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This, dear friend, is a question I am more than delighted to answer :)

Elder Faerie won't be waking up for a long time.

(also all content related to this AU I will now put under the phantasmagoria crk tag)

Also things that have Carterdoux vibes: "Why are you full of rage?" "Because you are full of grief."

It's about the "You've always taken care of me, but who was there to take care of you?"

The "I couldn't prevent all those bad things from happening to you, but I can damn well avenge you."

So like, I have been having this weird experience analyzing the Harry Potter books lately, and please indulge me while I talk about J.K. Rowling's weird writing.

My goal was simple: read the Harry Potter books to find which parts were influenced/inspired by actual magic that people do in real life. My theory was that there was a lot more magic in the earlier drafts of the books, and that she took a lot out due to fear of backlash from America's ongoing reenactment of the Satanic Panic. For instance it's quite obvious some of their magic lessons got dumbed down so that very little of what's in the books could actually be tried in real life, and I think she took out a lot of astrology.

I also wanted to do a couple errands along the way, one of which was to check and see if it's explicitly written in the books that Harry is a cis man. I'm a trans man, SO I'D KNOW. (I'm a slow reader so all I can say for now is: the FIRST book does not explicitly state Harry is cis, but if he's trans, there's some implied worldbuilding with items like the Sorting Hat that comes into play. Also I'm fairly sure the Dursleys would have gone along with him being trans because that meant Petunia could reuse Dudley's old clothes instead of having to get girl stuff. I'mma save any other explanations on the topic for a video on it.) The reason I'm doing this read-through is because I think J.K. doesn't know anything about trans people and didn't think to make sure her wizard world was trans exclusionary. AND IT TURNS OUT THAT WE TRANS MAGIC USERS HAVE A WAY OF WIGGLING INTO MOST PLACES UNDETECTED BY NORMAL MEANS.

While I was doing the re-read I encountered two sort of broad revelations:

There's a lot of old stuff in there like Latin and Greek and tradcraft stuff, but also modern magic of the more recent era... but the incorporation of modern magic cuts off somewhere before the 80s. These books read like they were written by a early 70s magician. Like they honestly read like J.K. is a magical practicioner who just didn't read any magic books written after 1972 and never discovered what Chaos Magic is, (and also, never heard of most of what happened in the Cold War). I have never found a writer, in fiction or non-fiction, more dedicated to referencing magical stuff that most magicians alive today just don't care about anymore.

J.K. Rowling's knowledge of child abuse laws and general social mores regarding treatment of children also ceased to update itself by about the 80s. I keep getting distracted by this and having to make more side-notes about corporal punishment and researching stuff like when caning was banned in England. (HInt: it was banned before Harry went to school, so in Book 1 it's fuckin weird that he assumes that Wood is the name of a cane he's about to be whipped with.) Like, this woman raised children in the modern era, she should know when canes stopped being used.

So like, when I mention that I'm doing some research in this area, this is the sort of stuff I'm reading for and the sort of stuff I'm encountering. I haven't been talking much about this journey because it seems like any time anyone brings up anything Harry Potter up whatsoever, we've got to talk about how J.K. is a terf in every other sentence. But like, y'all: I hope you slow down and re-read the books, because J.K. Rowling is a terf who is also a child abuse apologist and normalizer. She is a terf who is also a horrible fat-shamer. She is a terf who is also an ableist with a huge problem writing about mental illness. And she's a terf who's also a sexist who undermines feminism with her actual writing of female characters.

And I honestly think she double and triples down on the terf stuff so that people will only talk about that. I think it's worth talking about the fact that not only is she an awful person in the terf way, but like, every other way imaginable too. I think it's worth talking about the fact that with all the obvious biases she has, the group she CHOOSES to publicly marginaiize is trans women, and I think she makes that choice because she thinks that she'll get more allies that way. That if she wore all of her issues on her sleeve like she wears the terfness, that she'd lose a lot of allies, that a lot of prestigious charities would stop having anything to do with her. That she uses the identity of "terf" as a shield because she knows that certain people will protect a terf, and she does this specifically so people won't notice how much of a sexist, abuse apologist, ableist, fatphobe etc she ALSO is. Opinions that could lose her a lot of money and clout if people remember them enough.

