Tag: harry potter

thequeerwithoutfear:

not into the way so many of y’all are making fun of people who still care about & connect with harry potter.

poking fun at people whose politics are unnuanced? sure. just the cringe culture of “these people still like a thing i associate with being young?” gross

like yeah, people use harry potter and other things like it to interpret and connect to their world, and to solve problems, and to process things they don’t know how else to process. but i don’t think that’s funny, or cringey. i think that’s kind of what books and fiction are about.

“read another book!!” okay, chill, but the thing about harry potter is that it’s a language that almost everybody in your audience is familiar with.

it has a broad, broad reach that makes it a pretty excellent communication tool for a  lot of people in a way other books aren’t.

harry potter is super culturally accessible, and using it as a parallel for politics or your own feelings or whatever means a lot of people are starting on the same ground who wouldn’t be otherwise if you were using foucault or judith butler or 1980s daredevil comics or whatever.

don’t get me wrong — i have a lot of problems with harry potter. over time, i’ve come to a place where i find a lot of what’s in harry potter to no longer be that useful or engaging for me, and there’s a lot about jk rowling’s politics that i actively disagree with. i don’t think harry potter is a good comprehensive political ideology, and i don’t mean to minimize how messed up and over-simplified a lot of the hp universe is. but i’m always gonna be in favor of people using the tools they have to contextualize their worlds in a way they understand. harry potter is a big resource for a lot of people. devaluing that because it’s not cool anymore for you? that’s kind of nasty

filthystark:

In this house, Infinity War didn’t happen.

Story time: I think I’ve mentioned this but I looooooved Remus/Tonks for various reasons, so as you can imagine, I was pretty fucking upset when they got married and then fucking died in Deathly Hallows. And I dealt with it clinging so hard to AUs and denial that I literally forgot that they’d actually died, to the point that I was momentarily confused months or possibly years later when anything came up about their deaths. 

I mean, it was a little easier with them because their deaths happened at the very end of canon and changed literally nothing, which is not the case with Infinity War, but personally I hope my brain is capable of repeating that trick again because tbh it was pretty nice

[FANMIX] the werewolf and the shapeshifter – Chapter 1 – 100indecisions – Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks
Characters: Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Teddy Lupin
Additional Tags: Fanmix, Deathly Hallows Fix, Deathly Hallows AU, Character Death Fix, Music, Post-War, Family
Series: Part 3 of Time & Werewolves, Part 9 of Fandom non-fiction
Summary: Two old fanmixes for Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks.

The last time I was really upset about a character death was Remus and Tonks in Deathly Hallows, and although I never finished my big fix-it fic (it was…a Doctor Who crossover, actually), I did make two different fanmixes on the general subject of “no they totally didn’t die, la la la I can’t hear you,” and on revisiting these mixes it turns out a lot of the songs I found are highly appropriate for firmly denying other fictional deaths-that-definitely-didn’t-happen as well! So if anyone else feels a need for that kind of thing right now, this probably isn’t a bad place to start.

[FANMIX] the werewolf and the shapeshifter – Chapter 1 – 100indecisions – Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

stevetomjohn:

I was thinking this weekend about how awkward it was that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them insists that Americans call muggles “no-maj.” First off, it just doesn’t sound like an abbreviation we’d use, and it sounds even worse in plural. But I finally realized the more important point: it’s too direct. Especially for the time period, Americans would never have been that straightforward in talking about a topic that sensitive. And so I would like to submit, in the spirit of early twentieth-century slang, a list of possible euphemisms we may have used for muggles:

  • He washes his dishes with a cloth.
  • He pays in nickels and dimes.
  • He rides the trolley to work. 
  • He takes his boots to the cobbler.
  • He’s grateful for Mr. Edison.
  • He’s one of Grisham’s boys. (here imagining that Grisham was a prominent wizard who famously fathered no magic children)
  • He dances on the ground.
  • He writes with a pen.
  • He’s fond of a two-piece suit.
  • He’s more King Arthur than Merlin.
  • He’s got to wind his pocket watch.
  • He gets his wax from bees.
  • His wife darns his socks.
  • He treats his ailments with tonics.
  • His portraits stay put.
  • His broom is only for sweeping.

I’m having a little too much fun with this, so if you have any to add, please send them over.