Life is infinitely stranger than the mind of man could invent

I haven't, but that's mostly because there's no canon information about anything to do with the Potters' safe house. We don't know anything about it, just that it happened to be in Godric's Hollow and the Dumbledores also lived there almost a century earlier. It would be interesting if it was the same house, but we don't know 100%.

Also Bathilda was pretty close to the Potters considering she was invited for Harry’s first birthday, even though they were hunted and supposedly couldn’t trust anybody. In a way, I find it likely that, like Mrs. Figg, she was asked to keep an eye on Harry/the Potters and warned Dumbledore about what happened,  as soon as their house was destroyed, allowing him to ask Hagrid to retrieve Harry.

Potential lines of conflict between Harry and Albus lie in how differently the two handle secrets/keeping information quiet.

Albus grew up having to put on a brave face and lie about his home life from a very young age, and if we take Aberforth’s word for it, he took to it more naturally than others in his family besides Kendra. This magpie-like hoarding of information carried on even after Ariana died, as Albus frequently found himself as the holder of sensitive or essential information that would be disastrous in the wrong hands. There’s also the fact that Albus kept his sexuality secret for the better part of a century. By the time we meet him in canon, Albus is a natural secret-keeper and it’s difficult to get a read on who he truly is, and what all he truly knows.

By contrast–if Albus grew up keeping secrets, then Harry grew up being secret. His early life at the Dursleys relegated him almost permanently to second-class citizen status compared to Dudley, who used both his friends and his own parents to keep potential allies away from his cousin. Harry’s personality wasn’t stifled, but his connection to a normal childhood was. His heritage was kept from him for a decade and he literally lived in a cupboard, the kind of space you put things you aren’t intending to interact with very much. By the time he makes it to Hogwarts, Harry blooms like a flower and we see him make a subconscious effort to shine and be seen–and he has a healthy distrust for secrets and closed lines of communication.

Putting the two of them together, you can already see troublesome sparks in the making. Albus’ tendency to keep secrets and hide information would immediately get Harry’s hackles up; Harry’s brashness and openness would either inspire admiration or frustration from Albus depending on what stage of life he was in. If the two of them decided to enter a relationship, it would have to be public knowledge, or at least known to their intimate friends, because Harry would not want to be kept secret. Although he dislikes getting certain types of attention because of his fame, being relegated to a corner is even worse in his eyes. He would probably rather weather Rita Skeeter’s horrid articles and his friends’ judgmental looks rather than pretend he wasn’t involved with Albus.

On the other hand, Albus has more than enough valid reasons to keep a romantic partner secret. Whether it’s pre- or post-1945, Grindelwald would not take kindly to hearing about his old flame shacking up with someone else; and just because he’s imprisoned doesn’t mean all his followers were too. Voldemort is also known to target families and loved ones, and even his fear of Albus Dumbledore might not keep him from taking a swing at the professor’s mysterious partner… especially if he finds out how important that partner is in his own future.

Albus is trying to find a difficult balance between being his flamboyant self and at the same time not getting sent to Azkaban (and, if he already started teaching, being accused by some parents of pedophilia). Fanfic authors can pretend that the wizarding world is more open-minded, I think it was regarding homosexuality just as bad as muggles (hence why Gellert and Albus wanted their revolution). Harry however wouldn’t want to be in the closet (ah), but Albus would know that this is just not possible.

thinkin about spiderverse movie and it’s soooo smart the way hobie acts and talks. when he realizes who miles is he’s already formulating how to work the entire situation out in miles favor. it’s not just the palms trick, hobie tries to get miles out of spider society IMMEDIATELY.

when jess drew says they’re all coming with her hobie says “i don’t follow orders, neither does he” which is funny! and you don’t initially understand why he would say that other than the fact that hobie has demonstrated he’s a non conformist for even the silliest things, so of course he would say that right? but after miles goes along anyways hobie puts his head in his hands because he was giving miles AN OUT.

hobie knows who miles IS he knows why miles is being called in and he’s already planning to get miles out.

