#my headcanon is that Rose is brilliant at magical subject

[sarascamander]

Albus Severus: Can you recommend a book that'll make me cry?

Rose: General Mathematics 8th Grade Edition.

[knightotoc]

I can't really rank the SW movies, but I can sort of put them in categories. I wrote a bit about each one because I've never seen a list in an order like mine, though if you're asking me to be rational that is something I know I cannot do.

(This is really long)

1. The ones I love the most: 

Attack of the Clones

🍐 favorite characters, favorite planets

🍐 my soul is anchored to early naughts high-key cheesy emo, à la Raimi Spider-Mans

🍐 most Jedi per square inch

🍐 it's pretty and it kicks ass

🍐 the romance is the A-plot for ONCE

🍐 AND it's a "dark middle chapter" that pulls no fucking punches, the whole Tatooine sequence is just hnnnnggrhhh BRUTAL

🍐 the only "dark middle chapter" in which the person explaining the Jedi way (Anakin) doesn't believe in it and the person listening (Padme) doesn't want to join but just cares about him

🍐 morally ambiguous organized religion/monasticism/chivalry are interesting and personally important subjects to me, a Catholic feminist who majored in Medieval Studies

🍐 the hinge between two time periods I love, "Obi Wan trains Anakin" and "the Clone Wars"

🍐 sets up both Clone Wars shows and both KotORs

Return of the Jedi

🐻 SO much fun, SO much imagination

🐻 like RotS, both the silliest and the most tragic in its trilogy (and imo it pulls it off)

🐻 the ending -- Luke tossing his lightsaber, Palpatine killing him, Anakin saving him -- I just -- gahhhh that's what it's all about, dude😭😭😭 It makes me love the Jedi SO MUCH!

🐻 Luke's plan to rescue Han is as bonkers as Dooku's plan to begin the war and I'm obsessed

🐻 Leia's hair down and Luke in black👌

The Last Jedi

🍸 absolute masterpiece of tragedy and hope

🍸 it's so SMART and has this wisdom that brings me so much comfort facing personal failures and societal horrors

🍸 "That's how we win -- not by fighting what we hate, but saving what we love" -- Rose the Queen of Themes

🍸 the cave scene in which Luke summarizes the prequels and Rey summarizes the original trilogy is so validating

🍸 "Where's Han?" [cut to Kylo]

🍸 all the transitions but that one ^^^^ especially

🍸 best visions in the movies (Rey's mirrors and Luke's twin suns)

🍸 Yoda is the best ghost and wisest teacher as he deserves😭

🍸 Leia Vader parallels are my biggest weakness

Revenge of the Sith

🔥 I can't handle this one

🔥 it's straight up Camelot and Lancelot is my favorite invention in all of fiction, and here he is as an evil space wizard

🔥 I literally can't listen to this soundtrack and drive because I get too sad

🔥 they hate each other SO MUCH ahhgggg, NO other characters come close to this level of emotion

🔥 the Matthew Stover novelization is even more beautiful

🔥 this meta-level tragedy, the dramatic irony of a guy who has been evil since 1977, a name similar to the Greek goddess of inevitability, the swirling destiny of his "prophecy" and his doom, but still I'm like "DON'T DO IT ANI" as if he ever had a chance

🔥 they play the fucking ANH medals theme at the end of the credits and it blows my mind. Absolutely brilliant

🔥 can you believe that only RotS and TLJ have shirtless scenes in them

2. The ones I also really love:

The Phantom Menace

😈 best soundtrack. All the prequels have the most thoughtful and interesting music in my opinion, but I could go on forever about TPM's.

😈 my favorite musical piece in all of SW is the Baby Anakin theme. It's so terribly sad; it sounds to me like rivers and waterfalls. They use it several times in AotC, too. The end of the melody transitions into the Imperial March😭

😈 Duel of the Fates is the actual star of the movie, of course; the words are a Sanskrit translation of a medieval Welsh poem. Ask me about how the lyrics apply to the fates of Qui-Gon, Maul, and Obi-Wan because I've FIGURED IT OUT

😈 also the cleverest piece in SW is Augie's Municipal Band, the parade theme, which is the Emperor's theme from RotJ in major key and sped up

😈 speaking of Palpatine, this is his best movie and I've basically sold my soul to him so👏👏👏we stan

😈 I've probably thought and written the most about this movie and the time periods around it, the training of Maul and Anakin. If you can believe it😅

Empire Strikes Back

☁️ it's the best one

☁️ the "dark middle chapter" that sets the standard for AotC and TLJ

☁️ "Luminous beings are we"😭

☁️ Bespin Leia is the best look in the movies

☁️ "The evil lord Darth Vader, OBSESSED with finding young Skywalker"😂 Ani has a reason to live again, oh no

A New Hope

🤖 the only one you need

🤖 an actual piece of magic on Earth

🤖 Old Obi-Wan is heartache personified

🤖 bow down to Tarkin

🤖 best droid movie

Solo

🎲 the other kissy movie

🎲 SO much fun; John Powell puts so much energy and excitement in his music

🎲 how does this random movie have the best character designs after AotC

🎲 GIRL DROID!!!

