I’ve reblogged this so many times because I truly think every parent should involve themselves with what their child enjoys.
Not to mention this is an act of solidarity. He’s saying “even if the entire world is against you, I’m on your side.” Which I think is important for a kid to know. He’s refusing to be a bully to his child, even if he doesn’t understand.
I work at Hot Topic and we had a white suburban dad in who was buying matching heavy metal/screamo band shirts for him and his teenage daughter and said “To be honest, I think this stuff sounds like garbage, but she likes it so we listen to it together and we’re going to the concert for Christmas.” And it was just really heartwarming to see him so involved in his child’s life and validating her interests.
I WILL NEVER NOT REBLOG THIS.
“I don’t get it, but I love how you love it” is one of the best things anyone can say. My entire family asks questions about comics because they want to share my enthusiasm for them and support me, even though they otherwise wouldn’t pay attention to the industry at all.
I cried when I first saw this
This is amazing and really important
I went though a goth faze in my teens (like most) and I wanted more than anything to paint my room black. My mom was supportive of my personal expression in terms of my clothes and hair and accessories but she was genuinely concerned about the toll a black room would take on my mental health (I was already prone to recurring depression at that point and still am). I begged for months to repaint my room, but she wouldn’t budge.
One weekend i spent with my dad and when I came back she had repainted my room. A beautiful deep blue on three walls (my favourite colour), lovely sky blue on the ceiling,and one wall was black. The black wall had been sanded smooth and painted with several coats of chalkboard paint. She gave me a couple boxes of chalk and told me to have at it. I LOVED that black wall and wrote on it every day. I drew on it, I doodled, I wrote out my favourite emo song lyrics, wrote reminders for myself, anything I wanted. It was my favourite part of my room and was something that it would have never occurred to me to ask for. It was something only my very creative and clever mom could have come up with and I’m still grateful to her for it.
In retrospect, a room of black walls would indeed have been encouraging a reacurrence of my depression and my moms answer was the perfect compromise. That black wall ended up being the most colourful part of my room.
Wow this is really beautiful. You have a great mom
I’ll cry right now.
My dad was really supportive when I had my emo/goth faze. I’m still kinda goth.
AU in which Snape dies during the werewolf prank, becomes a ghost, and he and Moaning Myrtle form an angry dead teenagers club
This would likely, depending on how certain events play out, lead to them being joined a generation later by Ginny Weasley.
No Snape requesting Voldemort let Lily live means no opportunity given to Lily to keep her life, enabling her to sacrifice it for Harry, meaning Harry gets killed as a baby.
Assuming Harry even happens in this outcome, because Lily’s reaction to James and Sirius killing her at-the-time best friend with a werewolf prank is probably not “eventually marry one of them.”
Anyway, no Harry to figure out things about the diary, open the Chamber with parseltongue, or kill the Horcrux before it can eat Ginny.
This would make for an interesting, very AU story: James and Sirius expelled and viewed as murderers, Lily shutting James out of her life as her original-universe self did with Severus, becoming an Auror and maybe marrying someone we’ve never heard of, or not, Voldemort slain—so they all think—by members of Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix, or perhaps by Aurors, perhaps by Lily, yes, let’s go with that, and his shade sits forgotten in Albania until Lucius Malfoy brings a diary to Diagon Alley and shoves it into the bag of the youngest Weasley child.
And it does its work, and Tom Marvolo Riddle strides out of the Chamber, a horcrux-basilisk at his side and the ghost of a young girl, distraught and furious, joining Severus and Myrtle in the bathroom.
They watch as the young man Myrtle recognizes comes out of the Chamber, followed by the enormous coiling length of magical serpent. Myrtle comes out and screams at him, and she shocks him (he has always feared death), but only a little, and he brags to her about the little girl he just killed, and about the woman, redhaired like her, whom she credited with killing him, who he’s about to go destroy.
Then he leaves, and they follow: three ghosts, three dead children, determined and vengeful and resolved that they be the last.
Lily is on her lunch break at work when the ghost of her childhood best friend sails into her office, followed by the ghost of her friend’s daughter, and the ghost she used to see, on occasion, when she had to use the haunted bathroom on the second floor at school.
It’s the first notice she or anyone gets that Ginny has been killed, and it hurts, and then she’s fleeing the office ahead of an assassination attempt, warning everyone against the basilisk and the boy whose handsome face hides a nightmare.
The Second War begins a couple years early, and different people die, and different people don’t, and when there are horcruxes to track down, spying to do, a certain werewolf in Voldemort’s service who created the werewolf that killed a boy in his fifth year of school, the ghosts are perfect for the job.
When Voldemort dies for real, he dies surrounded by the ghosts of his victims, and he dies screaming.
“I’m not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor.” – Leonard H. McCoy
It was only a matter of time before I drew another silly Star Trek fan art. I just can’t stay away from Leonard’s beautiful blue eyes ;_;
This is sort of an odd mix of AOS and TOS though, since I don’t think TOS McCoy went to the Academy…but whatever. It’s just supposed to be funny. :’D Bear with me, I’m new.
All right Spock, I’ve just got one question. What’s your favourite colour?
The one time that Spock ever said a cuss word (besides dumbass because in the chronological order of things, he says dumbass when he is older. Even tho it’s an Alternate Reality, Spock is still young)
RE that bonus shot: Do you know what that is? That is a defensive move made by a man who has learned to expect Every. Single. Touch. To. Hurt no matter where it comes from or if he even knows who it is reaching towards him. That is someone who has learned to jump back against a solid surface so no one can get him from behind. That is someone who prays that holding his hands up will keep him alive and give him enough of a swing to break the hand if it reaches for him again. Someone used to being disarmed or having no defensive weapon to hand.
That right there, folks, is an abuse victim. That right there is someone used to being attacked by more than one assailant at a time. It is a learned reaction. That is not dramatic, that is pure unadulterated momentary panic.
After two years of being mercilessly bullied in school, i did that even when my own mother tried to touch me or hug me.
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