he then subtly hints that things are a little less cool under the surface. hobie warns miles when no one else does, when he’s stealing parts for gwen’s watch (because once again, he already knows what’s about to go down) “bet you’ve got a nice set up, nice parents” Hobie KNOWS what canon events are and knows miles is before the big ones. miles says he’s in a fight with his parents and hobie says “that’s a bloody shame, cus you’re not ready for everybody else”

all of this while he knicks tech out of the wall and flaunts it to miles. once again it’s funny, an audiences first reaction is most likely to pick up that hobie is alluding to something, but be distracted by the comedy of his charismatic personality. it’s so smart, because even while he’s taking things he says “bet this doesn’t even do anything” (HES TALKING ABOUT DISRUPTING CANON EVENTS) miles replies talking about the tech “maybe it did before you ripped it out of the wall” to which hobie says “it’s propaganda bro”

and it IS. spider society as a whole is propagandized as a necessity to the stability of the multi-verse. they push that canon events MUST HAPPEN, but hobie doesn’t believe it or care. he’s purely looking out for miles, who is the little guy in this situation and an ‘anomaly’ from the moment they met hobie was looking out for him.

all of this culminates before the chase where hobie gives him the means to escape, visibly calms miles down and holds up his palms to remind him how to break out. then quits and disappears to wait for gwen so they can group back up. so good.

and anyways i have more misc thoughts about why hobie is in spider society anyways but that’s based on speculation so it’s going under the cut

last time we covered why for me personally gr*ndeld*re has more holes in it than swiss cheese. now we’ll cover why I think time travel harrydore is superior and respects both characters.

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Another important point is Harry’s strong moral compass. We may all like reading dark Harry fics from time to time, we all know deep down that this boy/man will always make the right choice/understand why somebody did something, even if he disagrees with them. Saint Potter, the boy who treats a house-elf like an equal, who once he gets all the important data will always pick the right moral choice, even if that means walking to his death. For somebody like Dumbledore who got too arrogant and paid the price, that is what he admires, the quality he holds as the most precious. The same way, the second Albus crosses the line and does something dark, we knows that Harry will stand up against him.

For somebody who sees himself as a monster, I think there is something liberating about knowing that there’s somebody who will do everything to stop you, should you ever cross the line. Harry would be his moral compass, the one person he actually believes when he tells him ‘you are not a monster’ or ‘you went too far, stop’. Perhaps he is not as magically gifted as Albus, and he may not be as powerful, but Albus knows that, somehow, Harry will be able to stop him, should he ever follow Gellert’s path.

A fanart from one of my fav Harrydore fic!

Time travel and great adventure! It is a veryyyyyy slow burn and it is amazing!

Dyslexia Friendly Ao3 Skin (or at least an attempt at)

I've been slowly working at a dyslexia friendly skin following the design suggestions I've found in the British Dyslexia Association Style Guide.

You can find it here with all the instructions to install it

It is still a work in progress and I'm begging for feedback so that I can make it better for everyone.

To Do List:

A dark mode is on the way. I'll post it on the link I've just posted, so if you find this post in a few months you'll be able to find it.

As soon as I can I aim to make the code more ordered, with lots of comments and a guide to change stuff for people who know nothing about css, so you can personalize it for your needs.

More color combinations.

AND DARK MODE IS HERE

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So scientists were speculating on how flight evolved in birds. The hypothesis was that their wings were originally for helping them run and climb, and as the wings evolved to be more efficient, the animals were eventually able to outright fly.

They tested this by putting a bird on one end of a plank and a morsel of food on the other end and watching how the bird goes to the food. They repeated this, raising the angle of the board to be steeper and steeper until it was basically vertical. At a certain point, it would take less energy for the bird to just take off and land on the other side of the plank than to try climbing it.

A lot of publicly accessible Google Drive links will no longer be accessible later this year unless their owners opt out of new security enhancements. These enhancements are being brought to Google Drive on September 23rd, 2021, the company announced in a blog post today.

Once this change goes live, Google says that users will need a “resource key” to access a publicly shared link. However, users won’t need an updated link with said resource key appended if they’ve already accessed that file before in the past. As a result of this change, we can imagine that lots of Google Drive links shared online on forums and other sites will no longer work as their owners neglect to update them, leaving them only accessible to the people that have already clicked the links before. This comes after Google also announced similar changes to YouTube’s unlisted videos earlier today.