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I hate when people criticize magical girl anime for having long transformation scenes. "so the enemies just wait for them?" have you ever considered that something can be beautiful without needing to serve a purpose or make sense in a literal scenario 💔

Madeline Miller has every right to write books like "Circe" and draw inspiration from Greek mythology but sometimes I want what she smokes... Like, I can't believe that with her studies and experience she looked at one of the most beloved heroes of the Greeks for millennia and she went "the gods are 'sociopathic narcissists' in our modern standards, Odysseus is full of himself and probably shittier than he presents himself to be because patriarchy".

I am mostly paraphrasing, and the quotes are below. Yes, Greek societies have been patriarchal for a long time, yes Odysseus is the main narrator so of course, we see the story from his point of view, yes he is a trickster character and not perfect, no that doesn't automatically make him a bad person who overshadows other characters so he can elevate himself. If he had lied or hid something when he narrated his story, it would be there in the text, as in every other occasion Odysseus tricked someone.

I find it very hard to accept that with her Classics background she characterized the Greek gods in such a simple way, letting out all their magnificence, generosity, and kindness.

I understand what she wants to say here but the phrasing is weird. What do you mean by "push back" against the mythology? This makes it seem like her works are equal to the mythology texts and she is able to "push back". (She says in the article that her works are not equal to the Homeric pieces, but phrases like this makes it seem so)

These statements of the interviewer don't help much either... In a formal article, please don't characterize gods of other cultures and religions as "stupid" and similar things. You wouldn't call a person that in such a context, and you call the Greek gods stupid? Also... we are so sorry for our hero who tells his own story, I guess?? And sorry that our important ancient texts made you sad as a kid???

This statement alone might not seem like much but in the general spirit of the article, it adds up to the notion of Odysseus isn't that deserving after all and we should stop giving him that much attention in the name of social justice. For example, later in the article, we meet this statement from Miller. (I understand she doesn't outright call Odysseus a narcissist and what she says is that there is some material on the text she can use to play with this theme.)

The whole piece might leave the impression to a portion of readers that Odysseus wasn't actually that great and was praised in the context of a patriarchal society because he was a male hero. I can't help but feel this removes some agency from the Greek people who have kept Odysseus in their hearts and tradition for thousands of years, up to this day.

I analyze her and the writers of multiple articles stance exactly as deep and with the same stretches as the article writers praise Miller's work. She made the powerful witch Circe a rape victim and Odysseus a liar from a few hints (not even) in the original text. And I cannot meta-analyze her work from a cultural, intersectional scope? Yes, "it's not that deep" but since the articles are making a fuss out of a singular recent book and analyze it to death, I believe I am allowed to go a bit deeper in my commentary.

So, their stances remind me of the old theme of the "enlightened, educated foreigner" who "knows better" the native heroes than the natives of a land and sees how "problematic" the culture and the heroes themselves are, and the culture wasn't "feminist enough" to give the female heroes voices.

It all ties to the sense of ownership the West has with the Greek myths and characters. This is a formal interview/article and yet they talk about the heroes like they are their cousins or like they discuss in a bar about heroes of their own culture. One says that the Greek gods are essentially pricks and the other moans because we mostly follow Odysseus in... "Odyssey", as if the text came out yesterday in their local newspaper.

Like, I thought we would get a respectful and serious approach from people who know what they are talking about, but apparently, I was too optimistic.

The funny thing is, while misogyny was/is a thing, it's not because of the lack of feminism that Circe wasn't so important. She was merely the "bad witch" of the story. As it often happens in folk adventure stories, side characters - bad witches included - don't have a deep background story. To claim that the misogyny of Greeks was the reason Circe didn't get much "screentime" in another hero's story (!!!) is a stretch. There are multiple male characters in Odyssey who don't get that much time because they are side characters.

I can't believe I am saying this but... Miller and the writers of the articles give me so many "white feminism" vibes. Greece societies had/has issues with women's representation and yet they chose one side female character who matters as much as the male side characters in the text and go "now THIS is a problem we need to talk about for the next five years! We will do the subversion of the century and we will open people's eyes to neglected women by making a beloved hero a prick!! Oh, also Circe is now a rape victim to show how cruel the men were back then!"

Here is the full article. Most of it is pleasant and insightful and then there are... these statements that made red flags arise in my mind. I am not saying that Madeline Miller is trash, or that she doesn't know anything, or that she deserves any type of harassment. I just think some commentary is needed when such proclamations of hers are published and end up adopted by many who don't have the time to cross-reference.

The Telegony goes against what the Odyssey tells us not only because of Tiresias' Prophecy but also because Odysseus' family line only has one son each.

Zeus made our line a line of only sons. Arcesius had only one son, Laertes, and Laertes had only one son, Odysseus, and I am Odysseus’ only son. He fathered me, he left me behind at home, and from me he got no joy.

(Book 16, Fagles)

Telegonus can't even realistically BE Odysseus' son as he already has Telemachus. The Only son

The amount of mayu x yuki art I’ve seen on twitter (I refuse to call it x) is both annoying, disturbing and uncomfortable

Round 3 Part 1

Yamato (One Piece) VS Cure Summer (Tropical Rouge! Precure)

Drawn version of my incorrect quote :D

I saw some comments saying that Yerenica from Seduce the Villain's Father is just like Rashta of the Remarried Empress. This is because Yerenica acts cute, playful, and wanted to stop the upcoming marriage of Erudian.

Okay, first of all... How dare y'all disrespect Princess Yerenica Lebovny??? She is way too different from that Trash in The Remarried Empress.

Rashta acts cute and naive to fool the people around her. She plays innocent yet she's very cunning, manipulative, and selfish. She wanted everyone to like her and doesn't seemed to understand why Navier is uncomfortable whenever she flaunts that Sovieshu, that bitch of a man, is in love with her. For pete's sake, she wanted Navier's title, as if ruining her marriage wasn't enough.

