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You definitely succeeded. I don't know how you managed to make Garak look simultaneously vertical while also lying down, but you've done it. Amazing. 10/10 would spill all of my secrets if he was my interrogator.
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I am convinced Disclosure Day was written by AI
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Cardassia's Most Beloved Children's Author, Dr. Sakar, Has Done It Again With His Most Uplifting, Affirming Book...
Think Twice! Your Sacrifice Will Suffice!
Can't fight? That's alright!
Your sacrifice will still suffice!
In the fields increasing our yields
Can't till? Chill! No big deal!
Your sacrifice will still suffice!
In the factories and the quarries for our many glories!
Can't produce? Oh, you silly goose!
Your sacrifice will still suffice!
As a spy, you sly guy!
Can't act? No need to get sacked!
Your sacrifice will still suffice!
As fodder for the slaughter!
The State determines your fate!
So, I don't have an issue with what little we see of Lily Evans in the books, even during SWM. Now, do I think she was right to leave him to be assaulted? No, absolutely not. Severus was wrong to use a slur, Lily had every right to be hurt by it and to sever their friendship because of it, but she (and every other bystander in that scene) should not have allowed a boy to be sexually assaulted regardless of what he said. She should have, at the very least, gone to get a teacher. Lily Evans did not make the correct moral choice in that moment in my opinion. However, I do not require characters to always make good moral decisions for me to like them. Probably what fascinates me most about Lily is how she is so dogmatic and sure of her beliefs that she cannot accept that she can be wrong. A great example of this is when she and Severus are talking about what Mulciber's did to Mary MacDonald. Now, we don't know what he did was, it's never specified, it could have been a prank or it could have been worse, Lily only says it was Dark magic. Severus points out that the Marauders do horrific things to him, and Lily basically says it doesn't really count because it's not Dark magic. Girl, Severus gets waterboarded with Scourgify, that's against the Geneva Convention, you are sliding down a slippery slope. But she's not lacking in confidence! and I'm always fascinated by characters like that (which is probably why I roll my eyes every time Remus Lupin shlumps across the page, maybe if he started biting people I'd like him more).
There's also the fact that she's literally from the 70s and that was a fucked up time. Like, there's a reason why late Boomers and Gen X-ers on TikTok says shit like, "We had a great childhood! We got to play all day and weren't allowed to come back until the street lights came on, and okay, Timmy was murdered by a serial killer and I found his body in a drainage ditch, but at least I wasn't an iPad kid!" I'm not going to expect a Boomer to think like someone from the 2020s. Lily would not have recognized what happened to Severus as sexual assault. He was a boy, and that's how it was in those times. Were there people who did view it as sexual assault regardless of gender? Absolutely, but they were the exceptions to the rule and not the majority.
No, my issue is with JK Rowling herself. Because she is writing these scenes with the hindsight of someone in 2003, when it was written, and she's writing this for children. This is where I stop being a Watsonian and become a Doylist, because if Rowling is going to write something like this for children she needs to be responsible for how she presents it. I don't expect adult media to follow these rules. If you want to write the nastiest, most fucked up things that would make even the Marquis de Sade blush and you're writing for adults? Go for it. But what Rowling does instead is this: in GoF we see this same spell being used against a Muggle woman, her nightdress is flipped over and her underwear is exposed. This is a scene that is supposed to elicit disgust because it is presented as sexual assault. In OotP, James Potter threatens to remove Severus's underwear and then the memory cuts off because Severus finds Harry's nosey ass. Rowling knew damn well she could not finish the scene where James strips Severus naked in a children's book published in 2003 (she probably very well could have in 1976 though), she knew it was wrong. But she didn't do enough to show why it was wrong. Harry is repulsed by seeing the bullying and having the scales ripped from his eyes, not by what James was about to do, and when Sirius and Remus are like, "oh no, that was the worst he ever did, but he got better, and Snape gave as good as he got," Harry is relieved and able to brush what he saw aside. This is not the same horror he felt when he witnessed the Death Eaters use levicorpus against the Muggle woman in GoF. But it should be, because they were both instances of sexual assault.
but if julian is ftm.... and garak has a cloaca....... scissoring?
Actually! ☝️🤓 It depends on the cloaca! If we go by lizard, snake, crocodilian, and turtle anatomy then the intromittent organ (either a single penis for turtles or a paired hemipenes for lizards and snakes) is housed within the cloaca.
