#how to meddle with time

[satineainsel]

Am I feeling slightly inspired to do a part two of How To Meddle with Time? Possibly…

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“What in Merlin’s name are you doing, Potter?”

Voldemort watched him, leaning against the doorway of little Harry’s bedroom. Harry, big Harry that was, had to admit that Voldemort did look much nicer this way. The way his shirt sleeves were rolled up drew Harry’s eyes right to the pale skin of his forearms and his trousers certainly helped to accent certain assets.

“Are you attempting to diffuse a bomb?” Voldemort asked, drawing Harry’s attention back to the screaming toddler he was holding.

“Kind of feels that way.” No matter what he did, Harry wouldn’t stop crying. Maybe the cupboard had muffling charms and that’s why his aunt and uncle shoved him in there, he thought and then immediately felt awful. “Smells that way too.” Harry let out a huff. “He just won’t stop crying. He hates me.”

“Of course he hates you. How would you like it if someone was holding you by your arms?”

“I mean…”

Voldemort rolled his eyes and stepped into the room, plucking little Harry from Harry’s hands.

“Your older self is an idiot,” the Dark Lord said disparagingly, and Little Harry giggled as he calmed down. Figures that he liked Voldemort better. Traitor. Voldemort looked back up. “How is it, between the two of us, that I’m the one with the experience dealing with children?”

[moiraineswife]

Moiraine + That Pesky First Oath

1x06 vs 2x05

[kaysdenofchaos]

Every time I get impatient and stressed over how long I’m taking on a comic page I physically have to tell myself to stfu bc i draw insanely fast alrdy

Like no Kay, taking 2-4 hours to sketch and ink a page w detailed backgrounds is not ‘too long!’ That is quite literally! Faster than average!

[skyward-floored]

(via @linkeduniverse)

So based off what Twilight is saying here, and what he was saying and thinking mere panels before this... it looks like he might see this whole adventure as an opportunity to maybe prevent Time’s terrible fate.

“The best outcome”... is that stopping the Hero’s Shade from existing at all?

[dayurno]

so sick and tired of people writing fics about jeremy treating kevin like shit over kevin leaving jean at the nest like that is either 1) in character 2) something jean would appreciate or 3) fair. do you even bother to read the books you’re writing fanfic about or is the urge to create cheap angst so overwhelming you can’t see past the tropes you write for every other fictional pairing you like? the idea that jean would appreciate jeremy going out of his way to poke old wounds in his and kevin’s relationship when jean himself does not even like for jeremy to joke about kevin near him is absurd, and that’s without mentioning the fact that jeremy is not so clueless as to think he has any idea of what the nest was like, or why kevin felt he had to leave the way he did. if you need something to make your ship more interesting thinking beyond your flat interpretation of it is a lovely start, but don’t use kevin’s name and storyline if you’re just going to butcher it for the sake of a milquetoast sob fest the characters involved in would not even appreciate

[hunter-burton]

Here’s Ship Art I did

I am A gabv1al fan I can deny it no longer

AND DAMNIT I REACHED 30 TAGS.

[bitchesgate3]

Love that Gale has by far the longest description as the writer's fight for their lives trying to make it clear that his story is about hubris.

[iwasbored777]

"Gwen sensing that Miles is in the wrong dimension has nothing to do with her feelings for him, she just sensed danger."

Why would she sense danger that has nothing to do with her in a different universe that has, again, nothing to do with her??? Why would she sense it again when he got knocked out??? This doesn't affect her in any way other than her friend/crush being the one who's captured. She connected the dots because he wasn't home and when her spider sense told her something is wrong she knew what. It was to alert her that a threat is approaching, but it isn't approaching her. Both times it was not because something bad is coming for her, but because something bad is coming for him. I'm not sure how she felt it but I know why.

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

You know she mailed that letter herself.

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

It's hard being someone who does genuinely get infuriated with Ford's actions and acknowledges a lot of his flaws and the people he hurt, while also liking (and relating) to his character enough that I would like him to have nice things sometimes and don't believe he's satan

[satineainsel]

How to Meddle with Time (and Get Away With It)

When their wands connect during the Battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort and Harry accidentally time travel back to 1981 right after Voldemort's defeat in the Potter cottage. They decide to get Voldemort’s old face back, raise baby Harry, and gaslight Dumbledore.

Because the nice professor can't possibly be the Dark Lord, can he?

[larrythefloridaman]

Crimson in season one pre-context: mysterious, stoic, threatening eldritch being with ambiguous motives and a haunting aura

Crimson in season one after context: that is an extremely-repressed-for-survival's-sake backstage technician suddenly shoved into an acting role who doesnt know what hes doing even a little bit and can barely act like a person let alone convincingly play a role on purpose. and is having to figure it out through observation as he goes despite his surveillance trauma based stage fright. and then with enough time and built confidence starts having a little too much fun? But like all the stage is the world.

