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Tonks would have graduated by ‘91 at the latest, likely in ‘90. She was 22/23 at the start of OOTP when they met & Lupin was 34/35. It’s canonically a 12 year age gap, which is far from the biggest age gap ever heard of. Totally cool if it isn’t your jam, but I do think there is some nuance to the age gap.

For one thing, in every possible way Tonks held power over Lupin: she was in a better position financially, more secure in her life, and had a better social standing. These are all of the things that would usually be concerning because the older person in an age gap relationship holds all of the power. She was an adult who was in a similar position in life (if not a more established one) than Lupin, as opposed to a younger person trying to establish themselves while dating a well-established person.

Someone said Tonks graduated in 92 and Remus became a teacher in 93.

Wtf 😭😭

#remus lupin #nymphadora tonks #remadora #remus x nymphadora #remus x tonks #nymphadora lupin

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asnarkyandironicusername · 14 days

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discipline is self care

self care isn't just face masks and bubble baths, it's also doing your assignment in advance so you won't pull an all nighter before the deadline, cooking at home instead of ordering out; discipline is an act of self love and care

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asnarkyandironicusername · 15 days

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Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

#creative imporvement and the never-ending horrors #quantity over quality #writing #writing community #writing is hard #on writing #creative writing #writblr

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asnarkyandironicusername · 15 days

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on january 18th 2024 an old alcoholic cat opened his mouth and said “so things look bad-“ to a pornstar spider and i have never been the same since.

#hazbin hotel #huskerdust #angel dust #husk #hazbin hotel husk #husk hazbin hotel #angel dust hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel angel dust #loser baby

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asnarkyandironicusername · 15 days

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Sirius Black is the seventh most mentioned character in Harry Potter, he is mentioned more than Draco Malfoy, and Fred Weasley. Remus Lupin is the tenth most mentioned character in Harry Potter, mentioned more than Neville Longbottom, and Ginny Weasley. Peter Pettigrew is mentioned more than Luna Lovegood, and Dobby.

James Potter is mentioned more than Professor Filtwick, and Angelina Johnson. But yeah “We barely know anything about the Marauders in canon.”

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asnarkyandironicusername · 16 days

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Remus Lupin Fest 2024 Master List Reveals

Gen Monster - by SebbiGrey

James/Remus Where This Might Lead Us - by puuvillaa

Kingsley/Remus Soothing Comfort - by piximera

Regulus/Remus Hiding in Plain Sight - by MidnightStargazer

Severus/Remus DoorDash - by nocturn Food for Thought - by SafePlaceSnupin The Great Divide - by Elvira_Kamgut Safe - by Malinverno Sleepless in Scotland - by multilingualism

Sirius/Remus Ad Astra - by Swoops all the hot singles in your area are dead - by atropos_aeneas A New Chapter - by brandileigh2003 The beast in us - by Imjustherefortheshipping Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered - by Clare_Mansfield Catch Me When I Fall - by sliebman10 Chiaroscuro - by krabapple For Love or Monet - by deathcabformoony Half Moon Chocolate - by BrujaBanter High Tide Came and Brought You to Me - by Lucigoo89 Let Me Touch You or The Five TImes Sirius Black Kissed Remus Lupin and the One Time Remus Kissed Him Back - by Sniper_Jade The Many Phases of a Full Moon - by RebelWriter99 Sweets and Books - by Writer_INFJ_2w1 tell me that you're here forever, that you'll never leave - by ethereal_xo the world will follow after - by emlovessid used my best colors for your portrait - by littleoldrachel

Tonks/Remus Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board - by roni_mac The War - by Maplehelicopter

#remus lupin fest 2024 #remus lupin fest #remus lupin #reveals #nymphadora tonks #remus x nymphadora #remus x tonks #remus lupin fanfiction

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asnarkyandironicusername · 18 days

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Being a writer your brain is either

A) STUFFED TO BURSTING with ideas you have no clue what to do with or how to make them make sense

or

B) It's a black hole that devours every inkling of creativity in your cells and you are just hoping it'll consume you too

THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN

#scrolling when I should be writing #writers #writing #creative writing #writer stuff #writerscommunity #writeblr #writers on tumblr

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asnarkyandironicusername · 18 days

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That moment when the unrelated scenes you've been writing for two weeks both somehow connect (i have no idea how this happened)

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing #writing memes

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asnarkyandironicusername · 18 days

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In the past I've shared other people's musings about the different interpretations of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Namely, why Orpheus looks back at Eurydice, even though he knows it means he'll lose her forever. So many people seem to think they've found the one true explanation of the myth. But to me, the beauty of myths is that they have many possible meanings.

