#Void Screaming™

[act-more-like-a-dog-sirius]

HP Rants: Things Fandom Gets WRONG

Remus Lupin’s Scars

Or more accurately, his lack of them

Alright kiddos I got a salty HP take and y’all are not gonna like it.

It is basically universal in any fandom depiction of Remus Lupin, whether in fic or art, that he has extensive facial scarring. this is another one of the movies-making-people-think-things-are-canon-that-really-aren’t-canon. the movies are shit. the movies lie. also.

it’s not physically possible.

y’all really never seen the anatomy of a wolf or even a dog?? they? can’t? physically? scratch? their? faces? unless? they? sit? down? on? their? bums? and? twist? around? all? awkwardly? to? use? their? hind? leg? but? even if that was what a rabid werewolf would do… that position/angle would in no way generate enough force to create actual cuts.

and like. most importantly, if Remus was covered in scars, don’t you think harry would have, i don’t know, mentioned/noticed/referred to it at least once??? kid’s visually observant (look I’m not talking emotionally, my man can be fucking clueless, but he paid attention to visual details) he always noticed people’s physical features and appearances. and the only visual/physical attributes ever associated with Lupin were ‘prematurely lined/aged face,’ and ‘[prematurely] graying hair’ ‘shabby’ [‘had an air of shabbiness about him’] he was often ‘worn’/‘wan’ ‘drawn’ [‘thin face’] and ‘tired’ or ‘pale’ and ‘ill-looking’ but never, not. one. singe. time. was he ever noted as having any scars.

NOT A SINGLE FUCKING TIME.

and harry notices those kinds of things. read any book 7 description of Bill. read any description ever of Moody. if remus had scars that could be seen, harry would have said so.

also, if he was so extensively scarred as fanon just looves to make him be, by the time we meet him in canon, he would have been through over 28 years worth of transformations (a very minimum of 336, with the 144 most recent being without the marauders to keep him from hurting himself as a wolf). and most likely he didn’t have ready access to the Wolf’s Bane potion as he was not actually able to brew it for himself—which he fucking said flat out. so. yeah. he would have been even more scarred than mad-eye moody if the whole transformations ==> facial scars thing was true.

This is the actual canon description of Remus John Lupin.

“The stranger was wearing an extremely shabby set of Wizard’s robes that had been darned in several places. He looked I’ll and exhausted.Though quite young, his light brown hair was flecked with grey.” “Professor Lupin’s pallid profile” “illuminated his tired grey face but his eyes looked alert and wary”

also. let’s be real here. werewolf bites are cursed wounds (which is why the scarring from them does not heal). you know what’s not cursed wounds? werewolf scratches. so it is not physically fucking possible for Remus to have cursed werewolf bite wounds on his face. because you cannot bite your own fucking face. and magic easily and seamlessly heals normal cuts and scratches and non cursed wounds. without scarring. so sure, even if he scratched his face with his werewolfy claws, they’re not cursed wounds, so they would have been magically healed as such. same goes for any other injuries he got as a wolf. any broken bones, or scratches not from his claws. they all would have been magically healed and wouldn’t leave any scars.

and i just honestly don’t think that a werewolfs cursed bite mark wounds would be cursed on itself. like. it’s already a werewolf. it’s not gonna become any more werewolf. i don’t know. i just don’t think that any wounds from a werewolf biting itself would scar. it just doesn’t really make sense. plus again, we return to canon.

remus has no visible scars.

sure maybe. maybe. he is absolutely covered in scars on the parts of his body that aren’t covered by clothing or robes. but definitely not his hands or forearms. because canonically there is no mention of him having scars, and harry has seen his hands and forearms (when he just casually rolled up his sleeves so he could murder his former best friend, as one does nbd).

actually you know what. scratch all that. there is canonical evidence. WEREWOLVES ARE ONLY DANGEROUS TO HUMANS. once he became a werewolf, remus was no longer a human. so. any bites or wounds he gave himself while he was transformed were just normal non-cursed wounds. that could be fixed by magic and wouldn’t leave scars. so yeah. there’s my proof.

