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HELLO!???? prev this is insane and crazy you’re so unbelievably correct wtf

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you all know about remus being the moon, james being the sun, and sirius being the star. now get ready for peter being saturn.

saturn is the roman equivalent of kronos, which could be interesting bc saturn ate his children, yet they survived to overthrow him, and peter betrayed the potters, but the baby survived and (indirectly) caused his death.

and they're both tied into hunger in the metaphorical sense. peter is hungry for conflict, he watches it start with anticipation. kronos is hungry for power, and his fear of betrayal and distrust make him fall. peter feels overshadowed by his friends, kronos fears being overshadowed by his child. you could also see peter's need to be needed as a need for power of a type, a need to feel relevant, for someone to depend on him. but i digress.

astrology associates saturn with restriction and limitation and constriction while others, like jupiter, expand. this is peter on the sidelines watching his smart, cool, loud, popular friends, james and sirius.

saturn provides structure and meaning. it's tied to boundaries, responsibilities, commitments, and self-control. i think it also has something to do with karma in indian astrology specifically, which definitely ties into peter, how he lived and how he died.

i think saturn representing peter would be so cool, so fitting yet at times so ironic. i always see him getting passed over in these emoji sets, and it doesn't feel right bc he was one of them once, he was their friend too. what do u guys think?

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i don't know if it's been asked before so forgive me but how poor do you think the weasleys are? are they more lower middle class? cause ron didn't get his broken wand replaced immediately in the second year but got a new broomstick in the fifth?

and on a related note do you think arthur weasley is selfish for not going for a higher paying job? " i assume it would depend on how well of they are and if the family's needs are met?"

looove all your posts btw keep up the good work.

First of all, thank you! 💕

The Weasleys and money are interesting for sure.

See, they have enough money to always have food and clothes (second-hand, but all kids are dressed, fed, and well cared for). They have a house with 6 bedrooms:

Master bedroom

Fred & George's room

Ginny's room

Ron's room

Bill's room (which Charlie uses too when he comes over)

Percy's room

And a very large yard:

The garden was large, and in Harry’s eyes, exactly what a garden should be. The Dursleys wouldn’t have liked it — there were plenty of weeds, and the grass needed cutting — but there were gnarled trees all around the walls, plants Harry had never seen spilling from every flower bed, and a big green pond full of frogs.

(CoS, Ch3)

The Weasleys read like a family that used to have money. They have land, they have many cousins and aunts and uncles who seem to be living well. The parents don't act like they grew up lacking in anything. And even now that the money has dried up, they still don't live badly. They seem to be poor, not because Arthur's job doesn't pay enough, but because both Arthur and Molly have no idea how to budget or handle money. They both act like people who grew up with plenty of money they can throw around, and therefore, don't know how to save it.

The fact that they don't have money to replace Ron's wand is proof that they don't know how to handle money. The smart thing to do when you struggle economically is save up surplus money you don't immediately need when you have it, so you'll have emergency funds. You will put some money aside for future hard times, but the Weasleys don't do that:

I couldn’t believe it when Dad won the Daily Prophet Draw. Seven hundred galleons! Most of it’s gone on this trip, but they’re going to buy me a new wand for next year.

(PoA, Ch1)

They win 700 galleons, spend 7 of them on a new wand for Ron and "most of it" on a long family trip to Egypt. Sure, I can understand wanting to visit Bill, but if they're strapped for cash, I'd expect they won't go all out on the trip, go for slightly cheaper lodging, or stay there for fewer days, maybe go to fewer restaurants — there are ways to go on a budget vacation. This economic decision makes no sense.

But what this shows us is that the Weasleys live paycheck to paycheck, not because Arthur isn't paid enough — they don't know how to save money.

Bill & Charlie don't live at home, and since CoS, all their other kids are at Hogwarts all year. The amount of money Arthur & Molly would need to pay for food during the year is much lower compared to when all their kids are there. So, I assume, they would have leftover money since they aren't feeding as many heads. Even since Bill & Charlie left home, they should have had more money to put aside, even just a few sickles a month, that, over time, can become a magnificent amount of money — and yet, they don't. Their vault is near empty when we see it.

They have land they can farm and sell products from (they have an orchard, they own):

“Come and have a game of Quidditch in the orchard, Harry,” said Ron. “Come on — three on three, Bill and Charlie and Fred and George will play. . . . You can try out the Wronski Feint. . . .”

(GoF, Ch10)

He spent most of his days playing two-a-side Quidditch in the Weasleys’ orchard

(HBP, Ch6)

They can rent out parts of their yard, and Arthur gets plenty of other perks from his job besides his salary (bribery):

“I like Ludo,” said Mr. Weasley mildly. “He was the one who got us such good tickets for the Cup. I did him a bit of a favor: His brother, Otto, got into a spot of trouble — a lawnmower with un- natural powers — I smoothed the whole thing over.”

