#probably harry potter

[prkrt]

Sky High Would Have Been a Much Better Movie if Will Stronghold Never Got His Powers

So either last year or the year before I rewatched Sky High with my best friend for his birthday. Last I’d seen it I was probably like 5. And it was a fun watch. I’m a sucker for mid-2000′s media, and Sky High is as mid as it gets. While we were riffing on every little detail (like how Zach, Ethan, and Magenta look like Danny, Tucker, and Sam from Danny Phantom) eventually we got to the point where Will gets his powers. And then it hit me: “Why?”

Will not having powers is a pretty big deal in the movie. Having powers is a BIG deal even this movie. Even seemingly useless ones like glowing or melting into a puddle separate you from the average everyday citizen. So much so there’s an entire floating high school made just to train up-and-coming heroes. One could argue that entrance to the school requires having powers, and Will shouldn’t be attending at all.

And I think the movie could have genuinely drove the “Anyone can be a hero” message a lot more, and played with Will’s character a bit more, if he didn’t eventually just get superpowers out of nowhere. It’s really weird he does at all, because Will goes from an underdog who has all this shame about not having powers, which has forced him to lie to his father and be an outcast in his school, to Superman almost immediately. And Will only really becomes a jerk because of these powers, abandoning his friends, only to redeem himself later because the situation calls for it.

I think, genuinely, the film could have been a lot better if Will just never got his superpowers, and he had to prove he could be a hero without them. Instead of using his super strength to throw around Royal Pain, he’d be helping to stop the school from crashing into the ground and standing up to her even when the odds are against him. All with the help of his fellow sidekick friends. It’d be easier for the viewer to relate to (don’t we all feel a little small compared to everyone else?) and have an overall more positive message. Otherwise, it’s really just the story of some privileged kid getting everything he wants, just a little later than he wanted.

#sky high #will stronghold #layla williams #warren peace #zach braun #danny fenton #ethan #tucker foley #magenta #sam manson #gwen grayson #royal pain #danny phantom #honestly theres so much more wrong with the movie #like logically #why is the school in the air #why doesn't anyone question the out of service road they use to take off to sky high #why doesnt anyone notice the FLYING SCHOOL BUS #why do they even have to have secret identities #probably harry potter

[lunarlivs]

me <3 this werewolf

remus as pics from pinterest that reminded me of him

#this started with me feeling like absolutely shit and drawing the help. one #and tadaa #here he is :3 #my boy :3 #my 64 year old grumpy noodle #honestly #the amount of time i spend thinking about his is probably not normal #but look at him!!! #remus lupin #remus lupin fanart #marauders #marauders era #fanart #sirius black #wolfstar #marauders fandom #james potter #harry potter #peter pettigrew

[plumadesatada]

just remembered a fic on AO3 (or more likely LJ because it had that distinct late 00's experimental vibe) that appeared double-spaced oddly, in that some paragraphs would be spaced normally and others would have double or even triple spaces in between. it was about one half of the otp getting over the other's death (or coma, can't remember which), so all the comments were about how poignant the use of visual spacing was as a means to convey all the emotional holes in the character's life.

and then the author replied like... *giggle* guys it's NOT double spaced. try selecting the whole text

and we were all like "no WAY"

but we selected the text, and yes!!!

the "holes" in the story? they were actually lines and actions from the dead/coma character's ghost, rendered invisible to the eye by the simple trick of coloring the text the exact same as the background, revealed by nothing more than a click and a drag of the mouse

a story about the profound loneliness of losing your the partner of your life and having to make do without them, without anything to fill the holes they'd left behind, suddenly became a story about the profound helplessness of seeing someone you love suffer from your absence while you are right there, unable to do anything about it, unable to communicate that you love them enough to suffer unseen and unheard with them, just to keep them company they'll never know about

it was then that I truly realized how *superior* the digital medium is to plain printed paper, how the medium and the format can add to a story.

I think about that fic about once a year. I wish I could find it again

EDIT: FOUND IT!!!! UPDATE HERE

#probable fandoms for it (that I was in at that time): naruto Hikaru no go deathnote maybe? #definitely not Harry Potter or BBC merlin. I can't recall what else I was into back in 2008-2009 #God I miss those Fandom days. everyone was doing such NEAT things both coding and writing wise #fanfic #pretty sure it was LJ #UPDATE: IT WAS LJ AND THE FIC IS BBC SHERLOCK 🤮 #but still worth reading

[panevanbuckley]

#i know there are probably many more but these were the main ones circulating at my school #this can be books or movies #just whichever took over the majority of your childhood and teen years #the maze runner #harry potter #the hunger games #twilight #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #vampire diaries #tvd #the vampire diaries #polls

[ebysse]

the headmasters impart wisdom

#saw this quote from a meme and thought it was THE most albus - severus thing ever #been busy w LIFE but hihihi #even so if i go too long w/o drawing snape i will implode probably #not the tumblr image compression on mobile :( looks so blurry #mine #severus snape #hp fanart #snape #harry potter

[thekeythief]

#drarry #harry potter #draco malfoy #can’t believe I’m here like 25 years late but it’s fine #they’re probably holding hands #or other things #:)

[duckprintspress]

So this poll from @pollsnatural asked if Supernatural was the most toxic fandom people have been in, and the vast majority of folks said no, so now - based on some fandoms in the replies of that post - I'm curious...

Runners up from the linked poll include Teen Wolf, MCU, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time, sports RPF, Minecraft YouTube, Dragon Age, Mo Dao Zu Shi, One Direction, a bunch of others, and a few abbreviations I'm not familiar with lmao.

