#i hope yall like this cos i'm literally already thinking of more

[caffeinated-and-annoying-bard]

I HAVE A LETTER FROM MEI (I feel like a carrier pigeon for yall (lovingly)

“My dearest, non-pen penpal,

Your music taste is very good, I’m a fan of COUNT THOSE FREAKS, which isn’t too surprising since I’ve been a jazz fan and I like a good bass line. Also I am not a kindergartener, I will have you know I can count to 10 (I think), but has, I do have a craving for knowledge. I, perchance, will bite your head off, I haven’t decided yet. I love the Daisy attention, Daisy is my favorite one of the office staff. Especially in season 4 when she’s a bit more sassy and has become self aware, plus her statements are my favorite. I am a little theater kid and was looking for monologues to practice with and so far my favorite has been the statement that Elias forced out of her.

Now it’s time for me to influence your music taste. As a theater kid it is my job to give you a musical and since you’ve suggested Jazz to me I give you “Hadestown”.

If you are familiar with the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, then you will be familiar with Hadestown, although, seeing how cool you are, you may already be a Hadestown fan. If you aren’t, check it out! Also I recommend you two podcasts/audiodramas! 1 - Malevolent: it’s about an investigator who looses his vision and has to rely on a monster in order to survive, while crawling out of the accidental storm he’s found himself in with the super natural and gods beyond his understanding. And 2 - Witherburn After School News: A young girl gets her school paper shut down so in order to keep the gossip and school news going she begins an after school news program for her little city, what starts out as a little gossip channel becomes the center of a missing kid conspiracy and the cult activity. If you like a bit more goofy then go with Witherburn but if you enjoy a high pace mystery then go with Malevolent. I will warn, Malevolent starts off very odd but if you continue I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

Our exquisite exchanges fills me jubilation, farewell my fair gentleman.

-The Jorkmaster.”

Hello! I am delighted to hear of my computer-penpal!! Although if you ever get tired of playing messenger we can exchange emails or something, I'm always glad to make friends (←guy who makes friends once every time god dies and the maggots in his corpse decide to die on his head and actually hates making friends but this is alright because I have been peer reviewed by dear Dev)

First of all, beware that I never got over elementsry school power dynamics, so jot it down when I say: I'm 2 years older so you are a kindergartener to me (just kidding, you guys are way smarter than me. I will sit in a corner with my calculus and my poetry while you crazy kids run around doing all sorts of arts and learn latin)

You can go ahead, my head will grow back again (I cannot be killed because I am unfunny and the writers need someone to make fun of)

Daisy is brilliant, and I am absolutely shattered every time I remember her partnership (if i call it a relationship it wouldn't feel as deep) with Basira and how it had to end. Their statements compliment each other so well narrative-wise, it's insane.

Ah, a fellow theatre kid. Joy of joys, now we can team up and sing the muses' part of I Won't Say I'm In Love from Disney's Hercules at our favourite skeleton and their very very close acquaintance. Also, how dare you not assume that I know every Hadestown song and dialogue piece by heart??? I auditioned for Padre Rentería for our end-of-semester production or Pedro Páramo (i had to audition for a character, although i just wanted to be lights staff) with His Kiss, the Riot‼️‼️it is quite literally my favourite musical, being a Percy Jackson (and Co.) fan since childhood, jazz and greek myths are my personal catnip (though I don't really like Epic: The Musical (the storytelling is great but I don't enjoy the songs))

I have been planning to check out Malevolent as soon as I'm done with Red Valley‼️‼️in exchange, and in hopes you haven't listened to it yet, I present to you Wolf359 (science fiction podcast, quite funny, aliens, The Horrors of Capitalism, it's amazing, I don't know what else to tell you)

And I hadn't ever heard of Witherburn After School News ‼️‼️I will check it out on new year's day, thank you truly for the recommendation

In exxhange I offer: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (to both of you!! It is a great book!!! Not only because we made it a play and now I'm attached), it is a magical realism story of a Mexican village (which actually exists, it's in the state of Colima!) in the 1920s and 1950s (there are timejumps so both of these are correct) and a guy who was sent by his dying mother to find his father. Who was a dickhead and now there are ghosts everywhere what the fuck (it's great if you know what to look for)

https://armandfbaker.github.io/translations/novels/pedro_paramo.pdf

Here's the link to the translated book, it is public domain.

As always, it is a joy and a privilege to exchange correspondence with such a bright young lady. My expectant pen(keyboard) awaits for your response (or not, take your time kid, and merry holidays!) and I wish nothing but for blue skies to open for you this winter

[ashby-santoso]

I’m really here for some queer Harry/Ginny headcanons

Bi Ginny likes flying with the Holyhead Harpies because there are lots of other queer women there. Her mother still doesn’t really understand why it’s important, and her father is supportive but asks millions of questions...but thank Merlin, Harry just gets it. He does a bunch of the admin in the background for her, and jokes around with her team mates, and when she hears about a new sport they’re playing in the states he runs lots of the errands and makes the sign-up sheets while Ginny does all the front-line organising. She is completely psyched for running the UK’s first magical roller derby league.

