#the pandora project

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: At the end of series three, the Doctor and the Master end up travelling together and totally manage not to destroy each other or the universe. More or less. Meanwhile, Martha gets a job offer from UNIT, Jack fails to realise his team are a bit useless, and there's a giant squid for no good reason whatsoever.

Author: Calapine

[lightdancer1]

This also factors into my takes on the Pandora Project and the Initiative:

Ultimately the Pandora Project is the 'again as farce' version of the Initiative for the world after magic is exposed and a much more blatant bid to weaponize it, but both ultimately stem from a very deliberate and completely unsubtle fascism presentation that is emphatically not allegory. This is also why my stories have Willow, specifically, caught up with the Initiative as she was with the Pandora Project because sometimes you need to hit the audience over the head with a nailbat to get the point across.

It also furthers into the aspects of her journey to the immensely powerful and destructive figure that she can be. Buffy, the supernatural lawman in the Western film tradition, is drawn to the Initiative, at least at first,but immediately realizes how bad an idea the Pandora Project is.

I also opt to outright expand on the magic draining and its lethal aspects with the Safe Zone to eschew all subtlety and make it magic Treblinka. In a time of actual fascism soft-pedaling the fictional versions is soft fascist apologia and under no circumstance is that an acceptable compromise.

Equally, they both deal with my specific set of tropes with fascism, that the fascists are egotistical willfully violent bungling morons who are world-beaters in the arts of murder but shambolic outside it. They are not omnicompetent 'trains on time' people, they are buffoons who set their security passcodes and the C4 they intended to put around the cells to make sure their victims behave to the same easily hacked thing literally detonated with the push of a button (which also ensures Willow in one of these fics is even more a direct target of hate than she already was).

They are fragile thin-skinned petty people, and Pandora Rosenberg herself is a kind of recursive mirror of my broader cosmic horror the Azar and a very direct leaning on Whedon's kind of allegorical approach. She is the fascist mirror of the heroic Willow, a product of Buffyverse super-science and magic much as Willow is, and proof of both nature over nurture in spite of her desperate efforts to believe otherwise, and an allegorical kind of personification of the 'boot on a human face forever' aspects of totalitarianism.

And in the end, very much in the view that fiction is not about noting that there are monsters, but that the monsters are slain, the fictional fascisms unravel not least from their internal contradictions. Adam and Pandora Rosenberg have somewhat distinct roles relative to canon, Adam is explicitly modeled after the novel's version of the Frankenstein monster and does what he wants, not what his creator wants.

Pandora, a very literal extension of the vampire Willow/Dark Willow archetype, is the heroes adopting the more fascist elements of the setting and proof of why paradise over a bridge of corpses is but Hell by another name.

[noblehouseofgay]

The skittles look scary as fuck to outsiders, but they'd sit in their dorm (modern day) with coloring pages and watching kids shows bc none of them had good childhoods and they all have mental issues

[cazzythefrogking]

I JUST HAD THE BEST PROJECT IDEA

I'm gonna make ✨marauders theme cardigans✨

(& valkyries & skittles)

And they're going to have fancy buttons

I love fancy buttons

I am excited for this

[bleue-flora]

Wait... Dream was born on August 12, 1999 and Dream was arrested in the Disc Finale on January 20, 2021 soo... wait, wait, wait, that means he was only 21 when he was imprisoned for life in a small lava covered box!... Did I do that math right? 21?! Man was barely able to drink legally in the United States and they gave him a life sentence in a boiling cell with nothing but lava, raw potatoes, a clock, and some books?!... oh my god...

[sanhatipal]

"Misfortuna: there is no escape,my dear"

I suddenly realised that Mili's song Utopiosphere reminds me very heavily of Lacie

[tsbs-darksun-confessions]

*muttering quietly* I think this is the place... Ah, yes. Hello Dark Sun!

- Ruin

It's not like I like hi-

....

Who-

Oh!

Ruin!

What brings you here? Anything I can do for you?

You don't normally come into my lab-.... I apologize if anything seems messy or out of place, I hadn't planned for your visit, let alone Pan's.

[chishnfips87]

Eden's Garden ch1 rn:

(Eden's Garden ch1 spoilers)

Poor Wolfgang, man...

