Why The Hell Doesn't Sirius Black, Remus Lupin Or James Potter Exist?

rage is bigger part of healing than forgiveness will ever be

Americans have American privilege. Even if you don’t want it! Even if thinking about that fact makes you feel uncomfortable! Even if you’re in an oppressed group (or more than one) in America!

If you’re an American citizen that comes with a mind-blowingly large amount of privilege with respect to most other countries on Earth.

Just because American SJ activists don’t talk about this (because it makes them uncomfortable) doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

THIS IS THE BEST THING HUMANITY HAS MADE

I made this so now all y'all have to look at it.

i'd tell you to go to hell, but you'd probably feel at home there.

remus lupin to sirius black

But like people who actually take their time to explain you stuff that's actually really easy to understand but you're just dumb are so nice

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

James: Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit.

Peter: Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Sirius: Philosophy is wondering whether that makes ketchup a smoothie.

Remus: Common sense is knowing that ketchup isn't a freaking smoothie.

Lily: And we were talking about how to make a cake-

i am NOT going to stand here and listen to you accusing me of things i clearly did!

-sirius black

glad i did

looking at old photos of myself thinking not only is that girl dead but i killed her