So I thought I would share a list of every interpretation I know, from every serious adaptation of the story and every analysis I've ever heard or read, of why Orpheus looks back.

One interpretation – advocated by Monteverdi's opera, for example – is that the backward glance represents excessive passion and a fatal lack of self-control. Orpheus loves Eurydice to such excess that he tries to defy the laws of nature by bringing her back from the dead, yet that very same passion dooms his quest fo fail, because he can't resist the temptation to look back at her.

He can also be seen as succumbing to that classic "tragic flaw" of hubris, excessive pride. Because his music and his love conquer the Underworld, it might be that he makes the mistake of thinking he's entirely above divine law, and fatally allows himself to break the one rule that Hades and Persephone set for him.

Then there are the versions where his flaw is his lack of faith, because he looks back out of doubt that Eurydice is really there. I think there are three possible interpretations of this scenario, which can each work alone or else co-exist with each other. From what I've read about Hadestown, it sounds as if it combines all three.

In one interpretation, he doubts Hades and Persephone's promise. Will they really give Eurydice back to him, or is it all a cruel trick? In this case, the message seems to be a warning to trust in the gods; if you doubt their blessings, you might lose them.

Another perspective is that he doubts Eurydice. Does she love him enough to follow him? In this case, the warning is that romantic love can't survive unless the lovers trust each other. I'm thinking of Moulin Rouge!, which is ostensibly based on the Orpheus myth, and which uses Christian's jealousy as its equivalent of Orpheus's fatal doubt and explicitly states "Where there is no trust, there is no love."

The third variation is that he doubts himself. Could his music really have the power to sway the Underworld? The message in this version would be that self-doubt can sabotage all our best efforts.

But all of the above interpretations revolve around the concept that Orpheus looks back because of a tragic flaw, which wasn't necessarily the view of Virgil, the earliest known recorder of the myth. Virgil wrote that Orpheus's backward glance was "A pardonable offense, if the spirits knew how to pardon."

In some versions, when the upper world comes into Orpheus's view, he thinks his journey is over. In this moment, he's so ecstatic and so eager to finally see Eurydice that he unthinkingly turns around an instant too soon, either just before he reaches the threshold or when he's already crossed it but Eurydice is still a few steps behind him. In this scenario, it isn't a personal flaw that makes him look back, but just a moment of passion-fueled carelessness, and the fact that it costs him Eurydice shows the pitilessness of the Underworld.

In other versions, concern for Eurydice makes him look back. Sometimes he looks back because the upward path is steep and rocky, and Eurydice is still limping from her snakebite, so he knows she must be struggling, in some versions he even hears her stumble, and he finally can't resist turning around to help her. Or more cruelly, in other versions – for example, in Gluck's opera – Eurydice doesn't know that Orpheus is forbidden to look back at her, and Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her. So she's distraught that her husband seems to be coldly ignoring her and begs him to look at her until he can't bear her anguish anymore.

These versions highlight the harshness of the Underworld's law, and Orpheus's failure to comply with it seems natural and even inevitable. The message here seems to be that death is pitiless and irreversible: a demigod hero might come close to conquering it, but through little or no fault of his own, he's bound to fail in the end.

Another interpretation I've read is that Orpheus's backward glance represents the nature of grief. We can't help but look back on our memories of our dead loved ones, even though it means feeling the pain of loss all over again.

Then there's the interpretation that Orpheus chooses his memory of Eurydice, represented by the backward glance, rather than a future with a living Eurydice. "The poet's choice," as Portrait of a Lady on Fire puts it. In this reading, Orpheus looks back because he realizes he would rather preserve his memory of their youthful, blissful love, just as it was when she died, than face a future of growing older, the difficulties of married life, and the possibility that their love will fade. That's the slightly more sympathetic version. In the version that makes Orpheus more egotistical, he prefers the idealized memory to the real woman because the memory is entirely his possession, in a way that a living wife with her own will could never be, and will never distract him from his music, but can only inspire it.

