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The Fandom Effect

The Fandom Effect: a piece of information about Harry Potter that everyone thinks it’s canon after tons of fanfictions/fanarts but when they read the books again it’s actually not.

What are the best examples?

Lucius Malfoy does NOT have long hair *le gasp*

Ooooohoooohoohoho yes let’s talk about this.

– Remus never canonically had scars on his face.

– Daphne Greengrass doesn’t actually get a single line in the series let alone the personality of being the ‘ice queen’.

– SIRIUS BLACK NEVER ONCE DATED A FEMALE PERSON, OR ANY PERSON. Yes, there were several girls giggling as they watched the Marauders but I have absolutely no idea where the characterization of Sirius being a ladies’ man even came from. Or a guys’ man. Or anyone’s man.

– Remus wasn’t as smart as James and Sirius. He admits right in the Shrieking Shack that James and Sirius were smarter than he was when it came to the inventions/becoming Animagi so the characterization of Remus getting all As in his classes as the other Marauders scraped by is wrong.

– Regulus Black could have actually been an asshole. Like the fandom came together in this wonderful agreement that he was going to be this innocent kid, too afraid of his parents’ abuse, and that Sirius protected him up until the point he ran away, at which point Regulus faced the abuse alone and was forced into becoming a Death Eater because nobody else was around to protect him. I love that characterization with a heart and there’s nothing disproving it but there’s also nothing proving it. Reg could have been a complete asshole who wanted to kill Muggles before he realized the error of his ways.

– Lily wasn’t a fusion of Hermione and Ginny

– Bellatrix was ten years older than Sirius

– Luna was odd but not a complete hippie who smoked one too many, she said plenty of things that made sense, she also never talked in riddles??? Not sure where that characterization came from

– The House of Potter was never a Noble and Most Ancient House. James and Lily were only rich because of Fleamont’s hair potion. I love Powerful!Harry fics to death but the Potters were not part of the Sacred 28.

– And as far as fanart goes, don’t even get me started on Lily’s hair being shoulder-length, Ginny have orange hair like the rest of the Weasleys, Petunia being blonde, Neville being blonde, Luna having dirty-blonde hair, Harry being incredibly thin due to the abuse, Ron having scars on his arms due to the brains, Hermione only getting the Mudblood scar in the movies, Bellatrix looking identical to Andromeda which means sheprobably didn’t have the crazy Bride of Frankenstein hair, Voldemort having red eyes, Ron being tall, etc.

– draco Malfoy isn’t ‘just behind hermione’ in classes. All we know was fact is he’s not as smart as her.

– Hermione never calls Ron Ronald

-Ron isn’t dumb as a rock. He doesn’t only pass his classes because Hermione fixes his work for him. He scores nearly the same on his OWL exams as Harry does, passes the same number of OWLs as Harry, and had no help during those exams because *they’re ministry administered examinations*.

-Pettigrew isn’t basically a squib. He’s a strong and intelligent enough wizard to become an animagus at 15. Whether he had help or not doesn’t matter, he still completed the transformation, which no one can do for him. He also isn’t dumb as a rock. He successfully played traitor/spy in the first Voldemort war without being caught, then pulled off faking his death while framing another wizard, and managed to keep up the pretense for 12 years. He found wraith-voldemort on his own, and cared for the baby-homunculous for a year, alone. He also completed the rebirth ritual, with guidance from voldemort for the prep, most likely, but the actual ritual was all him.

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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fvckyouimaprophet:

ginny/luna muggle au.

luna owns a bakery ginny stumbles upon one day. luna and ginny strike up a conversation, and luna draws an adorable little drawing on her paper cup, so ginny starts going there even though it’s horribly out of her way. like one whole town over out of the way. first it’s once a week, then twice, then soon she’s making any excuse she can. and to be fair, luna does make the best macrons – these white chocolate passion fruit ones – that ginny has ever had.

they become fast friends, but for some reason never really make plans to hang out. eventually ginny confesses that she’s been going out of her way this entire time, and soon after, she comes to the bakery to find a sign on the door that says that it’s closed down.

she despairs and tries to find luna on social media and fails. the facebook page for the bakery hasn’t been updated in over a year. ginny falls into this deep despair when she realizes that she doesn’t know how to get in touch with this girl, and dammit, she might have feelings for her.

because luna is a whole town over, no one knows her, and ginny is about to lose hope when sees luna setting up a new bakery in ginny’s town. and luna says that she didn’t want ginny having to travel all that way to see her, and ginny realizes that luna returns the feelings, and of course they date and end up happily ever after. the end.

send me a made-up fic title and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it

Awww….

ronandhappiness:

I don’t know why people say that reading Goblet of Fire is painful, because of the Ron/Harry fight. The “Harry misses his Wheezy and everything he does reminds him of his Wheezy” and “Harry and Hermione don’t get along so nicely without Ron” stuff makes me so happy. It basically proves my point that Ronarry > H*rmione. Hell, Ronarry > anything else.

theelderswear:

daughter-of-zeus007:

cheeseanonioncrisps:

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theelderswear:

The Mirror of Erised

So at this point it’s sort of common knowledge that ‘erised’ is just ‘desire’ backwards.

