#And so romantic love can't just exist just bc you're told it does

[iamnmbr3]

hi there! During some weeks i've really become a fan of your drarry posts(sometimes daily;))..they're so detailed and convince one in a way that they can't say "nah, you're delusional..drarry doesn't exist!(platonic or romantic)"..and tbh i agree with 98% of your opinions( 2% is in little details lol)

I have some things to say:

-in room of requirement scene harry asks draco whose wand is this in his hand and draco replied his mother's [i love how he answers with honesty here bc mostly he doesn't answer straightforward..it's obvious to me how much he changed and how exhausted he is:(] then harry laughed, admitting that situation is not funny at all(as far as i remember)...do u think why harry laughed?the only reason in my mind is he missed bickering with draco hahaaaa:)))

-in shrieking shack voldemort told lucius that perhaps draco's decided to befriend harry(i love voldy for this^^)...do you think he told it to terrify lucius or despite draco's fear, he actually saw any sign of draco being inclined to harry and his side and seeing that courage in him to change his side?

-In your last meta you told "I think he definitely doesn't want to admit that there's something in Draco that he's drawn to." This is also about harry describing draco's appearance..there are some ppl that are actually gorgeous( either according to other ppl or harry) like tom riddle, cedric, cho ginny etc & there are some that look ugly(harry makes it quite clear lolll)..and some average face which harry does not bother to describe much more...as far as we're told draco is some sort of average(ofc you can think of him as handsome like i think but he's not that type of handsome that everyone agrees on like cedric..that's what i think)but harry tells good things about his appearance in a very weird way...it looks like he knows he looks good but he doesn't want to confess that directly...

Thanks for reading, keep going!💙

Thank you for this lovely ask! It truly made me smile so much to read your kind words. I'm so glad you've been enjoying my posts! And for the record I never mind if people disagree with me (as long as it's polite; and if it's not, it's the rudeness I mind not the disagreement). Discussion and respect for different opinions is what fandom is all about.

I think you raise some really fascinating points here!

1) In the Room of Requirement scene I think Harry's bitter laughter also kind of parallels Draco laughing humorlessly when they run into each other in book 6 when Harry's on his way to the Quidditch match. I think partly Harry's also just relieving tension and laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation and how they always come back to each other. And yeah I also love how Draco responds honestly to Harry.

Also very notable that when Harry asks why the three of them aren't with Voldemort, Crabbe and not Draco is the one who says that they're going to be rewarded and that they hung back to capture Harry. Draco, who has no problem answering Harry's previous question (about his wand) or his next question (about how they got into the Room) is notably silent here. (I wrote more about his motivations in this scene here btw).

2) This is such an amazing point about the shrieking shack scene that I never thought about. But wow. You're right. Great catch! This bit is actually so interesting. So Voldemort says:

"If your son is dead, Lucius, it is not my fault. He did not come and join me, like the rest of the Slytherins. Perhaps he has decided to befriend Harry Potter?"

This is such a strange and specific thing to say. Sure it could be him just messing with Lucius. But he could've done that in so many other ways. He could've just threatened to kill Draco. Or questioned his loyalty more generally. Voldemort doesn't even say something like "perhaps he has deserted me and fled" or speculate that Draco has betrayed him and joined the flighting against him. He suggests that Draco has "befriended" Harry specifically.

Also in this scene Voldemort is thinking about other things and not really paying attention to Lucius or particularly trying to torment him. Lucius is the one who brings up Draco and this is Voldemort's response to the topic.

We know Voldemort can read minds. Despite Draco's best efforts (which given that he's alive despite saving Harry in the Manor, must have been pretty good) to shield his thoughts something must have leaked through, something that gave Voldemort pause. When Lucius says that Draco would never befriend Harry, Voldemort just gives him a noncommittal response and says: "You must hope not." Which sounds to me like he isn't buying it. And indeed, where does it turn out that Draco is (clearly without orders or permission from Voldemort)? With Harry. And I've already discussed in my other meta why I don't think he was planning on killing Harry or handing him over, despite what Crabbe and Goyle thought.

Voldemort's comments are especially interesting given that right after the Room of Requirement scene Draco is attacked by another Death Eater who also seems to think he's not on their side, despite the fact that Draco's name is well known and he has a Dark Mark. So...what happened to make him think Draco wasn't on their side?

