#fantastic beasts: crimes of grindlewald

[elliott-the-queer-artist]

can we get a fantastic beasts prequel with grindlewald and dumbledore being boyfriends? like x-men first class but with grindledore

[solarpoweredheart]

Sorry for being MIA for so long! But I come bearing good news: I passed the Bar! 🍾

Excited to be more active again in the other aspects of my life!

[kywaslost]

Omg your newt scamander fics are amazing!! Literally amazing! I was wondering if you could write one when the reader and newt are cuddling and he brushes her thighs (sweet affection nothing sexual) but discovers the reader had sensitive thighs. She’s embarrassed but he thinks it’s cute! ❤️‍🩹

Sensitivity - Newt Scamander

A/N: Hi! I’m glad you like my Newt writings! I hope this turned out alright. Sorry it’s so short.

It was getting late in the night and you were exhausted beyond belief. You had spent the day running errands and doing chores while Newt worked on his book and took care of his creatures. By the time you and Newt finished eating dinner, you were ready for bed. Except you hadn’t really seen Newt that much today, so you opted for sitting with him on the couch while he finished up on some writing.

Your legs were draped over Newt’s lap as you leaned your head against his shoulder. You watched Newt as he scribbled notes onto a scrap piece of parchment. He used his magic to hold open a book in front of him, occasionally flipping the page for him to continue reading and taking notes.

Eventually your eyes started to droop closed and you began drifting in and out of sleep. The weight of Newt’s arms resting on your legs was oddly comforting, lulling you even deeper into sleep. That is, until Newt innocently began lightly tracing his fingers across your thighs. He didn’t think anything of it, just assuming it’d be a comforting gesture. But then you jerked your legs back and squealed, scooting away from your lover.

“I-I’m sorry,” Newt quickly apologized. “I didn’t mean anything by it, I swear!”

Your face was a bright shade of red as you tried to avoid Newt’s apologetic eyes. “No, you’re alright.”

Newt tilted his head with slight confusion. “Then what’s wrong?”

Your face grew even redder as you stuttered out, “M-my thighs a-are sensitive.” Your voice faded out at the end.

Newt could see how embarrassed you were, but he thought it was so cute. He wasn’t sure how he didn’t notice this tarot of your’s sooner. “Don’t be embarrassed, N/N,” he laughed lightly, pulling you back over to him and draping your legs over his lap again. “I think it’s cute. Now get some rest.” Newt pressed a kiss to the top of your head. “You look exhausted.

[thewierdartist]

Can someone please give a play by play of the third Fantastic Beasts movie? I don't wanna watch it cuz of J.K.R and how they cut Depp

But I really wanna know how the story continues after CoG, I wanna understand the more recent fics instead of re reading my favorites lol

[alphawolfice1989]

Gellert grindlewald actors in harry potter and fantastic beasts

in the first fantastic beasts film grindlewald use polyjuice potion to disguise himself as Percival Graves played by Colin Farrell

in the 2nd film an american actor johnny depp played Gellert grindlewald

in the 3rd film Johnny depp got fired and was replaced by Madds Mikkelson who plays hannibal lecture in the tv series

A young grindlewald is played by Jamie Campbell Bower in harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1 who is now famous for playing henry creel/ vecna in stranger things

grindlwald as an old man is played by british actor michael bryne in harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1

[enchantingglittertyrant]

Im back!!!

My ideas are back and it feels amazing and I just had to write a Grindledore fanfic 😁😁😁😁

[eli-workshop]

Doodles from a shared canvas on Magma, Ft FB2 and Gow ocs

[multiversal-idiot]

Wizarding World Timeline

1884 - Hogwarts Legacy

1926 - Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them

1927 - The Crimes of Grindlewald

19?? - Fantastic Beasts 4

1945 - Fantastic Beasts 5

1928 - Secrets of Dumbledore

1992 - The Philosophers Stone

1993 - Chamber of Secrets

1994 - The Prisoner of Azkaban

1995 - The Goblet of Fire

1996 - Order of The Phoenix

1997 - The Half Blood Prince

1998 - The Deathly Hallows

2017 - The Cursed Child

[fatecanberewritten-writer]

