Pandora, my eerie princess

I hope you all will like my interpretation of her and I’ll try to draw her more often

Also I feel like Pandora has a similar vibe to Kate bush and the hc that she’s a seer speaks so much to me. I envision her witnessing the events unfolding around her and expressing them through song, unable to directly warn others.

I may have missed Father’s Day by a mile, but it’s never too late to appreciate @metalomagnetic’s Voldemort and his questionable parenting skills!

i can't decide which i like more:

the idea - very much canonical and in the author's original concept and view of magic - of the dark arts taking a toll on one's exterior and looks. tom riddle sacrificing his beauty willingly in the name of eternal life, black magic as something that innately corrupts. bellatrix escaping from azkaban with the barest vestiges of her ancient beauty. going from one of the most beautiful women in england to a shell of her former self and no amount of dark magic being able to fix it. and she just. doesn't care. goes from pretty, proud and vain in her youth, to the feverish, fanatical glow harry sees in the department if mysteries. finally she sheds the petal of the rose - look like the innocent flower, her master had once said - and only the thorns remain. the parallel with voldemort himself. the idea that they like each other better now, the only ones to like their respective new appearances better. bellatrix because she can taste the power radiating off him, because she knows how resentful he was of his old face. (oh, he's never said anything explicitly, he would rather be flayed alive than speak of his filthy muggle father to her, but she knew he didn't like himself, took no pride in his aesthetics, it was most unusual, really.) the dark lord because he's reminded of her sacrifice - she was the only one who didn't denounce him, who tried to find him - every time he looks at her. she gave up everything for him: her reputation, her family, her freedom, her health, her beauty, her youth.

or.

the horcruxes are an isolated case. not all prices to pay for power are physical. some dark magic sucks at your humanity, your emotional regulation, your empathy and gives back superficial little gifts. its roots are far from the deep anger, desperation to cling to life of an horcrux. these are ancient witches' remedies to be the most envied in the village. the idea that rotten cores hide behind the prettiest faces. and bellatrix was always vain, always took immense pride in her beauty, her black, pure features. when she escapes from azkaban she tries everything in her power to be herself once again. she still drips with obsession but gradually regains all of her beauty too. cruel people can still be beautiful. gorgeous people can still be inhuman. and yet there is something so human about a woman making her way through the ranks of a very militarised group and still caring so much about what she looks like, still having insecurities, being preoccupied with mundane things like age and decay - and hating it because he would hate it, he hates weakness, and still not being able to help herself. the dark lord was always a collector of shiny things, was he not?

A Very Potter Musical Sketches

who else found AVPM and fell in love with it? especially the slytherins?

Where can I put it down?

8/8 chapters | 8.5k words | very minor quillkiller

Dear Bella….

eight letters to bellatrix, from various people at various times in her life, none of which she ever received

I would like to lock them all in a room together and see what happens

okay so i'm doing a og gossip girl inspired jegulus fic it's not in anyway a 1x1 (like reg and sirius are both serena and blair pretty interchangeably)

BUT

i do want a solid Georgina Sparks character so do i give that part to Barty or Bellatix

OR

do i let Barty be a Chuck Bass variant

bellatrix: thanks voldemort: for what? bellatrix: making me a mum when i thought i only had cool aunt energy

bellatrix black, modern au

”Regarding incarceration, she believes she has been a prisoner since she has been a daughter.”

pandora and her ability to predict and know about her friends' romantic feelings from someone before they know it

Lucius: You’ll pay for this!

Bellatrix: Put it on my tab

Sometimes I wish I was a filmmaker, so I could have the Black sisters, on a road trip, listening to Beautiful, Dirty, Rich by Lady Gaga, without it just being italicised lyrics on a page...

the first ever holiday the pantheon spent together was at the falt of dorcas's family. it was super small and cozy

Some fic offerings that I wrote for Fic in a Box:

Hic Sunt Leones: A Brothers’ Guide to Life, Love, and and the Latvian Long-Snout (Bill & Charlie & Percy, background Percy/Oliver | Teen)

Percy doesn’t know how to do romance, Bill thinks he can help – and Charlie’s just enjoying the ride. A series of letters between the older Weasley brothers, set after the Second Wizarding War.

& home & home & home (or, a time loop) (Sirius/Remus | Teen)

After Sirius falls through the veiled arch in the Department of Mysteries, he finds himself back in 1981. A time loop fix-it, of sorts.

thorns, in amber (Sirius/Lily | Explicit)

They both love James more than anyone else in the world; they would do anything for him. Or: Lily and Sirius have an affair.

M is for Midnight (Regulus & Narcissa, Regulus & Sirius | Teen)

Regulus lives – except it turns out that living is the hardest part.

Dirty Is The Hand That Strikes The Pure (Sirius/Bellatrix | Explicit)

Sirius and Bellatrix are born promised to each other. A short tragedy in three acts.

I was watching the half blood prince and the marauders hyperfixation hit a little too hard. just finished a 20 minute rant about the physical and psychological torture Bellatrix and the rest of the Black family most likely experienced to push them to the point of insanity Bella presents in the books and movies.

Draco and Blacks were essentially Raised in a cult, or very toxic religion (the death eaters who view voldemort as the lord or maybe even savior) because they were raised by generations of blood purists. Bella Draco and Narcissa and Sirius all have different experiences with their escape or lack thereof. Bella played the game, she embraced it and it consumed her. Narcissa played the game but never fully committed because she wanted out. Draco was forced into it by his father and it consumed him, until he was saved by Harry and Narcissa. Sirius escaped via the Potters and healed from it (partially). I also think it’s interesting how Narcissa attempted to end the generational trauma but failed and in the end Draco was the real end to the Black family trauma. (Sirius was too but he didn’t have kids and also he died so that’s less interesting)

Also Draco gets entirely too much hate (at least from the people i know in person because i really only discuss Marauders era stuff online and not Harry Potter stuff) and people seem to forget he was 16 when he was admitted into the death eaters. He made terrible choices and did bad things but he was a child who was literally raised to do so. He didn’t really have a choice, and even though he had very little control over his own life he still didn’t kill dumbledore and he wasn’t going to which was confirmed in a conversation between Harmonie and Harry which goes roughly as follows

“do you think he would have done it?”

“no, he was lowering his wand. In the end it was Snape. It was always Snape.”

And keep in mind that’s not just wishful thinking Harry hated Draco at the time he would not have defended him.

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