#mauraders social media

[dciphe-r]

If the Marauders were on

✨ Instagram ✨ 📸

(If this blows up I’ll make more)

[mini-anne]

Did I completely disregard sleep for this? Yes. Was it worth it? 100000000%. Please go check this out. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I cried. I laughed. I love Barty (I’m on my fucking knees for this man).

@ccccatttta you are a gift to a desperate woman🙏

[secular-jew]

do you want to hear about my muslim friends?

one has a cat named Milo who is gray and sweet that he sends hundreds of pictures of to our groupchat everyday.

one moved away to pennsylvania and before that always talked about the mauraders and silly jokes and how she wanted to feel loved

they’re peiple

and guess what

they’re friends with my jewish friends

they’re friends with the boy who brings his nintendo ds to school and laughs at bad jokes

they’re friends with the kid with enough history knowledge to outrank our teachers

your ideas of enemies are not nuanced and frankly concerning. Please love your neighbors whether they go to mosques or synagogues

My focus is on the 20-30% of Muslims who support the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, Islamic Jihad, or any number of jihadi groups and ideological positions.

By the way, most Germans weren't Nazis or in the Nazi party. It's only takes a loud or threatening minority to cause mass genocide.

That's where Islam is at the moment. The internet + social media has outed many millions of supporters. It's nice to have them out in the open now.

[lifeofloaf]

about me:)

hi!

my name’s phi (pronounced fee) but u can call me loaf

im 20 and non-binary (so they/them prns)

im in uni studying to potentially be a librarian!

im a libra & infp & have adhd

i love making friends and mutuals so feel free to reach out anytime:)

i love making very specific playlists and associating certain songs with characters/ships/made up scenes

im also so picky with the formatting of everything so i will be editing this frequently bc i want to make it look better

(also just have no idea what i should be putting in this summary of me so i went with an amalgamation of everything ive seen others do)

while im no writer or artist, im a huge fan of the mauraders and love jegulus, wolfstar, and literally most of the ships ppl have come up with (involving the main mauraders at least bc i absolutely despise any ships w sn*pe) & love the fun mixings ppl have created of barty/lily or barty/james

^sneaking in that i offer my time to beta read if anyone would ever like:)

other tid bits:

i initially got tumblr in attempt to reduce my social media usage and to curate my feed to things that actually interested me instead of ppl i could compare myself to, and ended up discovering the incredible fanbase the maurders have on here

im still a relatively new user so im still learning how to navigate and understand everything tumblr has to offer

i chronically overthink and over explain everything so if ur here just know what ur getting into:)

i hope if ur reading this ur having a good day and thanks for being here<3

last edited: apr 29

[mystical-humanoid]

bring back social media aus, I eat those up and want a jegulus one where reg is an avid Tumblr user because of course he is???

mauraders all communicate on Twitter tho, because they're annoying like that but like it makes sense

Pandora is lowkey famous on Tumblr and TikTok because I said so - or she only uses Pinterest, there's no in-between

lily would love social media when she was younger, but then started resenting it and refused to be chronically online. she often makes fun of the mauraders for using Twitter, and like she's so real for that

[a-sprig-of-jasmine]

to start:

hi, im really emulating space email 2014 right now by shouting into the void.

purpose: i've never had a big social media presence and i hate being perceived so much but i think this is something that i have always wanted to do!! i really hope that this gives me more confidence i guess? to start posting on my mains or other platforms. transferance of skills or something.

myself: i think i'll go by pandora, i am 18, based in canada, half chinese half viet, i love the mauraders, i've never read any of the canon hp books, i play a couple games like valorant and stardew, i used to play league, genshin, and more minorly i have played some steam games which include: terraria and portal 2 (with boyf), purrgatory (lgbtq+ cat pun story game) and plateup (basically overcooked but with less flashing colours and same amount of stress).

time on tumblr: (cw body image, only slightly) i think tumblr was like such a vital part of me growing up and it's a very on off type of relationship, i religiously read anything harry potter related, mostly marauders for a few years, dabbled in body image issues and after ~7 years i came out mostly unscathed (biased).

i think interests in terms of fandoms would include - harry potter (+ marauders) - stranger things - the hunger games - pjo (and etc) - genshin impact - maybe more and i just forgot (its been a while)

practice: i kind of want to do a little diary type of thing, maybe this will turn into a boyf fanpage, or just any thoughts that i want to send off into the internet (forever somewhere or smth idk). i will try to be consistent, make this a regular type of thing.

to conclude: thank you for taking the time to read this, or maybe it's just me rereading this again in the future (i'll probably cringe) but yeah. i am so open to making new friends, send me something in my inbox or something. anyway, thanks and yay! to new beginnings! ps. someone teach me how to tag, i never know what to tag or if tagging is too much

[newx-menfan]

X-Force will be fine; it NEVER gets cut (even when it needs too!)…

NYX is the one I am most worried about- I think it’s better than most of the other titles out there in that it feels more unique/experimental where all the other books feel safe (especially Exceptional!), but it doesn’t have as much of an “A-List” cast and admittedly the writers dropped the ball on closing out that arc/focusing too much on Kamala and not the other cast.

I think it will DEFINITELY make it to 8 issues; idk if it will make it to 12….

If I WAS going to cut a book- it would actually be “Exceptional” or “X-Factor”.