A Stranger with a Familiar Face | Chapter One: To Start Anew

Stars Series | A Stranger with a Familiar Face

It was a gray day in Paris, rain threatening emptily to fall from the dreary clouds. He’d hoped for the sweet smell of fresh rain on the pavement, the dainty fragrance of flowers the market nearby was selling, or, most fittingly, the intoxicating scent of freshly baked bread - but all that met his nose was garbage and dirty gutters. It, surprisingly, had him missing New York, and Gellert Grindelwald was quite certain that nothing would make him miss New York.

With a sigh that went unnoticed by his Acolytes, Grindelwald glanced pensively around the street Rosier had recommended. The neighborhood, centrally located in the Boulevard Haussmann Les Grand Magasins De Paris, was wealthy enough to impress Purebloods interested in the cause, yet unimportant enough to remain under the radar. Blood thirsty as she was, Vinda Rosier was proving to be a valuable asset. 

Sauntering down the mildly busy street, the hungry eyes of his Acolytes watched him, patiently awaiting his decision. The man took his time, reveling in his returned power, reveling in being in his own skin once more. After such a significant drawback in America, Grindelwald was finally feeling like his former self, finally feeling like he was back on track. His heterochromatic, all-knowing eyes settled on a particularly fine house in the middle of the lane, and he gently tilted the end of his cane towards it. His Acolytes descended on it like a pack of wolves.

As if conjured, a hearse drawn by two black horses turned the corner, drove coachmanless down the cobbled street, and settled in front of the chosen apartment. Grindelwald stood alone beside it, watching the street, waiting patiently. Two green flashes came from the windows above. Not a soul looked up.

Grindelwald hardly stirred as the door reopened. Nagel and Krafft emerged, each holding one end of a sleek black coffin, Krall and MacDuff following along with a second. He watched on with hardly a trace of emotion on his face, not daring to show any pleasure in the Muggles’ deaths. This was a necessary evil. The hearse continued down the street, and Grindelwald led his followers back inside the now vacant apartment.

“Yes,” Grindelwald mused, walking from room to room in surveyance. The couple had been well off - old money, most likely - and their home would be very enticing to Purebloods, once they de-Muggled it. “This will be suitable after a thorough cleanse.” His eyes traveled to each of his companions as they made themselves comfortable in the apartment. They settled on Nagel, who stood at attention as their gazes met. “I want you to go to the circus now,” he ordered gently, stepping closer to the dark-skinned man. “Give my note to Credence, begin his journey.”

Nagel nodded, leaving the apartment. Thoughts of Credence Barebone replace his presence.

“When we’ve won,” started Rosier, filling the unsettled silence and pulling Grindelwald from his calculative thoughts, “they’ll flee cities in the millions. They’ve had their time.”

“We don’t say such things out loud,” Grindelwald quickly intervened, stopping the supportive smirks before they got out of hand. Their supremacy was a dangerous ideology, one that could easily turn potential allies against them. “We want only freedom,” he preached. “Freedom to be ourselves.”

Rosier watched him with a pensive respect. “To annihilate non-wizards,” she added.

“Not all of them, not all,” he assured, his eyes finding Abernathy’s for a moment. “We’re not merciless.” 

The American wizard was the only one among them that was not Pureblood - in fact, he was quite the opposite. Born to two No-Majes in Upstate New York, Ulric Abernathy had always been torn between two worlds. While more easily accepted into Wizarding society than most other places, namely Britain, Muggleborns in America faced their own challenges set in place by MACUSA’s strict secrecy laws - once they are old enough to control their magic, all trace of magic is erased from their non-magical family’s memory. Since he was eleven, Ulric has had to juggle two separate identities, hiding the biggest part of him from those who had raised him. The assurance of his family’s safety had been the biggest factor in convincing him to join the cause. 