(GoF, Ch5)

And seems to be well-connected within the Ministry. Enough that everyone important knows him by name, and he is in a position to write laws:

“Well, dear, I think you’ll find that he would be quite within the law to do that, even if — er — he maybe would have done better to, um, tell his wife the truth. . . . There’s a loophole in the law, you’ll find. . . . As long as he wasn’t intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn’t—” “Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!” shouted Mrs. Weasley. “Just so you could carry on tinkering with all that Muggle rubbish in your shed! And for your information, Harry arrived this morning in the car you weren’t intending to fly!”

(CoS, Ch3)

Arthur's position in the ministry is clearly more influential than the books lead us to believe. (I have some headcanons about that, but that's maybe for a different post). They have avenues they can earn money from, and would reasonably be able to save at least a little every month, especially after Bill and Charlie left home. We see Fred and George can save up much more than the Weasleys seem to have over a few years without having a stable job like their dad:

“We’ll bet thirty-seven Galleons, fifteen Sickles, three Knuts,” said Fred as he and George quickly pooled all their money [...] “Boys,” said Mr. Weasley under his breath, “I don’t want you betting. . . . That’s all your savings. . . . Your mother —”

(GoF, Ch7)

But the Weasleys have an empty bank vault:

Harry enjoyed the breakneck journey down to the Weasleys’ vault, but felt dreadful, far worse than he had in Knockturn Alley, when it was opened. There was a very small pile of silver Sickles inside, and just one gold Galleon.

(CoS, Ch4)

This is a vault of people who don't know how to save money, but more than that, this, to me, looks like a vault of people who are used to operating in debt.

When they go shopping, Molly takes everything out of the vault:

Mrs. Weasley felt right into the corners before sweeping the whole lot into her bag.

(CoS, Ch4)

And it's enough to buy everything 4 kids need for school for a whole year, btw. Sure, the robes are second-hand, but Harry always takes out a bunch of galleons. It's either everything is really cheap, way cheaper than it should be, and Harry carries around way too much money, or the Weasleys just always operate on debt.

As in, the single galleon is not have enough to actually buy everything, and Molly had to basically promise shops she'd pay them back later, basically paying with money she doesn't have. This could explain the Weasleys not having any emergency funds, since they're always running after various debts they owe.

And we know the Wizarding World allows people to make promises over debts, even the goblins:

A gang of them [goblins] cornered him [Bagman] in the woods after the World Cup and took all the gold he had, and it still wasn’t enough to cover all his debts. They followed him all the way to Hogwarts to keep an eye on him. He’s lost everything gambling. Hasn’t got two Galleons to rub together. And you know how the idiot tried to pay the goblins back?” “How?” said Harry. “He put a bet on you, mate,” said Fred. “Put a big bet on you to win the tournament. Bet against the goblins.”

(GoF, Ch37)

The goblins were willing to take Bagman's word he'd pay them back with his bet on Harry — it's very possible shops allow this too, especially if not everyone is carrying galleons everywhere. Say, even if you have money in your vault, but you only took out enough for X you wanted to buy, the shop could write your name down and what yoy owe for you to come by and pay them later (It makes sense for their society, that is very small and getting away with such a debt is hard and seems to be a very trusting of promises and other's words. The whole betting with Ludo thing was solely based on slips of paper and Bagman's word, so I can see something like this being common for them. After all, Wizarding Britain has the population of a very small town).

I still think they're bad with money, since, if debts are the problem, I'd use some of the 700 galleon prize money to get a headstart on that, but I think the Wealseys are comfortable living with a certain amount of debt. They're used to it.

As for the broom, that might've been on a day they got the salary/didn't have many debts to pay that month. The food at Grimmauld the summer before fifth year might not have been paid for by Arthur, which allowed them to have fewer debts and therefore the money for a broom.

At least, that's my headcanon/theory about it. They are poor not because of Arthur’s job, they could've made it work better — they are just bad at managing the funds and other resources at their disposal + got into a bunch of debts due to this tendency to not manage their funds properly.

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big fan of when youtubers break out the corkboard and string. thats when you know youre in for an insanely pointless breakdown of a media you're only tangentially familiar with.

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We need to study the powerful psychic field around tumblr posts that causes people to hallucinate entire lines and paragraphs that are not present in the actual text

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feeling so many feelings about all of this

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Pats all of them 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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I'm cringe cause I'll be like "fuck cops, pirate everything, support independent artists, protest everything and blow up cars" and then I'll be like "what do you mean you're smoking don't you know that's bad for you and the people around you"

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I'm someone who unfortunately, often lets details go unnoticed, so hearing the costume designer for s4 call this el outfit her "will look" just turned a switch in my mind, bc yeah it's pretty clear that eleven dresses herself differently in s4 compared to how she dressed in s3 but OMG, it's not just the clothes it's the hair too, everything about her reminds us of will. This scene with Mike between them it's crazy, it's like he's between the gender bent versions of the same person and now he has a choice to make iykyk....