🎲 really different point of view on the central theme of family

🎲 that cameo tho

🎲 where's my sequel

Rogue One

🌠 the most visually beautiful SW movie; it fits into the tradition of beautiful 70s sci-fi movies like 2001 and Star Trek TMP, which focus on the hugeness and wonder of outer space

🌠 can Cassian and Rose please overthrow the government

🌠 I have a real theater poster of this one in my room :D (I also have one of TLJ)

🌠 does so right by Vader

🌠 makes the Rebellion more complicated, just like the prequels did to the Jedi Order

3. The ones I don't like:

The Force Awakens

The Rise of Skywalker

I want to like them, especially TFA, but I find it difficult. I feel like they lack confidence as stories, and they don't take things like death and faith very seriously. Many planets explode, but they are grieved even less than Alderaan is in ANH. And if you just pray hard enough, God will help you out. It bothers me that THAT was the culmination of Rey's spiritual journey, versus the more relatable and dramatic endings for the male Jedi protagonists Luke, Anakin, and Ezra.

I have rewatched TFA a few times and I like parts of it, like the scavenging setting in the beginning and how handsome everyone is. Some of Maz's lines justify the borrowed plot in an interesting way. And I've thought of some headcanons to make TRoS more okay, because they did so wrong by Palpatine but not necessarily by "the Sith" as a Borg-like force of evil that, I guess, consumed him. So despite JJ's best efforts, I'm trying to make this work.

[aintthatright]

HP NEXT GENERATION MY HEADCANONS (because the cursed child is the worst) (some of these are my thoughts, others some things i’ve seen on the internet)

THE LUPIN CHILD

- a lil adorable hufflepuff who is also one of the most powerful wizards who happens to have werewolf tendencies AND is a metamorpmagi

- raised by andy but spent most weekends at the potters

- andromeda has become one of THE clan and they spend all of their holidays at the burrow

- is the first to get the marauders map

- there is a painting of remus and tonks which hangs above his crib/bed

- baby!teddy keeps matching his hair with his painting!tonks’ changing hair

- a NONBINARY ICON

- has tea with mcgonacall at least every month (sometimes harry joins)

- always causing a little harmless trouble (he is the son of a marauder and has obvs inherited all of tonks’ troublemaking habits duh)

THE POTTER CHILDREN

JAMES SIRIUS POTTER

- blackish hair and his mother’s brown eyes no classes though

- fRECKLES!!!!!

- gRYFFINDOR

- lives up to his names let me tell ya

- a brilliant chaser like og James and ginny

- has inherited ALL of james’ quirks like messing up the hair and playing with the snitch (basically because harry told him about all of these and he wants to feel connected to his grandpa)

- thinks that sirius was the coolest EVER and wants to be an animagius like him

- joins teddy in the shenanigans obvs

- is super close with ginny

ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER

- jesus that name hurts still god

- mini harry when it comes to looks

- a non-racist slytherin as they all should be thank u very much

- in love with scorpius

- very close with harry even though he takes the fame a little harder than his siblings

- doesnt play quiddich but is very good at wizard chess and plays with ron all the time

- very close with rose

- came out to teddy first then ginny and then harry who was a little confused but very supportive (i mean the guy didnt notice two of his roommates banging im pretty sure he doesnt know anything at this point)

LILY LUNA POTTER

- strawberry blonde/orangy hair if that makes sense with hazel eyes

- the fIERCEST gryffindor i mean she was raised by ginny what else could she be?