Grindelwald’s gaze flitted back to the others, easily picking up on the air of confusion surrounding the Purebloods. “The beast of burden will always be necessary,” he concluded, and all parties looked satisfied.

A soft cooing close at hand caused everyone in the room to stiffen. The Acolytes tried not to catch their leader’s eye, fearing punishment for not having cleared the apartment completely, but Grindelwald looked only towards the closed door at the far end of the room - a nursery.

He felt an all too familiar prickling on his skin, as though struck with a sudden chill, and though they did not know it, he would not be punishing any of his careless Acolytes. It seemed as though they had stumbled into a happy accident, though Grindelwald wondered if it was an accident at all. He took a deep breath as he started towards the room, preparing for the moment of judgment he knew to come.

The child made not a sound as Grindelwald gently pushed open the door. Carrow, a woman more prejudiced towards Muggles and Muggleborns than anyone else in the room, followed closely, poorly hiding the excited look in her eyes. She knew that if Grindelwald decided to do away with this spawn of dirt, he would turn to her, and she would oblige all too gladly. She felt her confidence growing as the child looked up at her fearfully.

But yet, as Grindelwald crouched before the young boy, the hardly-year-old child looked into his mismatched eyes with nothing but curiosity. Everyone in the room held their breath.

Grindelwald watched the boy for a long time, attempting to manipulate his abilities as a seer to look into this boy’s future, though he knew that’s not how his abilities worked. Surely there was something, he told himself. He would not have gotten that chill if there was not. He would not have chosen this home.

The child’s wide blue eyes stared back into the man’s heterochromatic eyes, and slowly, gradually, his left eye, only his left, darkened from a soft blue to a dark, dark brown, mirroring the man before him. A grin broke out on Grindelwald’s face.

“He is a wizard,” Grindelwald announced, rising.

Carrow’s smile fell into a sneer, and she pulled out her wand as if she’d been ordered. “Then he is a Mudblood,” she hissed, sizing up the child, “and he deserves to die.”

From the back of the group, Abernathy lunged forward, MacDuff’s reflexive grip on his wrist being the only thing that kept the Muggleborn from drawing his wand. Carrow cowered slightly in shock. She knew, of course, of his blood status, but the reserved man had never before reacted like this to her blatant and repetitive degrading of his kind. She’d never thought he had it in him, but the look in his eyes now was almost murderous.

In the midst of the action, Grindelwald had bent down to retrieve the child, with whom he now stood strongly. His face was hardened and dark, and while not quite as murderous as Abernanthy’s, it set fear in Carrow’s bones as she turned back to face him. “We do not speak that way of our own,” his voice boomed, drawing all eyes back to him.

Carrow’s voice was much quieter, much less confident as she next spoke: “Our own?”

Grindelwald’s eyes narrowed. “Is he not a wizard? Is not Abernathy?”

The witch was blinking rapidly, stumbling over her words. “Yes - yes but - ”

“But nothing,” Grindelwald countered almost calmly. “You will remember your place, Carrow, or you will be reminded of it.” Carrow watched him in shock, frozen, unsure of how to proceed. Grindelwald spoke again before she could form a decisive thought. “I think it is best if you leave for now. Return only when you remember the Greater Good that we are fighting for.”

After a moment of processing his words, Carrow backed away from him, hastening out of the room, taking the path as far from Abernathy as she could. Grindelwald surveyed the room as she departed, watching the reactions of his followers to determine which of them would favor her ideals to his. His eyes lingered on Rosier, but she watched him only with devotion.

Finally, his eyes met Abernathy’s, and he ushered him forward. With no hesitance, the American wove his way through the group and stood strongly before his master. The child sat on Grindelwald’s hip like a christened prince, one sure to inherit the entire world. “Sir?” said Abernathy.

“As the one among us who will most closely relate to the child, I will leave him in your care,” Grindelwald declared. “You will raise him, I will teach him, and when he is old enough, he will join our ranks. I have no doubt that he will be a valuable asset, as you are, Abernathy.”