On the other hand, Yerenica entered the palace with the intention of saving Erudian as he is destined to die at the hands of his own son. She sacrificed herself to replace her sister as she was pregnant at that time and she knew how much her sister and her niece would suffer.

Yerenica is naturally cute, naive, and kinda childish. It's her personality from the start! Do not disrespect her by saying how similar her actions are with Rashta.

Thank you for reading my pep talk and yes, this is a rant lmao.

MANHWAS:

• The Remarried Empress

• Seduce the Villain's Father

To those people who calls Yerenica Lebovny weak, then your the type of person who don't understand a true strong character, mental strength and the term character development. If you are a person who hates Yerenica because she can't fight with a sword and isn't physically strong, then you have internalized or "I'm not like other girls syndrome". If you hate Yerenica because she is always sticking (you called it clingy and dependent) to the Emperor side, then you don't understand her situation and her terminal illness. If you think Yerenica is a man stealer, then you did not read the story well. Feel free to argue with me.

"If we switched the story, Soleia would be the main character and Yerenica is the villain."

*deep breaths*

Okay Diana, restrain yourself. I know we've said it before, but we have to explain it again.

First and foremost, I just want to say that I don't hate Soleia. I even made a post defending her. I understand her, and she is one of the best villainesses for me in the Manhwa Community. But I want to settle something here.

For so long, I have seen many people compare Yerenica to (Lord, forgive me for what I am about to say) Rashta. [Scream of horror]

It pains me so much that one of my favourite characters is compared to that, that. No. Your mentality is wrong. The fact that you compared Navier to Soleia and Rashta to Yerenica is just, so wrong.

If we flip the roles, in my opinion, Soleia will be the protagonist who was hurting people, and we will get a backstory on how she is avenging her family.

People will say, "she's a gray character."

A gray character doesn't harm people who don't deserve it. Literally the first time they met, Yerenica did nothing and was just standing behind (not even close) to Euredian. Soleia saw her, a girl who knew nothing and was just kidnapped from her country, and attacked her.

Tell me then, why would a woman attack a girl out of nowhere? Because she felt threatened? What did Yerenica do other than stand there and watch them converse?

I'm not going to insert here what Yerenica is thinking, what her POV was because we're going to focus on Soleia and her POV, and why, even if we turn the switch and she's the main character, she would still be a bad person.

"She has justification! Soleia was engaged to Euredian!"

She wasn't.

She was clinging to Euredian, she was forcing him to choose her. It was mentioned countless times in both Manhwa and Nov how she exposed numerous scandals for the other noble girls who dared approach Euredian.

Soleia distanced the Tower from the Royal Family, making it nearly autonomous and Euredian, to ensure that the Tower remained in his grasp, was forced to marry her in the OG! Novel.

At the time, before the kidnapping and before Euredian accepted his feelings, Soleia was merely a choice that Euredian would begrudgingly accept as his fiancée, and the people thought the same. Everyone knew she was forcing him. The only relationship they had prior to the events we saw was a professional one, a Wizard reporting to the Emperor.

"She did it to protect her people, the wizards! The Royal Family and the Temple killed her family and friends!"

They practiced Dark Magic, something they knew was forbidden. Why did you think they hid? Why did you think they were doing it underground? Why did you think it was passed on secretly?

Because it was illegal.

Why? We're talking about experimenting on the bodies of the dead, stealing souls from returning to Yudetta and practicing mind control, the magic of taking one's freedom. Just look at Leria. Soleia killed her and possessed her body.

What gray character would do that?

What really made the situation worse was that the King at the time, Euredian's father, and the Temple, didn't give them a trial. What happened instead was the brutal massacre and purging of the Richards Family. This was something that Rosel, the man who told on the Richards, didn't expect to happen.

"The Royal Family were threatening the lives of Wizards!"

No, they were not.

Remember the Glückmahn Tripartite Agreement? It was the catalyst that started the original novel. This was the agreement where the three kingdoms of Azekien, Livovny, and Bellecourt would trade and have safe passage throuch the Glückmahn Road of Livovny. The most essential object that was being transported here was mana ore, which Bellecourt didn't have but Azekien did.

Another thing, the Magic Tower of Bellecourt was something the Kings of Bellecourt themselves had made. Euredian said it himself that generations of kings poured wealth over it to become the magical authority of Rhiger, defeating Azekien itself which was rich in mana.

Side note: My theory on why Bellecourt doesn't have mana ores is because Laurus comes down every ten years to cleanse the land. Not to mention, the land itself was made by him. While one can use mana all around Bellecourt, as explained by Rosel, the land Bellecourt was built upon was blessed by Laurus.

If the Royal Family were purging wizards left and right, why did they go to such lengths for talks over mana ore? Why did they make the Tower? Why didn't Euredian and his father, and the other kings purged them?

As mentioned in Manhwa and Novel, divinity and mana co-exist, they just don't feel each other but they can destroy the other. The Richards Family drew the line from using forbidden magic and, as Soleia mentioned, summoning Heidis.

"That doesn't change the fact that Yerenica is like Rashta. She is so dependent on people and uses her looks to get what she wants!"

To answer this, we're now adding Yerenica's POV. Seems fair since Rashta, in what I have seen in passing images, sometimes gets her own POV. If not, please correct me.

Is Rashta terminally-ill? The reason why Yerenica approached Euredian in that matter was because she needed his divinity. Remember that whenever she wasn't exposed to it, she would feel heavy as man would literally hold onto her. Why is she acting cute and why is she so clingy to Euredian?

Alright, this can be compared to Rashta, but please note that at the same time, there is also a difference.

Both Yerenica and Rashta felt unloved. Yerenica's mom died when she was young and her father was always away. I haven't read Remarried Empress yet (I'm stacking shh) but I do know from reading comments about it that Rashta went through something difficult as well.

