#guess i gotta just reason it out

[gigglesandfreckles-hp]

After reading your insights on the Womping Willow incident, I'm curious to know what you think about the relationship between Remus and Siruis at the tail-end of the first war. My younger sister just read through the whole series and doesn't know much about the fandom so when I was giving her a brief rundown and got to popular ships she was kind of surprised that Wolfstar was one bc from her impression from the books "Sirius doesn't seem like the guy to romantically be interested in anyone, but if he was going to be interested in any one in that group it would clearly be James" lol this just her own opinion from one read through and she's not one to overanalyze or think back too hard about scenes. But that led to our discussion that the Womping Willow incident must have had some affect on Remus even if he didn't show it in SWM as it could begin to developed a seed of distrust of Sirius that in the end, Remus did believe that Sirius in the right situation was absolutely capable of betraying James, someone he saw as a brother, and Lily, killing Peter, and killing innocent muggles whereas Sirius has shown lack of regard for Remus via the WW incident so him believing he was the traitor wasn't too out of nowhere. But like in SWM where it seems like the WW incident didn't affect any them based on how they were acting, it would seem that even down the line both Remus and Sirius had never shown any type of outward display of mistrust towards one another since it looks like neither ever knew they suspected / had any distrust of each other. Yet, also like in SWM after the truth was finally revealed, both were quick to forgive each others betrayals instantly and move on so maybe that's just how the marauder dynamic was?

i think it's worth mentioning again that jkr just didn't seem to put even a sliver as much thought into the marauders as we do. i'm such a canon purist in almost all media forms and my most common tag in anything i write is "canon compliant" but mannnn jkr really does make it hard to string together sensical dynamics when the random memories and bits of the lads are so sporadic and written as one-offs with no bearing on each other, when—in reality—these things absolutely should/would have had bearing on each other if the characters were designed with even a little bit of the detail she afforded snape. and i get it. they just weren't her priority, which is fine. but they're my priority, ha!

so i actually completely agree with your sister. you'll never see me putting sirius in a real relationship with anyone. (unless my understanding of the chcracter drastically changes for some reason.) however, the sirius/james dynamic is one of my absolute favourites and so i frequently love to tow the line between platonic and romantic—either way, they're just intensely obsessed with each other. that's the key prongsfoot dynamic to me, whether you ship it or not. (this is also why i don't personally ship wolfstar. i'll read it! and i see the appeal! it just doesn't gel for me specifically because james is Right There haha)

in canon, i think there is no reason or relation to the distrust with sirius and remus. i think jkr didn't consider it, tbh. remus and sirius served her purposes throughout poa. they're so macabre and just fine about it, which makes no sense to me

“Remus!” Pettigrew squeaked, turning to Lupin instead, writhing imploringly in front of him. “You don’t believe this ... wouldn’t Sirius have told you they’d changed the plan?” “Not if he thought I was the spy, Peter,” said Lupin. “I assume that’s why you didn’t tell me, Sirius?” he said casually over Pettigrew’s head. “Forgive me, Remus,” said Black. “Not at all, Padfoot, old friend,” said Lupin, who was now rolling up his sleeves. “And will you, in turn, forgive me for believing you were the spy?” “Of course,” said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face. He, too, began rolling up his sleeves. “Shall we kill him together?”

casually. ghost of a grin. rolling up his sleeves. padfoot, old friend. sirius is so CHILL about the fact that his best mate literally thought him capable of all those atrocities?????? after being RIGHT THERE next to him and james, watching how utterly insane they were about and for each other???? literally how? because jkr didn't care.

