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[raplele]

[spiderfreedom]

Finished 'femininity and domination' and i'm just gobsmacked. in a world full of propaganda about "reclaiming femininity", it feels like resistance to remember that femininity is not a harmless collection of traits and aesthetics but a politicized value system that demands the subordination of women. femininity not only demands women be subordinate but teaches them how to be subordinate and take pleasure in their subordination. and it makes power, real power, seem dull and abstract. it's an excellent mechanism for producing docile persons

this was something i intuitively understood at a young age and which was slowly eroded after a decade of "feminist" attempts to reclaim the value system that demands our subordination. gender was and still is about power

[4eternal-life]

MIKHAIL GEORGIEVICH ABAKUMOV  (Russian/Soviet, 1948 -2010)

Autumn in Totma,  1998

© 2016-2022 Soviet Art  / Abakumov

[theespaceace]

“man, what a year” i say as its only been 12 days into january

[andromedasea]

happy pride to people with ‘contradicting’ identities i love you and you’re doing it right

[riverphoenixsgothwife]

claudia de lioncourt giving these to louis and lestat respectively

[p0th]

surrounded by friends

[zedif-y]

this website is so easy all u need to do is post geminitay

[unopenablebox]

finished my shawl!

[raplele]

abandoned village in the woods :3

[interstellarz]

♤ 🎱 \(^o^)/

i feel your heart beat, to the beat of the drums — @i04rei

[malibuklaus]

[hello-eeveev]

This post and everyone’s tags on it have made me want to outline and/or write a fic where bells hells learn that the ‘dirt wizard’ from the malleus key and handsome fugitive wizard that’s escorting them to Aeor are in a relationship. Another outsider POV “wait, the wizards are dating?!?” fic, a la oh, by the way.

However, this has led me down a deep rabbit hole of figuring out exactly what the bells hells know about Caleb and what they know about Essek and what bits of information will connect once they realize that they know the guy Essek was gushing about. Which is really difficult! Because I’ve been making these connections since they were mere suggestions! I have all this context that lets me know that the Widogast that sent an archivist from the cobalt soul is the old friend that lead Astrid to cooperate with the interrogation, who is the same person that Essek said he was going to talk to before bed!! Did the Bells Hells even have the mental bandwidth to remember the singular comment that Seth was “sent by Widogast”?

Anyways, my brain is flooded with information and I’m 95% sure Allura knows Essek and has talked dunamancy with him now.

[pyrokineticmaniac]

imagine being young fintan. Imagine going from a powerful respected leader to a murderer in a day. having to deal with people so afraid of you they essentially outlaw your identity, all while you cant decide if you should hate them or agree with them. you messed with things that were never meant to be messed with. and you paid the price. your fellow prokinetics, your friends. they're gone. and you cant stop yourself from wishing you went with them, even when you know the guilt could break you into pieces that can never be put back together.

[whinlatter]

beasts | from the postbag 🦉

it is a source of great delight, great gratitude and great guilt that i have an inbox full of juicy questions i haven't answered. reckon it's about time i got around to answering some of them! this is a bumper post with lots to answer and plenty to rummage around in, so if you have sent me a question i hope you will find it answered in here! (if i haven't replied, please know that i have treasured/been tickled by every one and will never not be pleased as punch that people reach out to say hi and chat about stuff i put out into the world). alright. to business!

it’s a fair question anon, and the answer is at least partly as you suggest: neville and seamus are loyal to ginny (dean, ofc, wasn’t there). in c.12 harry talks about having spoken with neville about it, and though he tells ginny about it, he also reassures her neville didn’t spill her secrets - harry doesn’t like people talking about him behind his back, and he’s right to assume ginny wouldn’t either. (i mean, i also think waiting for someone to be ready to talk about something is a basic mark of respect for a loved one - and learning to be patient and not demanding information from people is a skill a certain mr potter could do with learning). but, as i hope c.14 gestured towards and as the flashback chapters will unpack, ginny also had a very specific war that was particular to her and who she was vis-à-vis harry and the order. neville and (to a lesser extent) seamus know some of it, but they don’t know the whole picture. hope this helps!