What's the difference?

Yerenica cared for Soleia. She never had a thought of hurting her, or wanting her to die. She just wanted to block the engagement and marriage between Soleia and Euredian because it would end with the death of Euredian (which Soleia has planned. Please note, Euredian was a child back then. What did he do to contribute to the Richards Family death?).

Rashta, if I recall, smiled when Navier was finally divorced from... What's his name? Sovieshu? Dang what a name. Based on my understanding from some comments and passing spoilers, she just wanted to have the life Navier had (which of course, she can't.)

Please, please correct me if I am wrong because I have not read the spoilers, Manhwa, and Novel fully. I'm stacking.

"Then why isn't Yerenica strong? Why can't she just pick up a sword and do something?"

Because that's not who she is. That's not Seo Eun-seo and Yerenica's personality. She's a fun-loving person who came from our world, who is terminally-ill, and funny. Honestly, the reason why I love Yerenica so much as a character is because I can relate to her.

She's not physically strong, doesn't have a monstrous amount of strength, she didn't have to go through something traumatizing as traumatizing as other female leads do, she died before she knew it. She's not a genius, but she's smart. She's not talented, but she's kind. She's not bad-ass, but she cares and is willing to sacrifice herself for someone else.

I really don't understand why you can hate a person just because you say "She's not strong or bad-ass."

Does every female lead have to lie to get what they want? Deceive others? Do they have to fight in a battle or belittle the villain?

Yerenica, throughout the novel, never belittled Soleia. She respected her, and in the end, befriended her. Soleia smiled at Yerenica and even approved of her marriage with Euredian, thinking they were a good match. Yerenica never saw her as a villain, she had thought she was scary and crazy at times, but never mistreated or fought with her.

Even Soleia knew what she was doing was terrible and in the end, once she realized the consequences of her actions, helped Yerenica and Euredian.

Tell me, if your main character kills people, disturbs the body of the dead, hurts someone innocent, summons the absolute evil of the world and encouraged their son to kill his father, all in the name of justice for a family who were killed for sorcery and killing as well, would you support them still?

Just found out apparently some people are upset with wonderful precure having pacifist solutions to the villains? I mean first of all narratively it's just interesting to change things up especially with the mild educational angle. Plus they're still having battles they're just avoiding harming the gatugaru.

Second and most importantly, though, there is no world in which precure, a show made for 5 year old girls, was going to depict the heroes beating up pets and common wild animals. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen when some kid decides their hamster is a garugaru and throws it at a wall or runs into a wild animal and sets their dog on it. There's two situations where the cures do actively fight and it's when it's a dangerous predator and when Nyammy is showing that it's a bad thing.

It's the same situation as how they've been adding boys to the main cast, and making it more gender-inclusive, in combat heavy seasons to appeases the parents, who have historically always been down their throats for depicting combat in a show for little girls.

Precure is more than just its (incredibly inconsistent) inclusion of punching the problem away and there's nothing wrong with that. And its in fact is a good thing for seasons to have tailored solutions to their specific topics and problems, the same way the season where the villains are literal diseases that cannot be reasoned with did not get any redemptions. They were never going to punch the animals in the animal welfare season right after explaining animals only attack because they are scared.

Precure is a show for little girls to teach them about compassion and morals, if you only rate a precure season on how violent it is (and this season isn't even non violent they just try to avoid direct harm) then you can be disappointed, but then you are also firmly not in the target audience and that's not a fault of the show. Having a show for young girls that allows for combat as a solution is *cool* and *good* but it is not *important*. The important part is problem solving, and the solution to wonderful precure's problem of scared rampaging animals is patience and understanding. Both narratively and in reality as a show for impressionable 5 year olds and their antsy parents who are likely to actually interact with these animals.

Found the Cards

cookie run ships that make me go AAAAAAAA

-purelily. yeah. yeah. old ppl. and also flower girl who is super messed up. and boy scout. this is my kinda ship okay.

-advenberry. yee haw. also ghost girl. they adopted onion. yeah.

-mintcocoa. theyre kinda just a simple fluffy couple. not complex and easy to like. if u dont like them id be kinda concerned … only flaw is that they’re kinda bland but it’s not that big a deal.

-seamoon. they’re basically canon so. tragic lesbians woahh.

-stormcacao. what the HECK. i became obsessed with this ship literally overnight dndndk. the vibes are so,,, yeah.

-rose x raspberry mousse. idk the ship name. wow. a flower girl and a guy dressed like a musketeer. im so predictable oh man,,

-almondlatte. theyre so parents. yeah.

-wildchip. isnt it canon that wildberry sends crunchy chip love letters or …

-pearloyster. ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow. i technically cant say i ship this one since … there’s no future for them so they cant even be in a relationship. but. man. i do love the dynamic… ouchie.

*Sigh.*

Fic writers.

No one in Italy calls anyone “dolce.”

“Dolce” means the adjective “sweet,” or the noun “dessert.” I am Italian. Google is lying to you.

If you need some terms of endearment to be spoken by your Satanic Italian Cardis and Papas, here are a few:

GENDER NEUTRAL:

Amore - love

Tesoro - treasure (this is common but lovely)

Bene mio - my happiness (endearment)

Schricchio - “squeak” (cute endearment)

FEMALE:

Any of the GN, and

Bellezza, or Bella - Beauty

Dolcezza - this is what most of you mean by ‘dolce.’ It literally means “sweetness,” but is the properly used endearment.

