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justtosealmyfate1 · 2 months

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HP, the press and what is means to be a celebrity: meta

One of my favorite topics is the media and how that would play out in the Potters’ lives post-war. I touch upon this in the reaction to Albus and Scorpius getting together. There’s a media whirlwind after the photos of the two of them kissing are released.

(this is about my fic, the fates, which is about when Albus and Scorpius’ relationship is found out.)

A lot of HP fics take the tone of “the media is so intrusive and ruining everyone’s life” which is fair to an extent, and also the precedent JKR set with Rita Skeeter’s character in the original books. She’s clearly a parody of British tabloid writers. Celebrity is also explored differently across fics. In the books, Harry is very famous, and a politically important figure. He’s always in the newspaper! The Minister of Magic is coming to his Christmas dinner to court him! This notoriety would only grow after he defeats Voldemort. I see Harry as (this sounds so dramatic for talking about a fictional character) an Obama, Nelson Mandela, Malala type of celebrity. A political figure, a hero, a survivor but also a mainstay in popular culture. Plus, he’s married to an attractive Quidditch player, and I’m sure they captivate the world with their Posh and Becks, Taylor and Travis type love. This is all to say that I think the Potters are megacelebrities, and Albus is a celebrity child who would reap the rewards and face the consequences of that.

The American media landscape (while of course not without its flaws) is very different from the British media landscape, particularly the tabloids. British tabloids are crazy. It’s brutal. The Daily Mail is a disgrace to journalism. I think this culture would also bleed into Wizarding media.

However!!...the relationship between celebrities and celebrity media is symbiotic. The “royal reporters” at the Daily Mail aren’t actually doing any journalistic work (even though they should be… like tell me what the fuck is going on with Kate Middleton), they’re being fed stories by the palace. This absolutely happens in the US too. Publicists will feed stories to friendlier publications, like People. When “a source close to Taylor Swift” is telling Entertainment Tonight exclusively that Taylor and Joe Alwyn broke up, it’s her publicist.

What does this mean for the Potters? Well, they absolutely need a publicist, they need to be working with a PR team and they need a media strategy. It’s funny to think about that in the context of the books, but that dynamic was seen in the Order of the Phoenix. Harry’s “PR team” of Hermione and Luna got Rita Skeeter to write a story about Voldemort’s return. That’s political news, not celebrity gossip, but it shows that Harry knows how to use the media to get what he wants. While I don’t think as an adult he’d be doing the Wired Autocomplete interviews, he’d know how to navigate the press to further his agenda and protect his family’s image.

I think the Potter children would be pretty protected from the press. Rita Skeeter wrote in her 2014 Quidditch World Cup article that the Potters are wizarding royalty, which informs my opinion of how the mechanisms of their celebrity would play out. I wrote in the fates that Harry and Ginny release curated photos of their children in exchange for not taking paparazzi photos of them, a la the royal family. While Harry is more of a statesman-like celebrity, who has a carefully crafted image and is more likely to be seen at charity events, diplomatic summits and ceremonies, Ginny is different. As a Quidditch player she’s more of a traditional celebrity. She’s canonically popular but a guarded person. She strikes me as the type of celebrity who masterfully makes you think you know her, but you actually know nothing at all.

As for the kids, I think there would be a lot of media attention and interest in them. Would they lean into that, like North West, or shy away from it? I think they’d shy away from it, especially Albus. I think James would be more open to press attention.

The three press stories I wrote for the fates all reflect different types of celebrity news. There’s the traditional, factual Daily Prophet article, the Daily Prophet opinion piece, and the Simmering Cauldron radio show. The Simmering Cauldron is entirely based on Wendy Williams. Don’t tell me she wouldn’t do something exactly like that! The DP article is expository, and then the opinion piece is meant to showcase the discourse surrounding their relationship.

There’s a whole debate to be had about how celebrity children should be treated and the role of celebrities in our culture in general, and Albus and Scorpius are great vehicles to explore this.

#hp meta #Harry Potter meta #cursed child #cursed child meta #scorbus #albus potter #hpcc

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ilummoss · 2 years

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Slightly feral about the way Reva, beyond her personal grudge, also comes into the story as the embodied rage of all those slain younglings.

Which creates an extra layer of tragedy to how Reva couldn’t even land a hit on him in their duel. Because there was nothing she or the other children could do protect themselves or their friends during Order 66.

With Reva we get something that has to some extent been missing until now. Reva gives a voice and face to all the younglings that fell victim to Order 66. The ones that didn’t make it. We’ve seen quite a few survivors like Cal Kestis, Ahsoka, Kanan Jarrus and Grogu. Reva on the other hand connects herself to those that died, those who were betrayed and didn’t have the luck to escape or be saved.

“What Jedi gave their life so that you might live?”

“We thought he was there to help us”

Because the one who was meant to save and protect them, was instead the one cutting them down.

Those last few moments before Vader stabs her just hammers it home, with the cuts to flashback, the vulnerable look on her face, his own words. Anakin Skywalker, murderer of children he had the duty to protect. Then, and now.

#reva sevander #anakin skywalker #darth vader #kenobi series #kenobi series spoilers #meta #it’s fitting that those kids are given a physical representation #hunting him #haunting him #and it fits even better that it’s only by saving one of them - a Jedi child #that he is able to break his curse

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yellowbluemoonshine · 1 year

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Little Touya’s Trauma

I see a lot of takes of Touya being the ‘selfish kid’ and honestly, i think thats very unfair thing to say because he is not like Shouto or even Shigaraki, of course because simply his trauma is different. Before i start, i would like to remind that i love Shouto a lot and Shigaraki is one of my faves but this post is gonna be about Touya.

