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I'll just put my unwanted two cents in about the whole Yelena ace/aro discussion, (which is somehow still going on) as someone who is relatively in the middle. (Doesn't read Yelena smutshots but still reads ×readers and original characters with her romantically).

I personally don't see a problem with Yelena (MCU!!) Being with the reader romantically. Because her sexuality is ambiguous in the movies. We don't see her really interested in anyone.

And I think we all know how close MCU characters are to their comic counterparts.

And correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not ace or aro but isn't ace a spectrum itself? Like, some ace people could have sex and have no actual problem with it but others hate even the idea?

My point being that all ace people are different (if MCU Yelena is even confirmed ace.)

So I think for this one you should let the thirsty people slide.

#this and this and this and this #yelena belova is aroace #yelena belova #stop being fucking a phobic #ONE CHARACTER #literally JUST ONE #YELENA BELOVA IS AROACE #STOP ERASING THAT #PLS N THANK U

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just thinking about how katniss never actually got her peace because the one thing she wanted was to keep her sister safe. so yeah kat got kids & a husband & a peaceful life in a meadow but she never got to see her sister grow up, never got to see madge in on of her dresses, never got to see finnick holding his baby... it still astounds me when people try to say that hunger games was a bad series when it is legitimately one of my all time favourites

#the hunger games #hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #madge undersee #finnick odair #prim everdeen #primrose everdeen #mockingjay #katniss and peeta #loss #grief #there is no happy ending here #like seriously katniss did not get her happy ending #she just got a peaceful one

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reread SoC today and i love the gradual way we see jesper fall out of love for kaz and into love with wylan it’s such a sweet thing

#jesper fahey #kaz brekker #wylan van eck #wesper #six of crows #my loves #shadow and bone

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sometimes i forget that jesper was so deeply in love with kaz that he said he had trouble looking at kaz & inej because he knew that kaz would NEVER look at him the same way kaz looked at inej and my heart breaks into a million pieces all over again because unrequited love hurts like a bitch, and all jesper wanted was to be loved and validated

and he never once resented kaz for not being able to give him that love and ow just ouch

#jesper fahey #kaz brekker #jaz hands #kesper #six of crows #inej ghafa #kanej #unrequited pining #no hate to kaz #he did the best he could #but i feel so hard for jes #my baby #thank you wylan #shadow and bone

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one of my absolute favourite things is how before the falcon & the winter soldier was released, there were only about 30-40 pages in the sam wilson/bucky barnes tag on ao3 and NOW THERE ARE TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE

#falconandwintersoldier #sam wilson #bucky barnes #sambucky #otp: home can be a person #fatws episode 6 #fatws icons #this fandom is mad #i’m not mad about it though #sambucky for the win #enemies to frenemies to co workers to best friends to lovers #my fave trope #thank you anthony mackie #thank you sebastian #THE CHEMISTRY

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& also i better not see anyone complain about the ‘collar’ that alina wears because holy shit, for all of the SaB faults, this was not one of them.

i know a lot of people seemed to invision alina’s collar as a ‘necklace’ almost, and i’m SO glad that they didn’t go with that.

the antlers literally sinking into alina’s skin, the way it perfectly shows alina literally being violated in her own body - it was a PERFECT way to show that the darkling is NOT the good guy here, however much he tries to deceive us as viewers. he is vile and cruel, and he truly does not care how much pain alina is in (although we see that change blah blah blah please don’t attack me darkling stans yall are scary). all he wants in this moment is her power, and again this was such a perfect way to put it because it makes you sick to look at it, hurt for alina and just ugh i love

#alina starkov #the darkling #alina x aleksander #aleksander kirigan #darklina #LET’S TALK ALINA’S TRAUMA #THAT NECKLACE PLAY WAS GENIUS #shadow and bone #ben barnes

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MORE SAB/SOC CONTENT GUYS BUT

my thoughts on the kaz situation!!

a lot of people (primarily on tik tok, though i’ve seen a few instagram and twitter pages talk about it) have pointed out how kaz seems almost ‘softer’.

and yes!! let’s talk about it!!!

first off, let’s remember that canonically kaz is about seventeen in SoC, which means hes about fifteen or so during SaB. while hes not completely new to the crime world, hes still younger than how we see him in SoC. I think people are forgetting this because - while Freddie carter is an AMAZING kaz, he looks older than you would picture, which makes us forget how young kaz really is.

if you think that kaz would be just as world weary in SaB as he was in SoC & CK, then here’s my other big thoughts; they HAD to soften kaz up.

