#sofoulandfairaday

[metvmorqhoses]

Nononono waitttt what do you mean about Good Omens season 2?? Why didn't you like it?

I personally thought it was better than season 1 - better paced. There wasn't a single boring moment. And sure, the plot maybe had fewer stakes, but seeing as this was a bridge season between season 1 (the of Good Omens book) and hopefully season 3 (the book that never came out, “668” or something like that), I thought it was good. Warm & fuzzy.

I need to know your opinion now

As abashed as I am to have to respond to such enthusiasm with, well... the very opposite of enthusiasm, please at least know that I consider the truth the best thing I have to offer in general and in regard to that unfortunate (yet somehow still-untouchable?) mess the second season of Good Omens has proven itself to be in particular, so accept it as some sort of well-intended even if perhaps unwanted gift.

This is probably the most unpopular opinion one can have on Tumblr right now, so I'll go straight to the point: Gaiman managed to ruin Good Omens (perhaps he isn't able to write it by himself, perhaps he got carried away with fan service, who knows), once one of the most delightful, witty, engaging, profound books/shows existent, changing its register and raison d'être in order to turn it into, per great popular request, the same lame simple plotless cheesy cookie-cutter gay romance without rime and reason apparently every single piece of media is deforming itself into lately.

The dramatic loss of... artistic quality this show suffered is appalling and even more appalling is the fact I seem to be one of the very few on this green earth to have even noticed? Did I perhaps read too much in the show before? I don't think so, it was indeed a masterpiece. I saw many die-hard fans of the series beyond puzzled at this last season too, straining themselves to try and make sense of it with wild theories, justifying them with the simple fact that Neil Gaiman is a genius and surely this hot mess must mean something, right? I wasn't aware the world was mostly populated by hysterically besotted people hailing Neil Gaiman's alleged greatness from dawn til dusk without contextualized merit, and the discovery didn't particularly excite me, to be quite honest. I think a healthy amount of fairness in the critique of any artist should always be the norm, but I digress.

I'll try to keep it as brief and matter-of-factly as possible, especially since some time has passed and the fumes of my rage aren't as scorching or as precise as they used to be lol

In a word, this season was subpar. Not only did it lack that original witty, ineffable meaningfulness, that intrinsic and very human sense of wonder and protectiveness towards life and its profound sense the original show brimmed with, but even from the most basic literary point of view, it literally lacked a plot worthy of this name, a story, characters that felt complex and real instead of caricatures who tried and reenact themselves, and in general what should have been, quite simply, good writing.

More than Good Omens' long-awaited season 2, this felt more like a high-budget filler fanfiction created by someone who didn't know what they were doing with story and characters most of the time, but who sure as hell wanted to please the audience to disastrous lengths.

The very first thing that irked me beyond belief, and it literally started from minute one, was the immediate, more or less subtle, change in acting from both Michael and David. Michael stressed it way more, with, in my opinion, quite tragic results, thing that from the start immediately allowed me to guess where they were going with their (already established as extremely complex) relationship, entirely turning the vibe from sophisticated allegory of Divine Comedy kind of love (love for your enemy, love for your friend, love in all its form and in its entirety) to banal romantic comedy-level gay drama, downgrading what Crowley and Aziraphale shared (the subtle abysses of it!) into the most boring and obvious of soap operas, obviously forcing them to act out of character in order to compensate (was any flash-back meaningful to their character or the story? Was there a writing reason behind any of them beyond writing for the sake of filling screen-time?).

Some relationships deserve to be left alone, alone in their subtlety and ambiguousness or you'll inevitably ruin them. Not everyone must kiss on screen, no matter how much the audience screams and throws up for it. This little woke drama completely ruined and eclipsed everything else those two characters were for each other, turning them from cosmic and devastatingly loyal best friends to petty and dumb lovers that need two plot devices (the messy pointless and quite frankly offensive representation-wise lesbians from across the street they literally met five minutes prior) to tell them they actually have feeling for each other and should share them. After literal millennia of this relationship, relationship that has its own inner workings and reasons, we needed the plot-lesbians to subvert the order of things and spur Crowley into action, obviously obtaining disastrous and lame results? Are we witnessing the interaction of immortal beings or five-year-olds? The only way I can genuinely make sense of this dumbness is considering those two female "characters" (that feel anything but real people) no more than that, characters, golems, put there by Metatron via the power of the Book of Life (again, so many Chekhov's guns with no use whatsoever in this season) in order to separate Az and Crowley using the only thing that could succeed in doing it - an ill placed declaration of love.