Abernathy took a moment to respond, but eventually he nodded. He had not considered fatherhood in a long time, not since he had to break the heart of the No-Maj he had been in love with even before he knew he was a wizard. But, as Grindelwald placed the recently orphaned child in his arms, he took on the responsibility as swiftly as he would take any of Grindelwald’s orders.

“What will we call him?” Rosier piped in, and as she did, Abernathy was reminded that he would not be raising this child entirely on his own. The weight on his shoulders lessened a little.

In response, Grindelwald looked deeply into the child’s mind, using legilimency to sort through the fading and undeveloped thoughts of a toddler. After a moment of silence, he emerged with an answer. “Alderic Beaufort.”

Rosier’s eyebrows furrowed. “Alderic Beaufort?” she repeated slowly.

Grindelwald nodded. “It was the name his parents gave him, and it is the name he will keep.”

“Forgive me,” Rosier started again, and Grindelwald considered her with patience, though many others in the room were beginning to lose theirs. “If he is to start anew with us, would it not be fitting if he were to have a new name as well? Perhaps your name,” she offered, then with a glance at Abernathy, quickly added, “or Abernathy’s.”

Grindelwald chuckled at the flatterence, stepping closer to the child in Abernathy’s arms, watching him as he responded to Rosier. “It matters not what he is born or thrust into, it matters only what he chooses to become. And we can only hope that, like us, little Alderic will choose the Greater Good.”

[tommyssupercoolblog]

Rewatching the Jenny Nicholson video on Fantastic Beasts 2 and the JKR antisemite allegations and all her confirmed literal openly nazi friends certainly explain the part of the movie- which i did see the movie okay this just made me think of this moment, i'm not only getting this secondhand- where the villain claims his mission statement is that he wants to stop the Holocaust...??? and the main characters are just like "but it's wrong to interfere with muggles, magic needs to be a secret". about the fucking Holocaust.

like "the crimes of grindlewald" are just that he wants to stop the Hollocaust and to convince you he's evil about this they code him to be a nazi?? like vilian imagery shorthand you know. and have him kill random guys, even though his actual goal is to stop the Holocaust. and the jewish character Queenie joins the metaphorical nazis who are really just people who want to stop the ACTUAL nazis, and her joining is framed as a bad thing....

like....like that's very. hmm that's very. huh.

[elliott-the-queer-artist]

[sithskywalkerr]

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✧˖°. songs on repeat (this week):

when worlds collide - powerman 5000

revival - orgy

the great war - t swift

lollipop luxury - jeffree star (it reminds me of ani for whatever fuckin reason lmfao)

hey man, nice shot - filter

✧˖°. last movie i watched:

half of the lion king, but full whole ass movie is fantastic beasts: crimes of grindlewald (support johnny or perish)

✧˖°. currently watching:

BLUEY

✧˖°. currently reading:

star wars: lords of the sith by paul s. kemp

[kywaslost]

A Dangerous Moment - Newt Scamander

A/N: I’m writing this for @newtscamanderimagines because they asked for someone to write this and I absolutely love this idea! Hope it turned out alright!

Request: Reader is female (15) and she absolutely loves all of the creatures he owns. However, one day something happens. One dangerous creature attacked her making her depressed and way too sad and scared to go back in his case. Cried all month etc. Tickles for cheer up?

Newt Scamander would tell his brother that he was at first afraid to let his little sister, you, to stay with him at first. You were only a teenager, 15 years old. He didn’t know how you’d feel benign around his creatures all the time, feeding them and interacting with them. But he gave you a chance, letting you move in with him and traveling with him as long as the trip wasn’t too far.

You surprised Newt, however, during your first night at his home. After you had gone to bed, Newt placed his suitcase down on the floor in his bedroom and climbed down into the zoo that was his suitcase. But after a few hours of sleep, you felt something climb on top of you and sit on your legs. You stirred, trying to move your legs but the weight was too heavy. When you opened your eyes, you were shocked to see a creature sitting on your legs.