in SoC, we see kaz as a badass crime boss, yes, but we also get to empathize with his situation. we see things from his point of view, get to learn about his backstory and how he became what he is; without that inner monologue, there’s a HUGE chance that people would not like him, simply because he would seem much too malicious and cruel.

for people watching the show without reading the books, they need to sympathize with him. so they kept kaz’s general character; a badass teenage(?) crime boss with cruel tendencies and a limp, but they also made him show more humanity; ie (most) of the scenes where he speaks with inej, the scene of him holding milo (my LOVE) or even the scene of him pushing Jesper out of the way and shielding him with his own body.

kaz isn’t the same person he is in the books but that is expectable and understandable, in all honesty, and i think the choices they chose for his character will make much sense in the next seasons.

#kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #milo the goat #shadow and bone #six of crows #freddy carter #crooked kingdom

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i totally understand why people are upset that the darkling’s real name was delivered so early (ep 4) but i honestly think it was a good choice.

in the books, we get to know him more slowly. he manipulated alina which in turn almost manipulates us into believing he’s a good person; we get to see how ‘humane’ he is with alina, and she observes his small gestures of care with a very beautiful subtlety.

in the show, we don’t get that level of intimacy. we see only what they give us, and (especially for people who haven’t read the books) we are still supposed to feel for the darkling (before his true nature is revealed) in which case it was a good choice to give his name, because names can truly be the turn table for a lot of people; it makes them more human.

ir; poor execution, understandable intentions

#the darkling #aleksander kirigan #darklina #alina starkov #alina x aleksander #shadow and bone

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inej calling jesper ‘jes’ is EVERYTHING i wanted. kaz’s incredulous “jes?” and jesper’s “it’s suli for friendship!” and inej shoving him is just. that whole scene was just. LOVE

#shadow and bone #inej ghana #jesper fahey #kaz brekker #six of crows

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Or alternatively top 5 or 10 (you choose) moments in canon that show percy is totally Slytherin. I already asked one so just feel free to just ignore this if you don't want to do it lol

HEY HEY HEY

okay so the first shining Slytherin!Percy moment is in TLT when he’s just heard that Hades may be responsible for his mother’s disappearance-but instead of being intimidated or confused, he immediately wants revenge. That’s his driving force in the first book. Revenge and personal interest-his parents.

SPEAKING OF HIS PARENTS. One of the first things Percy does once on his quest is send a spoil of war up to Olympus for his father and the gods in general to see. He later mentally acknowledges that it was mostly out of a desire to get attention, to show Olympus what Percy Jackson’s got. Sound familiar? A thirst to prove yourself….

Honestly, most of Percy’s kills/defeats bespeak incredible cunning-such as his keeping his head around Procrustes in TLT and manipulating him into a deathtrap using Crusty’s own equipment.

or in SoN, he goads Luke into fighting him and then goes at him verbally and physically until he confesses to poisoning Thalia’s tree, all while activating an Iris message and avoiding dying by Luke’s sword

Percy’s speech to Bob about how he really is an ally and Hyperion was dangerous and needed to be taken care of and how Annabeth subsequently finds him completely unreadable hints at a subtler social manipulation to get Bob to trust him.

When Athena notes that Percy is dangerously loyal, she doesn’t just say that his bleeding heart is a problem. She claims he would let the world burn to save a friend. That’s not Puff loyalty, kids. Slytherins being self-centered doesn’t just mean they only care about themselves. It means they only care about what matters to them. You know who else disregarded old loyalties because all that mattered to them was family? Narcissa Malfoy.

this goes into action multiple times in later books, such as in MoA, when Percy very nearly tries to stop Annabeth going on a crucial solo quest because he hates the idea of being without her, even outright saying something to the effect of, “Screw the world; I don’t want to be without you.”

the Forces of Evil use this against him repeatedly-in TLO he has to put Pandora’s Box/Jar in somebody else’s hands to keep from opening it after seeing his mother asleep in a crashed car.

we don’t think of Percy as a very prideful person, do we? He doesn’t take much pride in his accomplishments, but he does sometimes exhibit a kind of chin-up “I have my dignity” attitude, such as when he very nearly gets himself(and several other people)killed because he didn’t want to say “please” to get Dionysus’ help.

he has a similar proud insolence with other authorities he hates, such as Gabe or Tantalus(see also: GO CHASE A DONUT)

there are probably more, but these are some standouts.

finishing up

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just read KOTLC book 8.5 and. WOW.

