sirius got a tattoo for regulus first.
his second were the antlers for james, on his hip. later, he added flowers twining round them, representing effie and monty, climbing up his side. his new family, intertwined and growing.
later, there would come the moon for remus, and the waves for peter.
but before any of that, traced in fine lines on the inside of his left wrist, he got the leo constellation. for the brother he missed so dearly, in honour of the name regulus gave himself, whispered into sirius' ear the night before he ran away. the deciding factor; regulus would be allowed to transition, to be himself, only if sirius left. the blacks needed a son. regulus would be better at it than sirius ever was.
sirius would miss him forever, regardless. but at least this way, he’d have something.
Okay 6th year gryffindors learning the patronus charm and James is one of the first to get it (after Lily and Sirius, remus found an excuse to sit it out bc he didn't want to risk the class seeing a wolf and putting things together). They've already done the theory so they know the whole 'reflective of your soul' or 'changes to represent a loved one, especially if they are your happiest memory' and when they eventually manage corporeal patronuses, James' happens to be a lion.
A big, prowling, majestic lion. Most of the room are impressed and a little jealous but not too shocked by it, they automatically assume that it's the animal which most resembles him because...gryffindor lion. It doesn't get much more James potter than that. But his group are very confused. Patronuses were supposed to match animagi and they'd already managed that one, so they had silently accepted that it would be a stag. So when it isn't, they have to hide their shock. They sort of brush it off after a while because James is similar to a lion so maybe it's just something to do with strength in the memory he chose?
But James knew the second the lion looked at him that it wasn't his animal. He would always be a stag, he knew that much for sure. This was Regulus. Cor Leonis. The lion, brave, strong, and powerful but cowering behind the powerful women in his life and 'lazily' biding his time until he has no choice but to do something. More importantly, James loved him, and nobody was supposed to know. His patronus has shifted from a stag- prideful and representative of James as an individual- to a lion- a symbol of his love, power and courage. And he is the only one that knows.
hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you
Reblog if you think trans women:
A. Are women
B. Can be lesbians
on colors and being different and not being enough for yourself
(please reblog instead of liking)
james potter and regulus black - a story that was never written, yet everyone somehow feels it in their bones.
they come from different worlds, but maybe that’s exactly why their paths keep pulling toward each other. james is chaos, freedom, laughter, the sun rising over hogwarts. regulus is the shadow, the cold weight of duty, the sky right before a storm.
they were never supposed to cross paths, but if they did… it would be like a supernova. bright, brief, and bound to end in disaster.
and the more you read or write about them, the harder it gets to shake the feeling that somewhere, in some parallel universe, they actually chose each other.
You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.
Of course it is.
Why am I like this? I didn't do anything I wanted to do today, but all I do is feeling sad again.
Why am I like this? I want to be blown away by the fall wind, but all i do is feeling sad again.
Why am I like this? I try to do things to get myself together, but all I do is feeling sad again.
Why am I like this? I lost so much time, meant to help me, but all I do is feeling sad again.
oh to be loved the way i love
I like meeting new people, i want to have new friends, new experiences, new stories, lives, opinions.
I want to be picked so badly but not in a pick me way. I'm not desperate for attention or the feeling of being loved, no.
I want them to rip me open, to see my darkest and my brightest thoughts, my worst and my best moments. I want it to hurt, me and them.
I want them to know what I wanted to be as a child, what i want to be now.
I want to be an astronaut, i want to leave this earth behind, live outside of it for long enough to forget.
I want to be one of these pretty, mysterious persons, but where you have the feeling you know them so well but nothing at all.
I want to rip them open, to know their lightest and darkest Secrets, their best and worst experiences.
I want to know what their greatest wish was as a child, what their greatest wish is now, and how they would react to achieving either of them.
I want it to be bloody and ugly, deep and painful, I want it to be short and i want them to never forget me, when, in the end, i eventually run out of interesting things to hold them to me and they leave me split open and burning.
Pink Prison, a comic I did for my color theory class this semester! we had to pick a color, research it, and do a piece related to it somehow. i chose pink :)
Yes, Hi, Hello I write some bad poetry which I don't want to show to anyone I know in real life
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