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Harry realised three things, as the watery fabric pooled to the floor in dark folds:

1. Draco Malfoy was a burlesque dancer now

2. Draco Malfoy was the most dizzyingly attractive person Harry had ever seen, and

3. Draco Malfoy was no longer hiding his scars.

Inspired by GallaPlacidia’s fic Exposure

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#artists

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i couldn't think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle

#this hits home #artists on tumblr #art #fanart

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As you may have heard, Gallaplacidia will be taking down her work from AO3 and the Gallapod. However, she said in her announcement email that saving and sharing her work is fine with her, so I've archived it all here.

Here you'll find:

Epub downloads of all her fics from AO3

MP3s of the entire Gallapod, organized by fic and edited to include all the relevant metadata

If you love her work, I'd highly encourage you to download all of it for yourself. Please let me know if you find any errors in my labeling. Otherwise, enjoy!

Access the archive here.

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Lady Lord and the tramp

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"Miss Delacour, she's as much a fairy princess as I am."

I’ve always found Fleur a very under-appreciated character. Triwizard champion, moves to a different country on her own, stands by her fiancé when he gets hurt. She gets involved in a war that she didn’t have to have a part in. She could have so easily done what was easy, but instead does what is right over and over again.

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on the concept of ‘death of the author’ and JK rowling, by someone with a degree in literature who’s a fan of harry potter

ok, so i’m a fan of harry potter and, in part, that’s the reason why i have a degree in literature today. this series of books was fundamental to my trajectory as a reader, and to my decision of learning english at all. i’m grateful to harry potter and its universe; the friends i’ve made because of this series, and the ideas it’s given me throughout my life; the way it’s fueled my creativity and passion for writing all these years.

that said, i think it’s time to talk about the relationship between a work and its author. what roland barthes meant in his 1967 article was to incite people to abandon a traditional way of interpreting art work which connected a work’s interpretation directly to its author’s biography and intentions. in (perhaps overly) simplified terms, what that meant was that someone who wanted to truly interpret a work of art had to find out what the author had “truly meant” by it, and should dig into that author’s life and experiences to figure that out.

that made the interpretation options very narrow. it didn’t allow people to propose new theories about a piece of writing because there was a “correct” one, and that was the thing to strive for when reading something.

so what barthes advocated for was a reading that took into consideration that a text wasn’t a product of a single person’s ideas, but of centuries of culture that just “came to be” thanks to that author. that meant that a good piece of art (one that was worthy of being read and interpreted) was made of layers and layers of meaning and cultural background. and reading it critically would always be an enriching experience, because there would always be something else to find there.

which takes us back to harry potter, and JKR’s constant adding to the series, even after some of the books have been out for over 20 years.

(i’m choosing not to get into how late stage capitalism plays into this, or else we’d be here forever, but please keep in mind that JKR is the first novel writer to ever become a billionaire; and you don’t make billions just by selling some books people have forgotten about. she’s got several movie franchises, merchandise, games, etc going on, and that’s a big thing in this story, but we’re here to talk about books, so. back to that!)

in my humble opinion, barthes’ proposition makes a lot of sense. it democratises the interpretation of books; it makes them bigger than what their authors intended to do with them. and when you’re talking about harry potter specifically, there are things in the series that did not just appear there because JKR wanted them to, but despite what she wanted.

a third person narrator focused closely on harry tells us all about how attractive he finds men all the time. harry notices and has many opinions about cedric’s, bill’s, charlie’s, draco’s, and even sirius’ looks. it’s all there. and a critical reader may very easily argue that pointing out how attractive a man looks is... something a person who’s attracted to men would do. that’s something the text allows you to do. the literary evidence is all there.

remember the cultural tidbits part, though? that’s over there, too. the money thirsty, morally condemnable race that runs banks just happens to have long hooked noses. i honestly doubt that JKR consciously decided to be anti-semitic in her world. but it slipped. the heinous jewish stereotypes were lurking in the back of her mind and came forward when she was writing, despite what she might’ve wanted to include in her text.

so my point is: we, as a fandom, have already killed the “entity of the author” that is JKR, in a literary sense (legit science over here, btw). we’ve been reading and rereading her work for 20 years and finding out new things to pick apart every day.

what we need to do now is remember that, as critical readers, we are entitled to the opinions we have. we’re entitled to point out the contradictions, the bigotry, and the lack of representation that is a part of this text.

so TL;DR: you’re allowed to enjoy harry potter. you’re entitled to have opinions about it. JKR could have gracefully accepted that her views were a product of the time and the culture she was exposed to, and that her work was not perfect. instead, she chose to pretend to be “woke” to get our money. and now she’s come out as a blatant transphobe.

so fuck her. death to her opinions and her one holy interpretation. we’re all about being plural and inclusive around here. that’s what death of the author is about.

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"get your personalized year in review now"

So, for a moment I thought "well that's very social media, for Tumblr".

*click*....."it looks like you're already logged in"

And then nothing happens.

Oh Tumblr, never change.

#tumblr staff #love this dumpster fire #never change #tumblr #tumblr app

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Harry realised three things, as the watery fabric pooled to the floor in dark folds:

1. Draco Malfoy was a burlesque dancer now

2. Draco Malfoy was the most dizzyingly attractive person Harry had ever seen, and

3. Draco Malfoy was no longer hiding his scars.

Inspired by GallaPlacidia’s fic Exposure

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#artists on tumblr #art #digital painting #harry potter fanart #fanart #draco malfoy #gallaplacidia #digital art #drarry

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Here in town it’s only she who’s as beautiful as me.

Find me on INSTAGRAM

#procreate #beauty and the beast #art #portrait #digital aritst #digital portrait #digital art

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i love listening to my fiancée drawing

“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”

she’s so cute djksfh

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“Homesick”

Good Omens’ Crowley

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Redemption

“Not being able to watch your brothers kill each other isn’t the same as abandoning them.”

Ladyeternal, Against All Odds

Couldn’t choose between the colours version and this one so I’m posting both.

I've been rereading ladyeternal's fics, and they made me want to draw.

If you're here for both smut and incredible storytelling I can't recommend them enough.

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Redemption

“Not being able to watch your brothers kill each other isn’t the same as abandoning them.”

- Ladyeternal, Against All Odds

I've been rereading ladyeternal's fics, and they made me want to draw.

If you're here for both smut and incredible storytelling I can't recommend them enough.

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ATTENTION RESIDENT EVIL ARTISTS

(honestly any artist who makes fanart)

An online shopping website known as Society6 has taken not only my art, but a gigantic collection of artworks from other people and are selling them as prints, clothing, clocks, etc.

I barely scrapped the surface of what was on there, but I know the artworks I did see being sold were originally from tumblr. (I unfortunately can't remember the names of the artists.)

I highly recommend if you've made Resident Evil 8 art at any point to go on this website and see if your work, or someone's work you recognise is on there.

PLEASE BOOST THIS SO PEOPLE CAN BE NOTIFIED

As someone who has never faced something like this before please let me know what I AND OTHERS can do to get their art taken down.

BTW this doesn't just apply to Lady Dimitrescu - there is stolen art for almost every character in the game.

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Work in progress.

Rereading ladyethernal's supernatural fics and it gave me feelings

#ladyethernal #artists on tumblr #art #digital painting #w.i.p art #fanart #digital art #gabriel spn #spn fanart

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How I feel like everytime when I post some art