i could go about this series for DAYS. this entire collection is fucking incredibly holy

shannon messenger is a goddess amongst us i am. NOT joking. this woman has written a new book for her series once a year. every SINGLE YEAR she writes and releases and does artwork for a new book.

each book is AT LEAST five hundred pages. AT LEAST. i believe her longest one is about 1,500 pages. the one she just released is 800.

her brain is literally so overflowing with ideas that she has to make like. half books. for example, she wrote book 8 last year (Legacy) and then decided she wanted to write a bit of an interlude. so she’s write book 8.5 (Unlocked) which has the ‘files’ of all her characters, main & side, of their backgrounds, abilities, etc. in the same book, she also has twenty+ illustrations, a map of her entire universe, and in depth details about the history of her world, it’s society, it’s government, it’s class standing, etc etc.

THEN, in the SAME book (8.5) she writes a hundred pages worth of where book 8 had finished. so we found out some stuff, whatever whatever, and the theres a HUGE plot twist that no way, no one saw that coming - and she ENDS IT THERE.

but it’s fine. her next book (the actual book 9) comes out next november, 2021, and i just. i’m SO proud. i remember being a little third grader when i found the first book in my school library, and now i’m in high school and just. wow.

not to mention ms shannon is super, super unproblematic. she lets her fans help pick some aspects for her book - ranging from something as insignificant as the color of the pet’s fur, to literally helping choose a storyline. she goes on book tours, too, picks cities all over the place so anyone can make it, and she even holds online tours for places she doesn’t have contacts to do it in real life, like zoom calls for fans in europe. her tickets are cheap, too, and although there hasn’t been any openly lgbt romance in her series, there hasn’t been much romance at all - it’s about a child forced into a war, basically, but somehow makes it almost??? innocent ??? at the same time???

also. she showcases mental health struggles absolutely brilliantly. it’s simple enough for younger kids to understand, but it’s also in depth enough to really understand the pain the characters are going through. unlike a lot of authors, shannon doesnt just give her characters tons of trauma and than ignore the mental issues they would one hundred percent face - instead, she meets them head on. we see her brilliant interpretation of fitz - how his grief was showed in Exile, how he often lets his anger get the best of him. biana’s grief in both exile and when her alvar betrayed her, along with her self consciousness about her scars; in this story, she grows slowly into them, like one actually would in real life, instead of immediately showing them off. dex’s unsteadiness and self worth issues, his anger at the world for the discrimination he faced for something that wasn’t his fault; tam and linh, and their differing views on their past; linh’s grief, her acceptance and understanding of what happened, and tam’s anger, his rage at everyone and everything except for his sister. keefe, who we see struggle with depression, self worth issues, bad coping mechanisms, un (or is it) requited love, a neglectful mother and father at best and abusive at worst. sophie, with her pure, unedited grief at her situation; how scared she often is, something that a lot of authors seem to forget how young people act; her rage at the world, at herself; her ptsd, how she casually checks for exits and flinches when people move too fast; her abandonment issues; the depressive episodes she goes through, how she shuts herself down. it’s all so, incredibly, real and it makes my heart hurt.

she does have loads of poc characters though, and is just generally open and loving in everything. she describes the world as a ‘crumbling utopia’ where everything seems perfect until you look a little bit closer, and the symbolism and foreshadowing she uses for books as late as eight start as early as one.

please, let’s stan shannon messenger and her absolutely insane mind instead of problematic authors like jkr or sarah maas!!!

#keeper of the lost cities #keefe sencen #sophie foster #shannon messenger #author #writing #kotlc unlocked #kotlc iggy #fitz vacker #tam song #linh song #dex diznee #biana vacker #grief #ruewens #vackers #anger #sokeefe

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This moment alone is enough to convince me I need an entire book series focused on Solangelo

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Hotch was out of commission for like 12 hours after being stabbed by Foyet, and in that VERY brief period of time, Spencer managed to get himself SHOT. Absolutely proposterous. It’s like when you’re babysitting a toddler and you set them down for 30 seconds and they start eating crayons

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little ways to change your life:

learn how to write a new style of handwriting. try wearing your hair or makeup differently. find a new perfume you like.

do things for yourself, not for the validation of others. resist the temptation to post everything online.

start doing something you usually can't be bothered to do. like making your bed, folding everything neatly, stretching every hour, going on jogs, making a healthy meal from scratch or sleeping earlier.

make your surroundings as cozy and as pleasing for you to look at as possible.