But even this doesn't match the true être of what Good Omens originally was nor comes full circle with the ineffable mystery season 1 ended with. It genuinely feels like Gaiman changed the whole rhyme and reason of the story, vibes, meaning, register, just to meet the modern needs of a category that is sadly phagocytizes everything else in both life and fiction. And I find it a true pity - and a bore.

And even leaving aside this personal boredom of mine at a non-existent plot that consisted in 1) a big mystery that promised cosmic repercussions (season 1 ended with the after-nonapocalyptic world that was slightly changed just because two enemies had loved each other and life too much not to oppose god's plan - fact that was probably god's plan all along), mystery that was actually no mystery at all (two random, from the original story's perspective, previous minor characters in literally ten supernatural minutes fell in love and run away together) and that meant virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things, but serving as a plot device so that the other two minor new characters could intrude into the protagonists' relationship so they could finally have the excuse to jump literary genre and kiss & queer tragedy the story away 2) an endless series of symbols, facts, episodes and characters that constantly seemed to hint at something but that in reality resulted in nothing story-wise (also, the change of heart in God's personality, first the witty and almighty trickster for the greater good, now the divine bully??), even leaving all this aside, I'm mostly disappointed the quality of the writing plummeted so inesorabily one of my comfort show turned into the symbol of an artistic era I'm utterly distraught to have to witness - the era of crowd-pleasers and un-imagination.

As for this being a filler season, writing in such an unresolved way (basic and predictable plot, colourless characters, cliché romance, hours of happenings that don't mean a thing in the current story) is unacceptable and a failure, even if you are a famous writer. You cannot waste hours of the audience's time going nowhere shielded by the sole future promise of sense. Writing doesn't work that way, and I'm sincerely appalled to see people noticing it and deciding to excuse it with a "surely next season everything will look genius!". It doesn't work this way. The faults were too many, they can't possibly be all resolved next season. This product wasn't great, even if your faves kissed and your little fanfictions came true.

The sad thing is, Good Omens used to be a work of art, not the next consumeristic piece of fiction to satisfy woke needs.

[sofoulandfairaday]

Tell us the reason behind your url

Hi!

I don't know if I've already answered this before, but basically, it comes from my favourite play of all time, Macbeth. In the very first scene, Macbeth meets the three witches - which, by the way, is one of the most amazing scenes ever - and one of the themes of the work is set with the sentence fair is foul and foul is fair, meaning the lines between good and evil are blurrier than we like to think, that both coexist in the heart of men, that are (or can be turned into?) deceitful creatures. Things that are evil may appear good and vice versa... and to creatures such as witches, what even is good and evil?

The first line Macbeth ever says is "so foul and fair a day I have not seen" and that's where my nick comes from.

[quillinhand]

Thanks for the tag @wewillbeinfrance, @morozovamaximoff, @trinikins! The rules were a bit different, so i made a new post just in case. 

Rules: Bold the ones that are true and tag 15 other people to do it too! 

APPEARANCE:

i’m over 5’5” // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing // i have one or more piercings // i have at least one tattoo // i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair // i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles // i paint my nails // i typically wear make-up // i don’t often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES & TALENTS:

i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIPS:

i am in a relationship // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETICS:

i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colours // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favourite season

MISCELLANEOUS:

i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick-shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs

no pressure tags: @belowthestarrs, @soopsiedaisies, @sofoulandfairaday, @inc0rrect, @nellhargreeves, @waitingforthesunrise, @readyafterthesunrise, @paysomeonetopaysomeone, @tiredandcaffeinated, @iheartmoons, @lalallorona, @elderflowergin, @lostinanunhingedwonderland, @greens-your-color, @giosnape, @senshipluto

[artemisia-black]

First chapter of my Sirius and Bella fic.

Inspired by @sofoulandfairaday's excellent meta about them, I dragged this out of my docs and here it is.

