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HAPPY PRIDE!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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There's no question: gender affirming care saves lives.

If you wouldn't accept a trans or queer child, you shouldn't be a parent.

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Rosier:

Per Aculeos, Sub Rosa

(Latin, through the thorns, under the rose; Sub Rosa also means secret which seems fitting)

Prewett:

Mae'r ddaear yn bwydo'r frân

(Welsh (please, please correct my Welsh), Earth feeds the crow; which is an alteration of the real life Prewett family motto. It’s in Welsh because I’m convinced the Prewetts are Welsh, Merlin stayed in their house once and Lucretia and Ignatius lived in Devil’s Bridge, Ceredigion )

Who wants to play my game, give the sacred 28 families their own mottos à la those kooks the noble and most ancient house of black?

Sacred 28 families:

Abbott

Avery

Black

Bulstrode

Burke

Carrow

Crouch

Fawley

Flint

Gaunt

Greengrass

Lestrange

Longbottom

Macmillan

Malfoy

Nott

Ollivander

Parkinson

Prewett

Rosier

Rowle

Selwyn

Shacklebolt

Shafiq

Slughorn

Travers

Weasley

Yaxley

Other Pureblood families are available, give them mottos too (the Potters need one, surely)

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Who wants to play my game, give the sacred 28 families their own mottos à la those kooks the noble and most ancient house of black?

Sacred 28 families:

Abbott

Avery

Black

Bulstrode

Burke

Carrow

Crouch

Fawley

Flint

Gaunt

Greengrass

Lestrange

Longbottom

Macmillan

Malfoy

Nott

Ollivander

Parkinson

Prewett

Rosier

Rowle

Selwyn

Shacklebolt

Shafiq

Slughorn

Travers

Weasley

Yaxley

Other Pureblood families are available, give them mottos too (the Potters need one, surely)

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'You call the shots, babe I just wanna be yours'

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Companion poll:

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ASOIAF according to Korean translation; Bran II

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In some good news the UK government just voted to completely decriminalise abortion

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girl kissers

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my brother is like. Halfway asleep and he was just babbling on about how "it should be calcifer's moving castle. He's the one who does the moving. Put that- pos- put that on your tumblr. Free post right there."

So here's your free post guys. Everybody say thank you kerry

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Hello,

Hope you’re having a good weekend. Do you have any thoughts on Andy x Rita post canon? (I started thinking about them because my friend said the only way she’d meet someone was if she bumped into them whilst thrifting or they climbed into through her bedroom window, and this seemed the only wlw ship where both those scenarios might feel likely, and then I got carried away thinking what if there was past quillkiller and past Bellandy? That’s really as far as I got apart from deciding Rita might stalk people she fancied in beetle form)

Thanks for reading this. ♥️♥️♥️s

Ok at first I was like "huh I can't see it" but then I gave myself about two seconds, and now I'm convinced I can make some good toxic femslash work here.

so this is how it happens:

so obviously rita is back to her old ways post war is constantly on the lookout for a good scoop and what better scoop than Harry James Potter's extended family? What's up with his godson living with his aunt? Rita is totally not hung up on her weird awful messy teenage situationship Bellatrix at all, and it's totally just about Getting the Scoop.

So she goes to sneak into Andromeda's house as a beetle (ethics in journalism whomst), but she does not fully consider that this is Bellatrix Black's sister who ran away from the Black family and a woman who has survived two wizarding wars. Her house is warded to hell and back. (shhh don't think about that Ted left and went on the run instead of staying at home in this safe house I'm imagining.) so rita is suddenly transformed back into a person and Andromeda is standing over her with a wand ready to show this intruder that she is NOT in fact the nice Black sister.

Rita, cowering, is struck by just how much she looks like Bellatrix.

Andromeda, ready to fuck up Rita's entire bloodline, is struck by the memory of this blonde halfblood and her sister. It's Rita's whispered "Bella?" which does it.

[something something something]

They're both seeking Bellatrix in the other. Andromeda doesn't trust Rita, but she stopped trusting Bella, and so that's familiar too. Rita misses Bellatrix's cruelty and her beauty and the intensity of her attention, and Andromeda never quite manages all, but she gets the closest anyone other than Bellatrix possibly could. It's nightmarishly awful for all involved.

Maybe Andromeda feeds Rita fake stories just to test her or maybe she makes her swear an unbreakable vow, because her grandson is her priority but, Merlin, is it good to feel something again other than grief even if that feeling is disgust/lust/fury/obsession.

