#the black family cousins

[noahjc03]

Who's you're favourite of the Black cousins???

[not-rab]

Regulus: *coughs blood*

Sirius: Don’t die Regulus

Regulus: Don’t tell me what to do

[aithusarosekiller]

Andy leaving her sisters/cousins to babysit her daughter would be insane

Like baby tonks learnt her chaos from somewhere and it wasn't from Ted, it was very much a 'mums side of the family' thing

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Bella, standing in the corner: 🧍what does it want from me

Sirius, holding her: I don't know?!?! Why is she staring like that oh my god, please blink Dora

Narcissa: stop holding her like that you useless imbecile, you'll mess up her spine...no that's WORSE

Bella: make it stop staring at me

Reggie, coming to take her away from Sirius: I don't even like this baby but I chose to save you all from your incompetence so you are welcome

Baby tonks: :D

Narcissa, who had just tried to hold her and stop her from crying, claiming 'babies love me': what on earth did you do?

Reggie: no clue.

[sharkylad]

Thinking about the fact that Mabel and Dipper didn't know they had two great uncles.

Yeah they are 12 and at 12 I had a shotty understanding of my family tree- But really? Nobody brought up their great uncle? Stanley? Especially since they'll be staying with his twin brother, Stanford?

Shermie never went to Stan's fake funeral, which to me means the twos relationship was strained on some level. If Shermie is older that means his view of Stan was poisoned in some way, that even as kids they weren't close. If the Shermie is younger then he never even got to meet Stan and all he knew about him was how he failed his family. Hell, people probably barely mentioned Stanley TO Shermie.

The fact that Stan had become a black stain upon the Pines family name makes me so vividly upset. Stanley faked his death and the family just- seemingly decided to strike him from the record. To pretend he didn't existed to spare themselves the sadness and shame.

Stanford and Shermie Pines. The only children worth mentioning of Filbrick and Caryn Pines.

It was never Stanford that was lost to the world. It was Stanley, ever since he had to leave New Jersy- it was always him that had to be struck from the record. Change his name, change his state, change his affiliations, destroy the remains of ghost that was Stanley Pines. Kill him so the family doesn't bring him up, doesn't ask questions, stops asking "Stanford" about his twin.

I just keep thinking about the fact that since the day he made one single mistake all the way up until Ford walks out of that machine- Stanley Pines was killed and did not exist. And Stan himself had no one to blame, he had to play the part in his own demise- He is the only one who ever knew Stanley was alive and has been for decades.

He lives in the multitudes of every personality he's ever taken, all in the hope that he himself can stop being Stanley Pines.

[starrysillhoutte]

ok but the rosier twins + the black cousins were the most ethereal otherworldly beautiful people to ever walk the grounds of that school and I will not be taking any objections

[intrusiveprism]

Sirius & Bellatrix

[blanc-ci]

Really want to make a pre-surak au thing that opens on these two “warrior” Vulcans fighting it out on sehlats in gaudy armor and “traditional” weapons, just REALLY leaning into the “pre Surak is pre-technology” warlike tribal Vulcans in skimpy clothing misconception

And then the scene zooms out and we start to see bleachers and hear cheering/jeering and vendors who wander the crowds selling snacks. There’s a drone wizzing overhead to film wide dynamic shots of the fight. Cameras flashing.

Cuts to this overly-enthused announcer narrating the whole thing, and we zoom out again to see this being watched on a fancy flatscreen in a fancy modern livingroom by a couple of equally enthused Vulcan girls- it’s basically wwe

(And of course, this would be where our au!Spock enters, seeing the tv and scoffing “can’t believe you’re watching this nonsense” he starts watching anyway)

[klarolinexluv]

My favourite thing, even over Jegulus, is the black brothers.

That probably says a lot about me actually… SHUT UP ANYWAY

Don’t get me wrong, I ADORE Jegulus. Jegulus is my whole heart, I live and breathe Jegulus… But Black Brothers? That shit is intertwined into my soul. I could read a whole fic solely about the black brothers and be so happy.

The angst and fluff between them just feels so good and sad and painful and beautiful and I will never get enough of them.

I love them so much.

[acertifiedwitch]

they’re fucking btw

[blondebrainpowered]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, 1989

[deswhomst]

If we have to classify the Blacks as good, morally grey, or bad, this is what it would look like:

Bellatrix: bad

Andromeda: good

Narcissa, Sirius, Regulus: morally grey

But I also feel like there are branches to being morally grey. Sometimes, a character who is morally grey leans towards being a good person more and other times, they are more bad (I do not mean to imply that morally grey characters have to be either good or bad but it’s not a 50/50 split, either).

