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Lily’s not even perfect in the book! She’s a bit of a hypocrite. She’s classist. She’s got a real mean streak, an ice cold tongue that she mostly keeps in check but unleashes with pinpoint precision when she feels wronged. She sees things in black and white. She’s nosy if Petunia’s stolen letter is anything to go by. She’s nowhere near as empathetic as her son. She’s reactive, and not great at introspection.

The character definitely suffers big time from JKR’s ‘not like other girls’ syndrome. But the fandom still removes the few flaws JKR did give her.

Yeahhh exactly!!!! I've written abt this before but you've summarised it pretty aptly! The problem is neither jkr nor the fandom sees those as flaws, they both seem to have a real problem with women having an actual personality, flaws and all. But what gets me the most is, like i mentioned before, is tht the boys are out there murdering each other and becoming fascists but lily is the one who should be made as right and perfect as possible so she doesn't hv haters. Smh

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Broo wtf is going on in Lebanon with those blasts? Pagers, walkie-talkies, and now the mobile phones and fucking solar panels.... just how far has Israel fucking penetrated into their systems!?

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Hot take on Lily's characterization in this fandom

Ik I've written abt this before but I really cannot understand y this fandom insists on limiting lily's characterization to being good and right all the time and making the narrative sympathetic towards her even when she isn't coz ppl don't want haters for her. And this makes sense coming from the new marauders fandom coz they see all of their favs as incapable of being wrong. But I can't understand y the traditional marauders fandom acts this way too coz they tout themselves as being oh so progressive, but they write lily exactly the way rowling wrote her but in a different sense

Rowling wrote all the women in the franchise with the lens of what she sees as an 'ideal woman', but imo lily gets hit by this the most. She exists to further the narratives of other, more important characters, everything we ever hear abt her r positive attributes (harry goes thru tht phase in ootp where he realizes tht his father whom he looked up to so much was a flawed person, for whatever reason his mother is exempted from this), and the highlight of her life was dying for her son(despite the fact tht james did the same and we do know quite a bit abt him).

The conventional view of women has progressed beyond this now, but i d argue tht the underlying issue hasn't been resolved. I get tht fandom is a space for relaxation and fun, but then y do ppl hv a problem with lily being a tad bit flawed in a bad way when the boys r literally out there murdering each other and becoming fascists? The fandom sees her with the modern lens of what an ideal woman is(intentionally or unintentionally)- she's a perfect sjw who starts off with all the right values and has nothing to learn and grow from- she's an ideal feminist, she's always understanding, sympathetic and accepting, she accepts remus instantly, she's the moral voice in the marauders vs snape debate, she always stands up for the underdog, she doesn't let societal prejudices influence her views and waver her morals, etc etc. And while these r undoubtedly very fine qualities to hv, thts not how things work. Ur not being progressive by writing a woman who has no growing and learning to do like a normal person, and who's never allowed to be wrong in a way tht hurts others without making her sympathetic

Let lily be a catty bitch in a way tht can be interpreted as 'cheeky and vivacious' from an outsider's pov. Let lily not hv any proper female friends because she was a popular, well liked girl in high school who wasn't really a girl's girl. Let her be hated by ppl for reasons outside being a muggleborn and being friends with snape. Let her be friendless coz she's just a bad friend, she literally almost smiled when her best friend was being assaulted. Let her be homophobic coz it was the 70s and her social circle consisted of ppl lyk teenage snape and petunia. Let her not be accepting of remus immediately coz the whole ww was prejudiced against werewolves and she's new to it. There r infinite possibilities and none of them need to take away her good aspects in canon, much lyk they don't with the boys

LET HER BE FLAWED AND COMPLICATED AND CONTRAVESIAL COZ WHO CARES, SHE'S NOT FUCKING REAL

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Can't believe ppl hate atyd (this is coming from someone who's an absolute stickler for canon characterizations). Lyk clearly u never read it as a bored 14 yr old discovering cringe gay fanfictions on crack for the first time and it SHOWS

