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Yes JKR. I want this man to be hopelessly in love with me because I know he is devoted enough to protect me, save me and die for me. I don’t care if that makes me like a damsel in distress. I never had a male figure in my life that took care of me. So again, JKR, he is exactly the type of man I would want being in love with.
I’m sorry the idea of any Severus doesn’t seem attractive to JKR because this man’s is the best anyone could ever hope for. Loyalty, devotion, respect, protection, unconditional love and ohmygod how fucking smart he is. And powerful. Did I forget to mention that Severus would be 100000% touch starved? because I don’t take criticism for this headcanon. He would.
i’ve always been confused by how jkr both loved and hated severus. like…she’s given so many interviews and if you take them all and try to reach a conclusion about her feelings for the character you can safely say it’s very complicated. maybe it’s similar to her feelings for john nettleship? she liked him and respected him enough but also fashioned snape after him, a character that was easy to hate but was also easily one of the biggest heroes of the series, alongside The Boy in the Titles himself, harry potter.
does she like him? does she hate him? did she answer interviews in such a way that it would not give people clues as to where the story was going? (1999 was early and a lot of the books weren’t out yet but she knew where she was going to take the story and she’d always known snape was going to be the hero of it).
I just had a random memory of a friends’ kid when she was about six or seven, when she cornered a couple of us at a get-together and says “wanna know what my dad had for lunch?”
We figured this was, while unusual, a pretty straight-forward conversation starter. “Sure”, we said.
We were NOT prepared. She went on this EPIC storytelling monologue about the restaurant and Italy and the art on the walls and some dramatic story she made up ABOUT the art on the walls. We were enraptured. No idea what was going on but by god we were hooked. At no point does she mention food.
The next week, similar get-together with the same people. Same friend I’m talking to. Same child walks up. “Wanna know what my dad had for lunch?”
But NOW we’re prepared, we’re excited. We’re about to hear some SHIT. We grin in anticipation. “Sure!”
“A salad.”
She walks off, seemingly unaware she just set up the funniest fucking week-long joke my friend and I had ever heard
i don’t understand why we aren’t using wolfstar instead of jegulus for the spiderman’s au???? LIKE REMUS BEING SPIDERMAN, HIM BEING BITTEN BY THE SPIDER, THE BEING AFRAID OF PEOPLE DISCOVERING HIS SECRET, THE SCARS, THE NOT WANTING HIS LOVED ONES KNOWING BECAUSE HE IS AFRAID OF HURTING THEM, HIM BEING THE SMART GUY AND THE HERO???, SIRIUS BEING HIS BESTFRIEND TRYING TO FIGURE HIM OUT AND FALLING IN LOVE WHILE DOING IT, REMUS BEING AFRAID THAT THE ONLY REASON SIRIUS LIKES HIM IS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO PROTECT HIM IN A WAY, ANDREW BEING ONE OF REMUS’ FANCASTS AND US LITERALLY HAVING MEDIA FOR EDITS ETC BECAUSE ANDREW IS SPIDERMAN??? LIKE AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THE VISION
This one may seem more like breakfast, which means it is doubly awesome because it can serve for a lunch or breakfast on the go. This particular lunchbox is my daughter’s favorite. She is a huge fan of parfaits, and I am a huge fan of keeping her happy. I pre-portioned out the granola, coconut, and nuts, and have them all in a drawer so she can assemble these herself too! Just add yogurt and berries.
4 ounce yogurt cup
2 ounces granola
2 ounces roasted almonds
2 ounces blueberries
2 ounces raspberries
2 ounces coconut flakes
The Cheese Plate Lunchbox:
One of my favorite things to eat is a cheese plate, so why not make one into a lunchbox? I am stocking my fridge with these little cheese plates to go so I can enjoy them for lunches and snacks myself, not just send them off to school with my kids. It offers protein, carbs, and all kinds of delicious fruits, so it is both filling and nutritious.
Chunk of brie
Chunk of gouda
Chunk of sarvecchino
Apple slices
Dried fruit (apricots)
Pretzel crisps
Grapes (red and green)
Almond, roasted and salted
The Chicken Salad Lunchbox:
Chicken salad is an awesome lunch item, and lucky for me, I can buy it already made and portioned into these perfect 4 ounce cups from Costco. This is a fun and filling option that doesn’t take a ton of work for me, and adds a nice variety. Pair it with a croissant or crackers, fruit and veggies.
Chicken Salad Cup
Grapes
Carrots
Wheat Crackers
The Wannabe Cheeseburger:
My husband loves cheeseburgers for lunch, so I thought it would be fun to make a kind of deconstructed burger, and offer it as a lunch option. So instead of a burger patty it is roast beef, then all the fun components of a regular cheeseburger meal. Minus the chips/fries. So feel free to add a bag of potato chips to this one to make it even more fun!