Snippet:

Then, there he was, cradled in Uncle Orion's arms – Sirius, the new centre of their universe, his presence dimming everything else in the room. The little princeling who had arrived to rule over them all.

Bella's cheeks burned with resentment, the injustice of it all tightening her chest. She had been the centre of their universe once, had she not?

Her grandfather's voice cut through her thoughts.

"Show your cousin the respect he deserves, Bellatrix."

At his words, her grandmother, with practised grace, slid the baby into Bella's reluctant arms, and the adults seemed to vanish, leaving them alone amidst a sea of murmurs and rustling fabrics.

[rodolphus-lestrangex]

This, right here, is how I see Bellamort vs Belladolphus. Rodolphus would drop everything he’s doing in an instant when Bella walks into the room wearing nothing but lingerie. @sofoulandfairaday

[saintsenara]

2!

thank you very much for the ask, pal!

question two on this love your fandom ask game was a very popular one, so I've combined this ask with a couple of others:

[a huge shoutout to the anon who left such a kind message about bookbinding - you're a legend!]

2. what is a headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like?

i have recently - while writing subluxation - been regrettably tricked against my will into finding rodolphus lestrange fascinating [i can hear @sofoulandfairaday giggling and kicking her feet in the air], and i am increasingly coming round to the idea that - while i certainly still prefer the idea that his marriage to bellatrix is an unhappy one - there's some real affection there. it's giving power couple.

5. what is something you see in fics a lot and love?

both fun and profoundly moving engagement with my favourite fandom belief: that you can write yourself into - and out of - the least plausible premises and pairings, turning them into something which should be dismissed as a joke but which instead lays bare the fundamental strangeness of life and of love, if you just have enough nerve.

15. which character always makes you smile?

the man, the myth, the legend… ronald billius weasley, for the love of whom i would even defend hermione.

16. what is a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate?

that each of the trio destroys a horcrux, and that each of these horcruxes is destroyed by the person who feels most narratively linked to the bit of voldemort's personality it symbolises.

harry destroys the diary, which gives him a connection he sincerely values to somebody who can understand his experience as an orphan searching for the answer to the mystery of his life.

ron destroys the locket, which tortures him by suggesting his mother doesn't love him and that his great love is futile because she will abandon him. the locket is the clearest example of voldemort's profound mammy issues - he kills hepzibah smith to acquire it as vengeance for her suggesting that merope stole it, and it is the only horcrux he constructs an elaborate defence for in a place meaningful to him from childhood.

hermione, whose experience of the wizarding world is of having to justify her rightful place within it, destroys the cup - the item which has the least personal connection to voldemort but which he evidently chooses as a horcrux because of his own preoccupation with history and his place in the wizarding world.

[other answers from this ask game]

[vivantesopales]

10 for the choose violence ask game

worst part of fanon: traditionally masculine tom/voldemort as a default characterisation. (i like to think that tom riddle is someone who struggles to align his gender expression with what is expected of him, a supposedly boyish boy, a supposedly manly man, and that he overcompensates out of fear, resulting in the proactive aggression we see from him – or at least some of it.) (i once came across the term "monstrous femininity" in an article discussing the gender aspects of villainy in literature. and while it is used aptly to describe voldemort, i would really like to see this repressed high femme side of tom being explored more often in fics! 👀)

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ask game

(hi @sofoulandfairaday thank you for the ask! i adore your hcs💗💗)

[celestemagnoliathewriter]

Would you give me a ♻️ for Supernova? (I'm sending you infinite kudos ❤️❤️❤️)

Thank you for the ask @sofoulandfairaday!!

♻️ a scrapped idea for Supernova

Very early on I considered having Andromeda run into Ted with baby Tonks at St. Mungo's, and him discovering pretty early that he had a kid with her. However, I didn't want to have their relationship start that early because that would've meant a lot more writing, and honestly would not have been that interesting to read or write.

So instead I waited until Dora was 11, which makes it so much worse, and everyone suffers for it :D

writer ask game

[star-named-riddle]

Call for prompts

Alright Bellamort fans, I feel like repeating the 30 microfics challenge I did last year. You can see the results here or try and use tumblrs search function to find them in my blog (do not recommend, I can't find them all myself)

To do this, instead of asking another blog to use their monthly prompts, like I did last year, I'm asking you for prompts.