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I mean COME ON

Even his hair's falling over his eyes with 'casual elegance' literally could not be more perfect

Am I really the only one who sees Freddy Carter as a pretty good fancast for young Sirius? It's not the way I see him in my head but imo he also fits the description pretty well and has the vibes to play him

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Am I really the only one who sees Freddy Carter as a pretty good fancast for young Sirius? It's not the way I see him in my head but imo he also fits the description pretty well and has the vibes to play him

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No no ur all missing a crucial point

JAMES AND LILY

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Imagine an eleven year old Harry Potter, fresh from the greenhouses and his first Herbology class, secretly covered in snakes under his robes. They’re just so nice, it can’t hurt to carry them around and keep them warm. They know their way around the school better than him, anyways.

Enter Professor Snape, starting his first class of Griffindor first year Potions.

“Cloaks and robes off, you will be utilizing open flames; loose, draping fabric will catch fire and send you to the hospital wing.”

Harry and a few other students keeps theirs on, trying to blend into the walls. It does not work.

“ROBES AND CLOAKS OFF. Quickly. You are wasting valuable class time.”

Harry removes his, very reluctantly. His arms and legs wriggle with garden snakes.

“Mr. Potter, what the fuck.”

“They’re my friends, professor.”

Snape walks up to Harry, helping get some of these creatures off of him.

“Why are you crawling with snakes, Mr. Potter?”

“They’re so nice, Professor Snape. Plus they told me the fastest way to your class.”

“You speak to snakes?”

“Always have, yeah.”

Snape realizes he is in no way paid enough to deal with this.

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BRO WDYM THERE WAS ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, WTF IS UP WITH U GUYS 💀💀😭😭😭

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what a man you were

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Wild to me that in Half Blood Prince during the potions class when Slughorn introduces them to Amortentia, Harry spends 98% of the lesson watching Malfoy. He even notices the fact that once Slughorn tells them they have the opportunity to win the bottle of Felix Felicis, he can no longer see Malfoy’s face – only the back of his white blonde head – because Malfoy suddenly starts paying attention to Slughorn and is facing the front of the room. HARRY WHY WERE YOU WATCHING MALFOY’S FACE WHILE LEARNING ABOUT THE MOST POWERFUL LOVE POTION–

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You can't refer to a straight line between 2 points with "as the crow flies" in New York because that crow will fly directly into a lower Manhattan skyscraper if it did that and get severely injured

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Seventh year, head boy, James was a different breed of anxious over the chance he had with his head girl

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Uk u can literally see how much taylor swift has aged (not being age phobic lol) if u compare her songs from different albums...lyk I'm not the kind to think tht a song is reflective of an artist's personal life but imo u can still see it coz after singing in different ways about relationships and heartbreaks for so many years she's released songs lyk Prophecy where she's scared she'll never find someone and tht she's 'sealed her fate'...lyk damn, thts so sad...lyk we went from having fun to having concerns lyk this...thts deep...

(unrelated side note: So long, London and Prophecy are the best songs in tht album i don't make the rules)

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Look, as someone from outside i mean no disrespect to the country or the people ofc, but srsly, what is going on in the US lmfaooo

"Transgender surgeries to illegal aliens in prisons" how tf does he come up with this shit I'm fucking dead💀💀😂😂😂

I literally hv popcorn ready for this election. It's obviously scary coz the US is deeply involved in 2 wars now and (imho) neither of the candidates are capable of stopping them (both the wars r consequences of geopolitical issues tht hv existed for years if not decades, they didn't start in 2022 and 23. And acc to what ik neither of them hv an exact plan to deal with them, do let me know if I've missed something tho), not to mention the tensions with China. It's scary but I'm so fucking curious to see who'll win, can't wait lol

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The Tale of Three Brothers The youngest - who vanished, hid away The middle - doomed to live in mourning The eldest - sought power, his ego lost him everything Ariana, Aberforth, Albus

...I'm just saying. I don't think it means anything other than being sad.