Absolutely fascinating to see how the Harry Potter ships go on AO3.
Going to put a bunch of ships in the tags simply so other people can see this and weigh in because I think it's fascinating.
Di Angelo kids,
AU where Bianca lives and visits her brother as often as she can (because that's what happened right?)
nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!
Someday we will have a cartoon show where the cat is male and the dog is female but the world is not ready for that yet
Seamus and Dean have a son. They named him Sean.
Because Seamus + Dean = Sean
why do we, as a society, not talk about big hero six more? it's easily the best disney movie of this decade. it had brotherly love, no boring romance, a realistic depiction of grief, an actually interesting artstyle from disney for once, fairly diverse characters, fall out boy, encouraged kids to pursue science, strong women in stem, like i could go on! stop sleeping on big hero six 2k19
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kintsugi.
- - - - - The philosophy of Kintsugi ( the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold) treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. I thought this is perfect for Remus and his scars. I know, probably I’m not the first one who had this idea for Remus, but I still find it really poetic and appropriate for him.
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