“Exceptional”- because it’s boring, it’s basically repeating what the other books are doing, and nothing about its plot feels fresh. It’s hands down the worst thing they’ve done with Kitty since making her “Headmaster” several years back- she just comes off as completely unlikable and whiny; basically letting her friends die because she can “pass” as human. It just feels completely selfish. Where this story COULD have worked with ANY of the NXM, Kitty literally has always been taken care of by the X-Men; you’re supposed to sympathize with Kitty…but instead Emma surprisingly feels like the more moral and empathic person in this book despite having a horrible track record with kids. Bronze is the only character that is somewhat likeable.

“X-Factor” - because it just feels derivative. It’s trying to be “Hellions” or “Mauraders”- and it’s neither. The humor isn’t great and there’s no excitement in it to see what happens. It has neither the 80’s, 90’s, or 2000’s nostalgia and feels pointless to all the other books. All of these books are in some way trying to “appeal to younger crowds” by including social media, technology, and influencers- but this one and “Exceptional” feels the most like the “How do you do fellow kids?” Meme. The art is objectively terrible.

X-Men: From the Ashes Ranked

Honestly as many know- I wasn’t a big Krakoa fan. 

The titles were such a “hit or miss”, I hated the Moira retcon, Laura and several other characters were just horribly written, and after Hickman left the show… the momentum kind of died as well…

Despite bringing dead and depowered X-Men back…Krakoa seemed like we were pretty much only getting the same set of characters featured….

There just WASN’T A LOT that appealed to me.

While I get people’s arguments that this era feels “lost”… many comparing it to Claremont’s “Revolution” era before Morrison; I actually feel better about this era than I have about X-books in a long time. People totally forget that for every good book during Krakoa like “X-Terminators” or “Mauraders”- there was some pretty big STINKERS like “Excalibur”, “X-Force”, “Fallen Angels”, ect…

Honestly as disjointed this era may feel, it at least FEELS like X-Men.

So, after reading several titles, I wanted to rank and briefly review them-

Uncanny- This books is definitely the best of the line! The first arc with Sarah Gaunt was spectacularly creepy and Simone really SHOWS just how much of a comic book pro she is on this book. There’s not a lot of books I would say gets the Claremontian voice right- but this one definitely does! I literally can’t stop singing its praises- if you love the original Claremont, this book is a must read!

2. NYX- While this book ISN’T by any means perfect, I still feel like it has a lot of promise. There really isn’t a book on the rest of the line that has the same young and fresh vibe this one has. The idea of the book is entertaining and when it’s good- it’s fun!…yet, when it’s bad- it’s majorly disappointing. Hopefully the next arc is a bit stronger, because I really DO want this book to succeed! This is the book most X-Men fans WANT.

3. X-Men - While this book definitely FEELS unique in its lineup and fresh… something about it just doesn’t quite work for me. I actually liked the rag-tag lineup but I often feel like it’s bogged down with nostalgia. Remember when Beast went evil? When QQ did kick? When Idie and QQ was at the Jean Grey school?…because this book will definitely remind you! While this book isn’t all bad, my other issue is that it often has the same vibe as Aaron’s “Wolverine and the X-Men” meets Cyclops “Utopia”. There’s a ridiculousness at this point in Scott fixing up another garden and trying to yet AGAIN create another mutant civilization. The book veers into corniness with the jokes and often feels too childish for a main title. While it’s definitely not the worst title… Uncanny is a much more solid book if you want A-List X-Men comic.

4. X-Factor- Is fine. It’s not as great as “Marauders” or some of the other Krakoa titles…but it’s fine as a comedy book darkly harpooning on the 1990’s run of mutants being part of a military force. It’s not anything you’ll deeply care about or even remember, but it’s fine for a quick read. I don’t HATE it…but it’s boring. Even the jokes are pretty outplayed and boring. Also…Lorna REALLY just needs to breakup with Havok and be DONE 😬

5. Exceptional X-Men - Again, I think this book has great PROMISE…Kitty falling from earth and working as a waitress after basically being a GOD... And yet- I don’t feel like Kitty works for this kind of story; it makes SENSE for Hellion to have a chip on his shoulder towards Krakoa and Emma and the X-Men and Anole wanting a “normal life”. Surge would have made sense. Hope would have made sense after being propped up as a “mutant messiah”. They basically did this storyline years ago with Sofia in “New Warriors”…and it made sense then. Kitty… just feels inauthentic and…kind of whiny. I think the biggest problem with this book is it seems like every other title…street title?- NYX is doing it. New students?- Uncanny is doing it. Character bitter after Krakoa is gone?- NYX is again doing it. All these other books are just doing these plot points BETTER. It’s sad because I think this book will survive the chopping  block where NYX might not…which is too bad because I think it’s definitely one of the weakest of the line.

6. X-Force - Oh X-Force. The bane of X-Men fans. I think the LAST time I really enjoyed an “X-Force” title was when KYOST was on the book. While definitely not AS BAD as Krakoa era Percy crackfic levels of crazy… the biggest problem with this book is- it’s boring. Nothing in this title feels greatly developed. Not the villains, not the plot, and not the characters. Everything is “Deus Ex Machina-ed” at the end of every issue. There’s no tension. There’s nothing to keep you in. While you don’t have to fear Beast making murderous Wolverine clones while flying away on a piece of an island or Domino being tortured by a man with a peacock tattoo… you also won’t really remember anything that happens in this book either. While I know sadly it won’t be the first to get cut…because X-Force is historically NEVER dropped no matter HOW bad the writing is…it definitely SHOULD BE.

