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hello! i'm curious about the origin of your 'boticelli tyrannos' tag for grindeldore; is it in reference to a headcanon for how grindelwald should look? (also i am very interested in your grindeldore thoughts in general, your tags are always so fascinating :3) sorry if this is weird!

ahh, not weird at all, actually?? unexpected, a bit, but agdkdhskf, I actually love it when people notice my tags and ask after or guess at what the logic of them is?

I mean, some of them are fairly self-explanatory (e.g., the Trio all have quotes said by or about them, as do Lily, Neville, Ginny, Luna, Draco, and Tom-mort, and my non-weird Snape tag is from his, "welcome to potions, you're all a bunch of dunderheads and I probably hate you but to be fair, I don't like much of anything" speech in PS/SS, so the biggest question for all of them is probably, "…but why did u pick those quotes in particular")

(and the answers would vary, but like… Snape's reason would be, "because back when I was a little eight year old nerd and reading PS/SS for the first time — after screwing up and reading POA before either of its predecessors, oops? — so I didn't get distracted by thinking Snape was going to be the one who tried to kill Harry THAT year [since…… I knew going into things that he wasn't?], and idk what kind of reaction JKR had in mind for her readers? but mine was to go, 'oh wow. you're not just an obnoxious petty jerk like what made me like you in the other book, there really IS more to you than meets the eye, I didn't just make that up in my head because I liked you even though I couldn't explain to my friends why

"—I can't have done bc if you were SHALLOW, there's no way you could give a speech that's as intelligent and powerful as that, and oh WOW, PROFESSOR SNAPE PROFESSOR SNAPE PICK ME I WANT TO STUDY THE SUBTLE SCIENCE AND EXACT ART OF POTION-MAKING PICK ME PICK ME TEACH ME HOW TO BOTTLE FAME BREW GLORY AND STOPPER DEATH SIR PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PROFESSOR SNAPE PLEASE I WANT TO LEARN POTIONS FROM YOU SIR PLZ *waves hand around so much and so insistently that even hermione is like, 'dude, chill .__.'*"

— and his quote choice's story is probably the most interesting but. uh, I digress. because I'm writing a different thing that has to do with little lord half-a-Prince the completely obnoxious back on my laptop. as opposed to my phone. ……I only call him completely obnoxious because I love him and it's true and I see no good reason to pretend that it isn't.)

ANYWAY. …ahh, yes, you're spot on in guessing that "boticelli tyrannos" comes from how I think Gellert would've looked in his youth. :D

uh, I guess it should be said that my pre-movie mental images of the HP chars have always been kind of… squiffy — and the same has been true of my pre-RPG ideas of some characters just because they weren't ever in the movies, or versions of them who I played or played with have kind of supplanted all others for me

(…it is sometimes hard to watch Hannibal and not think of Marlene McKinnon, because my mental image of her is kind of forever cemented as Caroline Dhavernas. and I get a similar thing with Topher Grace, just…… he's Benjy Fenwick, rather than Marlene.)

like, there was a decent stretch of time where I kind of thought Hagrid looked like the Hiker trainers you could battle against in Pokémon Red and Blue, just……… bigger?

and my mental image of Moody looked a lot less cohesive, with regard to his face, than Brendan Gleeson?

and my mental image of Draco was just nowhere near as good looking as Tom Felton (or Boyd Holbrook, or Lucky Blue Smith, or whoever else is being fancast as him today, except Jeremy Dufour or Dane Dehaan, uh, because I am petty, dibs-calling trash and I call dibs on them for MY sad trash Death Eater son)

like……… idk?? my mental image of Draco wasn't really UGLY because he was supposed to have an aristocratic look? but he looked unhealthily skinny and had a semi-permanent stink-face on and it was one of those, "yeah, he has different features that look good on their own merits but something about them doesn't come together quite right, so the overall effect is one where he kind of looks pretty but oddly assembled, and between his bone-white skin and bleached out looking hair, it's just way too pale for him to look like he's okay. he would look a lot prettier if he smiled more. and I mean, GENUINELY smiled more, not smirking at someone else's expense or whatever he usually does"

on the other hand, I can't really talk that much because for a stretch of time that I like to call, "seventh through eleventh or twelfth grade," my mental images of Sirius, Remus, and Snape looked like an anime character (not a specific one, just… y'know, generally), "nobody I can put a name on but these pretty looking models get the general gist of it for reasons I can't explain," and Trent Reznor, respectively.

