#why WAS arthur different

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

"if not to become human, why did you try to leave your kingdom" this question is probably going somewhere significant but ill be honest i always figured it was primarily to have an easier time chopping people into tiny pieces, which is what he was doing pretty successfully with the tiny fragment of himself in the book up until he met arthur "i'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me" lester over here

[distorted-prince]

Parker’s failed dramatic entrance (part 44)

[crystallizsch]

i had a massive crush on jay (and uma) from descendants when i was younger btw

the descendants to twst pipeline is real i hate it here

[potato-lord-but-not]

Wanted to do the arcane artstyle thang :^) probably would’ve looked better digital but w h a g e v e r.

here’s a little speeddraw also :))))))

[ranna-alga]

"Do the Evolution" - Pearl Jam

[arthursfuckinghat]

Sometimes, I'll be doing a mission with Dutch and everything is fine.

Other times, the light will catch his face in a way that makes me seethe.

I get reminded that Dutch got to age, he got to grow grey.

Did Arthur get that chance? Jenny, Mac, Davey, Sean, Kieran, Lenny, Molly? Did any of them get to grow old together?

Why didn't they, Dutch? Why didn't the gang survive? Why didn't they get the promised virgin lands in the west? Why did you outlive them?

Go on, Dutch, go ahead. I'm listening.

[toxooz]

I just gotta know how would you dress up your version of low honor Arthur. Would he be all clean wearing suits and fancy ties and coats or would he look more dirty grizzly and outlawish??

hoh OKKK i cracked here

my Arthuritis is flaring up again ohno he would definitely be Grimy n Grizzly imo so i whipped up an outfit real quick and HERE

but i Cannot leave out my absolute fav accessory bc it rlly ties it together😩

[blorger]

-Draco Malfoy, Sept 1, 1991-

Here's my newest hot take: it makes no sense for the Weasleys to be poor.

Like, I get why, narratively, the Weasleys are poor : poor=virtuous in jkr's mind and the Weasleys represent the perfect family so they need the be the bestest most virtuous of them all, especially since they are set up to be in direct contrast to the rich, morally bankrupt Malfoys.

That is all well and good, I understand the use of poverty as a narrative choice, but at the same time I also have a problem with how jkr chose to depict said poverty in her worldbuilding; even as a single income household with too many kids (as per D Malfoy), it makes no sense for the Weasleys to have no money.

Arthur, the sole earner in the family, is portrayed as a government insider: he heads his own department, seems essential to the working of the ministry and is overall well connected.

(from GoF, this is a bureucratic brag if i've ever seen one)

Arthur appears to be on a first name basis with a huge variety of ministry employees

Some of which are his fellow department heads

which definitely puts him on the same level as a Diggory or a Crouch, and none of these people are implied to be poor or even remotely struggling, so why is he?

Arthur is not only well connected but also far more powerful than one might expect from his job title alone:

He is somehow able to write and/or enact laws (something he shouldn't be able to do since he's neither an elected official nor part of a legislative body)

and

(from CoS)

Arthur has the power to restrict trade (again, something way above his paygrade)

(from GoF, Arthur's power is apparently equal to that of Crouch, the wizard equivalent of a foreign minister)

Arthur can easily get huge favors form fellow ministry personnel

(from Gof, those world cup seats are Malfoy and Fudge level and it doesn't seem like Arthur did anything special to get them)

We can also see how incongruously important Arthur Weasley is to the inner workings of the ministry by his responsibilities:

when things go tits up at the world cup, Arthur behaves very much like someone much higher up the chain of command.

(from GoF)

All of this is over a newspaper article that didn't even quote him by name. What can the biting teacup guy do during a pr crisis, exactly?

Arthur's (civilian) presence is for some reason necessary during night raids, even though he is not a law enforcement agent

(from CoS)

Arthur (a civilian) is somehow the only person who can calm Alastor Moody (an accomplished auror) down

(from GoF)

I find myself to be very confused by the picture painted by these excerpts. jkr clearly wanted to have it both ways: she needed Arthur to be a ministry insider so that he'd be able to funnel all sorts of information to Harry (and into the story) but she also wanted the Weasleys to be underdogs or, as Harry calls them,

but the two things just don't mix because Arthur, as described in the books, does not read like an underdog, he reads like a vital part of the system.

tl;dr: Arthur is a Big Deal and his family shouldn't be poor, even if they do have too many children

[evilforgood999]

It seems the game has dragged on a bit

[sodafrog13]

"...and right now it's overtaking me."

[godmerlin]

[sanseru]

Decided that Arthur and John would be my subjects for some figure/rendering practice.

I think I'mma just... lie down for a bit......

God I love these bastards too much. Someone free me

[mothmage]

brienne and jaime are both just so gender. like you have one of the most beautiful knights in the realm, fair and golden-haired, who looks in the mirror and sees his twin sister, who has always done her bidding and centered his life around hers, who doesnt know who he is without her, and then you have the maid of tarth, the ugliest woman in westeros, who’s always been too big, too tall, too bulky, dreamed of being a knight while stifling dreams of being loved, being thought beautiful, who thinks her only good quality is her skill with a sword and even that has been an embarrassment to those around her, an oddity, something to laugh and jeer at. i just — it isnt even that they subvert stereotypes, its that they both allow each other to be nothing more or less than what they are, and everything that entails

[gauzestarr]

Ok so my DF hero is definitely trans and I've been kinda hand-waving the details up until now but I think I've settled on him not technically transitioning until after he makes it to Falconreach.

Basically it would be incredibly funny if he walked into town for the first time and Zorbak was there behind the potion shop like "Psst hey. I heard u want a sex change" and Arthur was like "Aren't you the guy who just attacked me with bears"

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[dollopole]

Do you ever think about how hard Merlin’s grip on Arthur’s arm was when he confessed his magic to him? He grabbed Arthur’s arm with both of his hands, for goodness’ sake.

Because I do think about it, and then I also think about the fact that Merlin was so scared, so preoccupied of losing Arthur, both to his confession and to the wound, he thought that maybe, if he held onto him so harshly, Arthur would feel his love, his devotion, so that Arthur would’ve held onto Merlin too and he wouldn’t have let go of him, like he did, in fact, pushed him away a few moments later, breaking Merlin’s heart into pieces.