But with this idea I also need there to be a “stark industries households” youtube channel that is, technically, an official SI channel. But it’s not in the slightest used for marketing or anything of the sort. Tony is the only one with the password and every video uploaded is tony going through how to use that machine.

Someone can’t figure out how to empty their damn fancy vacuum and they look up the model on youtube to figure it out, and are greeted by the CEO of the company doing a WILDLY informal tutorial on how to use it and common issues and such.

The videos are often shot by DUM-E or U. Tony often looks very disheveled, and sometimes there’s unrevealed projects just sitting out in the background. Tony acts like he’s talking to an audience of five people and usually there’s five or six videos uploaded back to back, CLEARLY shot in one sitting.

And whewwww it’s so true.

Right and my mind lately has been like, Catherine is absolutely the person who gets Lamb to see the good in people.

She looks at the world differently to him. Where he’s instinctively suspicious, jaded, already assuming the worst, she still has this capacity to care. She likes people. She wants to believe in them. And more than that — she wants to help them. It isn’t naïvety; it comes from damage. Catherine knows what it is to be broken, to fall apart, to claw your way back from something destructive. Her alcoholism, her recovery, the shame and rebuilding — all of that means she recognises pain in other people. She has empathy for it. Including his.

Lamb, by contrast, has spent decades armouring himself against disappointment. He expects betrayal because he’s lived it. He trusts almost no one because trust cost him everything once. So when Catherine insists someone is worth the risk, worth the effort, worth believing in — that matters. She becomes the counterweight to his cynicism.

They’re both broken, really. Just in opposite directions. Two sides of the same coin.

Lamb runs through Catherine’s life like a thread. But it’s true the other way too. Catherine is this strange constant in his world — someone who has seen him at his worst and stayed anyway. In a way, she functions like an external version of his own morality. He might ignore his conscience internally, but he can’t quite ignore her standing there.

They catalyse each other.

Their lives have been intertwined for decades, and at the centre of that knot is Charles Partner — the same man placed on completely different pedestals. For Catherine, he was kindness, stability, someone who saved her. For Lamb, he was betrayal so profound it reshaped his entire existence. That shared history binds them in a way no one else can really understand.

They’ve known each other across roles — boss and subordinate, agent and PA, companions in grief. They’ve seen every version: competent, damaged, heroic, petty, cruel, loyal. There’s very little illusion left between them.

And for a long time, they had no one else. Before the Slow Horses became a kind of family, it was just the two of them orbiting the same gravitational pull.

Even small details underline it, like Taverner knowing exactly where Lamb would go in s1. The immediate cut to Catherine in bed. Lamb knocking on her door. And then the books having implication she’s part of his flight fund. They’re embedded in each other’s lives at a structural level.

They know everything about one another — the good and the ugly alike — and neither has walked away.

So, I honestly see them as two halves of the same whole. Like someone took one person and split them down the middle, and those two halves have spent the rest of their lives circling each other.

It brings to mind the theory of how the Earth’s moon was formed from the Earth’s own mantle after a catastrophic collision with another Mars-sized planet a few billion years ago— something violent that created two bodies forever linked by gravity.

I'm thinking of this in terms of TMM Universe but like just any Baelor x reader.

Like, when you and Baelor are together, having deep discussions in your rooms, and you ask him a question that really makes him think, he closes his eyes as he speaks and you just absolutely love it. It makes you shiver with happiness because he cares so much about the questions you ask that he wants to truly think about how he responds. It just makes him even more intelligent (and thus even more sexy...)

And one night you just can't help yourself. He does it, smiling a little as he thinks back to some memory to relate it to the question, and all of a sudden you are kissing him, arms wrapped over his shoulders, mouth against his with a little 'mmph'.

He smiles into the kiss and returns it quickly, wrapping you up in his arms and hauling you against his chest. When you pull away, you smile up at him, kissing his lips softly between words as he says "I was thinking, you know."

"Mm, I know. My apologies for interrupting, but I just could not resist."

And he just smiles brightly and kisses you againnnn.

the heir to the throne dies in the arms of a loyal good low born fleebottom hedge knight when he was coming to check on him…

I know that sometimes JKR used characters like Hermione and Dumbledore as spokespersons about what she wanted the audience to know that's why we get Hermione saying that but if that's what she wanted us to think, she did a poor job because Sirius actually kind of right and it makes Hermione look biased against Sirius.

