#lost-and-cursed

[gallopinggallifreyans]

Autobiography, epeolatry and book-bosomed right back at you. And maybe bookish?

Autobiography: Who is the protagonist you most relate to? ooo I've answered this a couple times already, but Nesta Archeron (bad. despise her. she has nice hair and reminds me too much of myself)

Epeolatry: What is your favorite book quote? another one I've answered! "You do not yield" from the Throne of Glass series. i'll get it tattooed somewhere when i figure out what design to make out of it!

Book-bosomed: what is a book you feel everyone should read? okay i have a few recs. the Silver Chair by CS Lewis (Narnia book 6, kind of Arthurian in plot), the Ramayana (Indian epic, and my favourite epic), Utopia by Thomas Moore (Renaissance take on the concept of a utopia), and This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (epistolary novel, sci fi, the two lovers are queer). I will also plug Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, because it's one of my all time favourites in the same vein as The Martian.

Bookish: What is your reading goal for this year? Another one! I just want to read one more book that isn't a textbook. please god have mercy on me (i've read herodotus twice this year)

thank you <3 <3

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[chloesimaginationthings]

Doggo will haunt FNAF series forever

[hkthatgffan]

ALEX! YOU CAN'T JUST DROP MAJOR LOST GRAVITY FALLS MEDIA LORE ON ME LIKE THIS AND GET AWAY WITH IT?! 😭

Link to Alex's tweet...

He also asked fans to record their own version of the Stan lines here and also gave advice on how to do it, lmao

[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[boxofoxberry]

"the ending is yours" but she didn't want it to be

[hyacjnthus]

outward displays of queerness in the chb chronicles as narrated by me (up to what i’ve read)

the lightning thief: not much gay rep here tbh

sea of monsters: same for here

the titan’s curse: bianca di angelo and zoe nightshade, artemis is aroace, all hunters are aroace

the battle of the labyrinth: something but idk what

the last olympian: silena beauregard and clarisse la rue being literal lesbians and parallels to achilles and patroclus

the lost hero: whatever tf leo valdez and jason grace had going on

the son of neptune: nico di angelo being in the closet

the mark of athena: whatever tf leo valdez and jason grace had going on

the house of hades: we all know what happened in this book

the blood of olympus: nico di angelo and will solace at the end

the hidden oracle: nico di angelo and will solace at the beginning, narrated by a bisexual

the dark prophecy: leo valdez being himself, those two lesbians who gave up being hunters of artemis to be together, narrated by a bisexual

the burning maze: jason grace being himself, narrated by a bisexual

the tyrant’s tomb: literal lesbians, reyna avila ramirez-arellano being asexual, aroace minerva and hunters, whatever tf reyna and thalia grace had going on, narrated by a bisexual

the tower of nero: nico di angelo and will solace through the whole book, piper and shel being girlfriends, narrated by a bisexual

the sun and the star: nico di angelo and will solace

[stephofromcabin12]

Apollonough ☀️

Buy me a coffee! ☕️

[imafuckinstar]

i could never be a demigod because quests are literally only for morning people. like why do i have to wake up at the ass crack of dawn just to head to my imminent death with a side of eternal damnation. waking up that early is already punishment enough for paying the debt of my half-godly existence.

[riddlesmoon]

OKAY SO i saw this post a few days ago and checked the wiki page in question. the "ten times more Muggles than wizards" line was indeed added without a source in 2015 and no matter how i searched i could only find info from interviews about the number of UK wizards and Hogwarts students (which JKR even says she may have gotten wrong bc we all know math isnt her strong suit).

so i was like, okay! probably just a misunderstanding or assumption someone made and no one noticed/questioned it. i even deleted it from the page since there was no source.

fast forward to today. i open HPMA. and what am i greeted with?

RIGHT AFTER I DID ALL THAT??? AND THOUGHT IT JUST WASNT TRUE???? NOW A TERTIARY SOURCE MAKES IT CANON?????

of course ☝️🤓 there are some issues with this

lots of people dont like referring to the games as a source which i totally understand as it has its own team of writers and i doubt theyre running everything by jkr to make sure its accurate, so

there is one piece of trivia on the wiki that says its possible that the HPMA devs may be looking at the wiki for info, so it is possible that they used the original unsourced line in the wiki as a reference and so creates a kind of horrifying feedback loop where fanon on the wiki (that isnt caught) may be 'made canon' in future adaptations. which is... questionable, but not so different from the writing teams of the games just coming up with their own shit which becomes canon because theyre 'official' (IM STILL MAD ABOUT THAT FUCKASS VANISHING SPELL NETEASE), but hey, thaaats why its a tertiary source and not as reliable/relevant a source for metas/fics/whathaveyou!

this info is given to us by a random Ministry employee who could be exaggerating or have their own assumptions, so, not really a reliable or definite number

all in all you can probably definitely just ignore it. but damn, i was so shocked to see it because id just gone on a deep dive the other day, because this post just happened to be made the other day. wild

does this mean i should put the line back into the wiki article now that theres a '''canon''' source for it? ...nah. i dont respect HPMA's writing team enough

I am being bullied into making hp meta about wizarding population. So I decided to straighten out my sources. And one of the sources was about Rowling mentioning in one interview that wizard population is one tenth of muggles.

It was mentioned in the vein Rowling being crazy as usual, and I didn't question it much. But I can find any original sources to back it up. Harry potter wiki confidently mentions it without citation ("It was stated that there were ten times more Muggles than wizards in the world.") Few other people mention it as fact that Rowling said it somewhere. One person calls it a rumour (also not able to find citation).

I asked Reddit and they basically laughed at it and called it a fan theory. Thoughts? Opinions?

I want to believe the best about community, but I start to doubt validity of this statement. Any ideas where this "rumour"(?) originates?

[keferon]

…..SO. AHAHAHAHAH. I finished reading Mistakes on mistakes until (technically I finished chapter 68 which is the last one currently~)

What a ride OH MY fuckINg god

[alotle]

talk so pretty but your heart got teeth

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[bellyhasabellyache]

i love seeing people think about all the things percy did for annabeth but we forget a lot of the things she did for him. she trusted percy in SoM to keep her safe while she listened to the sirens song. she gave up immortality as a hunter for him in TTC, long before he did the same in TLO. she broke the rules to sit with percy at dinner in BotL. she entrusted her own quest to percy, even though she had been hoping for it all her life. she was the one speaking at his funeral, not grover, not chiron, she was the one declaring her feelings for him. for hells sake she took a knife for him because she ‘had a feeling’ it was important. she was the one counting down the hours he had been missing is TLH and was the first person off of the Argo II in MoA because she was so worried about percy. she is just as in love with percy as he is with her and the fandom just doesn’t show it.

[42uneatenwatermelon]

i made more of this fucked up creature

[rynli]

when Kim asks what happened to your badge (and gun) (and MC)