Principessa - princess

Piccola, or Piccolina - little one

Cara - darling (feminine)

MALE:

Any of the GN, plus

Bello - handsome

Caro - darling (masculine)

Fusto - hunk, stud, etc. (endearment)

Principe - prince

Cucciolo - puppy (cute)

THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST, THERE ARE A LOT MORE TERMS

I hope this helps☺️ —Now, if you need slightly smuttier terms, I can do those, too. 😁

Wonderful Precure really has been 10/10 on the silly faces department

(They’re both talking in wingdings.. although I guess Sans’s future narration is in English?) Here is part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5. :}

Hhhhuhhnngnnnng..I’m never doing a huge project like ever AGAIN!! UHG that took forever. I’m so friggin tired and hungry man, I haven’t moved since I woke up because I was determined to get this out today. Anyway it feels like a weight is being lifted off my chest having this thing done. I’m glad I can return to drawing whatever I want without this project looming over my head.

Also, in case anyone is wondering why it seems like Papyrus is drooling all over the place, see this post, face row 6 for your explanation. :]

Also these poor babies. Why do I do this you might ask? I wish I had an answer man, reeeeeally wish I did. I don’t have much else to say, I cant really think of anything. I guess I could point out that Papyrus is still scratched up because he used up all his energy on healing Sans and Gaster really doesn’t have the magic to spare..

Anyway I’ll stop rambling, I hope you all enjoyed this roller coaster ride of emotions! Please exit the carriage to the left, watch your head and have a nice day!  

Is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad

Who is it?

KNOCK KNOCK Yoojin: [opens the door] Dokja? Shouldn't you be at the suicide club? Dokja: Meeting's cancelled. One of our members is getting married. Yoojin: I thought Gongja got married last month. Dokja: It's a different one this time. You wouldn't know them. Anyway, did you guys hear the news? Some psycho's running around destroying the city. Cale: [closing his eyes and reclining on his rocking chair] Not my problem. Yoojin: [tapping on his phone] Oh, good! Someone's live streaming it. [The fourth wall is shaking faintly] Yoojin: Ack. Sorry. Dokja: It's fine. Yoojin: Ahem... H-here, let me bring the volume up. Nameless Instagrammer: [sounds of explosion] Holy ■■■■! Did you see that?! A whole building just collapsed! [phone shakes violently as they begin to run] ■■■■■. This swordsman's ■■■■■■■■ crazy... Trio: [instantly becomes hyperalert] Nameless Instagrammer: Bet he has a ton of fans though. Lots of shallow ■■■■■■■ in the world. It's me. I'm ■■■■■■■. [pauses to evade a flying debris] My friend managed to take a picture of him while he was demolishing her school, but- what? [reading the comments] No? I can't show you right now 'cause I'm trying not to die. Anyway, he's insanely good-looking. Like. Waaay handsome. Cale: [sags in relief] Dokja and Yoojin: [anxiety intensifies] Cale: By any chance... did either of you forget to inform your group of your whereabouts, too? Dokja: [hurriedly typing out a group text to his nebula] Not me. I'm not that stupid. Yoojin: Yoohyunie was in a dungeon, but I stuck a message on the fridge before I left... [shakes his head sharply] No. No way. That can't be Yoohyunie. Dokja: How can you be so sure? He many not be as han- Cale: [casts a shield around himself] Dokja: ... as much of a handful as Joonghyuk, but he's a [lowers his voice to a mutter] handsome swordsman, too. Yoojin: [pretends he didn't notice to keep his body count from rising and just shrugs] Because Yoohyunie promised. I told him after the mess in Hong Kong that if he wiped out another city again, I wouldn't hug him for a week. Cale: Okay. Let's pretend there's nothing wrong with what you said for a second. What about that monster pet you told us about that likes to eat everything? Dokja: Yeah. What if it ate the note? Yoojin: Chir- Nameless Instagrammer:Holy ■■■■■■■ ■■■■, he's here. The Swordsman: CALE-NIIIM Cale: [rushes out of the room] SONOFA-

TCF Hunter Families

So in order to keep track of all the Hunter branches and what each of them do, I created a comprehensive list with the all the current information we have on them. Enjoy!

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

1) Branch: Black Bloods Name: Huayan Family ("Fayence" in Adar Terra's raw translation) Last Occupied World: Xiaolen Specialty: "White Magic", aka. dead mana based Black Magic which appears white and is more powerful than regular Black Magic Status: Defeated 2) Branch: Blue Bloods Name: Blood Cult Last Occupied World: Central Plains Specialty: Jiangshi, aka. zombies created by injecting special dead mana into a person's heart, can be made even out of living people; which are called "Living Jiangshi" Status: Defeated 3) Branch: Purple Bloods Name: Currently Unknown, but located in the "Holy Empire" Last Occupied World: Aipotu (Adar Terra's raw translation) Specialty: Dragon heritage, including mixing human and dragon blood, and control over powers of nature Status: Soon to be engaged in combat 4) Branch: Transparent Bloods Name: Currently Unknown, but located in "Transparent Co." Last Occupied World: Earth 3 Specialty: Perhaps something to do with virtual reality…? Still very limited information on them. But Anh Roh Man, aka. Taerang's creator, is related to them. (Perhaps "Anh" is their family name? We will see.) Status: Still fully operational 5) Branch: Five Colored Bloods Name: Currently Unknown, but possibly includes Park So Jin and Jung Yi-Rang (aka. the two who tried to kill Cale in the Sloth Test) Last Occupied World: None, as they seem to be dimensional travelers with no permanent residence Specialty: Wanderers, with possibly god level powers Status: Still fully operational

The last two branches are supposed to be "gone", so they no longer really count as the Hunters, but I'm including them anyway:

6) Branch: Red Bloods Name: Thames Last Occupied World: Nameless 1 (and possibly others, depending where Cale's thief of an uncle ran off to) Specialty: Research branch? Kind of unclear. We'll see if there's any developments Status: In hiding 7) Branch: White Bloods Name: Currently Unknown Last Occupied World: Currently Unknown Specialty: Currently Unknown Status: Elimnated

(Now with visual aid)

If TCF Manhwa Readers and TCF Novel Readers have a conversation about a bleeding Cale...

