When it comes to Penelope I feel like a lot of her fans take any valid criticism towards her and turn it into hate, which does her character a disservice. While some people do hate on her, a lot of it holds valid reasons. Admitting that she has hurt many people isn't wrong because she has, it's been shown on throughout the show and the impacts it can have. From labeling Daphne as "unmarriageable" during her first season and events that followed, her labeling Eloise as being part of a group of rebels, the terms she used to describe Kate [and Simon]-- which carried racial undertones no matter how you try to spin it, who didn't even know personally at that point, what she did Marina. All of these were very harmful and to say that none of these characters should feel angry, that they should just forgive Penelope without any work put into it is very laughable (especially because she's still writing as Whistledown and put many, namely women, at risk during a time where reputation is everything--something in which Penelope herself faces). With this being said, criticizing her actions, at least for me, doesn't come from a complete place of hate but more so from believing that she can be better if she puts in the work. By ignoring all that she's done and having her get her happily ever after so easily in the end, to be honest, would ultimately feel lackluster. I feel like she still has room to grow, but it will take a lot of work and, I personally, think seeing her renavigate who she is with who she wants to be outside of Lady Whistledown would be very interesting.

my advice for anyone whos growing more and more frustrated with the state of aftg and fandom at large is that arguing is fun but you need to be happy. ok. you need to. its hard when bad faith takes are dropped to your doorstep but you need to be happy and enjoy yourself and have fun or there's no point in anything at all ever. ok. fandom is not real and nothing is worth more than your enjoyment. i love you please make sure to have fun and reach out to a friend today. for me

Joseph Quinn called me “My Darling” nbd or anything 🖤

No one understands the intricacies of Ozpin starting out as headmaster and huntsman and one of Ozma’s younger souls and lives as being extremely skinny and overworked, only to get not only fatter but happier and more relaxed as life goes on because he learns to rely on the people around him and trust in uncertainty and enjoy life’s little things while he still can before he can’t remember them at all like PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE INTRICACIES-

Ok. First of all, I am obsessed with Lionheart. You are amazing and I could sing your praises for hours. However, I have a question regarding Wolfstar. Your fic was actually the first time I came across that ship. (I know now it's really popular). However, I would love to hear more about your thoughts on Remus and Sirius. Whether it's canon or your interpretation of them. I always found Tonks and Remus to be a strange couple in the HP books. Was that your impression as well? How do you think a romantic relationship between the two characters changes them, if it does at all? Thanks!

Totally! Thanks for the ask!

I think Remus and Tonks getting together suffers from the same thing that a lot of canon relationships do, i.e., that JKR doesn't really know how to write romantic chemistry. There are very few times in the books where it feels like there's genuine sexual or romantic tension happening on the page. So that's layer 1.

Layer two is that Remus and Tonks aren't themselves on the page for most of Books 5-7, so their "love story," as such, is 90% exposition. The only scenes we get of them as a couple are Tonks scolding Remus for not dating her and Remus guiltily shooting her down. It also seems out of character for Remus, who is defined in many ways by his attachment to the past and who has been living out of Sirius's pockets for two years, to show little or no apparent grief at the death of his best friend of twenty years, not to mention one of the last people alive who loved James Potter. Harry grieves Sirius more than Lupin seems to, and Harry knew Sirius for about five minutes compared to Lupin. That's not to say that grief always looks the same — it's different, and I'm sure Lupin compartmentalized it for the war effort — but it should, in theory, stop you from jumping into a high-intensity relationship with your dead best friend's niece. (If you look at the timeline on Tonks and Lupin's relationship vis-a-vis Sirius's death, it is absolutely wild.)

