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snow’s “I hate mockingjays because they exist despite the capitol’s intent” and maysilee’s “I hate mockingjays because they’re part mutt and I dont want anything that has to do with the capitol” and haymich’s “I think they’re resilient and stand for surviving against all odds” and katniss’s “mockingjays remind me of my father and the other district 12 tributes before me and though they mean resistance to others, nobody can take that away from me” which brings us back to lucy gray’s “nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping”

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“Haymitch calling Maysilee his sister was so forced” guys, that boy had one look at Proserpina and Vitus and said they were his friends. he couldn’t look at a small kid and and not say was his allies. he saw a damn rabbit MUTT and called it his partner…i think he calling his recently made best friend his sis, when she remind him of the baby sisters he lost and who’s constantly talking about her twin and saying she would be Ampert’s sister if he wanted, was actually pretty valid. The boy was sentimental, and dramatic, and was absolutely losing it. Leave him alone to label whoever he want with whatever he want, please :(

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OF COURSE SHE'S AT TIGHT END UNIVERSITY

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Can we go back to when it was hard to get ahold of someone because cell phones didn’t exist

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“I hate obvious symbolism” bro shut up sun and moon couples are a pillar of our society

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Remus Lupin is Canonically Straight!

(And aroace coded)

Many people ship canonically straight characters and that's fine. Everyone of us has our fantasies, fetiches and favourite tropes. But when it comes to Remus Lupin, some people — Marauders fans again 🙄— say he's implied to be gay or bi in canon.

Let me just correct you right there: No. he's not. He's actually heavily implied to be grey aroace. I'm sorry, ship what you want but this is not a matter of Interpretation. It is what it is. Full stop.

So, let’s sit down, pour some tea, and straighten out a few things (pun not intended, but I’ll take it):

Remus John Lupin is canonically straight.

• He had a mild crush on Lily Evans (stated by J.K. Rowling in an interview).

• He fell in love with and married Nymphadora Tonks. He had never fallen in love before! Never.

His romantic arc is exclusively with women.

His official biography states that he had never fallen in love before Tonks. If you’re still arguing, you’re not arguing with an interpretation. You’re arguing with a direct statement. That’s not canon-adjacent. That’s just canon.

David Thewlis is a brilliant actor — and a notorious joker.

He’s witty. He’s playful. He cracked a joke about Lupin being gay because Cuarón (the director) told him to play the character like a “gay junkie.”

Everyone on set laughed. Because it was a joke. It was behind-the-scenes direction and performance.

The metaphor of lycanthropy is about stigma.

Specifically, J.K. Rowling said it represents “the stigma surrounding blood-borne diseases such as AIDS.”

That’s about how society treats people, not a metaphor for queerness.

(Side note: Not all people with AIDS are gay, and not all gay people have AIDS — let’s not regress 40 years in our public understanding.)

Remus as queer representation

You know who else is emotionally repressed, guilt-ridden, touch-starved, and awkward around romance? Aroace people.

If anything, canon leans toward grey aroace, not toward any gay or bi reading.

He spent most of his life avoiding love, never fell in love until adulthood, and struggled with intimacy due to trauma and internalized stigma. That’s aroace spectrum, baby.

So... Just write your fanfics and be happy. But let people who apreciate canon and who seek true representation be happy too.

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fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

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Imagine Mrs Weasley reacting to Ginny bringing home a basilisk as a pet.

They just chill in Mr Weasley’s shed

"Arthur," Molly said, her voice tight with grief and exasperation, "we have to put our foot down."

Arthur looked up from the Daily Prophet, his gaze drifting slowly across the garden. There, in the middle of the overgrown lawn, sat their thirteen-year-old daughter, legs folded neatly beneath her in the sun-dappled grass. She was chattering animatedly, her hands waving around her freckled face as she spoke, looking a bit sunburned from his position.

"Look at her," Molly continued, "talking to it as if it was her classmate."

Only, Ginny wasn’t talking to a classmate.

She was talking to a basilisk.

A massive, ancient snake, its coils looping lazily across half the yard like a forgotten garden hose from hell. Its iridescent scales shimmered unnervingly in the light. The creature looked disturbingly content, head tilted as if politely listening, the only thing it was missing were the blood red eyes.

Harry Potter had blinded the basilisk, or rather, Dumbledore's Phoenix had...either way the basilisk could no longer petrify anyone.

“She named it ‘Snuggles,’” Molly continued, eyes wide, voice rising in pitch. “Snuggles, Arthur. How long until it snuggles us all to death in our sleep?”

Arthur ran a hand down his face and sighed. “I just don’t understand how a basilisk that size made it from wherever it came from all the way to Ottery St. Catchpole without anyone noticing. I get calls about lesser issues all day in the office.”

“Well, according to Ginny, it is quite at home in underground bunkers and sewage.”

“Oh, is it?” Arthur murmured, watching the snake flick its tongue affectionately in his daughter’s direction.

“Yes,” Molly said sharply. “It followed her here like a lost cat. Arthur, I’m serious. This is not like the time she brought home that owl or the dragon egg. This is a basilisk. It killed students!"

"Petrified."

"Oh, petrified!" She exclaimed, "If you don't get rid of that snake, Arthur Wesley, I'll make it so you with you were petrified!"

Arthur exhaled deeply. “I’ll talk to Ginny.”

“You’ll do more than talk to her,” Molly snapped. “She's our girl, our only girl! This thing's obsession with her not normal. It’s not safe.”

Arthur’s eyes lingered on their daughter a moment longer. She was now braiding a flower crown with slow, deliberate care. The Basilisk was resting its head (a head the size of Ginny, mind you) by her lap. She was still chatting with it, and through the open window he thought he heard her say it was nice to have a friend after such a hard year.

It had been a hard year, for all of them.

“She's lucky to be alive,” he muttered.

Molly groaned and stormed off toward the house, muttering something about “she won't be alive if that thing sticks around.”

Arthur stayed where he was, watching as the basilisk let out what could only be described as a low, contented purr when Ginny set the flower crown on her head. He rubbed his temples.

Snuggles.

Merlin help them all.

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Taylor Swift Song Appreciation - The Other Side Of The Door

With your face and the beautiful eyes, and the conversations with the little white lies, and the faded picture of a beautiful night, you carried me from your car up to the stairs. And I broke down crying, was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress, after everything I must confess… I need you.

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my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day

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Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

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"IT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE A ONESHOT!!!" i scream, desperately clawing at the floor, as the fic drags me back into The Depths to continue writing against my will for the rest of eternity

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I sure stay up late for someone who wishes they were fucking sleeping all the time

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Commenting on a fantastic fanfic but being so overwhelmed by its beauty that all you can say is

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reminder that James constantly asking Lily out is a headcanon

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You know what, come to think of it, it’s actually pretty wild that a snake lived in the plumbing of Hogwarts for so long and nobody ever realized it until it started murdering students for the second time in 50 years