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its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍

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An artwork a day for all seven Harry Potter books :)

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remorse. /2017/

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A small part of a larger commission, behold the first ever drawing of James Potter I actually like

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i love finding out what degrees my mutuals have. like what the fuck do you mean you do law? you’re a doctor who blog

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Shout out to Characters who are shells of their former selves! You died and you’re not coming back! You don’t recognize yourself and neither does anyone else, and it’s anyone’s guess what the fuck you’re supposed to be now!

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little collection of sketches with him❤️

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bullied.

For the snapetober 2024 prompt: torn

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right before the full moon

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Which one of you put Regulus as a permanent resident of The Cave™?

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On fandom's mixed race Harry (or Aloo Gobi Harry as I like to call him)

Since we are talking about this.

I am half Desi/half white, and OMG brown Harry is my ROMAN EMPIRE. Because once again, there’s so much focus on his skin being brown (speaking for myself, I am pale AF so once again this is a form of essentialism that if you have any desi 'blood' you must present in a certain way). Also, the massive hyperfocus on one side of his identity gives "one drop rule" (which can be a part of navigating the world as a mixed-race person) but in this instance is more focused on his love of Aloo Gobi rather than how systemic racism shapes people’s existence.

Being mixed race is very complicated and becomes its own identity. And while I can’t speak for everyone, there are unique things to navigate: growing up not looking like you belong to your parents, being seen as other by both sides of your family, having your features constantly commented on, etc. On one side of the family, people might think you have it easier in some ways due to proximity to whiteness and on the other (and on both), people not understanding that you still inhabit a racialised body.

And even if you're not brown enough for one side to fully claim you, you're still not white enough to go unnoticed in institutional spaces. You don’t belong in either direction and everyone somehow makes sure you know it. That tension (of always being half belonging) sits in your body, whether you want it there or not. You still face racism, but because of your 'half whiteness' it is often brushed off by everyone.

I went to an almost all-white private school (just as Harry grows up in what we can assume is an all-white town in Surrey), and OMG, the way being mixed race made people uncomfortable is still something I’m unpacking to this day. Especially when puberty hit and that prejudice mixed with sexual desire—it was a MESS (either being desired as an 'exotic' bird or having people be extra vitriolic because the dissonance was eating at them).

These nuances are never addressed in the vast majority of mixed Harry portrayals or if they are, it’s usually in passing, or reduced to surface-level aesthetic markers like food, skin tone, or "exotic" features. How harry would address these identity tensions are never explored or even addressed (because he would face racism and a desire to connect with both his parents' cultures). But no lets yap about him loving curry and how caramel his skin is.....

The complexities of mixed identity (of not fully belonging anywhere) deserve more than headcanon crumbs. If we are going to imagine Harry as mixed race, then we need to sit with all that entails, not just go on an on about brown skin tone like you're writing copy for a fucking tanning advert or an article that Victorian Eugenists would have salivated over.

My identity is not a fucking aesthetic.

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since it's exam time

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whaat snupin post-soviet school au

NO ONE CAN STOP A GIRL FROM PLACING HER FAV CHARACTERS IN HER NATIVE HABITAT

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small snupin sketch

again

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i'll never find my consistent style i swear

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Once again thinking about: "He was only fifteen-" "I'm fifteen!"

Imagine being Harry and finding out that one of the worst people you've ever met who does nothing but belittle and degrade you, who has become the antithesis of everything you aspire to be, is the victim of the exact person you believed to be the gold standard.

Because for years, everyone was telling Harry one thing about James while Snape was saying another and, for years, Harry had been comfortable believing Snape was the one who was wrong.

So, imagine being Harry and all you have left of your parents is the memories people choose to share with you, so you take all the scraps and make this Frankenstein idealistic version of your parents because, for a moment, it makes you feel like you actually know them.

And then, just in case you forgot, reality reminds you in maybe the worst way that you don't know these people at all.

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its an older post but you talked once about how making lily a lesbian isn't the same as giving her a personality and i wanted you to elaborate on that? i think it's the only way to write about her at all cause without it she would have no personality to work with and we wouldn't really be able to imagine her relationships with other characters.., so what's your alternative?

Apparently being a lesbian is the only way to unlock access to the personality DLC.