and my mental image of Kingsley Shacklebolt still goes back and forth between Will Smith (in particular, Fresh Prince of Bel Air!Will Smith but. that's another, "I played in one MWPP era game where Kingsley's faceclaim person was Fresh Prince of Bel Air!Will Smith, and it kinda stuck"), Laurence Fishburne, and Samuel L. Jackson

and then there's Gellert

oh, Gellert

………for me, Gellert has always kind of suffered from the same, "no matter how much I like any of them, literally all fancasts will somehow disappoint me because my mental image of him looks like a goddamn anime character" problem that Sirius has? just. well.

both of them definitely go more for the styles you'd see in either shoujo anime and manga illustrations, or the yaoi stuff that's marketed at women more than men, but… Sirius also has more of an edge to him? he's a lot more punk rock, the so popular fanon leather jacket is a constant feature, uh… I'd say that the closest style for how I see him is probably Magic Knight Rayearth-type CLAMP?

……and Gellert, on the other hand, looks like an anime character by way of a Botticelli painting. to be fair, it's not only Botticelli who gets in my head with him, but, like. Gellert, to me, looks like an odd but incredibly beautiful mix of an animanga bishounen, a Botticelli angel, the idealized images of male beauty from the Italian Renaissance, and the general "pretty much everything" of the Pre-Raphaelites?

…and he's probably constantly surrounded by little showers of sparkles, though whether that's me in general or, "me usually thinking of him first in terms of how Albus would have seen him during That Summer" is up for debate

except for when we get talking about Gellert in his older years, because at some point, he just turns into Ian McKellan for me (…which amuses me terribly because I also maintain that Sir Ian is the Dumbledore we deserved but not the one we got to have because he did Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings flicks and the X-Men movies instead).

by 1945, I figure Gellert's about a half-and-half mix of Sir Ian and the weird af artistic amalgam that I shorthand as "Botticelli" for the sake of tagging

………and, uh. the "tyrannos" part is just from the Greek title of Oedipus Rex, which.

I mean — Oedipus himself isn't relevant to Gellert (…if I were going to talk about him and ANY HP chars, I'd probably skip over the too obvious, "whoooa there Harry, have you considered these aspects of Ginny and Lily that are similar" take and just… get right to talking about my sad trash Death Eater son because HOOOOLY SHIT, does Barty Crouch Jr. ever deserve to be talked about in relation to Oedipus. I feel like he would really not like it if anybody did so to his face but AT THE SAME TIME LIKE??

I mean, I do get why fandom goes after Harry on the Oedipal count, even though I kinda feel like it relies on oversimplifying both Ginny and Lily to do so, but… uh. the Crouches are so completely Greek tragedy, up one side and down the other, and Oedipus is a very very relevant tragedy for them in particular oops?)

—but, I mean, the title of the play just means, "Oedipus the King," which… I feel like you could write a play called, "Grindelwald the King" and have the basic plot be, "and then Gellert ruined EVERYTHING" and he'd probably go, "well, the writing was a little lazy in places but wow what a good play, especially the TITLE :D"

—and then, the Greek version of the title was better suited to him, in my mind, because it has more obvious etymological ties to words like, "tyranny."

…also, it felt like a slightly more pretentious tag than a lot of my other ones, which I thought fit with him because… uh.

basically because, when I think of him and Albus and how they're both hella intellectually gifted, on levels that a lot of people don't get them on… at some point, they'll always eventually end up sounding kind of like some of the pretentious hipster snots I did my undergrad with? or like the pretentious hipster snot that I know I sometimes can be even when I don't mean to do it? and… well. sometimes, I do mean to do it or it's a case of, "I know I'm gonna sound pretentious right now but I'm okay with that," and… other times, I just kind of sound very fucking pretentious and I don't notice it at all……

either way, Albus and Gellert both kind of end up sounding like that if I think about them for too long. and I'm not saying that I've ever really thought about what they'd probably be like in a hipster coffee shop AU?

………but I am definitely implying this thing very strenuously

and, um. this disorganized over-sharing answer has been brought to you by the letter 4, the number Q, the, "I get really excited when people notice my tags and then I just kinda want to talk about everything" foundation, and the generous support of viewers like you? and I don't exactly know how to wrap things up so instead, I'm going to click post, add some quick tags for the time being, take a shower, and then fix the tags?

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