#but also a double edged sword

[padfootastic]

Out of universe: Lily’s letter is in Sirius’s room so that Harry can read it with no thought behind why it was in a room Sirius hadn’t set foot in since he was 16, way before Lily would’ve written the letter

In universe: Sirius kept that letter in Azkaban and brought it with him when he escaped and somehow never lost it, his personal belongings were sent to his family after his arrest and they never got rid of them even though they never thought they’d see Sirius again, his family or an Order member went and gathered up all of Sirius’s stuff from wherever the belongings of dangerous criminals are kept (and if it’s the Order that did it, they got it after he escaped Azkaban, so I guess the Ministry or whoever keeps convicted criminal’s stuff over a decade after they’re arrested), Sirius himself went and got the letter even though he was a wanted felon, and presumably some other reasons as well.

oooh i entirely forgot that harry found it much later 💀 it’s v likely sirius could’ve gotten that letter (and his other belongings) from somewhere and kept it in GP himself. i still like the thought of him carrying it w himself always tho hehe just bc it’s utterly heartbreaking.

[cup-o-stars]

Last part for old GF sketches

(Actually, most of these aren't old at all, but their average is brought down by the last picture, which I drew back in August and kept forgetting to post)

[sinnettini]

inspired by a conversation i had with mars the other day, i ask tennisblr:

*significant can mean a 1000, the wta/atp finals, the billie jean king/davis cup finals or something else i'm forgetting that's particularly important during the tennis season. some of these have dates that have varied more than others over the years but regardless since every tournament obviously happens on different dates every year i'm asking usually, so if most years your birthday is during, for example, indian wells or the davis cup finals pick the 2nd option even if sometimes it isn't, you know

[taylortruther]

taylor truly madly deeply hates to be misunderstood

[selfship-confession-box]

it really sucks heavy having an f/o in a fandom where people dont selfship in, because i wont ever be popular or well-liked for it on the basis that its more niche compared to other fandoms people selfship for. no amount of community or networking will give me the support i want because theres no one to talk to (and that goes both ways. where is everyone hiding )

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[likea-black-widow-baby]

I wanted to take a moment to respond to a complaint I've seen a lot of people having about AAA.

I've seen a lot of posts, mostly about Agatha or Rio, talking about how they were "done dirty" by not having enough time dedicated to their stories. There were gaps they wanted to see filled in, or explanations for moments we see that we never get the background for. And I 100% sympathize and even agree. But people are blaming Jac and the writers for that and it is just so not their fault.

I would personally blame the prevalence of short-form storytelling that's dominating TV nowadays. I think we've actually forgotten how long seasons of TV used to be. The first six seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had 22 episodes each! And that's why it was so good! We got to spend so much time with the characters, learning their backstories and seeing them learn to care about each other.

If things feel rushed, if storylines feel incomplete, I would blame this shift towards shorter TV seasons. It's not Jac or the writers' faults-- they were given 9 episodes to pack in backstories and relationships for seven characters, set up the Young Avengers, build a satisfying story for a preexisting character (Agatha), answer questions left by MoM and Wandavision, and, you know, be a coherent TV show with a plot that made sense, all with a smaller budget than most other Marvel productions. This has been a problem for ten years-- all that pressure is the reason why Joss Whedon left the MCU. (Not defending Joss, just saying this trend has existed for a while now).

All this to say, if you feel unfulfilled with how AAA handled things, please don't blame the people who worked on it. They did everything they could with the short leash they were given.

[skyartworkzzz]

GUYS MANIFEST ME LOCKING IN TODAY I WANNA ANSWER MY ASKS BUT TS4 HAS BEEN STEALING HOURS OF MY LIFE HELP

[akkivee]

we seem to be framing the true hypnosis mic as the end all be all, where we use the mic to unite japan under the winner’s vision, makes me think of how the second guidebook expressly said that the affects on those who are hit by the true hypnosis mic are unknown and probably vary

and that doesn’t seem like something you should be using on the nation tbh lmao

[hatkuu]

Kylar's shitty bad boy impression where everything he says sounds like a question

yeah :(

bro tries to be cool but it just does not work out whatsoever. its really lame and pathetic and you try to play along with it out of pity but it your expression eventually just turns into a mix of confusion and fear. its bad. no charisma at all. if he had stats his charisma would be negative and no it cannot be raised. you're stuck with loser kylar forever.

