I love your Jily alot but just wanted to give so much more love for Lily and Severus's dysfunctional friendship. Obviously it was doomed to fail, but i cant help but be delusional and wish they kept their friendship if snape hadnt been so obsessed with power. Like I love these two "lower middle class, cigaratte smoking, no one really accepted me until I met you, potion gang forever" friendship. As much I love romance the fandom doesnt give friendships the love it deserves. Anyway rant over. Love your fics ans cant wait for Ch10.
omggg this might just be the best ask I've ever received because their friendship is my favourite thing to write about, it's so so interesting to me. tbh people tend to be very negative about it on both sides of the snape vs marauders war (in which i am happily chilling in the middle) but I think this is somewhat unfair sometimes. Obviously it was very dysfunctional (and that's what I like about it honestlyy lol) but there was real love there too, and both of them to their credit defied peer pressure as teens in order to remain friends as long as they did, until it reached a breaking point. Personally I think Lily never stopped caring about him and I don't like when fics have her unreasonably hateful towards him after SWM (and calling him 'Snape' like. no). I think Lily was sufficiently kind to recognise that even though the friendship was unsustainable, in many ways Sev was a victim and I think she still felt sorry for him, for the abused kid he once was. Arguably she shouldn't have but that's just Lily imo, and Harry is the same way
Anyway that got long sorry but thank you so much!!! This is so lovely to hear. I am also a huge fan of "Lily and Sev skulking around cokeworth smoking cigarettes and listening to pretentious music" dynamic it's my absolute fave. And it's sad to think about how things might have turned out if not just voldemort but the larger issues in the wizarding world hadn't torn them apart. it was doomed from the start, but that doesn't mean it wasn't real!
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I believe that no matter what he did, there was no happy ending for Jin Guangyao.
Whether he stayed with the Nie (he would always wish that he could have been legitimized by his father. [Because of the better social standing it would bring him which was a very big deal actually he would have been miserable unless he was legitimized, because he really wanted his father's acceptance, because he had to replace that horrible last memory of Jinlintai in his mind, because it was his birthright, & most importantly because it was his mother's last wish], he would get bullied & humiliated & get looked down upon every day by almost everyone, he would always wish [& know that with his potential] he could reach much higher and make the changes he wanted to make in the world) or didn't, or join the Lans (the same problems but maybe with less bullying and fewer shit talks because it would have been against the Lan rules and also the Lans owed JGY big time) or the Jiangs, whether Meng Shi survived or didn't (I think JGY wouldn't have told her about that staircase incident, then who knows what lies he'd make up and what he would do to hide that he was not accepted by the Jins from his mother or get accepted by them at any cost and what it would result in) whether NHS planned his downfall or didn't (he still had the head of NMJ in his secret room that he claimed "wouldn't let him go", he still slept in the same bed as his sister, he still had and had lost a son with her that he claimed that "his blood ran cold everytime he looked at him" & whether he did have him killed or not he blamed himself for his death [I've explained here why I think that], he still had to live with the knowledge that no matter what horrible deed he committed for JGS, no matter how hard he tried he was never "worth mentioning" to his father, and had to lose all his considerable filial piety & what was essentially his life's mission to the point that he murdered his father) whether he went to Dongying (he'd have still lost all he built in his motherland, despite years of trying to build himself a good reputation and prove anyone who taunt him wrong, he'd still always be known as the rotten "son of a prostitute" there. And He'd have to start from scratch in Dongying, He'd still had to leave without Meng Shi's body, NHS would never get off his tail, and he'd be separated from LXC and JL [even if they followed him, he likely would feel bad for separating them from their sects and their families. Those were things that JGY himself longed for most of his life. He wouldn't want them to follow him.]) or didn't. & don't even start with him marrying LXC which would make all his problems exponentially worse. It would probably get LXC in trouble too (maybe he'd had to leave his sect) and that would be something that JGY would never want.
Certainly, what happened to him in canon was the worst possible scenario and he might have been less miserable in some of those other scenarios, but there were just no happy endings for him.
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spotify wrapped-77?
Send me a number 1-100 and i will try to write a short fic based off whatever song that corresponds to in my spotify wrapped replay 2023!
“Oh, hello.”
The newcomer blinks. One ear twitches. Ren turns towards her, eyes wide, startled.
“Lizzie?”
“It’s good to see you again,” says Lizzie, and she’s only a little facetious, only a little bitter.
“Where… are we?” Ren looks around. It’s dark. The void stretches on and on forever, flecked with specks of light.
“Dead,” says Lizzie dully.
