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honestly hate the “dead gay wizards” hashtag
Like. I hate it so much. It feels gross to me. Maybe someone can explain to me why it is so attractive to people bc it doesn’t strike me funny at all. Is it supposed to be funny??
“lol how do I explain to people that I am obsessed with these ‘dead gays’ omg so weird” sounds… Bad.
#I don’t mean to be so serious about this#but honestly#it’s really weird and it makes me feel icky#not only are you relegating characters to one identity#it’s a joke about dead gays#which is not really that funny to me#like at all
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Weirdly specific assumption: you'd HATE to be in a messy relationship. You are the sort of person who would either talk it out or walk away.
Ooooh. Hmmmm. I do get annoyed by mess in my own life, but mostly when other people can’t just be straight with me. I get so enraged when I find out someone has been pissed at me but never said anything 🙄 So I guess you’re right!
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Okay... extremely specific assumption about you based on the drawings I saw and the things I read:
you have a type - men so comfortable in their masculinity that they aren't scared of being seen as soft, at least to the ones they care about.
Yes!!!!! Nailed it!
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A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror
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Thoughts on Sirius/Snape?
Not romantic, but sure. Yeah. Ummmm… julestales on ao3 has one that worked for me. It’s. Not romantic. And the author of the fic doesn’t ship them…and did this anyway.
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In the books, Sirius's devotion to Harry is of course very deep, but it never translates to something physical. He only shakes Harry's end when he leaves his bedside in book 4, and in book 5 there is something resembling a hug, like twice...? As a dog he stood up his hind legs and front paws on harry's shoulders and a half hug after Christmas. Idk it sort of drives me crazy, because in the movies Harry and Sirius are so affectionate! That first hug when Harry arrives in Grimmauld!! Gary and Dan had an amazing chemistry that other actors were jealous of, they mirrored the book characters, so it palpable on screen, the few scenes Gary is in at all at least.
So, what do you make of this? Do you in musing for art imagine a more affectionate relationship between Harry and Sirius? Maybe if Sirius survived the war? Molly's hug in book 4 was a poignant moment but imo that should have been a moment between Sirius and Harry. Sirius already says he expected something catastrophic to happen to Harry in the third task, that's what he stutters when Harry comes in with Dumblebore. So he is literally afraid of his godsons life and it still shows of course, Sirius staying at Harry's side was very beautifully written, like the devotion is clear, but I am foaming at the mouth for more affection between them in canon? Platonic, not shipping. So between the movies and the books Im just kinda torn what's better
It's more a rant than an ask, sorry lol, but if you have any input I'd he so stoked to read it. Not many peeps in the fandom even give Sirius and Harry any time of day, nvrmind even understand what they had (which also drives me kinda nuts but ok)
Ohhhh, anon, you’ve come to the right spot! Mostly because I love them. I would say that 80% of my fandom interest is just Sirius being a dad to Harry.
To your question, I don’t think one is better than the other. Each has their purpose. Let me share my thoughts:
1. I am soft for movie Sirius and Harry’s affectionate touching. However. The dynamics of their relationship were NOT mirrored from the books, which…is fine. Honestly, I just don’t think it was a priority for the filmmakers. This particular bit doesn’t bother me because the movies are not supposed to replace the source material—they are an interpretation. To me, watching the movies is like reading fic—fun to watch but not canon. Also, the filmmakers removed so much of their relationship in GoF that they HAD to make Sirius and Harry physically affectionate in order for movie audiences to see what losing Sirius would mean to Harry. Their complexity is completely unexplored in the films, and they had to do SOMETHING to get the audience to feel sad when Sirius died. This started in PoA when they really downplayed the context of their relationship. (Lol, see my rant on PoA. I really don’t like that movie hahahahaha.)
2. In the books, Harry and Sirius are not physically affectionate with each other despite their intense love for each other, and I think this is an effective way to show characterization. As I tell my students, this might have been intentional by the author, but it could have been an instinct that she followed (what feels right for the characters).
Here’s what I think: both are so terrified of losing the other that they won’t allow themselves to get too close, and, crucially, they both fear showing vulnerability. Touching someone and reaching out for a hug or comfort is an extremely vulnerable thing to do. If you reach out for a hug, you are showing your true feelings. To be rejected physically is sometimes more devastating than someone telling you to just “go away.” It’s a sign of trust to touch someone—you are trusting that they feel the same way about you, and you are trusting that they won’t pull away. Both Sirius and Harry understand rejection, and both avoid it. How do you avoid rejection? You distance yourself.
I’ll put the rest under a cut because I think this might get long…
Sirius and Harry, for all that they love each other, fall out of trusting each other by OotP. Part of this is trauma, but it is also miscommunication. Harry is worried that Sirius will do something stupid—either out of concern for Harry or because he wants to get out of number 12–but he’s worried he’ll lose Sirius. So by withholding affection (which I’m not sure if he knows how to give physically), Harry distances himself from Sirius which will, theoretically, keep Sirius safe (of course, it backfires). Sirius is…you know…going through stuff in OotP. He is already vulnerable—he perceives himself as being emasculated because he’s not allowed to leave his childhood home and he’s relegated to performing ‘uninteresting, domestic work’, and he must be inactive when he’s a man OF action.