[cto10121]

how is jk rowling closer to dickens than donna tartt?

Rowling, like Dickens, is supremely devoted to social realism, which includes comedy, satire, and commentary. So naturally she also uses his techniques (significant character names, child POV with adult sensibility, etc.) and sometimes even tropes (abused orphan boy, mean relatives, relative and abject poverty, snobbery and classism, etc.). This is most glaringly apparent in the Strike series, to the point where they are more like sociological tomes than mysteries, but Harry Potter also fits the Dickensian mode very comfortably.

The difference is that Dickens was not really a mystery writer, whereas Rowling is, at least in plot. Also, Dickens had a much more visceral experience with poverty and institutional injustice than Rowling; there is a lack of that both-sides centrism in Dickens. He was also more influenced by Shakespearean psychology and tropes than Rowling. Rowling, however, was much more aware of white supremacy than Dickens could ever be—her understanding of class struggle includes colorism (Voldemort and some of the Death Eaters especially are aristocratically coded to the extreme - all those Anglo-Norman names! Revealingly, none of them are POC).

As for Donna Tartt, from the two (very popular) books I’ve read by her, she only uses Dickensian tropes for quasi-mythic and romantic journeys; they are largely empty of their political and social commentary, almost serving as mere literary allusions. Above all, she seems mostly concerned with the power of art, literary or otherwise.

[goodboy4femmes]

I hate texting first for fear of bothering them but I’m SO needy for attention

[anthonycrowley]

so an interesting fact about me is that i went to a school that dissolved and combined with another school (private catholic schools are weird) so through a weird technicality i went to the same high school as the guy who wrote country roads. also did you know that guy was from wmass. like no one there was even from west virginia. whack.

[cementcornfield]

The Duke and Zac pressers are good. I’m getting my hopes up again and I have to stop 😭😭😭

i thought so too!

definitely the most direct and explicit maybe we've ever heard from duke, he typically hedges much more in his answers (somewhat related! i found out recently that apparently back in 2020 people were FED UP with him because he refused to straight up say they were drafting joe lmao. for no reason!! they were the first pick! there was no need to have any kind of sneaky strategy lolll)

i liked that he outright said they're going to make ja'marr the highest paid non-qb. that they want and plan to get all the deals done AND improve the team in free agency (and no mention of the godforsaken pie this year lmao). i especially liked that he said he wanted to pay their "fantastic players" what they were worth (as opposed to earlier this month saying they can't have the highest paid player at every position 🙄) and that they didn't want to insult anyone! (a common complaint from ex-players and implied by trey in that PMS interview).

and yeah, obviously it's just talk, and you can say he's saying what he's supposed to be saying. but as i've been pointing out here, this man doesn't give a shit about saying what people want him to say, and never really has. that's like the bengals' whole (very frustrating!!) thing, they do what they want. and i'm not naive, i don't think they're doing this to placate the fans (at least not for the most part) but rather to placate some relationships with their players that they have definitely definitely damaged over the years. perhaps they're finally realizing that that's just an outright stupid way of doing business!

[thatscarletflycatcher]

One of the biggest problems of writing that Frasier post is that the logic of 90s comedies is not real life logic. It's not just that you can just pick which exaggerated thing to believe more (and sometimes you need to outright pick between two mutually excluding canon facts), but also the degree to which you believe anything. Which is fun for theorizing but also terrible for theorizing because to argue one way or another you need to create the fiction that the coherent narrative you are pointing out has value of truth in a universe where the value of truth is the rule of funny.

[annoyinglilbro]

Sighssss

Nobody ever helped me write cowboy dad

So “cowboy” dad (basically rancher dad) x himbo son is just sitting in my drafts waiting to be finished

Somebody kick me until I finish it I’m literally so far into it

[stunt-lads]

Pros of being a writer: I can write whatever I want forever

Cons of being a writer: I have to write whatever I want forever