#ah yes my ben wyatt post

[echoesofmyfootsteps]

I posted 2,325 times in 2021

54 posts created (2%)

2271 posts reblogged (98%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 42.1 posts.

I added 475 tags in 2021

#ben solo - 76 posts

#dramione art - 74 posts

#reylo art - 68 posts

#reylo - 53 posts

#kylo ren - 42 posts

#on writing - 40 posts

#dramione - 35 posts

#things that made me laugh out loud - 31 posts

#respect the process - 28 posts

#lotr - 28 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i fast-forwarded to the death star fight and loved that it’s implied that rey’s mortal wound to ben affected leia (maybe caused her death?)

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

[whispers] Anyone else immediately suspicious of sprawling Star Wars gif sets that are conspicuously missing Ben Solo/Kylo Ren?

18 notes • Posted 2021-05-04 07:47:11 GMT

#4

I Wrote a Dramione Fic!

I’ve had lots of outlines and even more ideas (you should see my note app), but I’ve finally officially posted a Dramione fic online!

Inspired by a Twitter prompt from @galacticidiots: “Reject seven minutes in heaven, embrace seven minutes in hell. You go into the closet with your sworn enemy to beat each other up (but end up making out instead).” 

Seven Minutes in Hell

Summary:

>>Hogwarts has inaugurated a fully integrated 8th year class, regardless of previous house or Death Eater status. On the surface, it appears like a bold experiment in harmony. In practice, they’re still just young adults doing young adult things.

“Seven Minutes in Heaven, the Muggles call it. But heaven isn’t my thing.” Pansy paused dramatically and popped her hip like a diva. “We’re playing Seven Minutes in Hell—a chance for you to have a real, no-holds-barred, honest-albeit-forced conversation with your greatest enemy in eighth year.”

The room went silent. <<

Happy reading!

Seven Minutes in Hell (4660 words) by echoesofmyfootsteps Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Neville Longbottom, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Minerva McGonagall

32 notes • Posted 2021-08-08 03:49:08 GMT

#3

32 notes • Posted 2021-08-11 21:20:28 GMT

#2

Womaneater is LIVE!

A Runaway Bride/Dramione AU.

Draco Malfoy might be a serial runaway groom, but that doesn’t interest Hermione Granger in the least. She’s only been keeping tabs on him for his seedy business dealings, which is just part of her job as the Daily Prophet’s top writer. That all changes when the Prophet faces ruin - unless she profiles him in the days leading up to his next wedding. Resolving to set personal feelings aside and get the job done, she lets her curiosity take hold and begins to wonder: is Draco Malfoy really the man he’s let her, and everyone else, believe he is?

Part of @dramioneromcomfest ❤️❤️❤️

45 notes • Posted 2021-10-08 17:40:25 GMT

#1

Ben Wyatt Is Our Doughty Nerd King

I’m fangirling over Ben Wyatt’s fangirling today. He is the best nerd depiction in a major series ever.

He is the everyday adult superfan: realistic, capable, takes care of his real-world responsibilities, has meaningful relationships—but you also know there’s always at least 5% of his brain on other worlds.

Ben: I have been kinda tense lately. Just thinking about the new Star Wars sequel. I’m worried they’ll rely too heavily on CGI and I’m carrying it all in my shoulders.

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223 notes • Posted 2021-03-17 00:23:58 GMT

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[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

no but for the babying fictional characters who’re grown adults thing, i know what they mean. there’s this fandom i’m in has this character who’s one of the main characters and the woobification he gets from the majority is absurd. for some reason that’s the most popular fanon interpretation of him, they just see him as this helpless little “owo soft bby boi” it’s so irritating. i haven’t come across one fic of him that hasn’t compared him to a puppy or a little kid. and even if they don’t do that, they call him adorable or some variation of that. he’s meant to be a grown adult, he can totally handle himself. also he knows how to fight, he can take town a whole group of armed men and killed people in canon, but for some reason in fics he’s incapable of combat so he’s really easy to defeat, and is made weak and helpless just so someone can rescue his ass. it just doesn’t make any sense to me, like yeah he can be cute at times but idk why fans make that his whole character. it makes him almost unrecognisable because they change him so much it doesn’t even feel like they’re the same character.

Ah you see, now I'm just very curious about which fandom that you're referring to. Like, I feel as though it would be amusing for me to throw out a guess or two, but I'm not the most learned about fandoms that I'm not in, and I feel like I'd probably just wind up offending fans of the characters that I guess, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut. Still, I do know what you mean. I've seen a lot of posts about certain characters, essays posts that break down how fandoms do this for people like say, Loki of Asgard. (To be clear, I'm not saying they're right or wrong, I don't know nearly enough about the MCU to judge.)

