where are the dragons

i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

[id: the first image is a screenshot of a tiktok taken in a museum. a white woman is gesturing at an art piece, a large swatch of fabric draped over a flagpole. the text at the bottom of the screen says "standing next to art we could do"

the second image is a description of the piece from the tiktok. it says:

Flag I

2009, Teresa Margolles

Artwork Caltion

The fabric of Flag I contains traces of blood, soil and other substances from the sites of murders around the northern border of Mexico, testifying to the thousandsof violent deaths associated with the powerful drug cartels that control smuggling routes to the United States.

end id]

Remu

one of my favourite things is seeing posts like this that are clearly a reference to some fandom or piece of media, but having no idea what it’s referencing, so i’m just reading it like. yeah that would be weird huh

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to miss the application window

Luca Marinelli Martin Eden Dir: Pietro Marcello

i love sirius black

+ a bonus Remus + Teddy

Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.

yeah, you probably should have, nile

yet another sketch that accidentally took over my life oops. i’ve seen a lot of headcanons about nicky being the muse of the renaissance but ngl i don’t think he’d be the only one (which would certainly put that last one in a… certain light)

I was thinking about what it would look like if somebody tried to hit on either joe or nicky in front of the other because while they obviously love each other So Much I also don’t think they’re particularly jealous or possessive (900+ years of trust babey) but at the same time I cannot shake the image of whatever poor sod tried to proposition joe getting hit with the full force of nicky’s well established Unsettling Vibes like

but he’s not even trying to be mean or anything! like afterwards joe will say “sweetie did you scare that nice person off again?” and nicky will just be like “….who?” 

(later nile tells him ‘I diagnose you with resting weird vibes’ and andy laughs so hard she almost falls off her chair)

ECLIPSE CELEBRATION

Digital Illustration by Christina Bencina

Me: damn this situation I'm in sure isn't ideal, what am I gonna do about this

Suicidal Ideation Man who lives in my brain: perhaps I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

just wanna find the softest grass i can find and lay down in it and look at the sky for a very very very long time

☀️Eclipse🌙

Our celestial lovers are reunited today! It warms my heart to see people reblogging this art again, almost 7 years later 🧡

Canon Remus is kind (or at least tries to be)

- He was visibly conflicted and uncomfortable when Sirius and James went after Snape in Snape's Worst Memory.

- Sirius even acknowledges that Remus is kind when he says that they [the marauders] were all idiots in school and then adds, "Well, not Moony so much." He says that Remus was "the good boy" and that he made them feel ashamed of their crueler antics sometimes, and Sirius seemed to appreciate this at least in retrospect. (I feel the need to note that when Sirius said that they were "idiots" he did NOT mean stupid. He was agreeing with Harry that their actions were not always harmless fun and that he is not proud of being a bully in his youth, so don't use this as "canon proof" that Sirius and James were brainless dumbasses)

- He went out of his way to encourage Neville and was everyone's favorite DADA professor

- His smile/expression is described as "understanding" at least a few times throughout the series.

- Molly sobbed in his arms after she had the encounter with the Boggart. He comforted her (somewhat awkwardly) and gave her a handkerchief: “Molly, it was just a boggart,” he said soothingly, patting her on the head. “Just a stupid boggart . . .”

- In OoTP, Remus speaks with a lonely werewolf at St. Mungo's while visiting Arthur: "Lupin strolled away from the bed and over to the werewolf, who had no visitors and was looking rather wistfully at the crowd around Mr. Weasley... (it was to escape an uncomfortable family situation, but still, it was kind of him to recognize that the man was feeling lonely on Christmas and might like some company)

- He reassured both McGonagall and Hermione when they tried to blame themselves for Dumbledore's death.

- Before he learned the identity of the werewolf who infected him, he felt pity for them because he understood how terrible it felt to lose himself to the transformation, and he believed for a long while that this was the case for the werewolf that bit him. He held no resentment towards them until he discovered that he had been purposely infected by Fenrir Greyback. (And even after learning the truth, he never expresses outward resentment or a desire for vengeance)

When Percy sends his Christmas presents back unopened in ootp, Fred and George leave their sobbing mother to Remus to look after and run off to Ron and Harry to wait until he's managed to cheer her up.

Just living with Sirius in Grimmauld Place is a massive act of kindness. He has his own home (we know - because Sirius lay low there), he has access to instant travel - there is no need for him to live at headquarters, but he chooses to move into a gloomy, cobwebby, dark magic filled mausoleum of a house with a house elf and a portrait that calls him a "filthy halfbreed", just to keep Sirius company.

Not only does he not show any resentment towards Fenrir Greyback, he also apparently bears no ill will to his father for the role he played in Remus's getting bit.

And he doesn't resent Snape for outing him as a werewolf to the entire school - saying Snape could have done a lot more damage by tampering with the potion. Remus is thankful for what Snape did right and doesn't dwell on how Snape harmed him.

in POA he comes across Harry all alone during the Hogsmeade weekend and invites him in for a cup of tea because he can tell he is lonely and frustrated. And he defies Harry's expectation of him (and all adults) by telling Harry the truth about why he didn't let him fight the boggart.

He gives up his evenings and weekends to teach Harry advanced magic, not because he knows Harry will have to fight off a swarm of dementors later in the book, not because he thinks it will save Harry's life - but so that Harry can feel more confident going into his next Quidditch game without worrying about falling off his broom.

While providing this extra curricular activity for free, in his own spare time, he also gives Harry chocolate and even a butter beer - Remus is poor; his clothes are shabby, his possessions old and battered; his teacher's salary might be good, but he knows the job isn't forever - he has one year, 12 pay packets, and then he doesn't know how long he will have to go before he finds another job. He may have to make the money he earns here last him a long time (and his even more shabby appearance in ootp, in conjunction with Umbridge's antiwerewolf laws, suggest he did) and yet he is still spending his money on things to help Harry with the side effects of dementor fighting and rewards for him.

Canon Remus is a genuinely lovely guy who looks out for others and tries to be fair and, if asked, will be generous with his time and even his money (what little he has). He doesn't put himself forward or make the first move (he would see that as him "imposing" himself on people) but when he is around, he is good to everyone and people know they can rely on him.

When Harry hears that (fake) Moody took Neville for a cup of tea, praised him over his Herbology talent and gave him a book he thought would interest him, Harry thinks "it was the sort of thing Professor Lupin would have done". Harry's response to hearing about someone doing something tactful and kind is "yeah, Lupin would have done that" - and coming from the hero of the series, who is himself kind and compassionate and thoughtful - that's pretty high praise indeed.

First date<3

spotted in the middle east, 13 century