My asks are open, feel free to send more than one. Names and locations are off the table, I'm looking for word prompts (look into wolfstarmicrofics page and check their lists, that's the sort of thing that works for microfics).

I'll be posting these through September (as I headcanon Bella's birthday to be in September). If I get enough prompts for two months, there will be thirty more microfics published in December since that's Voldemort's birth month).

Let's go

PS shamelessly summoning my Bellamort mutuals @sofoulandfairaday @justaslytherclawgirl @daughterofyourdarklord @fugamalefica @motherfuckingmaneater

[quillinhand]

what the fucking fuck

@kafkaesquemess, @dizzythegreat, @iheartmoons, @mitsuki91, @clinically-depressed, @shakespearean-snape, @snapecentric, @giosnape, @cuppachia, @shortqueershakespeare

@colonel-c-brandon, @nellietrelawney, @sofoulandfairaday, @horror-lover17, @inc0rrect, @mlbloml99, @friendship-bracelets-anon, @v1cv1c, @trinikins, @house-arismith, @frenchhomosnapien, 

@themaineoddity, @said-snape-softly, @smilingformoney

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i dont want this to ruin the pride and help with self esteem of being lgbtq+ so a signal boost from larger accounts might be nice

[sofoulandfairaday]

Actually very curious to hear your thoughts and head canons on Sirius + Walburga + Orion

Under the cut, because it's very long. But I'd love it if you read it all. I hope it succeeds in being eloquent, it's hard to put my thoughts into coherent writing for such a sensitive topic.

I don't think that the majority of this fandom actually understands the subtleties of abuse. Also, too many people weirdly like the idea of abused characters, and emphasize their torments, especially physical ones, as a way of... I don't know, evoking more sympathy for them? This happens all the time with Sirius Black.

@ sofoulandfairaday, was Sirius Black abused in your opinion?

Yes.

But not in the way people think.

I am fascinated with stories that explore generational trauma, the cycles of abuse that get repeated over and over. I think Sirius was abused in the way the Roy kids in Succession are abused, in the way that the people in The Crown are abused. It's not that the people in themselves are abusive it's that the family system is.

This doesn't excuse individual adult responsibility because, at a certain point, it becomes your duty not to pass on your traumas to your children. But traumatized adults raising traumatized children is something much more realistic, to me, than “The Blacks liked torturing their children for fun” (wtf?).

The Blacks were an upper-class family in the 1950s. To put this in perspective, my parents both got physically reprimanded as children (1970s), and my grandparents did too (1950s-1940s). It was just the way things were. It wouldn't have been seen as weird if they had been hit, at the time. Do you know when corporal punishment was abolished in UK schools? 1986. And people say Snape was abusive to his students. Bro, 1986. The world has changed a lot in the last 20/30 years but it's a little unfair, in my opinion, to judge their times entirely through our lenses.

And even in light of this... I don't think the Blacks were that physically violent. Maybe Orion clipped his sons behind the ear when they really misbehaved, or threatened physical punishment, but they most likely never truly hurt their kids. I also don't think they raised their hands like filthy Muggles, so maybe... Stinging Hexes? Going to bed without supper? They definitely did not use the fucking Cruciatus curse on their children. The torture curse. The one that scrambles people's brains if used for too long. Sometimes I think that authors don't put thought behind what they write, or exaggerate for the shock value, which... doesn't really sit right with me, to say the least. I don't really care for character bashing of any character. I don't care for painting Walburga & Orion as Disney villains who hurt their children because... they? like? hurting children?

With this being said, I'm pretty sure they were emotionally abusive, maybe psychologically abusive. Tons of families are like that, even nowadays.

Master always liked his little joke,” said Kreacher, bowing again, and continuing in an undertone, “Master was a nasty ungrateful swine who broke his mother’s heart — ” “My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. “She kept herself alive out of pure spite.” Kreacher bowed again and said, “Whatever Master says,” then muttered furiously, “Master is not fit to wipe slime from his mother’s boots, oh my poor Mistress, what would she say if she saw Kreacher serving him, how she hated him, what a disappointment he was — ”

According to Kreacher, Sirius broke his mother's heart when he left. That might have been a dramatic choice of words (Sirius definitely thinks it is because he replies in kind) but perhaps it wasn't.