“Hi,” you said gently, sitting upright slowly. “You’re a Demiguise, aren’t you?” The creature looked at you with wide blue eyes, then reached its long arms out to you. You let the creature wrap its arms around your neck and legs around your waist, then you stood. Slowly you made your way to Newt’s room. “Are you Dougal?” You asked the Demiguise and it nodded softly.

Newt wasn’t in his room, but you spotted his suitcase and opened it slowly. Making your way down the ladder, you felt the Demiguise grip you a bit tighter. You reached the bottom and your eyes widened in aw. There were magical creatures everywhere. You could see an occamy nest in the distance, and a thunderbird, too.

“This is awesome!” you exclaimed.

Dougal unwrapped himself from you and fell to the ground, taking your hand in his as he dragged you through the case. You followed, looking around at all the creatures as you were making your way through the case. Soon enough, you could see your older brother feeding mooncalves, sleeves rolled up to his elbows.

The wizard caught a glimpse of you through the corner of his eye, and did a double take, “Y/N? Why are you down here? You shouldn’t be here!” He abandoned the mooncalves as Dougal let go of your hand and climbed onto Newt’s back. “You could get hurt!”

Your eyes dimmed slightly, and you lost some of your smile. “I’m sorry. Dougal woke me up. I brought him back here and he led me to you.” You looked away from your brother. “I’m sorry, I’ll go back to bed. Sorry to bother you.”

You turned to walk away, but said one thing before you left. “Oh, and the Nifflers are sniffling. I noticed while Dougal brought me back here. You might want to check that out.”

“Wait.” You turned back to your brother, hair falling in your face and hiding Newt slightly. “You know what some of my creatures are?”

You moved the hair from your eyes and nodded. “I read your book, Newt. And sometimes I read articles about them.” You shrugged, turning away again. “But it’s no big deal. Just let me know if you need any help. I know a few things.”

From that night on, Newt let you work with him and his creatures. He had rules, though. He had to be with you whenever you were working with a dangerous creature, or one you didn’t know how to handle. Over time you were allowed to work with almost all of the creatures in Newt’s case, though.

You loved your new ‘job’ so much. You got to work with creatures as well as spend quality time with your brother. Everything was perfect until one night. You were feeding the nifflers before turning in for the night, having already fed the other creatures that Newt allowed you to tend to. As you were scooping handfuls of weeds and shrubs into the nifflers’ feeding bowls, your wand fell out of your pocket and rolled a few feet away. Thinking nothing of it, you got up from your kneeled position at the bucket of plants and walked over to your wand.

You noticed a hole in the ground near where your wand landed. You spared it a quick thought, noting how you didn’t remember seeing that hole there earlier. Then you kneeled down to pick up your wand.

You felt it before you saw it. A stinging pain coursing through your body, radiating from your hand. You cried out in pain, falling back on your butt as you gripped your hand to your chest. You could see a creature scurrying away out of the corner of your eye. You hadn’t ever seen it before, and you were sure you knew every creature in Newt’s case by now.

The pain quickly became too much to bear and your screaming was getting louder. You couldn’t sit up, tilting to the side and collapsing on your back. Your vision was fading, but you could hear something off in the distance. Through your faded gaze you could see Newt running towards you, then he was beside you.

You couldn’t remember much after that.

You wouldn’t go back into Newt’s case after that night. Even now, two weeks later, you haven’t even been able to look at a creature without bursting into tears and going into a panic. The only one you could stand to see was Picket, but only because you had been around him for years.

Newt was on edge, he’d admit. He wasn’t sure how to help you. He was so petrified when he heard you screaming that night. He thought you were being attacked by Grindlewald and his followers. But then, as he was running to you, he saw one of his venomous creatures running away from where he could hear you screaming.

You were pretty much out of it by the time he got to you. You were still conscious but Newt knew what creature had bit you, judging by the wound on your hand and said creature running past him earlier. There was no one attacking you, which was somewhat of a plus. But that didn’t change the fact that Newt was scared out of his mind. He knew how dangerous that creature was, and he wasn’t even sure how it had escaped its enclosure, but that was another problem for another time.

