#like KIND OF

[lelelego]

boy and his watchdog

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 473

Pearl but also its Miku? I have no idea why i drew this actually i just thought itd be fun to design lmao

[deathnguts]

Hi here’s an entry for the @bartylusmicrofic June prompt challenge

Day 1: Earn

CW: indirect misgendering (trans regulus, the misgendering is done in reference of his expectation in the family as an afab person), arranged marriage discussion, kind of objectification of women ngl (upper class families viewing their daughters as trophies to be handed out to men they like rather than, yknow, people who should have a say in who they marry)

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Pure blood marriages had always been pretentious and strange. Each one made the front page of every newspaper, always accompanied by a photo of neither the groom nor the bride looking nearly as excited as the journalists writing about them. An announcement of a baby to be would come next and make even more buzz, and then a few months later the birth would take over the whole damn paper.

Barty never gave a right shit about any of it, but he had to learn to when his boyfriend and his best friend were both pure bloods growing closer and closer to being married off when they graduated.

The Rosier’s married young and had as many kids as they possibly could (Evan had five siblings, after all) but affairs and divorce ran rampant through each generation. So Evan’s only fear around his impending marriage was the children, since he had no interest in being a father. But neither did his, and he turned out fine. (Ahem.)

But the Blacks? That was an entirely different ballpark of nightmarish marionette control from the previous generations.

Proper Blacks were loyal to death to the partners they met at the alter. Proper Blacks learned to despise their partners and their children for being spawns of said partner. Proper Blacks inherited that hate like another family heirloom to be passed down. It was like the older generation enjoyed match making their children into marriages they knew would fail behind closed doors and crumble into festering hatred.

Regulus was renowned for being a proper Black, since his brother had gone and fucked it up so badly. And in just two years, he would expected to take up the biggest role that expectation had laid out for him. Being born a woman, he wasn’t even allowed to postpone the marriage to when his career was in a better place or even have a hand in choosing his partner.

Or, he wouldn’t. If this generation had been as ‘fruitful’ as the past ones had been.

This generation had only produced one boy to the Black family name, and that was the same boy that had been burned from the tapestry three years ago. Other pure blood families had had similar luck, leading there to be no pure blood boys left for Regulus to be sold off to. (Evan’s mother had seen this coming and arranged her few sons’ marriages before they could even walk.)

This had created a boom in the most boring competition in the rich, male halfblood population in politics and paper pushing to try and convince Orion Black that they or their sons were worthy of marrying his only daughter. A chance to slot their name in the most ancient and noble house of Black’s tapestry was enough to have men like that foaming at the mouth. The power, the prestige, the fame, one could say, would be the greatest prize they could imagine.

Barty didn’t give a fuck about any of that.

What he did care about was Regulus. Regulus wasn’t a trophy, he was everything. And if Barty had a chance of actually marrying him instead of having to just accept the looming threat of their relationship ending with their Hogwarts career, he was going to fucking take it.

Barty never been one to brag about how rich or politically important his father was because he’d rather wring his own neck. But he’d have to make do because he was sure being the son of the next minister would put him above every other pathetic fuck trying to sell themselves as something important and prideful enough for the house of Black to care.

Barty had already planned on scoring high on his O.W.L’s, just because he knew he could and figured it would be fun. He had planned to do so off the cuff, he wanted to see how good he could do without studying like his life depended on it like everyone else did. But now he’d be joining the masses in the library because he would be getting straight O’s. You could count on one hand how many wizards had done that, and he’d be joining the list. Orion could try to ignore him then.

And to top it off, Barty would be taking the dark mark. He knew he would anyway since he knew Regulus and Evan had to and it would piss off his dark-magic-hating father, but now it was for so much more. He knew he wasn’t pure. He knew this chance wasn’t supposed to be his. But it was his now, and he’d be as close to pure as he could to attain it fully.

The extra work would be beyond worth it when he reached the peak of his goal, when he had his ring on Regulus’ finger. He’d do it all again, and he’d do so much more. He’d kill for this chance. He would forgo his wand and tear someone apart with nothing but his hands and relish in the blood caking under his nails for this chance. A little competition didn’t mean anything, especially when it was his game in the end.

All Barty had to do was to earn it.

And earn it, he would.

[lucifer-kane]

no bard's lament?

[hucklerobbys]

does anyone else think these guys are a little. you know.

[enbyfication]

bad sleep is affecting my ability to think of sexy things to say that make people feel dumb and needy and that's why it's a problem

[castlesprincess]

<angry Matt Murdock3

[bigtiddygothhusband]

scam x jodie

[great-and-small]

Free bumper sticker design for any Floridians who want it

[queermasculine]

all the "x with mama" posts are getting to me i just drew a butch girl with her mom (who is also butch) and thought "let's look like men with mama"

[helenvaughans]

i think the reason a lot of men are screaming, puking, and crying about this is bc it forces them to acknowledge that the reason they can’t get women to like them is not actually bc of their physique but bc of their shitty personality

[brokenclockgears]

while the cameras are turned away

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[maskenjager]

I can't unsee this

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)