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Millennials: What? Gen Z: What?

Millennials: Seriously? We have like no power. You ensured that most of us were saddled with crippling debt, and haven’t raised the minimum wage enough to keep up with inflation so we can never pay back that debt, and have barely enough income to share an apartment with one or two roommates. We’re lucky if we can find one with a washer and dryer in-unit within our price range! We’re so tired and over-worked that we barely have enough energy to text a friend or post a selfie on facebook to let people know we’re still alive. How are we supposed to clean up your messes??

Boomers: Whatever. Entitled lazy Millennials. Always on your phone and posting selfies. Maybe if you worked harder you wouldn’t be in debt. Always wanting things handed to you on a platter. It’s not all about you you know. Generation Me amiright?

Millennials: *sigh*

Boomers: All right, how about you, Gen Z? You’re fresh, young, haven’t got much debt yet, you have your whole shining future ahead of you! You can be an inspiration to the world! How are you going to clean up our messes?

Gen Z: Um, we don’t really have any power either. Most of us aren’t even old enough to vote.

Boomers: Don’t put yourselves down! You’re the future! Put your young minds to work! Maybe you’ll think of solutions we’ve never even considered! Let us know what they are and we’ll implement them for you!

Gen Z: Um, ok. Stop destroying the environment by switching to clean energy instead of drilling for oil. Cut your carbon emissions to slow and eventually halt climate change. Raise minimum wage and give people health care so that we survive into adulthood and can help you clean this mess.

Millennials: I mean, these are the things we’ve been trying to tell them for years, but maybe they’ll actually listen to you since you’re the bright shiny future.

Boomers: What? We wouldn’t even consider doing any of that! What do you know about politics, economics, and the environment anyway? You’re not even old enough to vote! Where do you think the money for all these changes is going to come from? Money doesn’t grow on trees.

Gen Z: Tax the rich.

Boomers: What?! The rich worked hard for their money! It’s really hard pleasing your parents so that you can inherit the fortunes! They have a right to hoard away all the wealth so that no one else can have any.

Gen Z: Okay Boomer.

Boomers: WHAT? How dare you insult us! You know, you’d get a lot more respect if you would try and talk to us instead of being so dismissive of everything we say!

Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.

They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it. 

Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.

Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.

C E L E S T I A L 

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Tomarry and Harrymort are honestly my favorite ships of all time, but I feel like I can’t tell my friends about it, because they’d be undoubtedly horrified at the mere thought of hero/villain ships, especially one involving our favorite Tom Marvolo Riddle.

So, allow me to enumerate the three main reasons why Tomarrymort has become my all-time favorite.

I. The parallels

J.K. Rowling painstakingly draws numerous parallels between Harry and Tom’s childhoods. For instance:

A. Childhoods

Harry grew up in an abusive home. The Dursleys verbally abused and belittled him, starved him, worked him like a servant, and overall treated Harry worse than a second-class citizen. Similarly, Tom Riddle also spent his childhood in a horrid environment. He was born in London back in 1926. Religion was still incredibly prominent, especially Christianity and Catholicism (the latter to some lesser extent). Children are also prone to fits of accidental magic, and there’s a good chance Tom was considered a “devil-child” or an “abomination” by the adults in his life.

B. Unfit, Magic-abhorring Guardians

The Dursleys did everything they could to quash any “freakishness” of Harry’s. That included christening him a “freak” to his face, harsh punishments for any accidental magic, taking away his school supplies, mocking him, and later turning a cold shoulder. Wool’s Orphanage also decidedly disliked Tom. While Tom was by no means a saint, the Matron explicitly expressed her unease towards Tom’s strangeness. If an adult would be so prejudiced against Tom, I’m willing to wager that his peers were equally hostile and afraid of him.

C. Marked by Dumbledore from a young age

Ever since the prophecy was made, Dumbledore saw Harry as someone special. He manipulated Harry’s life in numerous ways, and I’m not going to create a list since that deserves a long textpost of its own. Along similar lines, Dumbledore also ‘marked’ Tom from the start too; he decided that Tom was a dangerous, irredeemable person back when he first met Tom.

D. Why these similarities matter!!

There’s a plethora of literature that examines the influence of upbringing on a child. Whether we like it or not, children are objectively impressionable beings, and nurture consequently plays a large role in the development of a person’s behavior and character. 

Tom and Harry have had similar influences upon their childhoods, hence, it’s quite fascinating to see where their paths diverged and why their decisions differed. And, the (essentially) shared experiences would be a point of shared ground between the two. A ship is always intriguing when the two subjects in question are almost two sides of the same coin, if you will.

II. The magical ties

A. Horcruxes

This is the most obvious reason why Tomarrymort is so interesting. For instance, the Parselmouth ability alone holds a world of potential. A language that only the two of them can speak- what a wonderful metaphor for the singularity of their relationship in canon as well. 

In canon, we’ve seen Horcrux-wearers become heavily influenced by Voldemort’s soul shard. Examples: Ginny with the diary, possibly Umbridge with the locket, the trio with the locket, etc. This tidbit of information also provides vast potential for Tomarrymort: Harry housed a soul shard for over a decade. I know that the shard was tiny fraction of Voldemort’s soul and might not have been strong enough to influence Harry, but Harry spent way too much time with the Horcrux for him to be completely unaffected. So, that’s bountiful fodder for a fanfic already.

Additionally, as many fics address, what would it be like for a Horcrux to reunite with the original soul? Or with other Horcruxes? There’s so much to be explored there.

B. The Prophecy

The actual prophecy has been re-interpreted by numerous fanfics in different ways. The last two lines are the most fanficable, in my opinion.

“And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not…”

Already there’s a key phrase that catches my fancy: “mark him as his equal”. A mark in itself is an inherently possessive act of claiming, which ties back to Tomarrymort as a ship. And, them being “equals” gives fanfic writers a good deal of leeway to play with that statement.

“And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives…”

The ending line has been the most obsessed-over portion of the prophecy. Taken at face value, this line indicates numerous possibilities that all promise a unique form of hero-villain interaction. 

Anyhow, the existence of the prophecy to begin with already makes the ship irresistible. Why? The concept of fate is a riddle that has plagued mankind for the ages. Even if the prophecy didn’t specifically refer to Harry and Harry alone, there’s so many what-ifs and for-certains that deal with the prophecy, which makes it tempting to ficwriters.

III. Fanfiction application

A. Sheer variety

Tomarry and Harrymort fics are truly a spectrum of their own. One reason why I like Tomarrymort so much is that you can see just about any interpretation of their relationship. There’s so many AUs, canon variations, and ‘genres’ available. I’ve never seen such a wealth of creativity applied to a single ship, and it’s honestly enthralling.

B. Length

While you can find anything from oneshots to massive slow builds in this fandom, Tomarrymort generally leans towards the longer side. For instance, if you search top-kudos-ed Drarry fics, you’ll find that the average fic length of those are greatly lower than that of Tomarrymort. Tomarrymort usually requires a good deal of worldbuilding, context setting, buildup, and many other factors, and it’s pretty intense. Even oneshots require a relatively high degree of (concise) context. 

IV. Conclusion

There’s many reasons for why I adore Tomarrymort so much, and the above serves as a mere baseline description. This particular ship simply holds so much potential, and there’s so many different takes available. And, even if this might not count as a reason, I just really like the people in this subset of the fandom. All of you are amazing, kind, thoughtful, and lovely, which of course is a magnificent bonus.

If you’ve read this far, kudos to you! Thanks for listening to my rambling ❤️

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