Shouto and Touya have many similarities and even differences with trauma and all but i think the biggest difference between Touya and Shouto is simple;

One of them is eldest and other is the youngest child. This is important because Touya being the oldest and Shouto being the youngest tells a lot about their story because it changes their position and dynamic with their faimly.

The thing with most parents is their first child is their first experiment. Since most of them dont know how to deal with children or raising a kid, they messed up and instead of trying to solve the problem, they avoid the first child and try to not make the same mistake with other one. When i say ‘inexperienced parent’, i am not talking about Endeavour, really because Endeavour never intented to be parent and he always put his own ambitions above well being of his family. I am talking about Rei and even children.

The tragedy of Touya is not just him being burned to death and abandonded, its also his ‘training’ with Endeavour isnt considered as abuse by anyone, unlike Shouto who was crying. Endeavour may’ve not beat Touya but he was forcing Touya to push his limits at some point. (Most likely the reason Endeavour didnt beat Touya because Touya would obey and does anything his father said but Shouto wouldnt).

Endeavour didnt even care what would Touya want, HE decided Touya to be hero because in the end, what Touya wanted didnt matter. Touya didnt cry because he didnt know it was abnormal. Touya didnt cry because he wouldnt want to make his father disappointed. He was used as ‘tool’ but how he could know thats not how most fathers raise their sons? He already internalized the idea of his worth in his family, thats why, he wouldnt mind burning himself.

Rei and his siblings actually cared about Touya but i think i understand why he felt so unseen by them.

Rei knew that Endeavour wanted children only as successor but i think she never thought how this will end up ruin her children or how much it would hurt and ruin them. Which is why she was so protective of Shouto when it comes to training, she even would show Allmight as a good example so that he wouldnt turn out like Endeavour. Also, by focusing on Shout too much, she also (unintentionally) neglected her children. She wouldnt talk with touya about his issues, until Touya was already self destructing. She seems to understand that he is somehow struggling with issues with his father but she doesnt seem to udnerstand why Touya is so ‘obssessed’ with ‘training’ or why he wouldnt stop. Just like other members of Todoroki family.

Rei, Fuyumi, Natsuo. Rei seems surprised when Touya had mentalbreakdown. Fuyumi doesnt understand why his brother would go so far to hurt himself for the sake of ‘training’. Natsuo doesnt understand why his brother would cry and talk about this at the middle of night. Though, Natsuo changed his narrative after Touya’s death but Rei and Fuyumi saw as accident. ‘It wasnt Endeavour’s fault, it was Touya’s fault for being stubborn’. But it wasnt accident. It was Endeavour’s fault because that was the only way he gave to Touya.

Compared to this, the way they see Shouto and his ‘training’ is opposite. Fuyumi feels regret for not being able to protect his brother. Natsuo cant forget about the night Shouto’s screams when his face was burnt, he blames himself for not being able to do anything (in novel). Rei feels sorry for Shouto, seeing him as ‘the one who suffered the most’, ‘hero of the family’. Even Endeavour thinks this way. Whole family would avoid even talking about Touya, until he became a villain and made his story public. But even so, his family doesnt seem to understand. The one who needed to be isolated or changed wasnt Shouto or Touya, it was Endeavour. They all have regrets for Touya but it looks like they try to get rid of those regrets with Shouto more than Touya did because it was ‘too late’ for them to do it for Touya. Or maybe, they couldve seen Shouto as victim because of what happenned to Touya.

Curse of being first child of the family. Their thought process is even opposite with Shouto. For Touya, his father was like god like an existence, he would go far to excuse his father’s wrong actions, he did try everything for him but nothing changed and for Shouto, his father was monster but later, he saw him ‘change’. Shouto didnt love Endeavour, he didnt expect anything from him, thats why it was eaiser for him to accept him but that wont the case with Touya because Touya loved Endeavour more than anyone and it wasnt enough for Endeavour to change. I hope Shouto realized this too.

Touya does somehow understand what happenned to him and Shouto was abuse but in his mind, he internalized his abuse, that he is failure too much, he cant see himself or Shouto as victim. Even with Shigaraki, even he understand Afo’s horrible intentions, to him, ‘training a child’ is raising so he wouldnt see it as ‘that weird’ enough to do something.

Yes, Touya wasnt shown as kind as Tenko or even Shigaraki. And he is not like Bakugou either. He wasnt bully and he would repress his negative feelings towards Shouto because he knew it was wrong. Touya is a lot like Deku who would do anything, break himself over and over to prove his worth. And he was crybaby like Deku but at least, Deku had Inko and had a chance to be hero with power and well, Deku didnt have Endeavour as father. (We would learn more about Deku’s feeling worthless, if author allowed his characters to call out Bakugou and adress his bullying.)

Touya would cry easiely, he was drowning in his own feelings. His tears literally turn into fire and burn him to death and he lost his ability to cry. It would make sense for Touya to scared of his own feelings, distancing himself from everyone as trauma response. Similar to Tenko who cant hug anyone after he tried to reach out to his family but end up killing them.

But the difference between them is their father. Koutaro and Endeavour. They both had abusive fathers but Koutaro actually cared about Tenko and his family. Before the tragedy, Tenko was a lot like Shouto but even in better sitution because he wasnt isolated. Tenko had friends, he had cute dog and supportive big sister. Despite the abuse he had at home, his life was almost close to normal. Touya before his tragedy, he never had normal life. He felt distance with his family. He didnt have friends because Endeavour made him believe that Touya was living in different world from other kids. And after his death, he lived in streets, most likely never connecting with others.

