thebaconsandwichofregret:

cats-and-cacti:

i am LOVING the Twilight Renaissance 

Everyone in the comments talking about how a woman is born with all her eggs and has them her whole life but a sperm cell is only made maybe a couple of days before conception and now all I can think of is that one really weird week, right before Edward and Bella get married, where Jacob is freaking out because he finds Edward smoking hot out of nowhere and that’s why he was being weird at the wedding.

Yo, what’s wild is this embryonic yearnings bullshit is CANON I’m – what were we all smoking? XD

Source: fandomlife-confessions

absynthe–minded:

this is just a brief message out there to anybody feeling seriously punched in the gut by all the JKR bullshit of the past few days

it’s okay to still love the Harry Potter books and movies. it’s okay to have fond memories associated with waiting in line to buy the books or going to midnight premieres and dressing up like your favorite characters. it’s okay to have HP-themed tattoos and not want to get rid of them. it’s okay to post and reblog and like HP moodboards or fanart or meta or headcanons.

you don’t have to stop loving something that for most of us was fundamental to our childhood just because of this. you also don’t have to retroactively tear the series apart because of its flaws and failings. you’re allowed to be hurt, and be upset, and take time to process how you feel, and if you decide that you’re going to keep on considering yourself a fan of the books that’s your decision and it’s fine.

obviously we can’t, and shouldn’t, ignore the mistakes and the racist tropes introduced post-Deathly Hallows. and we shouldn’t defend every representational choice made in the series proper, either. if your entire relationship to HP is fundamentally and irrevocably warped now thanks to what Rowling has done, I get it. at no point am I ever going to say that everyone who once considered themselves a Harry Potter fan should keep feeling that way, especially if they consider the latest Nagini bullshit to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. closing the door on this chapter of your life is also a legitimate choice, and one that should be respected.

but “this thing is problematic, but it’s also a fundamental part of my childhood and I’m allowed to love it and keep loving it while acknowledging it’s not perfect and letting those most affected and hurt by its mistakes speak without me speaking over them” is an okay stance to take.

any website can develop a hive mind, and Tumblr in particular is rather notorious for it. make your own decisions based on the objective evidence, and do what is best for your own mental health. don’t let anyone, or any group of people, make you feel like you have to perform retroactive penance for having really loved a Problematic Thing.