philosopherking1887:

I’ve gone back to watching season 4 of “Angel” because it takes place concurrently with season 7 of “Buffy” and I don’t want to get too far ahead.

I think I’m falling in love with Wesley. This is so weird because he gave me such secondhand embarrassment/cringe when he first showed up.

I don’t know how I feel about Wesley’s relationship with Lilah. The initial impulsive hate sex was hot, but now I’m ambivalent about the Romeo and Juliet – or James Carville and Mary Matalin – situation.

bourbonbucky:

“Loki,” Thor begins with his mouth still half full of food, “do you remember when we got married on that little Alfheim pleasure planet?”

Loki nods. “You were rather drunk.”

“Right. Did we ever nullify it?” Thor swallows the last of his food and rinses it down with juice.

Loki stops and then drops his fork. “Fuck.”

Thor chuckles and tosses a small box to him. “Happy three-hundred-twenty-seventh anniversary, brother.”

Loki raises an eyebrow and opens the box, biting back a smile when he sees a ring set with a wide, twisting band of braided black gold with a Marquis cut emerald from Jotunheim.

He slips it onto his right index finger and admires it a moment. “And the other three-hundred-twenty-six anniversaries?”

Thor grins wide. “Get me a gift and then we can discuss arrears, husband.”

Loki slips on his best, sharpest smile. “Are you sure you want to play a game like this with me?”

Lightning dances over Thor’s tongue as he licks lips. “Of course. It’s a perfect game for a pair of kings.”

Visceral, brutal joy fills Loki’s chest and he allows his smile to slip away to something genuine. It’s honest in a way only Thor is allowed to see. What a good game this will be.

ravynliam:

squishysterek:

calling-all-jily:

Honestly, the whole “Snape was totally a meninist” or the “Snape’s whole backstory was that he was ‘friendzoned’” posts are REALLY starting to bother me.

I don’t love Snape. I think the way he treated Neville was absolutely inexcusable. I think he did a lot of horrible things. 

But:

  • Snape was in love with Lily Evans, but he never told her that
  • He never made a move on her
  • He never asked her out
  • He never tried to kiss her
  • He wasn’t “friendzoned.” Lily never knew how he felt.
  • He didn’t give Harry those memories so that Harry would feel sympathetic towards him. 
  • He gave Harry those memories so that Harry could 1) Understand why Dumbledore trusted Snape and 2) So that Harry would understand he needed to die in order to defeat Voldemort. 
  • Lily Evans was the only person (except for maybe Dumbledore) who ever actually cared about him
  • It’s strongly implied that Snape was abused or, at the very least, neglected, as a very young child.

I’m not defending all of his actions. But I do wish people would understand his motivation, and I really wish people would stop making posts like “Harry! Name your child after me! I was friendzoned by your mother!”

That’s not what happened. Snape was friends with Lily as a child. He fell in love with her. He didn’t tell her. He didn’t try to get her to date him. He loved her. He became a bad friend. He betrayed her. He regretted it. He tried to save her life. He failed. He tried to protect her child. He wanted to protect Harry for Lily’s sake. He wanted to at least partially make up for the way he treated Lily. That was his motivation, not “he was friendzoned.”

He isn’t a good person. He isn’t a bad person. He’s a person. A human being. That’s why Harry named his child Albus Severus– because the world is not divided into good people and Death Eaters. That’s something Harry didn’t learn for a long time. That’s what Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape taught him. Harry wanted his children to understand something he himself struggled with-: good and evil are not always easy to see. Bravery does not always equal kindness. Unkindness does not always equal cruelty. Look at J.K’s characters, like Draco, Dumbledore, Snape, Sirius, and Ron, and you will see that is a major theme. PEOPLE ARE NOT HEROES OR VILLAINS. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. THEY HAVE BOTH GOOD AND BAD QUALITIES. THAT IS ONE OF THE MAJOR POINTS OF THE ENTIRE SERIES. 

You don’t have to like or respect Snape as a person, but please understand him as a character.

I remember seeing a post about Tumblr users not being able to understand that the world isn’t just black and white, that there are gray areas, and I feel like this is an example.
Not OP, but the things mentioned. About Snape always being overlooked and seen as bad, and if you don’t agree, you’re a horrible person.
I always felt bad for Snape, because I could relate to the abuse and being cast to the side, and the fact I’ve had so many chances to go “evil” that I understood how he happened to be that way.
I don’t know, this is just a rant because I have emotions and don’t know how to adequately express them, but… Yeah.
The world and the people in it have gray areas. Learn that.

This is why I’m not on here often. I understood “gray areas” in a time when the only media we had was shoving down “the world is black & white” down kids throats every Saturday morning. I figured it out & a lot of things started rubbing me wrong. It’s funny how that still happens.

latent-thoughts:

amatasera:

In celebration of 800 followers (seriously, WTF, how does that even happen?) please accept as a token of my thanks this long-overdue sight of a shirtless Loki.
A.k.a., what’s tattooed on the inside of my skull.
A.a.k.a., what I’d get on hands and knees and beg to see in Thor 3.
But most of all, what I think heaven must be like.

lokifuckyeah smittentomkitten hiddleshoneybunny angreav
coy00koi lokiwholockfactory insanely-smart mypreciousmind1
laterovaries sherekahnsgirl d-m-jonas tarrysmith iamthebadwolf85 eve1978 nwadadnama

Time to bring this gem back…

One of my most favourite Loki art pieces.

jewishhenna:

wetwareproblem:

So… Anyone remember when the Hobby Lobby people were busted for smuggling artifacts, and we were all shocked and confused and then forgot about it?

Well, the artifacts they were actually busted for are Mesopotamian clay tablets. But… those aren’t the only artifacts they’ve been dealing in.

I just found out that they have thousands – thousands! – of Torah scrolls, which they then donate to other Evangelicals for financial reasons and political leverage. (In one case, they donated a 16th-century scroll to Liberty University. It was completely unfurled and directly handled in an auditorium. By untrained students.) Almost two thousand of them are sitting in an explicitly Evangelical museum full of supercessionist bullshit, and the text of the largest display talks about how they were “saved” from burial or the genizah.

Saved.

From proper Jewish ritual handling.

By Evangelical Xians.

Who then donate these things to other Evangelicals who mishandle them.

For money.

I… I think I’m going to cry.

I was just about to post this! I even got a little shout-out in the article. 🙂

The notion of “build[ing] a Christian museum on the backs of Jewish items” is, as I’ve come to understand in my research of the history of Judaica collecting, goes back several centuries to the origins of the modern museum itself. But it is particularly disturbing to see how this classically-supersessionist and fossilizing language (“God gave those people [Jews] a job, and they did that job well,” Steven Green explains, referring to the “job” of preserving the Torah text in identical copies so that evangelical Christians could prove the Bible’s unerring nature) is intertwined with corporate capitalism and greedy tax evasion. If only there was something in all those Torah scrolls on the subject…