Roast beef
Slider bun
Cheese stick
Olives
Grape tomatoes
Dill pickles
Protein Lunchbox:
Have you seen the protein boxes at Starbucks? I wanted to have something like that in my fridge for days when I am super busy, and need sustenance. And guess what? My kids liked them too. So they definitely made the list for lunchbox options. This one is delicious, but of course, feel free to add your favorite form of protein.
Black forrest ham
Roast beef
Cheese chunks
Hard boiled egg
Cashews
Almonds
Hummus
The All American:
Of all the lunchbox ideas, this one is the worst! It is not the healthiest of the options, which is probably why it is one of my kid’s favorites. It is a fun option though, and a great go to when I don’t have time to make anything, as most of it can be purchased, and just assembled.
Pretzel sticks
Applesauce
Cheese stick
Trail mix
Granola bar
Mandarin orange cup
The Apple Sandwich Lunchbox:
Have you ever had an apple sandwich? It is basically slices of apple with peanut butter spread over the slice, and topped with fun things like mini chocolate chips, granola, and nuts. I loved the idea, and thought it would be fun to make it for my kids. For their lunches I would pre-slice the apple into rounds, and stick a clean rubber band around it so that it doesn’t brown during the day while it is in their lunchbox. Then let them assemble as they see fit.
Apple
Peanut butter
Coconut
Granola
Dried fruit
Mini chocolate chips
Roasted, salted nuts
Blueberry Bagel Lunchbox:
My kids are big fans of breakfast foods, so incorporating them into the lunchbox ideas was a given. And this one is a particular favorite because it is filling and flavorful. You could pre-toast the bagel if you wanted, but I just pre-slice it to make it easy for the kids at lunch time.
Blueberry bagel
Whipped cream cheese
Grapes
Berry medley
Chicken Salad Fruit and Veggie Lunch Box:
Okay, I admit it, this one is a little boring, at leas the name, but it is one of my favorites because it is filling and tasty, and hits all the right notes. It offers a great chicken salad to be eaten with pretzel crisps, but also cucumber slices, fruit, and nuts.
4 ounce chicken salad
Cucumber slices
Nectarine
Roasted almonds
Pretzel crisps
Deconstructed Pizza Lunchbox:
Who doesn’t love a good slice of pepperoni pizza? And while many argue cold pizza is fine, it isn’t my favorite, but I love the various components, and they make a lunch box my kids can’t get enough of.
Pepperoni
Cheese chunks
Olives
Grape tomatoes
Wheat crackers
Frogs on a Log Lunchbox:
As a kid there was nothing I liked more than a stick of celery slathered in peanut butter and topped with “frog” raisins. But these are given a slight upgrade. They offer delicious nut butter (choose your favorite), whipped cream cheese, and more! You will love this one.
Nut butter (almond, peanut, cashew, you pick)
Whipped cream cheese
Dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, etc.)
Roasted nuts
Celery sticks
The Fruit Salad:
Fruit salad is always a fun thing to eat, especially when it has a fun dressing. This embodies that idea, in lunchbox form. Fruit and yogurt, and combine to make a fruit lover’s dream. Feel free to add in some nuts, chia seed, hemp, or something else if you want more heft. This is another one of those great for breakfast options!
Yogurt
Apple slices
Grapes
Berries
Homemade Lunchables Lunchbox:
Please tell me I am not the only one whose kids beg for lunchables? Like seriously! So I decided to make my own so they have quality cheese, great quality deli meats, a fun treat, and fresh fruit.
Ritz crackers
Colby jack and provolone cheese slices
Black forrest ham
2 ounce cup of M&M’s
Grapes or fruit of choice
The Hummus Dipper Lunchbox
Hummus is such an awesome lunchbox addition, especially when you can add tons of great dippers. And what better way to increase veggie intake? This is another one I like to make extras of so I have nutritious snack options at the tip of my fingers.
Sabra hummus cup
Celery
Cucumber
Carrot sticks
Pita chips
Green olives
The Mediterranean Lunchbox:
Speaking of my love of hummus… this lunchbox is amazing. It offers all the fun flavors of the Mediterranean in a great snackable or lunchbox form! Yet another one I make extras of for me!
Pita or mini naan
Roasted chick peas
Green olives
Sabra hummus
Cucumber
Sugar snap peas
Grape tomatoes
The Nacho Lunchbox:
Nachos are so tricky for lunch boxes, especially if you don’t have to have a (way) to heat up your cheese, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy all the yummy flavors of a good plate of nachos. This one is a kid and husband favorite!
