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Candace and doofenshmirtz would be tumblr mutuals i think

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Hm let's see if I can break the record of sith something or other raving about my filthy mind.

Tom is a smoker. It's the one thing he's kept since leaving East London. No, he does not care to stop, and no, he does not care if it's too muggle. What's it going to do? Kill him? He's on horcrux number whatever-have-you, imbecile.

Harry has known Tom to be a smoker. He could smell it on him. Magic, old books, blood, Camel. They're Tom.

Tom adores that Harry keeps a package on him specifically for Tom at all time, Tom adores that Harry takes the stick out of his hands and steals a puff for himself, Tom adores inhaling the smoke from Harrys lips, tasting the nicotine on his tongue.

Tom takes pride in corrupting Harry in the little ways that he can.

"Be careful, my soul. Cigarettes aren't very healthy."

"What are they going to do, Vee? Kill me?"

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love when im watching a documentary and im like "yep thats an egyptologist alright"

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I don't think enough people really grapple with the ramifications only 1 of Voldemort's horcruxes seems capable of fully independent thought, it's his first one, it captures his existence at age 15-16, and if his self-description is to be believed, seems to be structured on what was in the diary at time of his creation

he knew what happened in Little Hangleton, so Voldemort had to have written to him. that means lord Voldemort had a partial amnesiac teenage version of himself that was completely dependent on him, and he abandoned him on a shelf as an unspecified Dangerous Dark Object at the Malfoys for appx. 40 years until Lucius needed Arthur Weasley's family to get caught with a dangerous dark object.

Really re-contextualizes the way he talks to Harry, who completely forgot he existed after he outgrew his usefulness to the case, despite the fact he spent all year wanting to speak to him and had a fucking paragraph alibi locked in and ready to go at the slightest prompting. Tom did not seem ready to use Ginny as bait until she stole the book back after he was ignored by Harry for TWO FULL MONTHS and the first thing he did that very same evening was personally attack Harry's closest muggleborn friend. He was pissed as fuck and yet when he baited Harry to the chamber, he tried to highlight the way their fates seemed intertwined. Symptoms disorders of the agonizingly lonely chuunibyou

(And he WAS the first horcrux, created before Little Hangleton. Myrtle died in June, as the fallout of her death played out on June 13th, at the end of the 1942~1943 school year. His birthday is in December, so he was 16 in June of 1943. The first term of the 1943~1944 school year, after the "summer of his 16th year", he reappears to Slughorn with the ring asking about multiple horcruxes. Pretty unambiguous.)

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starting a collection. please add on

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One thing I find really compelling about ronmort is that the horcrux which targets ron is the one most "maternal"-- tom's mother's locket, which you so cleverly pointed out was also the one which he erected a complicated defense for in a place that was meaningful to his childhood. Everything the locket says to Ron just feels so charged? Wym you've seen his heart and it's yours? Wym you've seen his dreams and his desires? The fact that Ron can hear the locket's heartbeat before anyone else... I don't know how to explain it except that the locket's antagonism of Ron feels almost intimate in a way. The shenanigans would be sexy. Not least because Ron can apparently do a passing imitation of parseltongue (hot).

that each of the trio destroys the horcrux which most connects to something fundamental about themselves is a detail which obsesses me.

the diary

harry - an orphan, desperate to meet someone else who can understand the strangeness and isolation of his experience; searching for the truth about himself, and what in his life is inherited, but unable to ever fully uncover it - destroys the diary, not only the sole horcrux which is an explicit link to lord voldemort's upbringing as an orphan in the muggle world, but also a metaphor for the state of orphanhood itself.

the diary is a quasi-palimpsest - an object which has to be written in; an object in which a layer of text is written and then overwritten by another; an object in which these layers of text can be stripped back until only the original layer remains only with extraordinary difficulty - just like the orphan's search for meaning, trying to decipher the layers of themselves which were inherited from their parents, but only ever being able to see these partially, with the text missing or corrupted.

voldemort's creation of the diary-horcrux is explicitly connected in canon to him coming to learn who about himself, his parents, and his heritage - and, connected to this, to him refusing to sit with the grief of orphanhood, refusing to understand his parents as whole, complex people, and refusing to embrace his "real" identity [which, as the text understands it, is that of a half-blood named tom marvolo riddle] by creating a fake one [that of lord voldemort].

harry destroys it after rejecting voldemort's self-constructed view of his own exceptionality - "the greatest wizard in the world is albus dumbledore" - his refusal to acknowledge the complexities of lineage and orphanhood, and his refusal to embrace his muggle heritage - "my mother died to save me. my common, muggleborn mother". he does this using a tool directly connected to voldemort's rejection of all but his slytherin heritage - the basilisk's fang - in a location similarly connected to voldemort's rejection of his muggle blood - the chamber of secrets.

the cup

hermione - an outsider, whose place in the wizarding world is unstable - destroys the cup, one of the horcruxes to which voldemort has the least personal connection, but which he selected to hide his soul because of its historical significance, anchoring him to a millennium of wizarding history and culture he was otherwise brought up disconnected from.

voldemort's creation of the cup-horcrux comes at the end of a period of his life in which he is disadvantaged in wizarding society purely on the basis of his name and background. he rejects the ministry jobs which would have made him dependent for the rest of his life on slughorn's patronage - and, therefore, pressured him to do what slughorn wanted - and ends up, as he himself puts it, as "a poor shop assistant". hepzibah smith is a pureblood, who is also descended from one of hogwarts' founders - yet she doesn't make use of this superiority ["all sorts of powers it's supposed to possess too... i just keep it nice and safe in here..."], and she doesn't realise [and he can't prove to her and hope to keep his job] that voldemort is someone she should think of as her equal [or even superior]. she - as harry observes - essentially treats voldemort as doll she can play with, posing him with her treasures and pretending his glacial politeness is really repressed affection, she speaks to him like he's an idiot, and she evidently considers him to be her social inferior.

