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Title: echoes of the spring Author: dalula Ship/s: Regulus Black/Sirius Black Prompt: #78 Rating: Explicit Word Count: 1439 Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary: A reunion after Sirius's escape from Azkaban.

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Title: Scars to Your Beautiful Author: Ayanadailey Ship: Lavender Brown & Hermione Granger Prompt: Hermione comforts Lavender over her scars Rating: G Word Count: 1962 Warnings: None Summary: Hermione stumbles upon Lavender at St. Mungos and comforts her when she confesses her worries about being a werewolf.

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Title: Growing Suspicion Author: nocturn Ship/s: Marcus Flint/Neville Longbottom Prompt: 128 - Herbology Professor Neville keeps finding uprooted flowers and plants on his desk -- what kind of horrible threats are these? Rating: G Word Count: 1866 Warnings: None Summary: "I'll get to the bottom of this," Neville assured the plants. "Vengeance will be ours."

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Title: Fucking Perfect, Actually Author: @schmem14 Ship/s: Ron Weasley/Cormac McLaggen Prompt: 22 Rating: E Word Count: 9.5 k Warnings: No Archive Warnings apply Summary:

“You didn’t tell me you were gay,” Harry says, voice serious. “I-I’m not—what makes you think—” “—Ron. You have a little black book of all the guys on the team.” “Doesn’t—doesn’t everybody sneak peeks of guys in the shower after practice? It’s good for like… workout tips and stuff. That’s not gay, is it?” Harry just blinks at Ron, and Hermione clears her throat. Ron buries his face in his palms and groans, waiting for Harry’s verdict. Harry’s words are understanding in a way Ron doesn’t want to accept. “Listen, Ron. There’s nothing wrong with it, believe me. I know what you mean about sneaking peeks, but… it is a bit gay, yeah.”

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That time Ron Weasley took forever to realize he's secretly in love with his meathead hockey rival, Cormac McLaggen.

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.

But because they have this vast imagined wealth, they can decide which resources are gathered and created, how they are used and how they are distributed. They can decide that we need to build a private jet and not a new clean energy plant. They can decide who gets drinking water.

the technical term for this by the way is ‘fictitious capital’

And that's basically my attitude towards all fantasy. There's lots of things I enjoy in fantasy that wouldn't work IRL. Enemies to lovers. Sudden kisses. Miscommunications in relationships. Codependency. Fight sluts who physically assault each other while emotionally connecting.

Once you start ascribing your morals to the fiction you consume, you tend to miss the issues in even the most innocuous, innocent seeming scenarios. It's easy to judge other people's fictional enjoyment until someone points out your innocent coffee shop AU is romanticised workplace harassment.

But it's all fiction. It's a fantasy. That's why it's fine.

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.