I don’t ship Drarry but with that being said, I will accept no other Drarry prompt than them stubbornly competing to outdo the other for the sheer drama.
It starts off when they’re still enemies in the Goblet of Fire. Draco makes a taunt about who Harry’s going to ask to the Yule Ball and how they must be from the worst of the worst lot and Harry rolls his eyes and says, “Well, fitting you say that, Malfoy, because I was going to ask you.” A perfect zing, Harry. 10/10.
But now the ball’s in Draco’s court and obviously he’s not going to pass up on the chance to humiliate the scarhead so he takes the most logical route of humiliation and calls out his bluff: “Fine, Potter, I reckon we’re going.”
But do you think Harry James Potter is just going to back down? That stubborn teenager is going to stare Draco down and say, “Reckon we are.”
Ron’s confused and Hermione’s confused and literally the entire castle is confused but Harry’s satisfied because he called out a bluffer’s counterbluff with a bluff of his own. And they just keep it up.
“I suppose you don’t even know how to dance, Potter?”
The furious teenager who spent years having to watch soapbox dramas with Mrs. Figg just glares at him in his stupid dress robes. “I know some things.”
“Prove it.”
“Fine.”
It’s like that for days until Draco makes the ultimate power move by inviting Harry to the Malfoy’s Annual New Years Eve Ball, taking out a Daily Prophet ad no less, because oh, oh, he’s got Potter now. He’ll never accept and he’ll be humiliated in front of the entire wizarding world. And do you think Harry’s just going to go down without a fight? God, no, he’s going to win whatever the hell this is because he’s Harry Potter, Draco better be worried, oh boy.
They’re still going at it six months later.
“Err—Malfoy?” Crabbe says. “Potter just sent you a dozen roses?”
“That son of a bitch! Send a box of chocolates. That’ll show him.”
“Um, Draco—?”
“I WILL NOT BE OUTDONE, PARKINSON!”
i will never forgive popular UT fanon for using chara as a scapegoat in the genocide run and making "sans recognizes them and attacks them on sight regardless of what run they're in" headcanons so pervasive.
mostly because "restless spirit of a long dead child who's obsessed with the concept of cosmic retribution and facing consequences for your actions" + "guy whose job is just that but he treats it on par with his hot dog sidegig" is potentially one of the most hysterical dynamics you could come up with
Wait sans canonically has an accent??
He does! Now, it’s a pretty subtle thing because UTDR characters usually have very little in the way of phonetic accents (like, the knight chess piece NPC from Deltarune has a southern accent but you can mostly only tell it because they don’t say their final ‘g’s and call Kris “horsie”) but if you pay attention to his speech, you’ll be able to pinpoint some little hints Sans has a few speech habits going on. For one, he tends to shorten the word “you” to “ya” and other similar forms of it:
He also refers to the player character as variations of “buddy” and “pal” a lot.
But what gives it away as being (what I, with my limited knowledge of American accents think it is, at least!) a cartoon Brooklyn accent is his usage of “capiche” and “forgeddaboudit”, heh.
Enjoy!
Remus Lupin: in depth analysis
Gentleman Monster: How Remus’s Marginalization and Comparative Privilege Made Who He Is
The Marauders Map scene in POA: Verbal Fencing Between Snape and Lupin
Lupin and his use of pauses and “ers”
Neither Likes Not Dislikes Severus…
Remus And His Use of Language + Sirius’ Dark Humor
Fanon vs. Canon: Remus Lupin Edition (reddit)
Lupin as a manipulator
Lupin is a gold standard for for the male manipulator trope
Lupin and how he presents in front of others
Remus would rather categorize himself with his oppressor than validate his own experiences.
Lupin and how he views himself
Prisoner of Azkaban: When Hostility Meets Passive Aggression
Remus’ “unmistakable signs of trying to live among wizards”
Remus lupin: Repentance vs Regret
Lupin lying to himself and others
Remus did a lot of “growing up” during the lost years
“And I haven’t changed…”
Remus Lupin: ENFJ
If Lupin and Tonks had survived the battle?
Lupin and the boggart lesson
Nearly Always Right: Remus and Harry
Remus with his own special brand of comforting logic
Remus Lupin at his most dangerous
Remus Lupin is so detached from things
Fanon vs Canon: “Remus is always sweet and kindly.”
