after you’ve been through like a string of fandoms and you’ve decided your favourite character/s for each one, there will come a day when you will list all your faves from each fandom side by side and look at them carefully and realise
i’m a failure to the community because my idea of wlw media is “movies and shows that have interesting female characters/women i think are hot in them” sorry i don’t have the energy to watch cable tv shows where the two blandest women in the universe kiss occasionally
pls support trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things
no seriously please reblog this ive seen so many posts saying to support trans boys and trans men who like traditionally feminine things and those posts are good!! i love them!!
but i have never in my life seen a post saying to support masculine trans girls and trans women or trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things and its really important to understand that showing support for trans women in any form is just as important as showing support for trans men so please, please reblog this.
support trans women and trans girls. support trans women and trans girls who like traditionally masculine things. trans women and trans girls who like traditionally masculine things are not any less valid than trans women and trans girls who don’t!!
Suuuuuuuper random headcanon that literally just popped into my head all of a sudden…
Molly and Arthur were both married to other people with kids before they found each other and married. Bill and Percy were Arthur’s kids from his previous marriage, Charlie was Molly’s. They had Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny after they got married to each other. Molly and Arthur had fooled around a bit and dated a little in Hogwarts before going their separate ways. When they ran into each other by chance, they just clicked very well and this time the relationship lasted.
I imagine Arthur’s first wife died suddenly (either in childbirth or shortly after Percy was born), leaving them all shocked and feeling lost. Whereas Molly married rather young and her and her husband never really talked about some things they should have. Molly always wanted a large family, and she was so excited when she got pregnant. Turns out her husband didn’t want kids at all, leading to a nasty divorce. He signed away his parental rights, which at least made it easier - when Molly and Arthur married later, they adopted each other’s kids.
Also, Arthur is probably white (his family has probably been in Britain forever), while Molly has Romani ancestry (probably mixed with Italian - but she’s not considered Romani herself because somewhere a few generations back, her ancestor married out of the community). Arthur’s first wife was Pakistani and Molly’s husband white (maybe French - and maybe this plays into why she’s got such a strong bias against Fleur when she and Bill begin dating - some unresolved feelings about her past). So you’ve got this mix of kids with all these different looks but who are all related and do have some strong resemblances to each other. Bill, Charlie, and Ginny are all slightly darker than their siblings. Bill, Percy, and Ron are still the tall, lanky ones, while everyone else leans towards the shorter and stockier side. Percy takes after his mother in many ways, and he struggles with never really having gotten to know her; those two things combine and make his relationship with Molly strained all the way until after the War, though she’s always accepted and loved him just as her own (even though Bill was older, he had an easier time accepting Molly as another mum and referring to her as such, but it took lil Percy longer, and Molly legit cried when he did so, and she didn’t bother trying to hide that joy).
The kids are still on the younger side when Molly and Arthur blend their families (Bill 8, Charlie 6, Percy 2 or thereabouts, anyway), and it helps that Bill and Charlie just immediately click together and become best friends, plus Charlie’s been asking for a little sibling. And Molly gets pregnant so fast, and they’re all just excited for the new family member(s!).
They all know they’re a blended family, but it’s not something that’s typically focused on or at the forefront of their minds or anything. But once a year on the anniversary of Bill and Percy’s mom’s death, they and Arthur go and visit her grave and spend the day with each other, reminiscing and telling Percy stories. Until they’re ready to share their grief one year, and they start telling the other’s about how great and kind she was, and then all of them are going to visit her grave and pay their respects. Special time is still given for Arthur and Bill and Charlie, but they all begin to feel like they knew her and over the years, they all just naturally check in with the site and make sure there’s flowers there and it’s looking nice.
But all in all, they’re really the same Weasley’s we know from the books.
Unreliable narrators need to add something to the story. They aren’t an excuse for poor storytelling and inconsistencies.
If you have an unreliable narrator, you should be doing twice as much work in your plotting! At every turn of the story, you need to know both what’s actually happening AND what your narrator thinks is happening.
When you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.
Not only does the author need to know what’s happening on both layers of story, they need to actually write in clues for the reader to telegraph the lower, “true,” layer of the story so the reader is capable of figuring it out if they choose to read closely. Without that double work, an unreliable narrator cannot perform its literary function.
It is the evidence of the truth, not the lie the narrator tells, that makes a narrator unreliable. Otherwise they are just a liar which the audience is incapable of catching due to the hobbling imposed by the medium. Which means the lie may as well be the truth, making it serve no function as a lie.
People have added some great suggestions to this post as to what else we can do to ensure more free and fair elections (and I can assure you, that although Tim may not have brought them up, he supports all of them). So I thought I’d summarize some of those suggestions, as well as add some of my own:
Rank choice voting
Automatic voter registration
Get rid of superdelegates
Abolish the Electoral College
Make voting day a national holiday (i.e. give everyone the day off)
Early voting (like at least a couple weeks would be great)
Mail-in Ballots
Eliminate caucuses and have only OPEN primaries
Restore voting rights for felons
No gerrymandering
Publicly funded elections
Actually investigate and prosecute instances of election fraud (BOTH parties are complicit in doing things like purging voters off rolls; this is election fraud and it should be illegal)
Automatic recounts if the election is really close (for example, less than a percentage point between first and second place)
I know certain political parties/factions like to pretend they care about democracy, but unless you support all these measures, you really don’t. It’s not enough to say, “I care about democracy, but only to the extent I think it will not harm my candidate.” Either you want to empower voters, or you don’t. You can’t have it both ways.