Yes, Dabi is the most distant member in league but its not his fault. Members like Shigaraki and Twice show their care more than others because they know what it is like to loose someone they love to death. (Skipping Spinner and Compress but i think their family most likely cared them too). Unlike Toga and Dabi whose families are alive but abandonded anyway. At least Toga know how to fake it because she knows if she behaves well, people will be kinder to her. She wasnt raised like a soldier like Dabi and Shigaraki. She also lives for connections, unlike Dabi who always raised to believe connections are unneeded.

Basically, this boy never develop his social skills, he doesnt have manners, he is rude, he is distant but its not his fault. Its his trauma. He actually cares (in a distant but he cares). He doesnt much show his kindness as others (he showed it when he saved Twice, like hero and when he burnt Toga’s house etc) but that doesnt mean he isnt kind or he is selfish. Mercy, boy literally wants to die.

Bonus; He would also be friends with Tenko and his little group because he is just like Shouto ‘i dont need any friends’ kind of kid, well, Deku reach out to Shouto so Tenko would reach out to Touya too, just like how Shigaraki reach out to Dabi and gain his respect (and his care and loyalty, even he doesnt show it much).

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360degreesasthecrowflies · 7 months

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As someone who has been in the Harry Potter fandom since the 2000s, it becomes obvious that what really made the power go to J.K. Rowling's head wasn't her new fame and fortune - but rather, how the Harry Potter fandom practically worshipped her as a god when the books were still coming out. If you look at old interviews with J.K. Rowling and Emerson Spartz of MuggleNet, and Melissa Anelli of "The Leaky Cauldron" website, Rowling and her PR team specifically curated these interviews - much like with "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" - to only see and praise her in a good light. (Spartz was a fanatical JKR supporter in particular, even going as far as to mock and attack Harry/Hermione, or Harmony, shippers "on her behalf". Rowling laughed at it.)

The Harry Potter fandom and their militant support for J.K. Rowling as a deity-like figure in the 2000s, simply because she wrote the Harry Potter books, really went to Rowling's head. It's also probably where she gets this idea of, "I read my most recent royalty cheques, and find the pain goes away pretty quickly." She genuinely still believes that the Harry Potter fandom still supports her, and still has her back, because she still thinks that fans are putting her on a pedestal. However, in the 2000s, most of these fans were teenagers and young adults who didn't know any better, and weren't mature enough to see how this was unhealthy, for both them and Rowling.

However, I've encountered this issue before in the realm of YA authors and the book community in general, and what J.K. Rowling doesn't realize is that the only reason why Harry Potter fans supported her at the time was simply because she wrote the Harry Potter books - and was continuing to write the series at that time. They didn't care about J.K. Rowling, the person - they cared about J.K. Rowling, the content provider, who kept providing them new Harry Potter content. They only cared about her because she was writing new Harry Potter books.

Once Rowling finished the Harry Potter series, and started writing her adult mystery books, readers' interest in Rowling as a content provider dropped off sharply, and they lost interest, to the point where she had to publicly reveal that she was "Robert Galbraith" in order to boost flagging book sales. It became clear that people only cared about her Harry Potter series.

I feel this is also why J.K. Rowling's slide in to TERFdom is not only performative and self-seeking, but that the people who claim to support her only do so solely because she's anti-transgender. Much like with the Harry Potter fandom - which only cared about J.K. Rowling, in the sense that she was providing them new Harry Potter books and content - TERFs only care about J.K. Rowling because she supports being a TERF. Most TERFs don't actually seem to care about her as a person, and as such, I think J.K. Rowling is seeing them as a misplaced source of support.

It's also worth noting that J.K. Rowling seems to have sought out the TERF community to fill in the gap left by Harry Potter fans, and the fandom at-large, increasingly distancing themselves - or growing and maturing beyond - their single-minded support of J.K. Rowling. For years, Rowling had her ego constantly stroked and fed by Harry Potter fans, to the point that she internalized her entire sense of self-worth on "being the author of Harry Potter" and providing content to people. Or, in the mind of J.K. Rowling: "Without Harry Potter, who am I? What is my purpose?"

Unfortunately, Rowling decided that her new "purpose" was fighting "trans rights activists".

When the Fantastic Beasts film franchise - which J.K. Rowling co-wrote the scripts for - crashed and burned, and her attempt to win back Harry Potter fans and the fandom with new Harry Potter-based content failed, she turned to a new echo chamber for self-validation instead: TERFdom. The TERFdom provided easy and lazy source of validation for Rowling, as instead of putting in actual work to create new Harry Potter books and scripts, she can just rest on her laurels, and occasionally post low-effort tweets that she can post instead, and which garner her a lot of attention. Rowling tunes out all of the negative attention, and only focuses on those praising her, or even worshipping her as their own "Personal Jesus" - the same as she did back in the 2000s with her Harry Potter interviews, and then later on, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

The Harry Potter TV show reboot on HBO Max is now Rowling's third attempt - if not fourth, counting the travesty that was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - to either try and win back the Harry Potter fandom, or to create a new Harry Potter fandom by exposing Gen Z and Gen Alpha to the series. However, things have changed a lot since the 2000s, and that includes far more support for LGBT rights, so I feel like this third attempt is going to backfire horribly on her.

quoted (but not formatted as a quote because it's too long for the new tumblr engine) from the comments to the r/Contrapoints thread on her 2023 JK Rowling video, a striking takedown/analysis of why it seems the author of Harry Potter has gone so far and so fast off the deep end away from the core principles that initially made her work so popular with a western millennial and down YA audience

#anti jkr #yes it's more rowling content but this is interesting #harry potter meta meta #authorship #addiction to praise #harry potter fandom #harry potter hbo #cursed child #fantastic beasts #death of the author #YA

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lizardthelizard · 3 months

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Been having Thoughts about August again.