Newt had to pick you up and carry you back to the shed at the entrance of his case, quickly digging through all of his remedies and medicines to find what would help ease the pain and fight of the venom from the creature that bit you.

Once you recovered, you wouldn’t step foot anywhere near Newt’s case. To be honest, it saddened him that you no longer wanted to help him care for his creatures, but he understood why you were so afraid. The one thing he didn’t know how to handle, however, was the fact that you rarely left your room nowadays. He’d come in, bringing meals for the both of you and eating with you., but that was all he really could do. You spent a lot of time crying, he could hear it through the walls. You didn’t speak much anymore, either. Newt wasn’t sure if your actions were out of pure fear or if they were unknown side-effects from the treated venom.

He tried talking to Thesius, but his brother wasn’t much help. In fact, Thesius wasn’t happy with Newt for letting you around his creatures. In fact, he said, “Newt. This is your problem. Now you fix it.” What a beautiful brotherly support.

Eventually Newt had had enough. You needed to at least go outside and see some sunlight. You were looking worse and worse every day and he couldn’t stand seeing you like this. So one afternoon he gently knocked on your door and entered your room.

“Hey, Y/N,” he greeted quietly. “Can you please come outside with me? You need to see some sunlight.”

Your red puffy eyes glanced up to him. You had been crying again. “No thank you.” Newt sighed, lowering himself to sit beside you on your bed. He looked upset, and you couldn’t help but think that it was because of you. “I’m sorry.”

“I’m worried about you,” Newt admitted. “I know you’re afraid of my creatures now, and that’s ok. But please, you need to take care of yourself and I’d like you to at least see some sunlight.”

You shook your head slowly. “No. There could be creatures out there.”

Newt took a moment to think, then grinned slightly. As he turned to face you, you tilted your head in confusion. “What?” His movements were too fast for you and you had no time to defend yourself. Newt pushed himself forward, forcing you to lay down on the bed as he pinned you down. Then his fingers glided over your sides, causing a loud laugh to burst out of you. You tried to push Newt off of you and he continued ‘torturing’ you but it was no use. He was much bigger and stronger than you, and you didn’t stand a chance against him.

Newt continued to tickle you until you couldn’t breathe and he was concerned you’d begin to hyperventilate. Your brother finally leaned back, giving you room to move away from him, still giggling. “Why’d you do that?” you asked through gasping breaths.

Newt smiled softly. “Because I’m tired of seeing you so upset. If you won’t go outside then maybe at least I can get you to smile here inside.”

You scooted over to sit next to your brother, resting your head on his shoulder. “Thanks, Newt. Hopefully I’ll get comfortable enough again to work with your creatures soon.”

[diana--williams]

Every English Movies I've watched 2022- 2015

Latte

Seira Burgess is a Loser

Love Hard

All Together Now

Good Nurse

Enola Holmes 2

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Persuasion

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

The Invitation

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Morbius

The Royal Treatment

Tall Girl 2

Thor: Love and Thunder

Do Revenge

Luckiest Girl Alive

To all the boys: Always and Forever

Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey

The White Tiger (hindi)

Black Widow

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Godzilla Vs Kong

Moxie

Cruella

Dune

Venom: Let There be Carnage

Spiderman- No way Home

Eternals

Encanto

Love in the Villa

Dolittle

Wonder Woman 1984

To All the Boys: P.S I still love you

Extraction

The Old Guard

Mulan

Enola Holmes

Ava

Secret Society of Second-Born Royals

The Boys in the Band

Love and Monsters

Soul

Pieces of a woman

Emma

The Kissing Booth 3

The Witcher: Nightmare of the wolf

He's all that

The Hating Game

Over the Moon

The Midnight Sky

Little Women (2019)

It Chapter Two

Annabelle Comes Home

Aladdin

Avengers: Endgame

Shazam!

