I dont watch TikTok, my friend sent me this. This how I imagine Snape would dance, if he were drunk at the Yule Ball🤣🐍💚🖤
HEAVILY INTOXICATED
Completely straight faced the entire time
So that’s why he spends so much time in the dungeons
If he could dance like that.....lets just leave it at that 😏😈
Hermione Granger from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement
What's a scrub?
A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly and is also known as a busta. ALWAYS talkin’ about what he wants and just sits on his broke ass
if a hot evil villain kissed me and walked off but went back again to give me another kiss i will willingly join him to destroy an entire country without hesitation
“what are you reading?”
“its a…online book.”
“oh cool, what’s it about?”
“….uh….”
I love that everyone just knows
Or…alternately:
“what are you writing?”
“it’s a….story.”
“oh cool, what’s it about?”
“…uh…”
“can i read it?”
“Oooh what are you drawing? Can I see?”
I FEEL THIS on a personal level
no but also “what website is that?”
“you have a tumblr? can i follow you?”
“what kind of blog is ur tumblr?”
World Heritage Post
“So what are you working on right now?”
Do yourself a favor. Sound up. Enjoy.
This restores my faith in men.
If you need something to cheer you up on a Monday morning
Paolo Sebastian ‘Persephone’ Spring 2021 Haute Couture Collection
I’m not sure whether I should laugh or cry.
Is OP aware that oh so many books exist on this subject?
And that almost universally the ones authored by people with doctorates in classicism and mythology disagree with OP?
Including the… epic hymn that first told this story? You know what’s in that original source material… right?
Abducted, yes. Demeter mourned? Definitely. Rape, no.
So here’s some info on Ancient Greek wedding traditions which (oh my stars and garters!!) included abducting the bride. With the father’s permission, which Hades got before he took her away.
Here’s a whole book on the subject of Ancient Greek wedding custom and its conflation with funeral rites. (Which sounds a bit like Hades and Persephone to anyone who’s ever dabbled in things like explication and context)
Oh shit!!
Holy pug tacos Batman!!
Here’s another book about the myth focusing on the seasonal religious and liminal rites. WHICH TAKE PLACE IN THE DRY SUMMER (not the fucking winter), which you know if you read a book.Way to go, OP!
All these fucking books! What could anyone possibly do with them all?!?!?!?! Do you eat books to absorb their powers instead of read them?
A better guess would be that you got into a moral panic over the name of a certain Renaissance statue and maybe after reading three pages of Edith Hamilton or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. And then used that to castigate and demean not only the people who actually take their limited time to create gorgeous art but also to denigrate modern day worshippers of Persephone and Hades?
Maybe next time, you stringy piece of over-boiled okra, you might want to take your own advice and pick up a book, instead of reducing the feared and respected Queen of the Underworld who held power equal to or in many interpretations GREATER than her husband into a meaningless pastiche of female disenfranchisement that you seemingly plucked from your own ass.
JESUS CHRIST THANK YOU
I don’t often reblog posts of people getting owned, but when I do…
man the ancient greeks didn’t dare to speak persephone’s name she was that powerful and venerated (they called her Kore, “the maiden”), hades didn’t get that honour
Rebagel for those book links, I find the Persephone and Hades stuff on here fascinating and I want to research it more
Book links, owning and the sheer badassery that is Persephone.
reblog forever
Reblogging for the links until this misapprehension finally ceases.
See also: Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth and Predatory Goddesses, both by classicist Mary Lefkowicz.
EDIT: Finally put together a bibliography of scholarly works about Hades and Persephone with the help of @coloricioso to help refute these old, tired accusations: https://honorthegods.tumblr.com/post/174794576611/honorthegods-hades-and-persephone-side
And, because reading is hard
Because I love overly sarcastic productions, and because not being able to read is no excuse
We’d probably be so creepy
Hey, Draco
There’s Hermione…
Aren’t you going to say hi?
He’ll be like
When we see Ron and Hermione together
IF HERMIONE CAN’T HAVE YOU, I CAN DRACO!