“Oh.” He blinks, rubbing at his head. “I don’t know what happened, I was—I was Tango, for a bit, I think? And now—oh. Oh, I feel sick.”
“Yeah, it’ll do that to you,” she says, flicking a nail. “How’ve you been, Ren? I haven’t seen you in a while.” She stares at him through narrow eyes.
“I haven’t seen you either, my Queen,” he says with a bow. “It’s been far too long.”
She snorts. Hugs her knees to her chest. “Don’t make me laugh.”
“What did I do?”
“My Queen,” she echoes, mocking.
“Well.” Ren hesitates. “You were.”
“Not anymore.” She reaches up, swipes her wrist across her eye. She’s not crying anymore, though. There are no tears to wipe away. It just burns. “Now I’m dead!”
“Are you okay?” Ren asks.
She laughs. “I died. It wasn’t even for my task! It wasn’t even cool! I just—I looked at an enderman—why wasn’t I wearing a bloody pumpkin?! I spent so long trying to convince Cleo to wear a pumpkin, and then I—agh. It was embarrassing. I’m an embarrassment.” She buries her face in her knees. “Don’t look at me.”
Ren is quiet. She thinks, for a moment, that he’s moved away, but then there’s a hand in her hair, and a voice saying, “I don’t think you’re an embarrassment, my Queen.”
She snorts. “Everyone else does,” she says lowly. “I died before Jimmy. Do you know how embarrassing it is to die before Jimmy? Everyone says he’s cursed! I’m just—I’m just—incompetent. And nobody even cared.”
“I care,” Ren says softly.
“You’re dead too.” She scowls into her skirt. “You weren’t even really alive.”
“...That doesn’t mean I don’t care.”
“You didn’t.”
“What?”
“Last time—Last Life—you—you didn’t want me anymore. And then I died. And this time—I was alone again. I thought I worked better alone. Certainly worked better than all that nonsense with the Fairy Fort. But—here I am again! Dead!” She laughs. “Stupid game. I shouldn’t have played.”
“I know the feeling, my friend.” He settles down, sitting beside her with a sigh. “It’s okay. You don’t have to play again if you don’t want to. God knows I don’t.”
She steals a sideways glance at him. “How come?”
He grimaces. “Do you know how I died last time?”
“No.”
“Grian dropped dripstone on my head. I didn’t even see it coming. It was—it was a one in a million chance, my dude, the luckiest shot in the world, and he made it. Everyone thought it was so cool. Nobody thought that it was sad that I was dead. Well, except for Grian, who thought it was sad that BigB died because of me.”
Lizzie tilts her head to the side. Peers up at him. “That must be pretty embarrassing for you, huh,” she says.
His ears flick back against his head as he sags. “So embarrassing.”
“Well…” She straightens up a little. Rubs at her eyes again. Says, “I suppose if someone must see me in such a state, it should be someone who’s just as pathetic as me.” Offers him a small smile.
“Aye, my Lady,” he says with a laugh. “What a pathetic pair we make.”
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I just blocked someone who commented on a post about a toddler having a successful surgery that they hate children and had an unrelenting urge to throw said child off a cliff.
Get fucking help you piece of shit monster.
I get not wanting to have children. I do. I have 2 of my own, and I fully stand behind the idea of not having children that you truly and deeply do not wish to have. No child deserves to be raised with your lack of love and resentment. That is a literal breeding ground for child abuse.
However, if you just despise children for no other reason than that they are children and not adults... you're a fucking piece of shit. If you harbor violent thoughts towards children, there is something wrong with you.
Hating and loathing people for no other reason than their age is a form of bigoted prejudice and it's long past the time that we called it as such. There are WAY too many people on here that are extremely comfortable posting their violent fantasies of what they would like to do to children and the elderly. Yanno, the two groups that are most vulnerable to abuse and murder.
Child abuse and elderly abuse are pervasive enough to require legal departments who deal with these forms of abuse in almost every country on earth. Why? Because vulnerable people attract predators, even ones in their own families. And say what you will about other population demographics, nobody is more vulnerable than children and the elderly. They literally depend on the care of others to survive.
And the way a lot of you post and comment about children and the elderly? I wouldn't trust many of you with the lives of a child or an elderly person, because you'd abuse them.
I will even go further. The ageism on this sight is vomit inducing. Far too many of you act as though the only people who are worthy of dignity and respect are those between the ages of 13 to 29. If someone is 0 through 12, they are a disgusting child who y'all hate with a disturbing rage. If someone is 30 through 100, then they are an old asshole who is the cause of all things bad on this earth, and why can't they just die already???
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