BRUH THIS IS SUCH BS

Owl Club could’ve done a cool thing where they just sat on the episode and then the day and time of the premiere posted it on the site so that people who don’t want to deal with the stream/can’t get the stream to work can watch it via the upload instead since fate had dropped into their laps early

BUT NAH

they just want those clicks and shit and now half the fandom has dipped and/or gone quiet cause they’re staying offline so they don’t see spoilers and the other half is sharing/posting spoilers (ESPECIALLY on youtube, again, cause they also want those clicks)

CAUSE NOTHING IS BETTER RIGHT BEFORE A BIG PREMIERE THAN THE FANDOM GOING SILENT/MUTED FOR FEAR OF SPOILERS!!! :D

just absolutely murder that big series finale hype, no one was excited or looking forward to this in anyway, it’s fiiiiiiine

please say more about jilypad + diverging parenting styles... perhaps even a possible scenario >:) i imagine harry has very cunning tactics for using this to his advantage

helloooooo <3 thank u for this ask bc i love talking about these three and harry. i went looking thru the archives to find this post; my first foray into this side, and really, i’ve never looked back after that.

so i’ve talked ab this a bit before but i fully think that james was a very overprotective ‘mother hen’ type parent. i tend to read his behaviour in lily’s bday letter to sirius as being scared of his child on a broomstick and i fully, fully think he’ll never be able to let go of that as harry grows up. he’ll be anxious and suspicious and paranoid, and his first instant will always be to wrap harry up in cotton wool and hide him away. (i low-key connect this to his childhood as well; going from being spoiled and sheltered to dropped in the middle of a war, black & white thinking, living in extremes etc etc makes it v hard for him to be Normal about his child. as he shouldn’t be, really, but yeah) that’s why he thrives during the initial years; he never minds the hard parts of being a new parent, loves it in fact, and it makes it better that he can keep harry close to him at all times w/o coming off as a helicopter parent (not that the notion bothers him ofc).

it’s good, then, that he has two partners to even the scales, no? i think lily was the most…balanced out of the three. she had a relatively normal childhood, grew up in a working class family/neighbourhood and had to deal w adversity from a young age so she’s developed a nice, thick skin. she also has a sibling with whom she has a v rocky relationship so she knows that kids are, ykno, a bit unhinged. and a little bit of hardship is not a problem. i hc her as needing time to get used to parenthood, unlike james who stepped into it natural as breathing, or even sirius who loved harry on much on first sight that it made up for everything else. ofc lily loved her son, but it didn’t come w the same blinding intensity of her partners and made her feel really shitty in the beginning. but, i think she’d shine during his teen years actually, because she’s not overbearing or intense and becomes the quiet, calm strength that a hormonal, spotty teen boy would probably need.

and sirius <3 our poor baby falls in love with harry, perhaps even more quickly than james, with such startling speed that it shakes his entire foundation. he doesn’t regret it but he’s constantly discombobulated. i also imagine that…it takes him longer to settle into the role of parent, esp bc he’s not biologically one ykno? not like it matters to anyone, ofc, but it takes him a long time to truly accept his authority and place, to believe that he has just as much right as j&l to be there, to parent harry. this has the consequence of him always being more indulgent than the other two; after all, he considered himself a godfather before a parent and a lot of that thinking stayed. he lets harry get away with stuff the others might not (and the little mf figures this out later); some of it also comes from sirius seeing so much shit, and facing so much shit himself, that he rationalises a lot of stuff as ‘well, this isn’t the worst it can be, so what’s the harm’ (because his life has been such a roller coaster that he’s forgotten that not everyone’s like that, if that makes sense?)

its obviously not this clear cut but i imagine harry looks at it like this: if he needs unconditional love, he goes to james; rationality and logic, lily; acceptance and calm, sirius. when someone has to be beat up for hurting harry, james steps in. if he needs help burying a body, it’s sirius. dealing with some asshole boss/teacher/classmate’s mother who’s making harry’s life hell? lily. i can keep going but,,,u get the idea, right? this makes sense, i hope lol

i actually think harry’s first birthday is a great example. sirius pushes the boundaries by gifting lil harry a broom; james loses his mind running after him; lily places an industrial sticking charm on harry’s butt, leans back with a glass of wine, and enjoys the show. even as he grows up, lily and james act as the disciplinarian, and sirius is the emotional outlet. all of them fill in each other’s cracks so well, and it’s only when harry grows up that he realises how effortlessly they worked off each other to parent him.

also oh man o man. harry being cunning is,,,,,see, i’ve not considered it this far but it makes perfect sense. i think canon harry actually had so much manipulative energy and it’s often overlooked for his goofier traits but! this is the same dude who used his dead parents to trick slughorn into revealing sensitive info! imagine if that could be channelled into his jilypad interactions 😈

it’s like, it takes him a bit, because his three parents r so smooth, but once he realises that all of them have certain weak spots, he does NOT hesitate to exploit them. (it has the unintended consequence of truly strengthening the jilypad relationship into an unbreakable one bc one thing their kid taught them is to have ironclad communication going at all times so nothing they’ve said, or not said, is used against them). so like, he knows if he wants to sneak out to a party, it has to be sirius and in a specific way—‘i’ll be totally safe, papa, plus i really wanna see what it’s like and idk when it’ll get a chance to again’. if he widens his eyes to pitiful levels, pouts a little, and blinks faster than usual, then james is putty in his arms as long as he’s separated from the other two. divide and conquer becomes the main tool in harry’s arsenal, actually. lily’s the toughest nut to crack, purely bc she doesn’t run on emotions or irreverence, but harry soon learns that if he comes up with a solid, logical case that proves his argument has unbiased merit then he has a good chance of getting her to say yes. (this is good, bc u can arrange words in the correct order, but u can’t always control emotions)

so overall yeah, you’d think one kid + 3 parents would be an easy bet, but harry keeps them on their toes all the fkn time.

shoutout 2 this person in my class who i can tell wants 2 talk 2 me really bad but instead of doing that whenever she has the chance she'll talk 2 whoever else is around and ignore me entirely unless im mentioned by name

finally going for 100% signalis. girl help.

SPOILER WARNING!!

Bruh... Chapter 9 is amazing! *chef's kiss*

So for context, MC ran after him to thank him for saving her from her situation. He watched her return to the carriage until she was out of sight before heading to his destination. And this was his destination.

He is so protective omg!!! 😩❤️

He is nice he is sweet he is smart he is handsome AAAAAAAAA >///<

I am so down bad for this man now 😩

I find this scene very sweet helppp

man i love the people im surrounded with. how did this happen. youre all so lovely😭

my partner is going to be looking for a part time job (wfh atm) and im bawling at my job bc i dont want us to have conflicting schedules bc if we do im going to be so fucking alone at the apartment and i cant deal with myself alone

Not doing so good. Gonna be gone for a while. I’m sorry.

I wonder how many tags i can add on to this

These dance lessons are hardcore..

Got bruises now...

he literally looks like this and I’m supposed to just not do anything about it? because of some stupid fucking ableist rhetoric au that isn’t even about him? be so serious with me.

GAHHH I FUCKING HATE SPLATOON WHY DID MY BRAIN LATCH ONTO THIS INSTEAD OF ANYTHING MORE NORMAL AAAAA

I'm sorry all I did was shitpost today. I'm only a day out of my treatment and I'm really dizzy and nauseated. But I had soup and I'm feeling better. :( Hoping my treatment does a little more long term lifting. I've been stressed out because of the moving and trying to balance everything right now. So even if things are a positive, it's still stress and my body doesn't like it. :( I'm trying to set fun goals for myself cause my brain desires structure. I'm not really managing very well but I promise I'm trying. But. I had SOUP.

Live footage of me watching the end of iwtv s2

YOOOOOOO WE FUCKIN DID IT!!!! YEAHHH!! We slayed SOOO well!! EVERYONE DID!! The other sections were SO FUCKING GOOD i LOVED it!!! And like, we won first place or whatever i didnt care about that really BUT WE ALL DID GREAT!

Anyways, just got home from my pal's birthday party (more like Hang Out at the mall, we ate out) it was AWESOME! First time inside a Starbucks, and first order ALL ON MY OWN! (HELL YEAH RELIGIOUS REBELLION!!)