Tcf manhwa readers: So why is it... a 'GOOD THING' for Cale to get hurt?

Tcf novel readers: You meant 'coughing out blood'.

Tcf manhwa readers, sputtering: W-Wha- Isn't that the same thing?

Tcf novel readers: No, no, no. Cale Henituse getting hurt is only the tip of the iceberg, Cale vomiting out blood is an entire planet.

Tcf manhwa readers, deadpan: He is vomiting out blood because he IS hurt. You can't bleed without getting injured first!?

Tcf novel readers, shrugging: Well apparently for our protagonist he can---

Tcf manhwa readers: But can you tell me EXACTLY why is it a GOOD THING that he is bleeding?

Tcf novel reader: Because it's the greatest ultimate thing that has presented to us in this depressing world my dear, that is why it is a good thing.

Tcf novel reader: Oh, and also soon enough he's going to stab himself in the chest, it's the most awaited moment for all tcf fans everywhere, yet!

Tcf manhwa reader: .....Which chapter?

Tcf novel reader: Chapter 750+.

Tcf manhwa reader: Okay, I'll try reading the novel.

Tcf novel reader with an identical scamming smile as Cale's: Splendid idea my friend.

Let us embrace the fact that psychos like us TCF novel readers is what TCF manhwa readers or anyone is what attracts them to read Trash of the Count's Family and that somehow just rises my pride?

Unapologetically one of the funniest TCF scenes in the entire novel is that one time Cale passed out during the battle on the Molden Kingdom on that maze(and he was under an illusion spell) and when he woke up Raon was screaming how he'd kill all the enemies and destroying the maze's walls, everyone was going apeshit and than Choi Han just pulls up next to Cale after seeing him wake up and he was COVERED IN BLOOD and than it just kind of went:

Cale: *staring at the chaos* ....what the-

Cale: Why is Raon screaming that he'll kill everyone? And Choi Han are you covered in blood??

Choi Han: *looks down* .... I guess

Cale: How long was I out for!?

Cale: *thinking* look at all this destruction and chaos! I must have been out for like 30 minutes at least, hours maybe-

Choi Han: *looks down on his wrist that doesn't have a watch* Around 10 minutes give or take I guess

Cale: ...... wHAT-

Cale an his Ancient Powers interactions (chaos)

Crazy Kid: i truly believe water solves all of our problems

Crazy Kid: dehydrated? drink some water

Crazy Kid: want clear skin? drink some more water

Crazy Kid: need to rid yourself of an enemy? drown them

Cale: ...

Crazy: [raises an eyebrow] am I wrong?

Cale: only morally

Thief: music is just wiggling air

Cale: don't do this. don't do this to me today

Cale: [screaming] YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN

Cheapskate: [screaming louder] I HAVE NEVER CALMED DOWN A DAY IN MY LIFE

Super Rock: I AM LOSS FOR WORDS

Cale: [narrating] despite being lost for words, Super Rock yelled at everyone for the next ten minutes in my head

Glutton: i sent patience and good vibes your way

Glutton: they are coming

Glutton: there is nothing you can do to stop them

Cale:

Cale: this is the most threatening way i have ever been cheered up

Crybaby: Wanna talk about our emotions?

Cale: no

Crybaby: I do

Cale: I know crybaby

Crybaby: i’m anxious

Cale: i know crybaby, i know

Cale: [sneezes]

Dominating Aura: [talking for the first time in 5 months] bless you

Cale:

Cale: god? Any of the gods?

Beacrox:*creates a spicy dish at Cales request(because Cale missed eating spicy things T^T)*

Cale:*tries it*hmmmm…. It’s good, but it could use some more spice.

Beacrox:*utter confusion* …yes young master-nim. *thinking that Cale might be insane because this is the spiciest dish he’s ever been in the presence of*

Beacrox:*adds more spice anyways because he’s so confused*

Cale: still needs more spice.

Beacrox:*worried confusion intensifies*

Beacrox:*adds more spice*

Cale: perfect.

Beacrox:*more worried confusion*

Later- *Beacrox enlists Eruhabens help to summon the whole Cale-nim protection squad*

Cale:*is summoned to his fathers office to find perhaps every person he’s ever met standing there with Choi Han looking perhaps as confused as he is*

Deruth: Son… are you feeling alright?

Cale:…yes…? What is this for..?

Beacrox:*puts the spicy dish on the desk*

Alberu: Dongsaeng, this is an intervention.

Deruth: we think something might be wrong with your taste buds.

Cale: huh? It’s not even that spicy? Try it if you don’t believe me?

Everyone in the room: *tries it and immediately starts dying(-Choi Han)*

Deruth: Dear God! That could kill a small cat!

Ohn: as a small cat, I can confirm, eating any more of that would kill me.

Cale: Oh come on! It isn’t that spicy!

Everyone:*confusion*

Choi Han:…

Choi Han:… it isn’t that bad…

Everyone:*appalled*

Alberu: You two are fucking anomalies. This is not something a human, or any race for that matter, can consume without horrible difficulty.