The Wolfstar in Lionheart is subtle, but as overt as I thought was realistic for two men who hadn't seen each other in years and are also, by necessity, only seen by the reader in the presence of their thirteen-year-old godson. I wanted to capture the energy of "closeted on-again off-again lovers in the 70s and 80s before having a VERY messy breakup" (which, believe it or not, is a broader demographic than you'd think), both because I think it's a fun way to write them (the vibes! the possessiveness! the old-married-couple meets shy-first-relationship of it all!) and because it explains why Lupin is totally alone before Prisoner of Azkaban — in particular, why he never made an effort to contact Harry. It's hard enough to be a closeted man in Britain in the 1980s; throw in a case of lycanthropy and an insane amount of personal trauma, and what you've got on your hands is the kind of guy who'd go totally radio silent on everyone he knows for 13 straight years.

pll rewatch 1x05 - 1x06

first liars sleepover! along with their convenient morning clothes despite the sleepover being impromptu

Emily and Spencer reassuring Aria it is absolutely not her fault that Byron is a cheating dickhead is sweet, and this is the first time we get Hanna and Aria being close, with the bonding over shaky marriages.

Of course Emily tells Aria that Byron and Ella will work it out and be fine. Whatever other faults Emily's parents may have, they have a rock-solid marriage, the good kind.

Hanna is scared of children and desires confirmation that six year olds don't bite <3 Look at the cat faces on the supposedly hideous uniform (and a liar yet again being so weird in public about the blind girl)

Spencer is such a Well Done Son Guy to her dad in 1x05, she's even eager to play catch with him (okay, volley a tennis ball.) God, I love how naive Spencer is about her family. She always wants to believe in them, and in the possibility of their forgiveness.

Emily has a bartender cousin who snuck her into a concert once. This is relevant to nothing but is a fun fact. Her and Toby bond over their indie music tastes

Best A message: "Lions and tigers and bitches oh my, there's no place like homecoming"

Close runner-up is "Hanna got dissed and Emily got kissed!" as a lead-up to A sending Hanna photos of Emily/Maya kissing.

Spencer keeping the jungle red lipstick in a ziplock baggie is so important to me.

Aw, Toby looks like such a kicked puppy when Emily doesn't acknowledge him at the Grille. I really do have a soft spot for S1!Toby, he can't help that he's got a creepy affect. And then he gets shoved into glassware at the end of this episode while trying to disclose something very difficult! Poor guy.

Aria making Mike watch a black-and-white film with her even while they're stressed about their parents is such an older sibling move, I must respect this.

Going from Peter Hastings being terrible to Ella and Byron having a yelling match in the living room to Ashley Marin talking to Hanna about Sean and Hanna's dad....Ashley Marin is best PLL parent to me <3

These girls really are their parent's kids, personality-wise, for better or worse

Hanna is So! Supportive! Of! Emily being gay! while leaking nothing. It is very cute. Hanna is in a one woman #ally competition and she is winning.

Though, really, it's interesting seeing how...tentative Hannily are in their friendship this early, knowing how their friendship progresses.

Okay, Hanna is tentative about nothing, but you know what I mean.

The other three liars barge in on Aria's mopefest - I wonder if Aria finds it hard to believe they really did drift apart the previous year, given how quickly they snap together for this non-A issue.

Oh Spencer, leaving in the middle of a slow-dance because she suddenly has an A theory, and then obsessively staring at Emily because she's terrified for her.

Love that we first see this with Emily. Won't be the last time.

The homecoming has a whole-ass boyband??? I had no memory of them

As an excuse for ditching the carnival stall, Aria goes, "oh you know, my claustrophobia got to me". .....RIP to Aria in a few seasons, that's rough buddy.

Spencer takes a day to realize the significance of Toby's tattoo; Emily sees 901 and immediately connects it to Ali's disappearance and death. Aria did just text her about Ali's killer, but I like to think that Emily would've made that inference regardless.

Stupendous A tag. Spray-painting over the population sign to decrement it by one? No notes.

99% of the f/f posting blogs on here fucking suck 💀

i had a one-reply-per-person, civil-on-both-sides disagreement with a stranger in someone else's comments recently, after which i subsequently became aware that my interlocutor had blocked me, and honestly—i'm pleased about it? because we did fundamentally disagree, we weren't going to convince each other, and while i personally could've lived with seeing them around (they weren't insulting, just wrong!), it's also honestly reassuring to know that at least one person who has me blocked did so on the basis of an interaction where i'm totally comfortable with what i was saying and how i comported myself! really takes the sting out of blocking tbh. ☺️

Kaeya is the sort of friend who can and WILL cover for you, no questions asked. Not only that, but he will actively help and encourage you all throughout whenever needed.

