reasons why draco malfoy should’ve had a redemption arc
- not wanting to kill dumbledore
- lowering his wand and about to join the order
- took care of luna lovegood while she in his house
- not turning harry in when he was captured
- gutted by the death of his friend
- throwing harry his wand
- was literally a fucking CHILD
reasons why Snape shouldn’t have gotten a redemption arc
– killed Dumbledore
– bullied children
– was a death eater
– felt no remorse about his betreyal till he was physically dying
– held a grudge against someone for over 10 years and took it out on his son
– crawled over the dead body of his crushes husband to hold her dead body while her infant son was crying alone in his bed
– was not a child lol
Also, Snape would have remained a death eater if Neville became the chosen one
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The last one
Also good on these people for taking the aggressively petty route instead of falsely registering their pets as service animals
Think about why it’s illegal to hire a hit man.
All you’re really doing is speaking and giving someone money.
It’s legal to speak.
It’s legal to give someone money.
Even if they actually complete the job, you’re not the one who committed the murder.
So why is it illegal to hire a hit man?
Could it be because inciting violence is not protected under free speech?
And if that’s the case, why should free speech protect Nazis advocating genocide?
Never reblogged something harder in my life
Here is the full version of my first comic for The Nib, which went up yesterday.
This is still constantly on my mind.
He never has to ask. She can tell just by looking at him – the rigidity of his stance, the hard angle of his jaw, his mouth set in a tight grimace. She powers down her data pad and gestures for him to join her on the bed. He does, lifting his arms so she can pull off his shirt. Her hands stay on his skin as he eases onto his stomach, his muscles screaming in protest.
She starts with his shoulders where the pain is least intense. He gives in to the temptation to close his eyes as her hands work over his body, solid yet impossibly gentle. Normally she works in silence, but he can tell by her energy that she’s dying to tell him something.
“I stopped by Chirrut’s training session today.” He hums in acknowledgment. “You won’t believe it.”
“Bodhi actually went on the offensive, for once?”
“More than that. He won the match.” Cassian grunts a laugh. “He did!”
“Against who?”
“Tonc.”
Cassian scoffs. “Tonc let him win.”
“I wish you’d have more faith in our boy.”
“I have plenty of faith in him. I also know Tonc is madly in love with him and would throw the match in a heartbeat.”
The last syllable comes out a little strangled as she gets closer to the base of his spine. They never talk during this part. Jyn listens intently to his breathing, knowing he’ll never explicitly say when he’s in pain. She takes the cues his body gives her and adjusts her hands accordingly.
When the worst of it is over, her hands travel all the way back up to his shoulders. Her thumbs work in diligent circles and he knows the therapy aspect of this is over. Everything she’s doing now is simply meant to relax him. It’s when she begins to hum – a melody her mother taught her that’s words are long forgotten – that he truly lets go.
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
plot twist: the introverted character who doesn’t like big social gatherings or speaking in front of people is still an introvert by the end of the story because introversion is not a character flaw and it doesn’t need to be overcome
Look, I’ll go on your stupid adventure, but you better leave me the fuck alone when we get back.
Bilbo Baggins.
NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE HE WAS SO INTROVERTED HE USED A CURSED OBJECT TO GET AWAY FROM PEOPLE
are u kidding excellent example 100% relatable big mood
“And remember: the sky is the limit! You can be anything you want to be!”
“Thank you. I want to be a secretary.”
That stopped them short. “What?”
“A secretary,” she repeated.
“But…” they trailed off, dumbfounded. “Why? You could be a CEO, a scientist, a law–”
“I don’t want to be a CEO,” she said. “I want to be a secretary.”
They scoffed. “You want to answer phones all day?”
She smiled. “Yes.”
“Schedule appointments?”
“I like organizing.”
“Be a second banana?”
An affirmative nod. “I’m skilled at helping.”
“I just don’t understand,” they said. “HOW could you be okay with all of this?!”
“I enjoy the work.”
“BUT YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE!”
“I know.”
“Then WHY?!”
She shrugged.
“Because I want to be a secretary.”
Honestly though, this is very similar to my mom’s experience. She’s always been super bright, but has realized as she’s gotten older that intellectual pursuits just aren’t her jam. She dropped out of her PhD program to have kids, and although she has her master’s and was a pretty good school psychologist, she hated having to make huge decisions. She’s a church secretary now and loves it, and she’s GOOD at it; she’s letting her school psych certification permanently expire this year with zero regrets. If you can be anything you want, that includes the things we don’t tend to value as highly as a society. Not everybody is built for or wants the “respectable” careers.
My grandma did this to me, saying that i didn’t want to get stuck on the outside, making coffee and filing papers. The thing is, that’s exactly what I’ve always enjoyed the most, making and organizing things. That would be enough for me.
