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it isn't very good, is it? sideblog, ya lit: hp, grishaverse, shades of magic, narnia, aurora cycle, rwrb, etc (follow from en-perpetua)

[sweet-villlain]

Kell's Back story from the collector's edition

[claremcnt]

Na razrusha’ya. E’ya razrushost.

— I am not ruined. I am ruination.

[vkelleyart]

I admit to rushing through the environment on this picture. I’m still feeling sick and my eyes were pretty angry at me for making them stare at a screen to finish it (which, I suspect, is why I made this scene so dark. Lol). But I tried to nab the humor of this, one of my favorite moments from RWRB. :)

“Oh my God, what are you doing? I can’t even look at you.” - Alex, Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

(PS: If you’ve left me an ask, I promise to answer as soon as I’m feeling a bit better!)

[truelahey]

Just so we’re clear: this blog does not support JKR or her transphobic and disrespectful tweets/thoughts. The wizarding world and the Potter fandom are for all people, as is the real world. Trans folks and everyone under the queer umbrella are valid, you exist, and I see you and respect you. JKR is not the be-all-end-all of the wizarding universe. You belong in this fandom more than she does. 

[ravenclawrain]

“sirius and lily gossiping while looking over the great lake instead of studying for their N.E.W.Ts” ~taken by james potter, 1977

[alijimnz14-deactivated20150909]

[a-still-deeper-shadow]

Shadow and Bone + textposts: Kaz Brekker

“You’ll get what’s coming to you some day, Brekker.“        "I will,” said Kaz, “if there’s any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is.”

[hermiohhne]

wow I wish I didn't immediately exit fandom space when content for a thing I like came out :)

[jakeyp]

FREDDY CARTER in the SHADOW AND BONE BLOOPERS

[narukoibito]

Fic Recs: Post-War Canon

There are so many long epics that deal with the fallout of post-war canon. This exact moment, right after the war stops, is for me not something I read often. Believe me, there are many wonderful stories, but I prefer stories on the shorter side here apparently. 

The Grown Up Driver by Pocketfullof

Ugh, oh man, this story. This story. It’s so well written, full of beautiful lyrical prose. It gives Harry and Ginny the break from everything and everyone, just leaving the two of them to find themselves, find each other, and heal. Yes in all the ways possible. It makes my ache for the two of them in the best ways.

as the morning steals upon the night by @could-have-beens

I still cannot believe could-have-beens wrote me this story because I was going through a tough time at work. It is so heart-wrenchingly beautiful. This is my favorite canon reuniting after the battle story, and I am not just saying that because she wrote it for me. Read it, love it. Cry tears of joy that it exists.

Too Good To Be True by @remedial-potions

Askjdsdfghj ugh the feels I get from this amazing story! Ginny’s not feeling well, and Harry can’t stop thinking the worst. Harry is so in character, it hurts (in a good way). Wonderful combination of angst and fluff.

Romania by @clarensjoy

The first piece from Clarensjoy I read. It made my heart sing. After the war, Charlie keeps watching Harry and Ginny; it makes Harry nervous. The descriptions of the earth, the way Harry and Ginny are curled into one another, the way Ginny addresses the problem head-on, and Charlie’s musings on what he sees. It’s delightful, as is her continue-on piece.

There Your Heart Also Lies by @deadwoodpecker

Harry and Ginny need to work through an unforeseen relationship issue. I love how true this story feels, both the residual feelings that Ginny grapples with, and Harry’s response, showing how they’ve grown as a couple and a team.

Echoes by agreatwave

I love when we get outsider views of Harry and Ginny being their glorious selves, where they emit sunlit days, even to those who have long been stuck in the shade.

Compromise: A Love Story by femmenerd

Ginny needs to be more than the Boy Who Lived’s girlfriend. I like the messiness of this, the hard edges of their relationship. They’re nowhere near perfect, certainly not Ginny, but they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Homerun by @fightfortherightsofhouseelves

An amazing story of how Harry and Ginny makes it through each of the bases until they make it all the way to home. Wonderfully passionate and innocent at the same time.

Now You’re Mine by tosca1390

So, so beautiful… The tone, the feel, the way the two are together. A short, lovely piece that makes me feel safe and warm in the glow of Harry and Ginny’s love.

After the Leaves Have Fallen by tosca1390

Harry being his usual overprotective self, and Ginny having none of it. The passion, the description, such a lovely piece by tosca!

i just really need you here right now by @annerbhp

Harry misses things sometimes, but that doesn’t mean he stops trying. No surprise here that I love Annerb’s beautiful one-shot about how Harry and Ginny, like all couples, have things they need to work on. That doesn’t mean they give up. Annerb is such a fantastic writer. I never knew I could feel so much about something like a towel. 

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Want more recommendations? Check out my:

All-time Favorite recs

Muggle AU / Coffee AU recs

[wavelette]

like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other. 

which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.

[calicoture]

no saint ever watched over me, not like you have.

[starpeace]

i’m so fucking tired of edgy “what takes REAL strength is combining both light and dark!!” maybe compassion is the real strength! maybe true goodness takes more courage than dipping into evil now and again to give you a sexy morally grey aesthetic!! fuck you

[bollyswood]

today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don’t care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn’t be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there were are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it “easier” to rely on brownface speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

[nicholasnelsons]

amita suman supremacy this day and every day. she worked SO HARD for this role, learned to do her own stunts (gee i wonder why), read six of crows multiple times, worked out for the role, learned to work with knives, and put so so much effort into making sure we had the perfect inej on screen.

amita suman deserves better.

[earlsgrey]

the way people equate alina losing her powers to her becoming a boring character is the most girl boss feminism i’ve seen displayed

like “alina was such a boring woman when she lost her powers !! she should have stayed a girlboss and oppressed people w darkles”

like literally get ur girlboss, gatekeep, gaslight personality away from me

[hermiohhne]

Hmm look Ben Barnes can see that the Darklin is both 1) a compelling character with a message about falling for darkness and bad as a way he believes as good but ALSO 2) someone who abuses his role of power and takes advantage of Alina. These two ideas CAN and SHOULD exist in our conversations