My brother taught me how to give // He spreads his love until it stretches too thin // Oh how I wanna be like him // He takes away the weight before your heart caves in
I was wondering why Necromancers in SIAT are called mothers? I don't think it's been said why, and considering the story has male Necromancers, I don't get it?
free yourself from the gender binary and maybe you'll be less of a drag
anyway
He’s a necromancer. He’s a Mother. He knows how to come home.
He’s a Mother, and that gives him an edge over other necromancy practitioners
Draco pauses. “Is being a necromancer genetic?”
“Maybe? Being a Mother isn’t, though,” he says.
"So whoever did this specifically didn’t want us to know who they were and knows that you’re a necromancer, if not a Mother,” Draco says.
If Slughorn were out there haunting someone or something, he’d be easy to find. Even a normal necromancer could do it, never mind Mothers that have worked with him for decades.
i could keep going, but i assume you get the point. all mothers are necromancers, not all necromancers are mothers
as to why i went with the term mother, what better title is there for one who commands life into death? who controls death and lives with it in a way that others do not? the first time you were brought into this world, there was screaming, and there was blood. the second time, mother holds their breath and no one bleeds
this post puts many quotes i'm fond of in the same place
In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women “give birth astride of a grave.”
— Caitlin Doughty, from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
The part of sexism that bores and angers me most is the culling, the simplification of women into Hallmark cards of femininity. When I became a mom, no one ever said, “Hey, you made a death. You made your children’s deaths.” Meanwhile, I could think of little else. It’s scary to think of mothers as makers of death, but it sure gives them more power and complexity than one usually finds.
My family was sledding through the neighborhood (like dogsleds but no dogs) and we reached a non-frozen lake and started swimming across. Everyone had waterproof snow gear except my brother who started sinking. My mom had to dive down and save him. We decided to sled across the lake instead.
i'm a big 'john has freckles that come out a few weeks into summer' truther. huuuge 'gale loves to trace his finger over them and press his lips to each one' enjoyer. <3