I Am An Upstanding Citizen

listen, the “lottie isn’t callie/wilderness baby’s stepdad, shes the dad who stepped up” jokes are funny, but she’s really shown zero parental behaviour towards either of them. all she’s done is cross boundaries and enforce an uncomfortable amount of ownership over shauna’s kids. it’s creepy, and i’m afraid for callie.

shauna’s kids seem like her pet project, her sacrifice to the wilderness.

we see lottie constantly looking for a connection to the wilderness. first she was the yellowjacket’s guru, but once she lost that she looked to travis to reconvene with ‘It’. she tells him verbatim that she lost her ability to speak to It, and soon after forces him to take more psilocybin.

she was attached to wilderness baby because she deemed it important to the wilderness and needed to insert herself in that importance. when she ‘mourns’ the wilderness baby during the summer solstice celebration she makes it about herself and the wilderness religion. she’s thanking the baby for sacrificing itself for the girls, instead of having some sensitivity for shauna for losing her child.

callie, she’s decided, has ‘power’, and is “the most connected to the wilderness out of anyone who wasn’t actually a yellowjacket”. she’s using callie to get that connection back for herself.

Lawyer Sirius eviscerating his opponents with bullet-proof arguments and biting wit while looking supremely bored.

(James watching him with stars in his eyes like a love-sick puppy.)

i don’t know out of what hole kittywater came from, but i will become a shipper if it means loosing the hold jegulus has on this fandom

Chapter Two of my Maysilee!Victor fic 🫶

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64306042/chapters/165836164#workskin

They’re so Orpheus and Eurydice. But like. If Eurydice went willingly down so Orpheus could live, and Orpheus gouged out his eyes so he wouldn’t fail.

Partially inspired by this post and, you know, everything i love being orpheus and eurydice in some way

my friend wrote a paper on tlt concerning gender, queerness, and ecofeminism and it broke my brain

tldr he outlined how the present necro/cav dynamic (eg. how cav is subservient to their necro and romantic relationships between the two parties is taboo) is a result of johns implicit misogyny he projected onto earth/alecto; how in this sans-misogyny world queerness/homophobia still exists in necro/cav ships

so ive been reanalyzing all the tlt relationships from the lense of necroxnecro cavxcav = hetero and necroxcav = queer and OH MY GOD

griddlehark = queer

lobotomized harrow was replacing her queer relationship (cav!gideon) with a coworker hetero one (cav!ortus)

giddianthe = hetero

kirianthe = queer

tridentaricest = queer, but as corona was “necro-passing” it could be BUTCHFEMME REALNESS

idk how to classify paul…

me when prongsfoot is my fav ship but i get sad whenever jily divorce/arent together

My toxic trait is that it's very hard for me not to make jily endgame despite being a multishipper

Propaganda I won't fall for:

This might trigger people, so read the tags.

Short Sirius

Jegulus

Wolfstar, and especially wolfstar being better than prongsfoot

Blackinnon not being a good ship

Lesbian Marlene

Gay Sirius

Straight James

Sirius loving Harry bc he found James in him or whatever some are saying. Especially saying that only Remus saw him as Harry, while Remus was literally so haunted by James bro didn't visit Harry once!

Comparing a character that is mentioned in the books once with Snape, who is all THE FUCKING BOOKS. Absolutely crazy behavior.

Jegullily or whatever the ship is called

Regulus raising Harry- get that child far away from Regulus.

Physically abuser Walburga or Orion

The justification that Sirius wouldn't raise Harry well bc people take in heart his behavior in Grimmauld Palace in which is literally someone going back to the root of their trauma

"Sirius is an awful person, look at how he treated Kreacher," and the whole discussion about him saying that you know someone on how he treats his inferiors. Kreacher deserved every bit of it, one. Two, is literally said that Kreacher was the only house elf Sirius treated that way bc they have HISTORY.

Remus being that important, him being cassnova, basically stripping Sirius away of his personality and giving it to Remus, blah blah blah, Remus is not the shit. He is just a coward guy.

All the young dudes being considered canon material

your conscious movements have already been planned by your brain milliseconds before you decided to make them :)

they had people make random arm movements and report when exactly they decided to make them, all while recording their brain activity

i think this says some really neat stuff about how we view consciousness. esp in joint with the fact that damaging certain areas of your brain can change your personality fundamentally

toxic prongsfoot bfs where sirius never feels insecure ever (cuz he’s better than everyone, duh) except he only shows it around james (because james is his equal and he matters so it actually means something; also he knows james wont tell anyone cuz hes like sirius’ whipped puppy) and james fucking loves it, gets off on it, cuz it means hes the specialist little boy

sirius *bullying remus about crying*: you wouldn’t see a Black doing that shit

James *recalling back to fifth year when sirius cried about the pressures of being an heir*: pfft, yeah, wimp! hey, sirius. broom closet?

they were dicks in hogwarts, your honour 🙏 they bullied people to impress each other (and to feel worthy of each other)