#or IS it???

[saintsenara]

re: tom riddle magpie imagery

thoughts on fred and george’s patronus’ canonically being magpies? is there any part of their personalities that tie them to voldemort?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

that fred and george's patronuses [patroni?] are magpies isn't actually stated in the books - indeed, the only mention of magpies in the seven-book canon is dumbledore's description of tom riddle as one - but instead something jkr has revealed post-canon.

and - unlike with many of these drops of post-canon lore - she has been clear that her settling on magpies for the twins' patronuses wasn't something she'd definitely decided to do from the start and simply forgotten to mention [à la her bullshit about nagini being a human...] but is a later addition inextricable from her decision to kill fred off in deathly hallows.

in most parts of the anglophone world [i think! if this is just a british and irish thing, let me know...] people will be familiar with a rhyme about what it means to see certain numbers of magpies. there are several versions of this rhyme, but only the meaning of larger groups tends to change - regardless of version, the rhyme begins with:

One for Sorrow Two for Joy

the magpie patronuses are connected to other post-canon details she's revealed about george's grief after fred's death - that he can never sustain a happy memory long enough to produce a patronus ever again, that his relationship with angelina is "unhealthy... but as happy as he could be, without fred", and so on - which all frame him as someone who was an intrinsic part of a pair and is never whole or happy again when that pair is parted.

obviously, the twins have parallels in the less sinister folklore which surrounds magpies - that they're quick-talking tricksters - but the association of them with the birds isn't meant to communicate the same thing as when voldemort is described as one [which plays into superstitions about magpies as omens of death, misfortune, and evil who are connected to the devil].

when it comes to similarities between them, it's very interesting - especially for those of us who are hooked on unhinged shipping potential - that the twin who is most like voldemort is undoubtedly fred, who shares with the dark lord the gift of the gab, a sense of humour which is nonetheless extremely cruel, and a noticeable absence of conscience.

which gives us the incredible premise of a bit of post-war tom riddle/george weasley. his family are thrilled that he seems to be progressing in his grief and no longer thinks that he's lost his other half...

they are less thrilled when his new boyfriend - freshly escaped from the veil - walks in and blasts harry in the head with the killing curse.

[herejusttosufferalong]

As batshit as this blog is, it’s also the only sane place talking about Nicola (and Luke) anymore. Everywhere else is either crazy delusional about Nicola and Luke being married (lol), weird and angry haters who are over invested in Nicola and Jake (yikes), or haters who hate all involved (ugh)… glad this is still fun and funny here!!!

we (the fandom) are fucked if I am the "voice of reason" around here lmfao

[snittygoop]

We’ll get married one day

Mark my words

[piepiepiemag]

what if i told you that i……………….dramatic pause……………don’t actually hate nolan chance?

[child--ish]

me when I first saw Mr. Pants:

oh my archons.. it's worse than we thought!

THEY MADE HIM EMO

[ironunderstands]

Hii! I was in the middle of drawing your OCs Psyche n Eros when I realized I wanted to know if you have a concrete design idea for her (also if you had a specific hairstyle in mind for her n psyche cause so far I’ve winged it), I’d love to know your design ideas for these two so I can bring them to life better!!

Omgogmgogmgmogmgm

first off thank you so much, second off I do actually have a specific hair style for Psyche: a high ponytail and for Eros.. well honestly I don’t know yet really but she is a beautiful enough woman to name an entire planet after so she’d probably look something like this

Also I have been cooking up their lore a bit more so ITS YAP TIME 😈

First off, Psyche was made by Yaoshi on a random barren, dead planet with the only thing going for it being some water and existing within the habitable zone for its star to basically attempt to populate the planet herself with all various forms of life (also the planet is huge) because Yaoshi can’t be everywhere at once so they decided to make a few beings to do their job for them, and Psyche so happens to be one of them.

Fortunately, seeing as she’s the first one Yaoshi made, she’s also an emanator, and is fluent in creating and controlling all aspects of life- including people’s emotions

However Yaoshi isn’t exactly an amazing parent so they kinda just left Psyche there to do whatever the hell she wants and so she does, making herself a friend- Eros

Now unlike Psyche, Eros isn’t an emanator but she is immortal (in the “if nothing kills me I’ll live forever” flavor of immortality) and is fairly durable, also possessing some innate healing abilities both for herself and others

Together they begin to fill the planet with life until it’s as biodiverse as ever, and by then several centuries have passed past. Psyche and Eros are living happily together on this world, when disaster strikes- a stellaron crisis.

Most of the life on the planet is destroyed- including Eros (psst: she’s not actually dead but Psyche doesn’t know that) and Psyche is DISTRAUGHT and entirely alone again.

Unwilling to just forget, Psyche names the planet after her fallen lover, and builds a magnificent statue in her honor after sealing the stellaron away for good.

