Fandoms By June

Hi! I'm June! This blog is my deep, dark pit of fandom trash. Asks are always open! You can find my main blog over at @rainstorms-by-june

[disasterscenario]

SO I REALLY LIKE THE PENUMBRA PODCAST IF U COULDN’T TELL

spoilers for ep 1– tho if you haven’t listened already WTF ARE U DOING GO DOWNLOAD RN

[hammywrotetheother51]

AHHHHHHH FUCK ME THE FUCK UP

[ernmark]

An idea popped into my head, and it made me delightfully happy.

A cute little G-rated Bouquet fic under the cut

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[not-the-very-button]

Sometimes I think that maybe Harry naming his children after two of the most flawed and morally dubious characters in the whole series was meant as an indicator of Harry’s own flaws — outrageous loyalty and black and white morality. 

Harry has the most fucked up childhood yo. And due to that childhood, the expectations placed upon him by pretty much everyone, and Dumbledore’s interference, Harry develops his “hero complex.” Harry learns to identify morality in terms of heroics — a true Gryffindor indeed. Harry wants so much to believe that what he did was right, that the sacrifices others made for him were valid, that he cocoons himself in a fantasy world where the smallest of good deeds can redeem you. 

Maybe JK Rowling didn’t fuck up as bad as we like to think. 

Maybe Harry naming his kid after two corrupted puppet masters was absolutely and utterly in character. 

Maybe Harry is so desperate to not hate himself for anything less than true-red-and-gold brave he ever did that he’s convinced himself heroism is the ultimate good. And by extension he is the ultimate good. And Dumbledore and Snape were the ultimate good. Because the died in grand flourishes and left behind mysteries. Just like his parents did. 

Harry isn’t ungrateful to Hagrid or Remus or Tonks or Molly or Arthur or Fred. They simply don’t fit the showy model Harry was conditioned to accept in terms of greatness. 

Because there is a little truth to Harry’s insolence. To his belief that he is an exception to the rule. And it’s not his fault. It never was. He was groomed and led down a path of exceptionalism. So he rewards the exceptional. the exceptions. Snape. And Dumbledore. And James. And Lily. And Luna. And Sirius. The outlandish and the bold and sentimentally heroic. 

What Harry forgets is that the ordinary can be just as exceptional. Just as heroic. Just as good. 

[summitshadows349304]

yes! we always thought this too.  the name jokes are funny and all, but it made total sense in context of Harry’s character to us.

[merlosaurusunactive]

I agree with this.  (And I’d even add that, with Snape especially, he is blinded by his love for his parents that anyone connected to Lily is immediately in his good books.)  But I ALSO think that Albus Severus (obligatory lol) is the name that matters so much because it represents the end of Harry’s story.

Harry is the victim of a lot of mistreatment and hatred from the very first chapter to the end, and even at Hogwarts, the hero-worshipping comes at a price.  His foils—Voldemort and Snape—spend their time at Hogwarts loved by all or hated by all, while Harry gets both the love and the hate.  Voldemort manipulates, he’s selfish.  Snape bullies, he’s spiteful.  Harry is defined by how much he diverges from these two paths, though he could easily have become either of his enemies.  Unlike Voldemort, he’s selfless, and unlike Snape, he forgives.

Athough he and Harry have very little in common,Dumbledore is another foil.  They are both the Heroes.  But Dumbledore’s heroism is cold and calculating, he sacrifices others—even in death, he sacrifices Snape’s “soul.”  If Dumbledore is “God” then Harry is the martyr.

What does this mean for Harry’s character development, though?  DH is punctuated with turning points, moments of forgiveness.  PS/SS begins with Harry being abused by the Dursleys, and DH begins with Harry forgiving Dudley, and doesn’t seem to harbor any anger at the rest of the Dursleys, only caring about their safety.  He lets go.  This is how Harry moves on.

Harry obsesses over Dumbledore’s dirty secrets in DH, but in choosing to go after the Horcruxes instead of the Hallows, he moves past his feelings of betrayal.

Before Voldemort’s death, he sees him for what he is and doesn’t feel hatred, but pity.  He shows him compassion.

I think that, while there is definitely some hero-worshiping happening, Harry does realize that Snape and Dumbledore were wrong.  But he’s spent so much of his youth angry and mistrustful.  Honoring these two, his bully and his puppeteer, represents not only Harry’s forgiveness, but that he’s made peace with his suffering.  He’s made peace with his doubts about his father and Sirius being bullies, too.  (Lily Luna is different—while James Sirius is named after Harry’s father figures, and Albus Severus after his heroes, Lily is named after the two characters in the books who represent Harry’s ideal of selfless love.)