bake delicious but sometimes deformed pastries. write things that no one "gets". wear clothes and hairstyles that make u happy. crotchet a sock badly. draw a picture that won't be aesthetic on instagram. let go of the perfect image of who you need to be. do things for yourself.

be messy. self-expression isn't always pretty. scribble messily in a notebook. draw messily an idea for a character. write a messy draft for a story.

learn your thing from scratch, whether it's astronomy, greek mythology, flower species, piano, japanese, making jam, drawing comics, or something completely different.

let yourself fully enjoy everyday things like food, commute, and your morning routines. slow down and notice every single thing that makes you feel nice.

appreciate nature, like the sunlight streaming through in the morning, the sound of rain, and the colors of sunsets.

notice the deeper meanings and emotions in songs, poetry and paintings.

let people in. give new loves and friendships a chance. initiate conversations when you want.

read as much as you can. read different genres, popular and unpopular books, classics and new releases. give every book that catches your eye a chance.

enjoy your solitude like you're a character in a movie. if you can, go out for walks alone. visit the park to look at dogs, a café to people-watch, or a library to spend the afternoon buried in a book. bring a journal everywhere with you, and write poetry and quotes and doodles.

collect little things, like vinyls, pretty rocks and shells, stuffed animals, whatever makes you happy.

find a sport you like. pretend you're a superhero. dance like no one's watching. swim like you're a mermaid. exercise is supposed to be fun, so find one that you like.

make self care a priority. this includes taking your meds on time, starting to study for a test after procrastinating for weeks, deleting things that trigger negative emotions, and knowing when to let go and ask for help.

distance yourself from sources of negativity. learn to be ok on your own. know your worth and boundaries.

let go of the past. forgive yourself for the things you regret and start again.

let go of old relationships. there's a difference between missing someone and wanting them back in your life.

let go of your need to be perfect. it does more harm than good.

never compare yourself. it will always feel like a losing battle, no matter how amazing you really are.

keep in touch with people you don't speak to much. even a message can brighten someone's day.

be kind to everyone you meet, even strangers. if someone makes you happy, make them happier. compliment often, and be less judgemental. give someone a smile, you never know how much it means to them.

wake up earlier in the morning. wake up with the sun and fall asleep with the moon.

if you want to be calmer and more productive, remove things on your phone and social media apps that you don't need. (which is most of them).

make a list of qualities in the person you dream of becoming. write about your ideal life with what you have. make goals to be the happiest and healthiest version of yourself.

don't suppress your emotions, but don't overthink them either. have a kinder relationship with your body and your thoughts.

don't be afraid to ask for help, whether it's a teacher, therapist, friend, doctor or parent.

remember that healing and loving yourself is just starting over and over. it's not too late. you're still young and you can move and grow at your own pace. your peak is yet to come.

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hey darlings it’s samhain today so here’s a little fic i wasn’t sure what to do w for the occasion!! mwah sorry for the angst

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when sirius was eleven, he walked up to the hat and requested gryffindor.

“your ambition will be the end of you,” said the hat, but put him into gryffindor anyways.

sirius, while in school, could not figure out what that meant, because he wasn’t particularly ambitious. he supposed he liked pranks well enough, but they weren’t his entire life, and he liked pissing off his parents, but he wasn’t going to make a career out of that either.

it came to him suddenly, and when it did, the world stayed the same.

james potter met sirius black when they were barely eleven and defended him against some snotty greasy boy on the train. james potter didn’t care that sirius was a black, didn’t care that sirius’ family was dark - he didn’t mind that sirius wasn’t all that light either.

see, sirius would lay down his life for just about anyone really. but there were only two people that he would kill for. that he would love until the end of time.

and one of those people were james potter.

when james died, all the bright and happy and good things in the world died with him. sirius was the one to find him first, his james lying spread eagle across the stairs, wand still in the living room. but james looked peaceful there, like he was ready and happy it was finally over, and sirius wanted nothing more than to go to the afterworld and yank that peacefulness away.

lily is upstairs. her usual bright green eyes are cold in death, red hair surrounding her head like a halo. her collarbone is bleeding something awful, and when he pulls down her shirt a little to see - to stop the bleeding, to stop the blood from sinking into her shirt because it was lily’s favorite sleep shirt, one of marlene’s old ones - he finds a rune, a cross between algiz and six he’s never seen before carved into her skin. her blood is sprinkled around the edges of the room and there is a matching rune on harry’s crib.

