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if one more alt character gets saddled with the "smells bad/doesn't shower" headcanon i'm going to start swinging
#ramble#we had this with eddie and now hobie and i can't POSSIBLY think why#oh whoops you accidentally let your racism/classism/miscellaneous prejudice show#it also feeds into the thing i hate where alternative fashion is only acceptable if it's perfectly coordinated and aesthetically pleasing#which is so aggressively anti alternative#it just shows that you think it's a fashion statement and not an ideology
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men in instagram comments will be like "is anyone going to take this random content of a woman doing literally anything and make it an opportunity to share my hatred of women" and not wait for an answer
#sometimes it is vaguely on topic although still fucking stupid#e.g. just saw a play on that 'trying to show women i pass on the street that i'm harmless' trend#(done by a butch woman who gets mistaken for a man) and some guy in the comments was going on about how women being scared to encounter men#is a sign of their prejudice and comparing it to racism???#but other times it's the most random harmless content imaginable#the same content that would just be considered funny/silly/witty/engaging etc by a man#instead prompts 50 different takes on how women are stupid/selfish/annoying/worthless#talking
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OK but for real, how do you see racism in someone's eyes? 馃槀
#OOC#(love this meme but that option gets me every time)#(can you imagine seeing that in a book?)#(I looked deep into his racism-filled eyes)#(LIKE WHAT)#(prejudice? sure)#(but RACISM?)
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cw: discussion of canon-typical prejudice/blood purity/racism
I have a developing headcanon about Draco.
So I think Lucius is a piece of shit father, right? Very cold and mean and distant, and controlling. He showers Draco with gifts, but not affection, you get the gist.
But Lucius鈥檚 father, Draco鈥檚 paternal grandfather, is very different. He鈥檚 warm with Draco. He's kind. Doesn鈥檛 get angry when Draco draws on the walls, or has an episode of accidental magic, or doesn鈥檛 get the highest grade. Maybe Lucius was impacted by his mother to be the way he was, or became that way for some other reason. Or maybe his father is just better at being a grandfather than he was a father.
Regardless, Draco grows up not idolizing his mean, harsh, demanding father, but his doting, loving, patient grandfather.
His grandfather is also a raging, horrible racist/pureblood supremacist.
His grandfather sits Draco on his knee and tells him how wonderful he is, how special and "pure." He shows his prejudice in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Draco hears him rant about blood purity shit at the dinner table. When they're in public, he notices his grandfather steer him away from anyone who he might know or assume to be a non-pureblood. The grandfather dies before the war, let's say like 4th year, but he has a BIG impact on Draco.
So Draco doesn鈥檛 (only) get his blood supremacy/racism from his father (and mother). He also gets it from his grandfather.
I think I like this headcanon because鈥攚hile it's not at all easy to unlearn prejudices one sees modeled from basically birth鈥攊t's probably made a bit easier when the person you learned it from is also someone you don't like when you get older. I don't see Draco liking Lucius all that much; sure he has love for him, but even in the small scenes where we see how Lucius treats Draco, it's clear that, at the very least, he's not very nice to his son. And, in my own head, Draco doesn't have a good relationship with him, pretty much ever. So maybe, in a universe that only presents Draco's relationship with his parents, Draco could have an easier time in adulthood recognizing that he'd been indoctrinated into the blood supremacist ideology; it could be compatible with an overall rejection of his parents.
But in this headcanon, where Draco learned and saw a lot of that prejudice modeled for him in someone who showed him seemingly unconditional love and kindness and affection, how hard is that for him to grapple with? That's a reality for a lot of people; coming to terms with the fact that someone you love鈥攕omeone who's nice to you鈥攊sn't "nice" to people who aren't like you. And that everything they taught you about that was wrong.
Which brings me to Drarry. Because in a Drarry universe鈥攚hich is endgame in just about every universe I wanna explore鈥擠raco would fall in love with someone who his grandfather would've hated.
Give me a Draco who has to realize that someone with whom he didn't have a complicated, toxic relationship, was also a shitty person, and that he would've HATED the person he loves.
#cw: discussion of canon-typical prejudice/blood purity/racism#draco malfoy#harry potter#drarry#headcanon
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it's lazy writing...
#same with that ine post about bg3 that was like why is there so much racism/prejudice in the fantasy land...#like da has never been about escapism or a hunky dory kumbayah world where theres nothing bad despite da4 trying to do so...#like its very fine to use a setting to explore semi analogous things#they might fail at it but like its still a fine thing to do#and its not immersive or respectful of the universe for them to ignore it completely#just kinda shows theyre cowards lol
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