3) Yeah I absolutely think Harry thinks Draco is good looking but tries to ignore it. I think they are both exactly each other's type.

#Thanks for these great thoughts and for patiently waiting for an answers. send more asks anytime #i love getting them #asks #drarry #Harry Potter #Draco Malfoy #hpdn #h/d #harry/draco #harry x draco #meta #Harry Potter meta #drarry meta

[misc-obeyme]

CC 😭😭😭 lesson 30 was a rollercoaster huh. Tbh as a Beel lover, I wasn’t happy w how Belphie was acting here. I asked Beel what he thought of the Angel's Trial and Belphie just cuts him off!! And he made Beel sad and that is unacceptable to me 😤 (he says not to make him mad but no spoilers for og lesson 16 could make me choose not to be a petty bitch when I can) Beel is his own person and too sweet for this shit

Telling Sol his cooking sucks was :((( 0/10 I would've gently reminded him ratios are important especially in baking and just make sure he's not putting anything inedible in there. Or tell him to focus his creativity solely on the plating/presentation bc you eat w your eyes too or smt idk

I kinda found it funny when Sim basically told Luke he was an ugly crier. Poor baby, I hope the egg grants him that wish

I get this was setup for Levi's Little D arc but teasing the truth again makes me wanna bang my head on a wall. I know Lucifer suspects smt abt us. We know Barb knows something

Speaking of Barb, I choose to believe that the Little Ds are gonna be important later and that Beel did eat Number 6 but Barb uh, made sure that didn't happen actually

AHH anon, this lesson KILLED ME. I'm so sorry to everyone who had to read the unhinged post I wrote last night lol.

Okay, see, I was so wrapped up in the Solomon debacle that I forgot about the whole Beel & Belphie thing.

I get that Belphie is being protective, but I also felt like he wasn't really taking Beel's feelings into consideration! I think there's a fine line between being protective and being controlling. And Belphie was right on the edge of that line, imo. When you're being protective to the point that you're ignoring the needs of the person you're supposedly protecting well... it kinda defeats the purpose there, buddy.

I wonder if they're going to kind of expand on that at some point. Have the twins hash it out with each other. Because I think Belphie isn't normally like this, but I think he's still wary of humans. And his concern is overriding his usual consideration of Beel's feelings.

OKAY LET'S TALK SOLOMON AGAIN.

Listen, I've had a little time to calm down, but I am still UPSET.

Now, of course, it's best to remember that this is fiction and nothing in fiction happens the way it would irl. BUT if I had a friend (or romantic interest/boyfriend/etc) who really enjoyed cooking, but for some reason always made gross food, I probably wouldn't lie to them directly. I would do exactly as you suggest, gently remind them of how to follow a recipe and so on. I can't imagine that Solomon has spent all his life trying to learn how to cook and somehow keeps screwing it up? Like considering how much he does it, he should be getting better at it?

And apparently someone told him his cooking tasted bad in season 3 of the OG, but I don't remember that lol. If it's in the hard lessons, that's why I don't remember... I haven't actually finished all the hard lessons of the OG... oops I keep forgetting they exist my bad.

Anyway, my point here is that it doesn't make sense that someone doing something they enjoy all the time wouldn't get better at what they're doing at some point. I get that this is fictional and maybe they have a reason for it, but they need to tell us what it is because I can't take HIS SAD FACE. Normally I'd be like listen sometimes you gotta be honest or whatever, but not like this!! I would've been like what exactly did you do to make the cake taste this way, let's figure it out together... I would help him, not just be all sorry this is gross and leave it at that!

Sorry sorry I'm ranting again. I just love that silly sorcerer so much and his reaction just made me so sad.

I'm so curious about what Luke is finally gonna wish for lol. I feel like Simeon teases him the most out of everybody, he's just so chill and nice about it that it doesn't register as teasing.

I just don't understand why hiding the egg's existence was a good lie while telling Solomon his cake was good wasn't??? Ugh my heart.

AND OH YES LEVI.

I was very upset about that, too!! Like, no you don't understand!! I do need to leave, but I need to get back to you!!

I want to go back, but I don't want to go back! The stress of this is getting to me. Can we please hurry up and be done with this timeline nonsense?! Barb definitely knows something. I just want him to fix things! I think I'd have confronted him about it by now. I don't care what Sol says about not telling people we're from the future, I'd be like Barbatos, my true love, I know you already know, so let's hear it!! What is going on!?!?