So, you know how, in the Pilot episode, Emma comes to Storybrooke and, once she makes the decision to stay in Storybrooke for Henry, the clock tower starts working again and time becomes unfrozen ect?

Well, I'm just thinking about August and his reunion with Geppetto in The Stranger. And the parallel between that and between Emma causing the clock to work again.

Because, the clock that Geppetto and Pinocchio were working on in Fairy Tale Land is now broken in Storybrooke and sitting in Rumple's pawn shop. And, it's not until August makes the conscious decision to try and make amends with his father that he's able to help Marco to fix the clock and get it working again.

And, of course, it's a metaphor for the pair of them making amends and fixing their estranged relationship and for August trying to do the right thing for once in his life ect.

But also? I feel like it represents some of the same things that Emma(/Henry) 'fixing' the clocktower does, just on a smaller scale. Because, even though Marco still doesn't have his memories back and doesn't know that August is his son...He's still able to act as a mentor type figure, and August might not be filling the role of 'son', but he IS filling in a gap that Marco has been feeling throughout the 28 years of the curse in some small way. And the fixing of the clock has set things in motion for the pair and their future (even if August doesn't think he has much of a future left).

It's about change!!! It's about setting things in motion! it's about repairing the damage that has been done by both Regina and by Marco and August themselves!

#august meta #ouat #listen. I don't quite know where I was going with this but....do I ever know where I'm going with these meta posts?#anyway. I guess I'm just saying that Emma was on her way to breaking the curse in general and on a wider scale #but august was dealing with things on a much more personal level #and was breaking the curse that is marco's loneliness #HELLO because? not only did he have curse memories of trying for a child but never being successful #but he also had curse memories of a wife that's no longer with him (who may or may not have existed in the EF?)#(this is a discussion that I've touched on before and also something for another time but shhhhh still)#everyone in storybrooke is supposed to be miserable but marco is miserable specifically because he's alone #(YES he has a solid friendship with archie. yes. but also. no wife. no child. has been an orphan for a LONG long time #and probably has curse memories of THAT)#(And archie is his friend here. and not like..the person that helped raise him. so their bond in storybrooke is a little different you know #but august 'fixing things' sets in motion a change for marco #ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#once upon a time #august booth

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adeadlyobsession · 1 year

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Dumbledore left Harry with the Dursleys because, in order to groom him to die, he needed a Harry Potter who learnt that his life has no value. You can only give up your life when you've been taught it means nothing.

I also like this post that Tom must have been suicidal too, and I think he was just fighting really hard against it (fake it 'til you make it) but he was taught the exact same thing: that his life doesn't matter at all. It makes sense that in war torn muggle London, no one's lives are ultimately important under bombs, but the fact that his life could have been important enough to protect and nobody (Dumbledore) who could change that did anything in the wizarding world to make him think otherwise, well...

Tom chose rebellion, anger and violence when faced with the lack of care of the whole world. He chose to make himself matter, no matter how little he believed it himself deep down. He lived in denial up to the very end.

Harry chose obedience and acceptance, already believing that no matter what he did, he did not matter at all. He lived in dissociation up to the very end.

Neither of these are good. Both need therapy. But Tom probably had the better idea there, cause he did make his life matter for himself. He gave himself meaning. Harry never gets to do that, and it makes even more sense how shitty of a dad he becomes in Cursed Child if we know he still lives in dissociation then, only being constantly triggered by his son's actions without understanding he is being triggered at all because he has no connection to his feelings whatsoever. Feelings? His feelings? Doesn't matter, because deep down, he still doesn't matter.

#tom riddle #harry potter #albus dumbledore #anti albus dumbledore #meta #cursed child #my writing #muchADOaboutnothing

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sweetandglovelyart · 3 months

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It’s a little bit late for Valentine’s Day but here’s the reveal of my cursed Kirby crack ship as promised: it’s Dyna Blade/Captain Vul and I envision their relationship dynamic as being like Donkey and Dragon’s relationship dynamic in the Shrek movies.

#my art #Kirby #Kirby fanart #Dyna Blade #Captain Vul #what do I even tag this ship as? Dyna Vul?#Meta Knight is shook lmao #sorry that this is a couple hours late I had to work today and got home kind of late so it took me longer to finish this #but anyways here it is finally my very cursed Kirby crack ship #they’re literally just Donkey and Dragon from the Shrek movies lmao that’s the vibe this relationship gives off #I started shipping this as a joke because I was wondering if Dyna Blade’s chicks had a dad/who the dad is #and I thought hey she and Vul are in the same game and they’re both birds what if Vul was the dad lmao #the main reason this ship can’t work is that Vul straight up shot her during Revenge of Meta Knight #she lived because we see her again in Star Allies but that would definitely end a relationship lmao #maybe they were together at one point and had the chicks but then they split up #Dyna Blade got the kids in the divorce lmao #maybe the reason we haven’t seen Vul in a game since 2008 is he’s hiding to avoid paying child support #Vul left to get milk and didn’t come back lmao #happy belated Valentine’s Day hope you enjoy this cursed ship

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moongothic · 5 months

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Re: Crocodile as the Missing Kuja Empress-theory

I do wanna throw it out there quickly that we know Shakky retired from being a pirate and the Kuja Empress 42 years ago at the age of 22, while Hancock took the throne 13 years ago (age 18), meaning the Missing Empress' reign/era lasted for about 29 years

And while we don't know how long the Kuja might've been without a ruler between empresses (like do they have a system set where they know who will take the throne next Immidiately After the previous one steps down/dies/etc, or might they spend years without an empress until they find a new suitable ruler?)