Maybe Andromeda never tells Rita about anything that happened between her and her sister, but Rita can sense it, and she wants desperately to ask but instead she just pulls details out of her slowly but surely - especially when she's distracted by sex or drinking. They lay out their self-loathing on the bed between them, and they hate Bellatrix and love her and can't stop thinking about her.

It's nightmarishly awful, and Andromeda does not tell anyone, and she makes sure Rita is unable to tell anyone too.

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did you k ow you were gay/queer/trans before the age of 13?

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Bert Hardy. Couple kissing at the Astoria Ballroom in Nottingham. 1952.

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friend..... my curiosity will one day get the best of me but would you share the harsh universal message of your lock screen 👁️👁️

Hey 🥰

It basically says

Everyone’s going through stuff

I was thinking harsh in the context of it providing therapy to me (or anyone). But maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s empathy building and affirming of all of our struggles?

Weirdly it was on a shop(?) window in a boutiquey and nice cafes area of the city I live near. And I had been for coffee with a friend who lives around there and we’d been complaining about someone we know, who offloads a lot and needs a lot of reassurance. So I took the photo passive aggressively and sent it to the person I’d been having coffee with.

It’s my lock screen, because although on here and discord I have humany faces as my avatars, on my less anonymous accounts etc I tend to have inanimate objects etc. and that kinda felt right for my lockscreen too.

Well I rambled on there. Intrigued to know if you think it’s harsh or simply universal

Thanks for the ask. Hope you’re having a lovely Friday the 13th.

♥️♥️♥️s

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the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)

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hey :)

something i'd be really interested to get your opinion on, is what james and lily did to defy voldemort three times?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

jkr acknowledged after the publication of deathly hallows that this is something of a plot hole... one which - in typical fashion - she kind of flopped at resolving:

Well it depends how you take defying, doesn't it? If you're counting, which I do, any time you arrested one of his henchmen, any time you escaped him, any time you thwarted him. That's what he's looking for. Also James and Lily turned him down. That's established in Philosopher's Stone. He wanted them, and they wouldn't come over, so that's one strike against them before they were even out of their teens.

but because i'm much cleverer than jkr - which is why i don't spent my days being a knobhead on twitter - i think there's a much more interesting answer lurking within the canon text... that james may have thrice-defied voldemort in the "general participant in a war" way jkr imagines, but lily's defiance was much more personal.

until the very final stages of deathly hallows, when lily's centrality to the series' central mystery is revealed via snape's memories - which explain the circumstances which led to voldemort offering her a chance to spare herself, and how her refusal of that choice triggered the blood protection which keeps harry alive - her importance is deliberately obscured by the text.

indeed, until the latter chunk of half-blood prince - when the text wants to convince the reader that snape is an out-and-out villain - you would be forgiven for assuming that she was kind of irrelevant to the story - the most striking example of this being that harry literally doesn't care in order of the phoenix that snape once called her a mudblood.

in contrast to lily, james - like all good red herrings - is extraordinarily narratively prominent:

not only is his resemblance to harry [which is - of course - an enormous part of the plot of prisoner of azkaban] emphasised whenever possible [except for the eyes, which - as i've said here - is one of the few hints we get that lily's actually the one to watch...], so is their shared quidditch talent, and the fact they share aspects of their personalities. the invisibility cloak - which harry inherits from james - is integral to vast swathes of the plots of the first six books, as is the marauder's map. sirius and lupin are narratively important and personally important to harry because of their connection to james. the revelation that sirius and lily were friends in their own right doesn't come until deathly hallows, after sirius is dead, when lily's starting to emerge from her narrative shadows. indeed, prior to the introduction of slughorn in half-blood prince, we don't meet anyone who speaks about lily with the same level of effusiveness that they speak about james - petunia doesn't acknowledge her existence, the text goes out of its way to misdirect the reader into thinking that snape's primary concern was james, rather than her, and even when slughorn is introduced, the text still tries to conceal lily's significance. we learn that she was an extraordinarily talented potion-maker. we also know that her son hasn't inherited these talents - he's only able to reach her heights because he's cheating [and, indeed, cheating using a textbook he's convinced for most of the book must have belonged to james...]

and potions is the key here, i think.

as i've gone into more detail about here, i have never believed that snape was recruited as a death eater in the expectation that he'd perform a combat role. the implication of the text is much more that he was taken on to do a combination of brewing and spying for voldemort.