Then there are the modern feminist interpretations, also alluded to in Portrait of a Lady on Fire but seen in several female-authored adaptations of the myth too, where Eurydice provokes Orpheus into looking back because she wants to stay in the Underworld. The viewpoint kinder to Orpheus is that Eurydice also wants to preserve their love just as it was, youthful, passionate, and blissful, rather than subject it to the ravages of time and the hardships of life. The variation less sympathetic to Orpheus is that Euyridice was at peace in death, in some versions she drank from the river Lethe and doesn't even remember Orpheus, his attempt to take her back is selfish, and she prefers to be her own free woman than be bound to him forever and literally only live for his sake.

With that interpretation in mind, I'm surprised I've never read yet another variation. I can imagine a version where, as Orpheus walks up the path toward the living world, he realizes he's being selfish: Eurydice was happy and at peace in the Elysian Fields, she doesn't even remember him because she drank from Lethe, and she's only following him now because Hades and Persephone have forced her to do so. So he finally looks back out of selfless love, to let her go. Maybe I should write this retelling myself.

Are any of these interpretations – or any others – the "true" or "definitive" reason why Orpheus looks back? I don't think so at all. The fact that they all exist and can all ring true says something valuable about the nature of mythology.

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asnarkyandironicusername · 18 days

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7,000 words into my Everybody Lives™️ Harry Potter AU and facing the age old conundrum of (A) do I start posting now because I desperately want to share it but risk regretting early material and not being able to post it OR (B) continue writing it and risking it withering away while I work on smaller one shots that give the immediate satisfaction of being posted within a couple of weeks (this AU will take months to write and likely finish at over 50K)???

I felt this way writing Shane’s Guide to Ghouls & Boos (a 70K fic) and ended up posting it after it was all drafted and went through 2 major edits.

#fanfiction writing #fanfiction writer #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic problems #Harry Potter #harry potter fanfic #everybody lives #remadora fanfic #taylor talks #Remus & Tonks adopt a young girl with lycanthropy after the war

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asnarkyandironicusername · 20 days

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Yeah, saw this one coming.

I'm so much more Aziraphale coded. Although I'm not in any way surprised haha.

Thanks for the tag @celestialcrowley! I had fun with this!

No pressure tags: @crawley-fell, @sollunaastra, @takeme-totheworld, @greenchrysanthemum20, @serpent-and-seraph, @crowleybrekkers, @crowleyholmes and anyone else who wants to try this.

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #tag game #kin bingo

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asnarkyandironicusername · 20 days

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geologist remus AU in which he has the largest rock collection known to man but it’s all granite and sandstone and other rocks that no one else thinks look cool

he has his rock hammer and his hard hat and he spends his days in stupid rural areas just looking through soil and in rivers for things he can break open or put under a microscope, and he takes samples home in his pockets even though it means there’s dirt and sand everywhere

queue sirius, who knows nothing about rocks but knows that some minerals are shiny, and he has a great time fidgeting with the pretty minerals that remus thinks are “too boring”

bonus points for remus doing a taste test on his rocks to determine what kind of minerals they are (because yes, that is a genuine way of determining mineral type)

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asnarkyandironicusername · 20 days

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born to write the beginning and ending, forced to write the middle part.

#writeblr #writing #on writing #writers #writing community

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asnarkyandironicusername · 22 days

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‘There’s so little we know about canon’ this is wrong!!!! It’s so concerning the amount of people who claim this. Media literacy is important!!!

#fanon is fine #but you can’t just pretended that source material doesn’t exist so your fanon can be canon #canon vs fanon #fandom discourse

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asnarkyandironicusername · 23 days

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Canon Remus is kind (or at least tries to be)

- He was visibly conflicted and uncomfortable when Sirius and James went after Snape in Snape's Worst Memory.

- Sirius even acknowledges that Remus is kind when he says that they [the marauders] were all idiots in school and then adds, "Well, not Moony so much." He says that Remus was "the good boy" and that he made them feel ashamed of their crueler antics sometimes, and Sirius seemed to appreciate this at least in retrospect. (I feel the need to note that when Sirius said that they were "idiots" he did NOT mean stupid. He was agreeing with Harry that their actions were not always harmless fun and that he is not proud of being a bully in his youth, so don't use this as "canon proof" that Sirius and James were brainless dumbasses)

- He went out of his way to encourage Neville and was everyone's favorite DADA professor

- His smile/expression is described as "understanding" at least a few times throughout the series.

