millefleursviolettes:

phoenix-falls:

augustinesycamore:

white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:

you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.

unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.

I fux heavy with the White people who keep putting this post on my dash

this is important. always strive to unlearn internalized societal norms but do not be naive! if you are working hard to be kind and inclusive, you are okay.

Could you talk about what Lily’s and James’a relationships with any daughters they had would be like?

jiilys:

  • Ok so when harry is maybe two they have a girl and call her

    Eleanor

     bc its sounds fancy as hell and it’s the only name the didn’t remind
    sirius of a long lost uncles cousins dog or smth

  • Lily buys her lil baby blue outfits and a pink sweater eleanor
    wears all the time but then harry gets sad bc HE wants a pink sweater so then
    BOTH of them have pink sweaters so one day james comes home in a pink sweater
    and suddenly it’s an official family thing everyone had a pink sweater
  • Battle of the nicknames bc james and remus wanna call her ‘nora’
    for short but lily and sirius are team ‘ellie’ but the war is on and james is
    all ‘I helped MAKE this BABY’ and lilys like ‘WELL YEAH OK  I CARRIED THIS BABY FOR NINE MONTHS AND THEN
    PUSHED HER OUT OF MY ARSE’ and that is it bc what could you possibly say to top
    that
  • Sirius and remus getting ellie a t-shirt with ‘I HAVE HOT
    UNCLES’ on it with sirius’s number written on the bottom
  • Sirius and lily having competition to see who can play the
    best game of peak-a-boo and sirius wins bc hes sirius black and he was voted ‘biggest
    drama-queen’ in seventh year in both the boys AND girls division
  • When ellie is two and harry is four they have another girl
    called

    Rose

     and she’s honestly the smallest person to exist and remus refuses
    to hold her for two whole weeks bc hes afraid hes going to break her