We do know that when Shakky retired, Crocodile would've been four

So unless Crocodile became The Kuja Empress at Age 4 (or unless the Kuja were completely without an empress for almost a decade and then gave the throne to a literal child), then there's no way Crocodile could be the Missing Kuja Empress

#Moon posting #OP Meta #Sir Crocodile #For the record Gloriosa couldn't have retaken the throne temporarily either because she was exiled #She didn't return to Amazon Lily until Hancock and her sisters escaped slavery 17 years ago #When the previous Empress pardoned Gloriosa and allowed her to return to Amazon Lily #The point is that the timeline really doesn't match for Crocodile to be the Missing Empress UNLESS he became the empress as a CHILD #Which. Technically plausible since we don't know how the Kuja choose their empresses etc but still I doubt it #(Or they really were without a proper ruler for like 14 years while waiting for the next empress in line to come of age??)#This post was spawned by me wondering if Croc could be Shakky and Reyleigh's kid. Like I almost made a post about it #(Just for one hell of a combo of fan theories (Kuja Empress + Crocodad + ''Reyleigh is Luffy's uncle''))#But then I realized how old Shakky and Reyleigh would've been when Shakky got pregnant and NOPE #So I canceled that post. It is not leaving my drafts. Shit's too cursed.#Almost a shame because I almost feel like I could've been onto something there but. No thank you. I'd rather not

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sofoulandfairaday · 2 years

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How do you think Delphi felt about Narcissa?

I think she could possibly be the only person she could hate more than Harry

Dear Anon, I fear I cannot really answer this question with lots of stone-cold canon facts, simply because Delphi's characterization is so lacking. It makes so little sense it gives me a headache just thinking about it.

First of all, people have to understand that Delphi is a minor character in a play. This in itself means that she would have little psychological complexity, even if the play were the best written ever (which it is certainly not). The play would have had to be entirely about her to do her justice, especially since she is a new character in a world of extremely complex ones, and has to be built from the ground up.

With this being said, if we were to take at face value what is written on the page, and how she is characterized there, yes, Narcissa probably would qualify as the person she hated the most. I've read CC a long time ago, but I seem to recall that Delphi only seems obsessed with her father, only naming her mother once. We don't know how she would have felt about her (and some explicitly characterize Delphi with a big Oedipus complex in fanfiction, or in open competition with her mother as the Dark Lord's "favourite", which I cannot really judge as unrealistic because, again, we don't know anything about her) so I will not presume that she would punish Narcissa for betraying Bellatrix.

What seems absurd to me is that during the play we are never informed of Lucius and Narcissa's death in extremely suspicious circumstances. We know she was powerful, we know she can be sneaky, Lucius and Cissy aren't in their prime... I don't know why she wouldn't exact revenge on them for betraying her father and causing his death. We know that she was born at Malfoy Manor "shortly before the Battle of Hogwarts", whatever that means, and Euphemia Rowle only took her in because she was offered gold. Whose gold?! Rodolphus'? There is no way minister Shacklebolt didn't seize the assets of the Lestrange family after the second fall of the Dark Lord seeing as, this time around, He had made enemies of the goblins as well. So it had to be the Malfoys'. Draco was also home for the Easter holidays in 1998 and I have no idea how they hid his baby cousin from him but whatever. But Lucius and Narcissa must have known.

This raises some very chilling questions. Narcissa might have hated Bellatrix at this point, Lucius and Draco felt even less love for her, and all three loathed the Dark Lord - but would they go as far as to abandon an innocent child? Maybe. It shocks me, seeing how protective they are of each other, but maybe that's just for immediate family. Just imagine how Lucius and Narcissa's trial at the end of the war would have gone if they had been found harbouring the Dark Lord's child. Also, all three of them were present at the end of the Battle of Hogwarts and I doubt they just allowed them to leave. The one that did disapparate away was Rodolphus (since most Death Eaters fled) and at this point, it seems reasonable he kidnapped the baby and brought her to Rowle for her own protection. Alright, fine. But did Narcissa really never visit her? Assure herself that the girl was happy and healthy? No, she just threw money at her and kept her out of her mind. That is cause for resentment enough for me, and I wish that it had been highlighted more in the actual play.

You see, the thing that I hated most about Delphi wasn't that she was evil. It was that she was evil for no reason at all. It says on her wiki that she inherited traits from her parents and that she was "cruel, sadistic, violent, manipulative, dominant, obsessive and cunning (it can also be said that she was talented and intelligent.) However, she had also inherited both her parents' explosive temper, blowing up whenever things didn't go her way." - First of all, already the fact that her only positive traits are in parentheses irritates me because it truly shows the black and white approach this play had to all its characters, coming from an author who had previously written that "the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters, we all have both light and dark inside of ourselves, what matters is the part we choose to act on". This play basically tells us: "Delphi is evil because her parents were Voldemort and Bellatrix, who were evil". Now. I call bullshit on this. Science is still divided on this, but most of the time we inherit traits from our parents because of nurture, not nature. Evil isn't always born, it's made. And even when it is born, we always have the capacity to choose something different.

