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I just think it would be funny to switch things up and lead with "popular far-right online blogger, Joan Rowling" once in awhile.

cipheramnesia

"Joan Rowling, most famous for her staunch opposition to equal rights through her popular Twitter blog"

cipheramnesia

"Long time advocate against women's rights, Joan Rowling."

cipheramnesia

"Joan Rowling, a major contributor to the conservative party"

kimquatz

trollsoney momence

andhumanslovedstories

Love the commonness of the ao3 tag “obligatory gaang finds out about zuko’s scar” and its variants. You can basically hear the writer sitting down and saying, “I KNOW I KNOW BUT LISTEN, I simply had to. This path is well trod because it’s a dope fucking path to tread. Sunsets happen daily and we’re still wild about them. The sunset in this case is the baring of emotional trauma from one teen to a handful of others. Rated T because Toph says fuck”

andhumanslovedstories

Okay but to like pivot tones entirely, it's interesting reading a BUNCH of these back to back. They're stories where the same characters give each other the same information to largely the same emotional effect. It's a trope where the emotional climax is almost always the same from fic to fic. In effect, you get to read the same fanfic written by dozens of different authors. It's like an experiment with such good constants, you can really study the variables. And yeah, sometimes it just makes it really obvious when a fic is not good because you’ve just read a nearly identical one that was, but it also shows you the variety of character and tone interpretation you can bring to fanfic while still being more or less coherent with the canon. So it’s very possible to read one of these and go “yes I buy that these characters could say this in this fashion to this effect BUT it’s not I wanted highlighted.”

My favorite thing about fanfic is how you can chose to bring out this facet or that facet of the canon. There's a spectrum of what "in-character" means. You can do the same thing with tone as well. Atla is epic and silly and emotional and action-packed. It's about violent imperialism and it's about going to neat new places with your goofy friends. It's three seasons of 22 minute long episodes, it aired on Nickelodeon, and it won a Peabody award for depicting the consequences of warfare. You can push and pull these individual elements around to make stories that would never happen on the show still feel like they're canon. You can also write a fic where it is almost impossible to determine if it’s in-character because you’ve changed the world and tone so dramatically.

I think that's a neat thing we don't talk about enough: the way fanfic can function as literary analysis. In order for a fanfic to be satisfying on a writing level and a transformative level, it has to put forth a consistent and effective argument about the text--if this happened to these characters, they would react like this. You don't have to believe that your argument is the only possible one (you shouldn't!) and you don't have to maintain an argument from fic to fic (you can but it's also really fun to not!), but within one story, the argument should be consistent.

anyway my pick for the number one best version of this scene I've read is from Mountains and Badgermolehills by Glass_Onion, a season one canon divergent AU where Zuko and Sokka meet while imprisoned by Zhao. Its 141k words long and I’ve read it literally seven times front to back in the last two weeks. This fic is so tailor made to my interests and executes so well on the specific tropes and writing tricks I love that I have lost all objectivity. I've yet to properly comment on it because I've convinced myself the only proper way to do it is to write a 2000 word essay on its superb use of single character POV for maximum emotional dramatic irony. Zuko is so oblivious and oblivious that he's oblivious, and it works so well to sell how misguided his worldview is and how hard it is for him to change it. Superb. Excellent. It brings an exquisite restraint to the hurt/comfort that makes the angst all the sweeter. This fic is the pinnacle of this genre for me and I have been chasing its glory ever since. The argument it is essentially making about the canon is that the gaang is smart and sad and angry and funny (VERY FUNNY—there’s a joke in this fic about Zuko’s knife that fuckin gets me each and every time I read it) but above all they are kind, which is a delightful argument to read and works wonderfully.

#avatar #atla #👀#to read

Well, if anyone is still following this blog you can tell that I've basically stopped being active. I was looking something up this morning & forgot to switch back to my main blog so enjoy that pride flag frog.

This blog isn't going anywhere, but like I said I'm not sure if/when I'd get back to posting quotes and transcribing. So much about how I think about the HP series has changed as the books have aged & JkRowlings decided to dedicate her life to being a transphobe.

I still think of the series itself fondly, as I do the TCTWSG podcast. But I've definitely gone from being a person who used to regularly listen to HP podcasts to finding comfort and fun elsewhere for the most part.

For what it's worth, my personal line is not to giving the JKRowlings the person, nor her associated franchises any more money. She's still alive to make money & cause real harm with her celebrity. So if you are still reading this & feel motivated, here's the Trans Lifeline nonprofit donation page for Pride month

#tctwsg #not really tctwsg-related

amphibianaday

day 571

pride month time

#frog

MT [in Henrietta voice]: Harry Potter and the Feeble Vibratto

TP: Oh hey Hentrietta! I didn’t see you come in.

-7.12 - Magic is Might

#mister tom #the peter #tctwsg

RT: Is this where they’re impersonating other people?

MT: Well, aren’t we all.

-7.12 - Magic is Might

#regular tom #mister tom #tctwsg

MT: Magic is Milk.

RT: Now there’s one I can get behind.

MT: I like milk; the liquid from cows.

RT: Ew.

-7.12 - Magic is Might

#mister tom #regular tom #tctwsg #the chapter titles were so good

Mister Magical Maintenance

Regular Tom 7.12 - Magic is Might

#tctwsg #regular tom

What if they’d [Voldemort’s horcruxes] had all just been in Grimmauld Place. Just in different rooms of junk.

Regular Tom -7.12 - Magic is Might

#regular tom #tctwsg

Top 5 Explanations for Voldemort’s Ability to Fly

1. Pocket Leprechaun

2. secretly an owl

3. cut off his nose to become weightless

4. tiny wand broomstick

5. moving really fast by apparating through space

- 7.11 - The Bribe

They get to the battle of Hogwarts and Hermione’s like, ‘Okay it’s time to kill Voldemort,’ and just lets Harry out of the bag for a few minutes. It’s like a poke-ball that’s what it is.

Mister Tom -7.12 - Magic is Might

#mister tom #tctwsg

You Can Feed the World With Just a Peanut in your Pocket

TCTWSG’s Hit Charity Single -7.11 - The Bribe

#tctwsg greatest hit's #tctwsg

Oh hi,

You did some magic. You’re expelled haha.

Mafalda Hopkirk

- 7.12 - Magic is Might

#probablyalldeatheaters

RT: Any death eaters out there? You hear me? You’re probably cowards!

TP: Probably?