Fanon vs Canon: “Remus is always sweet and kindly.” pt. 2
Snape and Lupin parallels
Harry/Remus dynamic
Lupin isn’t the middle ground in Mrs Weasley vs Sirius argument
Remus and what his friendships represent
Power game that goes on between Lupin and Snape in POA
Shame of My Flesh: Reading into Sirius’ Thoughts on Crouch Family
The Hogwarts Express scene in Prince’s Tale: A Sirius and Snape analysis
Sirius and Molly Argument in OOTP
Someone Like A Parent: The Beginning of Bond in POA
Snape, Sirius, and revenge Arrested Development – Sirius, Snape, Obsessions and Blind Spots
Why Sirius hated Snape so much
Padfoot and Prongs: an analysis of the friendship
Sirius and Walburga: the passive-aggressive Sticking Charm
Sirius and Walburga’s similarities
Regulus and Sirius’s relationship
Sirius and Lily
Sirius and Orion Black
Sirius Black and Complex trauma
Grimmauld Place: Azkaban by a different name
The worse thing Sirius Black has ever done || The ‘Prank’
Sirius Black, Mental Health and Masculinity
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
Padfoot and the Liminal Space
Sirius was not an immature man -child
Sirius is both emotionally and academically intelligent
Sirius’ sense of humor
Sirius Black the Loner
Sirius Black and Acts of Service
Part one: Sirius and the shadow of being a Black.
Part two: Sirius Black: the victim of the system he was born to rule
Sirius and Snape both want to be part of a world that they will never truly understand.
Fanon vs canon: James and Sirius are either very saintly or very evil.” pt 2
Sirius’s views on Death-Eaters: The world isn’t split into good people and Death-eaters.
James, Sirius and Snape: privilege and intelligence
Sirius and Regulus’s relationship is Kreacher
Sirius is not as explosive as he is often characterized.
James and Sirius had the best friendship in the story
“the marauders’ is essentially just three people wanting to be james’ best friend but only one of them actually achieving it”
Too Deep for the Healing
How does growing up with elderly parents affect James’s personality?
“the marauders’ is essentially just three people wanting to be james’ best friend but only one of them actually achieving it”
Ashes thoughts on James
Fanon vs canon: James became a reformed character for Lily’s sake
Fanon vs canon: James and Sirius are either very saintly or very evil.” pt 1
James Didn’t Suspect Remus - First War edition
James inner sense of nobility prevents him from killing
Peter Pettigrew is emotionally intelligent and uses it in a strategic manner.
Peter is a Beautiful Scum Bag
Peter Pettigrew and the Werewolf Incident (Not as Much of a Key Event for Him)
Peter and Remus
Reading Marauders Dynamics in SWM
J/S vs F/G: different types of troublemakers
The rifts that made it possible for the Marauders to fall apart were evident even as far back as Hogwarts.
An Analysis of the Snape’s Worst Memory Pensieve scene
The marauders recklessness
The marauders individual relationships
Fallout of the “prank”
Lily’s weakness is her fondness for being the exception
Lily and Altruism
Lily’s cold anger
Lily and her friendships
Slughorn’s favorite student
“Friendzoned”
Lily Evans is attracted to James Potter in Snape’s Worst Memory.
Interpretation of Lily’s blush
Lily and internalized misogyny
Fanon vs canon: Lily is either very saintly or very evil.”
Lily intended to break off her friendship with Severus before SWM
Harry’s relationship to the Prince as a blueprint for Lily’s friendship with Snape
Lily never hated Petunia
What’s Up with Petunia’s Resentment of Lily?
Lily is blind to the flaws of people she admires/loves unless it explodes in her face.
Lily’s feelings for Snape are more complex than fandom gives them credit for.
“Lily in nature”
Snape and Class
Lily and Sev
How Dumbledore’s death speaks to Snape’s moral evolution
Feminist reading of lily/James/snape
James and Snape were rivals? Nah.
Snape was really traumatized by SWM
Snape being female coded
The extremely dysfunctional friendship of Snape and Lily
Trolly problem: Snape and Lupin
Snape: class and power
Lily Potter’s Son
Two up, two down
Snape and the Order confrontation of the Dursley’s
Severus Snape or the Importance of Body Language
Snape and the prince nickname
Snape was not upset over the lost of the order of merlin
Snape had to practice being a person
Spinner’s End (white hound)
Snape as a “bad victim”
Snape and queer coding
Dumbledoor, Snape and the werewolf incident.
Snape was his own man
a matter of perspective
Snape, Sirius, and revenge
Snape doesn’t want revenge
Snape and lily’s shared spirit
Snape’s use of language
Why does Spinners End matter?
