#do the hippogriff

[a-very-bored-blogger]

honestly - what is jarvis cocker and jonny greenwood doing in a harry potter song??

[syaolaurant]

Hippogriffs

I was inspired by the scene when Sebastian guided MC to Hogsmeade, and the wonderful fic Dancing with our hand tied written by @wastelandmoon (still haven't recovered from that one)~

"...Off in the distance, a grey hippogriff soared out of the Forbidden Forest. The rare sight took you back to the day Sebastian first escorted you to Hogsmeade, the winding journey along the cobblestone pathway, him pointing out every minuscule detail along the way (you never did use that special lacewing spot). When the pair of hippogriffs flew low over the trail, the pure awe in his eyes was something you’d never forget..." 

[ryllen]

said wolf,

🐺

[dinxieyinxie]

sum sketches of yonal with magical beasts + @slitheriyn 's cat au of cat!snape eureursghserhe

bonus doodle tEEHEE

[aroaceleovaldez]

Your blog is the only blog where I feel safe enough asking this question. What do you think of Percy Jackson fans who feel as though they and the series have a moral superiority to Harty Potter ? Obviously, Harry Potter and its author are laden with questionable and sometimes straight-up hateful takes and views. But the way PJO fans constantly compare the two, its authors (even though RR is far from flawless), and the two MCs (ignoring how the two both share similarities in the fact that they are both traumatised, abused, angry teenage boys). I'm sorry that this ask got so long, but this has been annoying me for a while now.

This is an interesting question - for one, fandom fights over superiority is a concept that has been around for ages and has never been constructive. PJO and HP fandoms have been fighting in that exact way (and it has gone both ways!) for literal decades (remember, PJO turns 20 this year) so this isn't new, it's just taken on a moral flavor. Let's go over some things though (but please keep in mind i never got into HP and never read the books or fully watched the movies so my knowledge of HP is primarily pop culture absorption/secondhand from my family and friends):

Are either series perfect? No. HP absolutely is full of hateful sentiments and JKR is a hateful person and I do not respect her for that. Disney's marketing recently has absolutely fully leaned into trying to put Rick above her as a moral paragon and emphasizing how progressive he is and his support of diversity in middle grade series, despite some failings to reflect that in the actual text. Are Rick and JKR equally bad? Definitely not. Rick has had tangible good influence on adhd/dyslexia awareness that very directly impacted people like me as a neurodivergent kid going through school in the 2000s. JKR meanwhile has directly negatively impacted trans laws internationally very recently.

Rick absolutely isn't perfect, but he's vocally supportive, has made a lot of effort in the past to be inclusive, and still attempts to do so. Most of his issues simply stem from his own unaddressed internalized bigotry/biases and his research on varying topics not being great (plus poor management decisions such as not hiring a sensitivity reader actually fit for the story he's trying to tell). But he's not hateful. JKR is. JKR is very vocally hateful and bigoted and this is absolutely reflected in her work as well even in earlier HP. They are comparable in that they are both middle grade authors of easily two of the most popular middle grade fantasy (or specifically hidden world fantasy) series out right now. They are not equivalent in the slightest in their bigotry or tangible damage.

In terms of Percy versus Harry, I personally don't think they're very comparable. They share some similarities, but mostly just in that they're both the protagonists of their stories and thus serve protagonist purposes. Beyond that their use within the narrative is pretty different functionally. Their worlds' magic systems are not comparable. The hidden world aspect in both their universes isn't even comparable, since in PJO the "hidden world" aspect is very different from most hidden world fantasy formats because the entire point is that it's functionally not a hidden world. The characters themselves are very different as well - Percy's personality and the way he behaves and reacts to his environment is absolutely nothing like Harry's.