I just had a really painful thought of, what if the other side of the mirror is just a glimpse into an alternate universe? And so when Ron looks into the mirror and sees himself as Head Boy and Quidditch Captain, a Ron who is both in another universe is looking into the mirror and seeing himself as just a regular kid.

And when Harry looks into the mirror and sees his parents(and family, if it’s the books), his parents(and family) are looking into the mirror in another universe, seeing their son Harry, who died before they could see him grow up.

Just a thought.

Crying…

I’ve always liked the Mirror of Erised scene, because it basically establishes Harry and Ron as alternate universe versions of each other. They both like Quidditch, they both have tempers, they both regularly put themselves in harms way to defend others, and in the Mirror, they each see what the other one has.

Ron, who has a large family and has spent his entire life being overshadowed by them, sees himself standing alone and being lauded for his acheivements.

Harry, who has all the fame he could need and is already talented enough to have been made the youngest seeker in a century, but has never had any family worth the name, sees himself surrounded by scores of loving relatives.

Essentially, Ron is what Harry would probably have turned out like if Lily and James had lived. (And before you say that Harry wouldn’t have had any older siblings to live up to— though he might well have had younger ones— stop for a minute and imagine starting first year with the reputation of the Marauders hanging over you.)

Ron is Harry’s Mirror of Erised.

But what if the mirror of Erised is a mirror into another reality. So in Harry Potter’s universe it shows you what you most desire, right?

So let’s say that what you see in the mirror exists in another universe. What if the mirror of Erised is there as well and they can look into the original universe.

What if the other side of the mirror looks at it and in their universe they look upon their greatest fear.

So while George looks into the mirror and sees his brother. Other universe George looks into the mirror and sees himself alone.

Harry looks into the mirror and sees his family, other Harry looks into the mirror and sees himself an orphan.

And so on and so forth…

I love it when people contribute honesrtly 10/10 tumblr y’all are the real mvp’s.

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harmonicakind:

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.

I love this post.

Feels

I believe the artist is Katy Doughty.

Here’s a link to Katy’s tumblr!

i didn’t know this. how is rowing blanchard biphobic? and how is emma watson slut shaming?

chimeraculous:

So, Rowan Blanchard liked some really biphobic tweets that I’ll post screenshots below. I’ve also heard she liked a tweet asking how to say fag in Italian, but I looked at her likes for 5 or 10 minutes and didn’t see it. That’s not saying she didn’t, I just can’t find it. I also remember her tweeting an ‘apology’ that was basically ‘I’m queer, so I can’t be wrong about this’ but, again, I don’t have screenshots of it, so if you want to take my word for it, you can, but if you don’t, then don’t.

Emma Watson has worn several revealing outfits, which isn’t bad at all, if she hadn’t shamed people for the same thing previously and never apologized.

Here are the screenshots about both:

I’m not saying people shouldn’t like them, and both have done good things, but I just don’t think they’re pillars of good feminism, ya know?

Thoughts, everyone? Please keep things calm; I don’t want to inadvertently start a comment war over here.

hillnerd:

moriartystayingalive:

drarry:

bigbadpandabear:

shady-brain-farm:

drarry:

Straight up nobody hugged Harry Potter from the ages of 2-11 can we discuss this

Nobody hugged Severus Snape from the ages of 0 to 38, just saying.

Nobody hugged Severus Snape probably because if someone shows Severus Snape kindness he becomes insanely obsessed with them and refuses to leave them alone and calls them racial slurs when they express that they want to be left alone and will one day walk over their husband’s dead body and cradle their lifeless form in his arms while the baby screams

Go OFF

S L A Y

@bigbadpandabear- YOU. I LIKE YOU.

Also, to the snape fan-

We don’t know crap about Severus’s mom. He was keen to use her name and in the summers lives in his childhood home in his thirties. His mum might very well have hugged him.

Let’s not bring that ‘woe is Snape’ headcanon up in here when we’re talking about Harry’s documented trauma.

Also- You telling me Lily never hugged Snape when they were younger? Those two were best friends for like 7 years. She was known as being warm and kind. Even for repressed brits (no offense my luvies) no hugs between good childhood friends? Even one sided? Naw.

And how did he repay her friendship? Called her slurs, joined a cult hellbent on killing people just like her, got her and her husband killed, then was emotionally and physically abusive to her child for years…..Like… nooooo

This is why I still believe that snape is:

None taken, @hillnerd; although British women were far less repressed than British men were at that time.