Delphi never knew her parents. How is it possible that she was so much like them? Was it because she grew up allegedly abuse and, in any case, loveless? Fine, but say it. Why does Harry mock her in the end? Why, when confronted with a young woman crying and desperate because she just wanted to meet her father and be with him, does he tell her off cruelly and basically say "you'll rot in Azkaban"? Where is the understanding, the compassion? Even before knowing that she's killed someone Harry's reaction to Voldemort having a daughter is "no, no, no". But why??? Voldemort's not around to teach her. And by the way, even though researching your parents and your origin is natural, she has nothing of Voldemort. She never met him. She doesn't know him. Who told her tales of his greatness? Euphemia? Rodolphus? It surely wasn't fucking Narcissa.

And by the way, what was Narcissa even thinking? If Rodolphus knew about the prophecy, why didn't she? (And don't even get me started on that joke of a prophecy itself). And if she did, why didn't she inform anyone? She certainly didn't want the return of the Dark Lord. Why didn't she raise her sister's child, teaching her love and morals, while telling her that yes, she did betray her parents, but only because they were bad people and murderers? FUCKING LIE, CISSY, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. Tell her that stupid lie that everyone believes, that Voldemort couldn't love and so he wouldn't love her. That Bellatrix never showed interest in her. When Rodolphus shows up, she's more likely to think he's mad. Or better yet, do the right thing and tell her the truth. And apologise. Pretend you're sad you orphaned this child, but that you did it for a greater cause.

But the thing is, the Malfoys didn't have a good cause. They never stopped believing in blood supremacy and they disliked Astoria because she taught Scorpius that Muggle-borns and purebloods weren't different. They didn't betray Voldemort because he was a psychopath, they did it to save their own skin. Which of course wouldn't bode well with Delphi.

Maybe the play should have emphasized that by allowing another child to grow up loveless and estranged, lonely and scorned by everyone, just as Tom Riddle had, they created another monster.

((Also, just an additional note but since the only thing that changed in the alternate timeline was Cedric killing Neville, who then couldn't kill Nagini in the Battle of Hogwarts, it stands to reason that they still betrayed Voldemort. So why is fucking Draco Head of Magical Law Enforcement? Voldemort would have killed him in front of Lucius and Narcissa to make them pay. Whatever.))

They treat her with contempt, all of them, and it's not just because she's a murderer. Harry and the gang hate her for being Voldemort's child, which is incredibly out of character for all of them. She kills an irrelevant character to give them enough justification to throw her into Azkaban, which makes no sense. Why didn't she stun him? "Well, because she thought she was going to permanently change the timeline anyway". That's no excuse! Another thing this play gets horribly wrong (not just with Delphi, but also Albus and Scorpius) is that, just because the deaths the characters cause get undone, doesn't mean they're not real. Those were real people. And killing a person in real life is not that easy. If that was Delphi's first murder (since there's no suggestion that it wasn't), it could have not been that easy. And Delphi was not a psychopath, so it doesn't make sense as to why she would do it so nonchalantly. She shows empathy during the play. She loves her father (maybe? or maybe is just obsessed by what he represents and by the life she could have lived? do you know? I DON'T BECAUSE SHE'S SO BADLY WRITTEN).

Anyways, I just realized that I wrote a horribly long post ranting about stuff you didn't even ask me about, so I'll just end it here. What I'll say is that we better take Delphi as a cookie-cut cartoon villain, whose parents are who they are because it adds to the shock value. Because if we start poking at the inconsistencies in her character and that of those surrounding her the extremely fragile logic on which The Cursed Child stands on starts crumbling. If we were to analyse her more deeply, we'd find that this is a poor girl whose only fault was being born in the wrong family and that her aunt Narcissa is the one who ruined her life, carelessly abandoning her and leaving her to a lonely childhood, possibly prey of wronged death eater's delusions of grandeur and "what-could-have-been-if"s. All because she couldn't love a child she made an orphan.

#narcissa malfoy #delphini riddle #delphini diggory #the cursed child #lucius malfoy #draco malfoy #bellatrix lestrange #lord voldemort #rodolphus lestrange #harry potter #harry potter meta #hp meta #analyses #asks #rants

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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 14 days

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Could you elaborate on your thoughts on the Cursed Child? I'm very interested to hear them.

Too many. Too long.

In seriousness the last time we brought this up @therealvinelle and I promised to do an @rankheresy series of episodes on them because there's... a lot (both in our general thoughts on what goes on in the play, the bit of heresy of 'actually this tracks with what we see canonically and everyone else is wrong and weak and here's why', some things in the play that we... don't think are what is said to our faces or what we're supposed to take away from it.

I could talk for days about Cursed Child.

But the people voted to hear HP things first in @rankheresy so we've been putting out those in the meantime.

Someday.

#cursed child #rank heresy #meta #cursed child meta #vinelle #therealvinelle

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justtosealmyfate1 · 2 months

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The legacy of war in HP

My fic, the fates, which follows when Albus and Scorpius’ relationship is discovered, takes place only 25 years after the war! That is, in the grand scheme of things, so little time. I thought a lot about societies after dictatorships— more specifically Spain and Latin American countries. Spain took a total head-in-the-sand approach. They don’t discuss their 30+ year long fascist dictatorship, don’t teach it in school and there are still political parties (like Vox) who actively want to return to that era. After Cambodia, Spain has the most mass graves in the world. But since Spain is a liberal, democratic Western country, nobody is forcing them to reckon with this history. This is in contrast with Latin American countries like Guatemala, Argentina and Chile, which had their dictators prosecuted for war crimes to varying degrees of success.