we need to talk about louis slapping damek's throat to get the vein to surface. who taught him that?! our baby girl would be gentle and would never be that aggressive. although it's very hot and sexy as he does it. it's giving playa 😈

is this what he's been learning in that penthouse or in the 70s? lestat wake up. your baby girl is turning into a macho man again. insert td jakes wake up video.

https://www.tumblr.com/losingbenni/712272651367989248/jacob-anderson-as-louis-de-pointe-du-lac

side note wassup w ur struggle ebonics my baby?? im struggling to get what u even tryna say here

so. been thinking a lot about pre-uniform naval years and how the noun is also an adjective and what that means vs the motley crew. how england’s maritime power was intertwined with piracy for much of its early years but turns her back sharply on the privateering system just prior to when navy uniforms are first introduced.

Who do you suppose would be the most jealous and/or insecure one in the relationship: Death, Puss, or Kitty? If any of them?

would it be weird to say that maybe none? none like how the "usual romance" handle it because god that's really been done to death (no pun intended) if there's insecurity, at least in this post movie context (since puss and death has sorta clear things up a bit in the movie and the character development already happened, after that they probably wont face or have quite the same problem, obviously), if it can count as one maybe there's some moment where puss can try a bit too hard sometimes? the rest probably is easier to explain when i got there but they definitely gonna have to adjust to each other....so yeah tldr probably puss, but not in the way you'd think (at least his would be the most visible)

Oh, right, also, if we'd like to help with the wiki (for example, editing wording and grammatical mistakes or something) what would we do about that?

That is very easy, with or without an account!

I'd recommend an account if you would like to track edits and, perhaps, if you'd like less ads (I'm not sure how effective it is these days, creating an account to evade ads, since I also use an adblocker, but you could try).

With or without an account, all you need to do is press "edit" in the top right menu of articles, and get to it! I know I've left my share of typos and grammatical mistakes.

Perhaps I can or should provide a visual demonstration through a gif or whatnot? I'd/I'll be happy to do so. I appreciate the interest! It has made me soberly reflect on the inadequate provisions I have provide re: the Policy and Manual of Style sections of the Wiki; I know I haven't updated them in a while and in fact some of my SPAG therein is embarrassing and to be desired.

Thank you, thank you, thanks very much to those who are reaching out. I know that the Wiki editing experience can seem remote, at first. I have a personal friend who, when I happened to be discussing wiki editing with her (re: the Tardis Wiki specifically), seemed surprised at the notion that anyone, including her, could edit the wiki at any moment. I was delighted and perhaps screamingly pleased to say of course anyone could.

That is the very idea of a collaborative wiki experience. Most out to be able to edit it, at any time.

So the thing that bothers me about the terf wizard game isn’t so much the people who are just playing it, but the people who have this incessant need to defend playing it, proclaiming that it’s wrong to call people out for it.

Like sure, seeing people I have or have had some degree of trust or respect for playing the game does feel kinda disappointing, but there’s a degree of simple out of sight, out of mind - I can’t really have opinions about things I don’t know about, y’know?

But the people who insist that they should not only be allowed to play the game (which none of us had the ability to take away to begin with) but to play it without any feelings of guilt or awkward discomfort about it? Worse still, the people on twitch or whichever with the express purpose of making money from the latest big AAA release who argue that they shouldn’t have to grapple with the ethics of the situation?

No. At that point, you’re not just consuming a problematic piece of media - you’ve chosen to actively promote it, and actively reduce or even dismiss the ethical issues surrounding it. You’re not just squaring the round hole to fit the square block every block, you’re declaring the ethical matter a complete non-issue that isn’t worth considering.

And people are damn well in their rights to judge the fuck out of you for it.

God, I fucking love block buttons. You want to start shit with me? Nah *kicks you out*

still think nicobook shouldn’t have taken place in tartarus / been abt that kind of stuff at all - nico’s a weird character that we see thru other’s perspectives + some of his own dialogue in boo and i think it should’ve stayed that way. love him being mysterious already but would’ve been funnier to have a book of his travels that would just lead to more questions bc that’s just how he is 🤹