One character that I can say that I've seen this done to, with the experience of having seen the films and watched the fandom...is Kylo Ren. Like, he's apparently thirty years old, and whatever else he may have going on in his life, he did join a group of fascists. Apparently he had nothing/wanted nothing to do with Starkiller Base, but it's existence wasn't a deal-breaker for him, so there you are. In general, I think there's a fine line to walk with how one depicts a character in fanon. I've actually seen multiple examples of people weakening characters in fan content for various reasons. One very common reason, as you described, is to downplay their crimes. To "woobify" them as the TV tropes saying would go.

Another reason I've seen is actually the opposite intent - to strip away their dignity, to take away the aspects of their character that make the fandom think of them as a "badass." Like, I love the Timeless fan continuation, don't get me wrong - but this is what they do to Wyatt Logan, and how. His role in the team was more or less usurped by Flynn. And hey, I love Flynn, but there was no reason the main team couldn't have simply added him rather than replacing Wyatt. It's always interesting to see how these things affect writing and depiction, how you can often tell a lot about which characters a fan likes based on how they depict them.

I think everyone is entitled to their own opinions but we can only draw from existing canon to formulate them and if a person wants to deviate entirely from that, I mean that's their business, but they should probably specify that a character will be "OOC." I guess I just try to look at these things honestly. Again, I don't know Loki very well, but I'm pretty sure he's a war criminal? Not that this negates his charm. Ben Solo is garbage, I can freely admit that, but I still found him to be a compelling villain and he is far from the greatest evil Star Wars has ever had. Wyatt Logan made mistakes, yes, but he was still a member of the team and didn't deserve to be cast aside.

[sakurablossomstorm-blog]

teacher/single parent au

Here you go!

Also on ao3

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It felt weird being back in a school, waiting outside of a classroom like he had been sent out and was waiting for the teacher to scold him.

It wasn’t like that at all. In fact, it was a parent/teacher night. And for Ben, he would be meeting his daughter’s first grade teacher. HE received the letter a week ago, telling all parents that Ms Knope wanted to meet each of them individually to ensure that everyone got a fair chance to talk to her about their children.

Honestly, Ben was hoping he’d be in and out within a few minutes, that he was aware of his daughter, Zoey, was well behaved. He never got a letter home telling him that she’d been bad and she always left school with a big smile on her face.

Ben always assumed that Ms Knope would be a stuffy old person. She always assigned homework, not much, just little assessments that involved some form of a talking animal with a speech bubble coming out of it’s mouth, telling them what to do. They were first graders, did they really need homework?

The door to the classroom soon opened and Ben looked up.

There she was, and she wasn’t old and stuffy at all.

Ms Knope had a head full of bouncy blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She wore a floral blouse and sleek black pants. Ben found himself gawking at her.

She smiled at him. “You must be Zoey’s dad?” she asked.

“Uh, yes,” Ben said as he stood up, adjusting his tie before shaking her hand. “I’m Ben Wyatt.”

“Nice to meet you, Mr Wyatt,” she replied. “I’m Leslie Knope, Zoey’s first grade teacher.”

She motioned Ben to come in and he took a seat opposite her desk. Leslie tucked a curl behind her ear and looked at the shelf behind her desk. There was a row of coloured binders. She hummed for a moment and then picked one off.

“Ah, here we go.”

Ben smirked. “Do you have binders on all the kids?”

“Yes,” Leslie smiled. “I like to be thorough and these help me keep them apart.”

She thumbed through the pages. “First off, Zoey is a smart, talented girl, and you must be very proud of her.”

Ben beamed proudly. “I am indeed.”

“She’s good at spelling,” Leslie said as she looked back up at him. “Her week point at the moment is multiplications, so it might help if you go through them with her a few times a week. We’re not doing anything too tough, only up to four times tables.”

“Okay, sure,” Ben replied, making a memo on his phone.

“She’s very artistic too, and loves drawing. She’s obsessed with Star Wars, which I’m sure you know. So most of her drawings are Star Wars related,” Leslie continued.

Ben smirked and nodded. “Yep, we love Star Wars in our family, her middle name is actually Leia.”

Leslie smiled. “I love that. Why didn’t you make her first name Leia? Let me guess? The wife wouldn’t let you?”

Ben hesitated. “Actually… Zoey’s mom… uh… left us when she was just a month old.”