TLDR: my take is that remus has bad scars from his initial bite from greyback, but doesn’t have any scars from his own werewolf ass biting himself

#hot fucking take #salty hp takes #HP Rants #Remus lupin #fandom is WRONG and I hate it #(if you don’t like my hot fucking take the block button is right there) #(don’t come at me looking for a fight or Discourse™) #(I am not interested. I am just screaming my RAGE into the void) #local girl has ocd and HATES when fandom gets canon details wrong #marauders #Harry potter meta #harry potter things #Harry potter #salty takes are salty #but true #I am right #die mad about it #lmfao #the marauders #marauders era #marauders fandom

[anyrava]

Little bit of vent art :I

#not feeling brave enough to post this on my main sites #don't worry I'm alright #just felt like screaming into the void this one time #now I'm a real artist ™ expressing my emotions trough images so historians in 200 years can assign me a psychological profile based on it #anxiety disorder #Depression #intrusive thoughts

[reikomakoto]

Me on the outside: communication is key! it's important to let yourself be vulnerable! the ordeal of being known can be terrifying but it's so worth it!

Me one the inside: I'd rather be eaten alive by wild dogs than open up to people about some things

#🫠🫠🫠 #by any means I don't wish to promote such an attitude I just uh. had to get this off my chest #screaming into the void and thinking someone might find this relatable™ is way easier #reiko rambles

[musical-chick-13]

It's also just so incredibly frustrating because people will take any example of a (usually male) character being horrible as some sort of "proof" that they're mentally ill (which, hmm, interesting that your automatic explanation for "why do they choose to treat other people horribly" is "they have a mental illness that just Makes Them Act Like That"), but there is no kind of nuanced or critical discussion of media that ACTUALLY (for ill or for good) tries to depict mental illness, and you try to recommend media that handles it well (that might even be good for other, completely unrelated reasons!!) and people just ignore you.

#I'm going to work myself into a Full Rant™ a la the infamous '[this topic] in fiction' essay from two & a half years ago if I'm not careful #so I'm going to stop now. but I just. I want to fucking scream lmao. #honestly...once mental health awareness month hits in may I might just genuinely try my hand at making gifs #just to give stuff some fucking visibility lmao #maybe I'll try to get that 'emotional support dw lady shares my Disorder™ and here's why' fic finished (or the one about lizzie) #maybe every day is me explaining why a different character has a given mental illness according to me #maybe I'll write 3 million essays. idk. I just feel like I'm yelling into the void. I HAVE been yelling into the void for 20 years. #it gets exhausting. and tbh. also very sad. #like at this point I'm seriously considering organizing an event of some kind #but Idk if anyone would even be INTERESTED in that #because they're certainly not interested in anything regarding this topic in general! #In the Vents

[elysian-noctuary]

Some stuff to bring up

My activity will be pretty slow for now. With stuff I have previously mentioned, it has gotten more rocky. With my current situation, I'm overworked to say the absolute least. I'm now full time, in pain every single night I get back from work, and expected to keep this house clean as my roommate does nothing.

"But Riley! They're disabled!" So am I (to some extent). My feet are constantly on the verge of flare-ups and could send me to the hospital if I'm on them for too long. I'm still dealing with injury flare-ups from procedures I've had done to correct issues with my feet. Sure, I'm not wheelchair bound, but that doesn't mean I'm not in pain daily either. It has been a constant thing for me since I was 10 years old.

But do I get a break from that? Nope 💖. They cried to me how I never cook for them. When 1) never was taught to cook because reasons. 2) I work late and... can't fucking stand after work 90% of the time unless I want to risk getting sent to the hospital. But that doesn't matter 😊

I bring up that I'm paying for their bills, on top of my own, AND helping my mom since she had a cancer scare, AND she has no money due to the fact that my POS "father" took all of her money. So I'm essentially helping pay for my bills, their bills, some stuff for my mom so she doesn't go homeless.

What am I met with when I tell my roommate it's not fair that I'm doing all of this while they sit in their ass, playing games and getting high all day? Silence. All of my problems get thrown back in my face to only be met with "my mom's dead! My life's a wreck! My anxiety is so bad!!! I ruin everything!!!"

But when I tell them to look for a job that's accommodating... suddenly it's "no one wants to hire the ADHD cripple" as they say. Yet... Have had jobs for years. While having ADHD and their back problems.

It's become very apparent that my only use here is to be their wallet and live-in maid. I'm tired. And I don't get a break. I'm constantly shat on for trying to get help from my current roommate, but only met with backlash and made to be the bad guy. Always. No matter what I say.

