incredibly ignorant take. the reality is that heterosexual sex IS degrading in the culture we exist in due to the intense commodification & pornification of female bodies. the male gaze is dependent on the subjugation & humiliation of women for them to reach gratification
Well… two weeks ago I spent the weekend moving into my new house with my husband and on the Monday we saw our TWIN babies on the ultrasound for the first time 🥹❤️
—after witnessing the awful way she was treated by their peers. Snape realised the people who had accepted him and embraced him were not actually on his side. James realised his ignorance in being complicit in his own privilege, and they both adjusted their behaviour
Blood purity was always an allegory for race. James was a pure blood and very much reaped the rewards of that privilege before he humbled himself and changed for the better. Snape was a half blood who had his foot in both worlds. They both changed for Lily—a Muggle-born—
— of a powerful, white teacher bullying a young, black girl for her physical appearance, providing they cast a black actress as Hermione, which I think is incredibly likely. Personally, I think Paapa is brilliant casting and I’m so excited to see what he brings to the role
A lot of people concerned with the optics of rich, white, upper class kids bullying a poor, unattractive black child (which I personally think is completely in-character and a powerful way of emphasising the dynamics of the Marauders vs Snape?) but haven’t considered the optics—
So grateful to my mother for helping me move last weekend… and for bringing every random bit of dusty crap that has ever remotely been ‘mine’ in my 28 years with her just for me to have to dump it in a bin myself
being suicidal at 16 is sooooo funny because you have serious reasons but the straw that breaks the camel’s back is like Fuck, I Got a C in French….I’m Going to Le Do It