#anyways that’s all for now

[cookiescr]

People on twitter seemed to like this for some reason but gayass

[mvnvgedmischief]

@lesbianmckinnonn inspired me i’m sharing my fandom unpopular opinions:

sirius black is a complicated, cruel, loyal, and reckless character. he acts first and thinks later when it comes to his actions, while simultaneously being a whirlwind of emotions and overthinking. sirius is COMPLEX and i love him

sirius and severus are two sides of the same coin. sure, severus is methodical while sirius is reckless. but they are both cruel and angry, with complex motivations turning from the way they grew up in favor of the people they met along the way. they made mistakes, they made wrong choices, they act on emotions not thoughts.

regulus could have a lot of texture and drama, but it’s definitely weird to me that instead of doing that we’ve gotten a lot of sirius’s original characterization attached to him. i have a lot of hcs about him! hell, i’m writing a whole fic about him & sirius!!! however, i think that a lot of the fandom has kind of boiled down sirius and then attached a bunch of cast off traits to him.

if i go thru the dorlene tag one more time and see a bunch of posts that are about all of the male characters in this fandom i’m bringing a Gun™️

i think that the way that wolfstar has been changed over the years in fandom is based on an influx of people who are basing their takes on fanworks, without rooting their understanding in canon. fanon is a place to play, so i’m not judging, HOWEVER i think by ignoring or sidestepping the canon for these Casanova remus x helpless puppy sirius portrayals people are robbing themselves of texture and complexities in their work. i think that engaging in fanon without referencing any of the flaws of the characters robs writers of writing things that excite them

i think that we all as fandom creators need to take a look at how we treat our characters as they relate to our own internal biases. it’s not lost on me that i only started publishing dorlene in the last few weeks because i know they won’t be engaged with in the way my wolfstar fics have been. i know that peter gets left out of the marauders equation a lot because he’s ugly. i know that lily is a less popular partner for james then regulus because lily is a woman.

that being said, i also know that as queer creators, we are more likely to write queer couples. we are also more likely to be critical of queer couples. i am keeping that in mind as i write this post

sirius may love remus, but he will always pick james. sirius’s loyalty is to james first, and everyone else comes in second. it was one of the reasons that they thought pete should be the secret keeper, because everyone knew that sirius would be the first choice for the role. it’s also why (i believe) sirius and remus stopped trusting each other, which lead to everyone believing that sirius had swapped sides. he never told remus, his loyalty was to james, not remus.

[taetaespeaches]

i love mingyu so much

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[muffinlance]

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[egophiliac]

bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

[daz4i]

nikolai

nikolai

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[1alchemistart]

dont got much to offer for The Holiday but have these sillies!

happy valentines day :D

[teaboot]

how could you like the colour yellow

see a therapist immediately

I actually used to hate it! Like, actually despise it! Yellow was too bright, too loud, discordant, unruly, and clashed with everything. Nothing like what I wanted in my life, nothing I wanted to be.

When I first moved away from home, everything I owned was black. Jet back. As black as I could get. Smooth, cool, sleek, discrete, calm, unassuming. Flexible, cohesive, agreeable black. Fashionable black.

I had a really, really bad time. Unrelated to the decor. It was my first year out of a toxic place I'd grown used to my whole life, my first year acknowledging a mental illness I'd believed to be normal, my first year fending for myself with very little money or sleep or companionship.

I'd grown up on instant white rice and unseasoned ground beef. One day I realized that everything I'd been raised on tasted like cardboard. While out on an assignment, I passed a tent with a woman selling spices, and bought myself some turmeric. I went home and tried making curry with it. It was so yellow.

Another time, my professor took us out to a modern art gallery. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but when we got there, the whole building had been painted bright sunshine yellow.

The artist's theme was "happiness".

What it is. How we make it. How to share it.

All bright, lovely yellow.

The house I grew up in was beige. The walls were white. The appliances were post 9/11 stainless steel. My job was to be quiet, compliant, presentable and agreeable.

Black goes with everything. Black is neutral. Black is quiet, reserved, elegant and mysterious.

Yellow is warm. Yellow does what it wants. Yellow tastes sweet and spicy and hot and cool, like a summer breeze, like sunflower petals, powdery like dust on a long dirt road and soothing like well-worn linen.

I still like the look of black. I like the look of most colors. But I like the way that Yellow makes me feel.

Do you understand?

[muppetfreak]

Mr. Riordan, it is truly a pleasure getting to experience your second draft.

[may12324]

Eadaz and her queen

[phereshift]

personal opinion but. the reason tiktok’s ‘zepotha’ isn’t doing great isn’t because of a lack of cohesion or poor reasoning behind it (although I’m sure these would’ve contributed). It’s because when I was first introduced to Zepotha it was as a fake movie concept. And when I was first introduced to Goncharov it was as me spending the entire morning trying to figure out why Tumblr was obsessed with some random movie.

[lieu-rey]

first meeting