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nihilism cynicism criticism etc etc could be as well.

but the fandoms are really really female places and i don't know how to say things and not to be considered a moron.

i either lie or you think me a bastard. > pick your fighter

or Ewan Mitchell

people keep forgetting that prosthetics [prosthetic makeup / prosthetic appliances] exist. these massively expand your options, like...... genuinely, radically expand them.

and i'd also like to remind everyone that in Frankenstein the bloke was acting practically buried under prosthetics. it's not a problem.

they keep fumbling the weirdest things. take the Targaryens, for example. it's the twenty-first century, why can't you just use cgi to change their eye colour? seriously.

why can't they just let fans of the books adapt the books? are you telling me there isn't a single director out there who's actually a fan?

because, as someone who's a fan of the books, i'd genuinely lose my mind over even the slightest deviation if it's a character trait that's mentioned over and over again. seriously, i'd have wanted to spit in someone's face over brown-eyed Lily /🤡

have you lot completely lost it?

same goes for Viktor Krum. that casting was an absolute disaster. who on earth came up with it?

with the Marauders, the only one they even remotely got right was Remus. and even then, they all ended up looking far too old because they fucked up Rickman's age from the very beginning. after that, there was no way to explain how a thirty-year-old could possibly have been at school with someone who looked sixty.

it genuinely does my head in. i don't understand why people make adaptations of books if they can't be bothered to adapt the actual book properly. it isn't that difficult, for god's sake.

they've got absolutely enormous budgets, especially for HP. especially now. back then, fair enough, the books weren't the global phenomenon they are today... but now it's one of the biggest franchises in the world. they can do practically anything.

and they still have Harry with blue eyes. are you lot serious? it's 2026, and you still don't have cgi for that?

... don't even get me started on The Witcher. and i'm talking specifically about Geralt.

or Ewan Mitchell

people keep forgetting that prosthetics [prosthetic makeup / prosthetic appliances] exist. these massively expand your options, like...... genuinely, radically expand them.

and i'd also like to remind everyone that in Frankenstein the bloke was acting practically buried under prosthetics. it's not a problem.

but trust me, i'll happily remind everyone of every single one of his sins.

the moment people start pitting him against Severus... no. YOU CAN'T COMPARE THEM LIKE THAT. they're both arseholes to the same degree, and they're both cruel and did really bad things, and made really bad decisions, and both have certain reasons to be this way. just in different categories.

and we don't compare different categories with each other. makes sense? makes sense.

well, think about it, who else would come up with making Sirius stupid, small, helpless, drama queen bottom????????????

what a marvellous evening for team building, isn't it, Black? i have an excellent suggestion. you have sooooooooo many fans. we shall read their works.

/opens AO3

and, like, one of the most memorable lecturers at my uni has the vibe of Sirius Black. they are simmilar in so many ways. [though he doesn't have, like, an outrageously gorgeous face or anything, but he's so charismatic that he comes across as attractive]

the point is, i did a little thought experiment and imagined him with Snape's appearance and personality instead.... people would absolutely tear him to shreds. [most students would, at least]

because he's young, he's 30. so he was even a bit younger when i was studying there. and he's completely unhinged. he buries people in coursework. like, he absolutely buries you in it. and he's ridiculously demanding.

but because he's charismatic and has this sort of mate-your-own-age vibe, everyone absolutely adores him. he can take the piss out of someone and literally nobody has a problem with it.

so don't tell me appearance, extroversion, and charisma don't matter.

because they decide pretty much EVERYTHING.

even though, objectively, there's no real difference. it's just a difference in personality. on the one hand, it gives you this feeling of freedom when you're talking to him. but it's incredibly misleading.

because if you tried to negotiate with him, he'd absolutely destroy you. if you tried to treat him like a mate when it came to coursework, he'd absolutely destroy you as well.

so, in practical terms, there's NO DIFFERENCE between that and him being bitter and toxic. NONE.

he's simply pleasant and not intimidating.

that's it.

and that's enough to change everything.

i just don't get WHY people go through all these mental gymnastics when people could simply say,

"i don't like toxic people, so i don't like Snape."

i love him, and i love Sirius Black, but i also know how men like that get away with ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING.

for example, he can quite happily use people.

i mean, in an academic context, he can genuinely make use of unpaid labour under the banner of academia, even though he's being paid for it himself.

well, something along those lines.

and it's just that if your company is seen as one of the "good" ones, you can genuinely use that as a bargaining chip. not directly, but that's effectively what you're doing.

if you're a cool, pleasant person, you can genuinely get away with paying people in attention and little "thank yous".

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people also tend to forget that being unpleasant, cynical, or sardonic isn't some kind of moral failing or absolute evil. it's simply socially off-putting, and that's all. nothing more, nothing less.

people like that are, at the very least, very honest. in most other cases, you have to wear a mask and suppress quite a lot of your emotions and opinions for the sake of being socially acceptable.