Spiderman: Far From Home

The Curse of La Llorona

Charlie's Angels

Men In Black: International

Godzilla: King of Monsters

Terminator: Dark Fate

X Men: Dark Phoenix

Captain Marvel

Five feet apart

Hotel Mumbai

The Last Summer

Tolkien

Tall Girl

Abominable

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald

The Nun

Midnight Sun

Hereditary

Ready Player One

Avengers Infinity War

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love, Simon

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Crazy Rich Asians

Kissing Booth 2

Kissing Booth

Aquaman

Tomb Raider

Black Panther

Bird Box

Ocean's 8

Colette

Red Sparrow

Bumblebee

Ant man and the wasp

Instant Family

Venom

Spider man: Into the Spider verse

Incredibles 2

Peter Rabbit

Hotel Transylvania 3

Smallfoot

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Shape of Water

Beauty and the Beast

It

Fifty Shades Darker

The Space between us

Lady Bird

Justice League

Wonder woman

Spiderman Homecoming

King Arthur: Legend of the sword

Baywatch

The Mummy

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Kong: Skull Island

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Thor: Ragnarok

Coco

The Boss Baby

Despicable Me 3

The Great Wall

Fallen

Call me by your name

Ferdinand

Me Before You

Lady Macbeth

How To be Single

Passengers

La La Land

The Edge of Seventeen

The Legend of Tarzan

Warcraft

The Conjuring 2

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Allegiant

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

The Jungle Book

Suicide Squad

Now You See Me 2

Ghostbusters

Doctor Strange

Gods Of Egypt

X-Men: Apocalypse

Finding Dory

Kung Fu Panda 3

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Ice Age: Collision Course

Captain America: Civil War

Max Steel

Zootopia

Moana

The Angry Birds Movie

Middle School: The worst years of my life

[danysghost-archive]

grindlewald is basically a vape god with too many instagram followers

[lostgirllesbian]

Welcome To My TED Talk About Queenie Goldstein

First thing’s first 

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS!!

SPOILERS INCOMING FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD!!

If you’re still reading I assume you either know about the direction Queenie’s character has gone or don’t know and just want to be spoiled. 

Queenie quickly became my favorite character after I saw the first Fantastic Beasts movie. She was interesting, a perfect foil for Tina, and while it would have been easy to write her off as the pretty character she proved to be more than just that, and not just because of her Legilimency but also her ability to see the best in people, especially when they can’t see it in themselves. She proves this with not only Jacob but also the small moment she has with Newt and talking about Leta Lestrange.

The direction Jo took her character in Crimes of Grindelwald is one of the most infuriating moments I’ve experienced as a fan of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I was sitting in my seat in the theater crying because I was sad yes, but more because I was angry. Now I will list the reasons why everything that happened with Queenie in CoG was total and complete bullshit. I don’t care how persuasive and alluring Grindelwald is, Queenie would never join him. 

1. Her Ilvermorny house

Queenie was a Pukwudgie, the house that is said to represent Heart. This makes sense when you think of how Queenie is able to see the best in people as well as follow her heart. However, Pukwudgie’s are also “fiercely independent”. Queenie also proves her independence in the first Fantastic Beasts movie when she rescues Jacob from being obliviated by Abernathy, when she breaks into Graves office, when she tries to leave Jacob to help Tina and Newt with Credence and other areas. She is following her own independent streak while also following her heart and trying to save people she cares about. 

Queenie also would also never enchant Jacob because of all the reasons I listed above as well. Yes, Tina disapproving of their relationship would have been upsetting to Queenie but if she had been written correctly she would have done her best to show her sister that the Ministry was wrong, just like they were wrong about Credence. 