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(GA) ST takes i'm sick of in no particular order, but i get meaner as the list goes on

will's haircut is bad: it's era appropriate and he's canonically good-looking. eat a bag of eggs, emmett

will is over-sensitive: he's sensitive. he is not OVER sensitive. he's traumatized. if you see sensitivity as this inherently negative trait, congratulations! you believe the thing that continues to make the world a shitty and dangerous place.

will touches his neck too much: get a new joke stop getting them off reddit. he touches his neck because it's easier than having his hair raise every time and because, you know, IT FEELS WEIRD. you'd touch your neck too if it felt like a spider was crawling on it. or like someone was breathing down it waiting to kill you and all your friends. it's called... television. sometimes you need a way to know what the character is feeling. HE HAS TRAUMA. can we let this kid do ANYTHING??

will cries too much: he only cries when he's actively being traumatized, he's very sad, or someone's forcing him to relive his trauma for plot reasons. those are normal reasons to cry, you emotionally repressed weasel. you'd probably cry more. crying less would be a sign something is wrong with your ability to process what's happening and how you feel about it. it's NORMAL to cry when you're sad. in fact, that's HEALTHY. we cry when we are sad for a reason. go watch inside out if you need this spoonfed to you like you're a child. he IS the male character to cry the most, but el is actually the one who cries the most most. but i bet you're okay with it because she's a girl and you think only girls have the ability to feel things the normal way. dumbass.

stranger things should've been an anthology / ended after season one/only season one was good/every other season sucks and isn't scary: stop watching it after season one then genius!! go into the real world! see if people like you more there. let me know <3 i'm guessing no?

bylers only ship byler because it's gay and we're mindless: almost every byler ships lumax and/or jopper and/or jancy. lumax would eat milkvan for breakfast lunch and dinner but there just isn't enough meat on them bones. if anything happens to max or lucas it's not canon

bylers hate el: bylers love el more than any milkvan loves el. el deserves better than who mike is when he's with her. and she deserves to be more than who she pretends to be when she's with mike.

billy isn't racist/billy is better than jason carver: you're stupid and i'm not explaining this. he beats children you pathetic simp. just say you want to have sex with dacre montgomery because that is the entirety of his defense and you know it

byler would be unrealistic because gay people didn't exist in the 80s: demorgon. comes. out. the walls. you absolute. fucking. loser.

byler would be fanservice / make stranger things woke: assuming that stranger things has ever been for you is a mistake you made because everything is for you. this isn't for you.

bylers just read into things: uh huh because certainly nobody's ever put any deeper thought or creativity into the art they poured their heart and soul into, right? it's not like the duffers are regularly criticized for being overly referential and expecting people to look deeper into things or anything. the curtains are blue because all curtains are blue. now shut up about the curtains.

you just want it to be gay!: you just want it to be straight. let's talk about that.

mike actually dislikes will/he's embarrassed for him/pities him: you are playing raquetball with raisins. you look ridiculous and we are all laughing at you.

steve harrington is so mom-coded! eddie would support will and make him feel like it's good to be a freak! billy is secretly soft! steve actually --): oh, so close! jonathan byers. you're thinking of jonathan byers.

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friendly reminder mike's the one making it weird! will has absolutely zero intention to pursue mike romantically. he wants to be honest but he does not believe it's reciprocated. MIKE is the one seeing their interactions differently.

he makes it weird in season three by hyperfixating on his relationship to the point he's a shitty friend. he makes it weird by actively pushing will away. he makes it super weird with "it's not my fault you don't like girls." he is the first one to speak out loud about a version of their relationship where they have forever to do what they want, implying at the same time that the reason they can't is because he's obligated to grow up. he makes it weird by being so devastated when will admits he did want that, because mike wanted that, too.

he makes it weird by not writing letters. he makes it weird by not hugging will at the airport and getting jealous of the painting. he makes it weird by acting up at the rink, paying all his attention to will while pretending to ignore him. he makes it weird with "that's because she's my girlfriend, will!" and then doubles down on that weirdness with "we're friends! we're friends."

and it isn't just their friendship he makes weird, it's the entire dynamic of the party, it's his relationship with el, with hopper, with his parents to an extent, because he isn't acting like himself.

will, despite his canon romantic interest in mike, was not the one to choose to interpret their friendship through a romantic lens and that is so fucking fascinating. mike did that even though he's totally unaware of will's feelings.

mike is the one who cannot appropriately contextualize their relationship and struggles to behave appropriately. mike's the one who missed will so much he called and called and whined to dustin when will didn't pick up. mike's the one who refused to let dustin use the phone when will DID pick up.

mike did that shit bro idk what to tell u. he's the one who can't be normal despite that being his hidden goal the entire season.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN

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putting out the first eps of my webcomic in late july! also commissions are still open <3 any shares/reblogs are appreciated!

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"I quit my birth control and feel so much better, this is proof birth control is poisoning our bodies!!!" listen I am a lucky duck who tried one form of birth control and felt great but if I had to try 80 different types I would because I don't want to get fucking pregnant. if your birth control sucks try a new type!! "everyone should quit their birth control" is a bunch of conservative-crunchy bullshit

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