#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

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

bari saxthur got lucky in that kayne didn’t write him a part in The Wager so he didn’t have to go to the world’s longest and ugliest rehearsals

[coolguynat]

Had the idea rotating in my head of Arthur being transported to Sonic's world.

[distorted-prince]

Parker’s failed dramatic entrance (part 44)

[smearp]

I finally gave in and started playing rdr on pc instead of my console and the difference in quality?? I've been missing out

[mewy101]

The king in yellowwww

Less lore-accurate design and just going with a vibe i like :3 he's kinda funny in a way that i reverse engineered him by designing john and yellow (kiy w/o john) first

[capesch-arts]

"Faroeverse is just jarthur Yuri"

Maybe for your tiny ship-obsessed pea brain, but my hulking cranium actually sees Faroe and Jane as entirely their own characters and gives them their own quests and grievances.

On a more serious note, a lot of Faroeverse artists I've seen (including me) don't explore Faroeverse because "ooo Yuri". We're genuinely interested in how Faroe and Jane, their own characters deal with the supernatural circumstances Arthur went through, while also dealing with her own personal baggage that's uniquely her own.

The guilt and grief she experiences when she loses Arthur (as most Faroeverse goes) is NOT the same when Arthur lost Faroe. This is just from a storytelling manner that I've seen in some of these tropes of children losing their parents, it's more focused on grief, remembering the memories you have of them, and moving on. At least for mine, Faroe struggles with the loss of her father and never gets closure for it, and eventually needs to accept the loss and move on. While, Arthur, although he does go through similar struggles with grief and moving on in his arc, the CORE difference, the narrative trait he has is that he failed as a parent. This core difference is what makes Faroeverse interesting in the first place. I haven't even gotten to the woman part of the experience.

The horrors Faroe goes through is more than just the eldritch beings and stuff, but also as a woman! There was even one discussion on how people were comparing how horrible certain scenarios were when Faroe went through it, like hitchhiking with Kellin or Mr. Faust.

So, if you see Faroeverse as more than just shipping, and actually see Faroe and Jane as their own people, you'd discover that they are not "jarthur Yuri" they are entirely their own persons with their own journey and their own sets of struggles.

This goes for Bellaverse too btw. Aside from obviously "women in the 30s" her experience of losing Faroe and Arthur would be completely different.

[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

[tianhai03]

arthur painting i've been slowly working on in between doing comms <3

some bonus stuff + ramblings under the cut

the reference i used that i took :) you can't really see it but he murdered like 6 guys right before this at an abandoned church. and of course the first thing i did after that was pull out photo mode

also the sketch of this before i started painting simply because i always think it's so interesting to look at how different the drawing ends up being when i paint

[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 :))))))

[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

[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.

[misty-memories09]

I hate trying to look in the HP fandom because one of my faves is Percy, not many people care about him but the people who do talk about him in that group there's literally so many people go ahead and call him a narcissist...like just ignore his whole character, why don't you?

In this essay I will—

[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😩

[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"