#fandom-onium

@mysilverylining Fandom-onium stuff like that just sets off my social anxiety and makes me want to retreat into my introvert hole. lol I remember some of the discussions from the VM Confessions page and they were intense. So, if anyone needs me, I’ll be here, chillin’ like a villain.

give me a fandom and i’ll reply to you with my:

lowkey otp: everlark

highkey notp: gale/johanna (is there a ship name for this? jole? galanna? whatever, who cares)

[softly] don’t notp: gale/katniss (galeniss? kale? omg, kale would be so excellent.) – when I was reading the books originally I would’ve been fine with Katniss ending up with whoever (or just HERSELF AND HER HAPPINESS) but as I got into fandom I just didn’t care for the idea, and while there are many talented fic writers who ship this, I couldn’t get into the fic either. Plus, obviously, there’s my highkey otp…. 

highkey otp but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice: I actually don’t think there’s one that applies here? like, gadge is as nontraditional/unpopular as it gets. HOWEVER, I’ll say this: lately, for whatever reason, Katniss/Finnick fan art has been appearing on my dash and it’s strangely endearing to me… 

4. adopt, be adopted by, marry

adopt: remus

be adopted by: sirius

marry: james

5. kill, betray, have on your zombie apocalypse team

kill: dumbledore

betray: kingsley

have on you zombie apocalypse team:  mad-eye

Remus Lupin

Harry Potter

James Potter

Sirius Black

Lily Evans 

From the really excellent Let’s Talk About (Other People’s) Writing! meme:

3. What fic really made you think, and why?

Beringae’s The Nietzsche Classes. Think about all of the bigotry and racism and discrimination in the world. Think about World War II. What if you were able to force high-ranking members of the Nazis-- and their children-- to take classes that were meant to convince you that all of your ideologies were completely wrong? What would that process look like? How would you appeal to those people-- with pathos, ethos, or logos? Or both? Would it be truly effective? How could you even tell? What do you do when your job is to philosophically and psychologically break these people? It’s not simple, and neither the students-- nor the professor-- come out of the classes unscathed, as Hermione Granger learns in this fantastic post-war Harry Potter Dramione fic. 

Incredibly timely, especially considering the positives-- and failings-- around tumblr’s social justice culture. 

9. Talk about a scene that stayed with you. 

Ok, this is a super tough one! Um, so some people might know that my OG OTP is Harry/Hermione (I know I have a lot of followers/mutuals who are Romione and Hinny fans, so whoops, sorry not sorry) and there’s this great fic called Come Together by Granger (that is so old it was started in 2002) that I was lucky enough to find right when I came to FF and there’s a scene where Harry is essentially freaking out because in this AU when he defeated Voldemort, all of Voldemort’s powers went into him and he never told Hermione or Ron about it (he defeated Voldemort alone) and now he’s finally told Hermione and he thinks she’s going to reject him, but she doesn’t. 

She makes a comment about how she thinks this was meant to happen, and the author puts in a great line about how Hermione usually uses logic to bury her feelings, but in this instance she’s using logic to explain them to Harry. 

Harry’s a bit bemused by her rationale and says: “I thought you didn’t believe in fate.”

And she says-- simply, immediately-- “I don’t. I believe in you.”