When it comes to Goblet of Fire and the odd handshake… I think Sirius is reeeeeally holding back. Harry does NOT want him to go, and Sirius knows this. (Why DOES Dumbledore send him away? Literally anyone else could have “alerted the old crowd” and NOT the convicted murderer. This is clearly the author’s excuse to get Sirius away from Harry—and, I’ve spoken to this before, Sirius is too much of a miracle character—too smart, too loyal, too loving to support the story that the author wanted to tell.) Sirius, if he had stayed, would have been the emotional support that Harry needed. So if Sirius holds Harry, what if Harry doesn’t let go? What if Sirius himself can’t let go? A handshake will have to do.
So Sirius leaves Harry with that bizarre handshake. That Sirius leaves at all damages their relationship—it could have been repaired with time (if they’d been allowed time), but this moment makes Harry realize that he cannot rely on anyone, not even Sirius. This leaves Harry to be isolated in OotP, and it leaves him to feel like he cannot trust anyone. I’m not blaming Sirius for leaving, but I believe this action causes a rift between them that carries into the next book.
My point is, I HATE that they don’t touch but it is very important that they don’t, at least when it comes to the story that the author wanted to tell. I think it was the right move when we look at the story as a whole. Do I like it? NO! But it’s interesting, and it DOES feel right for them. Is it devastating? Yes!!!!!!!
TL;DR: I don’t think either interpretation is necessarily better than the other, but they both have their purpose. Both are effective!
Touch is…huge in HP. Consider Voldemort’s “I can touch him now” and causing Harry pain. Touch is a privilege, and to be touched without permission is a violation. Harry kills someone by touching them. He is only touched by his family when Dudley beats him up or he gets shoved in his cupboard.
Weirdly, one of my absolutely favorite moments when Sirius and Harry touch is in PoA when the Dementors are closing in on Sirius, Harry, and Hermione, and Harry, as he’s about to faint, reaches out to grab an unconscious Sirius by the arm, thinking something along the lines of “the dementors weren’t going to take him” and such. And this is about two seconds after Harry has accepted that Sirius is telling the truth! Harry physically tethers Sirius to him—this touch-starved teen reaches out to this man who is now everything to him, who is now his only real family, willing to risk death (or worse) to keep it. BUT THEY JUST MET!!!!! Devastating!!!
Also…another thought: the first time Sirius and Harry touch is the first time Sirius has been touched as a human in twelve years. And Harry is beating the absolute shit out of him…and then Sirius nearly strangles him…
Also, also, not to like…self-promote, but if you want some Sirius & Harry family feelings and a wee bit of affectionate touching, I wrote a one-shot where they talk about their feelings in OotP.
Anyway, this got longer than I thought. Thank you for the prompt!!
#if this sounds critical of sirius it’s not#he is a Very Good Character#if he were ‘perfect’ he’d be boring#i like his messy parts#and i like harry’s#i wish there had been more of them together#but i like that we can build the relationship outside of what we’re given#i love AUs#sirius black#harry potter#hp meta#long post#asks
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I do so wish we could have “seen” the moment when Sirius tracked Peter down before the massacre. I wonder if Peter would have said something to make Sirius hesitate to strike, something that would elicit a doubt within Sirius again, just enough for the line “Sirius, how could you?” to catch Sirius by surprise and allow Peter to take advantage.
We know that Sirius is extremely intelligent(and that he also wears his emotions on his sleeve in a lot of ways.) That being said, do you think he could be manipulated by someone(or underestimate them to a fault) if that person decided to downplay their own intelligence on purpose? I feel like when it came to Peter- he was able to make both Sirius and James think he wasn’t a threat at all. I think that Peter was smarter than people gave him credit for, but maybe he didn’t feel the need to express that or it just wasn’t that obvious. And I think that being underestimated by his friends is what helped him to carry out his plan to betray the Potters and then live for over 10 years as a rat.
I also think that Sirius generally values intelligence and if he thought someone was unintelligent- I see him just taking that at face value and not thinking that it could just be an act instead.
I 100% think Peter manipulated Sirius. Peter possesses far more emotional intelligence than he is ever credited with, both by the fandom and by the narrative itself. He seems to have an acute understanding of Sirius’s flaws and how to exploit them for his own survival.
While Sirius is undeniably intelligent, his judgement can be clouded by his emotional impulses, particularly his overriding desire to protect those close to him. This protective instinct was so pronounced in the case of the Potters that he likely failed to step back and fully assess the situation, leading to a tunnel vision that overlooked crucial details and alternative perspectives. Sirius’s inability to envisage a friend betraying him left him particularly vulnerable to Peter's deception. He misread Peter's hero worship of James as a demonstration of loyalty, which further obscured his judgement.
Sirius’s strong code of honour and his inability to conceive of a friend betraying him further blinded him to Peter’s duplicity. He even admits in the Shack scene—although this must be taken with a pinch of salt—that in hindsight, the signs that Peter was the spy were obvious.