2. Her Legilimency

Queenie is outed very early in the first movie as a Legilimens and we’re shown that her ability is almost second nature to her. We never see her cast a spell to read anyone’s thoughts her power seems innate. In CoG we see her get overwhelmed by this power in Paris which didn’t make sense to me in the first place. She is surrounded by crowds of people every day in New York City and she never gets overwhelmed. I can chalk up the incident to her being emotional and distraught over her situation with Jacob. That brings us to her savior and her first encounter with Grindelwald. With her ability she should be able to see what he and his followers have done, the people they’ve killed, the horrible crimes they have committed. If she isn’t able to, that is never stated or explained. It is possible (though unlikely) that Grindelwald and everyone around him are practiced in Occulmency and Queenie wasn’t able to read their thoughts but that is an assumption. For the sake of argument let’s say that isn’t the case and ask, why would Queenie go along with these people who are so clearly evil? 

3. Tina

At the beginning of CoG Queenie states that she and Tina aren’t talking because of Jacob (I am angry enough about this but am going to go past it for now) However, Queenie goes to find Tina after her fight with Jacob meaning that she was trying to make up with Tina or at least talk to her. When she goes to the French Ministry she is clearly upset at not being able to find her sister. With Tina’s job as an Auror and her own job at MACUSA Queenie is aware of Grindelwald’s history and her sister’s role in fighting him. Tina is the only family Queenie has left and after everything she did to save her in the first movie, she would never turn her back on her like she did in this movie.

4. Jacob 

I know that anyone who wants to defend the choices Jo wrote for Queenie will bring up Jacob as her reason for joining Grindelwald

Fuck that!

From the beginning the relationship we all loved between Queenie and Jacob was totally screwed over. 

I was happy when we were told that Queenie found Jacob and helped to restore his memory. That fit with the last we saw of both these characters. However, after that moment it is clear that something is off. When Newt lets the audience know Jacob is enchanted I was automatically up in arms. 

Queenie cared about Jacob enough to try and stop him from walking out into the obviliating rain, she cared enough about him to find him and help him remember everything they went through. She wouldn’t just turn around and put him under a spell knowing that 1. he wasn’t really going to leave her and 2. he doesn’t have any magic to fight back with. 

Queenie brought Jacob to London because the laws there are different and she would have been able to be with him and start a family so why didn’t she just tell him that and get him to go willingly to London? She was frantic to find him when she heard his voice but once she had her encounter with Grindelwald it seemed like she forgot about him completely. That doesn’t make any sense to me given their relationship and the fact that Queenie can’t find Tina. 

When she and Jacob are finally reunited she wants to say and listen to Grindelwald, seemingly uninterested in Jacob at all, even though he’s the reason she’s listening to all of Grindelwald’s talk. Then comes the moment that inspired my rant, the moment Queenie chose to leave Jacob behind. She wanted him to follow her, forgetting that because he is a muggle, he can’t. 

This is the Queenie who wanted to run away with Jacob instead of losing him. The Queenie who found him again after he had his memory erased. The Queenie who said there was no one else like him. She turned her back on him and walked away and that is something Queenie would never have done. 

First of all Queenie and Tina are half-bloods, which means somewhere there is a Muggle in their family (how that is possible with MACUSA’s laws I don’t know. I assume their parents came over from somewhere in Europe) one of their parents could be a Muggle, or one pureblood and one muggleborn, or both of their parents could be halfboods too. It doesn't really matter how they are half-bloods but what does matter is the direct link to a muggle in their family somehow. That means Queenie should have never bought into the Pureblood ideology that was being spewed.

Gindelwald didn’t promise her anything, he only said that non magic people were “different” or “not inferior” that doesn’t mean he sees them as equals or will give Queenie the ability to be with Jacob. He’s simply being vague and Jo is changing Queenie’s character to allow her to buy into his speech.

In Fantastic Beasts, Queenie Goldstein is a warm and caring witch. A young woman who loves and cares deeply, has a mind of her own, is brave and intelligent. 

In Crimes of Grindelwald Jo has turned her into some manipulative, mindless, sheep and in my personal opinion I think it’s one of the worst things she’s done as a writer. 

She took a strong female character, that a lot of girls and women (including myself) love and ruined her. Queenie deserved better. 

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