Cale:*walks over to the dish*

Cale:*eats the rest of it to not let it go to waste because it really does have the perfect amount of spice*

Everyone:*in utter terror as Cale shows zero reaction*

Alberu: I am terrified of you.

pinterest showed me some screenshots of posts that gave me the concept for an au where both harry and ron are sorted slytherin & draco is just slightly less rude in the first book. i could go into why i think this makes a lot of sense for ron but i won't. i've affectionately dubbed them the platinum quartet in my head and they will not leave me the fuck alone

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Masterlist

Drarry:

Adopting a pet

Amour Eternel

An Afternoon at the Weasley-Granger household

Angel/Demon AU [0.1]

Asexual Draco Headcanons

AU List: Demigod AU

Auror Harry gets in an accident

Auror Partners

Barista Draco

Basketball Captain Harry [2] [3]

Beauxbatons Draco

Bookstore AU [2]

Both are Animagi

Brewing Amortentia

Cabo

Celebrity Harry

Childhood Friends [2] [3]

College AU

Coworkers scared of Draco

Cuddling sessions [2]

Cuddling, storm outside

Daemons

Dancing, explaining why not recognize 

De-aged Draco [2] [3]

De-aged Harry

Doe Patronus [2]

Drabble List: [1] [31] [48] [71] 

Draco in Yoga Pants

Draco is hurt but pretending he’s not

Draco is tortured by Death Eaters

Draco lost a leg below the knee

Draco might not be a Weasley by blood but he’s family

Draco stealing Harry’s clothes  

Draco stealing Harry’s glasses

Draco’s Oh shit Moment

Dursley’s Headcanons

Eden

Eighth year, Draco Hurt

Eighth year, Draco stealing Harry’s clothes

Eighth Year, Jealous Harry

Fake Dating AU

Fifth year Draco crush on Harry [2] [3]

Fifth year, secret relationship

Finding out about the Dursleys

First day after wedding

First Fight

First time on a Plane

Flirty Drunk Draco

Fourth Year, Fleur and Draco get along

Friends/Enemies with benefits

Greek God Harry

Hanahaki Disease

Harry can’t stop staring at Draco

Harry comes out to Ron

Harry comforts Draco after Lucius’s death

Harry cuts Draco’s hair

Harry forgets about their date

Harry Makes the Unbreakable Vow [2]

Harry Potter and the Return of Harry’s stalking tendencies

Harry remembers everyone who died

Harry shoots Draco

Healer Draco adopted kids

Hearing Draco’s real laugh for the first time

Height Difference

Hiccups

Hospital AU [0.1]

How Potter became Harry because of a Seeker’s game

How Seamus Finnigan began a relationship and Blaise Zabini ended it

I-thought-it-was-a-joke-but-it-wasn’t-and-I-rejected-you

If you were mine, you wouldn’t be able to sit down for a week

Insecure!Draco, Loving!Harry

Insecure Veela Draco

Jealous!Harry Headcanons

Jealousy

Kitten

Leaked sex tape

Lifeguard Draco, Demigod AU

Lucius is Draco’s Boggart

Luckiest Baby in the World

Mafia AU

Massage

Master of Death, Master of fate

Medusa

Meeting after having lost contact

Meeting after the war headcanons

Meeting Harry’s Parents + High School AU

Meeting the Weasleys

Miscommunication / Misunderstandings

Muggle Music

Nightmares

Night routine

Oblivious nerd Draco, Jock Harry: [2] [3] [4] [5]

Piercings

Pirate AU

Post Break-up AU:  [0.1]

Pregnant Draco [2]

Pregnant Draco + Raising Teddy

Pregnant Draco in delivery

Pregnant Luna

Professor Harry 

Quarantine

Raising a Kid together

Red Strings

Rejected Veela

Royal Harry, Servant Draco [2]

Saviour of the Wizarding world

Sharing Dorm Rooms [2]

Sick Harry

Sirius as Draco’s Dad [2] [3] [4]

Soft Draco, Jock Harry

Soulmate AU, Angst

Soulmate AU, No Voldemort AU

Soulmate AU, Royal AU

Soulmate Bond

Soulmate mark AU [2] [3]

Special Dates: Christmas: [2019] / Draco’s Birthday: [2019] [2020] / Harry’s Birthday: [2019] [2020] / Mother’s day: [2019] / Valentine’s Day: [2019]

Spy Draco hurt

Spy Harry [2] [3]

Stood up

Stripper AU [2]

Sweetheart Draco [2]

Taking in a Stray

Teachers Drarry

Teenager Draco

The accio Miracle

Ticklish Draco

Tiktok challenge

Touch starved Draco

Trans Draco

Traumatized Draco, supporting Harry

Trope List: Fake Dating: [10], Enemies to Lovers: [5] [9]

Trope Mashup List: Fairytale AU + First Kiss / Historical AU + Poorly Timed Confessions / Modern AU + Fake Dating: [2] [3] / Roommate AU + Innocent Physical Contact / Royal AU + Secret Relationship 

Tummy aches

Turned into a ferret

Twister

Veela!Draco headcanons: [2] [3] [4]

What happens in the Potions closet stays in the Potions closet

Winter Prompts: [1] [40] [68] [78] [100]

Lamen:

Auguste finds out about the Regent 

Auguste walks in on them

Auguste walks in on them at school

Casually Sleeping Together

Courtier makes sexual comment about Laurent [2]

Courting Traditions

Cuddling

Damen courts Laurent, Auguste freaking out

Damen gets Laurent a dog

Damen the human pillow

Drunk Laurent confesses Feelings

Drunk Laurent thinking of the Regent [2] [3]

Heir problem

High School + Royalty

Injured Laurent

Jealous Laurent

King’s Rising AU, Laurent doesn’t know who Damen is

Laurent thinks Damen is cheating on him

Leaked sex tape [Laurent’s POV]

Long distance

Okton

Post King’s Rising Fluff, Damen Injured

Professors

Reverse Bang 2019: [Memory] [Vask]

Roadtrip AU [2]

Role Reversal, Slave Laurent [2]

Roommate AU

Showing affection

Sleeping through the night

Soulmate AU

Special dates: Christmas [2019]

Talking about the Regent

Teenager Laurent and his massive crush on Damen [2]

The Talk

Johnlock:

Sherlock Can’t sleep

Red, white, and Royal Blue

Alex holds Henry

Linny:

Hair Dye

Dreville:

Second Chances

Hey, idk if you’re taking prompts rn, but I was wondering if you could write something where Draco was raised by Sirius, or Sirius and Lupin? Like Narcissa gives baby Draco to Sirius bc she doesn’t want him raised by death eaters (or maybe doesn’t want him raised by an abusive Lucius if it’s a no Voldemort au), and it’s drarry with Draco having a protective dad au? This is def in part inspired by your Weasley!Draco fic that I’m obsessed w rn 😬

“Draco,” Sirius says.

