#James Cousins

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents. She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

[dakotayounger]

Dead on the Line By James Cousins From the album On The Way Added to music worth sharing playlist by Dakota Younger

[marvelomadness06]

Remus: James… why do you have bite marks on your arms?

James: *sweating nervously* OH- oh, Urm I was babysitting my little cousin and- and he bites. haha.

Remus: *raises one eyebrow*

Sirius: *sympathetic* That sucks mate. Reggie was a fucking biter too- reckon I’ve still got scars from the little shit.

James: *quietly squeaks*

Remus: *raises the other eyebrow*

James: … I’ve got to go *absolutely bolts*

Sirius: what was that about?

Remus: *sighs* It would appear that you and James have the same cousin.

[dorlilymylovesss]

Regulus is very spoiled

Sirius and Andromeda, who carry him around and buy him whatever he wants, Narcissa, who lets him borrow books from her personal library even though no one else is usually allowed to touch them.

Belatrix, who teaches him to play the piano and shows him her soft side, which she rarely shows.

Regulus is their favorite, so he's grown up to be a bratty, hard-to-please guy

[nothingtoseeherebyeexx]

have you ever tried…this one? 💕

*disclaimer: some might argue that this demonstration isn’t 100% accurate, since it is common knowledge that ted tonks has been crushing on andromeda for years…

[myfavcharacterdidntdrown]

Sirius: Hey Prongs, I hope our children will get along just like cousins, you know not like me and my cousins but like other cousins that get along so well, I always see cousins having a really good bond

James: Yeah I hope so too

*5 years later*

James: Hey Pads, you know when you told me about that cousin thing with our children *sweating nervously*

Sirius: Yeah what’s up with that?

James: I took your words too serious

Sirius: What do you mean?

James:

Sirius: James what do you mea- oh no no no no. Please don’t tell me that-

James: Surprise?

Sirius: JAMES FLEAMONT POTTER, YOU’RE DEAD YOU LITTLE BROTHERFUCKER

[erraticcowboy]

fitzconte but make it belle époque for @strangebabushka

[areseebee]

do you ever think about how important it is that james is standing right there when michelle tells erin that she’d side with james in the event of a james and erin breakup? she’s looking at erin but he’s there to hear her say so openly that she would choose him over her best friend who is so much like a sister to her that it's practically "incest" to see her kiss james.

and do you ever think about how james chooses michelle right back when her and erin are fighting about the good friday agreement?

james calls it “the cousin thing” - something that probably feels like a yoke of obligation rather than a choice half the time - but they really do give each other a lifeline when there’s no one else to chase them down and tell them to stay, or when their friends are fractured and they don’t have anyone else. they choose each other. i think about that a lot.

[klarolinexluv]

My favourite thing, even over Jegulus, is the black brothers.

That probably says a lot about me actually… SHUT UP ANYWAY

Don’t get me wrong, I ADORE Jegulus. Jegulus is my whole heart, I live and breathe Jegulus… But Black Brothers? That shit is intertwined into my soul. I could read a whole fic solely about the black brothers and be so happy.

The angst and fluff between them just feels so good and sad and painful and beautiful and I will never get enough of them.

I love them so much.

[alienfailboy]

what the fuck are these gay doctors doing on my screen

WHY ARE THEY DOOMED I CANT

[not-rab]

Regulus *to James/Sirius*: I don’t even have time to tell you how wrong you are.

Regulus: Actually, it’s gonna bug me if I don’t-

[yazpadfoot]

Marauders fans are the gay cousins of Harry potter fans family

[helbrides]

the greater nassau polycule - black sails s1-4

[whoopsiesnodaisies]

Hot take (everyone expected it from me)

I think more about the Black Sisters than the Black brothers

Literally the idea that Andromeda escaped!! SHE MADE IT!! Only to have her daughter killed by Bellatrix! Her own sister!! THAT GETS ME

[deswhomst]

If we have to classify the Blacks as good, morally grey, or bad, this is what it would look like:

Bellatrix: bad

Andromeda: good

Narcissa, Sirius, Regulus: morally grey

But I also feel like there are branches to being morally grey. Sometimes, a character who is morally grey leans towards being a good person more and other times, they are more bad (I do not mean to imply that morally grey characters have to be either good or bad but it’s not a 50/50 split, either).

From what I have seen, most people would say that the Black brothers are more bad—or, at least, Regulus is—and Narcissa is more good but I think it’s the opposite (some might argue Sirius is completely good but that’s not the case either, imo).

Sirius was on the right side of the war. He was in the Order of the Phoenix straight out of school. He accepted and helped his werewolf best friend. He definitely had his flaws, as in the prank and the bullying tendencies but it’s not enough to outweigh the good (especially when we consider how he was raised and that it’s not easy completely detaching from what you’ve seen all your life).

Regulus was a Death Eater and he willingly joined Voldemort. That rules out him being a good person in most people’s books, and that’s fair. Why I think he’s more good than bad, though, is that we genuinely have more proof of his goodness and only assumptions of him being an asshole. He drank the potion for Kreacher, he gave up his life when he realised what he had signed up for. He was 18 when he died, and he took the Mark at the age of 16. He talked about ruling over muggles and muggle-borns for years before that (had to be at most 13-14 when he started?) but never about hurting them. Many adults were wrongly influenced by Voldemort at that start, too, so it’s not surprising a kid who only had those influences went that route as well.

Now, Narcissa is loyal to her family. She is self-serving, too. She is not weak or defenseless but rather a genuinely strong woman who knows what she wants and ends up getting it. She is definitely not a coward, either. She literally lied to Voldemort’s face directly and then walked into the Battle of Hogwarts with her husband to look for their son, wandless. Narcissa did not care for Voldemort and his agenda at all but she made no complaints as long as she was in a powerful and comfortable position. She grew up as royalty and married into the Malfoys. She’s the only Black who made it out of both wars without losing her family (second family, at least). Narcissa is not nice or kind or sweet or innocent or weak or a coward. An interesting or good character doesn’t need to be any of those things. Some people portray her like such a loser who was forced into the life she was living when she’s literally a winner and did exactly what served her well. Make no mistake, if it meant her and her family’s good, Narcissa would let a thousand innocent people die.

This is not to say that she had an easy life with no issues!! Of course, there were huge problems that she went through herself and it’s okay to feel bad for her about those things but what I personally don’t like is painting her as a victim and watering down her entire character to make her a good person.

Age genuinely matters as well. Sirius was a reckless teenager but I believe if he had been given a chance to actually grow up, he would have matured out of the habits that made him bad. We can’t judge him by his behavior in the books as he had spent twelve years in Azkaban by that point. Regulus died when he was freshly out of school so he never got to grow up, either. Narcissa, however, was around forty years old by the second war so she had a lot of time (many war-free years in between) to change if she hated her life. She didn’t hate her life.

Again, this is not to say characters can’t simply be morally grey but rather to talk about the distinction between the Black brothers and Narcissa.

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

Dark blue: Regulus

Light blue: Sirius

The 'she' mentioned is James btw

(I was actually racking my brain for who this fit best, i also thought of reg & dorcas talking abt marlene, sirius & reg talking about barty, and a couple others)