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When you are The Night, but also cute af

My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

sighinastorm

I like this so much better than the idea that our ancestors would be embarrassed or ashamed of us for being “soft” or some crap like that.

therinde-dreams

My ancestors, watching me stuff my face with fried chicken while studying: She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar. WE MADE IT

idhren

She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar

villainous-queer-deactivated202

My ancestors watching me use my stand mixer while living in a small apartment and attending university: Thou hast kneadeth bread in FOUR hail marys??? FOUR??? And thou ist poor as a churchmouse, yet liveth in a fine cottage with four pounds butter and fresh berries in thy larder!! And two featherbeds! And thou attendeth the King’s college, as a lord!!

ershebet

He collects supplies for the summer vacation.

#Severus Snape

kelbora

“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.”

—

The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine (via gypsy-sunday)

This is probably the best, non-judgmental description of fan fiction I’ve ever heard of in main stream media.

(via raeseddon)

#fanfiction #AO3

mythcreantsblog

Unreliable narrators need to add something to the story. They aren’t an excuse for poor storytelling and inconsistencies.

gracebeereblogs

If you have an unreliable narrator, you should be doing twice as much work in your plotting! At every turn of the story, you need to know both what’s actually happening AND what your narrator thinks is happening.

emptymanuscript

When you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.

Not only does the author need to know what’s happening on both layers of story, they need to actually write in clues for the reader to telegraph the lower, “true,” layer of the story so the reader is capable of figuring it out if they choose to read closely. Without that double work, an unreliable narrator cannot perform its literary function.

It is the evidence of the truth, not the lie the narrator tells, that makes a narrator unreliable. Otherwise they are just a liar which the audience is incapable of catching due to the hobbling imposed by the medium. Which means the lie may as well be the truth, making it serve no function as a lie.

zarahartist

There is no good and evil; only power and those too weak to seek it.

Tom Riddle - one of my favorite things about the HP books.

urupotter

AMAZING. Like, seriously amazing. This is young Tom Riddle. He’s exactly how I imagine him. A lot of art make him creepy, forgetting that the entire point of Tom before his transformation is that he isn’t creepy. He’s supposed to be charming, and slightly intimidating. This gets him just right.

regging

we shouldn’t have let fanfiction become something everyone reads. like, you shouldn’t know what ao3 is unless you were deeply weird in middle school, okay? i don’t care if this is gatekeeping. some gates need to be kept, for my own sanity.

queenofattolia

#i simultaneously profoundly believe that a) gatekeeping is bad#b) nothing is cringey#c) we made a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE mistake letting fandom become mainstream#fandom was so much better when it was a weird thing that you were vaguely ashamed of#fandom was better when you had to tentatively broach it with other ppl to figure out if they were horrid little weirdos too#those were better days#2012....I miss you so fuckin bad.......#ppl nowadays are just like asking public figures on twitter if they ship slash. how did it all go so horribly wrong#like when everyone was vaguely ashamed of all aspects of fandom i s2g it was way less common to be like#ohh you ship PROBLEMATIC THING?#back in my day....back in my DAY. All shipping was problematic. we were all equal sinners#and it was BETTER (@ace-trainer-risu)

catchymemes

genericusernamee

Holy shit this got really funny to really sad really quick

weatherman667

rebump

anthoniejcrowley

“Enough talk, Remus! Come on, let’s kill him! I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In Azkaban!”

“Very well. Kill him. But, wait one more minute. Harry has the right to know why.”

swallow-the-bird

That night, high up in the tower, everyone is performing a mime of

their own.

-Again, this is another part from the grindeldore drawing that I’m drawing.

He deifies his death the moment he welcomes it.

-A version with Dumbledore alone.

My main point here is actually the background XD What a shame that it gets hidden in the actual piece!

ershebet

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome

lifeofapottedplant-deactivated2

Don’t you just love when your artsyle changes at random? Anyways, I think you all know how much I love these two.

Uploading the lineart because I kinda liked it too. I also made a gif process here

aquitainequeen

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself…. The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same….There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That’s soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.”

— A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold