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jackfileo0 · 4 hours

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shoutout to my little sister for coming up with the single most adorable odyssey headcanon i've ever seen in my life

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jackfileo0 · 4 hours

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Hi. I'm cyberbullying a long dead poet because of his shitty fanfic. Enjoy. I'd love it if you joined me.

(Before you get mad at me, yes, I know Eugammon of Cyrene is an important figure and all that. I'm sick with some sort of flu. Let me cyberbully an ancient dead fanfic writer in peace.)

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jackfileo0 · 5 hours

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I Want To Break Free

That's my magnum opus

My og art blog @jackfileo-art

#i don't care that the timeline is wrong #they would do this if they had a chance #marauders #wolfstar #sirius black #remus lupin #james potter #jegulus #sirius orion black #peter pettigrew #jily #the marauders #my art

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jackfileo0 · 7 hours

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odysseus is generally seen as 'morally ambiguous' due to his not always being seen as the best of people- but this is a very modern and feminist take, and whilst nothing is inherently wrong with the idea of feminist takes and retellings, it skews what we have and already know of the myths, and this can be seen most predominantly in the character of odysseus. odysseus is two things:

- not meant to a hero

- not meant to be good

he is written as a man faced with impossible odds, and who loses some- if not all- of his morality in doing so. BUT where does the idea of him being 'bad' come from? the penelopiad by margaret atwood, a woman known for being quite vitriolic towards men of any kind. in recent years, people have picked up on three major things from the odyssey:

- the hanging of the maids

- odysseus cheating on his wife

- odysseus going mad at the end

NOW, to break it into points:

the hanging of the maids is so often seen in a feminist light due to margaret atwood, where odysseus is painted as some cruel, vile, disgusting predator who loathes women. this isn't true to the odyssey AT ALL. in the odyssey it is explicitly stated by the nurse that raised telemachus: 'i shall single out those who betrayed you, my lord' and by one of the maids herself- melantho: 'if we sleep with the suitors, when they become king we will be in favour with him.' and THIS is why he killed the maids. not because he was insane, not because he was bad, but because they had betrayed not just him- but his wife. not all the maids were killed, only those who slept with the suitors. the argument most often used for this is that the women couldn't say no, but this goes against what the maids themselves say in the odyssey when they believe no one to be watching.

odysseus cheating on his wife HE DIDN'T. but he is a man, and as a man, he cannot be raped. he is a terrible man for sleeping with circe and calypso when he could have- as epic decides to say- say no. which is untrue!! these are goddesses. titanesses. circe is the daughter of helios, and calypso is daughter of atlas. they could overpower him simply by looking at him. circe turned his men to pigs, even with the moly she could have easily done the same- or worse- to him. the idea of him choosing to and being unfaithful stems from madeline miller's, Circe which whilst not inherently bad, goes out of its way to put all men in a terrible light, because the heroes deserves no rights in feminist retellings. odysseus wanted to say no, but could not as hermes explicitly told him he couldn't. on the flip side, calypso threatens, ensnares him and only releases him when told to by hermes and the council of the gods. in the odyssey it is literally stated: 'and odysseus stayed on the shores weeping for home before joining the nymph in her bed.' he did not WANT to sleep with calypso, but was left with no other choice but to do so. this is a recurring theme for calypso.

but he is blamed due to his gender, and the idea of 'feminism' and 'patriarchy'.

and now, the real reason for odysseus being seen badly:

the telegony the telegony is a myth written after the odyssey with telegonus- son of circe and odysseus- as the main character. in this he travels to find his father and meet him, but accidentally kills him on the shore. (peneleope marries telegonus, and circe marries telemachus) but this is where the idea of odysseus' insanity comes from. in the telegony, it is stated he went mad after the war, and couldn't survive without bloodshed, and so he went out seeking war, and women, and battle, and went mad in this.

the statement: 'generous to odysseus' is wholly unfair, because he is a man forced to lose everything, assaulted, violated, tortured and imprisoned with no hope of survival. he goes to war knowing he won't return for 20 years, won't see his wife, and won't watch his son grow. he is a man not a god, or a demigod. he's just some dude doing his best.

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jackfileo0 · 3 days

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James and Sirius are the best friends who are so incredibly emotionally co-dependent on each other that you wonder how they function without each other, but then you see them together and realise that the only reason they're sane seperately is because its when they're TOGETHER that they go absolutely, undeniably feral :)

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jackfileo0 · 3 days

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i think it’s funny when people say that sirius wouldn’t be able to drive because he had a MOTORBIKE. he’s probably the only one that can drive canonically

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jackfileo0 · 4 days

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Y’all don’t get it Remus would fight tooth and nail for Sirius, but Sirius would kill for Remus. Kill.