She's trying to pick on who she thinks is the most unpopular kid in the class out of the hopes that the bullies in class will be her friends instead of pile up on her, but if the bullies knew what she really thought of them, THEY wouldn't even be her friends.

Also like... I just want someone else to read the actual words in these books and see what fucked-up choices she made as a writer. I think a LOT of people remembering these books are actually remembering the movies, which are way more different from the books than you might expect.

A ton of stuff has happened the last couple of months so I feel like it hasn’t been talked about much but uhhh, Vax really flew down to defend Kiki and got turned into a floating orb and now Kiki is potentially mortally wounded and the world might end and uhhh yeah.

no fucking way i just saw a post saying orion never hated sirius and regulus but was forced to act like it so he wouldn't get punished by walburga... DO YOU PEOPLE HEAR YOURSELVES AT ALL??

something that i like about haruto is that he's not really a character who falls into the category of having their trauma making them kind or anything of that nature. haruto is not choosing to be kind or soft. haruto is acting out of 2 cases of survivor's guilt that lead him to being kind in the sense that he is saving lives. haruto is shown multiple times making selfish and thoughtless choices bc he is so blinded by his grief and guilt. haruto is not motivated by kindness. he's motivated by the guilt of being alive and being the only person who can stop the phantoms. he is fighting off his own grief and guilt always. he is doing this because he has to. haruto is not a bad person but like...was a shitty friend! canonically! the entire soccer arc was showing that and it adds so much to him! and yeah he's kinda an asshole sometimes but that's just part of his charm! but being kind is not something he's knowingly doing! literally there is an entire arc about how haruto doesnt even think being kind on its own is worth anything! the entire hope manju arc is like haruto realizing there is more to what he does than just saving people and it's not something he is able to fully apply for a lot of the series! haruto becomes kind after having it kicked into his head! thats not the trauma! this isnt a character who is choosing to be kind bc of trauma! this is a character who has deep trauma and is starting to heal! these are not the same type of characters! haruto is saving the world and he is kind to people by proxy. but it's also a duty that without he'd get completely eaten alive and ruined by guilt. haruto learns to be kind to the world, others and himself after having it modeled by the people around him, who are showing it to him in so many different ways. and it rules haruto absolutely rules for this fact and it's part fo what makes wizard such a stand out and so unbelievably human in ways a lot of other series arent imo.

In the wake of the end of arc one, I’m thinking about Suvi in that first episode at a soirée in the Citadel, saying to Steel, “I’m wasted sitting in a room reading books!”

tfw ur old school friend invites you to the magic market only for you both to end up in the 21st century with his thoroughly confused bodyguard butler

seeing how hayden is getting his praise now when i vividly remember the star wars fandom being so toxic to him because girls liked him

Thinking about the ending of the Truman Show

text🤬amber

Teddy: Okay, so I have some bad news. And honestly I'm so mad that I even have to be telling you this, but unfortunately it's what we're dealing with.

Teddy: The crew that Mr. & Mr. Berry hired to build the bigger parts of the set for the show backed out last minute. So we're not going to be putting on Wicked.

Teddy: We've downgraded to doing The Wizard of Oz which I don't hate the show, it's a good show. But I was so excited to play Fiyero and now we have to all audition again. But with the sets they already had that's the play we're going with and they said they're hoping for us to put on Wicked next spring.

Ive realised something. All of my oc’s fall into 3 categories

1. Non human mage with a god complex and yellow-orange eyes

2. Gender envy inducing poor little meow meow elf with cannibalistic tendencies… and a touch of The ‘Tism

3. Big Tall Strong Woman 😳

I got an ad for wizard101 and I feel...a wave of nostalgia

agony i've been trying to sleep for an hour but i fucked up my sleep schedule over break so now i just have to lie here like "hmmmmm..... what if....... the harry potter obliviate wizards........ were bad at their jobs.......... and there was a secret colony of young magical & nonmagical children........ who remember magic... and know the wizards don't want them to...... and are in hiding..........."

Time to avoid all my other social medias cause all the garbage takes I keep seeing from friends about the wizard game is pissing me off. 

Anyway if you bought the new HP game and think that’s a fine thing to support you can fuck right off and unfollow me now. 

death eater remus has so much potential