Overall- I would say “Uncanny”, “NYX”, and “X-Men” were the big winners of “Ashes”…

“X-Factor”, “Exceptional”, and “X-Force” are the rougher titles…

Still I would say again- the biggest problem with most of these are that they’re boring and safe… yet even at their worst I would still say they’re more readable than say “Fallen Angels” or Duggan…

I probably won’t bother with “Phoenix” (honestly I am pretty sick of the Phoenix Force anymore and “Troia Jean” has zero appeal for me)…

Probably won’t bother with Wolverine or Hellverine, unless I hear good recommendations of it online…

I might try “Dazzler”, “Storm”, “Mystique” and “Magik”…

I will definitely read Laura’s solo and review it on here as well”.

But there you go- I really DON’T feel like “Ashes” is as big a failure as people are making it to be online….

[maraudersmedia]

Band AU coming your way

Remus - Singer

Lily - Singer/Bassist

Sirius - Drummer

James - Guitarist/Keyboardist (sometimes)

Mary & Peter - Joint band managing

[homebeneaththestairs]

garden gnomes and group chats

Sirius to felons or falcons: im ready to pass or die

Remus: I literally sent you a study package two weeks ago 

Peter: i left u my notes from last semester what are you doing with your life? 

Sirius: not studying 

Sirius: I thought that was really obvious

Sirius: cmon guys get with the program 

James to Remus: i left snape a step by step instruction manual on how to properly wash his hair 

James: its in his locker 

James: what do u think are the odds that he’ll actually figure out how a shower works?

Remus: first of all: oh my god 

Remus: secondly: good job.

Lily to Sirius: s2g black give me back my pencil case 

Sirius: it was an emergency 

Lily: you’ll be in the emergency room if you don’t give it back to me 

Peter to felons or falcons: guys guys guys 

Sirius: don’t u dare 

James: don’t 

Peter: reminder that college applications start today! 

Sirius: blocked. 

Peter: :////////:

James: yeah u think about u did 

Remus: I’m in the library right now filling out applications 

James: blocked. 

Sirius changed the group name to: if remus mentions colleges one more time i’ll kill him 

Remus changed the group name to: sirius stop using the group chat name to make a point 

Sirius changed the group name to: make me

Remus to slim slam dunk slimmies: I swear to god that i will kill whoever keeps leaving raisin boxes in my locker 

Remus: I’m talking to you James and Sirius 

Sirius: i literally have no idea what ur talking about 

Remus: someone keeps leaving those boxes of raisins in my locker and i hate raisins why do you guys keep doing this?

Sirius: I’m going to go with innocent until proven guilty, mate

Remus: I’m not an idiot 

Remus: its either you or James doing this how stupid do you think I am?

James to Peter: so when r u going to tell Remus that you’ve been breaking into his locker all year?

Peter: probably never

James: respect that 

Sirius changed the group name to: plexiglass fuckers 

Peter: wait what 

Remus: How does one even?

Sirius: carefully, and with punk attitude 

James changed the group name to: punk is really dead get over it black 

Sirius: im never talking to u again 

James: but u just did 

Sirius: damn it 

James to james potter is a secretly a walking talking jar of jam: im failing out of english and its a problem 

James: like seriously 

Sirius: yes?

James: literally not the time buddy 

Sirius: i always have time for u 

James: bro <3

Sirius: bro <33333

Remus: sirius shut up 

Remus: what do you mean you are failing out of english? have you done any of the readings? 

James: hamlet is literally the worst torture in the history of ever i can’t get through it and i’m so far behind i need help i just got a 40% on the paper and she gave me an extension to redo it but i don’t know where to begin 

Remus: you’re going to be fine 

Remus: i’m messaging a friend. maybe she’ll agree to tutor you 

James: bless u 

Peter to Remus: fuck u 

Remus: what on earth did i do to deserve this 

Peter sent to Remus three screenshots 

Peter: he hasn’t shut up about her dainty little wrists yet 

Peter: u did this 

Remus: oh my god what did i do 

Remus to Lily: how did it go with James?

Lily: I think I found the problem

Remus: he was dropped on his head as a small child?

Lily: ???

Lily: no he’s been trying to read a copy of Macbeth, not Hamlet 

Remus: why am I friends with these people?

Peter to four guys with great hair: i dunno y but sirius makes great decisions when drunk 

James: wait u went drinking without me?

Peter: u said u wanted to watch lily do homework at the library 

James: u make it sound so much creepier when u say it like that 

Remus: why did you call me 20 times tonight?

Peter: sirius tried making a fire 

Remus: with what??

Sirius: e v e r y t h i n g 

Peter: actually though 

Peter: it was a bit more of an explosion than a fire tbh 

Sirius to Remus: not to be controversial 

Sirius: but i really don’t like bbq sauce

Remus: literally wtf is controversial about that 

Remus: also its 3am fuck off 

Peter to the discount spice girls: i forgot we had homework in history 

Peter: someone skip history with me

James: im in chem but sounds coolio 

Sirius to the discount spice girls : wait we had homework 

Sirius: don’t leave without me guys 

Sirius: guys?

Sirius: g u y s 

Remus to Sirius: you submitted your applications right?

Sirius: ???applications,,,, 4 wat?

Remus: why are you like this 

Sirius: oh yeah college appLications 

Sirius: kind of 

Remus: this is the last day to submit 

Remus: where are you 

Sirius: in the libBBrary picking progRams out of a hat with James 

Sirius: do u think i could work with kids?

Remus: i think the kids would be to mature for you 

James to the Lily Evans Appreciation Group: she is so perfect 

James: she loaned me one of her gel pens today

James: GEL 

Sirius: ohhhh gel?

