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The thing is, when people interact with me about my stories, it gives me the drive to work on them. Even if it’s just a sentence, or a bit of editing. It’s putting enough fuel in the tank to get to the next gas station, so to speak.

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“You are dealing with the wrong person.” -Tom Riddle Jr.

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Chapter Sixteen: A King and Queen Endgame

The silent enemy puts their plan into motion. Ron and Hermione find themselves in an unlikely position. Ruby recruits her worst enemy and strongest ally. Read from the beginning at AO3|FFN

Hermione tapped her wand to the lock. "Alohomora." To her irritation, the mechanism inside it jingled a little, but when she tugged on the lock, it was clear the spell hadn't worked.

"Fred and George always say those Muggle tricks are handy," said Ron, producing two hairpins from his pocket. Hermione raised an eyebrow in surprise but said nothing as Ron stepped forward, fiddling around with the pins and lock, his expression strained. To her surprise, after a minute more of anxious jingling, the lock came free of the chain and dropped to the floor.

The door creaked open invitingly, letting a pungent, unpleasant scent leak out into the classroom. Hermione could only compare it to the smell of a cat her Science class had once dissected at Muggle school.

Ron gulped. "I'm game if you are. Ladies first."

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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ALBUM OF THE MODERN AGE

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Tom Riddle was not a wattpad sugar daddy

WARNING: This post is just for funsies okay, do not take anything I say too seriously 💞💞

I HATE when people mischaracterise Tom Riddle.

He was a poor orphan living through the second world war. No, he would not spoil you.

He was a grass and a complete nerd, no matter how much anyone wants to deny it.

I personally love the idea of Tom being a cold, harsh, mysterious, enigma. But seriously? Do you think he'd allow people to see the bad side of him, wouldn't it threaten his reputation.

Also, this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think he'd sleep around or date anyone, and if he did it'd only be to seem more normal and fit in better.

He is one of my favourite villains and constantly misrepresented like pookie was not openly a weirdo until he knew he could get away with it. 😔

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Has your #1 comfort character committed a crime?

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a duo i'd love to hear your thoughts on: bellatrix & harry (or even bellatrix/harry)

thank you very much for the ask, pal! an extremely interesting duo to think about.

and, obviously, the thing we have to immediately acknowledge is that harry thinks bellatrix is hot. he's always going on about her heaving breasts and shiny hair [and shiny hair is something he does seem to have a thing for throughout canon - hence why he spends one of his owl exams staring at parvati's], and she's definitely his "hear me out" candidate...

[i think if he's forced by ron to play fuck, marry, kill about the black sisters... he's fucking bella. he's depressed for weeks when he realises.]

more seriously, though, the thing which really stands out in harry and bellatrix's canonical relationship is that he sees her primarily as a catalyst - and, above all, primarily as a catalyst for loss - but in a way which feels strangely impersonal given the profundity of this loss to him.

she kills sirius - but harry can't summon up the rage to use the cruciatus curse against her [even though he can against amycus carrow, whom he has never met and whose crime is the considerably more minor spitting at mcgonagall]. she almost kills ginny - and harry "changes course at once" to try and protect her - but the person who get there first and who finishes bellatrix off is molly.

and while i don't think this is strange because i think molly wouldn't have the skills to duel bellatrix, i do think it's fairly strange narratively. bellatrix's death mirrors sirius' to such an extent - right down to the fact that she dies laughing - that it would have been an interesting conceit to have harry avenging his godfather by standing in as sirius' surrogate for a repeat of the duel before the veil, which then allows sirius to be avenged when the outcome is reversed...

[although what i do like about the molly-bellatrix duel in canon is that voldemort ends up in the position his narrative mirror, harry, is in during the sirius-bellatrix duel - watching the one person he thought would never abandon him die.]

and so harry sees bellatrix as an agent of chaos - and he utterly loathes her - but he also sees the chaos she causes as, fundamentally, voldemort's fault. he views her as a puppet, a tool, a pawn - as so totally enamoured by the dark lord that she lacks any capacity for critical thinking - rather than ever seeming to understand her as her own person.

[him taunting her in order of the phoenix by pointing out voldemort's a half-blood always stands out to me when thinking about this - lucius malfoy isn't shocked at all by the revelation, but bellatrix is. it underlines the point made by her behaviour at her trial, which harry witnesses in goblet of fire - that her loyalty to voldemort is so absolute that it makes her deluded, and that she exists for him rather than for herself.]

equally, bellatrix clearly sees him as just a thing - an annoyance which voldemort just needs to eradicate - rather than a person.

and so i think that one of the very interesting "harry and bellatrix actually having to get to know each other" questions is what journey they would go on in order to understand the other as a real person. my favourite iteration of this - as i've said here - is to write bellatrix's non-battlefield personality as surprisingly similar to tonks', and to have harry having to face the fact that a woman he hates could be so much like a woman he adores. you can also obviously do the same with him having to realise she's very like sirius.

and her having to realise that harry is very like voldemort.

because the other thing which i think is fascinating about thinking about harry and bellatrix is that the best parallel for hinny in the text isn't ron and hermione, and nor is it james and lily...

it's bellamort.

i believe that harry's canonical love for ginny is completely genuine - and i accept that by the epilogue they will have settled into a relationship with a more equal dynamic - but it's very striking in the pre-epilogue canon that the power dynamic between the two is very much unequal.