Hermione and Ron don’t blindly trust harry
Hermione “character growth” with SPEW
Hermione wouldn’t like fiction
Harry and Hermione understand each other
Hermione can be very ruthless
Hermione and internalized misogyny
Book Hermione
Cool Hermione Things: Magic Under Pressure
Hermione IS soft
Hermione was born a leader and diplomat
Harry is in awe of Hermione
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins: A Closer Look into Hermione’s Modification of Her Parents’ Memories
Fanon vs Canon: “Hermione is always sweet and kindly.”
Deconstructing Harry: The boy we meet in Philosopher’s Stone to the man in Deathly Hallows
Harry And Personal Conflict: A Meta On Evolving Dynamic With Ron and Hermione
The Resurrection Stone Scene: Culmination Of Harry’s Emotional Arc
The Resurrection Stone Scene: Culmination Of Harry’s Emotional Arc
The Dementors and Harry’s Complex grief
Harry’s intuitive, empathy related approach to morality
Harry identified with and reluctantly admired Snape even before ‘The Prince’s Tale’
Harry and Hermione in The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
Harry and The Dursleys: Examining His Response to his Abusers
The Mirthless Laugh: Sirius and Harry
Harry and intellectual curiosity
The Potters and class
Harry-Hermione Friendship
On Harry and the adults in his life
Harry and masculinity
Harry’s quirks
Ron and the Horcrux: An Alternate Reading
Ron isn’t a strategist, he’s the heart
Gender Dynamics in the Trio, Part One: Gender and Subordination
“Lucky you”
Percy with F&G and Bill
Percy fell through a big crack
Is Ginny Upset That None of Her Family Noticed Her Disappearances/Serious Health Problems/Posession in her First Year? (If She is, They Still Don’t Seem to Notice)
Molly Weasley is a Misogynist
That Time Fleur Exploded at Molly and Became a Member of the Family
The Weasleys Aren’t Evil, Or Anything, But They’re Not Saints Either
Ginny, the diary, and her family’s reaction
Does gender plays a role in Harry and Ginny’s respective interactions with Voldemort?
Percy and Arthur were close without actually knowing each other’s true selves,
Ginny and writing failures
fred and george could be weirdly brutal towards ron
Percy, Fred, and George
Weasley siblings reacting to the expectations put upon them
Weasley analysis
Bellatrix: Mental health and the feminist lens
Dumbledore as a Mentor
“all draco wanted was to be loved” debunked
Walburga Black: the madwoman in the attic
General Thoughts on the Black Family
Fanon vs canon: “The Evans family treated young Snape very warmly.”
Albus Dumbledore Has Done Great, Generous, Things for People (Though He Also Uses These People as Pawns Later)
Albus Dumbledore is not only respected and feared, but also loved
Trevor and Neville’s Boggart
Wandlore: Remus and Lily
Neville’s Boggart
The Abandoned Boy And His Problematic Fathers: Snape with Voldemort & Dumbledore
The Blacks are a family in decline
Hogwarts School Uniform
Why the Wizarding World Didn’t Oppose Voldemort
The Blitz Paved the Road to Voldemort
Hogwarts Houses by Muffin
How Old is the Bias Against Slytherin?
No, Really, the Hogwarts Houses Are Awful
House Elves Are Slaves
A History of Magic Brought to You By The Carnivorous Muffin
Light and Dark Magic is Stupid: Here’s Why
The Wizarding World Lacks a Key Understanding of Magic
The Wizarding World and Its Profound Ignorance of Muggles
The Slug Club is Actually Very Necessary
The Order of the Phoenix is a Useless Joke
Harry Potter as a colonial fantasy
Death as one of HP’s themes
The “not like other girls” syndrome in the Harry Potter books.
HP series being ‘ethically mean spirited’
Marauders era and the 70s aesthetic?
JKR and chirstianity
Harry potter series and how american readers can understand classism a little better
Slytherin and Eton: A Primer on the British School System.
JKR’s absolutist way of seeing the world: gryffindor and slytherin
This is basically the dynamic I was talking about in this post, in which both Sans and Papyrus are faking being the other's "original brother"
They're both new to the world of Undertale, but due to a misunderstanding, they each assume the other is native to it; hence this conversation.
I think the funniest outcome here would be that there really isn't any milk in the Underground, and they both make a point to never bring that up to each other but still wonder about it in the dead of night
big compilation some of doc ock x rosie fantasy au art bc this story is dear to me
Commission for my friend @nikodavisartwork !
concept: a death god that is actually surprisingly supportive and on the side of the good guys, supporting actions and promoting policies that will lead to the kingdom growing and thriving instead of being destroyed, because the more the kingdom grows, the more people there are, and the more people there are the more people will eventually die, and when you’re an immortal god of death, you know there’s no need to rush. you’ll get them all in the end