  • Remus and james trying to set up the new baby crib without
    magic because LILY WE CAN TO DO THIS OK WE CAN DO STUFF WITHOUT MAGIC so they
    start and by the end of it its four hours later, remus is hitting wooden bars
    againist the window and james is holding two screws in the air and squawking ‘WHERE
    DO THESE GO’ over and over
  • Eleanor starts muggle school bc lily and james want her to
    be able to read and harry potter takes his little sisters hand and leads her
    through the gate while she smiles at him bc she thinks hes the best and oh
    harry my love
  • Rose being super sad bc harry and ellie are at school so
    remus comes over and they make scones and she mashes flower in his hair and he
    grins at this four year old like she’s golden
  • Sirius picking his godson and honorary niece up from school
    in a motorbike while wearing badass sunglasses and harry gets so much street
    cred while ellie just runs up to sirius and he spins her around and then puts
    her down while simultaneously winking at the teacher who won’t  stop starring
  • Lily and james both try to talk to rose about how she’ll be
    starting muggle school and about how she can’t do magic on accident but rose is
    like ‘mummy. Daddy. I already know this. Please leave because I am talking to
    mr snuggles’ and it turns out ‘mr snuggles’ is a giant rubber snake
  • They both leave bc what the actual fuck why does she have
    that snake james I told you not to buy that for her she’s FIVE AND WHAT DO YOU
    MEAN IT WAS REMUS
  • Harry james potter being nine years old and has a crush on
    sandy Connors in his class so ellie goes up to her in the middle of lunch like ‘my
    brother likes you sandy and he told me not to tell but who cares’ and then she walks
    away while harrys like ELLIE NO
  • Rose getting through her first three months of school by
    doing what uncle sirius told her to. Avoiding boys and making some cool
    girlfriends who share their crayons
  • Remus, james and sirius trying to have a guys night while
    lily’s out with harry and rose and then ellie walks in while they’re  playing poker and DEMANDS to learn how to play
    and james cannot believe hes teaching his eight year old daughter how to play
    poker and she’s actually BEATING HIM
  • Sirius tells rose she looks ‘very pretty’ when she’s wearing
    a dress to go to Anna Brown’s birthday party and rose kisses him on the cheek
    while sirius smiles so wide
  • Harry goes off to Hogwarts and james turns on the platform
    to find remus, sirius and lily all waving tearily while rosie screams ‘SEND
    BACK LOTS OF SWEETS’
  • Ellie getting a muggle bike for Christmas and then uncle
    remus tries to ride it but he falls in the gutter and then uncle sirius falls
    in to because hes laughing so hard
  • Lily getting rose to join girl scouts because ‘muggle exposure’
    but she gets asked to leave after just one session bc she poured glue into Janice
    Martin’s hat after she said that ‘only stupid girls have red hair’ and wow Janice
    you fucked up you fucked up bad
  • Remus and ellie go school shopping because ellies about to
    go to Hogwarts and remus gets her the biggest cat he can find and sirius doesn’t
    talk to him for a week
  • Ellie goes to Hogwarts and the next day james and rose break
    a window while throwing a Quaffle around and rose I won’t tell mum if you don’t
    tell mum ok deal
  • Lily being a shit cook and she tries to heat up a mince pie
    with magic but instead jabs her wand so had she throws it in the sink and vows
    never to tell anyone this happened while she pulls her wand out of the drain
  • Ellie being twelve years old at Hogwarts and getting the
    best transfiguration mark in the entire second year exams and proud fourteen
    year old Harry Potter going around saying ‘that’s my little sister’ while james
    potter requests special permission to come into the school so he can hold an
    awards ceremony which sirius will cater and remus will dj.
  • The request is denied so they all just send howlers like ‘ELLIE
    WE’RE SO PROUD’ and ‘REMUS CRIED WHEN HE HEARD ELLIE *scuffling noises* SIRIUS
    STOP LYING YOU PRICK *kicking sound* ELLIE WE LOVE YOU *muffled swearing*’ and
    ellie is just sitting there so embarrassed with her face as red as rose’s hair
  • Rose starts Hogwarts and the four of them all go home and
    get drunk because ‘all of their babies have left the nest’  and they all get so drunk that lily and james
    sing a duet of  ‘a cauldron full of hot strong
    love’ on the table while remus and sirius wave their wands in the air in unison
    and sway
  • What losers I adore them 
  • Fifteen year old harry hears that two kids in his year have
    stolen roses’s  potions book and by the
    time he gets there, fully ready to kick ass, he sees rose kick one of the guys
    square in the dick and then stand on tip-toe to jab her wand into the other
    guys eye
  • Harrys just standing there and someone in the crowd is like ‘who
    is that kid’ and harry’s like: ‘that’s my baby sister’
  • Harry in Gryffindor, Ellie in Ravenclaw and Rose in Slytherin
  • Ellie going home in the summer and she’s fourteen and over
    dinner sirius is like ‘got a crush?’ and ellie says: ‘yeah I like Madison Brewer
    in my charms class’ and everyone stops for a second and then sirius is like ‘is
    she hot’ and ellies like ‘yeah’ and then they high-five across the table and
    everyone goes back to eating
  • Harry gets together with ginny and rose tells her that ‘my
    brother may seem lame but once you get know him you realise he’s ever lamer’
    and ellie is just nodding in the background
  • Rose throws the Quaffle so hard at the ravenclaw keeper that
    she loses three teeth except the ravenclaw keeper is ellie and GET BACK HERE
    ROSE IMMA FUCK YOU UP and it’s the first time a quiditch game has ever been
    called off because two people had landed and were hitting each other with their brooms
  • Harry goes up to 13 year old jake mornan and says ‘I heard
    you like my baby sister mate and let me tell you. If you fuck her up, she will
    fuck you up’ and jake just nods bc rose is a badass princess and everyone knows
    it.
  • Harry graduates and sirius gives him the keys to his motorbike
    and lily and james are like WE DID NOT DISSCUSS THIS SIRIUS CAN WE TALK TO YOU
    IN THE CORNER FOR MINUTE
  • Ellie kisses melanie griffin, dominic brewer, Elliot nash, Samantha
    tart, parvati smith and tasha porter all in the space of a month. Blair krugar
    calls her ‘confused’ and ellie calls herself ‘interested in trying all options’
  • And years later there is a photo of when Rosie graduated on
    the mantel and she’s smiling and beautiful standing between her dad and sirius
    who is doing bunny ears over remus’s head and lily has one arm around ellie and
    the other around harry who is bending down and oh they would have had the most
    fun in the world bc they loved each other so
  • so this turned into a huge thing please send help i am a mess

jamespottxr:

