My Fyp Is Full Of Andrew And Camilo, And I’m Not Complaining.

No one can tell me this isn't the cutest thing ever

remus's first meet with sirius's family

(the ones he still talks to)

andromeda: would you like to stay for dinner?

regulus, happy to finally meet someone with braincells: WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?

The differences between the story Alma tells and what really happens just kills me because it’s a hint right from the beginning that she’s never allowed herself to process her grief. She turns the single most horrific moment of her life into a romantic story she can tell a child. She divorces any and all feeling from it - the Alma of her story suffers prettily, and on accepts the death of her husband, who valiantly walks into certain death.

The thing is that while the encanto definitely came from love, and is a story of love - her love for her children, her love for Pedro, and Pedro’s love for her - it isn’t a story of romance. There’s nothing romantic about her holding their babies and watching her husband be slaughtered. And the very crucial detail of her grief that’s missing from the story is so Obvious in retrospect.

In the original scene, the men on horses just disappear and the candle lights up gently. But what actually happens is that she screams and her grief blasts them away, very likely even killing the men who murdered her husband! The mountains don’t gently sprout up out of the ground, they shoot out with all the power of her pain. This isn’t a romantic drama, it’s just grief and senseless violence, and she romanticizes the death of her own husband because she can’t deal with what it really means. With the responsibility of protecting them falling only and completely on her. With going through the rest of her very long life without a partner.

Mirabel knows this story but when she sees the devastation on her abuela’s face she’s surprised and heartbroken because it just never occurred to her that Alma was leaving things out, that Alma actually felt that grief so viscerally it turned to a brutal, blinding magic.

But this is a story of love - so Alma prays for Pedro to show her the way and he sends her Mirabel to love her despite Alma’s increasingly withdrawn and worrying behavior. So Mirabel sees the butterfly and it clicks, finally, that it’s not a lack of feeling that Alma suffers from, but so much feeling she doesn’t know how to process it anymore. And finally, for the first time in the movie, Alma let’s herself grieve in front of her family and can heal.

What a great day to cry myself to sleep

F*ck you My child is completely fine.

Ma’am your child is obsessed with a hot dead wizards from 70’s

hi! do you have any if recommendations? <3

i have so many!! some of them don't have demos yet, but they're all worth checking out. i'll add some VNs at the end of the list as well for anyone interested <3