But the cloacas for birds and potentially some dinosaurs (which is what I based my fic on) then there is no penis of any kind. Mating involves what is known as a cloacal kiss, which is just pressing the two cloacas together. So, scissoring. Or potentially penetration if one of them gets a strap. Or both of them get a strap and they attempt to have sex snail style and stab each other with their love darts (that's the term, I didn't make that up, don't blame me for it)
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I miss the days where Snupin was the fandom fav ship, not this fuckass Wolfstar bs😑
Good old 00s
And i’ve never shipped them
But good old 00s
Same. I was always a Jeverus/Jirius/Snirius gal. Back in those days the fandom felt like home. Cozy, fun and so much love.
I’ve read Marauders fanfics even when they portrayed them as cool people, simply because the characterization of the characters was well done and it interested me. And you didn’t have a Sirius who suddenly looks like a 14-year-old girl and a Remus who suddenly feels like Christian Grey.
And Severus portrait didn’t involve character bashing either, because I remember that in the 2000s it was very frowned upon to bash characters, even if you really disliked them. It wasn’t considered okay. It was more like: don’t bash the characters, even if they piss you off. So there was always a certain respect, and a lot of effort to stick to canon and build from it. In that sense, I didn’t have any problem.
But now… I don’t know. I have a lot of cancellable things to say about the Marauders fandom. I just don’t say them because I’d get banned from the internet. But yeah, it’s horrible. There is no safe space. I mean, what even is your safe space? That all the characters are completely the same and just one cliché after another? It’s awful.
Older fan fictions, I don't know if it's just me, but did a way better job than the nowaday ones. Especially the very early Snupin fanfictions which many stayed true to the original characteristics of the character like you said with slight changes based on the tropes and all. James wasn't even that popular either. It was the loveliest time. Many fanfictions I read back in the day were sadly taken down in late 2010s/early 2020s. That was true but honestly criticism on characters did exist back then but not in this level crazy where it has honestly become so insufferable with all the projections, fanon materials getting mixed with canon and harassment. We did have a few cuckoos back then but now it's like 89% of them are downright idiotic, it's embarrassing. I’m so tired of seeing the same tropes and lazy sloppy characterizations recycled across every fandom.I want to go back in time where fandom was somewhere we shared our art, works, writings, bonded over characters we all loved. Fandoms were a way to connect with people across the world. We wrote letters, shared stuff, had little clubs and themed parties. It was soo fun. And plus no one was chronically online like they are now. Everything that made this fandom beautiful has been sucked out. I will hate ATYD for that forever. I wish old gens come back and knock some sense to these people.
The rise of moral puritanism has made fandom insufferable. Because now what you consume is directly tied to your worth as a human being; your sense of morality is circumspect if you like characters that are purely good who have never done anything wrong ever. And if you do like a character who isn't 100% good -- like James Potter -- then you need to break your back in order to prove "well, no, actually he really didn't do anything wrong, Snape masterminded the whole thing! Snape is evil! Every good act Snape did is actually bad, and every bad act James did was good! I can prove it with fanfic!" Fandom is bowdlerizing its own source material.
I am no saint. I am actually one of the meanest b*tches you can come across in real life. But even I wouldn't stoop low enough to date a privileged ass mf who bullied his peers for "existing", SAed my former best friend and threatened and try to blackmail into dating him. NO woman in their right mind would marry someone who harassed them, tried to threaten and blackmail them into dating. Lily is a disgrace to womanhood and women.
I think the context of the time period is needed to understand why any woman -- let alone a character like Lily Evans who is supposed to be considered moral and pro-justice -- would still be able to marry James after this. I'm not defending what happened; it was SA, it was traumatizing, and James is vile for doing it, I'm just giving context for how and why people -- including teachers! -- were able to just shrug their shoulders and not care at all about what happened.
