MULTIFANDOM

YOU ARE NOT REAL BUT NEITHER AM I

On one hand a twisted vision, the other a visitation of future past.

O México é um país que se constrói em camadas. É intenso e te atravessa, às vezes sem perceber.

Ele se impõe não pela força — embora ela esteja presente —, mas pela forma como sustenta suas contradições. Mostra o amor, mostra a perda, mostra a vida e a morte coexistindo. A dor é celebrada, e a memória não é esquecida, é honrada.

Nada é superficial. Tudo é o mais real quanto conseguimos imaginar. O México não esconde suas camadas. Ele mostra. E é para quem entende que se permitir sentir é a melhor forma de estar vivo, sem que isso ultrapasse limites. Há confronto, há desconforto, mas também há acolhimento — até que você consiga se olhar e encontrar sentido, inclusive na dor.

Não é apenas sobre paisagens bonitas, embora elas mudem com facilidade. Não é sobre uma cultura exótica, existe continuidade. A gastronomia acompanha essa lógica: é construção, história, intenção. Ingredientes simples, bem usados, com identidade clara.

As histórias do México não são romantizadas. Elas existem com suas marcas, perdas e conquistas. O que veio antes não foi apagado, foi incorporado — e isso aparece na forma como o país se expressa.

Desertos secos, praias abertas, cidades antigas, montanhas. Tradições seguem vivas como parte do cotidiano. Há uma presença constante, firme, que não precisa se provar.

Não é sobre impressionar. É sobre sustentar algo que já faz sentido há muito tempo. Há respeito pelo passado, sem impedir o movimento do presente. É sobre olhar para o que foi, para quem passou, para o que ficou — e ainda assim escolher viver com cor, com música, com verdade.

#centrohistorico #mexico🇲🇽 #imensasemocoes #sonheumsonho #vitoriamoraes ❣️

Hi, it's been long time. Have some pain ✨

This is for the Vaderkin Creative Exchange ( @vaderkin-is-a-lightning-rod ), for @nocturnalgremlingiant

But never „He was still a teenager when he joined Voldemort.“

It‘s always „They were barely adults by the time they were murdered.“

But never „He was barely an adult when he had already betrayed Voldemort and changed sides.“

It‘s always „He was just a kid“ when he was bullying other students.

But never „He was just a kid“ when he was literally groomed into a cult in school.

It‘s always „He was just a kid when he was groomed and abused at home.“

But never „ He was just a kid when he was groomed in school and neglected and beaten at home.“

It‘s always „he was just a kid doing a silly prank.“ when he tried to lure somone out to the hideout of a literal werewolf who would have killed him.

And never „he was just a kid almost getting mauled by a werewolf and silenced afterwards.“

It‘s always „He was just a kid when he assaulted someone and hung them in the air upside down.“

But never „He was just a kid when he was assaulted in front of the whole school“.

It‘s always „they were just kids“.

As long as it‘s the marauders.

It‘s always „boys will be boys“ when it‘s James and Sirius.

And it‘s always „he deserved it“ and „he was just a horrible man“ when it‘s Severus.

i had this on my pc for ages, in fact i started this before i had even watched all the movies and i never posted it because i thought it wasn't very worth of posting, but since is block day, i suppose here it is nfdjkdf (of course after actually watching all the movies, i modified some of the dialog here so they would be in character sjdsjs)

blaming a friend for this

What gets called a "complex character" often seems absurdly broad to me, especially in a children's and young adult series where most of the cast isn't particularly complex to begin with. Not when you compare them to characters from adult literature, characters who do genuinely morally questionable things, whose good actions require them to commit terrible ones to achieve worthwhile outcomes, or whose ethical decisions are genuinely difficult and messy.

In Harry Potter, Snape is considered one of the most complex characters in the series. But if you took Severus out of that universe and dropped him into almost any adult piece of fiction, the man would practically be a hero. He wouldn't even fit the archetype of an antihero. Hell, even if you put him into a complete meme of a universe like Euphoria, he'd still be a better person than 80% of the cast, and we're talking about a very mainstream series here.