harry is alive. he is bleeding sluggishly from the forehead, and he is wailing something awful, but he is alive. sirius picks him up, closes lily’s eyes and closes his own when he walks past james. puts harry carefully into his sidecar, and then hagrid is there and sirius trusts him and and and

he is filled with a vengeance so deep there is nothing that could possibly stop him. he think he would kill dumbledore, voldemort, Lady Magick herself if they got in the way, and he goes after peter with reckless abandon-

he is tricked.

it is such a slytherin move, such a slytherin move for little, mousy peter pettigrew that when the aurors find him he is laughing and laughing and laughing and then he is crying.

alastor is there, staring at him with nothing less than absolute disgust. his mentor, his and james’ mentor, thinks sirius killed james, and that just makes him laugh harder.

he is thrown in azkaban without a trial. it’s cold there, and they only give you one meal a day, and the vengeance still burns but not as bright as his grief.

bellatrix, his big cousin bella, takes him under her wing. she’s a little bit mad, and she tortured his friends to insanity, but she knows he didn’t betray the potters and she know he didn’t kill all those muggles and she still loves him. she protects him, with their cells right next to each other, by telling him story after story until her throat goes dry and she can’t speak another word, like they are children again and walburga and druella are screaming and banging on the other side of the door while they hide from their mother’s rage.

“why did you do it, bella?” he asks her one day, when his brain is particularly loud. “why did you kill all those people? those innocents?”

“i didn’t mean too,” she says, and she sounds terribly small. “the dark - it’s seducing, sirius. it pulls you in until you can’t get out.”

the death eaters all come from broken homes, homes where there parents were still together in loveless marriages and their mothers liked to scream and slap and fathers like stone cold silence and quiet crucio’s. the dark arts is a savior, a winning, something to help them get away from suffocating under the stress of it all.

it doesn’t help, sirius thinks, that muggle studies is so behind. sirius thinks a lot in azkaban and he thinks that muggle studies class should be mandatory, because most of the death eaters are convinced muggles are still burning witches and wizards at the stake.

“will you kill him?” asks bella another day. “the man who betrayed you, and cousin james?”

sirius thinks of all the people he killed during the war. he thinks about the small part of him that thought it had been fun, literally ripping out spines and burning them from the inside out and back again. he had insisted it was for justice, justice for marlene and dorcas and mary and gideon and fabian and benjy, but now he isn’t so sure.

“yes,” he says. “i will.”

when the ten year mark hits, bella screams in her cell, screams and screams and slowly the rest of prison fills with it too. the next day, in the courtyard, she shows him her arm, the tattoo that was almost faded and now is turning black again.

“he’s coming,” she says, but she does not sound happy. she sounds tired.

“promise me something,” she says later that night. “promise me, when we get out of here, because you know we all will - promise me you’ll aim to kill. i can’t keep going on mad, killing people just for their blood.”

he stares at her, his cousin bella. he remembers when they were just kids, reading in the library and skating on ice in bella’s back yard in the winter, and then later, in hogwarts, when he would find her cursing muggle-borns and half bloods and blood traitors alike. he didn’t recognize her then but he recognizes her now, as his scared, tired big cousin, more like his mum than his mum ever was.

“i promise,” he says. “now promise me the same.”

“you have a godson,” she says. “you must protect him.”

“promise me,” he insists.

she does.

the day before he escapes, he hugs her tight in the courtyard. she hugs him back, hands shaking, and when he sneaks out in dog form she gives him a shaky nod.

the ambition to protect james failed, so now he will do so with harry. the last potter.

harry flies like his dad, maybe even more, with completely recklessness and only the smallest amount of control. harry throws witty comments at draco malfoy and winks at cho chang in the air and all sirius can see is james.

“he’s a werewolf!” hermione granger explodes, pointing to remus, and sirius thinks he is the only one who sees harry’s look of yeah, obviously.

(later, harry will confide in sirius that he figured it out the moment he saw remus’ boggart.)