James: gel. 

James: purple gel pen 

Sirius: wow thats serious 

Peter: ^^^ :D

James: i honestly dunno whats better. the fact that she blessed me with one of her pens, or her eyes. 

Remus changed the group name to: mention lily’s eyes one more time james

James: they’re literally the most beautiful eyes i have ever encountered 

James: like they are honestly so green 

James Potter has been removed from group. 

James to Peter: have u seen sirius?

Peter: no

Peter: craig said he saw him hitchhiking earlier, looked pretty bad 

James: im grabbing the car 

Peter: i’ll meet you by the school

Peter to the Remus Lupin is a Moon Man: i got rejected by my safety school 

Sirius: im literally on my way with beer 

Remus: where are you getting alcohol from? 

Sirius: i broke into bellatrix’s apartment and stole her stash of candles and beer like yesterday 

Sirius: james the jim was the get away driver 

Sirius changed James to jamesthejim

James: honestly that school was stupid 

James: you’ve got plenty of time to hear back 

Peter: liar 

Remus: trust him on this one 

James to Sirius: he keeps baking cookies 

Sirius: aw shit 

James: we ran out of dairy already 

Sirius: no please don’t tell me 

James: he started making vegan cookies 

Sirius: sinful 

Remus to the Peter Won’t Stop Baking Support Group: he got rejected from another school and he’s moved onto making cupcakes 

Remus: I think he’s crying 

Sirius: i’m in the middle of calc homework i want some pie 

Sirius to Peter: james is making a move on evans 

Peter: omg no way 

Sirius: yes way 

Sirius: they’re at her locker 

Peter: im across school report everything 

Sirius: k well james tried that awkward leaning thing beside her locker and lily dropped her textbook on his foot 

Sirius: i dunno whats redder her hair or his face 

Sirius: nm his face is way redder 

Sirius: he asked if she wanted to meet up for coffee but she thought he meant for tutoring and im dying his face 

Peter: maybe this will be the end to all that is perfect about lily evans 

James to wtf does duolingo not have elvish????: Lily told me this really clever riddle today 

James: i didn;t get it 

James: at like all 

James: but she was so happy and so cute 

James: im gonna marry her 

Sirius: u jinxed it peter 

James to Remus: I GOT ACCEPTED 

Remus: I’m so glad Lily dragged your marks up for admissions 

James: ikr same 

James to the Peter Won’t Stop Baking Support Group: his mom started selling the cakes that he was making 

Sirius: i dunno y i keep offering to eat them 

Remus: he made over thirty cakes today 

Remus: half of them were coconut flavoured 

Sirius: so?

Remus: you’re allergic to coconut????

Sirius: yeah but if i die i don’t have to do homework 

James: lucky 

Remus: i hate you all so much

Remus left the group. 

James added Remus to the group. 

Remus left the group. 

Sirius added Remus to the group. 

Remus: i hate u both

Sirius to Remus: not 2 b political or anything but technically every war is a skeleton war if u think hard about it

Remus: w h y 

Peter uploaded a video to james stfu about evans: here we r blessed by remus singing starman 

Remus: i remember none of this 

James: i thought i was the one that sung that 

Peter: no u got really drunk and started moving your lips to the words and got excited that u learned how to talk and not talk at the same time 

James: wait what time was this even 

Peter: 10pm 

Remus: where’s sirius?

Peter: see that questionable lump in the right corner of the video? that’s sirius basically dead 

James changed Sirius’s name to questionable lump. 

questionable lump: y u do this

James changed the group name to: lily’s eyes are like glitter i swear

Sirius changed the group name to: literally no one cares

Sirius to Remus: i see u 

Sirius: posting some whimsy status about college acceptances 

Sirius: whatever 

Sirius: thats only a little cool, moon man 

Sirius: siriusly though congrats 

Lily to James: why did sirius throw glitter at me outside homeroom? 

James: oh my god 

James: im so sorry

Sirius to Peter: did u know that james has been stealing garden gnomes and hiding them under his bed?

Peter: that is the weirdest fetish 

Sirius: ikr i wanna hide them in remus’s locker 

Sirius: it’ll be really funny 

Peter: omg lets 

Sirius to the Baking Has Stopped Bless All: the oven is off 

James: oh thank god 

Remus: wait i was hoping he’d try doughnuts next 

Remus to James: do you know if sirius has heard back from any schools yet? 

James: dude i was just going to ask u that 

Remus: shit 

Peter sent three links to Remus: k so i know one of these is a literal dumpster but sirius basically is a dumpster 

Remus: i see no difference 

Peter: James liked the second one option for the apartment 

Remus: oh god i’ve agreed to live with james potter and sirius black in one house 

Peter: how bad could it be?

Remus to WHERE DID YOU GET THE GNOMES FROM: wtf guys 

Remus: my locker 

Remus: they all came falling out

James: wait 

James: where did the gnomes come from 

Sirius has left the group. 

Peter has left the group. 

James: damnit they found my stash of gnomes 

Remus: ????????????

Lily to Remus: why did you have my mom’s garden gnomes in your locker?

Remus: what 

Lily: the gnomes 

Lily: i recognized them from the ones that went missing 

Remus:this is definitely not what you think

Lily: black stole them didn’t he?