But anyway

If you want to talk more, I'm more than happy to do you my discord. I'm way more active there in terms of just talking since my brains fried like 98% of the time now 🤷

#╰┈➤ cherry.txt #vent #i am VERY tired 🫠 #more of just me trying to stay sane™ and scream into the void but yknow

[charliespringverse]

developing a new hyperfixation is one thing, but having an old one be reignited? unparalleled. an absolutely insane experience.

#jay screams into the void #adhd tingz lol #essentially st4 has catapulted me Aggressively back into the byler hyperfixation i suffered through from ages 16-19 #i can think of nothing but Them™ #in 48 hours i've feverishly put together a playlist longer than ones i've been cultivating for years

[distant-screaming]

LXC is so funny someone give this man a break. Fund him a vacation please

#he's just trying to do his job not deal with all these Homosexuals™ #but he loves them #lxc #mdzs lxc #lan xichen #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #distant screaming screams into the void

[soulfire-of-void]

i like eating in-shell peanuts because cracking them open makes me feel clever and dextrous like a little creature in a documentary (i have bruises on my knees from walking into chairs on a daily basis)

#void screaming #its probably the autism #Enrichment™

[acesammy]

the feminine urge to delete all of my art and never look back

#like #obviously i wouldnt #but idk i'm just #sick of it #like i love doing it but i dont see improvement and i need to just move on with my life bc i'm never gonna get good #logically i know that i should just keep doing it #if i want to get better #and i do #so much #but i'm just frustrated #and i feel like i've been backsliding #and i hate. it. #idk #i'm once again sliding back into the 'wow i wish i just. weren't me' depression #havent had a classic tumblr vent post™ in years #so here we go #non fandom #i'm sorry #sometimes it's just nice to scream into the void

[early-october-skies]

I can not sleep

#this actually SUCKS #my back aches and i can hear the electricity whirring through the walls #and i can feel bugs on me but i know theyre not real but i cant because what if #i cant lie still #brain is going random places #lizzietalks #i am going. #mildly insane #this close to sleeping on kitchen tile rn #havent tdone it in very long time #however #tempting #last night was constant nightmares #and now its just no sleep at all #please heavens let me sleep #j think im probably just anxious #easter is over and its time for me to return tk the city #i hate the city #i have been aboiding about how anxious i am this week so much i forgot i was #so last nights nightmares (there were four) #makes complete sense #cause why was i getting literally murdered so much #god im so tired #and i am screaming into the void cause im too ancious to actually tell anyone else because like #im bothering them and also like wtf is anyone meant to do with this information of ther than #lizzie is depressed again #the only times i have left my house this past two weeks is because i made plans to make sure id leave #all the while being completely fine™ #because i dont want anyone to know i am indact depressed again #because ill become sad lizzy is fucking sad again

[applepies-and-starlight]

It's 3am and i've ravaged my own emotions I should Really stòp doing this

#void screaming #to the surprise of absolutely nobody #it's me putting ishmael Through It #more accurately ishdon is going Through It™ #but it's mainly ishy

[saym0-0]

im SAD why am i SAD

#feel that Guilt™ whenever i talk about my feelings to anyone ever so once again i am screaming tagless into the tumblr void

[lurkiestvoid]

It would be really awesome (and probably 1000 times more effective) if we could focus this exact same anti-duopoly passion on the 2028+2032 US elections, right now

Because we're not gonna magically break a two-party system in under nine months with just Thoughts And Prayers And One (1) Ballot, and this one election itself is not going to be what improves American foreign policy -- our choices are unfortunately only allowed to be "Same But Potentially Pressurable" versus "Deeply Worse And Fuck You" -- but if we could, somehow, plan for and lay the groundwork for the next decade, and maintain that passion and follow through, we could absolutely drastically change our representation to be not only more progressive and effective, but get a LOT of shit done much quicker overall by having the actual congressional votes required to do things like enact national ranked choice voting, removing the cap on the House, and defunding the perpetual war profiteering machine.

Instead of this sudden "omg it shouldn't be this way so we should fix it by pretending it isn't" upsurge every cycle and then doing that over and over and over again, we could just do what the Tea Party did but in reverse because it fucking worked and it's what brought us the clusterfuck we have today. We could use those same bottom-up tactics to unfuck ourselves, but it takes at least ten years of sustained and cohesive momentum and community organizing to achieve and we can't even stop bickering long enough to begin to consider long-term work, so we cannibalize ourselves every four years.