Thematically, naming his son after these two characters who were so stuck living in the past, implies a future where Harry’s learned from their mistakes.  Unlike Dumbledore or Snape, Harry really lives.

But at the same time, you don’t see Ron or Hermione worshiping Snape or Dumbledore’s —this is all Harry, and this is how he’s always been.  He doesn’t HAVE to forgive or admire them—but of course he does because he’s Harry.  The names are SO not saying “THESE are the most important characters to Harry Potter and also the best people in the book fuck you Remus.”  The names reveal all those things OP said about Harry’s flawed views of heroism, and they further symbolize the resolution to a life of pain for a hero whose scar is just a scar now, whose only superpower was living and forgiving.

[fndungeonmom]

sorry if I reblogged this twice in one day but IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER!!!

[rainstorms-by-june]

ABOUT TO GO SEE THE BOOK OF MORMON!! WEVE GOT SEATS IN THE 7TH ROW!!!

[futureauthor45]

I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG AGO THIS WAS BUT HOLY HECK I HOPE IT WAS/IS AMAZING!!!

[hammywrotetheother51]

IT WAS AWESOME!! (a bit awkward bc i was with my parents and although they enjoyed it, its v awkward to watch that type of crude humor with your parents) we saw it in london and it was AMAZING. the guy who played kevin price just floored me, he was amazing!! so expressive!!

[tapdancingmckinley-blog]

Singing "Hello!" by yourself like...

Hello! My name is- jESUS CHRIST! YOu have a lovely hom- Hello! it’s an amazing book!!! Bonjour, hola, ni hao! Me llamo Elder Whi- are these your kids?!

[hammywrotetheother51]

"my name is- jESUS CHRIST" is my absolute favorite part

[bates--motel]

"What is Psych?"

That’s it. That’s the show.

[incorrectpsychquotes]

insp

Bonus:

[dj-cacophony]

Visit Original Link

I hate myself but I love this

[midtownsparker]

I GASPED SO LOUD WTF WOW

[lafayettes-baguettes-deactivate]

PERFECTION AT BEST

[laurens-turtle-blog]

THAT WAS SMOOTH HOLY SJKFN

[riseupwiseup-imagines]

HOT DAMN

[non-stop-glass-deactivated20180]

Flawless

[firstburrn]

THE TRANSITION WAS SO SMOOTH I SLIPPED AND FELL

[its-the-hamfam]

Gonna drop this here… ~ Poppy

[transfemmbeatrice]

Psych + Textposts: Shawn edition

[shawnspencer]

shawn spencer aesthetics

narcissa malfoy was probably the most powerful occlumens in hogwarts history and nobody knew

she literally stood up to lord voldemort and lied that harry potter was dead and i don’t know about you but if i were an evil ruler i would probably want to triple-check that my nemesis was, you know, actually deceased

voldemort had actual doubts about snape

narcissa swans on by without a whisper, without a second glance

[hippity-hoppity-brigade]

narcissa malfoy understood from a young age that she was meant to do only a few things: look pretty, say nothing, and marry well. 

narcissa malfoy understood those rules, and she layered her mind with them. 

look pretty. wear the most expensive robes. grandmother’s pearls. curl your hair every night. think only of clothes and dimples and the way your hair falls when you flutters you eyelashes at a boy. 

say nothing. don’t speak when mother and father are screaming at each other. demurely look down as another boy asks you to dance. retreat into the reading room when your family friends, known death eaters and criminals, pay your parents a visit and speak in hushed voices over tea. think of pretty things. 

marry well. marry into a family of your parents’ friends. bear children. wear pearls and look demure and think of nothing but pretty, pretty things, like the way your husband’s hair gleams in candlelight. 

masters must learn the rules before they can break them. narcissa learned the rules so well that they wrapped around her; sank into her skin and her mind. they protect her from enemies. they conceal the quick, strategic plots ticking her brain into gear every moment of every day. they hide the calculation of each smile, each movement. 

narcissa is so good, so perfect, that no one will ever know.  

#look like the flower but be the serpent underneath

[delilahmidnight]

# I actually have lots of thoughts about this # I think she got away with lying so easily because Voldemort would never have expected her to # I don’t think she even needed to use occlumency # because why would /some silly women/ # /Lucius’ wife/ # ever lie to /The Dark Lord/? # she wouldn’t be smart enough # she wouldn’t be brave enough # she wouldn’t be selfless enough # Voldemort is an absolute idiot when it comes to the things that really matter # ’Houselves children’s tales love loyalty innocence’

#voldy was shocked when he found out his mom was the witch #he assumed his father would be magical

and there you have it.

