Itβs crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives
βWhat will I be if I donβt graduate/donβt get a promotion/donβt get my shit together/donβt make this relationship work?β You would be a perfectly normal human being who is inherently valuable and who possesses many talents and good traits
βWhat if I fail even when I tried my very best?β The world keeps turning and you will find many other things you will succeed at.
Performative feminism is a most annoying aspect of our times.
you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.
you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.
you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.
you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.
you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.
You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.
No, actually, I just hate kids. They still have a right to exist, but I also have a right not to like them. π€·π½
Imagine saying that about any other ENTIRE group of margnalized people. Insane antisocial behavior.
Another person in the notes insulted children for having "underdeveloped brains" and I have to wonder, do these people hate intellectually disabled adults too?
they absolutely do
james potter π
Oh hey i inked it
james wearing a shirt the same color as lily's eyes cause he thinks he's slick (4th year-ish)
omgggg i commissioned @toorumlk to draw jily and look how beautiful they are i literally fell to my knees
Guys itβs another one! This time itβs all about the grownups.. almost all
Also.. what is Tom doing here?
100 words, james pov, rated G, @jilymicrofics
Lily stirred at Harryβs cries.Β
βShush, love, mamaβs sleeping,β James whispered, bouncing Harry how Lily did.Β
Harry gurgled. James rested Harry on his shoulder and rubbed Lilyβs back, soothing her to sleep. Her breaths seemed lighter. Another change had come upon her, months of rest passed, calm and joy and freeness, love for their child unburdening her.Β Β
James hummed a lullaby; Lily and Harry mellowed deeper into sleep. A memory floated up, the same room, the same tune, James small in his motherβs arms. He settled on the bed, in the curl of Lilyβs legs, everything precious under his touch.
Sometimes I think this fandom forgets that the Marauders and Snape are boomers. I just saw an "rip Lily Evans you would have loved Dolly Parton" post and like... Dolly Parton began her career in the 60s. Lily most definitely would have listened to "Jolene" as a 13 year old kid. And as a fanfic writer myself, I don't want to unnecessarily dunk on anyone's hard work, but it is a pet peeve of mine when I search for fics set in the Marauders era during the 1970s and the characters all sound like they are heavily involved in 2024 tumblr discourse. These kids would have never heard the term "genderfluid." They would call themselves transsexual or a butch dyke and there would be 212% more cigarette smoke, just everywhere. Fuck there was a designated smoking area at my boomer parents' high school for students and so long as the parents signed the permission slip the kids could go there and smoke. This was incredibly common (at least in American high schools) pre-1980s. Like, I can see the Evans family playing a game of lawn darts, Mr Evans with a beer in one hand, a cigarette in his mouth, throwing highly dangerous lawn darts that would eventually be recalled because of all the deaths it caused. Severus Snape had most certainly absorbed lead from the leaded paint in his house. Nobody was going to call the cops on any abuse they might see going on in the Snape's house because its the 1960/1970s and "how Mr. Snape disciplines his son is his business." War rationing had just ended 6 years before Snape, Lily, and the Marauders were born. Mental illness was extremely taboo, dyslexia wasn't really recognized in schools or talked about until the 1980s, after the Marauders had graduated, a lot of people were still calling PTSD "shell shock." For Muggles, there was no real DNA testing (it was in its infancy), no cellphones you had to pray there was a payphone nearby, and you wpuld talk to a telephone operator. It wasn't until 1966 that the UK switched to an all-digit telephone numbers. Before then instead of an area code it was a central office in every city/region that used letters. So if Lily, as a six year old girl, wanted to talk to her grandma in Manchester, her mother would have dialed something like MAN-9126 (I actually have no idea what Manchester's central office code was lol, this is just an example). Cokeworth is likely a Victorian mill town, and the major push to replace outdoor plumbing with indoor plumbing didn't start until the 1960s. Severus would have most likely spent his early years without indoor plumbing while living in a rowhouse built in the 1860s. Tubs would have had to be filled by hand, laundry scrubbed by hand and hung out to dry, he would have used an outdoor toilet and considering he is in a poor urban area he most likely would have shared this toilet with his neighbors in the other rowhouses.
These characters' story are shaped by the time they lived in, and sometimes I think the fandom doesn't realize how different the 1960s and 1970s really was.
Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student
Some lover boy james for @firefeufuego
James and Lily had Harry during a war!! The possibility of them dying and leaving Harry alone was not something they were unaware of!! They knew it was completely possible, especially since they were literally fighting and targeted!! They didn't pick Godfather in your average, sweet, honorable, fluffy way!! it was literally life or death, it was about who they'd leave Harry to!! So the fact that mid war, targeted and threatened, they picked the one person they fully believed would be perfect to raise, protect and be responsible of Harry!! That was Sirius Black for a reason!!
If they did pick Sirius before the prophecy or before Harry's birth, before they were truly targetted, they stuck to that decision!!
But I. Still see. This fandom. Portraying Sirius. As an irresponsible caretaker. In Everyone Lives AUs. Mmm.
Had the supreme pleasure of receiving this absolute gem from an artist whose work I adore, so I thought I would share. Everything about this, I can't stop obsessing over. The wands, the invisibility cloak, the animagiβgah! Thanks for bringing to life my fairytale James Potter/Lily Evans vision!πβ€οΈβπ₯β¨
Portrait by Arte, @arte072.
o mighty jily gods please accept my offering of; sapphic jily π«