hermione destroys the cup after seven books in which the discrimination she faces on account of being muggleborn are explicit. obviously, she's the victim of violent bigotry - she's petrified, she's called a mudblood, she's the only one of the trio who also has to worry about the muggleborn registration commission - but she's also the victim of seemingly benign, genial bigotry too - the muggle world is treated as a quaint side-show, even by characters like the weasleys; she's praised for her intelligence by slughorn, but this intelligence is still considered in some way unusual for someone with muggle heritage. she gets spoken to by many wizards in ways which aren't far removed from the way hepzibah speaks to voldemort.

as a result, she - like voldemort - spends a lot of time trying to acquire enough knowledge of the wizarding world that she appears to be native to it [this is why she's so obsessed with hogwarts: a history]. but - unlike voldemort - she then embraces her heritage and refuses to hide it - "mudblood and proud of it!".

and - shortly after this - she destroys the cup, in a place - the chamber - and using a tool - the basilisk's fang - which are both directly connected to the bigotry she experienced, since they're part of slytherin's belief that people like her should be driven out of hogwarts and out of the magical world more broadly, and therefore send a big "fuck you" to voldemort's blood-supremacy.

the locket

and ron... whose greatest desire is to be recognised for his individual achievements, who has a complex and uneasy relationship with his place in his family [simultaneously longing to be something other than "one of the weasleys" and fiercely loyal to his parents and siblings], who is the only pureblood of the trio, whose childhood we hear the most about in canon, and whose childhood appears to have been happy...

destroys the locket, which is voldemort's only link to his mother, and the only horcrux for which he constructs an elaborate defence in a place meaningful to him from childhood.

we don't actually know who voldemort kills to create the locket-horcrux [jkr has said in interviews that it was a muggle tramp, although this contradicts dumbledore's statement in half-blood prince that voldemort created his horcruxes from murders which were significant to him], which is a neat metaphor for how little he knows about merope - since he doesn't know morfin's name, for example, we can assume he doesn't know hers; everything he ever tells harry about her is something he's invented [especially his belief that his parents' marriage was consensual, and that tom riddle sr. abandoned her because she was a witch].

the horcrux attempts to torture ron with his insecurities about being a mammy's boy who's always been afraid that he's a bit of a flop at the task - especially when compared to siblings like ginny, bill, and percy. and ron is so susceptible to it because voldemort is also an inherent mammy's boy [ronmort nation, rise up] who never got a chance to have a mam, and who responded to the grief this caused him by suppressing it, pretending it never existed, and convincing himself that the only viable thing to be is unique.

ron destroys it after he returns to the trio - having attempted to strike out on his own [the thing he's wanted since philosopher's stone, when he sees himself standing alone in the mirror of erised] - and accepts his place as part of a group. he does so using the sword of gryffindor, which again represents him embracing not being exceptional - his entire family have been in gryffindor, something he's shown to feel simultaneously proud of and uneasy with right from his first appearance.

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Harrymort AU where Harry is unnerved by Voldemort being trapped in limbo for eternity and resurrects him in order to kill him as a complete soul so he can pass on, but can’t go through with cold-blooded murder. Unfortunately he hadn’t put a lot of care into making a body since it had to be disposed of later, so Voldemort is living in his house stuck missing a third of his legs

(From these concepts)

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Why did each member of the Batfam become a vigilante?

(Wrong answers only)

Comm. Gordon: This is a messy business. What made you guys go into it?

Helena: Flexible hours.

Duke: Clout.

Cass: Free housing.

Dick: Bloodlust.

Steph: Batburger discounts.

Luke: Airline miles.

Harper: Tuition reimbursement.

Damian: Nepotism.

Kate: Women.

Alfred: My green card.

Bette: Dental.

Bruce: Tax benefits.

Barbara: ACAB.

Jason: Early retirement.

Selina: Court-mandated community service.

Tim: Company car.

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tomarrymort dynamics...for ME

(and of course)

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are female characters devoid of complex characterization, or do you not afford female characters the same depth and complexity that you afford the guys? are female characters badly-written compared to men, or do you focus on the guys regardless of writing quality? are the female characters simply less interesting than the men, or do you think men are more interesting than women?

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while they share a similar base flavor, dick tastes more umami while pussy tastes more acidic, though recent menstruation conveys an overwhelming metallic flavor that some diners object to (though i am not one of them). recommended wine pairings are

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Rule one of fandom: there are some things that only exist for us.

Don’t send actors fics

Don’t give them explicit art ever

Don’t tag them in rpf questions or theories

Don’t try to bring them into fandom drama of any kind

Don’t hold them responsible for what the producers and writers decide

They’re still people.  They have private lives, which do not include fandom.

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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

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other fandoms when normal ships: WOAH YES FINALLY THEY JUST KISSED LETS GOOO

six of crows fandom when kanej: OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS GOLLY GOSH THEY JUST INITIATED HUMAN CONTACT VOLUNTARILY WITHOUT THROWING UP LETS GOOOOO

other fandoms:

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I am convinced the reason powerful, intelligent women like Talia and Selina are attracted to him is because he possesses no rizz. Absolutely none.

Like when they first meet Bruce out of the suit, they're expecting to be charmed with his charisma, but since he's comfortable with both of them, he goes on a two hour long conspiracy rant on how the Pentagon is being controlled by an ancient Babylonian blood cult.

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This is probably like my favourite comic ever made in the world i think

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