“No.” Draco says firmly.

“Draco,”

“Dad, I swear to Merlin-”

“Leave him alone, Sirius,” Remus laughs from the kitchen, where he’s baking cookies. “When he’s ready to admit it to himself, he will.”

“I don’t need to admit anything to myself!” Draco says, face burning. Sirius is sitting upside down on their couch, grinning brightly at their son. “I don’t like Harry!”

“Yes, you do,” Both of his dads say, Remus much more calmly than Sirius.

“Come on,” Sirius rolls his eyes. “You’ve been moping all summer!”

Draco’s face heats further. 

“I wasn’t moping!” He defends feebly, pulling at the frayed hem of his jumper. He’s wearing soft pajama bottoms and a jumper Harry gifted him when they were twelve. It’s been four years, and it still fits him too big.

“Oh, you were so definitely moping,” Sirius rolls his eyes with a smirk. “You spent hours waiting for his owl-”

“Did not!” Draco exclaims.

“Here, try this.” Remus has come into the living room holding a tray of cookies, and he hands Sirius a small piece and Draco another; he took it up as a way to relax before the full moon when they adopted Draco. He seemed to have a special radar for whenever Remus was in a bad mood, and he cried like mad - which did not help at all - until it got better, leaving him no other option but to find something that made him happy quick.

“It’s good,” Sirius says immediately, mouth full. “More?”

“No,” Remus says, putting the tray on the counter and sitting on the couch next to his husband. “They’re for my students.”

Draco gives his father his best imploring look. “I’m your student.”

Remus throws him an amused, exasperated look. “My summer students.”

He teaches Defense against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts; in the summers, he teaches art and science in kindergarden. Sirius is the coach of the Quidditch Little League year-round, has been for years now, since he opened the kindergarden. He does it in the summer, too, since they have a summer camp.

Draco’s spent the better part of the mornings helping them take care of the kids, since Harry and his parents had gone to a holiday in Rome. The afternoons, he’s been spending at Hermione’s house, and the weekends with his uncle Regulus in his tattoo parlour. 

He’s the best tattoo artist in magical England, and though both of his dads have tattoos of their own, they haven’t given him permission to get one until he’s eighteen. Draco’s anxiously waiting.

“No fair,” Draco pouts. 

Sirius mirrors the pout. “We’re your husband and son, and you don’t want to give us cookies? Cruel, Moony, plain cruel.”

Remus rolls his eyes fondly at their antics, and summons two cookies from the kitchen to give to them, which immediately makes them smirk. “You’re both spoiled.”

Neither Draco nor Sirius bother denying it. 

“Come on,” Remus says. “You need to get ready for tonight or we’re going to be late.”

Sirius hums and stands, making his way to their bedroom; they’re invited to Fleur and Bill Weasley’s engagement party - Draco can’t go because it’s in a bar he can’t get into, since he’s underage - and Draco’s planning to spend the night watching muggle films on their telly. The only reason they have one is because they live in Muggle London - Draco’s never particularly understood why - and, although he can imagine the city to be more boring than magical ones, it’s his home.

Remus follows Sirius down the hall. Draco begins to flip through their film collection, and he’s trying to choose what to watch tonight, when the bell rings.

Draco frowns; he’s not expecting anyone - he’s literally in the oldest clothes he owns - and neither are his dads, that he knows of. It must be Alex, looking for their cat again. They’ve only had the cat for three months, but Draco’s already made friends with Alex because of how often it’s gotten lost.

“I haven’t seen Mrs. Fluffington, Alex,” He calls while he opens the door; insead of staring at Alex’s pale face and lavender hair, he finds himself staring at a deep red shirt.

“I’m not Alex,” He freezes momentarily at the voice, before looking up - and up, and up - and straight into Harry’s handsome face.

He looks him up and down a few times.

“This is fucking ridiculous,” Draco says, irritated.

“Watch your mouth,” Sirius says as he passes by, which make’s Draco’s face twist in embarrassment. He hadn’t thought before speaking.

Harry laughs. 

“It’s not ridiculous,” He says. “It’s normal.”

“It’s not normal to have grown half a meter over the summer!” Draco says. He’s not used to having to strain his neck to look up at Harry; he’s not used to having to look up at Harry at all. He’s always been shorter than Draco is!

“It’s not my fault you haven’t grown at all,” Harry says with a cheeky smirk. Draco’s cheeks heat, and he sticks his tongue out at Harry. “Isn’t that the jumper I got you when we were twelve?”

Draco wrinkles his nose - he’d pleaded Harry wouldn’t remember that the second he’d opened the door - and says, “No.”

“It is,” Sirius says, from inside. “He sleeps in it.”

Draco turns beet red and Harry grins smugly. 

“When did you get back anyway?” Draco asks, dying to change the subject. He moves out of the way, and Harry takes that as the invitation that it is and walks in. “And why didn’t you tell me?”

“This evening,” Harry says. Draco shuts the door behind him while Harry greets Sirius and Remus. “I thought we could have a movie night. My parents are going to Bill’s and Fleur’s party, too.”

“Of course,” Draco swallows.

He wants to go change, but it’s a bit pointless now; plus, it’s not like Harry’s never seen him in his pajamas. They sleep at each other’s regularly, but now… well, Draco hoped that if Harry came back from a month without seeing him and Draco looked dashingly good - he has no idea how he hoped to achieve that, if his entire closet is made up of soft jumpers and muggle jeans, except for his dad’s old leather jacket - maybe he’d magically develop a thing for him, like Draco most definitely has for him.

It is hopeless now; Harry has already realized he’s just the same old Draco.