The problem with the Blacks' love for their children isn't that it wasn't there, it's that it seems very conditional. I fully believe that for a time, when he was a kid, Sirius was a little prince, a perfect pureblood heir. Given his temperament, he might have been the bad child, always in detention compared to Regulus, who was probably quieter, more shy, more poised. Except. Despite all of this or maybe because of all of this, he was probably the more respected out of the two: more handsome, more charismatic, more outspoken, stronger, quicker. Someone like Bellatrix (and Walburga too, I think) must have respected him much more than his brother, even though they probably said the opposite out loud. Sure, they liked Regulus more, but everyone knew he wasn't the brightest out of the two stars. I think the Blacks respected and praised strength.

Want proof of this? Sirius himself calls Regulus soft and an idiot. How many times do you think he heard that sentence as a child?

For these reasons, it's always been my headcanon that the two brothers grew up resenting each other subtly: Sirius probably envied that his brother was their mama's favourite, the one who was shown more affection, despite being not as bright as him, not as good. But children are petty and have very strong senses of pride. In stressful environments they latch onto the identities they create for themselves: if Sirius painted himself, in the family dynamics, as the strong one, the one who doesn't care, the one who rejects even his parents' rare moments of affection, he will most likely never be the one to go to them to beg for their love, or kisses or whatever. On the other hand, Regulus was probably babied by their parents, but never truly treated like the heir, like the competent, brilliant one. His mother might have been more tender with him and yelled at him less, but children are perceptive.

Also, Grimmauld Place has all the characteristics of the Haunted Hause trope, horror film style (which I cannot get into here lest this becomes a dissertation), but generational trauma likely permeates those walls. Merely being back in the house is enough to trigger Sirius' depression.

Sirius is my pride, but Regulus is my joy sort of dynamic for the Blacks and their parents, me thinks.

They love each other but are also constantly pitted against each other. They fight for their parents' love. They think the other had it easier.

Then, Sirius is sorted into Gryffindor. Now, he's already fighting back against his parents now (he's almost 12, the perfect age), but it's always been a little headcanon of mine that Sirius doesn't know how much this will damage him until it happens. We see, again and again and again, in-universe, how much stress the Sorting put kids through - what if I'm not in this house my parents were sorted into? From the way he appears in Snape's memories on the Hogwarts Express, I think Sirius must have thought it hilarious if he was sorted into Gryffindor, the first Black ever to be one. Truly a most rebellious act. This lasted about... seven seconds?

The next day, Walburga sends a Howler and she's the most displeased Sirius has ever heard her, this is not a joke, Sirius, how dare you? You are such a disappointment etc.

Disappointment. The family disappointment.

This becomes Sirius' new persona. The more he leans into it, the more his mother doubles down. Headcanon n°2: they have the same personality, Walburga and Sirius; Regulus takes after Orion.

Golden-child/scapegoat dynamic ensues, worse than ever. This is the abuse I was referring to: no matter how brilliant, how high his grades, how good Sirius is, it'll never be enough. He's the foil to Regulus - less good in school, less brilliant, less popular, less... So. He fraternizes with Mudbloods and werewolves and dissenters of our Lord and Saviour Voldemort, which is a disgrace. He comes back from his first year saying Muggleborn instead of Mudblood, puts up semi-naked Muggle girl posters in his room with a permanent sticking charm - every time Walburga is in there her stomach flips in disgust. He buys himself a Muggle motorbike.

He can never bring himself to tell his parents that he wants their love and approval and they think he wants everything but. Not just that, they think he's actively trying to drive them to an early grave with all of that rebelling.

This, by the way, puts an enormous amount of stress on Regulus. Now he has to step up, wants to step up, to prove himself as finally better, but also he doesn't want to lose his older brother, but also he can never live up to the comparison, but also why do his parents love him now that Sirius is gone, why couldn't they love him better, sooner? This breeds resentment. Desperate to prove himself, he joins the Death Eaters (whose ideas he fully embraced anyway, let's not forget that Reggie was a racist little arse).

Why did Sirius run away?

This fandom makes the MISTAKE of thinking that Sirius ran away because his parents were evil and mean. No. Nu-uh. That's not what happened.