but on the flip side, yes!!! i think there's such angst and argument there for how the ww incident can be connected to the distrust. as much as i hate snape tossing this out there, sirius did prove himself capable of murder as a teenager. whether it was a joke or accidental or went too far doesn't really matter. snape still could've...died. easily. so while i don't think it likely that remus would have easily believed sirius capable of betraying and killing james...no, i don't think it's too big of a pill to swallow that maybe he thought sirius could have gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd and was spying for voldy. remus is such an interesting character to me because he holds his cards closer to his chest than many other characters. we see that during swm. there's clearly some level of disapproval, even though there's no action. remus even claims to regret this later in life. but what was he thinking? was it just, "lol my friends are idiots, hope they don't escalate this situation" or was it "what the fuck are they doing? is this just fun to them? snape's an outcast. i'm an outcast. would they have ever tormented me if things had been different? how can they be so spiteful?" i think those two thought processes are very different. the former would halt at the idea of sirius being capable of betrayal and murder. the latter, however, would easily stretch and jump to those conclusions, given the added stress of the war and the fact that they knew there was a spy. no one wants to believe it's anyone you trust. but it had to be someone. so why not be sirius? he'd proven himself to be quite capable of unkindness at school. whether these incidents (whomping willow and swm) were isolated or not, i imagine it would be easy for someone like remus to pick apart these moments and then amplify them in his mind when desperate for understanding. it certainly hadn't been peter leading forward with reckless cruelty at school. and now peter is dead and james is dead and lily is dead and who else could it have been???

idk.

[jackass-jones]

Akihiko becoming a cop is something that simply doesn’t happen in the coma route cuz Shinji would see that shit and be like Aki what the actual hell is wrong with you

[mewkwota]

*I shout from a distance* "IS THIS FAR ENOUGH??" The answer is no because I am still within range of Eden's impact.

This is probably a little over a week's worth of sketches as I desperately wanted to fill an entire page with Juno. Well I already have been filling pages with him, but I want more full-body shots. And strongly needed to see his body swaying given its bell-like shape.

As you can see, my weakest point is drawing Juno from the front, and of course that's due to his need for perfect symmetry (and arm placement which I still messed up)-- so my crooked self finds that very difficult. But I will keep trying because I want to draw him.

[nebulastarss]

I'm still so unironically upset about the minecraft movie

[sysig]

Can you please draw Edgar and Johnny stargazing or something like that

Day 8 - Stargazing

[tj-crochets]

So I messed up sewing the flextangle like three separate different ways, bad enough I have to just start over entirely, and I was like what the heck, I've made multiple of these, they aren't that hard to sew, why am I struggling so much???? And then I started feeling a little better, able to think a little more, and was like hey maybe I should take my blood sugar It was 84. I'd been drinking full sugar soda, so it came up to 84 by the time I took it and I have no idea how low it got but I am less confused by my inability to sew the thing right lol (I know 84 is not technically hypoglycemia, but it also shouldn't be that low when I am drinking soda and had a snack not that long ago)

[liquidstar]

when i was a kid i had braces and for some reason the dentist thought my canines were too sharp so he filed ONE of them down and just kinda... left the other? idk why. maybe the sharpness was just getting in his way. i dont understand the logic. so now i just have one snaggletooth fang like somekind of anime character because of this incomprehensible decision my dentist made 10 years ago. no i dont want it fixed im trying to be half vampire. wouldve liked both but im at peace

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

your posts about English folk culture being treated as esoteric within England reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad relatively recently. I was complaining about how much I hated doing scottish country dancing in P.E every year in school and he, having grown up in London, mentioned that he never did any kind of folk dancing in school and it really surprised me.

Having an Irish family and growing up in Scotland I just assumed that folk culture would be a big part of national identity in England because it def is in Ireland and scotland. I mean I grew up in the city and I went to a Catholic school where a lot of pupils didn't come from Scottish backgrounds so I'm sure my experience would be different from somebody who grew up in a smaller town or a rural area, but my school still dragged out the girls who could sword dance every year on burns day y'know

Also now I'm wracking my brain trying to remember all the English folk songs I know and realising that it's comparatively few next to the hoard of Scottish, Irish and American folk songs I've accrued over the past 2 decades. That's definitely partially just due to being connected to the cultures those songs come from and that American folk songs are generally quite a bit younger than the scottish & Irish ones, but it's still not something I've ever really thought about

yeah absolutely. it's something england -- and probably urban england and london especially -- has really lost touch with. a lot of my friends and colleagues are irish, and when the topic of things like irish dance comes up, it's always like "oh yeah i did a bit of that as a kid, everyone did" or "yeah i learned the whistle, obviously, but i stopped when i was eight" -- but there'd be no obviously about that here (even when people learn the recorder at school, it's not often trad tunes they're learning to play!)