Leslie gasped horrifically. “Oh my god. She died? I’m so sorry.”

“No, no!” Ben jumped in. “She left us literally… as in just got up one day and never came back.”

He cleared his throat. It was still a touchy subject remembering that day six years ago where Jessica said she was going to get diapers and didn’t come back. He was so worried, he called everyone she knew, until her parents finally called him, saying that she couldn’t handle the post natal depression anymore and wanted out. He saw her a few years ago, covered in tattoos and drinking herself into an oblivion.

Ben didn’t take Zoey over, he couldn’t. In their household it was just him and her. No one else mattered. He’d never let anyone else come into their lives again. He dated, sure, but honestly, he was content with Zoey just being in his life.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said anything,” Leslie said, nervously fiddling with a page on her binder. “I can tell it’s a hard subject for you.”

Ben looked at her. “What gives you that impression?”

Leslie smiled sadly. “You haven’t said anything in like five minutes.”

Ben made a startled noise and shook his head, getting thoughts out of his head. “Sorry, it’s just weird talking about it, that’s all.”

“Look, Mr Wyatt – ”

“Oh, please call me Ben.”

Leslie blushed. “Okay, Ben. You don’t have anything to worry about Zoey; she’s a great kid. Smart, funny, she’s got a lot of wit to her. Maybe a little too talkative sometimes but hey, we all have minor flaws.”

Ben chuckled at that. He sometimes found himself having to tell Zoey to be quiet after hearing her talk for hours on end.

“I’m really honoured to have such a sweet girl in my class,” Leslie said, and Ben felt small tears pooling in his eyes, he quickly blinked them away.

“She really loves you too,” Ben said, and Leslie looked surprised. “She always comes home from school talking about Ms Knope and how great Ms Knope is. I really can’t thank you enough for making sure she’s happy at school.”

Leslie grinned. “Oh, I’m just doing my job. I wouldn’t be doing my job is these kids came home from school miserable. I’m dedicated to making sure they have the best few years of their lives here.”

Ben leaned back on his chair, feeling a little comfortable. “Do you have kids of your own?”

“No,” Leslie looked bashful. “One day, hopefully. I’m still waiting for mister right.”

She looked away quickly. “Oh god, I shouldn’t have said that. Why am I saying stupid things today?”

Ben chuckled, and Leslie giggled along with him. Okay, she was really cute, and Ben found himself unable to look away from her. When she laughed her nose crinkled up and her teeth nibbled at her bottom lip slightly.

He felt it, a swooning feeling inside of him, something he hadn’t felt in years. Not since Jessica…

His thoughts were interrupted when Leslie gasped, looking at her watch. “Crap on a cracker. I’m late to see Mr and Mrs Langman. They really don’t like me, if I keep them waiting any longer they’ll report me to the school board again.”

“Again?” Ben asked curiously.

Leslie sighed. “I was teaching the children about marriages, and said that men can marry men and women can marry women. Their child, Maxwell, went home and told them and I was reported for it. According to them, gay marriage ruins marriage for the rest of us. What am I supposed to do? I have little Cassie in my class, her parents are both men.”

Ben looked surprised. “Wow. They really need to get a life.”

Leslie agreed, and watched sadly as Ben gathered up his things. She stood up and shook his hand.

“It was really great meeting you Mr Way- Ben.”

“Likewise, Leslie… I mean Ms Knope.”

Leslie giggled again and Ben’s heart soared. “Please, Leslie is fine. Only the children call me Ms Knope.”

Ben nodded and went to leave, but something pulled him back. Maybe it was the urge to keep Leslie from having to see the Langmans. But he still turned around.

“I was wondering,” he cleared his throat nervously. “If there was a policy on parents asking out their child’s first grade teacher?”

Leslie looked up and Ben’s words slowly made sense in her head and she blushed and gaped at him. “Um… oh… n-no there isn’t actually…”

Ben grinned at her. “How about I pick you up tomorrow night at 8?”

Leslie let a shocked smile grace her beautiful face. “That would be great. I’d really like that.”

She jotted down her number and handed it to him, allowing her fingers to linger against his briefly. “Here, call me after 6, I should be home by then.”

Ben nodded. “I will.”

He placed his door on the handle and gave her one last smile. “Good luck with the Langmans.”

He winked at her, leaving Leslie looking giddy and flushed.

Ben chuckled to himself, gave the unimpressed Langmans a friendly nod and walked back down the hall. The paper with Leslie’s number on it tucked safely in his hands.