There are pros and cons to prosecution and reparations versus amnesty. It’s interesting to think about what Wizarding Britain would have chosen. Even though Voldemort’s actual dictatorship only lasted about nine months, there were years of political instability and terror in the 90s. It seems like something similar happened during the First War in the 70s, so there would be multiple generations affected by this culture of violence.

There are other fics that explore this better (like castles by pebblysand and beasts by whinlatter) but I would hope that there would be some form of justice after the Second War. I think there would have to be some degree of amnesty, simply because you can’t prosecute all of the Ministry workers who were complicit in the regime, but I think the point of the HP series would be moot if there weren’t institutional changes after Voldemort’s defeat. The same thing happened in Spain— many of the people who served in Francisco Franco’s regime also served in their democratic government. It’s just more realistic.

The kids in Albus’ year would be born in 2005/2006– less than 10 years after the war ended. His generation lives in the shadow of a war that shaped their entire society and culture. For Albus especially, because his entire family was deeply entrenched in the war, this would be so consequential. While other members of his family may be able to segregate themselves from “the other side” of the war (i.e. the Death Eaters and people complicit in their violence), he can’t. He’s exposed to a different political class in Slytherin (though not social or economic class, which I think is an important note— Albus is a privileged rich boy from an important family!) I don’t think the kids in Slytherin would be explicitly pureblood supremacists/Death Eaters, but I do think some may be more sympathetic to that way of life considering their families had more social and political power in the 20th century.

This is what makes Scorpius and his relationship with Albus so exceptional. They have every reason in the world to be prejudiced towards each other. The last two generations of Malfoys have been Death Eaters while the last two generations of Potter-Weasleys have been DA or Order members. The fact that they’re able to forge this dynamic with each other after decades of hatred is insane to me. Which makes it so fun to write fic about!

(disclaimer: If you disagree with me that’s okay! And don’t say I didn’t like that play! Clearly I liked it enough because I’m sitting around writing fanfiction about it nearly a decade later.)

I’m tossing my hat into the ring of this eight year discourse. I’ve seen CC on Broadway, and it was incredible! The technical feats, the acting and the story works on stage. In my opinion, plays are better when they have a very visual, dramatic, jumping-off-the-page storyline. But as a script and as a part of HP canon, the plot doesn’t work as well. The whole time travel thing, Voldemort’s daughter retcon and cutting (and kinda ruining) major characters doesn’t translate well. Albus is also just an unsympathetic character. He’s impossible to root for because he’s so destructive and self-absorbed. I think all fic writers kinda make him better than he was in the play, and this fic is no different. Although I think his personality does tie back, to an extent, to what can be accomplished in a book versus in a play. CC was very plot driven, which is interesting because the main draw of the show is its characters. I think it works on stage, but as HP canon, not really. The younger generation of characters aren’t really fleshed out enough. Albus wasn’t standing around giving soliloquies, he was participating in the plot, and while we can glean his personality and motivations from that, it’s not enough for character-driven girlies like me. I think a lot of the characters in CC are kind of caricature-like and one note because the play was so plot driven. I can see what they were trying to do. Like Rose is bossy and smart like Hermione, but Hermione was also so much more than that, so it feels reductive. Ron is this silly comic relief, which he could be in the books, but again, he was so, so much more than that. Harry is (presumably) very traumatized and quick to anger, which is true, but he also was sweet and kind and a chill guy most of the time.

I do like some of the elements, like Albus and Scorpius’ relationship (or non-relationship), Albus being in Slytherin and even the difficult relationship between Al and his dad. The play really takes it to an extreme that’s definitely a turn off to a lot of readers, and rightfully so. But it would be hard to have such a famous father who you look exactly like!

#hp meta #cursed child meta #cursed child #albus potter #scorbus

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dumbledore-and-grindelwald · 2 years

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I don't have many issues with cc but the Bellatrix Voldemort daughter is just so unrealistic. How do you explain that and the fact it's straight up from a wattpad fanfic?

I just don't think that it's unrealistic.

There have been different theories. Some have said that Delphi might have been conceived magically etc. Personally, I think that her being Bellatrix and Voldemort's daughter is plausible.

Bellatrix's absence between the battle of the 7 Potters and Malfoy Mannor makes it fine in terms of the timeline. Bellatrix' obsession with Voldemort surpassing the regular devotion other death-eaters showed is not fanon. It was in the text. It's also heavily hinted that Voldemort actually appreciated Bellatrix's commitment despite being unable to love and being downright cruel and abusive. I genuinely don't remember him trying to avenge any of his other followers' deaths, or losing control of his power to the point that he blasts back several people in a wide ratnge "as [his] fury at the fall of his last, best leutenant exploded with the force of a bomb."

I can understand why some fans struggle with someone as dehumanized as Voldemort, who actually wanted to exceed his mortality, having sex. How does it make sense for someone who doesn't feel love and who wants to transcend his humanity to have sex, right? I know the arguments that can be made against this choice. But Tom was also someone who was afraid of death. He split his soul, but he still clinged to a mortal body and spent several years trying to return to his own form. People who don't experience attraction are not necessarily above basic urges. Voldemort's twisted body is one of the few human-like things that he still has and carnal experiences are still part of that. Unlike love, he could process desire more easily: "He desired her, that was all," sneered Voldemort, "but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worhier of him - ".