Remus: sure 

Lily to Sirius: im gonna find you

James changed the group names to felons or misunderstood falcons?: i wrote lily a poem 

Sirius: no no no 

James: roses r red, violets r blue 

James: i hate flowers but love u 

Peter: i can’t tell if that was sweet or not 

Sirius: u should totally give that to her 

Remus: sirius no 

James: im committed to the plan 

Remus to Sirius: have you gotten any news from the schools you applied to?

Sirius: yeah funny story 

Sirius: i sort of messed up applying 

Remus: wait so you didn’t send out any applications??

Sirius: naw just messing with u 

Sirius: i heard back months ago 

Remus: R U KIDDING ME 

Sirius: i broke u this is the best moment of all 88 years of my life. 

Sirius: yeah though. haven’t opened anything yet 

Remus: you mean you never opened the letters?

Sirius: yeah no i liked the suspense 

Remus: jesus christ open them right now i will cut you 

Sirius: cool beans i got in 

Remus blocked Sirius. 

James to Lily: i like u a lot 

Lily: ask me out then 

James: wait what 

Lily: i’ve been literally waiting all year 

James: jesus christ will u go out with me 

Lily: yeah y not 

[shadowhuntertrash]

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[popculturebuffet]

OK KO Reviews: Back In Red Action

As you can probably tell by the fact Red Action week started 4 days ago my schedule slipped a bit, with a bunch of unexpected stuff, an expected job for a friend, and a day of laziness with the isle of armor meant I never got around to writing it. As such i’ve decided to play catchup.. all 3 reviews, HOPEFULLY all in one day. And yes 3 as I decided to cut Plaza Prom for a number of reasons: It’s not all that necessary, I was doing it more for myself, and if I find time before or after pride ends, I can easily cover it in isolation, so being done in a timely manner isn’t an issue like it is for the red action ones, or the other three pride month reviews I have planned after red action week. So witht hat dust settled let’s talk about Enid.  While I went on about Enid a LOT last time, for good reason, a LOT has happened since episode 3 as you’d probably guess, episodes I will cover in the future because enid is awesoeme. And the two episodes that built her up a bit had plaza prom as the creamy filling for that airing sandwitch, and were unsuprisingly good. But since we’re not covering them just yet Enid confronted her ex best friend and dealt with her and rad’s bumpy past, and that coupled with our previous episodes and some others have melted down her walls a bit. She’s still a bit distant, and still terrible at her job as ever, but she’s grown as a person and grown past her past. Now it’s her turn to do what K.O. has done for her, he was inttrumental in getting her to stop ignoring Elodie and confront her, for someone else. Let’s recap this.  back in red action under the cut...

We open with a normal day at the Plaza and Enid’s alone, with K.O. offscreen and Rad not in this episode so he’s not around and Gar clearly gone or else he’d be yelling at enid probably.  Enid’s checking around on her phone and after checking to see if anyone’s there, once again decides to look at Red’s social because that’s not creepy. But Enid browses it wondering why Red came here in the first place, figuring there’s probably better food, better this , better that and trips up on a picture of Red with her old girlfriend, Yellow Technique.. and yeah i’m not beating around the bush, while they never come right out and SAY IT, the episode contextualizes things as such. I Mean granted given my shipping habits on this blog, you can see i’m willing to ship plenty of kids together, and even then only in a “Awww” holding hands, maybe an awkard kiss way, and am a shipping monster who has plenty, but here i have no horse in this race, it’s just really obvious subtext. 

Anyways enough Cul De Sacs, Enid sees a new picture... Red taking a selfie with an unaware Enid.. and who probably just heard Enid’s last few sentences and at the very least dosen’t care. After a flirty “Hey Ya” and enid awkardly hiding her phone, Red buys some gum for cover then invites Enid to hang out for the afternoon then leaves.  Then KO pops up out of nowhere hilariously, and for his only scene this episode to gush about Enid’s sorta date, though Enid is paranoid it’s just a setup for some sorta joke or prank.. which given that red was willing to set a child on fire while her friend spanked him because that’s not weird at all, yeah kinda a good point, even if she’s ignoring the obvious signals that, for once, Red seems to be genuine. She WAS a bit awkward at times during asking her out, pausing or stammering, she just quickly recovered. But it also shows the downside, if breifly to red’s kind of life: If your an ass to everybody, even people who genuinely like you may worry your just messing with them. 

But when Enid goes to return the gum, she finds Red not only waiting but ninja snatching the gum.. and doing that to a NINJA takes skill. Top notch. Enid realizing this isn’t a prank holy fuck her crush really did ask her out out of nowhere, suggests a few things before Red shoots them down gently and revealz their going crusing. She also has enid turn her back and cover her ears while she summons her submarine.. using a sentai/power rangers set of poses and summon chant, as you do.  With their ride here and enid buckeled into Red’s Submarine, and Red dodging any questions Enid has about her past , you know, the oppsitie of normal first date behavior. Everyone knows your supposed to talk a lot, get them coffee, look deep in her eyes and tell her about your family, hold hands then shoot cocaine into your eyes and rock a buglarly. 

But no instead of any of that Red has something just as romantic and dangerous planned their going high into the...