[hippity-hoppity-brigade]

rb again for that meta, damn

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

Not only was this one of the most badass moments of the books, but it was genuinely surprising without being some Random Shit Out Of Fucking Nowhere that some authors/scriptwriters think is all there is to being surprising/shocking.

Because it makes perfect sense.  Of course Narcissa would turn on Voldemort without a second thought to protect her son. Not only because she’s his mother, but because that’s how Voldemort was defeated the first time around, and Voldemort cannot change or learn. 1980′s Voldemort was defeated because of a mother’s love, Lily’s sacrifice for Harry. Lily was not considered important to Voldemort, only James and Harry were. Voldemort was even willing to spare her for Snape, if she didn’t put up a fight (which of course she did). To him, Lily was irrelevant, because she was a woman and Muggle-born. Voldemort underestimated her, and it cost him. So naturally he would do the same thing again in the 90′s, focusing on Harry and the prophecy, never considering the thing that defeated him before might do so again. He was wary of Lucius and Draco, but underestimated Narcissa and it lead directly to his defeat. And she KNEW he did, and used it to her advantage.

This short-sightedness is even reflected in his most ardent supporter Bellatrix, who was also killed by a furious mother protecting her child.

A mother’s love started the series, and a mother’s love ended it.

[geeky-galpal]

A mother’s love started the series, and a mother’s love ended it.

YES.

[bobdylans116thdream]

“My god,” Thomas said as he wrinkled his nose at the burning smell. “Alexander, what is that smell?”

“Shit!”

“Smells like it, yes.”

I’m pretty proud of this. 

[etymologicalparoxysm-blog]

*frantically slams button*

[etymologicalparoxysm-blog]

93,890 notes

that’s like 93,889 too many

what is wrong with you people

[smile-love-shine]

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS POST THANKS.

[greennashi]

imagine crime:

“GET DOWN HE’S GOT A ROOTY-TOOTY-POINT-N-SHOOTY”

[vvitchdagga-deactivated20230407]

I see absolutely no downside to this.

[roseverdict]

READY YOUR ROOTY-TOOTY-POINT-N-SHOOTIES

[hammywrotetheother51]

i'd do it

[bobdylans116thdream]

Alex roamed the mansion, searching for any clues as to what he could do to surprise Thomas. He’d already gotten a couple of gifts for him, but he wanted to do one more thing. Something he’d never done before. Something Thomas wouldn’t expect him to do. He went from the study to the music room to the library and the bedroom before he got to the kitchen, frowning deeply as he searched the fridge for something to give him an idea. Maybe food could trigger an idea in his head. He wasn’t that great at cooking, but surely, he could follow a recipe. It was simple mathematics and science, right? Get the measurements right and follow directions. He could do that.

Just when he was beginning to get frustrated with himself, he spotted it. There. In the crisper. Cheese. The finest French cheese, of course, since Thomas insisted on nothing less than the very best in everything, after all. Okay. He could do something with that. Cheese was pretty versatile.

He took it out of the fridge and put it on the dark marble countertop before going to the cabinet and opening it. There it was. The antique noodle press that Thomas had bought on a business trip just because he could. Thomas was an expert with it, but Alex had never used it. But really, how hard could it be? He could figure out how to establish a national bank, he could certainly figure out how to use a noodle press to make some macaroni. Right? Feeling rather hopeful, Alex grabbed Thomas’s recipe for macaroni noodles and read it.

@butlinislin @serkewen12 @rainstorms-by-june

[world-of-psych]

I’m a little late, but it is finally confirmed!!

[hammywrotetheother51]

IM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shassierec]

🍍 Welcome to the ship! 🍍

A shassie fic rec post to introduce you to the fandom, fics recced by your fellow shippers.

A Tin Man Reprised

The Dah-Ling Store-It-Yourself

Right Place, Wrong Time

Single-O

Love is Blind (But Lasik is Cheap)

The Clear and Present Danger of Regarding Henry

Spencer Didn’t Do It

Nicknames and Applejacks

Dirty Little Secret

Undertow

The Walrus and the Guy Who Carpents

Hotel in California

Playground Crush

A Shot in the Bark

Love in the Ink

It’s Lassiter, Not Michaelangelo

Love is a Language Often Unspoken

The Best Part of Waking Up

Omegad!

Permanent Ink

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Plexiglass

Mistakes We Knew Were Coming

Informed Consent(ery)

Out of the Closet and Into the Frying Pan

[futureauthor45]

YOU GUYS THIS IS REAL AND I’M LEGITIMATELY ABOUT TO CRY BECAUSE I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR SO LONG

[hammywrotetheother51]

please excuse me while i only blog about this for the rest of my life