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Tom Riddle's Horcruxes Episode

New episode has dropped! @therealvinelle and I spend over an hour talking about Tom Riddle's horcruxes: which are real and how real are they, what are horcruxes, and did Harry really jump into a frozen over pond in winter that one time?

Here on spotify.

Also, in all the usual places.

[therealvinelle]

Why do you think Jasper also slept with Peter and Charlotte?

Because @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin and I differentiate between fic and canon.

We write our thoughts on canon on tumblr, but in fanfiction we are free to make our own rules and have fun.

Lines become blurred, however (bullet pointing for legibility):

What we extrapolate from canon impacts the canon of our fics Fun fact, therealvinelle only exists because people kept asking me questions about my choices in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, and I thought replying to the same questions in the comment section was silly. So I made a blog, which became a beast unto its own. In other words, fic is impacted by how I view canon, and when people ask me my opinion on canon I tell them my view on canon. Example: Carlisle and Aro are not intended by Meyer to have been anything more than friends, but we think it's there and write metas with that starting point, and have it explicitly canon in our fics.

We keep our fics consistent with one another, sometimes using a minor tidbit from canon to justifty it and sometimes making it up Muffin and I are very stringent about this sort of thing. Our view on the characters is fixed: if something changed from one AU to another, the question is "Why?". If it just changed for no reason and the people remain the same, they're no longer real people and nothing really matters. Example: the Volturi guards all having consistent personalities, life stories staying the same, nevermind that we made up Demetri's personality or Aro's ridiculous collection of Carlisle art.

We write metas explaining our fics on our tumblrs See my fic meta tag. Anon asks "Why did character do thing?" and we go "well, character is a person who does things like that thing, remember in canon when they did that thing? So we had them do this thing in our fic." Nevermind that character didn't actually do thing in canon, because this was all in a fic. Example: see the fic meta tag on my blog or Muffin's masterpost.

Now to answer your question: to my recollection Jasper/Peter and Charlotte is first mentioned in For the Love of a Woman, where Bella learns that not a single one of the Cullen men are straight and she despairs (as does Emmett, who wonders what this means for him).

It was justified as a "Jasper was in a state of ennui, they were all beautiful, they went for it" type of thing, and perhaps more to the point it tells you, the reader (and the scandalized Cullens, per fics like Bleach on the Brain) something about vampire sexual norms being different than 21st century western humans and those humans already have plenty of casual, recreational sex.

So, canon doesn't indicate it, but we had Jasper/Peter and Charlotte be a thing that happened in our fics and the argument for it can be made (I do believe sexual norms among vampires, being excempt from diseases, pregnancies, children, and the type of obligation and routine human lives have, would be... recreational).

(As it is I recall this coming up on the blog before, but I think whichever of us got the question responded with essentially the above - "We don't know, but possible".)

[therealvinelle]

i understand yalls headers now. me trying to explain to other hp fans your heretic metas like you see, theres canon backing for this, it makes sense,

If it makes you feel better, I don't talk about this outside of my blog or @rankheresy. "Akshually Harry was hoodwinked in Deathly Hallows and Voldemort must still be alive, let me get into this horcrux by horcrux. I have Deathly Hallows memorized" is rarely a winning subject.

Look, @thecarnivorousmuffinmeta, people having trouble!

[therealvinelle]

So in tmwwbk, is Tom woohooing with Bellatrix? Alphard seems to think so and gets very jealous but I'm curious if its actually happening or not.

The Man Who Would Be King by myself and @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin.

That would be spoilers, I’m afraid.

[rankheresy]

Who Dunnit? Again? The Riddle Murders

Rank Heresy is back with a new episode, another murder mystery, this time asking if we're really sure Tom Riddle murdered the Riddles. (Once again, the answer is, it's probably the person it looked like which was not Tom Riddle and god that boy isn't murdering all the people we thought he was).

Check it out on our usual platforms.

[therealvinelle]

The way ahead

In light of recent tumblr news, @theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin / @thecarnivorousmuffinmeta and I have thought about the way ahead.

We are not going to move our blog activity to a different site, mainly because there's no other place quite like tumblr.

We will export our blogs, I for one am going to answer the best asks that I saved in my inbox and drafts, and we will slowly shift our attention elsewhere.

Here is our plan, as it stands at the moment:

The Rank Heresy podcast Rank Heresy will take the place of our blogs in being where we host our theories and heresies, and we are happy to receive feedback on what most interests people

Q&A livestream sessions What it says on the tin: questions ticking in, Muffin and I answering off the cuff.

Discord community Using our Rank Heresy discord server (invite link) we will continue our activity there as it stands now, hosting writing competitions, streaming things, and the greatly celebrated book club.

Continued presence on Ao3 Obviously.

We will look back on this era with fondness, vague incredulity (it's been a bizarre run), and a host of other feelings, and hope we don't lose touch with too many of you.

[therealvinelle]

Love your blog. What if Bella's truck was a Transformer?

I have never watched Transformers.

@thecarnivorousmuffinmeta, you're up.

[therealvinelle]

the post about Bella slowly becoming a vampire is actually a favourite of mine! so I tracked down the link:

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/thecarnivorousmuffinmeta/659984784420995072

(I'd make it neater but I'm on mobile, sorry about that)

I know the one, the sad fact of the matter is I was thinking of a different post where I specifically address the fantheory that James's bite is slowly turning Bella into a vampire.

It's a sad sad world with far too many tumblr posts in it.