Nobody seems to realize that if you tell people they can be anything they want to be they will. And not everyone WANTS to be doctors or lawyers or CEOs or scientists. Sometimes, they just want to be a secretary.
When I asked Jordan Shiveley for a story for the new book, he gave me two incredible pieces. I could only print one, so here’s the other as a bonus!
// THIS IS ADULTHOOD // by Jordan Shiveley
Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.
It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Here’s a story about male insecurity where the police underestimate her for being a woman and feel the need to get her because she’s a woman and Sherlock is ultimately beaten by a woman and in a bit of character development accepts it and acknowledges her intellect.
Sherlock fans: Uh no way Sherlock is smart Sherlock is so so smart she must have used her feminine wiles or her sexy things or her love to undermine him but he gets her in the end i feel a strange catharsis at changing this ending but I’m sure Doyle always meant to be this way, it just feels right.
Half of the reason that Adler was able to out-wit Holmes was because Holmes was too narrow-minded. Holmes is smart and has knowledge of many subjects, but he also strongly relies on social order and norms to solve crimes. He’s even says in A Scandal in Bohemia that:
“When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to thing which she values most. It is a
perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it
… A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box.”Holmes uses this social norm and order to stage an attack and find out where Adler hid the photo in her house. He drops his guard and is so proud of himself because he knew that this would work, he knew that if he created disorder, “natural” order would attempt to counteract that disorder.
Adler defies those social orders and norms: she is an untitled American woman who earned her own money through a career as an opera star, instead of relying on a husband or family to have financial security; she outwitted Holmes because she cross-dressed and indicated that she frequently did so, allowing her to have a lot more freedom roaming around London on her own terms, and her stage career aided that so that she could act like a man easily; and she didn’t care one bit about her reputation or being a “pure” woman, had several boyfriends, and was known for being an “adventuress”. More importantly, she had the ability to defy those social norms while simultaneously being able to present herself as the ideal respectable and under-estimable Victorian-era woman.
Adler literally defeats Holmes by dressing in drag then happily goes off with her new husband whom she loves very much. And Holmes respects that and is thoroughly impressed. Not only does he respect that, he realizes that he was on the wrong side of things, that he shouldn’t have agreed to take on the case for the King of Bohemia. This is the exchange that follows after Holmes, Watson and the King read Adler’s letter.
“Would she not have made an admirable queen?
Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?”“From what I have seen of the
lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said
Holmes coldlyHolmes takes Adler’s side and realizes that the photograph is her protection from the King, not something she intended to use as a weapon against him. Adler never exploited the King to get what she wanted, only kept it as a safeguard of her own happiness. She made sure she had a way of ensuring that she alone guided her future.
Irene Adler is “the woman” to Sherlock Holmes, not because she was sexy or he was in love with her. She was a reminder that real life doesn’t always follow what social norms and order are to be expected, that people shouldn’t be taken on face value or respected just because of their title or apparent respectability and ability to follow social order and norms, and that there are two sides to every story.
Take a lesson from Sherlock Holmes, people. Doyle knew what he was doing. If we’re going to keep making him roll over in his grave from creating Sherlock Holmes media, please, at least respect him and Irene Adler.
Another key thing to remember about this story is that it is Holmes agreeing to help an abusive ex-boyfriend erase his ex. And Holmes comes to deeply regret doing this, realising that it was wrong.
This is the case where Holmes was the bad guy – and he realised it. This is a powerful commentary on his character; the moment where, in flippant pursuit of a puzzle, he realized he was simply acting as the cat’s-paw of a malicious little man. That moment when a fun puzzle of matching wits shows the other side; where the fog of the thrill of the hunt shows the perspective of the fox, desperate, cornered by the blind brute malice of a hound, saving her own life. That’s all she wants; not revenge, not a long con, but her own life. It isn’t punched home hard enough, but it’s still a punch: The Great Literary Hero, trapped in his own narrative, realising that he has more fellow-feeling for the fox than his master.
The only reason Irene kept the photograph was to protect herself. She wasn’t blackmailing the King for wealth or influence; she just wanted to lead a normal life without being stalked, kidnapped, robbed and/or killed. She was a good person; she had a fiancé she loved and a plan for a nice life; she never planned to bother the King. The King planned to obliterate that, simply to save himself from potential embarrassment.
Holmes as an archetype has few classical ideals, but a moral code is one of them. Gutting that from the story simply shows you haven’t read it.
And changing the story to “sexy lady make Holm go Wow” is just a weird kind of wish fulfilment – better served by writing a female OC of your own – it’s not under copyright after all.
Rebellions are built on hope 