British public schools in this period were fucked up. And when I say fucked up, I mean fuuuucked up. Bare-bottom caning was a common, everyday form of punishment prior to it being outlawed in 1987. And I don't mean the students might pull down their trousers a little to show a bit of butt-cheek in the teacher's office, though that was common. No, this would sometimes being stripped naked in public by their teachers. Girls could also be stripped naked to be caned, though not typically in co-ed schools only in girls-only schools (this did not stop male teachers from "slippering" -- beating naked and bare-bottom students -- female students though). If Lily hadn't personally seen other boys being stripped naked and beaten by their TEACHERS, then she would have definitely heard of it happening and she would have (like many British boomers) internalized this as a normal thing, not what it actually was which was SA and abuse. Male nudity especially was not considered worthy of protecting. James stripping Severus would not have been viewed as SA but would have literally been seen as "boys being boys" 🤮 and Severus as some kind of overly sensitive, nervous child for daring to care about being stripped in public instead of just "getting over it."
STOPP (The Society of Teached Opposed to Physical Punishment) stated in 1979: “It can damage, through fear, the educational, psychological, and sexual development of any child, and, in particular, the nervous child, whether or not it is actually administered to that child.”
British school girls in Hyde Park, 1972
After getting sick, I haven't wrote much of anything in the past couple of years. Then I wrote smutty vignettes about an idiot doctor and his dumb lizard trying to figure out alien sex. Now, I've done a second chapter. Of all fandoms to get me writing again, it's garashir...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79052061/chapters/207374306
look, I know the 60s were a different time, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the writers and director were trying to convey in that one scene in "Shore Leave" except GAY. Kirk complains of a sore back, the pretty female yeoman standing behind him starts to massage him, Kirk clearly thinks Spock is the one doing it as he says "Dig it in there, Mr. Spock" and Spock is watching all of these from the corner like 🤨 and then calmly walks in front of Kirk to show, no, he's not offering free massages on the bridge, he has an important job to do, and Kirk gets mad and says "That's enough, yeoman" when he realizes the mistake. Like, I don't think dudes were casually giving each other massages in the office in the 60s. Wouldn't it make more sense for Kirk to be more comfortable with a woman? That would be the kind of 1960s joke I'd expect: "Oh no, I thought a hot woman was touching my back but it was a dude!!!" And the yeomans already fetch him dinner, why not a massage? Why not call for a nurse or even McCoy if it's a legitimate issue? Why does he assume his First Officer and CSO is going to abandon his post to give him a massage? That's so gay, Star Trek, and you'll never convince me otherwise.
There is actually a ton of human literature that is like The Neverending Sacrifice, Julian’s just picking the wrong ones. (Obviously there would be, as the “Cardassian repetitive epic” was a concept created by human writers.) Just to throw a few out there that I think you could plausibly interpret that way: medieval epics and sagas, several of the big 19th-century Russian novels, 20th-century South American magical realism (or at least some specific books by Márquez and Allende, you know the ones), the Tale of Genji, several of the Great Novels of Chinese literature…. hell, most decade/century-spanning historical novels period. There’s a lot for fanfiction writers to mine here for stuff Garak might like or that will remind him of his favorite Cardassian books. (Putting aside that canon indicates he probably likes Julian’s books more than he indicates.) TBH Julian has probably read some of these too, and just picks books that will provoke a flirtatious argument from his boyfriend.
Lol, I'm a librarian and picking books is literally one of my jobs, if I had to try and curate a Garak-approved list of books, I'd go with:
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann The Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola, especially His Excellency Eugène Rougon and The Earth The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (lmao, not that Julian would ever approve Garak reading this book, oh the arguments they would have)
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Alternate Harry Potter Titles
Harry Potter and the Medical Paper That Violates the Statute of Secrecy Because It Shows a Picture of Dudley's Piggy Tail
Harry Potter and the Dawning Realization That He is More Emotionally Mature Than Snape, Lupin, Sirius, and Every Other Boomer Around Him
Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Suggestion Box That Contains Requests Like "We Need Grief Counseling" and "Maybe Therapy is a Good Thing"
Harry Potter and the Memories of Someone Else's Fucked Up Childhood That are Now Stuck in His Head Too
Decided that 2026 would be the year to watch a tv show from 1993 and now I have fallen into the garashir rabbit hole. I desperately need a fic about them inspired by Fiona Apple's "Criminal."
Hi! I am a huge fan of your HP fics and I was wondering if you would complete the fics which are on hiatus. I was especially invested in the Broken blossoms fic. I understand if you couldn't of course.
Thank you! I went on hiatus because I got really sick for about a year and while I am doing much better now, writing still feels kinda daunting and tiring. At the moment I've got no plans on finishing, sorry!