“But… why did you…?” “Leave?” Sirius smiled bitterly and ran his fingers through his long, unkempt hair. “Because I hated the whole lot of them: my parents, with their pure-blood mania, convinced that to be a Black made you practically royal… my idiot brother, soft enough to believe them… that’s him.” Sirius jabbed a finger at the very bottom of the tree, at the name Regulus Black. A date of death (some fifteen years previously) followed the date of birth. “He was younger than me,” said Sirius, “and a much better son, as I was constantly reminded.”

Sirius hated his parents and his brother, but he doesn't offer any indication that they were physically violent towards him - sure, they sound like dicks and they definitely created a situation of emotional abuse (why can't you be more like your brother?), which is still very scarring for a child/teenager, but no indication that they ever brutalized him.

I'm not saying this to argue that emotional or psychological abuse (lying, gaslighting, justifying treating your children horribly with oh, but I'm doing it for your own good, etc.) is less damaging than physical abuse. But I think that half the fandom just writes in a few rounds of Cruciatus to get out of writing the hard stuff - the complexities, subtleties, two-way pain of dysfunctional households.

When Sirius ran away from home, Orion and Walburga blasted him off the family tree. That means that he couldn't come back even if he tried to. He had no family any longer. Running away from home is something that a teenager in Sirius' situation and with his personality might conceivably do - and I'm sure it did hurt his family. But his betrayal was followed by their own betrayal.

Also, I want to contrast this with BELLATRIX and the way she speaks of Andromeda (because we all know that she's actually referring to Andromeda in that first quote):

“Cissy, your own sister? You wouldn’t — ” (HBP) “She is no niece of ours, my Lord,” she cried over the outpouring of mirth. “We — Narcissa and I — have never set eyes on our sister since she married the Mudblood. This brat has nothing to do with either of us, nor any beast she marries.” (DH)

and Walburga:

“- comes back from Azkaban ordering Kreacher around, oh, my poor mistress, what would she say if she saw the house now, scum living in it, her treasures thrown out, she swore he was no son of hers and he’s back, they say he’s a murderer too -”

Bella, even after 25 years, still calls Andromeda her sister. Sure, Ted and Dora can rot - nay, she wants to actively kill them -, but Andy is her sister. Walburga declares that Sirius is no son of hers. She cut ties with him just as much as he cut ties with them. He lived with the Potters until Alphard died and miraculously left him gold; he didn't have a Galleon to his name otherwise. This is incredibly hurtful for a child. He was sixteen.

So. Anyways. This is getting rambly, but I hope I got my point across.

As for pure headcanons, that have no actual basis in the text:

All the Blacks are hot, but Orion & Burgie were not the hottest of them. That title goes to Alphard & Lucretia and then Sirius & Bellatrix in the next generation.

Orion is like Regulus in nature, and Walburga is like Sirius. Ice and Fire. On the other hand, physically, Sirius looks like his dad and Reggie looks like his mum. (Which is not to say much because they are second cousins, and the Black genes are strong lol)

(By the way, they are second cousins guys, not first cousins, not brother and sister!)

Orion wears exclusively shades of black and grey.

He's a quiet man, likes to read, despises noise.

A heavy drinker since he was young, it became a coping mechanism after Sirius' turbulent teenage years, almost drank himself to death when Regulus died. That's not what got him in the end, but it could have very well been.

Walburga always had a temper on her, could scream like a banshee, but she wasn't insane until one son abandoned her for the lowliest of scum and she lost her youngest boy and her husband in the span of six? three? months.

Austere. I can imagine her with her hair pinned up, high necklines... always very proper, with a severe type of beauty. I really like that aesthetic for her.

Crack: Definitely involved in the infamous Love Triangle of '43 when Tom Riddle tried to ask her out (to get access to the Black Family library's Dark Arts books) and she rejected him (not my headcanon btw, I remember reading it on here but I can't remember who came up with it rn - if anyone knows, I'll give credit!). Guess who was smitten with him? Alphard. Chaos of the kind you're thinking ensues.

Theirs was a semi-arranged marriage (there were wink-wink, nudge-nudges from other members of the family and the two of them decided it would be advantageous). I don't think they loved each other but they had a good partnership, gave the House of Black two heirs. (lol, see how that turned out)

Walburga had pregnancy issues, which I headcanon for every single woman of the House of Black, except the only one who was-maybe-sorta-kinda relying on them: Andromeda.