There is a certain irony in Tom splitting his soul to ensure that he will endure, but having a child being the only part of him that does, as it tends to happen with regulat people, that I appreciate.

#cursed child #harry potter #voldemort #delphi riddle #tom riddle #bellamort #delphi diggory #hpcc #asks #I haven't talked about cc in a while and I've missed it #hpcc meta

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With today's animated short, I wonder if Childe knows Arlecchino's true name. In your ship, does he know?

There's something. Very meta-canonical about the way I ship tartacchino. i.e. They have a harem to mirror the Genshin harem, they took Chiori as their wife because she was the limited character being picked up, etc.

So what happened is that Childe learned Arlecchino's name just then and I can say that he was very happy to learn her name!

I don't know if I see this ship being a reality within the Genshin canon - that said learning that Arlecchino is probably only about 10 years older (lmao) than Childe helped things a little bit. While I think Arlecchino would definitely go for Childe if she liked men (and maybe even if she didn't), but why would Childe go for Arlecchino over any other random woman (who might not be a playable character), if he had the choice? But I know ships don't have to be realistic and if you're shipping among playable characters the options are limited and imo they seem great with each other and personally I need them to be together so yeah -

That said. The meta nature of this ship fits with how Arlecchino seems to be a reality bender

#yo send me questions about tartacchino #ask me things about this cursed ship #you know how arlecchino called signora “rosalyn” and I was just like “yo she just straight up calls him ajax”#arlecchino #childe #tartaglia #tartacchino #genshin impact #tartacchino meta

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radiance1 · 7 months

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De-aged Danny, but with the extra addition of him being a Moth-boy.

So he ends up in the DC dimension, one-way, someway and is now an orphan. As one usually would be, when trapped in another dimension and no longer able to contact friends and family while also looking like a goddamn 5-year-old.

So, he lives on the streets as a homeless meta kid, mostly because nobody wants to hire a literal child that looks to be under 10, not even a teen, even if for part time.

So what does a tiny, four-armed and fluffy Moth-boy Ghost to do? Not much, if he's being honest, but when times call for desperate measures he...!

Resorts to stealing.

He's obviously not going to resort to digging through garbage-for interesting little doodads, sure, but not for food. Like earlier today, where he found a little glass marble that he placed with his other glass marbles in a little collection.

Some big, some small, and some even have glitter!

He regularly uses his invisibility and intangibility to steal good for himself, mostly at night, or during a rush hour, and it works well for him. Until he was caught by a pizza shop owner, who for some reason was able to catch him while he was invisible, and instead of being, you know, cursed/and or shouted at for stealing.

He finds himself with a job.

Mostly to do with cleaning the floor, and occasionally taking orders to different tables. He was also granted a free room, and had a pretty decent pay all things considered, also the free pizza was a plus.

Did he expect this to happen? No, no he did not, but did the owner say anything about his glass marble collection? Yes, yes they did. Mostly trying to stop him from digging through the trash for them, and instead pointing him to a store that actually, you know, sells them.

Then one day, while he was mopping the floor (why the fuck are the brooms and mops so big.), their usual delivery guy was out of commission, caught a cold or something, and Danny, wanting to more money as well as help out, volunteered to do this job. He could fly and he was fast, so he was given it, but as long as he was careful and safe.

So he finished most of the orders pretty easily, didn't need to use the scooter since he could, you know, fly and all that. The last place on the list he didn't know that well, but was pretty famous around Jump City.

Titans Tower.

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp crossover

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fandomfuntimem · 12 hours

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Dp x dc prompt #10000000000000000000000000000000000¹⁰

Bruce decided to foster this boy he had found. The kid's name is Danny, his parents were arrested for child endangerment and having an illegal lab in their basement.

At first the boy was curt and avoided contact with others. But now, they cannot keep their eyes off him. The moment they look away he is already halfway down the street running like a bat(haha) out of hell. No wonder Bruce had found him wondering the streets. No family could ever keep him in one place.

At first it was easy to catch him and bring him back, "hiring" the vigilantes to find him. But with time he only got sneakier, faster, and angrier. Everytime he got dragged back he was yelling and cursing. Calling Bruce a "fruitloop" he could only assume that was ment to be derogatory. Once he even punched poor Dick in the face. Duke swears that he must be a meta human, and Bruce can't help but agree with that sentiment.

Oddly enough though, Jason was the one to find him the most. At first it was just luck, but the more emotional Danny got, the more it became like a sixth sense to him. Danny disappeared, and Jason could find him. Hell, Danny was calmest with Jason. Still warry, but he didn't struggle as much, or search for ways out when he was set to watch him.

Now though, there were more reasons to keep an eye on him than before. One night he escaped, but he wasn't running from them, he was running to something. When Jason managed to catch him he swore up and down this wasn't an escape attempt, right before he pulled the vigilante down barely avoiding a bullet to the head. It was the Court of Owls. They were after Danny, and they led him into a trap. They barely made it out with their lives. Danny claimed he followed because he saw someone in trouble.

Then later, the League of Assassins made an attempt on his life. Claiming Ra's Al Ghul had plans for him. Ok. Ew. Yet another son of Bruce's the old creep was after.

Then more and more paranormal based groups and cults were gunning it for the poor kid. Now Danny had a new reason to run, and they had a new reason to protect him even harder.

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