I don't usually read Snape/OC fics, not because I dislike the concept, but because quite often I find myself reading about someone who is obviously designed to be Snape's perfect partner. They always understand his thoughts and feelings, they never make mistakes or irritate each other, there are no bumps or misunderstandings that will arise between two people who are still learning each other. And I get it; we all want Snape to get that happy ending. But if I'm reading an OC I want to read about the character you crafted -- their history, goals, warts, vulnerabilities, achievements --not what you think would be the perfect partner for Snape.
Now, all of this is subjective, of course. Write what you want to write, but these are just what I personally look for and my reasons.
No Orphans. I usually skip over an OC that is described as an orphan (unless they've got other family members, be it blood family, found family, or adopted family) because so often I've seen it as an excuse to not give an OC any interpersonal relationships outside of their partner.
I like to see a character with well-defined traits that are both virtues and flaws. If your OC is brave, I expect to see that bravery cross into recklessness at times and make mistakes.
What about Snape drives your OC batty enough that they want to strangle him for it? What is it about your OC that might make Snape want to poison their dinner? Perfect couples that never get on each others' nerves and never fight bore me.
What is your OC's ultimate goal? (Beyond snatching up Snape that is). Even in my romances, I like OCs to have clear wants and ambitions, and then go out and try to do them (regardless if they succeed or fail).
I think every character should make at least one really bad decision. And I don't mean like, "Oh no, I lost control of the car on an icy road. I'm going to self-flagellate myself forever even though this was a matter of circumstance and not actually something bad I did. Angst, angst, angst." No. What decision did your OC actively choose that fucked things up? Like, joining the Death Eaters (or rubbing elbows with them, if your story diverges before Snape officially joins up) is clearly Snape's bad decision. How has your OC fucked things up that had consequences for both them and other people? Is your OC the type to apologize or are they too prideful?
Why Vulcans are Matriarchal: A Headcanon
Short answer: the same reason why 99% of human cultures were/are patriarchal-- to control fertility.
With the exceptions of some cases, like T'Pol, Pon Farr seems to primarily affect men (for women who go through Pon Farr, the explanation could be naturally elevated hormones, intersexism, or some other medical condition). I think men are able to have sex outside of Pon Farr, however if Pon Farr is the only time in which they are fertile, well that makes a lot of sense.
If Vulcans are not fertile outside of Pon Farr, then that erases a lot of the anxiety that pushes for a patriarchal culture. Men are guaranteed to know who the father of a woman's child is, eliminating the perceived need to restrict her movements and keep her away from other men. A woman can have sex with a 100 men in a week, but only the man who is in Pon Farr can impregnate her.
However, this style of reproduction would create its own anxiety in Vulcan women: the need to ensure their own reproduction and prevent other women from "stealing" a man's Pon Farr. Imagine you want a baby and you have to wait seven long years for your husband's sperm to activate only for some hussy to come around and seduce him when he's out of his mind and vulnerable. Now she's pregnant with the baby you were supposed to have and you have to wait another 7 years to try again. Gonna have to slap that man in a chastity belt and lock him away. That's not even touching the fact that men are literally "hysterical" during this time and incapable of rational thought. They have to be controlled.
I suspect that Vulcans, during certain periods and cultures, practiced polyandry-- a woman having multiple husbands. Different husbands go through Pon Farr at different times, which means she doesn't have to wait 7 years and since Pon Farr ensures paternity is always known it means that there is no risk of accidental inbreeding in subsequent generations by misidentifying the father of one child and accidentally bonding them to a close relative.
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I think we should all be allowed to have at least one ridiculous crossover crackship that we would defend to the death and mine is Susan Pevensie/Severus Snape.
nah the people saying severus specifically would have lead poisoning from paint because he was poor (which "lead" to behavioral issues) pisses me tf off because lead was in everything back then. EVERYTHING baby. if you're going to say severus has lead poisoning, don't be shy, include the rest of the cast! they put lead in cookware and gas for christ's sake (only two major examples). this the same generation who destroyed the ozone layer too. like why are we cherry picking who got lead poisoning in the 60s/70s?
Not just Severus and the Marauders, but the Golden Trio too. Lead-based paint wasn't completely banned in the UK until 1992. Harry and Hermione and Ron have all got some lead in them.