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jackfileo0 · 4 days

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Sirius, while cleaning a mess kid!Harry made: We need a slur for toddlers Remus: in polish we have "gówniaki", which roughly translates to "shitlings" Sirius: Perfect

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jackfileo0 · 4 days

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sirius sending remus an "i love you" text and getting an "i love you too?" back only to realise he'd accidentally texted regulus instead of remus bc their names are too close in his contact list and now he feels bad bc he hadn't meant to text regulus and regulus not only replied but said it back and goddamn it now he's crying

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jackfileo0 · 4 days

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jegulus haters are all "james is straight" "james isn't gay" but never "regulus is straight" cuz no man who writes a resignation letter to his evil boss saying "I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more" is straight.

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jackfileo0 · 6 days

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“but james potter was a bully””he bullied snape!!!” ok? someone had to do it.

🙄

~Here’s a list of good and shitty things Snape did canonically:

Bad:

•Snape was a blood supremacist who called lily a slur.

•invented a curse for enemies (marauders)

I don’t think a good person would make up a curse which mutilates someone terribly. That too, during his time in Hogwarts.

•oh yeah later on he became a death eater 😋 (the main goal of the death eaters wasto eliminate all muggle-borns in the wizarding world and establish voldemort as its ruler)(magical nazis basically).

Plus when voldy was going to kill lily, Snape was like yk what you can kill the husband and the INFANT just don’t hurt my lily flower teehee like okay james bullied him so him not caring about james made sense but harry was a child bro

•BULLIED CHILDREN DURING HIS TIME AS A PROFESSOR????? he was literally neville’s bogart ffs and not because “some teachers are just scary okay Neville was afraid of almost everything!!!” but because Snape bullied neville on a daily basis plus threatened to kill his pet after a failed potion thingy. plus he made fun hermione’s physical appearance (when draco made her teeth all big and Snape was like hah it’s the same there’s no difference) and he bullied for BEING GOOD AT ACADEMICS LIKE 😭😭😭???? He bullied almost everyone in Hogwarts I just know it.

•sectumsempra’d George’s year off.

•tried to out Remus Lupin as a werewolf for NO reason other than his childish misdemeanour.

Good:

•called Sirius and Remus an old married couple.

•saves Katie bell from a cursed necklace

•saves draco malfoy from a terrible curse that could’ve killed him by the counter charm “vulnera saneteur”

can someone guess which curse Snape saved draco from??? You’re right! It was sectumsempra!

•switched sides or smth

~Here’s a list of good and shitty things james did canonically:

Bad:

•called Snape snivellus (was funny ngl)

•bully snape

Good:

•turned into an illegal animagus at the age of 15 so his werewolf friend (Remus) has company during his transformations.

•took sirius black in after he ran away from an abusive hoursehold.

•SAVED FUCKING SNAPE FROM REMUS IN HIS WEREWOLF FORM AFTER SIRIUS SENT HIM THERE.

JAMES SAVED SNAPE.

•literally died trying to stall Voldemort so Lily and Harry have some time to escape or just live in general.

So my point is canon james was a bit of an asshole but he still did way more good deeds than Snape even though Snape was in all the seven books like one of the good things he did was literally the consequences of his own actions (healing draco).

All of this is canon btw. NONE of it is fanon.

sincerely keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth he did what should have been done.

cutie

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jackfileo0 · 6 days

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give me walburga who really thought she was gentle parenting. that she was breaking the cycle of abuse because she doesnt force them into engagements with their cousins when theyre six, and she spends time with them when theyre young instead of letting the nannies raise them until theyre ready for polite company, and she buys them toys and ice cream, and she keeps orion away from the kids when hes angry, who tries to give sirius a better childhood than she had. whos angry at sirius for leaving because why cant he just be grateful, why cant he understand how much better he had it!!

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jackfileo0 · 6 days

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Traveler: Why are you a history major?

Wanderer: The failures of men amuse me.

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jackfileo0 · 7 days

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Also the chemistry they have in this version is amazing!!! One of my favorite adaptations for sure

Okay but why is the Russian John Watson and Sherlock Holmes SO FREAKING BEAUTIFUL!?

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jackfileo0 · 8 days

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Druella: Are you trying to give me a fucking aneurysm?

Bellatrix: Pretty sure we all are.

Regulus: I wasn’t.

Andromeda: I was.

Narcissa: I was trying to stop them, for your consideration.

Sirius: I just cause aneurysms naturally.

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jackfileo0 · 9 days

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A greater woman wouldn't beg

But I looked to the sky and said:

Please

I've been on my knees

Change the prophecy

Don't want money

Just someone who wants my company

Let it once be me

- Albus Dumbledore looking through the window at Queenie and Jacob getting married at the end of The Secrets of Dumbledore and thinking about him having to fight Gellert

#grindeldore #gelbus #ggad #gellert grindelwald #albus dumbledore #fantastic beasts #secrets of dumbledore #taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #the prophecy #crimes of grindelwald #dumbledore x grindelwald #Grindelwald #professor dumbledore

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jackfileo0 · 9 days

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My boy only break his favorites toys, is SO a song that remus could've written about sirius right after the prank, that makes me want to scream

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