1. Superstition - @13leaguestories (the very first IF i've ever read, has a special place in my heart <3)

2. The Exile - @exilethegame

3. Mind Blind - @mindblindbard

4. The Northern Passage - @northern-passage

5. Abyss - @abyss-if

6. Project Hadea - @nyehilismwriting

7. The Wayhaven Chronicles - @seraphinitegames

8. The Passenger - @the-passenger-if

9. Arcadie: Second-Born - @sofia-d-asb

10. A Tale Of Crowns - @ataleofcrowns

11. When Twilight Strikes - @evertidings

12. Shepherds of Haven - @shepherds-of-haven

13. Fields of Asphodel - @asphodelgame

14. Body Count - @bodycountgame

15. Checkmate - @checkmatein3moves

16. Zeus' Dilemma - @trinitytrilogy

17. Attollo - @attollogame

18. Speaker - @speakergame

19. A Mage Reborn - @mage-parivir

20. Swan Song - @swansong-if

21. Legend of a Savior - @legend-of-a-savior-if

22. Golden - @milaswriting

23. Novaturient - @kalorphic

24. Thrill Seeker - @thrill-seeker-if

25. The Nameless - @parkerlyn

26. Blood Moon - @barbwritesstuff

27. Scout: An Apocalypse Story - @anya-dev

28. Witches of Ferngrove - @witchesofferngrove

29. Time’s Legacy - @legacies-game

30. Blue-Blooded - @blccded

31. Honor Amongst Thieves - @leoneliterary

32. Water to Blood - @veirsewrites

34. Moonlit Sorrows - @moonlitsorrows-if

35. We All Bleed Red - @lost-kiwi-dev

36. In the Ocean of Stars - @ophiuchus-interactive

37. Calamity - @paladingames

38. Hades’ Kitchen - @hadeskitchen

39. Return to Never Never Land - @never-never-land

40. Scandal - @nightingale-interactive

41. The Golden Harp - @thegoldenharp

42. Ascendance - @ascendance-if

43. Arcadia City - @arcadia-city-stories-if

44. What Lovely Bones - @whatlovelybones-if

45. Out Of The Blue - @vahnyawrites

46. Virtue’s End - @crimsiswrites

47. The Monte Rosa - @monterosa-if

48. Swallow the Dark - @swallowthedark

49. Scandal at Winchester Hall - @freshpastasalad-writes

50. Unsolved - @unsolved-if

51. Cantarella - @cantarella-if

52. The Taste of Sea Salt - @degrayded

53. A Knights Heart - @knightsheart-if

54. Off Script - @offscriptif

55. Covert Affairs - @covert-affairs

56. Remember You Will Die - @vapolis

57. Empire - @empire-if

58. Royal Flush - @royalflush-if

60. Erotomania - @erotomania-if

61. Cthulhu Gnaiih - @cthulhugnaiih

62. The Price - @the-price-if

63. The Rosy Ones - @rosygames

64. Strange case at Harbord - @lacewing-if

65. A Life Supreme - @lifesupreme-if

66. Supernova: Renegade - @jupitergames-if

67. Empire Of The Frozen Sun - @mechrose

68. Fatherford - @fatherford-if

69. The Cat’s Meow - @if-cats-meow

70. Sanctuary - @sanctuary-if

VNs:

1. Andromeda Six - @wanderlust-games

2. Our Life: Beginnings & Always - @gb-patch

3. Twin Coves - @twincovesgame

these are in no particular order!! there are probably so many more IFs (and VNs) i haven’t discovered, or have unfortunately forgot to mention, i’m sure you can find tons of amazing works in the interactive fiction (or visual novels) tag <33

Zuko: hey I-

Sokka:

Seventeen: [loses Mingyu in a crowd]

Seventeen:

Minghao: Thank God.

[five minutes later]

Minghao: [screaming] haVE ANY OF YOU SEEN MINGYU, HE’S LIKE SEVEN FEET TALL AND ANNOYING AND I GUESS HE COULD, OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, BE CONSIDERED ATTRACTIVE BUT HE’S MAINLY JUST REALLY FUCKING ANNOYIN-

Seventeen:

Joshua: Do you think we should tell him he went to the bathroom?

Seventeen: [resounding echoes of “no fucking way”]

“Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?”

*

Harry: Would you hex me—

Draco: Yes

Harry: ...for a billion Galleons?

Draco: Yes

Harry: You answered before I could finish the question

Draco: Well, you irritate me quite a lot recently. Would you hex me for a billion Galleons then?

Harry: Of course not

Draco: Oh...well now I just feel bad for saying yes

*

Hermione: Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?

Pansy: I can try, I don’t want to be arrested for hexing the Minister for Magic though

*

Blaise: Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?

Ron: Can I buy food with that money?

Blaise: Yes

Ron: Then yes

*

Luna: Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?

Ginny: No

Luna: Really?

Ginny: I don’t think you know how strong my hex is. But you can hex me though, then we can split the money. Good thinking right?

*

Theodore: Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?

Neville: Absolutely not

Theodore: But it’s one billion Galleons!

Neville: No, Theo

Theodore: Aw come on, really? Just one hex!

Neville: Not a chance

*

Sirius: Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?

Remus: I’d hex you for a Galleon if you keep bothering me

Sirius: Now that’s just sad

*

Regulus: Would you hex me for a billion Galleons?

James: I’d bang you for a billion Galleons

Regulus: ...That’s not what I asked!

my hands, your bones