So where exactly is this supposed complexity? That he made terrible decisions as an abused teenager and later regretted them? His "sins" don't even come close to what supposedly morally good characters in universes like A Song of Ice and Fire have done. Arya Stark alone has committed acts that are far more ethically and morally questionable than anything Snape ever did. It's like the standard people use to measure complexity and moral ambiguity is unbelievably childish. If people consider Snape a bad guy imagine if they read, idk, the fucking Fahrenheit 451 and they have to face the fucking main character that is Montag, who basically is AN ACTIVE PART OF THE FASCIST POLICE in his world and his fucking whole arc is understand why he's a bad guy and basically becoming a part of the resistance. It genuinely feels as though the most "adult" thing many people in this fandom have ever consumed is Stranger Things, and beyond cartoons aimed at seven-year-olds and Disney movies, they've never engaged with anything else.

That said, I think every character can become interesting if you actually stick to the canon.

If you portray James Potter as the cynical, classist hypocrite he was —a boy who performed progressivism while harbouring deeply reactionary attitudes and enormous class-based cognitive dissonance— then he's interesting, because contradiction is interesting. But if you try to sell me the idea that James was simply a hero, sunshine incarnate, a fun-loving boy with a heart of gold, then what a load of rubbish. Not just because it's demonstrably false, but because what is even interesting about a character like that? It's unbearably dull.

Sirius is fascinating precisely because he is the king of cognitive dissonance. He's riddled with contradictions. The ideology he claims to believe in isn't reflected in his actions whatsoever, and his rejection of his family is ultimately a rejection of himself, because he ends up reproducing many of their attitudes while simply placing them on the "right" side of the conflict. He's still prejudiced, still violent, still lacking in empathy in many of the same ways as his relatives, and that's incredibly compelling.

Now, if your version of Sirius is a sad little twink whose entire problem is that his mother hates him because he's gay, and instead of giving him a genuinely complex relationship with her —one rooted in power dynamics, rebellion against authority, mutual attempts at control— you reduce everything to "his mother was evil and he cried in his room because she wouldn't let him wear makeup," then what an utterly dreadful character. Not only because that version bears no resemblance whatsoever to the actual Sirius, but because it's painfully boring. The Twink Sirius™ whose main source of angst is wanting to sleep with a werewolf while his homophobic mother disapproves isn't just an overused cliché; it's devoid of depth. There's no real conflict there, only a stereotype that's been recycled to death.

The same goes for the version of Remus who gets turned into some hyper-confident ladies' man alpha male who's secretly misunderstood by everyone. Not only does it make no sense, but it's infinitely less interesting than the actual Remus: a man who knew perfectly well what was right and wrong, yet lacked the courage to confront his friends because he was terrified of rejection. He chose complicity in violence and injustice because preserving his own place within the group mattered more than doing the right thing. That's what makes him interesting. Not the possibility that he might have been gay. Being gay isn't a personality trait. Sorry, but it simply isn't.

And Regulus? Love, I genuinely don't understand what people find so complex about Regulus.

Regulus is essentially a mirror image of Draco. He was always aligned with his family's values; nobody forced him to be the way he was. He took pride in who he was and what he represented. His motivations for joining the Death Eaters stemmed from the importance he placed on family and blood purity. Then one day he discovered that his idol didn't actually care about blood purity at all, only about immortality and power, and worse still, believed himself entitled to take what belonged to Regulus. So Regulus rebelled, exactly as an aristocrat would.

But instead of exploring that, people seem obsessed with headcanons about him being another helpless twink—because apparently both Black brothers have collectively been reduced to fragile little sad boys—who needs to be rescued by some tanned, bespectacled stud straight out of a Televisa telenovela. What can I say? I find it incredibly tedious.

The truth is that this fandom often feels painfully unimaginative. There's such a limited understanding of complexity, nuance, literary taste, character construction, competent writing—because, frankly, the quality of most fanfiction is abysmal—dialogue, all of it. Everything gets flattened until a character's entire personality revolves around being gay and having parents who don't understand them.

These were teenagers growing up in the 1970s on the brink of a literal war. I think they probably had bigger things occupying their minds. More importantly, I think that if characters are going to be interesting, their personalities and struggles need to emerge from multiple intersecting influences. Human beings are complicated. Their conflicts don't exist in a vacuum.

And yet this fandom grants these characters absolutely none of that complexity. A cactus has more personality than some of these headcanons. A rock is more interesting than reading yet another "Sirius crying because his mother won't let him wear eyeliner" scenario.

Love how Anakin gets Wrecker to safety there, he´s like I am not leaving without all my kids back there.