this makes sense - we know from deathly hallows that death eaters make money from the black market potions trade [aberforth dumbledore brings it up], and we can easily assume that voldemort would have needed vast quantities of things like polyjuice, veritaserum, poisons to bump off enemies, and healing potions because wanted terrorists can't just wander into st mungo's and that he would have wanted to keep the production of these in house, instead of trusting non-death eater potion-makers who might squeal to the authorities.

we also know that voldemort is perfectly happy to have exceptions to his rules - also known as being a hypocrite - when it suits him. he has bellatrix as an exception to his otherwise all-male inner circle. he has snape as an exception to his otherwise all-posh inner circle...

why shouldn't he have a token mudblood as well?

and so my view is that voldemort initially contacts lily because he receives an account of her potions prowess from snape.

snape is somebody who clearly operates on the assumption that voldemort believes in meritocracy - that is, that if you're clever and hard-working and you have his favour, then the things holding you back in a society with such an entrenched class system become irrelevant. we can easily imagine him convincing himself - and voldemort being very happy to indulge this delusion as a grooming tactic - that, with the dark lord in her corner, lily wouldn't need to seek the class-based protection of marrying a pureblood man... and so she'd ditch james, and the two of them would have a lovely time making things voldemort could use to commit murder.

[from voldemort's perspective, he gets a) another potions drone working for cheap in his labs, b) snape's undying loyalty, and c) something he can use as leverage to keep snape under control ("toe the line, or i'll kill her" etc.). it's a win-win.]

i don't think the dark lord marches in to see lily himself. basic operational security - which the voldemort of the first war has heard of, even if the voldemort of the second one hasn't - assumes that he'd have a hierarchy of recruiters who'd carefully vet potential minions in a multi-stage process before they got anywhere near the boss.

i suspect that lily was approached by one of these men and turned him down. i then suspect that voldemort - whose decision to go all in as a simp for snape causes him a world of trouble - decided to try and make his crush happy by doing her the courtesy of asking two more times [perhaps using slightly more important members of his organisation].

the idea that he had some contact with lily specifically would explain why he settles on harry as the child referred to in the prophecy. dumbledore makes a big deal about him choosing half-blood harry over pureblood neville, but:

a. there is no suggestion anywhere in canon that voldemort ever realises that the prophecy could also have applied to neville, even though frank and alice longbottom were order members, aurors, and - according to dumbledore - popular and well known. b. given that james is a pureblood and has given his son a pureblood surname, voldemort's knowledge of harry's blood status indicates that he knew lily wasn't pureblood when he was scouting for potential candidates to be his fated enemy.

we don't get any hint in canon that james and lily would be considered important enough by first war!voldemort for him to pay attention to them outside of the context of the prophecy.

as i'm always banging on about, his canonical kill count is actually pretty low - most first war murders [the mckinnons, the bones, the prewetts, for example] are committed by other death eaters acting on his orders; his only named first war victim is dorcas meadowes, and moody's presentation of this in order of the phoenix makes clear that it was quite unusual for the dark lord to enter the fray himself - and since neither james nor lily were high-level political figures, whose deaths would get voldemort one step closer to bringing down the ministry, i think we can conclude that they would ordinarily fall under voldemort's "this is lucius' problem" category.

that they don't can only be because voldemort was made aware of their existence in a context other than death eater versus order skirmishes - otherwise known as "listening to snape yap about how james potter stole his girl and deciding to intervene by recruiting her to his death cult".

lily saying no thanks to being given a tacky tattoo by a sectarian terrorist - alongside his catastrophic mammy issues, of course - explains why voldemort is so pissed off with her by the time he goes to murder harry that he refuses to refer to her by name...

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Daydreaming about Barty?

Come celebrate him beginning to fight the imperius curse (estimated) with a fanworks festival from 26th June to 1st July.

Art by @crystalineart

Prompts below the cut:

Childhood | Religious Motifs | School | Unforgivable | Polyjuice

Language of Flowers | Sports | Fairytale | Historical | Dystopia

Prison | Souls | Servitude | Fire | Spiders | Chains | Sacrifice | Summer | Antagonist

Voldemort Parallels | Harry Parallels | Sirius Parallels | Barty Sr. Parallels | Moody Parallels

These are just intended as inspiration. Pick a single prompt or mix and match several.

All ships and Gen work welcome. All types of fanworks welcome (Fic, art, meta, moodboards, edits, etc). All ratings of fic welcome. Don’t worry late entries will be reblogged and accepted etc.

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