“i don’t think my dad would’ve wanted his best mates to become murderers, thanks,” says harry, still sarcastic and still so james even as he protects the man who made him an orphan.

sirius does not have the heart to tell him he already is one, and apparently neither does remus, but they back down anyways.

sirius thinks the next two years pass in a blue he barely remembers. he went to the caribbean for a little while, ate good until he was almost healthy and glowed with a light tan. he went back to dreary Scotland because harry was being hunted, again, and he remembers, distantly, living in a cave, watching harry in dog form as he slammed into the ground, a dead boy held tight in his hands.

dumbledore sends him right back to the dursley’s, and sirius wants to kill him. harry does not get grief counseling, or therapy, or to be surrounded by people he loves, because he is harry potter and it is not easy, being him.

sirius moves back into his old, childhood home, and stares at the spot on the living room floor where he had been tortured before he ran away. he throws up in the bathroom where he and bella used to hide.

he cleans the drawing room, where he and andi used to stare at the inter crossing lines, andi promising “i won’t be on there one day, just you wait.” he cleans the kitchen, where he and cissa used to flurry around with kreacher, throwing flour and sugar at each other while they attempted to make cookies.

he walks through the halls, where he and regulus used to chase eachother, to the stairs, where he used to slide down the curling banister, to the cell, where he used to get locked up.

harry comes to grimmauld and he yells at his friends - rightfully so - and then yells some more at dinner, and then he cries. he cries in the living room, in his bedroom, in the kitchen, in the drawing room, on the staircase. he cries when sirius hugs him and he cries when remus pats his shoulder and he cries and he cries and he cries and sirius just has to sit there and listen, because he can do nothing else.

it is quiet when harry leaves for school. sirius drinks a lot of firewhiskey and smokes a lot of hidden cigarettes and it is lonely even after harry comes back for yule time because then he leaves again.

hermione writes him a letter and says harry doesn’t cry anymore. now he’s angry all the time, at dumbledore for ignoring him and cedric for dying and his friends for not understanding and his parents for killing themselves so he could live, at himself for living-

on june eighteenth, sirius wakes up for the last time. he brushes his teeth and uses whiskey as mouth wash for the last time, eats blueberry pancakes for the last time, pets buckbeak and kisses remus for the last time and-

he hugs harry for the last time. there is a voice whispering in his head that he knows it is today, today he will finally rest, so he hugs his godson extra tight.

bella is there. she looks insane, with her hair spiked up and eyes bright, but when she looks at him her smile softens a little bit.

“you promised,” she mouths.

“so did you,” he says back, and they duel.

she doesn’t want to kill him. she hits him with a stupefy, but the veil is just behind him, and he falls through it.

harry is screaming bloody murder, heartbroken and pleading, and wrestles with remus who is trying to hold him back. it’s like the whole world stopped, and bella is looking at him, meets his eyes one last time, and says loudly, clearly, “i promise.”

he says thank you, i forgive you, i love you, with his eyes, and then he falls faster and lands hard on the ground.

“blimey, mate,” says a voice. “you really are clumsy, even when you’re dead.”

james potter grabs his hand and pulls him up, regulus holding his shoulder, and sirius begins to cry.

#lily evans #pro sirius black #sirius black #james potter #little wolfstar #like minor minor mention #harry potter #sad sirius #grief #peter pettigrew #bellatrix lestrange #regulus black #ootp #james and sirius #my loves #the wizarding war #the war

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i know dumbledore has a lot of flaws. like a LOT. but one of the very, very big ones i cannot get over is his silent prejudice.

sirius black was sorted in gryffindor, the first black to do so in, like, ever. sirius black became best friends with james potter, a part of one of the most openly Light families; peter pettigrew, a half blood who really just followed him around, and remus lupin, a half blood werewolf. sirius black played pranks on the school and became an animagus when he found out remus was a werewolf instead of abandoning him. sirius black was kicked out and disowned when he was 16- he lived with james potter and his parents.

sirius black and james potter were ‘thicker than thieves, closer than brothers’. they lived together for most summers even before sirius was kicked out and were joined at the hip, even after james and lily got married. sirius black was a hit wizard who killed death eaters, he was the godfather to james potter’s and lily evans - a muggleborn- son.

and albus dumbledore did not give him a trial.

dumbledore gave snape a trial and then a position as potions master at one of the best magical schools in the world, despite the fact that snape had literally been a death eater for YEARS, something he CHOSE to do, before he turned. for Lady’s sake, bellatrix and the lestrange brothers got a trial.

the thing is, if sirius had had a different last name, one more associated with the Light - perhaps if he were called Mckinnon, or Meadowes, or Longbottom, or even Potter - than dumbledore would have helped him.

but albus dumbledore had never been able to look past sirius black’s last name.

#pro sirius black #sirius black #james potter #lily evans #harry james potter #frank longbottom #marlene mckinnon #dorcas meadowes #auror #wizarding war #albus dumbledore #i hate dumbledore #sorry not sorry #severus snape #severus snape was an arse #anti snape #anti dumbledore #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #werewolf

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I don’t even know who you are. You will.

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