harry's narrative purpose means that he has to be set apart from all others - even ron and hermione - in order for him to properly function as the encapsulation of all that is good [and as the series' allegory for christ]. as a result, he tends to interact with other characters either as people he needs to protect, or as people he needs to protect others from.

and we see this in his relationship with ginny at the end of half-blood prince, when he breaks up with her for - what he sees as - her own protection, in the belief that being associated with him will put her at risk from voldemort.

harry believes that separating himself from her is sufficient to bring ginny this protection, he never considers her to have the talent to fight voldemort herself - even though he acknowledges her as a skilled fighter elsewhere in the text - and he spends much of deathly hallows believing that he has guaranteed ginny's safety. he thinks of hogwarts as a safe-haven throughout his time on the horcrux hunt - and he is genuinely shocked to discover how bad the carrows' regime has been when he arrives at the castle immediately prior to the battle - and he treats ginny's role as a resistance leader in her own right [such as her attempt to steal the sword of gryffindor] as, essentially, a bit of a laugh.

for her part, ginny is set up in the text as ferociously loyal to harry - "i never gave up on you" - and as someone whose company he desires and values in a distinct way, but whose relationship with him is unbalanced by the paternalistic vibe of their power dynamic. harry is more honest with her than with many other people, for example, but he still doesn't tell her anything about the horcruxes, the prophecy, or the fact that he has to walk into the forest to die.

and this is exactly the same as bellatrix and voldemort.

bellatrix is clearly justified in saying that voldemort considers her his "favourite" - and he does behave towards her in ways which are meaningfully different from his treatment of his other death eaters. but their dynamic is still hugely unbalanced by the fact that voldemort is also required by the narrative to be singular - the literal embodiment of evil - and that this drives his secrecy about his true self. bellatrix is also treated by voldemort as someone whose role in his mission against harry is his to dictate, safe in the knowledge that she would never give up on him either, and who can be similarly kept in the dark about the horcruxes or the prophecy [although he clearly views this as for his, rather than her, protection].

deathly hallows, in particular, is full of explicit comparisons between the two couples. ginny trying to steal the sword leads to bellatrix giving away that there's a horcrux in her vault. ginny living while bellatrix dies [because of motherly love!] is the opener to harry living while voldemort dies [because of motherly love!]. and - of course - there's this in the forest...

Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and Bellatrix was panting, and Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his. 

as i've said elsewhere, i think it's entirely possible to write voldemort as quite fond of ginny on the basis of her canonical similarity to bellatrix. and so the reverse must apply - harry can be written as fond of bellatrix on the basis of her similarity to ginny.

which means i also think - if you're so inclined - that the toxic wife-swap would genuinely work.

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they wanted him dead for his sad brown eyes and his slut waist

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Attempts at Waterbending 🌊

Avatar Anakin, native fire bender, just can't seem to get water bending down. "He's too hot headed and impatient." says water bending master Obi-Wan, who happens to be the only one willing to put up the Avatars crap in order to train him.

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Tom Riddle's upbringing means that he must've been constantly surrounded by the ever-present fear of death from a very young age. He was born in an orphanage in 1926. He must've grown up surrounded by illness and disease. Sickness must've frequently swept the orphanage and he probably saw other children dying all the time. Of course, these Muggle disease couldn't have killed him but he didn't know that. He would've spent a lot of time wondering if he might be next.

And then came World War II and the bombings. How many summers did he spend wondering if at any moment his life might be snuffed out in an instant? I wonder if that's partly why he made his first Horcrux so young rather than waiting and researching it further - because he thought there was a real risk that he could be killed in an attack.

Not to mention that he had hardly endeared himself to the other people at his orphanage. And once he started at school he was no longer allowed to use magic out in the Muggle world as he had been doing so he would've been virtually defenseless if anyone chose to exact revenge or harm him for any other reason unless he wanted to risk expulsion or jail.

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I keep changing my lineart sorry

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I despise the Clovis arcs so much. Because Clovis is a slime, of course, but also because Anakin’s characterization is just all around awful. Filoni doesn’t understand the first thing about his relationship with Padmé and it shows.

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more discarded notes app snippets

"Why would you show me that?" Emotion made his voice waver, and he hated it. It did sound pathetic. But now he couldn't forget the weight of his dead father's body on his lap, still warm—

Mordred swept down suddenly, agile as the breeze, and tipped Tee's face up with a hard jerk. "Because yes, you're a killer, Tommy. Not a murderer yet. You're wound up tight, like a little machine, ready to do whatever you're told — who are you? Answer me!"

He shook Tee for good measure.

For a tense second, Tee stared up into his counterpart's red-tinged eyes, biting back his hatred.

Then he leaned up and spat in Mordred's face; it didn't land, of course, since he wasn't quite corporeal, although it did feel gratifying.

"You'll hate me less in the morning," Mordred assured him, and then he finally disappeared.

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Tom, who is cranky and annoyed, because it's too hot and sweaty outside; Tom, who is anxious and nervous, because he drank one cup too many and now is over caffeinated; Tom, who is neurotic and antsy, because he wants to be left alone; Tom, who hates being touched; Tom, who is an insufferable cunt at his worst; Tom, who..