That's all, folks!

(I think.)

[quillinhand]

what if you got to go on your dream trip, literally anywhere in the world? what mutuals would you take with you?

all of them, lol. im rather new here, so i don't know a lot about any of my mutuals except that they have an excellent sense of humor and usually share my opinions. But like, y'all are so kind, and every like and reblog I get from y'all has made my month. I haven't talked much with all of you, but like, I adore you, and I would love to know more about every single one of my mutuals.

Tagging all of my mutuals because I'm curious now; where would you want to go and which mutuals would you take along?

@smilingformoney, @friendship-bracelets-anon, @v1cv1c, @trinikins, @house-arismith, @mlbloml99, @themaineoddity, @said-snape-softly, @frenchhomosnapien, @inc0rrect, @art-lover17, @sofoulandfairaday

[artemisia-black]

tagged by the the lovely @sofoulandfairaday

these are all songs in my favourites list on spotify

A-Abstract-Hozier

R-Real Love Baby- Father John Misty

T-Trials of the Past-Sbtrxt

E-Everything goes my way- Metronomy

M- Mermaids- Florence and the machine

I-Into dust-Mazzy Star

S- Sunday girl-Blondie

I- I can’t go on without you- Kaleo

A-Another sad love song- Khalid

B-Best Friend-Sophie Tucker

L- Life on earth- Snow Patrol

A-Alors on Danse-Stromae

C-Criminal- Fiona Apple

K-Kiss, kiss bang bang-High contrast

Tagging: @celestemagnoliathewriter and @merlinsbudgiesmugglers

[seriousbrat]

lol excuse me?? as @sofoulandfairaday said in the comments how can it be a conspiracy when it's part of the story like sirius very much DID do that to Remus. That wasn't even added later on like it's in the first scene that Sirius appears and also mentioned in philosophers stone so.... too bad

sometimes I feel like people lowkey believe these people actually existed irl rather than being a work of fiction that one person in particular created

(character is complex, flawed and not wholly good or bad)

some genius on tiktok: this is actually an example of bad, inconsistent writing

[saintsenara]

12, 15, 23 for the fandom ask meme!

thank you very much for these questions from the love your fandom ask game, anon!

12. compliment someone else in your fandom:

i've mentioned throughout the answers to this game that the thing i find so astonishing about fandom is the fact that it is something which depends on generosity - which seems like it would therefore be unsustainable in the modern world - and that i, specifically, have been a recipient of that generosity. the fact that people make time to read things i bash out hunched over my laptop of an evening is an extraordinary kindness, and that people go beyond the enormous generosity of just reading to also leave comments is something i adore.

so, a shoutout to some of the names i get a little buzz out of seeing in the ol' inbox: @hikarimeroperiddle, @spectral-kitty, @sofoulandfairaday, and @ashesandhackles. your generous reading and willingness to yell far more eloquently than i would be able to about anything and everything is a gift.

15. which character always makes you smile?

tom marvolo riddle, especially when he's swanning around being camp and unpalatable.

23. name a fandom you're curious about because of a mutual:

@bronzeagepizzeria is really doing a great job of making doctor who look interesting, which isn't something i ever expected i'd find myself saying...

[other answers from this ask game]

[vivantesopales]

But instead of seeking revenge, Riddle ended up embracing pureblood snobbery, referring to Hagrid as ‘the great oaf’ (à la Malfoy), ultimately reinforcing the hierarchy that had once disadvantaged him. And instead of sympathising with Muggleborns, he turned the Basilisk on them. The marginalised.

This was his default pattern of aggression.

He didn’t kill his oppressors, he became one of them.

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🫧 for the WIP last lines tag game. this is from a meta im writing, which is an attempt to understand the depiction of violence and bigotry in the hp books, specifically how they manifest via voldemort.

🫧 tagged by @cealesti (i love their writing! im so excited for the new chapter 😍😍). and im tagging peeps i miss and peeps i’d love to get to know more: @sofoulandfairaday @saintsenara @riddlemeharder @danpuff-ao3 @ghaniblue @sitp-recs @tackytigerfic @pennygalleon – but of course no pressure at all