I'm guessing "other" will win this poll - tell me which in the tags! I'm curious if there's any Really Big One I should have included (probably MCU...it was hard to juggle "size/popularity of fandom" with "relative toxicity" like if a fandom is huge it's usually just more toxic in general cause there are the same number of weirdos per capita but way more people overall, ya know?)

anyway. yes. poll. do the thing.

#polls #fandom polls #my top three in no particular order are voltron harry potter and mdzs #supernatural is probably fourth tho #like it's up there but i've also just been in a lot of fandoms #and harry potter is hard to top for toxic when jkr herself is right the fuck there being a bitch on wheels #not gonna tag the fandoms on this one lmao #people can find it organically via reblogs or not at all

[virgil-anon]

Tom working at borgin and burkes will never not be funny to me like tjskdkskdksk I've worked customer service jobs since I was 18 and they made me, an otherwise (somewhat) fully functional adult, want to commit acts that violate the geneva convention can you IMAGINE what tom was coming up with for customers he hated? He's already split his soul at that point potentially twice like... there's definitely some bodies buried in the back is all I'm saying

#imagine his customer service voice yall #i bet borgin and burke thought he had some personality disorder or something #from the abrupt shift of *devious murder plans* face to “hi!! how can I help you? 🥰” #okay probably not that extreme bc hello this is knockturn alley but still #the image is funny #tomarry #harry potter #tom riddle #voldemort #tomarrymort #tom marvolo riddle #harrymort

[jiangyanlissidepiece]

Little Harry: what were you and Papa like when you first met?

James, smiling: we instantly hit it off!

Regulus: uh, no. I threatened to rip out your eyes and feed them to you.

James: ah, but that was when I knew you were the one.

#marauders era #harry potter #marauders #regulus black #incorrect marauders quotes #incorrect marauders era #jegulus #incorrect marauders textposts #slytherin skittles #incorrect harry potter quotes #james potter #james is a simp #he is a gomez addams level Simp #is he a masochist? #probably #don’t tell his mother

[milleeeeeee]

looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you; Remus

looks like they could kill you, is a cinnamon roll; Sirius

looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll; James

looks like could kill you, would kill you; Regulus

#the marauders #marauders #marauders fandom #wizarding world #dead gay wizards #remus lupin #sirius black #james potter #regulus black #wolfstar #harry potter series #jegulus #someone has probably made this joke before #ao3 #hp fandom #lgbtq #cinnamoroll #could kill you #that my opinion anyway you don’t have to agree #remus being remus #remus kinnie #sirius kinnie #james kinnie #regulus kinnie #i fucking love them so much #so yeah

[quail-in-red]

it's not you, it's my enemies + coffee shop

66. It’s not you, it’s my enemies + 4. Coffee shop AU

plus bonus florist AU!

Trope Mashups!

#drarry #harry potter #draco malfoy #hp fanart #coffee shop au #trope mashups #ask meme #I don’t know if I’ll ever get to all of these but I still have fun doing them every so often!! #Harry’s flower shop is probably called something really dumb like The Flower Potter

[regsboat]

harry james potter is the prettiest sassiest sweetest most earnest brattiest snarkiest bravest sexiest most endearing cutest boy in the whole word. thankd for coming to my ted talk

#said by draco lucius malfoy at some point probably #harry potter #drarry #hpdm #harco #draco x harry #hjp #hjp enthusiast #hjp hype

[sunsfawn]

…flirting?

#hp #harry potter #sunsfawn #the marauders #the marauders era #drarry #draco malfoy #draco and harry #sapphic drarry #fem!harry potter #fem!draco malfoy #the girls are fighting #“hello my love i mean my rival” - drarry probably

[valoale]

I'm quite convinced Draco uses half of his time staring at Harry like this and wondering how he can be so dumb (he loves it and knows they'll smash later so he won't complain)

#tumblr stop destroying the image quality I’m tired #know I said I probably won't do any art for some time but it seems the iPad has grown into my hands #also I did this in almost one sitting like 11 hours well spent #and I was supposed to design a poster #but Draco possessed me #also I'm pretty sure Lucius Narcissa and Draco all do that pose #and they all think theirs are subtle and doesn't seem judging #his face was supposed to be more questioning but he turned out more dazed #well this works too #but yes hi have some art #I really should colour more pieces #hp #draco malfoy #harry potter #drarry #art #hpdm #hp/dm #vee art

[betweendyingstars]

Marylily with baby Harry

#this was requested in response to my jegulus with baby Harry post literal months ago but I finally did it!! #it’s actually probably one of my favourites I’ve ever done #I just love them so much ugh #the marauders #lily evans #mary macdonald #harry potter #marylily #lily evans fanart #mary macdonald fanart #harry potter fanart #marylily fanart #marauders fanart #marauders era #marauders era fanart #marauders #fanart #my art

[littleliterarylesbian]

I like to think that Regulus absolutely CANNOT handle second hand embarrassment. Anything he's witnessing that could possibly end up embarrassing? he's walking away, speed walking even.

He has left so many people (cough cough mainly James, Sirius, and Barty) stranded before because he refuses to even witness their tomfoolery in any way. He's got like spider sense tingles on the back of his neck whenever someone starts to do something that he considers embarrassing or cringe in the area he's in.

#am i projecting? probably #marauders era #marauders #harry potter #regulus black #black brothers #regulus arcturus black #dead wizards from the 70s #dead gay wizards #hp marauders #the slytherin skittles #slytherin skittles #.theadcanons