Genuinely Though, My Condolences To The Indie Authors Writing Weird Books, Books Without Marketable Romance,

Prayers for a Tumblr friend.

He's going to undergo treatment for skin cancer soon. They seem hopeful they can cut it out but any extra prayers would be good.

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what kind of music do you think Sirius listened to? favorite songs/bands? I know most of the fandom associates him to punk rock (or Bowie and Queen), but he grew up in the seventies, that was such a rich decade music wise.

also I’ve been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd lately and the song “Brain Damage” makes me think about him and the effects the whole Peter betrayal and Azkaban had in his mind.

Hello anon.

So I have some controversial takes about Sirius's music tastes. I don't think he was achingly cool in his tastes. He spent most of his time either in a really traditional home or a remote Scottish castle. Also the only time we see him being musical in canon, he's singing his own dorky remix of a traditional Christmas carol.

So I can imagine his early tastes being Opera (which suits his personality so much) and classical. I have a HC that wizarding classical music is stuck in the 1600s so young Sirius may well have jammed to something like this:

Note: one of my other hyperfixations is Anne Boleyn

I also don't think he arrived at Hogwarts all 'woke' about muggleborns. I think he had to unlearn some prejudices (we get glimpses of his upbringing when he calls Peter 'Filth'.).

But as he gets older I can see him starting to explore his musical tastes (I still HC him as a massive opera fan).

I see him as someone who likes quite angsty music (Joni Mitchell) and I also don't think his tastes would purely be contemporary music (personally I love stuff from all decades).

I like the subversion of Sirius with an achingly cool taste in music listening and loving something like this (especially the Misbehaving thing)

I also think Delta Blues fits his personality and this is the song that reminds me the most of him:

i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

Laurie, about Amy: I asked God to make me a better man. He sent me my wife.

Sirius speaks German!

I’ve seen a lot of posts on Tumblr claiming that the Blacks spoke French at home. Now, I see where this headcanon comes from: French used to be the language of the upper-class and, frankly, it is pretty sexy too. 

But… German was the language of Gellert Grindelwald.

Okay, let me take you through my train of thought. I have that headcanon that most of the Sacred Twenty Eight would support Grindelwald and his cause because he wanted to overturn the Statute of Secrecy and create a new order in which wise and powerful wizards were the benevolent overlords of a new society. The purebloods would, of course, hope that, once more, they would be the ruling class under Grindelwald’s rule and learn the language of their master: German. 

So far so good. But why do I think that the Blacks spoke predominantly German? First of all, their family origin. Black is an Anglo-Saxon name and therefore closer related to the Germanic roots (they might have chosen to emphasize that). Secondly, given that Viktor Krumm was very upset at the sight of Grindelwald’s mark, his influence seems to linger and there must have been supporters out there to that day. Last but not least, there are many German names in the Black family tree (Sirius’ mum is called Walburga. That is like every German grandma’s name ever). 

And tbh Walburga yelling at Sirius in German is far more intimidating than French. I also feel like Regulus and Orion would have appreciated German because it’s very precise and has many words whereas Sirius would have disliked it; simply because it reminded him of his family, but he’d speak it fluently. 

Then why did other families drop the language? Some of the Sacred Twenty Eight might not have supported Grindelwald in the first place (maybe they preferred Voldemort’s solution?). Other families might be bilingual or not have a high command of the language and other families might still rely on French as the language of the aristocracy. 

Anyway… maybe next time I get to see a prompt/fic/drabble with any of the Black family using German. I think it’s at least a valid theory. 

Will never not be funny to me how Padmé purposefully exaggerated her attraction to Palo to tease Anakin and make him jealous 🤣

Now why would Padmé, Senator Amidala who’s only focused on her duty, want to make her “strictly professional” friend jealous by milking out her old crush’s looks? 😏

#the "well first off Padme isn't you" it's so on point, honestly

When I see fans going like"Why is Padme attracted to Anakin when Obi-Wan is right there" I am like well first off Padme isn´t you.

Second, Obi-Wan is a good Jedi and friend for Padme, who, like her, is skilled at discourse and a little bit at manipulation but he is also a judgemental sarcastic little gremlin who calls people and children he has yet to meet but have managed to annoy him a little bit "pathetic lifeforms" and uses his mental powers to manipulate minds when he feels indisposed to deal with them and who believed romantic love was a weakness him and Anakin had to outgrown.

Anakin at 9, risked his life to give Padme the tools to go to Coruscant and try to save her planet despite the fact he was a slave and in need of help himself, then he went to war rightalongside her and singlehandely defeated the army that was trying to conquer her planet, then grew up, became very handsome and started telling her how he could not breathe if she didn´t love him, then agreed with her to stay away if that´s what SHE wanted and Padme used to deal with skilled politicians and manipulators 24/07 found his honestly resfreshing.

This isn´t truly so complicated people.

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"I wish we could have met another way" "This is the only way we could have met" are such raw lines that go so fucking hard you'd think they're from some heartbreaking forbidden romance drama but no, it's Death Note (2015)