You’ve Been Visited By The Halloween Moose. May God Have Mercy On Your Soul.

A Skyrim concept I find fascinating and terrifying to think about: the idea of the Dragonborn’s Voice abilities growing far, far beyond what we see them achieve in-game.

You’re jumped by a wolf on the road, but all you do is turn your head and say ‘krii.’  The beast crumples in mid-leap. A bandit ambushes you, thinks you’re easy prey - but you stand motionless, stare at them. ‘Krii lun aus,’ and they drop to their knees, gasping for breath as their life essence trickles away until they’re still. You don’t even need to raise your weapon.

A crime or a misunderstanding lands you in jail. Feim. You pull your wrists through the chains and step through the bars. Finally home after a long day of fighting, you mutter feim and step out of your armour, letting it fall through your body and clatter to the ground. 

Storm Call. With time, with practice, you learn how to control the lightning completely, so that it no longer strikes your allies. You can choose exactly when and where it hits, scorching the life from your enemies with surgical precision. There’s nowhere for them to hide.

Fus ro dah. The Shout tears up trees at the root, sends dragons smacking into mountainsides, rips buildings to their foundations.

Dragon Aspect. As your connection to the dragon souls inside you deepens, you notice that you’re not just growing ethereal armour. You can rip apart rock with the ghostly talons that shimmer around your fingers. You can lash people to the ground with the tail. And then the day comes when you stand at the edge of a cliff, breathe in deep, spread the shining wings - and take flight.

You barely need to catch your breath between Shouts anymore. You ghost around the battlefield, turning ethereal when your enemies attack and then - wuld nah kest - rushing in to strike the moment you blink back into existence. You freeze half of them solid with Ice Form and turn around to burn the rest to ash with a long, long jet of fire from your mouth. 

What I’m saying is, the Dragonborn is an unstoppable force of nature, and I wonder how much effort it takes for them to keep all that power under control. 

pink in the night

okay but neville longbottom as head of gryffindor house and there’s all these stories of him going head to head with an army of werewolves, being tortured by death eaters and killing Voldemort’s snake with godric gryffindor’s actual sword but when the students see him he’s like cradling a pot plant and crying cause he saw someone lost their pet on the noticeboard and they’re like “that guy? are you sure it’s that guy” 

BONUS: one of the older student’s get dared to go up and ask him if it’s true and neville just makes direct eye-contact and says “voldemort was a punk bitch” and continues knitting a lil baby sweater for a mandrake

Um okay so I’m seeing a lot of hate against JK Rowling for avoiding Dumbledore’s sexuality in the new Fantastic Beasts film, and you know, I get it. I’m disappointed in her too. But I just want to let everyone know that the Harry Potter universe and the characters are not purely JK Rowling’s anymore. Sure, she created it, gave it a skeleton, but the fandom colored it in. 

We characterized characters who got maybe a couple lines in the whole series, didn’t even show up in the movies. We brought LGBTQ into the series with Wolfstar, Deamus, Dumbledore/Grindelwald and countless others. We collectively shat on Rowling’s version of Harry’s future because there is no way in hell that he wasn’t a professor at Hogwarts. We gave voices to characters who were already dead when the books started through our fanfiction, and to characters who were never even mentioned (next-gen). We made some of the main characters POC because there isn’t enough in the books. We argued the morality of several of the ‘bad’ characters, we all have a burning hatred of Umbridge. We eradicated Slytherin’s bad reputation, we made Hufflepuff Pride a thing.

We were all so excited for the Cursed Child and then we all hated it together when it was the worst piece of HP fanfic ever written. We fangirled so hard for the first Fantastic Beasts movie, and we all ship Jacob and Queenie because goddamnit even straight couples can be relationship goals. We all love love love A Very Potter Musical, even if a bunch of us haven’t even seen it.

We drew and wrote and headcanoned and we still do today. We ship random people and we argue over them. Some people wrote songs. Some people poured their heart into fanfics, instead of into original stories. Some people drew incredible pieces of fan-art, for the pure purpose of sharing it with other fans. Some people came up with fantastic headcanons that are widely accepted (Remus is addicted to chocolate, Scorbus, McGonagall is immortal).

I haven’t seen a single fandom that hasn’t sorted their characters into Hogwarts Houses, and drawn the fanart of it. I haven’t seen a single fandom w/o a HP alternate universe fanfic. I haven’t seen a single fandom w/o HP crossover fanfics. We sort literally everything in the world- celebrities, songs, movies, seasons, food, animals, aesthetics, books, even school supplies for god’s sake!

The point is, Harry Potter no longer belongs to JK Rowling. Sure, her name might be on the cover of those books, but the Harry Potter universe is ours. We filled in the gaps, and added on. These are our characters, our stories, our ideas. It is ours now. We took the skeleton that Rowling created, and we gave it life.

There is absolutely no reason that we have to take whatever Rowling says as canon anymore. The Cursed Child proved that. So what if she’s being a coward and not showing Dumbledore’s sexuality in the new movie? It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because I cannot count the number of lgbtq fanfics I’ve seen centered around HP. I cannot count all the fanart, the headcanons, the people who ship Dumbledore/Grindelwald.

We’ve already ignored JK Rowling on so many things. 

We can do it with this too.

Because Harry Potter doesn’t belong to JK fucking Rowling anymore.

It belongs to us.

And we can do whatever we want with it.

I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.

yall ever think about how wild it is that people got so horny over an anime water commercial an actual anime was created based around it and got like 3 whole ass seasons

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