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Michelle |25 | she/her

[puddingcatbeans]

to be perfectly honest. i don't care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be

[stargazingtranquility]

Remus: ugh I have a headache.

Sirius: have you been drinking any water?

Remus: *mockingly* hAvE yOu BeEn DrInKiNg AnY wAtEr?

Sirius: *hands Remus a glass of water*

Remus: thank you.

[ofmd-ann]

Via Samba's twitter

[messervixen]

RIP Remus Lupin. You would’ve loved saying “that sounds like a you problem”

[outromoony]

Sirius being the first Black in history not to be in Slytherin but in Gryffindor and the first person ever to have escaped Azkaban is just so iconic and babygirl of him.

[metfell]

i love when an author truly understands a character so well that they can just put said character in any situation and still have them act correctly. like yeah okay hes a cat cafe owner. hes a middle school teacher. hes a dog. and hes acting exactly how he would act if he was a dog.

[jamespotterbbg]

wolfstar is the gateway drug in this fandom

[sandersstudies]

I LOVE when children who juuuust barely understand ten percent of something find somebody (a toy or a smaller child, usually) who understands zero percent and they’re like “come hither and I shall take you under my wing and teach you my instant wisdom.”

[animentality]

[thedeerus]

fanfics are one of the best things that humanity has come up with. i fucking love reading stories about my favorite characters from people who have the same brainrot as me

[boltlightning]

it's me and the four people on ao3 who understand my favorite character in the exact same way against the world

[thedeafprophet]

I love when trauma makes characters messy. I love when characters don't know how to show love. I love when they lash out. I love when they're vile and break down. I love characters who aren't perfect victims. I love when stories don't excuse behaviour but allow you to understand it

[sheepstiel]

there will be destiel confession meme announcing another destiel confession someday. destielception

[catcheroflies]

we all just read about the same people falling in love over and over again huh?

and im gonna eat it up every time

[aphrcdites]

the bond between a girl and their favorite fictional man is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object

[allofthefeelings]

I think it’s really important to talk about how different people have different power fantasies.

For example:

For some people, the idea of someone redeeming a villain is a power fantasy.

For other people, the idea of a villain being defeated is a power fantasy.

And for other people, the idea of a character owning their villainy is a power fantasy.

I would argue a lot of fandom conflicts re: villains come from people being unable to see that their fantasies, which put them in control of a narrative (and all three of these are designed to give the author or reader control of the narrative in different ways) are someone else’s horror stories.

[aerialsquid]

….this explains SO MUCH.

[wisteria-lodge]

This breakdown works equally well for the Problematic Love Interest.

Saving/Fixing the Problematic Love Interest is absolutely a power fantasy.

So is kicking them to the curb and saying that they are wrong, they were always wrong, and are not your responsibility.

And allowing the Problematic Love Interest to stay messy and flawed (but worthy of love anyway) is a power fantasy too.

[rweoutofthewoods-deactivated202]

My take, the hill I will die on is that regulus was not forced to take the dark mark or become a death eater.

I think it’s integral to his character and everything that makes his story that regulus chose to be a death eater. Was there pressure in his environment and his upbringing? Maybe! Did he grow up around people that would have influenced his choices? Yes! But regulus still made that choice. I don’t think his parents or anyone else forced him.

He chose to be a death eater, be believed in the blood purity rhetoric. He then chose to defect and try to take down Voldemort and that makes his story so much more impactful because he went against everything he’d been taught and everything he believed to get the horcrux.

Regulus was a bad person who did bad things, and he then died to undo them and try to put those choices right. Don’t glaze over or water down his character, don’t twist him into just the Poor Good Guy. it takes away from everything that makes him so distinct and interesting.