Which, befiting this wonderful show, is an actual place that’s full of explosions, maurading gangs and dinosaurs.. I mean every place is full of dinosaurs but this place has extra dinosaurs. It’s like the savage land if it didn’t annoy me as a setting. So the two cruise on exotica style, though in a great bit Red keeps enid from unbuckling, and when asked about her past again Red dodges and instead takes them down thunder road, where the lightining strikes.... I.. I can’t stop waxing lyircal this review. Help.  On thunder road the two share a moment when both go up top and see how damn pretty the place is, what with all the glowing orbs, Red gets electrocuted and both look at each other lovingly at diffrent points with that faded light effect, you know the one. I”d name it jeremy but it definitely has a name. The two really bond and it’s telling that it’s those moments where things go well: Enid’s not nervously trying to ask first date questions, if not wrongfully and Red isn’t running from them. Their just two teenagers attracted to one another getting to know you getting to know all about you.. getting to know if you like me.  Anyways, enough of my nonsense that’s now clearly a medical condition, Red’s old friends show up to spoil the mood, with Red brushing them off as performance artists, and a chase insues.. and it’s really well done. I’ll get into this more in a minute. The two max max race, Enid gets into the cockpit and makes good use of it as it’s just like shooting womp rats back home. With help from red, they manage to get two of the hue troop cars to collide and the two hide behind a sign despite it telling them not to back to the future style. It’s here we get into the heart of the episode and what makes it really work for me: For most of the season, before and though not as often after this, Enid’s been standofish even to people she cares about, blunt and hard to get to open up. But the two incidents I mentoined last time that caused her to harden her heart and swallow her tears... got some closure in thos enidcentric eps. IN short Elodie returned and Enid tried to act like it didn’t bother her and Elodie throwing their relationship away like hot garbage for her own admitssion into point and then came back smug as ever, but KO once again got through to her and convinced her that she needed to face her and in a stunning action sequence, i’ll gush about it more when I review the episode eventually she whalloped her and got closure, even if Elodie was ssitll super popular. She then patched things up with rad after Cupid showed up to force her and rad on a date to deal with their sexual tension since Rad went on one with her in middle school that went terribly because rad listend to his friends and his friends are obnoxious piles of toxic masculinty who sucked and were not unsuprisngly phased out of most of season 2 aside from the one episode they were needed and only showed up in season 3 for rad to tell them off. It went poorly, Enid nearly died and Rad saved her and apologized for being a dick, taking the two from would be exes who are understandibly bitter to best friends at long last. 

So Enid’s healed some of her wounds.. sure she’s still standoffish.. but she’s finally opening up and letting the right ones in. And now it’s Red’s turn. Red has the same problem: She dosen’t hide but she does run or scream at issues, and as someone who tends to be quick to anger I totally understand that, a tendency to lash out due to some other thing bothering you even when the person did nothing wrong. But her crush, and now possible relationship with, Enid gets Red to finally stop dodging Enid’s questions and open up and we get Red, and her friends Backstory Red and Friends are The Hue Troop, a group of warriors founded by a woman who long ago found a powerful prisim that linked to the mysterious Zordon-like alien Ren-Bow, a precog who could sense oncoming disasters and thus empowered the woman and her 4 friends with attitude to  stop them. Like Minority Report meets Power Rangers but the Minioirty Report part actually works. And like civil war 2 if the leaders of both factions weren’t douchebags especially you Carol. But given the fight is eternal they pased their powers on generation after generation , and it was Red and co’s turn. But Red chafed at being part of a team, wearing uniforms, following orders from a rock, doing sily poses, which came to a boil when she accidently, truly accidently broke the Prisim and rather than face up to what she’d done, ran for it and thus ended up here, hiding from her past in the past.  It’s also revealed Enid’s one way crush on her is not one way. Red had also been stalking HER social media, like Enid too intimidated to make a move before now, though we DO have an explination for what changed things coming. She liked how unlike Red enid had her own style, moves and a disregard for authority. it also frankly explains a lot about Red.  spent her whole life probably, given we see what could be a kid version of red or red’s mom in the finale, preparing to be a hue trooper, given the whole generational thing i’m theorizing the Hue Troop we see are the kids of either the first gen hue troop or the second, the flashback also supporting this. Her whole life being what other people told her to be, following orders doing poses.. not being her own woman. So when being forced to turn fugitive meant she had to hide, it also meant she was free to do what she want, and went about it in the worst way: being rude to people and lashing out at them because she could, only spearing the girl she found cute and her two friends, who went along with the beahavior likely due to both liking red and being deeply insecure themselves as we saw last time, from her obnoxiousness. Even if it wasn’t a generational thing, I still supset the pressure of having to be part of a regimented group drained her and rather than talk about it she likely just avoided it like she tends to do.. and like ENID tends to do.. So it’s says something for Enid’s own development when she encourages Red, who also asked her out since Red figured shed idn’t have much time left, to STOP RUNNING and face her problems.. and punch them in the face.

Yellow shows up right as Red agrees, and a fight breaks out.. and a damn good one. I put a pin in this earlier, but the shows battle scenes, vechicalr and man to mand, are utterly gorgeous, well coregraphed and part of why I belive the animation style is so simplified. Besides allowing for the necessarily unique background cast, it also means that when it’s time for an action scene they can go balls out and give it everything without the episodes taking as long as say steven universe or a disney show.And it shows as even this brief fight is tense, well done and full of emotion as Red’s ex and her former friends fight Red and her new girlfriend with both sides having every reason to go at it. It’s crimnally cut short when a metor hits.. the same metor delivers the crystal. While the rest of the Hue Troop instantly realize this and run, Red dosen’t because it was in the distant past.. and in a great move Enid has to tell her dumbass girlfriend that they ARE in HER past. They run, Red is hit and we get the cover image for the shippers and to make it CRYSTAL CLEAR that yes this was a date. They didn’t steal a few picassos while on a sexy date heist but still. 