#us politics #2024 elections #we need progressives to run so we have progressives to vote for #and we need to vote them up the ladder #before we ever have any hope of getting one in the oval office #which is exactly what the TP did on the other side of the fence #after Obama won they had TP reps in Congress in abt two years #and just eight years later their candidate achieved presidency #it CAN be done bc it HAS BEEN done #there are no shortcuts #and until the Glorious Revolution™ happens we unfortunately do have to work with what we currently have #no amount of pretending will change the fact that the two-party system is gonna have one of two outcomes #screaming into the void #rambles

[musical-chick-13]

Since I'm especially on a tear about this: I also wish people who claim to enjoy fictional women would ask themselves if they still take an interest in female characters when those characters are not specifically designed to be universally-liked?

#I'm not talking about 'women who are not good people' #I'm not even talking about 'women who are a mess/extremely flawed' necessarily #I'm talking about women who were not meant to be hashtag relatable and just exist in the story as they are #whose function is not just to be as palatable as possible. #like...are you normal about women when you don't directly relate to them basically. are you normal about them when the point isn't to #cater to you #hold on I'm going to go find a post real quick. it talks about misogynoir and fandom racism which are NOT the same as general #misogyny. but I think about that post a lot and it exemplifies a lot of what I'm trying to say when I talk about how people discuss #characters and discuss fiction in general #mel screams about fictional ladies again #and I know that this is The Women Blog and that's the reason a bunch of you are here. so I don't really know what me talking about this is #really going to accomplish after a certain point because if the people watching me scream into the void didn't on some level already #care or know this they probably wouldn't be following me or looking through my blog? #but I do also need to Uncork My Thoughts™ sometimes and unfortunately that usually means flinging them at tumblr lmao

[charliespringverse]

i need your spotify on almost all levels. let’s swap playlists

hi !! this is so good for the brain i love my playlists

this is my (wip) iwbft playlist, ordered with the intention of following the storylines across the week (+ a little bit of hypothetical post-canon vibes)

this is my slightly messier bicci-centric playlist, which is partly based in canon, partly things alice has said/drawn of them outside the book, and just General Vibes (far too much effort went into the ordering to make the album covers a rainbow)

this is my radio silence playlist, which is primarily based in Vibes rather than book plot or characters -- it's part burnt-out-gifted-kid part driving-at-night part mentally-ill-aspec

this is my heartstopper playlist, which i think is a fairly balanced split of sweet first love & mental illness (it's a wip i need to reorder the songs a bit)

this is my young royals playlist, which is still a wip and needs a little bit of organising so it all flows better when not on shuffle lol

this is my andreil playlist, which is also kinda bangin when ur in the mood to relive ur 14-yr-old emo phase

this is my dead poets society playlist, which truly is just 12 hours of grief (or breakup songs i've chosen to read as grief songs) with some poetry, lyricism, and first love tingz sprinkled in

i've got other playlists as well but those are the ones i've mostly put actual time and thought into, my spotify is full of various ship/media/emotion playlists + several more that Aren't Private but also aren't displayed on my profile

#my playlists are a great way of tracking my hyperfixations over the years #but yeah thank u for asking i love rambling abt these #i've been known to do presentations at Friend Group PowerPoint Nights™ just dissecting My Own Playlists #if anyone ever has any quesyions abt why a particular song is in a particular playlist 9 times out of 10 i'm happy to answer #usually in far more detail than the person needs or wants #✨autism✨ #jay screams into the void

[anachronistictrash]

I hate how I've been professionally dxed with most of the popular-to-fake disorders, because I feel like when I creep in here to complain that I'll be seen as an attention-seeking faker.

I actually really don't want attention thx, just screaming into the void.

#bipolar and bpd and adhd and cptsd and 'suspected ocd' and past anorexia/osfed #hell i like to deny them most of the time and go off my meds and shit bc i'm fine actually self undiagnosing thanks #i think it should be bundled into one “chaotically and destructively hate yourself disorder” for short #my family damned me both genetically (bipolar bpd ocd adhd) and traumatically (bpd again cptsd ed sh) #it's awful actually and I would like to get off mr bones' wild ride #screaming into the void bc i'm too afraid to tell people i care about and could help me #i don't disclose to anybody except immediate family and my closest 2 people bc stigma and fear that they'll hate/judge/leave me #fuck I don't even tell them when I'm struggling and I only tell my closest 2 people when things are very dire #bc 'once they know the real me they'll hate me and leave' which i fear bc you know The Problems™ as if I haven't known them all >20 years #it ruins every part of my life in every way #fuckfuckfuck #vent #this is my vent blog