We all talk about the mother-son relationship between Molly and Harry but barely of McGonagall and Harry

  • McGonagall
    spent hours spying on the Dursley’s and didn’t want Harry to be put in their care

  • she bought him a Nimbus 2000 with her own money and since it was new at the time, it must’ve cost a lot
  • she put Harry on the quidditch

    team without checking with Oliver Wood and if it had been another student who was caught flying, they would have been expelled on the spot

  • she defended Harry in front of Umbridge “He has achieved high marks in all Defence Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher”
  • “Potter. I will assist you to become an Auror if it is the last thing I do! If I have to coach you nightly I will make sure you achieve the required results!”

  • when Amycus spat at McGonagall, Harry cast the cruciatus curse on him which worked meaning Harry truly meant it, and when McGonagall called him foolish, Harry replied as if his actions didn’t need explanation 
  • “The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound” when

    McGonagall thought Harry was dead 

  • she was one of the first to reach Harry when he defeated Voldemort

myurbandream:

jabberwockypie:

skeletonmug:

artiestroke:

splintercellconviction:

giraffepoliceforce:

I really want a science fiction story where aliens come to invade earth and effortlessly wipe out humanity, only to be fought off by the wildlife.

They were expecting military resistance. They weren’t counting on bears.

Imagine coming to a hostile alien world and being attacked by a horde of creatures that can weigh up to 3 tons, run at 30 km/h (19 mph), and bite with a force of 8,100 newtons (1,800 lbf).

By the time you realise that they can traverse water, it’s too late. The surviving members of your unit manage to make it back by shedding their excess gear and running for their lives; the slower ones were crushed to death within minutes.

You later describe the creature to one of the humans you captured, wanting to know the name of the monstrosity that will haunt your nightmares for cycles to come.

The human smiles as it speaks a single word, slowly and distinctly, in its barbaric tongue.

“Hippopotamus.”

This is giving me the biggest, creepiest grin I might have ever grinned 

Imagine being the next crew to go down to earth and thinking “it’s fine, we got this. We have the weapons and equipment necessary to deal with bears and *shudders* hippopotamuses. We’ll be fine.”

And at first you are, you’ve learned how to dodge. You’ve learned where their territories are. You know how to defend yourself.

But then one night you are sleeping in your shelter. You’re in a tree covered temperate part of earth. It seems benign. There are been no sightings of the dreaded “hippos” around. Not even any bears. But there is a slight rustle of the undergrowth. You try and ignore it telling yourself it is just the wind.

Then you hear the rustle again. closer this time.

You peer out into the darkness but see nothing amongst the trees.

The rustle again and now you realise you can smell something. It’s musky and slightly foul. It’s the smell of an omen, a warning. But what of? Where is this smell coming from.

You sit up, but it’s too late. The foul smelling creature is on you. You are hit with 17kg of coarse fur and vicious bites. Long dark claws tear in to you and you are pinned down white the striped creature tries to bite your throat.

It takes some doing but you manage to wrestle free. Blood drips from your wounds and already they itch with the sign of infection. The creature has a bloodied snout, rust rad, mingling with the black and white hairs. It lets out a terrifying growl from the back of its throat and looks to attack again. It’s between you and your knife, so your only choice is to back away.

Eventually the creature gives up and snuffles off in to the undergrowth, down a hole near your shelter you hadn’t noticed before.

When you make it back to your base you once again consult the captive human.

“Badger.” they say, with a solemn nod.

One word: Moose

“Our vehicles are far superior to the local human models, in range, speed, armament, and any other metric you care to name! Nothing could possibly-”

BAMrumblerumblethumpcrash!!!

“That’s called a moose.”