From what I have seen, most people would say that the Black brothers are more bad—or, at least, Regulus is—and Narcissa is more good but I think it’s the opposite (some might argue Sirius is completely good but that’s not the case either, imo).

Sirius was on the right side of the war. He was in the Order of the Phoenix straight out of school. He accepted and helped his werewolf best friend. He definitely had his flaws, as in the prank and the bullying tendencies but it’s not enough to outweigh the good (especially when we consider how he was raised and that it’s not easy completely detaching from what you’ve seen all your life).

Regulus was a Death Eater and he willingly joined Voldemort. That rules out him being a good person in most people’s books, and that’s fair. Why I think he’s more good than bad, though, is that we genuinely have more proof of his goodness and only assumptions of him being an asshole. He drank the potion for Kreacher, he gave up his life when he realised what he had signed up for. He was 18 when he died, and he took the Mark at the age of 16. He talked about ruling over muggles and muggle-borns for years before that (had to be at most 13-14 when he started?) but never about hurting them. Many adults were wrongly influenced by Voldemort at that start, too, so it’s not surprising a kid who only had those influences went that route as well.

Now, Narcissa is loyal to her family. She is self-serving, too. She is not weak or defenseless but rather a genuinely strong woman who knows what she wants and ends up getting it. She is definitely not a coward, either. She literally lied to Voldemort’s face directly and then walked into the Battle of Hogwarts with her husband to look for their son, wandless. Narcissa did not care for Voldemort and his agenda at all but she made no complaints as long as she was in a powerful and comfortable position. She grew up as royalty and married into the Malfoys. She’s the only Black who made it out of both wars without losing her family (second family, at least). Narcissa is not nice or kind or sweet or innocent or weak or a coward. An interesting or good character doesn’t need to be any of those things. Some people portray her like such a loser who was forced into the life she was living when she’s literally a winner and did exactly what served her well. Make no mistake, if it meant her and her family’s good, Narcissa would let a thousand innocent people die.

This is not to say that she had an easy life with no issues!! Of course, there were huge problems that she went through herself and it’s okay to feel bad for her about those things but what I personally don’t like is painting her as a victim and watering down her entire character to make her a good person.

Age genuinely matters as well. Sirius was a reckless teenager but I believe if he had been given a chance to actually grow up, he would have matured out of the habits that made him bad. We can’t judge him by his behavior in the books as he had spent twelve years in Azkaban by that point. Regulus died when he was freshly out of school so he never got to grow up, either. Narcissa, however, was around forty years old by the second war so she had a lot of time (many war-free years in between) to change if she hated her life. She didn’t hate her life.

Again, this is not to say characters can’t simply be morally grey but rather to talk about the distinction between the Black brothers and Narcissa.

[incorrect-maraudersaandco-quotes]

Andromeda: No kid wants a sibling. I mean, Sirius hated you so much, he gave you to a family in the France and said you were an orphan. Took Bella and me two weeks to track you down. Regulus: You gave me to another family?!? Sirius: I might have.

[not-rab]

regulus who dyed his hair from blonde to black to look more like sirius

narcissa who dyed her hair from black to blonde to look less like andromeda

[notacluedo]

Doodle of Achilles and Ajax playing dice based on this black figure vase painting by Exekias

[rainmaketh]

𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔯 + quotes.

“I killed a man, in Belgium,” Sirius says, softly.

Silence falls between them.

“I heard you killed plenty,” Voldemort answers, after some seconds.

“Only, I was in France,” Sirius goes on, and now, the house settles around them, because Voldemort's magic is no longer filled with anger.

Hunger and fear spark in those eyes Sirius loves more than he loves himself.' - It runs in the blood by @metalomagnetic

Sirius' and Bella's little murder holiday is one of my favourite parts, so here's some gifs to honour that! Happy start of yule everyone!

[sukibenders]

Bridgerton states from season one, through Simon and Lady Danbury, to season two, with the Sharmas, to Queen Charlotte, from the beginning episode to the end spelled out clear as day, that racism exists in this world and many of the characters of colors have been impacted by it in some way. And, supposedly, I'm supposed to believe that Marina, that Kate and Edwina, that they all had more privilege and power than Penelope? No, I don't think so, a lot of things aren't right with that statement.