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give me walburga who really thought she was gentle parenting. that she was breaking the cycle of abuse because she doesnt force them into engagements with their cousins when theyre six, and she spends time with them when theyre young instead of letting the nannies raise them until theyre ready for polite company, and she buys them toys and ice cream, and she keeps orion away from the kids when hes angry, who tries to give sirius a better childhood than she had. whos angry at sirius for leaving because why cant he just be grateful, why cant he understand how much better he had it!!

#walburga black #oh the nuance........ #<— prev tags

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Please….Please save me from the regulus discourse I keep seeing…i saw 7 posts about it in succession…he doesn’t deserve this…I need…regulus headcanons…

JUICY HEADCANONS HERE WE GO.

tagging @rizzulusarcturizz @villain-crown @ilovefanfics @arcturusblackregulus and @queerregulusablack because i love them.

regulus smokes his first cigarette in his brother's room, taken from a pack sirius left behind. he keeps the pack even after he's smoked all of what's inside, because that's where he puts all his little notes for sirius.

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sirius likes to tell regulus that he loved regulus before he was ever born, and little regulus would always laugh at that. he tells his big brother to stop being silly, and sirius plays at being offended. "i'm not being silly! it's true! i was waiting for you all along!"

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pre-hogwarts regulus and sirius once fought over regulus fussing over kreacher. sirius was looking for regulus only to find him trying to convince kreacher to let him wrap his injured finger with his handkerchief.

Sirius calls regulus out in annoyance because he didn't want his brother touching the elf, he was uneasy around them and he didn't think it was regulus' role to care for beings meant to serve them (as they've heard their entire lives). but regulus wouldn't budge. he grips on to Kreacher's hand tighter while glaring at sirius. the shock at regulus' ire turns into petty rage and jealousy, as the poor elf keeps telling regulus that it was okay, mumbling out a dozen other protests about how master regulus didn't need to lower himself and— and— this makes sirius angrier. so much so that he ends up yelling at kreacher to shut up. which in turn makes regulus scream at sirius to go away.

and so sirius does, angrily, hurt, and feeling slightly betrayed. so unused to regulus... fighting him. "Stupid little brothers," he says to himself. "See if I ever play with him again!"

Sirius was still by himself, thinking of turning regulus away when his brother inevitably came to his room later at night, to sleep in his bed, when he hears his brother's wailing cries. this puts a primal fear into his being that far overshadows whatever childish anger he was clinging to. he runs down the stairs to see what's happened. and there, he sees his brother, clutching at his cheek and cowering from the tall figure of his mother looming over him, wand drawn.

regulus was caught with kreacher.

for once in his (relatively young) life, sirius is frozen. he doesn't know what to do. this isn't a broken vase he can say he broke. this wasn't something he could say regulus did for him. the act of nursing an injured elf was so clearly an action belonging to regulus. only regulus would do this.

he looks at their mother and sees the disgust and disappointment lining her features. regulus was her perfect boy.

and her perfect boy had wrapped his handkerchief, with the black family coat of arms embroidered right at the center, and used it to bandage an elf's bleeding finger. his mother is incandescent.

sirius is too slow, too short, to reach his brother as walburga reaches to shake his brother with a frightening vigor that has regulus crying out in alarm.

"Don't you ever do that again, you hear me?" his mother shouts over regulus' panicked cries. At sirius' shout of alarm, she lets regulus go with a harsh shove and makes her way to him.

"You should've taught him better! What use are you to the family if you can't look after your brother?" she yells at him. she prods at his chest, making sure her nails dig in painfully, "This is your fault, you foolish child." Sirius can't even muster the rage he so usually feels at his mother, yet again, finding ways to blame him. At least she's let regulus go.

When, after their mother has left, sirius gathers his little brother into his arms and shushes him, rubbing his back best as he can. they're both reeling. regulus at being punished for what he thought was right, unused to being the recipient of their mother's anger. and sirius for not being able to do anything, to help him — replaying the way his limbs froze, his mind unable to think of something quick to say or do.

he wants to punish kreacher for his brother's tears.

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regulus is top of his class in potions. really, it's him and severus that become the talk of the school. prodigies. Slughorn's two favorite students and the topic of most his open bragging. a lot of students remark on them being fortunately in separate years, avoiding the cutthroat competition that would've been for the top spot. they don't necessarily like each other, but the respect is there.

regulus expected to receive the brunt of severus' anger regarding his brother. he tells him this as they end up in the same library aisle, discussing which potions book had better methodology. and the older scoffs.

"It's sad how you keep wanting to be like your brother."

and the statement stings. he idolizes his brother.

"Get over yourself, Black. It's a compliment. You're not your brother and you've already made a name for yourself."

oh...

"Never talk to me about this again. I don't hate you but we're not friends."

After finishing 6th year, Severus gives him his potions book.

"Here, see if you can do better than me. Use it and let me know how it turns out." he stops before he walks away, "Or not. I'll probably hear about it from the professors."

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something something regulus asking to apprentice under madame pomfrey. regulus slowly gains her trust and respect. eventually, she lets him help with remus, after he comes to her telling her how he knows, and how remus knows that he knows.

"I mean... Moony? Really?" he asks incredulously. He shoves his wand harshly under Remus' throat, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

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Regulus tells Sirius to leave. He'll follow but not in the near future.