“ccute baby bunny compilation” “cutest rabbit videos!” “cute bunny so sweet every video” NO. i want FUNNY rabbit. i want rabbit STUPID compilatiom. I want every video of a rabbit thumping over some inane thing . i want a compilation of ever rabbit thats ever jumped in a trash bin. show me the goddamn animal
Before JK Rowling fell into the anti-trans blackhole, she campaigned against Scottish independence.
She helped bankroll the campaign to keep Scotland in the UK, and a lot of pro-independence campaigners who were fans felt disappointed and let down.
During the campaign she referred to pro-independence voters as death eaters, and became good friends with misogynists who frequently targeted women in political roles (councillor or member of Parliament)
Scotland recently passed a law to reform the Gender Recognition Act. This makes this process for trans people in Scotland easier by reducing the bureaucratic red-tape and invasive procedures that people have to jump through to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate.
JK Rowling and her bigoted friends have been attacking this legislation and trans people for some time.
The British Government, in an unprecedented move, have decided they are going to block the legislation. They have not done this to any law since the Scottish Parliament was reinstated.
Scotland leans more to the left than England does. By doing this the British government (and the opposition parties that aren’t fighting against it) are surrendering the progressive case for the United Kingdom to still exist.
If they can override this law, they can override any law. With over 50% of Scotland supporting independence and younger, more progressive people becoming eligible to vote every day, the death of the United Kingdom is inevitable.
“Ten-year-olds are the most frightening people on the planet. I think we all remember being ten, where making eye contact during recess meant you were going to have a Pokemon battle, and the winner got to keep the loser’s lunch money.
“But as an adult, seeing the kids who are off on their Pokemon journeys, swaggering along, ready to fight anybody and everybody they meet, up to and including God, it really hits you. These children will fight you, and when they win, your best bet is to just throw twenty dollars on the ground and flee in the other direction.
“The worst ones are the ones with six Pokeballs on their belt. You’re like, I possess one elderly Snubbull, and for all I know, you’ve got a Rayquaza in one of those balls.
“And sometimes, you hear stories. Like, ‘a ten-year-old boy dismantled Team Rocket’. Or ‘a ten-year-old girl dismantled two terrorist organizations and then tamed the primal manifestations of earth and sea’. I think you could tell me a ten-year-old did anything, and I wouldn’t question it.
“To be honest, I think the Pokemon Leagues are just there to keep those kids occupied so they don’t just take over.”
So this is the material John Mulaney performs in the pokemon world
just a quick thought re: why i love the muppet thing so much as a literal “this is a fucking muppet movie, look at these dopes and how rowboats are magic and linear time no longer exists” logical framework, but also because it makes a much deeper and more poignant thing clear.
what’s a muppet? if you sat down with a movie and had to describe a muppet to somebody who had never seen or heard of muppets, you can’t actually do it by describing what a muppet is. muppets aren’t a single kind of muppet. they’re not even all puppets! and you can’t get at them all by physically describing them any other way than “well. they’re the ones that aren’t humans like us?”
which is one of the hugest issues i have even talking about marginalized identities of any stripe; we start from a standpoint of ‘well, here’s what we aren’t’.
even just white and poc; what’s the standard there? white and everything else. default and error, standard and aberrant. i try to be as specific as possible when i talk about these issues, but we only have the terribly limited vocabulary we have, and none of us can entirely avoid the set terms or the assumption that drives us all: we are not what we are, first and foremost. we are what we are not.
which is where the muppet thing becomes fucking… beautiful. this is a MUPPET MOVIE. the default is FUCKING BE A MUPPET.
so on ofmd, the proverbial They are not like us.
(which, since he was why i even wrote this, is part of the heartbreak of izzy hands: it’s not that he’s from the ‘real’ world, so much as he’s from our world, where izzy is only ever defined by what he is not.)
Don’t like that trope where women are forced into arranged marriages against their will for their family’s political advantage, it just reinforces the frankly sexist idea of women as overemotional and obsessed with romance to the point of stupidity, and neglects the reality of all the women throughout history who would gladly marry for power, riches and political advantage as long as the spouse in question wasn’t entirely awful, because ambition is not an inherently gendered trait, you gotta have a roof over your head, and that earl title suits your brother
Something about ambition being a virtue in men and a flaw in women, and how that kind of thinking also influences people’s perception of women in politics and business today
Maybe I’m just very ace, but I feel like if you’re going to sleep with someone, you might as well get an aristocratic title and a few estates out of it
If you’re a woman living in a society and belonging to a social class where getting married is the closest you’ll ever get to having a job, why wouldn’t you marry for social, political and financial advantage? Sure, your husband has a weak chin and the annoying habit of mainly talking about his hunting dogs, but the estates are gorgeous, the horses are fine, the servants are numerous, you’re dining with the Prime Minister and his wife, and you just used your connections to secure a viscount for your younger sister
When the FUCK will my relatives get off their asses and find ME a viscount.