ACCURACY = 100%
Reading "One Man Army" by mooreofrachael is giving me all the feels. Its a Sevmione fic on ff.net and well worth the read. The character development is so intense that everytime I read another chapter, I'm on the edge of my seat to find out what happens next. My heart cant handle all the delicious feels!
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13014705/28/
Today I start The Auction by @lovesbitca8 while everyone else is freaking out about some memory, I’m so behind 😂 here we go!
This response is everything 🤣 especially since I’m currently so on edge!
Oh love, if you dont have a therapist yet, you should invest in one 😭 that fic is amazing and it crippled me emotionally. It truly is worth it though. A true masterpiece ❤
Hermione Granger...
Hmm....what could be said about this Golden Girl that has not already been said. I only recently discovered my love for Harry Potter a few years ago and have not regretted it since. I wasn't allowed to watch or read it when I was younger because my parents never understood it. As always, curiosity got the better of me and 2 years ago, I started watching the movies and fell in love with the fandom. Once I fell, I really fell hard and fast. Anyways, I naturally related to Hermione Granger, because who hasn't, and started analyzing her character. Anyone who knows me, knows that I love to analyze and dissect an idea, concept or person until I feel like I have seen it from all angles and although I have not read the books yet, I will say that to me, Hermione is one of the most relatable characters I have come across so far in my life.
Now I can't say that I'm completely brilliant or top of my class all the time, but I understand her need to succeed. She needed to find where she would feel the most needed and helpful and did that mostly by studying things considered above her level or might be deemed unnecessary. Now you could say that she only did it to save her friends, but I think its another step further to believe that she really did it to be prepared for anything. Someone like that refuses to take chances and likes to be able to react quickly in a difficult situation. I understand this because I abhor feeling helpless in any situation and I imagine she does too. Fear of failure is a powerful motivator and needing to conquer what you have in front of you no matter how unmanagable the task IS something I relate to. Yes, the girl is naturally clever and brilliant, but I think it's important to note that she actually puts the time in to be better and prepared. Sometimes having the discipline and determination to do anything can speak louder than the actual results and I think that Hermione is often overlooked for this.
Another way I relate to her is finding the need to mediate, fix, and console others no matter the personal cost. I never really had friends growing up and always felt like I never fit in as I'm sure many people feel too. Because of this, I allowed my books to engulf me into my own world and managed to survive into adulthood. The friends and family I did have, also helped but it always seemed like I gave more than anyone else. Hermione's need to be able to help others often put her in countless harmful situations, but she never once backed down. I admire her bravery and loyalty to which she never seemed to run out of. There were many times she could have told Ron or Harry to do it themselves or ask someone else, but she never did. Her need to help was always overshadowing her self-preservation and as a result, her friends survived impossible encounters that would have left the wizarding world without its greatest hope. This kind of loyalty is rare and incredibly valuable. In my life, I have stretched myself thin just to make sure that my friends and family are gonna be okay even if I'm not. Hermione takes on this impossible task and, yes, you can see it weighs down on her, but that never stops her from continuing to persist when the odds are stacked against them and although I realize that may not be entirely healthy, it is something I do admire.
As I could continue to praise and admire this amazing heroine, I will say this last thing--she was human and just as insecure as the rest of us. I love it when a character is as flawed as someone you would meet in every day life and I think the same extends to Hermione. Her insecurities of failure, personal view of herself, and need to be right are major components to her character. She pushes herself to always succeed but when she doesn't, it very nearly crushes her. That's why whenever she rarely fails, she becomes withdrawn and turns her turmoil internally. There are also a few times where her looks are criticized and she struggles with her confidence. Then there are the times when someone tries to undermine her intelligence and she bristles because even though she knows the opposite is true, she still worries that her intelligence and cleverness will neve be enough. All of this is relatable in some way shape or form to all girls/women. Our insecurities are what makes us human but that does not mean that they do not exist.
