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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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In another timeline where Cedric lived and he and Cho stayed together and had kids, Oliver is trying to get their kid and the Potter kid together to create the Ultimate Seeker
Oliver Wood was probably more excited than anyone else when the news came out that Ginny Weasley and Harry Potter were expecting a baby because DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH QUIDDITCH TALENT THAT CHILD HAS IN ITS GENES
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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Accurate
Reblog with whatever tag first shows up when you type “I just want”.
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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HP Ships bracket
Valentine's Day is coming up, which means everyone is talking about their favorite ships, and March Madness is coming up, which means I have the compulsive need to turn everything into brackets, so I whipped this up this morning.
Reblog with your filled-out brackets! I want to see them.
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I'm also thinking of maybe actually running the bracket through polls in the lead up to the 14th if people are interested
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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this goes so hard
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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the lord of the rings is so honest. so raw. so sincere. so unabashedly from the heart. no snide fourth wall jokes, no attempts to alleviate the heaviness. it is is wholeheartedly earnest in its dedication to portraying hope and love and faith and loyalty and courage, and that is what makes it feel like home to so many of us. it's true to itself. it doesn't pretend to be cool and care less. it cares, a lot, and that is a rare, beautiful thing. it warms our hearts to care for a piece of fiction that was made to care about and be cared about
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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Ginny and Harry, two main characters
I find it really sad how overlooked is the rarity of Harry and Ginny's couple dynamic.
In stories like Harry Potter where the main character is clearly the main character and not just the person who gives us their point of view for the story, it's very common that the love interest isn't an equal to the hero. Usually, the love interest is one of the helpers of the main character which inevitably creates an unbalanced dynamic where a lot of the life experiences of the love interest revolve around the main character. Take Ron and Hermione, they are not equals to Harry. They are equals to each other, they are the only two people who know what it means to be Harry's best friend in the war but the stories/adventures they are involved in aren't theirs. They are not equals to Harry, which doesn't mean they are less or more, just something else.
Ginny on the other end is the only character between the young ones - besides Harry obviously - that is a main character in her own right. She has her own story, her own friends, her own adventures, her own giant trauma, and her own relationship with darkness. She has her own hero story with her leading the rebellion at Hogwarts and her own helpers, Neville and Luna.
She is a main character whose story we don't have the opportunity to read. And Harry is her love interest just as much as she is Harry's one. She may understand Harry perfectly and so be perfect for him, but Harry understands her perfectly too and therefore is the only logical love interest for her.
And even after the books she keeps being Harry's equal becoming famous in her own right with professional Quidditch and then assuming the most influential role in Wizarding World sport as editor of the sports section for the Prophet.
She even has her sort of prophecy with the whole being the first daughter in seven generations and the seventh sibling, something that supposedly makes her quite powerful, something that we see, something that even Slughorn, a man who knows pretty much all the people who are worth being known, recognizes.
To solidify this point, her story is circular like Harry's. If Harry starts this story as someone who needs to be rescued and who is in search of a family he ends it with him protecting other people for a job and having a loving family. Ginny starts her story as a young girl who as such has to hide her true ambitions, as someone who because she wrote in a diary faced unspeakable horrors, and she ends the story with being famous for her talent, the mother of a youngest sibling and girl that she'll make sure will grow up not needing to hide her ambitions and a journalist, reclaiming her passion for writing.
Harry and Ginny are basically two main characters with a lot of secondary characters in common who happened to find each other and get married. It's basically a cross-over between two stories it's just that we've read only one of the two.
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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does anyone else remember grass. the warmth of the sun
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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As usual, people deliberately ignoring what a quote actually means in order to smugly dunk on a famous person.
He doesn't say that characters don't have sex. He said it's "hard to imagine" the characters having sex, which is true to anyone who hasn't completely disappeared down the rabbit hole of fanfic. Imagining Tolkien characters having sex is like imagining your parents having sex, it's just weird to think about.
In Tolkien's world, sex exists, but it doesn't function as a character motivation. The characters don't get horny. You hear about Sam having 13 kids, and the tone of the story leads to you believe it's because he loves being a father, not because he's a horn dog who can't keep his hands off his wife.
Like, if we found a deleted scene in Tolkien's notes where Legolas and Gimli bond over describing their maiden sweethearts, how beautiful and graceful they are, that would make sense, it would fit in with the rest of the story.
But if we found a deleted scene where they bond over comparing body counts of wenches they've bedded, that would feel like it's from a completely different book.
Now, you can point out that his complaint applies to literally all media intended for children, but dunk on that, don't pretend he misread Tolkien.
‘Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien — and I do, he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years — you do have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can’t imagine Hobbits having sex, can you? Well, sex is an important part of who we are. It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things. Leave it out, and you’ve got an incomplete world.’ George R R Martin (source)
no disrespect to george rr martin but this quote cracks me up bcos every time i see if I’m just like, no george… you can’t imagine hobbits having sex. ;P
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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Have you ever wanted to appear internet-snarky so desperately bad that you pretended to seriously think that Kärnten being as globally recognized as California is a reasonable thing to expect?
one thing I’ve noticed while running an online shop is that Americans never include their country when writing their address.
I don’t mean when filling in online forms, bc that’s obviously a required element. but when emailing me for address changes for orders, they never include a country in the updated address. but I always know the country is the United States of America because literally nobody else around the world would do that.
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“Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?”
Family always in the first place.
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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Even funnier direction for this human/spirit relationship idea: when Koh steals a face, he also absorbs his victim's memories/personality/identity/etc. and can switch between them.
So Kuruk can still see and talk to his girlfriend, she's just a face attached to a giant centipede now. They somehow make their relationship still work.
Absolutely no offense to Sokka/Suki, but I think there should be AU content where Yue becomes the Moon but then she and Sokka just... keep dating. She uses her spirit powers to hang out with him somehow and, well, the one benefit of having given your life for your people is that at least you don't have to give up your love life for them now, right? Sokka adapts easily enough to having a spirit girlfriend, because it is frankly not the weirdest thing that's happened to him.
Potential futures, ranked from most to least angsty:
Sokka being the Moon's Husband until he dies, bringing the inevitable, tragic yet beautiful until-the-end-of-time parting that ends mortal/immortal relationships.
Avatar-world variant: Sokka dies but reincarnates, and the Moon shines more brightly on every one of his future selves, whether he knows why or not. (Sometimes he does.)
Sokka also ascends to spirithood at some point by virtue of Being The Moon's Husband, and basically becomes the Knowledge Owl Guy's nemesis because he A) is very involved in the mortal world and B) thinks that information should be free.
Variant: Sokka replaces the Ocean Spirit through some convoluted turn of events, making him and Yue the new yin-yang of Water.
Related, but different: Sokka just gets a nice house in a corner of the Spirit World where Yue stays between moonset and moonrise. If Iroh can, why not Sokka?
Anyway, this way you get the wholesomeness of these two finding happiness and love together even after everything; the comedy of Sokka actually DATING THE MOON and probably being very chill about the weirdness; and the incredible potential of an immortal spirit Sokka.
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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“So does this mean you don’t hate me anymore?”
“I think it means, I actually kind of like you.”
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This is why I'm convinced that JKR established that James was Head Boy in Sorcerer's Stone with that quick line before she had really decided what his character would be.
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Perfectly Clear by Chirart
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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theclockworkmonk · 2 years
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spotify wrapped is HERE! send me a number 1-100 and I’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist
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