[themirrorballfriend]

What I think The Marauders + The Skittles college majors would be:

James Potter: Sports Medicine/Kinesiology

Sirius Black: Music

Remus Lupin: History/English Literature

Peter Pettigrew: Film Studies

Lily Evans: Nursing

Mary Macdonald: Linguistics

Marlene Mckinnon: Aviation

Dorcas Meadows: Fashion

Regulus Black: English Literature/Software Engineering

Barty Crouch Jr: Finance

Evan Rosier: Law

Pandora Rosier/Lovegood: Environmental Management

Bonus

Frank Longbottom: Business Studies

Alice Fortescue: Journalism/Communications

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

more unattractive pandora lovegood please. she was crazy. she never followed any precautions to whatever magical experiment she performed, she stuck her face in the fumes, she mixed shit together and took gulps of it to find out if it was safe for people, approached any animal without knowing if it was safe or not, made spells and practiced them on the mirror. the skin on her face became waxy and her fingers were all bent weird her hair was burnt from the front so her forehead looked too large she had burns down her chest. she was fucking crazy!!

[tiredofthehumanlife]

Hey baby

[skittles-are-my-muse]

im a ravenclaw barty enthusiast

give my boy a blue tie

barty and pandora being best friends + having all their classes together ??

absolutely

[starsarestories]

Real conversations between me and my friends as marauders era characters - click on them to see the whole thing.

[asmo-d3us]

Marauders Era characters as parents

James Potter-Black:

The type of dad that insists on picking you up from school yet always manages to embarrass himself somehow

You love him of course but you always call Regulus and ask him to come after you instead

Is not the type of father to take your phone away or ground you but when he does, all you have to do is pout, sniff, stomp to your room, shut the door closed and stay in there

He starts sobbing on call with Regulus (who’s at work btw), and Regulus tells him to stay strong but he just can’t and he gives you everything you want because he feels bad

Sirius Lupin:

You love him so much bc you can literally talk bad about everyone with him

“Hey dad, did you hear when aunt Dorcas said-“ *slams on the breaks* “STOP BC I HEARD HER SAY THAT TOO!!!”

You can hop in the car from school and start talking bad about some bitch you hate and he would dramatically gasp, grip onto your arm, slam on the breaks, squeal, etc.

He lowkey doesn’t care about taking your electronics away, and he doesn’t think grounding you helps at all, if anything it makes you more rebellious.

Not strict at all. Will let you go out anywhere at anytime unless it’s after 11:00 pm

Remus Lupin:

Whenever you mention your future, getting married, having kids, etc. he will always sigh and shake his head and start spouting some smart shit: “Don’t think about that, you’re still young.”

He always smiles when he hears you and Sirius talking shit together because the sight of you both bonding sends him over the moon

He sometimes takes your phone away only if you talk back to him or Sirius, or if you don’t do what you were supposed to. (Like your homework or something)

Grounds you very rarely, usually when you leave without saying a word. You always tell him that Sirius allows you to go out but Remus always says that you must ask.

Peter Pettigrew:

Nobody loved him enough to start a family with him.

Lily Macdonald-Evans:

You sometimes need a break from her because it seems like she always tells everyone everything about you that you don’t want anyone else to know about

She always apologizes after and says she called Mary but you know she was talking to uncle Remus or uncle Regulus

She takes your phone a lot. You’re always on your phone bc you don’t trust her anymore to talk to her, and she takes it away so you can just pay attention to her but you struggle a lot and it always ends in a fight. She doesn’t blame you though, she blames herself and her big mouth. (I love her so much don’t attack me)

Grounds you only when you do something illegal. She gives you full freedom, she hates grounding.

Mary Macdonald-Evans:

You might be on tiktok or something and she’ll see a video and say: “Ah yes, I remember back when I was a kid and met Batman-“

Picks you up from school, sees a group of kids jumping a nerd and says: “Hah, reminds me of when uncle barty and Evan beat the shit out of me at school!-“

Really does not care about taking your phone away or whatever, she doesn’t believe that the phone is a bad influence.

She grounds you but doesn’t feel any guilt about it because she knows you don’t go out a lot and she can tell it’s not really a punishment for you.

Marlene Meadows-Mckinnon:

She’s so weird but you love her.

Whenever she sees your friends she’ll just stand there and laugh, shake their hands, stare at them with a motherly smile, and walk away.