“Well kids, we’re heading out,” Sirius claps Harry on the back and then kisses Draco’s cheek. Remus does the same. “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”

“There’s nothing you wouldn’t do,” Draco tells him.

He hears Sirius’s laughter even after they close the door.

“So,” He says, awkwardly. 

“How was your summer?” Harry asks, sitting on the couch, cross-legged.

“Fine,” Draco says. “I helped my dads at the Kindergarden. How was yours?”

“Rome was gorgeous,” Harry says. He’s grinning. “I brought you something.”

“Oh?” Draco hopes he doesn’t sound as nervous as he feels. He walks over to the couch and sits across from Harry stiffly.

“Yeah.” Harry says. He searches his pockets, and then hands Draco a small box. “Open it.”

Draco looks wary as he does so, but, when he does, his expression turns to amazement.

“Harry,” He says. “What is this?”

He’s looking up at the cieling, where thousands of tiny stars are shining, some brighter than the others.

“They were selling them in Rome,” Harry says. “Look at that,” he points to a set of specially shiny stars. “That’s Draco. The constellation. I thought you’d like it.”

Draco stares at him, eyes wide.

“If you don’t, I can take it back,” Harry says nervously. “I mean, I can’t, but I can keep it. I didn’t want to - is it too much?”

Draco swallows. “No,” He says. “It’s perfect. I love it.”

I love you.

Harry grins. “Good. What are we watching?”

As he reads film titles out loud, Draco swears to himself he’s going to work up the nerve to tell Harry how he feels about him.

Some day.

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when draco malfoy was born his mother made the smartest decision of her (and his) life

she sent him to live with her cousin

aka an au where sirius raises draco

NO JUST HEAR ME OUT OKAY

narcissa knew what lucius was like and refused to have her son raised to be like him so she went to the one person who got out

sirius black

(she would have went to her sister but she had a kid of her own)

and 20 year old sirius was fucking ecstatic because “oh cissy of COURSE i’ll take care of draco thank you for putting your everlasting trust in me”

and sirius always wanted a kid and draco was only a few days old but he was so tiny and remus looked like a dad when holding him and that was it, heart taken

and so, dad!sirius and baby!draco headcanons GO

sirius charmed dracos hair to be dark because “he’s a black goddamit why does he look like lucius so much”

sirius took draco over to the potters for play dates even though harry and draco didn’t get along that well

draco adored prongs and often clung to him whenever they were over

sirius dresses draco up in miniature versions of his outfits for the day, with a matching binkie and everything

sirius took draco for rides on his motorcycle even though remus, james, and lily said it was a bad idea

draco not being able to sleep unless sirius enchanted stars over his crib

draco not being able to sleep anywhere but sirius’ flat (no matter how much he like prongs, he did not stay overnight)

sirius letting draco play and pull on his hair, refusing to cut it because draco cried whenever he did as little as pulled it back into a bun

sirius playing queen records to get draco to calm down from fits

sirius and draco taking naps together instead of sirius getting work done

sirius taking draco to order meetings and everyone being shocked because “when did you have a child sirius?”

sirius accidentally leaving his wand somewhere draco could get it and coming back to find broken picture frames and floating balls

SIRIUS AND JAMES HAVING MINI QUIDDITCH MATCHES WITH HARRY AND DRACO

dracos first christmas, sirius cries and pretends he doesn’t

dracos first word is “pads” and sirius cried again

sirius always sends letters and pictures to narcissa and constantly tells draco stories about his mum

sirius knowing damn well draco would not be a gryffindor and still dressing him up in red and gold

sirius spoiling the hell out of draco, candy, toys, clothes, any and everything

sirius clapping and excitedly cheering when draco takes his first steps

sirius dramtically flooing to remus when draco’s first tooth starts coming in

dracos birthday is always over the top and has tons of balloons and cake and music playing the entire time

draco hating the snow as much as sirius hates the snow, so while james and harry play outside, they pair is snuggled on the couch by the fire

draco has a habit of chewing on his hands and sirius is the only one that can replace it with his binkie without him crying

draco is PICKY and gets that directly from sirius “i cant eat that it’s mushy” black

sirius turning into padfoot because draco absolutely adored dogs

sirius telling draco stories about dragons

SIRIUS CALLING DRACO “BABY DRAGON”

sirius getting a magical dragon tattoo and draco would spend hours looking at it fly on his arm

sirius taking draco to a muggle zoo and of course of all things draco is obsessed with the snakes

he also takes a keen liking to the birds

draco only likes eating fruits and will spit out any and all veggie food he gets

sirius gets an apron that says “paddy” on it and things it’s the most clever thing ever

draco really really likes muggle baby food, puffs, and so does sirius so an entire cabinet is filled with them

sirius goes crazy trying to baby proof the flat when draco starts walking and is beyond frustrated because “can you please not touch everything dragon?”

sirius buying one of those muggle swings and enchanting it to suit dracos mood and draco fucking loves that thing

when they go to restaurants sirius dips his finger in his drink or sauce so draco can have some

sirius wears the baby carrier ALL the time, you’ll never see him without it, even if draco isn’t in it

when draco starts teething, sirius freaks out because draco doesn’t usually cry and now he won’t stop crying and sirius calls lily for help

sirius takes to wearing one of dracos teething toys on a necklace so draco stops stuffing his shirt or his own fingers in his mouth

draco one time chewed on sirius’ wand and that was a disaster and remus decided he’d be in charge of keeping the wands while draco was in his moods

draco didn’t have a special blanket but he did have a special plush dog that sirius got him the day he turned 2 weeks old and draco never went anywhere without it

just. sirius raising draco and being a cute family that’s IT

Magical girls are literally the most powerful of anime characters

People always be arguing abt Goku vs JoJo number 52 most epic anime battles or whatev. A Precure could vaporize both of them by sneezing