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© Melli ~ Don’t share/repost without credit please.

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How many, Albus, speak into the mic- © Melli ~ Don’t share/repost without credit please.

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When you move into a new house, and there’s a homophobic ghost in it

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This came together really quickly and I’m pretty proud of it

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Belief

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Book Grindelwald vs. Fantastic Beasts Grindelwald

For those who don’t recall, or perhaps have only been exposed to the character through the FB movies:

Book Grindelwald:

“Golden” curly shoulder-length hair

Blue eyes (not mentioned in the books, but stated to be blue in the published Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay, which would seem to indicate that this was JKR’s original vision of the character before JD changed it)

“Handsome;” “merry-faced;” with a “Fred and George-ish air of triumphant trickery about him”

Laughs & smiles a lot

Fantastic Beasts Grindelwald:

White hair; atrocious post-breakup haircut

One brown eye and one sickly-looking blue-white eye

Very serious

Has smiled approximately one (1) time per movie; never laughs

Only hint of playfulness/tricksterishness is the “no cheating, children” line; did they even try

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Why do people in fanfiction and fanart show grindelwald as the dominant partner? Like if you think their dynamic doesn’t fall neatly into the dom/sub categories and the demarcation is blurred. It is said that Albus dressed flamboyantly later in life but he’s very tall and already had stubble when he was 18. Conversely gellert is described as good-looking in a way that inspired protectiveness (from Harry) and is a Seer, a magical trait mostly associated with women

Hi anon!

Uh, I really don't think I'm the right person for this question. Dom/sub dynamics are... not really terms I think in. (Not because I'm opposed to it or anything, I just find it very strange that people take it as the natural lense through which to view a relationship dynamic. I mean, a relationship should be an equal partnership, what's with the insistence of figuring out who's "dominant"? Also the whole framework smells suspiciously of heterosexual gender stereotypes. Buuttt I digress). Since you're here, though, I'll do my best to answer.

The straightforward Doylist explanation is that, looking at a cross-fandom sample, hero/villain ships tend to portray the villain as dominant. It's a trope. I'd pin it on narrative structures that have the villain as the aggressive party, and the hero as the reactive one; a structure which certainly applies in this case, since Grindelwald is the one with a cause and Dumbledore is (very reluctantly) reacting. However, the fact that they ended up in this dynamic is largely a matter of circumstances and may not say much about their dynamic when they were actually together, so perhaps it's not the most satisfying answer.

To discuss what I actually think their dynamic would be like: I doubt either of them would be satisfied being consistently submissive. They were drawn to each other's power, after all; having either of them submit completely would likely have lost the other's interest. That said, I can see why it's easier to imagine Albus being submissive. He already has loving relationships with other people (in a non-romantic sense, obviously) so he's more practiced with vulnerablity and compromise. Hell, even the fact that he's in Godric's Hollow that summer is the result of him compromising for the sake of his loved ones. We don't know that Gellert has any similar ties; the fact that he ended up staying with Bathilda suggests there's no-one closer to him, and while he and Bathilda got on well there's no sign that he would sacrifice or compromise anything for her. So, if one of them had to be more vulnerable, it would be easier to see Albus doing it; it's not as big a deal for him. Gellert, meanwhile, would likely feel threatened by the loss of power at first; he's used to relying on himself and seeing others as rivals or threats, the concept of feeling safe surrendering power to someone he loves isn't as easy for him.

That said, I actually find submissive Gellert much more interesting because of this. Gellert is all about power, as symbolised by his interest in the Elder Wand. Giving it up, in any form, would be the ultimate show of love and trust for him. I imagine Gellert as someone who has difficulty admitting affection sincerely in words. He can sweet-talk and manipulate with ease, but - maybe precisely because of that - I imagine that he would be frightened of the weight of admitting something too honest. So, he would admit it in actions instead - like surrendering, letting someone else dominate him, something which has massive significance for a person with narcissistic tendencies who would normally hate to put someone else "above" himself in any sense. So yes, I think Gellert being submissive would definitely happen, but would be shown more rarely because of the much greater emotional impact and significance when it does happen.

... Well, I said I was the wrong person to ask, but considering how much I had to say, maybe not?

(As a side note: what's the quote that says he was good-looking in a way that "inspired protectiveness"? I don't remember anything like that.)

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They meet again on the eastern front.

“Schön dich zu sehen, herr Dumbledore!” Grindelwald’s lazy wave begets a fire so hot it burns blue.

Albus responds by creating a water dragon composed entirely of moisture sucked from the air, dousing the thing before it has a chance to do harm to anyone. A great burst of steam covers their corner of the battlefield, neatly hiding them from the chaotic spellwar beyond.

“Ich versichere Ihnen, dass das Vergnügen ganz bei Ihnen liegt.” Albus licks his chapped lips. “Was machst du hier, herr Grindelwald?”

“I was conscripted,” Grindelwald says honestly. “Und Sie?”

“I was curious,” Albus admits.

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What's crazy is long before buzzfeed was ever a thing my mental image of Remus Lupin was pretty much Shane Madej

And basically giving any unflappably audacious buzzfeed unsolved quotes to marauder era Remus actually works pretty well lol

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I wasn’t sure whether to post this or not, but I fixed a few things so here,,

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art dump! photoshop was finally cooperating ^^” notice that when I draw em apart they’re sad 👀 I’ll be expanding more on the Mer AU cause i’ve got this story in me head but for now enjoy :D

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How long has it been?

As many years as there are blades of grass.

Verrannallu from Darkness, Take My Hand by @kathyswizards

Sources: x x x x x x x x

Fic link below the cut because tumblr is weird any maybe this will help? Here it is and it’s nothing like the usual content for this blog but anyway I recommend it: Darkness, Take My Hand

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“it will be this, always, as long as he will let me.”

happy birthday to the love of my life @ineskew!!! this took forever and is possibly one of the most complicated pieces i’ve done but i loved every second of it. it’s inspired by our country manor verse where original graves and credence spend time together, healing and falling in love, while staying at the Graves’ family manor upstate. (non gif version under the cut)

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Grindeldore AU: “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt “You knew we were leaving the country. You knew it all the time and you didn’t tell a soul. Why is that?” The walls had fallen away and the room was black. Gellert’s face, lit starkly by the lamp, was pale against the darkness and stray points of light winked from the rim of his spectacles, glowed in the amber depths of his whiskey glass, shone blue in his eyes. ”I don’t know,”I said. He smiled. “No?” he said. ~ “Gellert, what in God’s name have you done?” “You tell me,” he said. And the horrible thing was, somehow, that I did know. “You killed somebody,” I said, “didn’t you?” He looked at me for a moment, and then, to my utter, utter surprise, he leaned back in his chair and laughed. “Good for you,” he said. “You’re just as smart as I thought you were. I knew you’d figure it out, sooner or later, that’s what I’ve told the others all along.”

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So....

Grindelgraves Men In Black Au featuring heads of American and German branches: Director P (Percival) and Kommandeur G (Gellert), visiting British branch xenobiologist Agent N (Newt), Jealous™ Agent T (Theseus), and exasperated Agents T (Tina or P2 because why not) and V (Vinda)

The two branch heads are always at odds when they see each other, but the offices have started a betting pool on who will slam who into the meeting table first and when the wedding will be.