She didn’t even know you have a phone?? I swear the only parent here that actually cares about any of that is Dorcas, and even then it’s not that extreme.

She sometimes says “you’re grounded” when she’s angry but then like 2 hours later if you tell her you’re going out with a friend she’ll smile and nod at you.

Dorcas Meadows:

You’ll always catch her sketching or drawing.

She gives you fresh tattoos when you turn 18 because she has this thing where it makes her feel like she ‘marked’ you and now everyone knows you’re her child and it’s her signature?? Not in a weird or possessive way it’s just her inner slytherin-

She takes your phone away frequently because you’re a very rebellious child and taking your phone away calms you down. She also takes it away when she notices that you’re not going out-doors much.

You’re very artistic like her which she likes. She loves seeing your new drawings in your sketch book because it reminds her of when she was your age.

Grounds you if you don’t do your homework or don’t clean your room or smth. She’ll never ground you for no reason. (If you clean your room under 20 minutes/if you finish your homework under 20 minutes, she’ll let you slide.)

Regulus Potter-Black:

Very strict with you and it causes a strain between you two, and James always tells you that it’s because of his family and how he was raised so you understand, it’s just hard for you.

If you’re going out after 5? Grounded. If you’re eating sweets after 6? Your phone is taken away. If you’re not doing your chores? Grounded. It makes you really upset and angry and Regulus feels like shit about it, it’s just how he was raised and it’s hard to let it go. (Spoiler alert: over time it goes away.)

Always sobs to James about it and James says that one day you’ll understand. He really tries to help regulus and explains everything to you which helps the both of you change him for the better.

Is terrified he’ll abuse you someday, just like his parents.

Barty Rosier:

The chillest fucking dad in the world.

Lets you cuss at 15, lets you drink at 16, lets you smoke at 17, lets you drive at 15, lets you murder at 18.

Lets you go out, lets you bring friends over, lets you have sleepovers, etc. Will literally offer you and your friends snacks, will showcase his love for Evan in front of your friends and they start giggling (you roll your eyes every time).

You’re the fun cousin. Every single cousin/sibling fucking loves you.

Doesn’t take your phone away and instead encourages you (he knows you go outside enough, if anything you need to be inside more.), sometimes grounds you just so you stay at home a little and use your electronics.

Not a very emotional father (unlike Evan sometimes) so there’s not a lot of ‘I love you’ but he’ll always hug you or ‘gift’ you something to show it.

I could go on and on—

Evan Rosier:

Also the best fucking dad in the world. (I’d like to add that you call barty dad and evan papa.)

The exact same as barty except he flirts with your friends instead of offering snacks because he is a snack himself and your friends are all in love with him and they fucking devour it like fanfiction smut when they see him and barty flirt. (You vomit!)

Doesn’t take your phone away, just like his husband he encourages you to use it more. He sometimes calls you and tells you to come home. Not only for your safety but also because you need to breathe home air a bit. Grounds you for the same reason as barty too.

You can talk to him about everything, just like uncle Sirius. You had sex underage? He’ll probably look at you with a scolding glare before smiling to himself with a shake of his head and making sure to tell barty about it. You fought a bitch? He’d raise a brow, try to hide his smile, scold you, but it’d end with both of you laughing. You did w33d/m@rijuana underage? He’d shake his head with a smirk and tells you to follow him to a room?-

Always lectures his husband when you turn 18 and he’s about to take you out for your first murder because he’s worried you guys will be caught.

Arguably the best fucking parents ever bc it’s obvious they give a shit they just also give you unlimited freedom that comes with consequences if you do something genuinely stupid

Pandora Lovegood:

Hippie mom. That’s all.

Encourages you going out with friends, encourages you wanting to spend time with nature, encourages you taking your younger sister Luna with you everywhere you go!

You’re a hippie just like her. That’s all.

She gives you her crystals, her jewelry with good energy and jewelry that will protect you, etc.

Doesn’t take your phone away because you literally most likely don’t even have one. Second, she never grounds you because she loves seeing you outside walking around with 5 deers, 20 birds, 3 horses, 7 mice, and 10 snakes/lizards following you around like you’re Snow White.

[mothmothwoth]

WOW. you clearly haven’t been irrevocably changed by a piece of media- and it shows

[spooked-starzz]

pandora drawing butterflies on regulus's forearm and him never understanding why