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How it feels working a 9 to 5 and having too many WIPs of varying forms and genres alongside unrealistic expectations for myself as a writer yayyy xox

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I'm really tired of the "woman sad about her arranged marriage" trope, especially if that woman is royalty.

I am sure that many women across time were sad about their arranged marriages, but I'm sure a lot of others were excited, ambivalent, or resigned. Again, especially if you were royalty! I am sure if you were born a princess, you were trained from birth that your whole purpose in life was to marry someone important to solidify the power of the person on the throne. And honestly, it's an important job, if it wasn't, they wouldn't have tried so hard to do it.

That woman isn't just marrying another king or prince, she's going to be an ambassador of her country. She's supposed to be there promoting good relations. She isn't just a woman being sold off, she has a job! Also, if she is marrying the reigning monarch (or the heir), she may well end up running the country if the king is off at war or he dies when the heir is really young. That happened a lot throughout history! (or maybe she marries the third son and helps him find his way to the throne. Good for her)

It just feels like a modern sentiment being projected back. In Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet's mother first brings up marrying her to Paris, Juliet's basically cool with it and says she'll try to like him. She would have known this was going to happen because that is what rich women do, they marry into another family so their two families can be buddies. What else would she even be expecting?

It wouldn't bother me so much except that it's all we see! Give me a story about a woman who is like, "Cool, I shall give it my all!" Or she's like rolling up her sleeves and planning how she's going to get the court on her side and rule France, power behind the throne style (these women are mostly portrayed as villains, but who is to say the king would do a better job?). And also, have a little faith in women's fathers? You think men in the past didn't occasionally consider the happiness of their daughters? Not even a little bit?

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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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Empire of Fire

Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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Thanks @eastwindmlk

Tagging @chierafied @petals2fish @blitheringmcgonagall @neverenoughmarauders and anyone that wants to jump in

Piccrew starter pack tag!

Thank you for the tag @mycupofrum

I'll taggggg @siriuslychessi, @charmsandtealeaves and @neverenoughmarauders

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people james potter is obsessed with:

lily evans

sirius black

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Someone on here, idk who i just saw a screenshot, was basically bashing Lily mother fucking Evans over not forgiving Snape for calling her the equivalent of the n word. I'm sorry but if my friend called me a nigg*r, idc if it was out of anger or embarrassment. If I get called that by someone I consider a friend, I wouldn't listen to his fuck ass apologies either. Mudblood shouldn't have been in Snape's vocabulary if he really cared and loved Lily Evans but it was and it just goes to show that he was a racist piece of shit to everyone but the girl he "loved," until it came out in a "fit of anger."

Whew...now that I got that out of my system, let's continue showering Lily Evans in all the love she deserves ❤️

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Damn @prideknights you outdid yourself, the quality is impeccable! I love the poem and feel it in my soul💌

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everyone always talks about lily playing with james’ hair but what about the other way around? james constantly twirling it around his fingers when they talk. james brushing it out of her face for her when she’s too focused on a potion to notice it’s about to fall in. lily sitting between his legs while he braids her hair during order meetings because it grounds him as much as it soothes her.

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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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'Alix Appearing in Mask' painting by Tony Robert Fleury, circa 1891.

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🐝〜♪♪

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hot take but even if he had ended in Slytherin I can't see Sirius ever becoming a Death Eater