i don't know if this is to do with the proportion of the population that's urban vs rural in england compared to ireland or scotland (not sure where wales is at with this, they have a strong song tradition but i don't know much about the welsh equiv of trad dance music nor tbh enough about the song tradition to say anything meaningful on the topic), or if it's a "survival of trad culture to spite oppressive dominant cultures" thing so england lost it due to lack of need to defend it, or if it's predominantly a class issue (but that wouldn't wholly explain schools/the national curriculum, particularly at primary level)... i think there's a lot of factors at work

but it's something i do notice because i spend time in those irish-dominated spaces where the attitude towards trad music and dance is so different. but then those are also often irish language communities, so they're specifically irish communities that are interested in their cultural heritage, and maybe that's not representative of the whole country. still, it feels like even people who aren't interested and haven't carried that interest through to adulthood were exposed to it in childhood in a way that many english people weren't because our equivalent traditions have been relegated to this very niche, marginalised (and potentially very rural) status

[moeblob]

Day 4: Dirt (and Imitation)

I realized while coloring the Muspell sisters that Hrid canonically has a grimy phase in book 2 so. Here we are. Two ways to handle a sibling covered in dirt. (care for them or insult them)

[loderlied]

sharing some thoughts about deactivating here because it’s been difficult pondering idk.

[theskymother]

important announcement jammers

the cool cave library den thing is almost finished

[rontra]

your failteacher yuri AU is so so good. what's so frustrating about persona is that it has plenty of good ideas and characters that get absolutely wasted or mishandled by the actual narrative… like these two teachers. you write them with so much more respect than the games ever did. keep it up!

so as a general rule i don't tend to respond to this Genre of comment or really even enjoy it--as far as my own personal feelings r concerned, "you do [x] better than [source]" (in whatever ways it's phrased) is Not a compliment--but in this instance i gotta say it. they fucked up so bad and it makes me so madJDBHJJNSDB

so... just this once... i'll salute you... im at least glad people like my work and r enjoying a whiff of my beloved women without atlus sabotage ✊

i've said before that p3 hermit and p5 temperance are my favorite links--p5 temperance especially i think is really tight and has an interesting foundation. the actual narrative glue holding that thing together is strong. like the THING is that i don't have to go out of my way to find interesting and compelling material here (and i certainly don't have to make it up from whole cloth or anything)

i would hate for people to have the impression that i'm spinning this all out of nothing or that i hold the source In Contempt or whatever. obviously my concept/inciting incident is zany (haha) and i've added or tweaked a lot of smaller things to better facilitate this specific AU, but this story wouldn't have nearly the legs it does without the genuinely good material they put in those links, and i wouldn't bother making it at all if i didn't seriously love those characters...

...which i guess is kinda what makes it doubly frustrating... that in both cases they've just kind of stapled on some gross stuff that adds nothing (aside from ick factor of course) and doesn't fit with the rest... when "the rest" is genuinely compelling. not only is it a bad move on its own but also it drags down the otherwise good material around itself which is always annoying, yknow... like if it was Just All Bad i would at least be FREE 😭

anyway it's whatever it's whatever . i want to draw a chapter where they talk about their Deep Baggage sooo bad. and i can be like Look. Normal Hermit. Welcome To My Twisted Mind. Or Whatever

[scopophobia-polaris]

God damn you ever realize how much money shit is for no reasons

[bell-swamp-fitzjames]

i wish i had more thoughts on the playlist event beyond "omg its so cool its happening" and "omg im so sad its ending" etc etc. i need to like reread what's been said about each playlist bc that's the one thing I probably dont do enough. i just have the gist of what i remember from when i read it on sunday and then the rest of it is just me going "whoa i can really see xyz listening to this" except for jopson who i constantly want to strangle bc what the fuck do u mean. Jopson and miss jamie's mixtape drive me up the WALLS im ripping my nails off thinking about them (jopson what do u listen to off the clock brother and well. dave just tell me who put what on the playlist u dont need to confirm anything at all beyond who put what on the playlist, just give me one song per guy dave i dont think its a big ask)

[moneygoblin04]

Not doing great right now tbh. Probably proven by the fact that I got cut off by the tag limit. Fun fun fun fun fun.

[seventh-district]

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