She knows nobody could replace Eros in her life again but doesn’t want to be lonely, so she makes the first humans on her homeworld, and ritually comes in to aid them every now and again, which results in them viewing her as their creator/god.

Caring for them in the way a mother would, she sets up some temples for them to worship her in, as well as indulge in her selfish desire to fix her ever broken heart- by helping her dear humans find love instead.

However, over time as their population grows more zealous and their technology advances, her people’s requests grow more and more selfish until Psyche finally realizes she’s been fulfilling wishes that have been hurting people- her own children.

Heart completely shattered, she locked herself away in her biggest temple, forbidden anyone from entering, never to exist herself again.

Well… until a certain doctor and gambler come along.

If you’d like to read this Aventio fic go ahead, although Psyche herself only appears in the first and last chapter (she still carries regardless).

Although she succeeds in preventing the IPC (whose presence had been ever growing on her planet with her absence) from stealing her power and harming her people, Psyche’s little matchmaking session makes her realize she’s been missing the outside world quite a bit, so she attempts to try and learn what’s happened while she locked herself away, and guess who she sees hanging with the astral express in some one off news article..

Oh Psyche, good luck babe.

Because Eros thinks you abandoned her and left her to die, and now you gotta prove yourself (Greek myth style hehe) to get her back

[theartingace]

i got POSSESSED by this image in the middle of the night and had to put it down ASAP. A season 3 'cover' to go with the others! Experiments in Mignola's style have been so much fun and in general it's perfect for Malevolent, but NOWHERE is it more perfect than for s3.

[newx-menfan]

I’m gonna say Xorn/Xorneto…just to be funny and contrarian lol…

[topguncortez]

i bought my man some nice cologne for our 1 year

and if i don’t get some hawk tuh tonight im gonna break it on his head

[saintsenara]

Hi! I love your blog, and every word of yours is golden. Big fan here.

It's not exactly a deranged ship I guess, but what are your thoughts Voldemort/Regulus?

I'm trying hard af to put them together for a fic, for reasons, but honestly? The deeper I dig the less I see it work. Can it work?

thank you very much for the ask, anon! this one got a couple more shoutouts from people with taste:

now... you are not the only person who's attempting to smash these two together for a fic, and so i speak from experience when i say no, it doesn't work.

by which i mean, it doesn't work as a relationship which does anything other than ruin regulus' life while voldemort drifts by unbothered. but that's what we all want from this pairing, right? and embracing that dysfunction... slaps.

as i've written elsewhere, regulus' reason for joining the death eaters is evidently a desire to be seen as singular and special, and his disillusion with the organisation is clearly connected to realising that voldemort considers him completely irrelevant - just another one of the faceless minions he sends out as cannon fodder.

i very much like him thinking that being permitted to offer voldemort a service in both senses of the word is a sign that the dark lord values him above all others, only to discover that he's actually just one of voldemort's collection of fuck toys and voldemort has no more affection for him than he does for his morning toast.

[bonus points if one of the dark lord's other side-chicks is barty crouch jr., who's also convinced that voldemort's affection for him is singular. regulus undoubtedly has the same level of daddy issues, after all...]

but while crouch embraces the fact that delulu is the solulu, regulus decides to go full woman scorned, and makes it his mission to punish voldemort.

and his letter? well, that's in revenge for voldemort having once called him "bella" during sex. "there's no way the dark lord will forget my name now!" he thinks, as he folds his iconic little note into the fake locket, unaware that voldemort will spend the rest of his life:

a. not noticing regulus is missing.

b. never feeling the need to check on the locket.

rip king, you'd have loved eternal sunshine.

[herejusttosufferalong]

For anyone who doesn't have IG like me, Jake posted a story from the gym. Nic posted after an hour from the same gym.

Poor Rory

He has been replaced

[melnitz-speaking]

Can I hear you laugh, babe? Can you make me smile? I'll forget what's on my mind for a while....

Can I tie you up, love? If you tell me, "Yes" I'll unbutton every button down your green, green dress

[puffin-smoke]

My running theory for the wedding is that Asher will have a heart attack and die on the day of the wedding. None of the vampires will be there yet so he permanently dies and his playlist is marked as complete. The fandom begins to theorise that Quinn will ambush the funeral.

[iznsfw]

as always nise fic lodi k tlg :DDDD :gigil:

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Tenkyu! Slowly getting back into the groove <3

Everyone read Yeseo too! :D

[lettuccine]

i cant stop thinking about a post by @possamble so i made this

inspired by this

based on a fanart by BugsGay on twitter

[driftycities]

I have rewritten the second chapter of July about 43 times and I’m now contemplating rewriting chapter one as well…the perfectionism in me is not perfectifying