[tortoise-teapot]

it was already kinda bad at the end of inquisition but after a few decades of avery being the only person solas sees in fade prison oh MAN that guy picks up a potty mouth

[incesthemes]

it's a chicken-or-egg kind of conflict, built on unreasonable expectations and toxic desire.

sam and dean choose to be codependent in 1.22 devil's trap: they both make grandiose statements that communicate their devotion to each other. but then, between 2.02 everybody loves a clown and around 2.04 children shouldn't play with dead things, sam starts talking about honoring their dad and trying to do right by him. he's guilty that john died before they could actually have a good relationship; he's just started to forgive him for their upbringing, and now he's gone and the way he copes with that is by trying to follow in john's footsteps, as if to prove that he's fine now with the life he's given them.

but john just sold his soul for dean and told dean that he might have to kill his brother—dean has come to perceive john as an enemy. john is asking dean to do the impossible, and on top of that he's left dean without anyone to guide him and tell him how to act. and so dean has cast john out in favor of entering a codependent unit with sam. sam is now all dean has left, physically and emotionally, and sam just declared his devotion to dean in no uncertain terms, chose him definitively, and so sam is therefore agreeing to fill in all of the holes john left behind so that dean can feel whole again.

but here sam is "allying" himself with john.

and sam obviously isn't intentionally trying to hurt dean; he's having a normal response to death. but sam's loyalty to dean and john can't coexist in dean's eyes, and that means sam is reneging on his commitment to dean, even though sam absolutely did not do that. and so dean he keeps to himself and refuses to open up about the truth because he can't trust sam to side with him, afraid of rejection or admonishment (which he receives anyway across the beginning of season 2, reinforcing those fears). he's angry and he feels alone because sam "chose" john when dean needed him most.

and as a result, because sam is of course still trying to be codependent with dean, dean's refusal to open up and be honest with him is equally seen as a betrayal of their commitment. to sam, honoring john is not in conflict with being codependent with dean. yet for some reason, dean won't even talk to him. he expects complete and open honesty from dean with their new dynamic—secrets are no longer acceptable because they're supposed to be on the same page, always—and he's not getting it, and it hurts. all he can see is betrayal.

of course sam is going to mourn his father after he's worked so hard to forgive him. of course dean is going to get frustrated at having no one to share his grief and anger with. of course sam is going to be hurt by dean's rejection. of course they're going to be upset at each other's betrayal of a profound commitment. it's a lot of reasonable reactions to unreasonable expectations, irrational perceptions, and half-truths that distort and warp their realities into something toxic and unmanageable. it's all about those subtle moments which unknowingly communicate betrayal of an undernegotiated relationship, all amplified by the heightened tension of grief and loss.

and around and around it goes.

[jemmo]

i really wanna give podd a round of applause bc he’s managed to make ter a character that i hate so specifically and immensely

[benevolenterrancy]

hi! I recently came across your tgcf fics, and I wanted to say you’re a phenomenal creator. the recovery series fic and the gloves fic and just all of them. thank you for your content and great attention to detail.

do you have any thoughts/hcs on FXMQ and Xie Lian you’d be willing to share? within the original story or the universes of your fics!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying them! (ﾉ*^▽^*)ﾉ.｡:*☆

hmm, random thoughts about the FXMQ... a silly headcanon: Feng Xin has very much been hoisted by his own petard by heckling Mu Qing! That is to say, he'll harass Mu Qing relentlessly about something stupid only to be confronted with a similar situation and realise that there's absolutely NO way he can act in anyway similar to Mu Qing or he'll never hear the end of it.

(For example, he has tolerated some truly atrocious divine statues in the past because he's heckled Mu Qing so much about how picky he is with his divine statues that there's no WAY he can say ANYTHING without seeing that smug bastard's face in his head so he just has to bite his tongue and tolerate some unspeakably ugly statues.)

Mu Qing doesn't generally suffer from similar overthinking (he'll just prepare to kick FX's ass if he dares to say anything about it) except for things more directly related to himself. I think he genuinely finds sewing/embroidery/etc rather relaxing work but he'd rather die than have anyone ever see him do it because he's made such a big deal about not doing that sort of "servant" work anymore.

(He actually really enjoyed stitching Ruoye back together because it gave him the perfect excuse -- he's returning a favour!! and Xie Lian is hopeless!! of course he had to!! -- and he secretly considered using white thread to embroider some invisible little designs just because he doesn't quite want to stop... only he knew he'd get caught if he messed with Xie Lian's spiritual device like that and gave up the idea)