NB Ginny who was always a tomboy but never thought it might mean something more, who worries Harry won’t want them, who lives under the crushing weight of misgendering every day...NB Ginny is working on getting their shit together. They cut their hair short to try and make people see them right - it doesn’t work so sometimes they still charm it long because they like the way it frames their face. They do what they fucking want thanks. (But it’s lonely.) (And they’re tired.) But since they came out, they’ve had a few old school friends get in touch unexpectedly. Luna’s no surprise, but Dean Thomas? It’s a funny way to reconnect with an ex, but Dean’s been making friends with all the queers in london and they can show Ginny around and make them feel normal again and honestly thank merlin for genderqueer exes.

Trans boy Ginny didn’t know anything about transness. He worried that the masculine aspect of himself was Tom Riddle, still inside him. It was Harry coming out to him as bi that finally made him break down, and the years between his 22nd and 25th birthdays were just a patchwork of fear and pain and loneliness…but also, ultimately, of growth. Every version of Ginny has intrusive thoughts about Tom Riddle, and in the end every version has learned to manage them, even if it was harder for some than others. But anyway, things are better now. He knows where he’s at, mostly. And Harry says his new stubble is cute. (It takes a while for anyone to remember that Arthur Weasley had 6 older brothers, and that this makes trans boy Ginny the 7th son of a 7th son...but that’s another story.)

Trans girl Harry (just like all the Harrys) hates the press, but Colin Creevey’s been moving higher and higher at the Daily Prophet and he does love to write about her. It’s hard to be annoyed when it’s all articles about her latest Quidditch successes and recaps of key moments in the second war, the text still humiliatingly enthusiastic but emblazened with THE GIRL WHO LIVED in enormous print. Ginny buys them all and pins them up in the bathroom to make her laugh. Molly Weasley has taken to knitting Harry fluffy, aggressively pink jumpers with curly H’s on them and she’s not sure how to tell Molly that she’s actually kind of a butch lesbian and her wardrobe is 90% flannel. It’s ok though, Hermione basically lives in Weasley jumpers these days because the unspeakables tend to work long hours in cold rooms with no dresscode. The two of them have this cute little butch-and-femme-best-pals routine going on and it’s fun to give her the jumpers and then borrow them back sometimes.

Ace Harry thought he couldn’t really be with anyone, and it was chewing him up inside. Ron couldn’t see what the fuss was about - “well, could you just date somebody and not have sex with them?” - which was sort of unhelping but also sort of really comforting. Hermione made him worried he might have all sorts of deadly diseases (“Google says it could be a symptom –”) until she found AVEN and figured it out. Harry cried. He and Ginny had lots of conversations, and it was painful but they said everything they needed to and then they got married. A little while later, Charlie talks to Ron who talks to Fleur who talks to Bill who talks to Ginny who encourages Harry to go to France to visit Bill. Fleur declares that she Knew Eet All Along and Bill takes him out to a grotty Parisian bar to meet a motley assortment of other aces and aros with an array of partners, friends and hangers-on. Being Bill’s friends, they are all much cooler than Harry and want to talk about things like French anarchist politics and how to look after facial piercings, but they also make asexuality jokes at every opportunity and they’re obviously keen to make him feel included. It’s…nice. He’s still mostly closeted but now he has a little fantasy of starting up an ace pick-up Quidditch team someday.

Ace Ginny takes years to figure it out. When she finally does, the really important things between her and Harry don’t change - the late-night conversations, the stupid Quidditch jokes, being there when he comes home from therapy every week. Knowing she’s ace makes her happier, calmer, more centred - but sometimes the weight of the world comes down on her shoulders, the weight of every book and film and conversation telling her there is something wrong with her. Then she doesn’t feel like touching him, doesn’t want to curl up and cuddle like she usually does - but this is nothing new for them. Harry has bad days of his own sometimes and so they already have their own little language of fist bumps instead of hugs, blown kisses and cups of tea and giving each other lots of personal space in a way that adds up to saying, I love you. Ginny starts volunteering at a wizarding LGBTQIA charity, and she doesn’t really talk about her personal life in the Daily Prophet interviews she does but she makes sure all the people who matter know where she’s at, and she makes sure everyone knows what she thinks. She supplies Harry with hundreds of shiny pamphlets to put in the back of his Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, so all his students will know it’s ok to be queer or ace or trans. The pamphlets disappear startlingly quickly, and he says it’s the only time he’s really proud to hear hero-worshipful teenagers saying Well HARRY POTTER told me or Did you know that GINNY WEASLEY says...