Also  Red stole the crystal, and her friends assume it was her plan all along. Red almost takes credit for it.. but a glare from Enid shoots that plan down and Red, once again genuinely opens up, apologizing for running from them and her problems,and implicitly hurting Yellow, as while they clearly aren’t together anymore, either due to this or other shenanigans, it still had to hurt what red did. She also thanks Enid for being the one to show her the error of her ways. that being said with a fresh prisim, it’s just as likely that the Hue Troop can now clone it and get a copy back to the past for Red to be her own grandma, as I theroize given the finale again and all and red still being around.. more on that nexttime, the troop have a working prisim till then. They part as friends with the rest of the troop encoourging enid to visit sometime and Yellow giving her approval and getting her own closure as the troop leaves.  And so we end as Red and Enid decide to resume their everything but saying it’s a date date and go Lava Surfing as they drive out into the sunset. THE END.

Final Thoughts: Just as good on rewatch as the first time around and a great ep, not just for the LBGTQ rep, as while I belivie we’ve seen a bi flag sticker on enid’s bike helmet at this point, and would in all future appearances of it and she’d later stick one on her flying motorcycle she gets in the last season, and there was subetext with elody and red and text with rad, this showed she was a bisexual beyond any shadow of a doubt and did everything short of having them kiss, that comes later, to confirm it. But besides being one of the series delightfully gayest episodes, it has good story, good charcter progression for enid as we see how far she’s come from those early episodes, and Red gets a good character arc that both explains her past actions and has her grows as a person. And we’ll see more of this next time as we hit 88 miles per hour and Red Action to the Future. Until then, follow for more reviews of animated shows, check my blog for more as I have pages for each show, and hit me up iwth an ask if you have a show you’d like me to review or force me to review it for 2 bucks by asking for a commission! 

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Fics in the works

So I’m writing a few Harry Potter Fan Fictions that people might be interested in and none of them are online yet but I thought I’d lay them out here.

Harry moves in with (aquitted) Sirius and Remus after the end of the third book. Includes a trial

The veil isn’t a portal to the afterlife, but a portal to the ruins of an old vietnamese wizarding village, and Sirius makes his way back to Britain in the 7th book, and pretends to be a blood purist so that he can funnel information to the order

Book 7 but Remus and Sirius both survive, can be part of the harry moves in after book three universe ((theres a fun scene where Sirius impersonate’s Bellatrix instead of Hermione in this one))

Maurader’s era hogwarts.((see my snape post for more info tbh))

You think I cannot be a male simply because I can give birth??? Fool! Watch me impregnate this cis man I project onto in a trans inclusive manor! Sirius and Remus have a second kid(teddy’s the first one) this time without a surrogate.

Harry and Remus(and later Sirius and Draco (McG is real pressed for staff)) Work at Hogwarts. Part of the Harry moves in with Wolfstar after book 3 verse and the Mpreg, but trans friendly verse. (Cameos from Mary Cattermole and Aberforth Dumbledore, who I’m excited about giving more depth of character to.)

Sirius get’s out of going to Azkaban with a little help from his ex boyfriend and auror Kingsley Shacklebolt, and He and Remus are bitter that they cant raise Harry because Dumbledore’s a POS but they still take Harry out to eat once a week and spoil the hell out of him and threaten the Dursleys daily. (sirius learns to use a muggle telephone, its adorable)

This last one isn’t technically a fan fiction but I’m using Zeoob.com to make a social media AU for Sirius’s love life. Wolfstar is endgame incase you didn’t understand who I am as a person

[immortal-imagines]

New Posts, New Year

Hey guys! Just thought I’d write a quick post to thank everyone who’s been awesome and supportive this year! It’s been a really amazing year on this blog and I’m so happy with where it’s going. My goal is to reach 800 followers before 2019 and I’m so close! I also wanted to say that requests for mood-boards, imagines, ships and fake social medias are all open, so please send them in. It write for all the fandoms listed below, so feel free to send in a request! I haven’t written for Loki or the Joker in a while so wouldn’t mind some of those ideas to come in! Thank you for a great 2018 and here’s to an even better 2019! Happy New Year!

Things I write for: 

Shadowhunters/The Mortal Instruments

The Greatest Showman

Marvel (any)

Harry Potter (including Mauraders)

Glee

Riverdale

Suicide Squad

Twilight

Supernatural

Doctor Who

Charmed

Reign

Magic Mike

Now You See Me

The Hunger Games

Lucifer

Gotham

Queen

Mamma Mia

I also do imagines/ships about YouTubers, so if you have a specific one you would like then send it in the requests please!

[phynali]

IMO I really think making profit off fic/fanart should be illegal. One, because parodies differ from fic in that you don't really see the rehash you see in fics (there are fics that are simply canon material with an added kiss at the end or song lyrics and descriptors interspersed but identical dialogue) so those similar ones making $ shouldn't but then how do you police what counts as being too similar? Fics aim to keep content the same (OOC vs. IC) but build upon it whereas parodies want it to

be different (Galaxy Quest, Very Potter Musical, Space Balls)- it's not supposed to be a what if these same characters & same setting happened in a slightly different way or a show on screen what we already know is canon (i.e. HP Maurader's fic) but often a completely different story, message, characters, even setting, ect. To me, parodies are like Clueless vs. Emma, Lion King vs. Hamlet, whereas fics are like a songwriter remixing a song & paying royalties to do their own interpretation for $

In what way is Lion King a parody of Hamlet? It’s not. Shakespeare is out of copyright, that’s why stories can directly follow it’s storyline. Lion King doesn’t make fun of Hamlet, it copies it?