I don't know if anyone will read this, but I do know that if you feel like you relate to even a fraction of any of this, you are not alone. A lot of us just don't know how to use our voice and isolate ourselves from our beliefs in favor of not having our insecurities thrown back in our face. Just know that there are people out there who feel the same as you and need help to stand up. Embrace your differences and own your personality. You are who you are and you are the only one that gets to determine what defines you in your lifetime. If Hermione has taught me anything, it is this, it's okay to be beautifully flawed as long as you embrace them as a part of you.
Sorry for my rant! I just feel the need to state my opinion every once in a while and hope I do not offend. If you do read this though, tell me what makes you admire this incredible heroine! <3
So when life gives you an overwhelming load of nonsense, just open your internet tabs and chose from one of the 40 pages of fanfiction to lose yourself in. Currently my lot in life! 😅🤦
you know, a thing i think isn’t talked about nearly enough in this fandom is the fact that katara actually saved zuko’s life twice during the comet:
once when she actually, physically healed him and,
again when she took down azula without killing her
because, zuko was prepared to do it, he was willing to do it, he was going to do it because it had to be done but if he had killed, actually killed his own sister, who despite everything, zuko actually, truly loves (bc zuko loves, loves, loves his whole family, even though it’s broken, even though it’s bad, even though it’s truly, actually painful, they’re his and he loves them*), it would have destroyed him.
and like, idek anymore, but i can pretty much guess that zuko spent the whole trip to the capital psyching himself up and preparing himself for a lifetime as a kin-slayer and already starting down the spiral of self-loathing and then katara just… katatra just takes that burden from him. outright takes her down without putting a scratch on her.
and like, now that i think abt it, i’m like 95.15678354% sure that a not-unsubstantial part of the reason zuko chose katara to go with him was because he was hoping that she would figure something out, how to take azula down with minimal damage (bc zuko knows that katara is strong and powerful and prbbly the greatest waterbender in the world at that point, but also incredibly, astonishingly merciful).
i am actually 100% sure that if azula hadn’t cheated, if the agni kai proceeded as it seemed to have been going and zuko won, the very first thing he would have done is to turn to katara and say: “help her“.
idk, i guess that the point is that these kids cause me actual, physical pain and i just felt the need to spread it around
*and if anyone wants, i’m 100000% willing to give you canon evidence of this, starting from “the fatherlord“ to “i remember when my family was actually happy“
First of all, I love how you've worded this and it really got me thinking. Maybe Zuko also chose to take her because of what he seen she was capable of after "The Southern Raiders" episode. If Katara was capable of chasing after the man who destroyed her family (killing her mother and tearing her father away from her both emotionally and physically), threaten him within an inch of his life, and chose to show him mercy, then he probably completely trusted her judgment and somehow knew that deep down she would be there for him just like he was for her. Their dynamic together is so important for this scene because of how truly close and understanding they really are of each other. If he would have chosen anyone else, the outcome wouldn't have EVEN come close to being the same. He must have known that deep down, she had his back and would give him the same courtesy as he had shown her because of how CLOSE they have become. Katara is the epitome of "loyal to a fault" and fierce when it comes to protacting something that she loves. This is evidenced throughout the series whenever she is put in a situation to protect those around her, whomever they might be (relative, friend, innocent, etc.). It is this fierceness and loyalty to Zuko, a.k.a. the future FIRE lord btw, that allows her to take into consideration how to handle Azula in a way that was going to be best for Zuko. You cannot tell me that this girl did not LOVE Zuko because everything in that finale says otherwise. You DO NOT just sacrifice your safety or put someone else's needs before your own UNLESS you truly LOVE someone and need them to be happy no matter the outcome and no matter the emotional cost it is for you! Anyways lol rant over! Thank you for mentioning this. You are awesome (:
That moment when you're casually scrolling through the more ideas of your star wars board and Adam Driver floods it. This boy got me weak in the knees #hestoobeautiful #kyloren #Adam Driver #ohgosh #myheartcanttakeit
