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[fieldsofbone]

Everyone has to perform for work lol your ivory tower experience isn’t unique

you rn

[incorrectmarauderquotes]

Do you think James and Sirius got into a fight/argument after Sirius tricked Snape into going into the Shrieking Shack? And how long do you think it lasted? I feel like Marauder era fans ignore this scene, but I think it is actually really important. I think there was a disagreement and it was heated. I also think they were cool the next day. They aired their grievances and moved on.

Owl: 

That’s a good question. I’ve discussed my personal headcanons about how it happened, but basically I think Sirius was with James (or Peter or Lupin) when he realized that Snape was eavesdropping in some way or another. Sirius rashly decided to teach him a lesson by oh-so-casually mentioning the Whomping Willow. To Sirius, this was justified punishment to someone that was a dark wizard and trying to get them expelled. But he absolutely didn’t think through the consequences to Lupin.

I think James would be (justifiably) extremely angry at Sirius. More because Sirius endangered Lupin than because he endangered Snape. I also think that because Remus tends to be a little more passive, James would subconsciously take on Remus’s anger as well.

I’ve talked about this before, but Sirius is someone who’s relatively flexible morally, and has basically learned his entire system of morality from his friends. So James’ anger and disappointment would be a huge blow. Sirius has also been raked over the coals by Dumbledore, another person he greatly respects. At the end of the day, regardless of Sirius’s feelings toward Snape and the degree of remorse Sirius feels about the potential consequences to Snape, Sirius knows he screwed over one of his best friends. And given that Sirius would literally die for his friends, that’s a huge deal. So Sirius is already in a bad place, and James would recognize that.

I think it wouldn’t take more than a day or two for James/Sirius to be spending time together again, but I think the relationship would be forever changed and James would never quite look at Sirius as he did before.

Though TBH Hilary and I have had like 2 bottles of wine between us, so maybe don’t trust either of us.

[alexcalvert]

uh. queen of knowing way too many languages? are all the ones in your last ask all you know and how tf did you learn so many? i’ve been trying to learn spanish my whole life (i’m literally mexican) and can still only speak basics. and i’m bad at it. what’s your secret??

queen of knowing way too many languages cksncksnf thank you, that made me laugh. i know english, serbian, german, french, spanish, italian, arabic, and sign language fluently. i can speak bits of pieces of a lot of languages (i’m pretty damn good at russian, but that’s just because i know serbian. i also know croatian and bosnian, bc they’re the same language as serbian with different dialects. but as a serbian, don’t tell my people i said that. they would kill me). english and serbian are both my native languages, so i think that helped a lot in making my brain good at learning new languages. plus i spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital as a kid and a teenager (still do) so most of my time was spent learning, reading, and watching shows/movies. learning new languages takes a lot of time so it was a good distraction for me. the thing about learning spanish your whole life and still not knowing it is kind of hilarious tho i would’ve probably been like that with serbian had it not been forced down my throat as a baby. if it helps, i can’t roll my r’s properly and like, four of the languages i know have rolling r’s. one of the letters in arabic is literally a rolling r sound and i can’t do it. it’s hideous.

[fieldsofbone]

You have the perfect hair colour 😭 What dye do you use?

i'm chinese, bestie!!!

[fieldsofbone]

Your tags on the padme post were really interesting, do you think padme was mistreated by the writers?

thank you for reading them and for saying that, that’s so kind!

this is a compelling question and one that i don’t have a super clear answer to, but i don’t think that she was mistreated in the way that so many of my favorite female characters in media have been. i think that padmé has a remarkable amount of depth, nuance, and agency even by today’s cultural standards for women characters, and i love that there’s an understanding that her discerning, tenacious, and “strong” traits are all tethered to and reinforced by her compassion, softness, generosity, warmth, and genuine love for the people she represents and has intimate emotional relationships with. that seems so obvious, but there’s often such a predisposition to siphon female characters into one box — you’re either endowed with the more “masculine” former characteristics or the “feminine” latter. even though episode ii is largely focused on the development of anakin and padmé’s relationship, i never felt as though she was defined solely through that lens or only ever treated as a love interest. padmé is, from the moment we meet her, her own person with interests, traits, flaws, and ambitions outside of any proximity to a man.

which is also what makes her storyline in episode iii so disappointing.

