#(( i hate it ))

[cakeforke]

YES!! As long as it's believable, and you're not BLATANTLY copying a period and have STATED you're doing so, who cares in a fantasy setting?

BUT,, and this is a Big fucking but, I cannot excuse "oh but Back Then they had x" to excuse horrible things,, like when a completely fantasy, no-actual-historical-period setting randomly inserts loads of, say, sa or racism or the like with no setting or plot relevance, that os never covered or acknowledged other that one scene where it's impact is use for The Drama and then ignored. like, that I hate

So annoying when people try to hold alternate-world fantasy to "historical accuracy" standards like. if I wanted historical accuracy I simply would have read/written historical fiction.

The only thing that should matter is if the alt world feels internally consistent/believable. Not "oh but back then" THERE IS NO BACK THEN. IT'S NOT REAL

and just because some aspects of the world (fashion, systems of government, levels of technology) feel consistent with a particular time period in our history doesn't mean that the author is obligated to stick to all other characteristics of that time period. The POINT of alt-world fantasy is to create a world in which the story they want to tell can work, and that's the metric I'm holding things to

[ribb0ngirl]

I'm so tired of her I want to get out

[bichletmepickaname]

Tall buff Viktor scares me. LIKE WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU!?

[thefabledpheasant]

During this sequence that’s supposed to feel victorious and like, “yeah things aren’t perfect, but the good guys won today!” Merlin watches Guinevere and Arthur hug intimately and you know what? He looks sad.

He looks like he wishes he could touch Arthur so freely and affectionately. He looks like he’s desperate to be seen for everything he is and everything he’s done for him. He looks like he’s accepting he’ll never be with Arthur like that and it’s breaking his heart.

That man is deeply in love and he can’t do anything about it. He is happy for them because he just wants them to be happy, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like a dagger in his heart.

It reminds me of that quote from Sherlock, “you look sad when you think he can’t see you”

[blitheringmcgonagall]

Well fuck. This kills me.

Fuck Dumbledore.

Fuck Snape.

Fuck every adult who continued to view Sirius with suspicion despite him being completely innocent and wrongfully imprisoned for 12 years in a complete Hell hole. And who didn’t acknowledge how much they were asking of him, and at what personal cost. No wonder he survived Azkaban with his sanity in tact only to descend into depression and drinking when stuck in his childhood home in that situation…

What will always kill me is that the Death Eaters - his cousin Bellatrix, Lucius Malfoy, Mulciber, even Voldemort - are I believe the only ones who knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was never a traitor, that he never betrayed James Potter (“Sirius Black betray Potter? Those two co-dependent, pathetic bromance, never-saw-one-without-the-other wankers? Are you having a laugh?”) Lily Evans, or their precious baby boy.

Walburga didn’t believe it either.

The people who should have known him best, all of them - Remus Lupin and Minerva McGonagall included - thought he was guilty… shame on them!

I imagine James would be furious greeting them all in the afterlife. Lily would roar at them too. Bastards.

can’t help but think of how, if we choose to go by sirius’ characterisation as a private, arrogant teen who only lets a select few into his circle, sirius’ post-azkaban life just have been such an utterly humiliating experience for him.

especially OoTP. when he has all these near strangers in his childhood house, that he hated and loved and ran away from and couldn’t ever escape. if he spent his entire pre-azkaban existence building a cold and aloof persona, not letting people know what his home life had been like, then to have all of these people get a front row seat to it because of kreacher and portrait walburga’s shenanigans must have been near unbearable. to have the entire order, including snape whom he disliked and mistrusted, hear the kinds of names he’s being called.

not only does he have to deal with the retraumatisation of his childhood, but also the fact that he’s flayed open for everyone to see. it’s not only his freedom, innocence, dignity that has been snatched from him but his privacy also. it’s such a cruel thing to experience, on top of everything else.

to have literal children, his godson who he has been kept away from all this while, whom he presumably wants to be able to look up to him, to have him see into the deepest parts of his soul. to have to be so weak in front of him. not only is he subjected to such vileness but he also cannot do anything about it.

sirius has not had a moment of peace in all the time we knew him. it is indignity upon indignity that is heaped onto him. every other character has gotten a moment of respite but him. it fully breaks my heart.

[allthatispeculiar]

[cheekylittlepupp]

[manicpixiedreamedwins]

I’m sure other people feel the same and have said similar things, but I think there's just a point in the Rizz™️ debate where we just need to acknowledge Edwin has it. Like people are doing mental gymnastics to be like “well he has some awkward traits so he can’t have Rizz™️ so it must be like negative Rizz™️ that just becomes positive” but I’m like… hello? Edwin Payne is a dark academia dream boat.

He knows dead languages. He dresses impeccably. He moves like a ballerina. He is insanely well read, he never stops learning. He’s clever (clever enough to escape hell). He has a high pain threshold and acts like that’s NOTHING. His sense of humor is cutting. Sure he has flaws, everyone has flaws. That’s being human (or like… a dead human). He was an incredibly fucking gorgeous, charming human being and then he died, tragically.

It’s okay Edwin Payne, I see you beautiful.

[cut-n-snared]

looking back on stuff and realising you don't actually have any friends

[gojonanami]

he’s so cute??? it’s not fair???

[dreamingteen]

[michaelwheelers]

Um, Janet ... quick question: can anyone access our search history, or is this an incognito browsing situation like when you're stalking a hot mailman from your work computer?

bonus:

[delzinrowe]

incorrect jjk quotes [39/?]

[sunfyrisms]

of course the show that is fundamentally centered around two sisters and their tragedies becomes centered around men and said sisters are sidelined and their arcs are pushed to the sidelines and all the phenomenal care that went into their characters went down the drain. ​one’s arc is literally “the traumatized / mentally unwell character’s happy ending is committing suicide because they are simply too broken to heal and be happy” trope, and her mental instability is forgotten. the other is reduced to a mere plot device, has no agency of her own, and her trauma and anger is treated like a complete and utter joke for the sake of a shitty ship, and because the writers literally, point blank, were bored with her. it’s so sad because the tragedy of these sisters is so utterly devastating, so encompassing and so intricately woven into the narrative. but make it about two men i suppose?

[bartex-x]

believe me or not but this did numbers on twitter