I definitely think the Little Ds are going to be important later, too! Something about the fairies seems like it's going to matter as well, but I'm not entirely sure how yet.

Oh no poor Number 6! Even if Barb saved him, I would think being eaten would be rather traumatic lol.

#sorry I kinda devolved into rantings again #I'm still not over this lesson it seems #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me solomon #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me simeon #obey me barbatos #obey me luke #obey me leviathan #anon asks #misc answers

[opinated-user]

LO: "Rey killing herself isn't canon! You're a loser if you dislike it! People are dogpiling me! I'm a victim!!!!"

Ugh. I get it, it sucks the audience didn't like your idea. That's part of writing. No one is dogpiling you - a large number of people dislike suicide-is-romantic as a trope, and that's not a personal attack, that's just people preferring suicide be treated a different way. Does LO cry about consumers at the grocery store dogpiling her if she gets Cheerios because the world at large thinks Cheerios are dull and this is dogpiling and oppression and everyone in this store is a loser, craaaawling in my skiiiin, these wounds they will not heeeeeal!!! ?

It's like that kid no one talks to in middle school who says they were bullied because Tiffany said she didn't like their drawing of anime characters fucking and that means Tiffany hates them and every day of their existence is a struggle. I don't think less of the people who don't like "and then Rey dies bc tragic love" idea, I think less of this 30 year old for losing her shit because people dislike one of her ideas.

People will always dislike some of your ideas. That's just life. That's just being a writer. Why is she trying to pretend it's more than that? Doesn't she have anything else going on in her life? I'm chronically ill and can't leave the house and even I have bigger issues, good lord.

it's pretty immature but also extremely disingenous of her because that was the only thing anyone had as an idea of what she was planning to do with rey. if it was just a "half formed idea", then why she fought so hard to defend it from anyone who rightfully was horrified at it when she first talked about it? why she went so far as to say that the family of rey (who now is a "family oriented woman" suddenly) was told that rey was planning to do this and they were all okay with it, they agreed that it was okay for her to do so? to this day, that part is the most horrifying part of anything she has said, including anything i read on stockholm. the idea of an entire family just being okay with the actual suicide of one of their member because they're old, they have lived their lives already and agreed that person has no value without their partner, it's still a much crueler concept i could ever imagine for a character. the fact that LO wrote that and made it seem like a good idea concerns me so much. "die of old age around the same time alaina did" is still a whole ocean of difference from disconnecting herself intentionally and with full clarity of mind from the machines that kept her alive. one is just something that happens, the other is an active choice that rey thought about long enough to tell her family about it. if she finally realized that it wasn't a good idea, then just say that it was a bad idea from the start would have been enough. but LO can't take any responsability for anything wrong she did ever, so instead she wants to rewrite history and pretend like anyone who had a problem with this plot point is talking about a minor thing that she never cared about in the first place. this is gaslightning.

#lily orchard

[spacelazarwolf]

Heyo im a (trans) dude that does not experience romantic attraction for men and I don't know how to keep explaining to people that I can't make myself feel what I just do not feel. I can and do experience sexual attraction, but as far as romantic feelings go I have not had those butterfly feelings that women give me. I am attracted to women both romantically and sexually and remain open to the possibility of experiencing romantic feelings for men, but I know if I ever got into a relationship with a man it would just be me forcing a form of intimacy that doesn't exist. I don't mean to unload on you lol but it's just stressful because while it's something I told a friend back in high school (that I feel like I'm sexually attracted to men but sexually and romantically attracted to women) as I get older I realize that this is in fact my reality. And yes, I attempted to date a man. Not that I'd have needed to in order to justify how I feel, but to my surprise, I've gotten some shit for it. Particularly an offended look and defensive statement "men can be like women too." Which is a statement that confuses me because I don't understand what it means. If it means men can be affectionate and caring partners, I understand and agree with that, but I still can't make myself feel things I don't feel. It's just weird to be sexually active with men and then be treated as if I'm repressed or something because I don't experience romantic attraction too. Men are great. I love being friends with men that aren't hyper masculine. With men who can be soft and kind and caring and consistently uplifting. They make me feel more comfortable, but I still don't fall in love with them. Even if I'd bang them. Why is that an issue? I feel like the only trans masc person in the world that feels this way bc it's kind of the opposite of what I usually hear in terms of struggling with coming to terms with our sexuality. I honestly still don't understand it completely bc people are people and I've given up on trying to define it which is why I love to use queer as a label if I have to choose a frickin label. Trying to explain and justify myself gets exhausting. Even within the community. I'm burnt out, my guy. I just wanted to tell another trans masc person how I feel. For as old as I am, I don't have a solid group of trans friends and I feel pretty alone in my experience. Especially when it's something I never hear anyone else talk about. Idk. I hope you're having a nice day/night/time. love ur blog. appreciate ur pov.