Most of the anti-HP-in-general sentiments stem from wanting to cut off JKR's notoriety, which I think is valid to want to do. And I do think there are a lot of issues with continuing to support JKR's work especially in ways that functionally promote her work or support her financially. Obviously, we will never be able to scrub HP from the cultural zeitgeist. It's just not feasible and I'm very anti-book burning so I do think it's important to acknowledge the role HP has had in pop-culture alongside acknowledging its harmful materials. HP is a text you absolutely can't death-of-the-author your way out of because a lot of the vitriol is baked into the text and worldbuilding in very overt ways - and there are plenty of other pop-culture staple novels like this. But fandom in general, at least true fandom and not mainstream fandom, is so obscure most of the time that I don't think, so long as people are not ignoring negative themes of the source material and are being thoughtful as they navigate engaging with it, that it is an inherently bad thing for HP fandom to just exist at all. It's never going to just stop existing no matter what people do. And HP fandom are not the only ones who should be thoughtful about how they engage with their source material - PJO fandom is not exempt from examining some of the problematic aspects in our own text and figuring out how to be respectful with those topics. It's just a lot easier for PJO fandom to tune it out without it being noticed because there's less of it and it's (at least sometimes) less overt. Honestly if HP fandom decided to go more down the path of a fandom like Warriors or Miraculous Ladybug, where the average sentiment is more along the lines of "Oh god no don't read/watch the source material it sucks/we stopped paying attention to it year ago and it's not relevant at all to what we're up to. We're over here functionally rewriting everything from the ground up/doing our own thing" I would very much support them in that endeavor. I do think there is merit in limiting promotion of the HP source material as much as possible, though.

Hopefully that all makes at least some amount of sense.

[drinkabletoxicdishsoap]

do they only exist in the end credits of the movie? Yes. Are they everything to me? Absolutely.

does anyone else in the fandom ship them.. or is it just me.. am I alone on the raft..

[sky-blue-cat]

Finally got around to drawing my design idea for a seapony Kokomi for my Genshin mlp au!

[scarapanna]

Today's magma stuff!

More horsies this time! (+ goldie's colorful horse show design for that au sncnsn)

[thepunkmuppet]

I don’t think I ever actually said this on here, basically for one of my mock english gcse exams for the “write a story” section I wrote a time travel / somewhere else jonmartin fic. literally. the prompt was “something surprising” I think, and I just went well. waking up in an alternate universe would be pretty damn surprising. and it was just jon waking up in bed with no scars and no eyepocalypse and going “wHEre’S mArTiN” and I got a grade 9 (A**). so yeah that happened

[aesopsharpmybeloved]

[pangaeaseas]

sirius' bestfriendship with buckbeak is criminally underrated in fandom. give that man a horse eagle bestie. sirius buckbeak brotp...

[bishopony]

some designs I made for an arpg on discord, once they pass approval I’ll be putting them up for sale! :]

[livvyofthelake]

netflix is such a cunt for not dropping a new sort of mid movie around the end of the year that i can watch with my dad and sister on new year’s eve. netflix you used to love doing that… now i’m looking through what’s on there like damn what can i watch with these bitches tonight if i don’t find something i’m gonna be stuck with that sad little orphan harry potter. and i’m finding nothing. netflixxxx you’re giving me nothing!! now on the bright side my sister knows which of those movies i don’t like so she’ll pick one of the better ones probably. with any luck she’ll pick the one good one. but i don’t trust her 100% to know what the one good one is. despite that being obvious to anyone with a brain. sorry to my sister. but you guys all know what the good one is. everyone knows what the good one is. it’s the only one that’s good…

[weirdbabs]

i go into the dungeon meshi tag. i see one of the top posts is someone misinterpreting the fact that senshi’s favorite food is hippogriff soup to be bc he really loved the taste and can now eat it without fear that he would have to kill a dwarf to eat it again rather than the actual intent that the soup, which had no seasoning, tough meat, and just water as its broth, was his favorite bc despite how horrible it was it was now forever tied to the relief he felt when he realized the soup was actually monster meat. i promptly leave the tag

[githvyrik]

I think more Other People in a story should be annoyed by their Chosen One. like oh wow looks like the exact same fucking person was the first choice for something cool AGAIN and now we’re all expected to suck them off AGAIN and they’ll get special treatment AGAIN and we’re gonna pretend they did everything off their own merit AGAIN. every time they’d be in front of me in a line I don’t think I’d be able to handle it

[soupmanspeaks]

mlp au Michael is half (Unreformed) changling, a quarter Unicorn and a quarter Kirin send tumble