Moreover, Sirius's arrogance about his own intelligence, rooted in his privileged background, also played a crucial role in his underestimation of Peter. This arrogance made him dismissive of the idea that someone could intentionally downplay their intelligence. As a result, he completely overlooked Peter’s pretence of being less capable, which was another layer of Peter’s manipulation. Peter knew how to exploit Sirius’s intellectual arrogance by appearing harmlessly inept, further masking his true intentions and capabilities.
In the Shack scene, Peter employs a particularly manipulative tactic in his plea for mercy:
“Sirius — it’s me… it’s Peter… your friend… you wouldn’t…”
The use of the word ‘friend’ here is particularly interesting, demonstrating Peter’s acute awareness of how to manipulate Sirius.
By invoking their friendship, Peter targets Sirius’s sense of loyalty and his emotional vulnerabilities. This moment is a powerful example of how Peter uses emotional intelligence to exploit Sirius’s honour-bound belief in the sanctity of friendship, effectively pushing the exact buttons that he knows will elicit sympathy and hesitation from Sirius. This manipulation is a testament to Peter’s cunning use of interpersonal dynamics to navigate and survive perilous situations (because it does work and he does live to fight another day).
#sirius black#peter pettigrew#hp meta#I also think Peter learned for years how to manipulate his friends
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THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
2001 | dir. Peter Jackson
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Just a weird lil note to say that fics aren't metas.
Sometimes an author makes decisions based on what works best for character AND story.
I'm not saying that a character's actions should be OOC, but sometimes you have to Manufacture Situations in order to get the story you want. I dunno. It's like... sometimes you write a fic and do what vibes right. Sometimes I don't really feel like doing lit analysis for a fic. I don't need to "prove" that the character was one way ONCE in order to show that character behaving in such a way again. Hopefully I'm a strong enough writer that the context I make up explains the character's actions.
Also, you don't have to be married to an interpretation that you have in one fic. Like, you can switch it up. Fic is about exploring interpretations based on Situations. I could write a dozen "Sirius adopts Harry" fics with different ideas of how Sirius might parent. He's overprotective in one, or in another, he's self-conscious about his ability to be a parent. My Slytherin Sirius is sad and lonely because of the Situations I put him in--if I took away those Situations, he would be a very different Slytherin Sirius who is probably much happier. But that wasn't the point of the story so I didn't let him be happy :(
Anyway, I guess, don't feel like you're beholden to one interpretation you've made in one fic. Your unrelated fics aren't part of your [AO3 account] Cinematic Universe, and unless specified otherwise, your readers shouldn't assume what is true in one of your fics should be true in another.
Just my two cents!
#on writing#fic stuff#i know this is fic 101#but people get so up in arms about interpretations#like calm down it's not that serious lol#why do i even bother to go into the 'for you' tab
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AU Dadfoot-raises-Harry epistolary fic where it’s just Sirius writing furiously to Dumbledore about Quirrell, the Chamber of Secrets, GoF, etc interspersed with Dumbledore’s measured replies.
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Okay but Sirius... And Vincent Crabbe. Or Gregory Goyle. Or both. Why not both.
#incompetency kink
It’ll have to be the incompetency bit because they really have no discernible personality traits except “goon.” Loyalty… I guess?
It’s hard when they don’t really have…personalities. To be fair, that’s sort of the point of them.
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Hey, so, I’m thinking about Dadfoot and that part in GoF after Crouch is killed when Sirius writes Harry and demands to know why Harry went off alone with Krum into the Forest.
Considering this, do you suppose if Sirius had raised Harry that he would’ve been a Marlin from Finding Nemo type of dad? Especially being so young and losing his support system (assuming it takes years to repair/build his friendship with Remus), I feel like a kid becoming a dad at twenty-two following his best friend’s death might make him terrified that something would happen to Harry.
Anyway, I’d like to see an overprotective Sirius but not necessarily in a cute way, maybe leading to Conflict as Harry gets older à la Finding Nemo.
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Dumbledore. I would //not// ship them
Loooooook. I heard someone say once that Dumbledore saw Sirius as Grindelwald… While I don’t personally see it, I would love to see Dumbledore punishing Sirius for Gellert’s sins.
And okay, maybe it’s the centenarian sex thing that could put people off. SURE. I can see that. But if Sirius met a much younger Albus (like he traveled to sometime between 1900-1930), wouldn’t they be…probably somewhat intrigued by the other?
Or you could ship them the ages they are. But y’know… I mean, Dumbledore still swims like a very young man at 150. What else does he do like a younger man…
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Bill/Sirius/Fleur sexy sandwich, y/y?
This is a Must. These are canonically three of the sexiest people in the series. Logically, and crucially, they must fuck.
Also I want Molly to walk in on them.
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What? I mean yeah not the best but Kreacher and Sirius is perfect for hate fuck, very angsty
Yeah it’s not cute. Or maybe Sirius practiced on him when he was a teenager? Maybe Kreacher hates him in particular bc he was scorned 🥲
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Who would I not ship with Sirius?
Kreacher.
Hm. It wouldnt be pretty but
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