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Hot opinion: James Potter had a "bad person developed better morals because of love for Lily" arc just like Snape did, and we deserve more content exploring the characteristics and themes they had in common. Thoughts?

I mean, yes, in that all the marauders parallel Snape in some way. However, out of all of them, James is the one who parallels him the least because he’s the least developed as a character. I’d love to explore their existing parallels though, but I doubt that it’d be well recieved by fandom. Most Snape fans dislike James, though a few are indifferent (Jeverus fans are the only real exception). And James fans detest Snape, I’ve found no real exceptions to that rule. (Though I’m sure they exist somewhere). Of course I’ll probably do it someday.

The problem with characters like James is that since we know so little about him it’s hard to state anything with any certainty. Most is just speculation. My interest in him is mostly due to his relationship with the marauders, in that I feel that he’s the glue who held them together, and that they were more James friends who were friends with one another by their relationship with him more than they were a group like the golden trio. I’m fascinated in exploring that. His relationships with Lily and his parents is something that I find less interesting, because while I can make James come to life in my head when I play him off of Sirius and Remus, and I can make Lily (another barely existant character) come to life when I play her off of Snape, I can’t really find much of interest in their relationship, since the two of them are barely developed in text.

Though yes, finding the similarities and differences he has with Snape is an interesting excercise that I might do someday. It’s something that I’ve never really seen. (I mean, I have, but only as a way to make one of them look better, mostly done by obnoxious fans of one of the characters, never as purely an attempt at analysis).

Thanks for the ask!

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I've just finished all of your HP fics and I am so impressed by your characterisation of Lily. You really put a lot of thought into her and she is the highlight of every fic you've written her in. Thanks for writing!

AAAAA!!! Thank you, thank you! heh, that's pretty much all my HP fics, as I clearly have a fixation with Lily. It's a bit funny, as in canon she has the personality of a stockphoto, but then again that leaves me with practically an empty canvas to work with. 

I love the concept of Lily (and Severus, all of the hints of Lily's personality we do get in canon come adjacent with Severus) a muggleborn from a dying factory-town. This is a girl who would have been hated both by Voldemort and Margaret Thatcher. That's cool as heck. And then for this girl with such a cool set-up, we find out nothing about her actual life??? How can I not latch onto that? 

Then combine how much I hate the virgin Mary mother trope, and you have an itch I just cannot stop scratching at. 

My Lily is a different character in every fic, but I am very fond of them all. I guess the unifying threads are that in every universe the real Lily gets erased by the time canon starts, when she is given a statue and a status as a martyr and not a single one of the characters is willing to tell any personal information about her to her son. (poor, poor Lily.) 

The other is my unwavering belief that the Severus-Lily friendship breakup was a terrible tragedy of two working class children finally giving up and submitting to the hierarchy of the rich. A gryffindor and a slytherin muggleborn and a halfblood are best friends until  the rich purebloods from both houses bully and harass them enough to grind them into realizing that they can either turn against each other or perish. So they give up, and each acquire a rich pureblood man to latch onto (becoming a Potter wife and a Malfoy lapdog). And it's sad, and it makes me sad, so I write fics to cope.

Your blog looks dope as hell, I hope we can talk more?

Right, I should probably also link my fics

[letteredlettered]

I just finished reading "away childish things". I wanted to let you know how much your depiction of Harry's dyslexia moved me. I think this idea makes perfect sense for his character, and I loved the way you showed the impact it had on his self esteem ("under-developed") and how you made it feel really important without making it the focus of the story. I've been told similar things all my life & I just got diagnosed with ADHD so this fic meant a lot to me. Thanks for writing it :)

Thank you. I’m really glad it worked for you.

I’m sorry you have been told similar things, and I’m so glad you found a diagnosis. I have had quite a few friends with ADHD who felt better able to deal with things once they were able to understand what they had; I hope it’s the case for you as well. Thank you for sharing.

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Life happens (wherever you are) is so fucking good sorry to say this out of nowhere

!!! you do NOT need to apologize for being nice to me! fun fact i met my significant other because i messaged her out of nowhere to say i liked her fic so i in no way begrudge u for doing so lmao

i really really appreciate this message! i love hearing from people who are reading my fics & i’m honored by the reception that one has gotten so far! next chapter should be up in the next few days btw ;)

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dragonlordette replied to your post: My biggest takeaway(s) might be that:  Pearl...

I feel the same. I feel a bit guilty about the whole female doctor thing cause I get why ppl wanted her earlier but at the same time Peter could be my fave doctor so secretly I’m happy that he got to do it

Yup, yup, then again, I’m also bitter. I think by the second episode of series eight, people went from, “Fuck this. It should’ve been a woman!!” to “Fuck this, look at this terrible and mean old white guy when we could have had a woman!!! [Insert curses upon Moffat here.]” 

But sometime around the end of series eight I decided to get over the Internet making me feel one way or another about what I find myself enjoying in media. I’m a big girl. I like what I like. The characterization for the Capaldi era was magic for the most part and its much-despised showrunner also matured in his writing the most during that era. 

And most people who were naysayers seemed to a) be oblivious that heterogeneous thought is allowed in progressive politics (that’s how humans work), b) be promoting reductive self-congratulatory group think in order to fuel their own performative social justice bullshit (and nullify any actual social justice ideals by blatantly behaving in the complete opposite way), and c) had stopped watching early enough that their opinions are hard to count.

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Do you think Snape and McGonagall were friends? I'm not convinced the text supports this but a lot of people seem to think they were

I don’t think there’s much canon evidence that they were, though I love the idea (it makes his year as headmaster all the more heartbreaking). McGonagall’s comment of “we all wondered” after Snape killed Dumbledore seems to go against it. And she does seem to have liked the marauders as students, which can’t have endeared her to Snape much.

I think that their relationship was more cordial than anything. I believe that the person in staff which had the best relationship with Snape was probably Hagrid.

Though this is still too little evidence, so I don’t believe that a friendship between the two would contradict canon the way something like Snape being Dracos’ godfather would.

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A request if I may...some headcanons about James Potter?

1. The whole “messy hair” look is not natural like Harry’s, but something he spends hours in the mirror maintaining.

2. He’s never told anyone, but he secretly thinks that quidditch would be world’s better if it was only chasers, keeper and beaters, no seeker.

3. If he weren’t the straightest dude to ever live, he would totally be in love with Sirius.

4. Is sort of calvinist in his thinking about people.

I’m not great with headcanons, I prefer meta 😰

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I see the whouffaldi bits from the special on your blog have you watched it???

No, I just decided to spoil myself this morning with the Whouffaldi bit and the Jodie bit, which is all I can emotionally cope with right now LOLOL.

I am currently living in a universe where two people are the Doctor and also super hella married to Clara, who has apparently regenerated into an all-powerful diety of the winter solstice.