"Come on, Sirius. I'll survive without you. But you won't with me." "That's not true! Together or not at all, remember? We promised. I promised." "What, you think I'm not brave enough? Too soft to ever completely leave the family behind? That I'll lose myself to them?" "No, I think you've always been brave. Too brave. You don't have to be brave for them and not this way. Can't you see Reggie? This way's fucked up. We can just leave!" "It's... It's not that bad Sirius. Or at least it never was for me. I can be strong for the both of us and I want to — just promise you won't go where I can't follow." "As if. What do you want me to tell moony, you little shit?" "That I love him." "This hurts you know? This entire conversation has been one big pain in the ass, and it's going to be for a long while. Man, fuck you. Honestly. I can't blame you, but this hurts, just so you know." "I know. I love you." "...I know."

#sasha ily!!! #the black brothers #moonwater #moonseeker #regulus black #sirius black #only a+ takes from my wife as usual

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oracle, ban this guy

(some shitpost while i work on that bernard comic)

#timbern #timber #tim drake #bernard dowd

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thinking about him (cal kestis and his severe ptsd) xoxo

#cal kestis #jedi fallen order #jedi survivor #star wars

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Sasha, babe, come back to bed our daughter wants cuddles

'Why are you fighting with Sasha about who knows Regulus better surely that's silly' well you see A) I am silly and 2) bored.

#sasha ily!!! #cait tag #although to be fair sasha unfollowed me TWICE today so she might be divorcing me

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tuesday snippet ☆

tyy for the tag @themuseoftheviolets!!!

when pandora and lily started to walking around the grounds together, everybody thought it would be sweet, girlish and innocent, all daisies and wingardium leviosa and soft sighs. but before long you never see pandora without lily or evan by her side supporting her, her arm draped over their shoulder because she's dizzy from the visions and the herbs and the whirlwind futurepastpresent whispers. lily’s fingers are getting shaky from crumbling under the pressure and she’s smoking so often that she practically a matchstick, her fiery red hair turning auburn from the roots as she slowly burns herself away. pandora’s blurring between the future and the past and the present and she can’t look at regulus anymore, he looks too much like a little boy crying for his brother, 18 years old (he’s sixteen, pandora thinks, but who knows) and drowning in the lake, crying for his brother as water fills his mouth. is that the lake or is that his tears? pandora doesn't know. what she does know is that yesterday lily fell asleep with a lit cigarette in her mouth, her head lolling back in the library chair. she didn't wake up until marlene casted rennervate on her. lily swore up and down she was fine. pandora’s hands have a perpetual tremor and her eyes are an even lighter blue from going milk white so often. the girls breathe smoke and ink fumes, standing over a cauldron that threatens to explode in the abandoned girls' loo.

no pressure tags: @orbitfalls @rizzulusarcturizz @carniferous @theicarusconstellation and anyone who wants to!!! (sorry if you've already been tagged idk who has)

#rose this is fucking evil i love it #pandalily #pandora lovegood #lily evans

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"You can portray bad things in fiction if it's done in a negative light!"

maybe this is just me, but the author shouldn't have to hold your hand & tell you explicitly that what's happening in the story is bad.

Sometimes, the narration of the story portrays it as good, or "romanticizes" it because the character narrating is a terrible person. That doesn't mean the author condones it, it means the *character* thinks it's okay!

You should have enough critical thinking skills & media literacy to reach that conclusion on your own, and if you don't, I recommend Disney Junior for your viewing pleasure, rather than adult content.

Don't worry, they'll tell you exactly the lesson they want you to learn over there, in painfully explicit detail.

That might be more your speed.

#fandom stuff

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#regulus black

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I know you have several time travel AUs already but consider: the last (4) Jedi wind up in the Clone Wars era.

Only one of them is an actual Jedi, half of them are romantically involved with someone (maybe even with each other if you ship skybridger), another half are extremely close with one or more Mandalorians, and none of them have had more than two years of training. And somehow THEYRE the only ones left.

The council would have a conniption.

i have a LOT of thoughts about this au but as always, gotta start with the silly

(commission info // kofi support!)

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At some point, Tim has a day off. He decides to spend part of that day in the skatepark, so he puts on his baggy T shirts over long sleeves and loose jeans, ties his battered trainers, grabs his skateboard and heads off.

Part way through, a bunch of media (or similar) students turn up, asking interviews and doing recordings for their assignment. They spot Tim, (unrecognisable in his personal clothes, rather than work suits) and call him over, both getting permission to record a few stunts (after he realises they have no idea who he is- it'll be funny if they later realise) and answering a couple of their assignment questions (based on Gotham ig) . Amusingly, 1 of the questions is wether he's skipping to be at the skatepark, which he response is that he's actually a drop out, but he used to skip for the skatepark, after working a bunch of internships at di/we for a while, he ended up working there full time.

Anyways it ends up on the Internet, as videos of cool skaters do, and people recognise him and it blows up- because Tim Wayne??? Not I'm business suits, spotted in camera??? Its uncommon. + I feel like the media would often forget that Tim was a high-school drop out if they're not complaining abt it. Also, who knew he was so good with a skateboard? (Everyone who actually knew Tim drake, is the answer)

#tim drake

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sum domestic jegulus ☕️☀️

#jegulus #regulus black #james potter

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( bruce: i left you here as my conscience, tim. you were supposed to handle any problems. )

bruce that is a 14 year old that you left in charge of an adult man with a history of violence. just because it worked for you doesn’t mean it’ll work for jean-paul

#tim drake #dick grayson

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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I apologize to Dan and Phil for any offhand comments I’ve made criticizing the amount of sponsorships you do please never pull a Watcher

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#jason todd #we’re both going to jail fuck