- close with hugo even though he is a year younger

- a beater

- really good at dada (all of the potter kids are but she in particular)

- (besides harry is the dada professor not an auror dont fight me on this or i’ll wreck u)

- loves hanging out with her godmother luna

- absolutely obsessed with the quibbler she thinks its so funny

THE WEASLEYS (BILL AND FLEUR)

VICTOIRE WEASLEY

- ”did you really call your daughter victoire bill?” ”gotta make fleur happy... besides she is gonna be called vicky anyway”

- so pretty... like so PRETTY

- platinum blonde with green/blueish eyes

- part veela like all the kids

- ravenclaw

- always underestimated because her looks

- very protective sister

- really likes muggle board games and plays with arthur

- huuuuuuge crush on teddy

- braids are her thing

- works at flourish and blotts during the summer holidays

- fav subjects are astronomy and arithmancy

- because she is year younger than teddy they spend a lot of time together in hogwarts

DOMINIQUE WEASLEY

- ”really fleur domeNIQUE”

- ”just so we are clear you are dom okay?” dom is about three weeks old at this point

- ginger and a gryffindor

- three years younger than vicky

- also dead drop gorgeus

- chaser

- loves to cook and sometimes teddy sneak her into the kitchens at hogwarts

- throws the best parties hogwarts has seen since the twins & lee

- absolute party animal

- rocks that leather jacket on her freetime

- all students want her but sorry boys shes out and proud and in a happy relationship with ellie

LOUIS WEASLEY

- ”louis?! how do you even spell that?”

- the resident pretty boy at hogwarts

- 2 years younger than dom

- a hatstall but ultimately ended up in hufflepuff

- strawberry blonde and green eyes

- adorable

- really clean, all clothes must be ironed at all times

- really good at charms

THE WEASLEYS (PERCY AND Audrey)

MOLLY II WEASLEY

- rAVENCLAW

- ginger

- same age as victoire

- prefect and a headgirl

- less obsessed with rules than percy though

- parties on birthdays and when ravenclaw wins

- often called ’mols’ especially if molly I is in the room as well

- loves watching quiddict but cannot for the life of her figure out how to stay on a broom

- wants to be a teacher (mcgonagall is her idol)

- graduates with top grades duh

LUCY WEASLEY

- same age as louis

- also ginger

- gryffindor!!!

- has dyslexia which makes school more of a struggle but she does quite well with help

- loves herbology and care of magical creatures since there is not a lot of reading involved

- crushing on lysander scamander

THE WEASLEYS (GEORGE AND ANGELINA)

ROXANNE WEASLEY

- dark hair and brown eyes

- gryffindor

- roommates with dominique

- loves to cause trouble

- a beater

- bisexual icon

- called rox or roxie

- very close with fred II

- george is a bit distant sometimes because of the horrors of his past but he is a loving father regardless and is very close with his kids

FRED II WEASLEY

- GRYFFINDOR!!

- called freddie because after the death of fred some members of the family (ie. molly) couldnt say fred without crying

- dark hair, his dad’s eyes

- came out when he was 16

- and started dating michael flintwood

- causes trouble all the time

- will inherit the joke shop one day with roxie if she wants it

- a year younger than roxie

- he can NEVER just be still

- loves ice cream

- heard the story of fred I death from charlie after he had turned 14 because george cannot talk about it. ever.

- was pissed at percy for weeks afterwards

- molly gives him a ring which has an ’f’ carved into it that she has been carrying ever since the battle

- freddie puts it on a necklace and never takes it off again

- he is the other person in hogwarts who can control peeves because of his deep respect of fred I

- likes to run in the mornings

- jock!freddie because honestly hogwarts needs other sports

THE WEASLEYS (RON AND HERMIONE)

ROSE WEASLEY

- gryffindor

- sO sMART

- prefect & headgirl

- her father’s hair color combined with her mother’s bushy texture

- fiesty and fiery

- found all of hermione’s S.P.E.W stuff and decides to bring it back to life (hermione is delighted, ron is exhausted)

- loves to do muggle puzzles

- loves to take pictures

- went to muggle school before starting at hogwarts

HUGO WEASLEY

- youngest of the clan

- ginger

- so many freckles. like so many. all over the face

- hufflepuff!!

- spends all of his freetime at weasleys wizarding wheezes

- obsessed with fireworks

- bonds with josie thomas-finnigan on their first day at hogwarts because they both manage to set something on fire

- hangs out in the kitchens all the time just eating

THE MALFOYS

SCORPIOUS

- slytherin

- so polite its ridiculous

- thought to be really evil and bad but is actually the opposite

- really shy

- good at all subjects but likes potions the best

- in love with albus since like day one

- looks just like his father expect with softer features and his mother’s eyes

- reads. a lot.

- tough relationship with draco because scorpius cannot understand his choices when draco was his age but they are working through their issues

- loves to stay at the burrow