Remus, Sirius, Marlene And Dorcas At Pride

✨ this or that ✨

tagged by @neege, thank you! <3 tagging @brandileigh2003 @raindragon-20 @missmoonfrost

coffee shop or flower shop

au or fix-it

enemies to lovers or childhood friends

angst or fluff

love at first sight or pining

modern au or historical au

soulmates or unrequited

fake dating or secret dating

break up & make up or proposal & weddings

get together or established relationship

oblivious pining or domestic fluff

hurt/comfort or crack

meet the parents or meet cute

this was way harder than it should’ve been omg i’m awful at making decisions/picking favorites 😭

Remus is honestly my only motivation to draw these days but I’m not complaining

"the over romanticization of death eaters has made the harry potter/marauders universe lose its charm," i say into the mic.

the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when multiple voices speak and command silence from the room.

"she's right," they say. i look for the owners of the voices. there in the 5th row stands: literally every character who is inherently good but overlooked by the fandom.

Remus birthday art ❤️

Nothing will turn me away faster from a fic/video/art than the mention that they used fucking chat gpt.

I don't fucking care if you "just" used it for ideas or to "polish" your writing because english is not your first language - I literally don't care. If you lack ideas then maybe rn is not the time to create but to experience to gain access to the creativity you obviously lack. If you can't write English well? Then learn it. Do it badly. Honestly, I'd rather read terrible grammar and spelling than ai crap.

Get a fucking grip, people.

House elf speech patterns and the ‘happy slave’ trope

The way house-elves speak with their exaggerated, broken syntax, subject verb disagreements, and deferential tone bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the way enslaved people have been depicted in film, particularly in movies that glorify the antebellum south.

Take Winky’s syntax :

“But I knows Dobby too, sir!” squeaked the elf. She was shielding her face, as though blinded by light, though the Top Box was not brightly lit. “My name is Winky, sir — and you, sir — ” Her dark brown eyes widened to the size of side plates as they rested upon Harry’s scar. “You is surely Harry Potter!”

Then there’s Dobby:

“Dobby has traveled the country for two whole years, sir, trying to find work!” Dobby squeaked. “But Dobby hasn’t found work, sir, because Dobby wants paying now!”

Even Kreacher, who has a slightly different speech pattern still broadly speaks in the similar affected way.

“Kreacher did not see Young Master,” he said, turning around and bowing to Fred. Still facing the carpet, he added, perfectly audibly, “Nasty little brat of a blood traitor it is.”

This linguistic pattern is not unfamiliar. Compare it to:

Mammy from Gone with the Wind: Miss Melly, this here's done broke her heart. But I didn't fetch you on Miss Scarlett's account. What that child got to stand, the good Lord give her strength to stand. It's Mr. Rhett I's worried about. He done lost his mind these last couple of days

Or Uncle Remus in Song of the South. “Oh, I knows. I knows. I’m just a worn-out ol’ man what don’t do nothin’ but tell stories. But they ain’t never done no harm to nobody.”

The same tropes are at play. Stilted, infantilising speech. These films, particularly Gone with the Wind and Song of the South, glorify the antebellum South by presenting enslaved characters as devoted, content, even protective of their oppressors.

This is where the argument that house-elves aren’t slaves but brownies falls down. If house-elves were truly just magical beings with their own culture, their speech wouldn’t so closely mimic the linguistic markers of servitude used in films that softened the horrors of slavery.

Also intended or not this is a racialised coding that was once used to uphold and justify the absolute abomination of slavery and we should be critical of it.

Happy birthday Remus

I do think people should embrace blurring the line between strong platonic and romantic love. I think time spent with loved ones these days is time well spent.