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Hi, I'm Z, I write fanfics on Ao3 art blog is here currently back on some hp bullshit
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The_wig_is_a_metaphor

Harry Potter/Voldemort

Voldemort takes a deep, careful breath, and now that Harry has been staring at him for a while, it clicks in his hindbrain that he seems even paler, somehow, even more thin and monstrous than he had in the graveyard. Right out of his cauldron womb he had been elated, he had been smug, already halfway to triumphant, dripping with his amniotic fluid: magic and malevolence and hunger. Now, a short few weeks later, across the table from his enemies, he looks – The newly reborn dark lord looks tired

(AKA the fic in which voldemort develops some kind of undisclosed health issue and proceeds to make it everyone's problem. ....mostly harry's.)

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prokopetz

The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.

Okay, that was glib – let me expand. I'm fully aware that Batman comics generally don't have him fighting guys like the Penguin one on one these days. That's not the problem. The problem is that superhero power creep has rendered Batman functionally immune to hired goons, but owing to his roots as a street-level vigilante, like half of his classic villains are guys whose primary threat vector is the ability to field arbitrary numbers of hired goons. There just aren't a lot of ways to work around that without either doing violence to the villain's idiom or making Batman carry the idiot ball – though I'll grant that some of the attempted workarounds have been very entertaining!

You joke, but that's literally one of the workarounds I'm referring to. One of the reasons that recent Batman stories keep looping back around to ancient ninja conspiracy stuff is that an answer to "how do we make hired goons a credible threat when Batman is an invincible ninja?" is "the hired goons are also ninjas".

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nos4ra2

Imagine turning to crime out of financial desperation and you can’t even land a job as a dumb knuckle cracking brawler anymore without five years of martial arts training, a CDL in evasive getaway driving and a hand written recommendation from an active member of The Court of Owls.

batman gentrifying the crime industry smh

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People in this fandom be like: one time Voldemort’s tummy hurt 😔🥺😥 and it was Dumbledore’s fault 😡🤬😤

Remember when evil Dumbledore forced neurodivergent queer-coded 58 year old minor Voldemort to kill all those people including a literal baby 🥺😭

voldemort-- I mean Tom is just an uwu baby girll who has never done anything wrongggg! He was groomed by Dumbledore and thats why he does bad things! But its not his fault! He would have never made these terrible choices if it were for Dumbledore!

when he kills muggles he does it because he’s worried about the environment 🥺 ecofascism is ok actually

he and his followers only slaughtered countless people because mercury was in microwave

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tlirsgender

Weird genre of person is when fans of media with actually complex and interesting characters get scared by any level of moral ambiguity whatsoever like why are you buying purity at the nuance store

Whether they're freaking the fuck out about a character having flaws or they're freaking the fuck out about someone acknowledging their fave has flaws it's like. What are you getting out of this. You're ignoring the good part because you have the understanding of right and wrong of a six year old

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