i live to gag! (thank u anon!) 

i played with writing ginny having different emotional reactions in the final scene of c.14, but in the end decided i liked having her quiet, resigned to it, like she knew this was coming (they’ll all know soon, as she tells herself throughout this chapter). for someone who is often kicking off and raging at people bearing bad news, it’s a lot of fun to write ginny as someone with the wind knocked out from her every now and then. 

i won’t spoil this one, anon, but i will say that i think ginny understands harry, his good intentions, and the reasons for his blindspots. they’ve got chats to have for sure. but will she be throwing hands imminently? i would not bet on it. 

it was little women! the same book hermione's reading in chapter 3. the granger girlies love a classic. they prefer the winona ryder adaptation but hermione takes the family to see the greta gerwig version and bawls and ron has to mop her up in the richmond everyman cinema.

to these lovely anons and the others i am keeping close to my chest - i am reaching into the screen and tenderly stroking your rosy little cheek. thank you for waiting for next bits of my fic !!!

on harry's characterisation - harry is a cranky crabby little grouch with a temper and a good sulk in him. he also is not beating the softie/sentimental allegations and will always be a sweetpea when it comes to those with good vibes and freckles in spades. and we should not forget it!

anon, i don’t know what you’re like as a host, but if two horny teenage houseguests decided to use my hut for a spot of snogging and heavy petting i’d be putting my foot down and setting the skrewts on them.

more seriously - there are lots of reasons, and most are boring. some are just ‘plot’. these are two characters who are not just physically removed from one another, but having to clock their emotional distance from each other, or at least the distance in their experiences of war and how that has changed them. having them physically distant and trying to find their way back to each other through new ways of communicating is a part of this story. it would be a much much more boring story if harry and ginny could see each other every week. i love a hinny hangout as much as the next person. but the story wouldn’t work if they had endless access to each other. and this is where the other reasons come into play - story conventions, or the rules put in place by canon, where characters beyond hogwarts very rarely set foot on hogwarts’ grounds without serious reason, and the school behaves pretty much like every other english boarding school, which is strictly controlling visitor time and not just letting people rock up and hang out with the students whenever they feel like it. 

you best believe michael A&R corner will be handing out the ravenclaw lads’ mixtapes outside the courtroom, anon!

this is definitely an agree-to-disagree on this one, anon. i think, if there were no post-war justice, no trials, no public reckoning, no need to immediate need to clear snape’s name, then maybe. but i think harry would get one whiff of death eaters trying to blame their crimes on old sev and say, not on my watch. he’s literally the only person who can clear snape’s name posthumously. do i think he felt weird about it all? absolutely. but i think he would do as he does in ootp re clearing his own name and make it his business to get the truth out. i don't know if you've noticed but that young man is really rather righteous. he also couldn't wait to tell voldemort snape was actually a goodie. he was chomping at the bit, he was salivating. he had the goss and he could not wait to spread it. he's just like me fr!

thank you sm anon! i have talked a little bit about my view of hermione and ginny's relationship here (forgive the link to an old thing, i am terrible for repeating myself), but i think their relationship as you see it in beasts is my way of trying to write the middle ground between the two views of their friendship often doing the rounds in fandom - eg. they're absolute soulmate besties who totally get each other all the time vs they're basically not friends at all. i am just a bit of a sucker for hard won female friendships earned by girls growing up and getting a grip. now - if harry and ginny had an argument, i imagine ginny would be right, and hermione is always on the sign of reason. but even if ginny wasn't right, i reckon hermione would have a quiet word with her about it, but still make sure she told harry off to, just because it's good to never let the men in your life know peace.

i yelped! you dreamed of my fic! that's bonkers and brilliant in equal measure. look if chapter 15 gets revealed to you in a dream and it's better than in the google doc i'll be soooo fuckin pissed.

[i-cant-sing]

Hiii hope ur doing well ^^

i just wanted to ask if u have some kind of posting schedule for the time travel au???

yes, the schedule is whenever i have time.