like i said in those tags (that i churned out half-asleep at 1am), i can understand the decision to cut various scenes as the movie’s runtime was long enough in the final product, but it’s not lost on me that the majority of deleted scenes are focused on padmé’s efforts as a leader of the budding rebellion. to me this decision does a massive disservice to the overall story — not only the prequels, but the entire saga as a whole. indeed, one of the most significant scenes that was cut from episode ii shows padmé addressing the senate less than an hour (!!!) after surviving an assassination attempt and reiterating her stance against the creation of the clone army, which she (rightly) perceived to be a blatant declaration of war. this scene crucially positions padmé as a chief adversary and obstacle to palpatine’s ambitions and push toward authoritarianism, and lays the groundwork for him to use her to sow doubt in anakin and drive a wedge between them, further isolating anakin from his emotional anchorpoints and making him far more susceptible to palpatine’s manipulation. and it fills an important narrative gap between episodes i and iii by showing the dissolution of padmé’s and palpatine’s relationship and her grappling with the realization of his true intentions / machinations.

we can see this explicitly in this deleted scene (starting at 5:27) from episode iii, in which padmé and a group of senators confront palpatine (with anakin at his side, ever the loyal servant) and implore a return to diplomacy, a notion which palpatine is (of course) visibly hostile toward. as she and the others exit his chambers, palpatine turns to anakin and begins to question padmé’s motives, feigning concern about the authenticity of her request and suggesting that she’s hiding something. anakin balks at this and defends her, but it’s clear that palpatine’s words have hit a nerve and planted seeds of doubt in anakin’s mind. this scene is doubly important because it makes anakin and padmé’s final exchange on mustafar even more devastating and poignant, and makes anakin’s outburst toward her and the rage he feels upon seeing obi-wan aboard her ship more understandable and less seemingly out of the blue: his mentor and the only person he believes he can trust has been relentlessly spinning fictions about his wife’s betrayal, so of course she brought obi-wan as a covert assassination plot and of course she’s lying when she says she loves him. (i’m obviously not saying him force-choking her was like, a good thing, but it feels more narratively justified.)

this is a ridiculously long response to your question so i will finally digress and say that my simple answer is yes, to a certain degree. i don’t think she was mistreated as a whole, but the decisions to cut scenes from episode iii (and, to a lesser extent, ii) that are imperative to showing her as a founder of the rebellion movement, a potent adversary to palpatine, and laying the foundation for her and anakin’s last meeting massively undermined her character and was an incredible disservice to the overarching story — which bleeds into fleshing out so many points from the original trilogy as well!

and her cause of death was absolute bullshit but we can talk about that another day :)

[fieldsofbone]

Ek Johnston call Anakin and his grandson Ben as nazis and stereotypes of women of color like barries ps from ben solo stan please dont hate him or sequel trigorly

i don’t know what to do with this information but unfortunately my feelings about kylo (or anakin) won’t change!

[fieldsofbone]

billy russo really said “fellas is it gay to betray your best friend bc he won’t run away with you bc he has a wife and kids to worry about and then act like everyone is victimizing you when you have to face consequences for your actions” and it’s just The Most

SCHFKDJDKFJDK I KNOW

billy russo be like “why is frank mad at me” my brother in christ you were complicit in the murder of his wife and children

[fieldsofbone]

I followed you for Bvb stuffs I don’t really see it anymore

i feel like we go on this carousel ride once every few months so i should reiterate that this is, always has been, and will always foremost be a personal blog! i love a lot of things very intensely and go through periods of being more invested in or deriving more joy from some things than others; at the moment, i’ve been finding most of my excitement from my reinvigorated affection for star wars and the bear and some other films / tv shows that i enjoy. i’m still extremely devoted to black veil and andy in particular and keep very up to date with everything going on with them, but like any human my attention ebbs and flows when other things capture or reignite my interest and passion. it also began to feel for a while that i was among only a handful of people creating any edits, gifsets, or other original art for the BVB fandom, and between that + general engagement with my edits dropping + the constant, unwavering, exhausting plague of reposted and stolen content that’s rampant within the fanbase, i need a break.

i appreciate that you followed me for black veil content, and it will undoubtedly and inevitably make its comeback in the near future since they are still one of the most important things in the world to me! i’m stoked about the mourning and as they put out new music and accompanying videos / interviews i’ll have more to work with, but i’m also gonna keep posting what i enjoy and feel inspired by, and if that no longer suits your fancy you are more than welcome to unfollow :) that said, if you’re noticing a dearth of black veil posts on your dash you can check out my BVB tags page that has an archive of every post on my blog organized by member, tour, interview, music video, era, etc., and i also run a side blog that’s exclusively dedicated to the band that you can find at @blackveilsource. be well!