“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
this is for those who despair over seeing ships or tropes that make them uncomfortable while they do their little scrolly-scroll on ao3, acting like they aren’t responsible for their own internet experience
I challenged myself to paint at least(!) one Sirius Black art a month this year, so here is the April painting! And as I haven’t had much time in April, I made a more detailed artwork :') Well, but it was a lot of fun! I also added a close up because I really like his face in this one :)
Ok but have we thought of mtf Lily. James who saw her fiery red hair on the train and the only other people he's seen with hair like that were the Weasleys so he asks her if she's one of them. Lily, who is just starting to experiment with slightly longer hair but still having the boys uniform on thinks James was trying to insult her which is why she hates him at first.
James doesn't understand the hostility at all. He was just curious. Lily gets sorted into Gryffindor and she's dreading going into the boys dorm with James. Instead in a weird prank / attempt to make up by James, they discover she can go up the girls dorm stairs.
James never even saw her as a guy (cause hes an oblivious idiot) but from then on he's absolutely charmed and so damn curious. He's a bit blunt and insensitive at times because he's still learning. But he doesn't just ask about the trans stuff, he's curious about the muggle stuff too.
So when in fifth year Severus calls her a slur, the wizarding one and the trans one, James just fucking sees red.
Idk MtF Lily is such an underrated concept. We have FtM Regulus already