Same with Dumbledore in that conversation with Harry after Sirius's death and it sucks. She wanted us to think Sirius saw Kreacher as inferior because of his species but that's not true at all. Now, some scenes with Sirius and Kreacher made me uncomfortable and I am not going to lie about it. But Sirius hated Kreacher because he was a part of his abusive childhood and repeated the same bigoted stuff his family thought and let's not forget Sirius only got violent with him when he called Hermione a slur. So Dumbledore saying that just feels so ooc because usually he is so wise (but once i read a meta about him seeing Sirius as Grindelwald and thinking by that meta it gives us an interesting perspective about this conversation as well).

Sorry this is getting long 😅. Anyways my point is that none of it makes any sense. It is clear that JKR was biased against Sirius and to show that she brought two other characters down (though these moments can be seen as interesting flaws in them)

Have a lovely day! (Sorry about the long ask, I hope it makes sense)

Honestly, while JKR is a brilliant writer, I also find her fairly reactionary in her writing style. Sirius was one of the most popular characters in the story because she wrote him that way, he inadvertently became more popular than a lot of other characters she preferred because again, she WROTE him that way. Perhaps the creation of a character as multi-faceted and dynamic as Sirius is was entirely by accident, as she really seems to double down on the character assassination as the books go by, but regardless, there's little in the way of canonical proof to suggest that Sirius is trying to live a vicarious life through the kids. Especially cause he's the one who seems to understand what they actually need after all they've been through instead of just patronising them.

Sirius is the only one who takes Harry seriously, he is the only one who tries to not just physically be there like the others, but actually also provide emotional support. He's constantly been doing this since he escaped Azkaban, and at this point, both in the case of Harry generally, and the Weasleys specifically when Arthur was injured, he's repeatedly looking after others at his own personal cost. He gets Ron an Owl, almost tells Harry how to beat a dragon (and that's the kind of stuff Sirius Black simply just goes around knowing, how to take down Dragons), gets Harry his firebolt and Hogsmeade slip. Sirius is generally an emotionally intelligent person, and this is after 12 years of forced isolation from civilisation.

The tragedy of Sirius' arc in OOTP is that there's no one around him who can relate to his experiences. This makes it impossible for Sirius to find the kind of empathy and support he needs from the members of the order. By OOTP, Sirius' mental health, whilst constantly deteriorating is also displayed on technicolour before the entire cast. He's not allowed any secrets, his abusive childhood, his unprocessed grief, years of dementor and solitary confinement related trauma, the fact that he lost his entire twenties, his burgeoning alcoholism is all on display and not spared judgement from the self-righteous members of the Order who did not support him at 21 and are not going to support him at 33.

Furthermore, the narrative repeatedly validates him. He insists that Harry should be told the truth, and he's right, he insists that he can do more instead of just being locked up and left alone and he's right, he wants Snape to restart Harry's lessons and he's right, he repeatedly and actively disagrees with Dumbledore's opaque methods and again, he's right. He gives Harry the two way mirror because Harry needs him to be there, and as Godfather, it is Sirius' responsibility to find a safe way to ensure that happens.

Whilst he's not at his best, he's still trying, he's trying so hard to be what everyone needs him to be even when its contrary to his own instincts and emotional needs which are either dismissed entirely by the people around him or mocked with derogatory catchphrases like "fit of the sullens" that its genuinely heartbreaking that despite him going out of his way to help the Order, not only is his devotion not returned it's barely even acknowledged. They never try to acquit him, there's no mission run by the Order to try and recapture Peter or get Sirius a trial or even an opportunity to give a press conference (which, with the political climate in OOTP would actually be a great way to discredit the ministry), Dumbledore pretty much just locked him in and threw away the key, a circumstance not entirely different from the past 12 years of Sirius' unfortunately short life. An acquitted Sirius would mean a discredited justice system and ministry and also a powerful wizard to run missions again, but this prospect is not even brought up let alone addressed. He gets a posthumous consolation through a footnote in the Daily Prophet, like that could compensate for the trauma and the decade he's lost.

I think it's very binary to put people into boxes and go "this person is only these set of traits and that's all they can be." Sirius is more than his grief for the Potters and love for Harry and years of isolation and torture. He's a brilliant detective, one of the order's most powerful duelists, someone who is blatantly not afraid of calling people out, be it Walburga or Crouch or Dumbledore, someone who despite growing up in a cesspit of bigotry and violence fights for people like Lily Potter and Remus Lupin and Hermione Granger. The guy who barely tolerates Kreacher but is distasteful of Crouch's treatment of Winky. Sirius, like most people, comes with facets and is possibly one of JKR's finest creations. Not that she seemed to realise it herself.

Not that that's surprising.