hey man, i’m sorry to hear you’re struggling with this. i think there’s probably a lot more trans men and mascs out there that feel like you do, but there’s so few avenues for them to talk about this and that makes me sad. i feel like it’s very difficult to talk about transness and sexuality, and especially as a trans man or masc it feels like nothing we say or do is right. we shouldn’t have to justify who we are or who we love or don’t love, who we want to be with, what kind of relationships we want to have. the whole point of queer liberation is to give us the freedom to just be who we are and it feels like trans folks often aren’t included in that freedom.

[spaceshipkat]

I am so interested to hear your rant thoughts on the witcher 👀 please do go off 👀

okay, since i ranted about the "feminism" of the show in that other ask, i'll spend this one venting about various other small things. one of those things is how the show was structured, which was stupid, however often people try to argue in support of it bc you'd understand if you knew book or game canon blah blah blah. if you can't tell a story with different timelines without making clear that those timelines are different, you're a shit writer. the very least the show could've done is put dates of when things happened. afaik, dates exist in the books, so it's not like it's a wild concept.

then there's Henry Cavill, who my brother really likes but i've been increasingly iffy toward ever since i heard about how he dated a 19yo when he was 32. i mean:

"People say, 'Age is just a number.' A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity," Cavill told Elle UK in the interview, which was published online on Feb. 18. "But in this case, she's fantastic."

i was 19 when i dated a 26yo, and bc i was 19 i didn't realize how fucked that age difference was until i got older. now that i'm 26 myself, i can't imagine dating a 19yo bc a 19yo is like a child to me, not a potential romantic partner.

i also saw an interview in which Joey Batey talked about acting with Henry Cavill as Geralt, since Cavill cut a lot of Geralt's lines in favor of hums or grunts, which forced the actors he was in scenes with to scramble to find a way to translate Geralt's lines to the audience themselves. an interview from witchercon yesterday had Cavill talking about why he made Geralt hum and grunt, and his reasons are fine i guess, but it's a shit, lazy move to do to your costars. and like. i want to like Cavill, bc there are good aspects to him, and he seems like a genuinely nice and caring guy who loves what he does, but these little things prevent me from getting fully behind him.

also, there's just nothing really outstanding about the show to make it as big a phenomenon as it is? i've always loved the idea of a monster hunter, of immortality, and both concepts often show up in my own work bc they're really fun to play with and figure out new ways to write (especially confronting the idea of immortality), but those things aren't enough to make the show brand new. GOT was such a cultural phenomenon bc it was one of the first big fantasy shows out there, but it feels like the witcher is trying to ride on its coattails while also copying its mannerisms. this is all i see:

and to be fair to the witcher, it's not the only show that, unfortunately, gets compared to GOT. it is, however, a show that doesn't try to be anything more than GOT-lite, unlike, say, Shadow & Bone, which is actually doing something for the fantasy industry (though absolutely not without its problems; i'm thinking of its ridiculous inclusion of racism that didn't exist in the books bc they hired a biracial actor to be the lead, but i digress).

so again i ask: why is the witcher on netflix popular? is it bc it has a preexisting fanbase from the books, games, and hexer? is it bc we see naked women and shirtless Henry Cavill? is it bc society in general has a herd mentality and flock to hype like they're being chased by sheepdogs? is it bc people want to pretend that the witcher is doing something that GOT never could or never did?

there's also the racism in the show (centered on Dara mainly, i think, though there's also the fantasy pseudo-racism with the hatred toward elves, but at least the show makes clear that Calanthe is fucked for hating elves), but i'm probably not the right person to go deep into that.

#ask #anonymous #the witcher #long post #i probably have more to say but i got like two hours of sleep last night #and also have a headache #so this is it for now