- Molly sobbed in his arms after she had the encounter with the Boggart. He comforted her (somewhat awkwardly) and gave her a handkerchief: “Molly, it was just a boggart,” he said soothingly, patting her on the head. “Just a stupid boggart . . .”

- In OoTP, Remus speaks with a lonely werewolf at St. Mungo's while visiting Arthur: "Lupin strolled away from the bed and over to the werewolf, who had no visitors and was looking rather wistfully at the crowd around Mr. Weasley... (it was to escape an uncomfortable family situation, but still, it was kind of him to recognize that the man was feeling lonely on Christmas and might like some company)

- He reassured both McGonagall and Hermione when they tried to blame themselves for Dumbledore's death.

- Before he learned the identity of the werewolf who infected him, he felt pity for them because he understood how terrible it felt to lose himself to the transformation, and he believed for a long while that this was the case for the werewolf that bit him. He held no resentment towards them until he discovered that he had been purposely infected by Fenrir Greyback. (And even after learning the truth, he never expresses outward resentment or a desire for vengeance)

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asnarkyandironicusername · 24 days

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Remus Lupin Fest 2024 Master List Anonymous

Gen Monster

James/Remus Where This Might Lead Us

Kingsley/Remus Soothing Comfort

Regulus/Remus Hiding in Plain Sight

Severus/Remus DoorDash Food for Thought The Great Divide Safe Sleepless in Scotland

Sirius/Remus Ad Astra all the hot singles in your area are dead A New Chapter The beast in us Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered Catch Me When I Fall Chiaroscuro For Love or Monet Half Moon Chocolate High Tide Came and Brought You to Me Let Me Touch You or The Five TImes Sirius Black Kissed Remus Lupin and the One Time Remus Kissed Him Back The Many Phases of a Full Moon Sweets and Books tell me that you're here forever, that you'll never leave the world will follow after used my best colors for your portrait

Tonks/Remus Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board The War

#remus lupin fest 2024 #remus lupin #remus lupin fanfiction

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asnarkyandironicusername · 24 days

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Alright, I'll say it: Jack Harkness and the Doctor's relationship is possibly the most fleshed out/complicated dynamic in Doctor Who and that is INCLUDING the master/doctor relationship. Seriously, think about it:

the fact that when they meet jack is presented as sleazy con man and the doctor makes him brave- makes him good

but that they are both willing to die for rose as long as she is safe

and then she comes back and dooms them both to live (even though jack has already died for her and the doctor WILL die for her)

(ninerosejack is canon and you cannot convince me otherwise)

but then the doctor sees jack as immortal as someone he COULD spend the rest of his life with

and instead of embracing it like you'd think he would because he is so wrecked by people leaving him/being left by him the doctor RUNS bc the Doctor is so scared of jack of what he means of what he is

jack ends up abandoned in dalek dust goes back in time to find the doctor suffers a hundred years alone/being tortured but STILL WAITS

(screw amy being the girl who waited or rory being the boy who waited- Jack Harkness is the boy who waited and he did it FIRST)

Jack finds out that he was abandoned. that the man that he loves HATES the sight of him. that the doctor would rather have a genocidal murderer than have him

and so Jack gets the hell out of dodge to go to a man who DOES love him

and don't get me wrong Jack loves Ianto and Jack DOES remember Ianto until he dies as the Face of Boe don't forget that (protecting Novice Hame from the virus as he couldn't Ianto

BUT AFTER EVERYTHING THE DOCTOR HAS DONE TO JACK JACK STILL LOVES THEM

Jack still considers five billion years cursed to never die to be BETTER than the alternative: dying a young time-agent-turned-con-man

Jack has more reason than any other companion save maybe Amy to hate the Doctor & yet spends 20 years in jail to rescue Thirteen still LOVES HER

AND AFTER FIVE BILLION YEARS HE ORGANIZES THAT FIRST MEETING ON SATELLITE FIVE HE ORGANIZES 9/ROSE'S FIRST DATE

jack harkness is a living ghost a reminder of the doctor's failures a physical fixed point and yet he still loves the girl who cursed him and the time lord that turned him into the kind of person that would give his dying breaths to protect the last of humanity in a dying city and tell the doctor that he is not alone

because fuck it, YANA was a warning but also a reminder a final gift

jack had been there all along, a ghost an echo a PROMISE

there is no more human character than jack harkness

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