As for what’s the same versus different, you’re taking about OOC vs. IC, but that’s only one form of similarity. A Very Potter Musical literally follows and rehashes the plot of Harry Potter using the exact same characters, just in a satirizing way. Conversely, most fics use a different setting or follow a different plot, even when they use the same characters. By a tense of “what is different enough”, most fic passes far better than parodies. In a way, parodies are more like your remix example in the music industry than most fics are? Fics are more like sampling in the music industry, and we know that there is a space for that, and that yes, royalties are paid. Maybe creating more licensing or royalties in the written/fic world is a partial solution here, but creators don’t tend to license out their works to fan creators in this industry in the same way.

Beyond that though, parodies fall under “fair use” not because of a test of how different they are from their source material, but because they fill an important societal function of critiquing and satirizing their source, and the legal system recognizes critique as an essential element in a democracy, as we must be able to critique our culture and our media. 

And a lot of fic accomplishes that critique better than some parodies, IMO?

As for the “how do you police what’s too similar” -- I agree that that’s the crux of the issue in a lot of ways. The test needs to be that you’re making something new. But who gets to decide what’s new? If you rewrite Harry Potter exactly the same except that you change the character of Malfoy so that he’s in love with Harry and they end up together throughout the books, or rewrite them with Harry in Slytherin - should a person be able to profit off that? Maybe not. But where is the line? If you write an AU fic with Harry and Malfoy falling in love and Harry in a different house and the plots of each book unfolding totally differently because of these factors, then should that count? What about if you rewrite the books where Harry is a squib but goes to Hogwarts anyway, like that one amazing tumblr post I’ve seen go around? Doesn’t that act as a valuable critique of the source material, and fill an important social function and void?

And writing Marauders fic... why shouldn’t that be monetizable? There’s an argument on either side here. On the one hand, if a fan published a Marauders era fic, then it would cut into potential future profits if JKR ever wanted to publish her own version. I think that test fails because if fic proves anything, it’s that fic begets an appetite for more. While it fills gaps that won’t otherwise be filled (JKR is never gonna write the Marauders era story so many people crave anyway), the fact that there’s literally hundreds of almost identical coffee shop AUs out there in any given fandom shows that people will read more of the same, and the existence of fic does not decrease profits for the original. Reading an episode coda that adds a kiss doesn’t make me not want to watch the episode. Reading a Marauders era fic wouldn’t stop me from buying JKR’s version, it would make me more invested, most likely.

But I do see the argument that it could cut into future potential revenue, so let’s say that argument stands. 

On the other side though, the argument that exists for why fans should be able to profit off fan works of a Marauders fic is that it fills a void in the existing demand at no cost to the original content creator, and stands as a separately non-canonical work (i.e., it would of course be acknowledged as non canonical and a fan work). To the extent that there is a demand for Marauders stories that isn’t being met, JKR serves to benefit by such fic being available to fans, much the same as how sequels increase revenue for the original/first piece in a series (through people re-consuming the original to consume the sequel, or consuming the original for a first time because the sequel brings a new batch of fans into it). 

And again, fan works such as this increase the investment of fans by seeing gaps in the material filled. In turn, this increased investment increases their likelihood to purchase other Harry Potter related media and maintains their investment over time. So long as there is a demand, shouldn’t someone be allowed to fill it? And shouldn’t the people who do be allowed to profit off their works?

[gfdick]

this is quite late but thank you for tagging me, @alexfireon !!

Rules: Answer all the questions, tag however many people as you want. Maybe add a question if you want! it’s that simple, friends.

How did you come up with your blog name?

well first of all,,, I have changed my blog name several times in the past and there’s a pretty good chance I’ll change it again. second, I do like harry potter and the mauraders are iconic so that explains the elvendork part and then I guess it’s elvendork-y because I’m dorky ? idk I don’t really like it but I don’t know what I should change it to so it’ll stay like that until I think of something

Why did you make your blog?

I probably didn’t have a real concrete reason other than I was bored and wanted to do something on social media but it was some time ago so I don’t remember

How long have you had it?

3 years maybe ?

How many followers do you have?

324 blogs. y’all,,, I’m so sorry

What do you share/post about most?

assuming we’re talking about my main, then just random things that show up on my dash and content from whatever I’m interested in at the moment

What do you share/post about the least?

I don’t know ? things that are boring to me I guess ?

What do you think your followers think of you?

I mean there’s no real way of knowing unless they tell me themselves (feel free, people) but I hope good things ? I’ve gotten one or two asks from anons saying that they like my blog so that’s a good sign !!

tagging: @pez-the-king, @im-coooold, and @wolfstsr

[joannafw]

Favorites Tag

Rules: answer 15 questions and tag 3 to 5 people (i don’t really care how many)

favorite cookie: white chocolate macadamia nut

favorite artist: dodie clark

favorite food: burrito bowls

favorite movie: La La Land

favorite show: Stranger Things

favorite instrument to play/listen to: ukulele

favorite social media platform: Instagram

favorite animal: cats or chickens

favorite color: YELLOWWWWWW

favorite book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

favorite hobby: painting

favorite past time: painting, playing ukulele, reading, or relaxing

favorite school subject: writing

favorite flower: carnations

favorite fictional character(s): Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Harry, Tonks, the Mauraders (except Peter lol), and Lily.

tagging: @ownerofthemaraudersmap @lionheartsjewel @lunascamandersbowtruckle @magicfolk @thesniffler