Mafia AU:

listen i get ppl are deeply into the whole “voldemort is far more powerful than harry”-thing because yeah, he is, but i also think harry should be allowed to bully him extensively. ‘powerplay this’, ‘powerplay that’ no! harry has no urge to be more powerful than voldemort! harry just wants to bully him!

doesn’t matter if harry ends up on his arm or through some convoluted fanfic logic in his head during the events of the series after he passes. harry’s sole goal is Ridicule The Dark Lord. he reminds voldemort daily that he got beaten by 1) a baby, 2) an 11yo boy with fire hands (apparently), 3) a 12yo boy with a sword and one (1) fang, 4) a 14yo boy who could run really quickly, and 5) a 17yo, malnourished, exhausted boy with a borrowed wand. he tells voldemort repeatedly that vee’s 15yo self bragged to harry’s 12yo self (no sword or fang yet) that he decided on his name change via anagram, like it’s cool. he reminds voldemort often that “lord flight from death” is a bit on the nose for a new name. he always says that whatever voldemort does is “no friend behaviour”. he tells voldemort things like “you know all of your followers except bella and barty would sell you to the devil for one corn chip right” and voldemort, without fail, will think “NO. THAT’S THE THING I’M SENSITIVE ABOUT”. he’s yelling “HA CRINGEE” about everything voldemort does. it’s devastating.

"Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds."

Tried, true, and tested.

Hamas has taken about 200 people (settler-colonial conscripts and reservists, might I add) as hostages, the liberals keep clamoring from the top of their high-horses. Israel has had about 2 million Palestinians as hostages for about 7 decades, upon whom every brutality under the sun has been inflicted with full impunity and no consequences. They live in the largest open-air-prison/concentration camp in the world. The same camp that's currently facing genocide by the western world's complete support.

However, liberals are calling this a "both-sides issue", one that's complicated, and that peace should be the goal. (Never mind the fact that, without any long-term and tangible solution, even if the ceasefire is enforced, the Palestinians just return to their previous condition: a concentration camp where they're slowly ethically cleansed.) Israel, on the other hand, commands one of the top militaries in the world: it's fully backed by state-of-the art military-arsenal that's supplied to it by USA and EU and billions of dollars in aid to boot. (One of the report, which covered weapons manufacturing and supply from 2011 to 2014, a couple of years back showed that the profit from the weapons supplies from EU to conflict zones in the Middle East is in trillions.)

Whilst Hamas or Hezbollah don't possess even the tiniest fraction of that, just reused and/or old equipment and many young men whose lives have been utterly destroyed in the wake of Israel's relentless, brutal, and barbaric terrorism that's singular in its savagery. So much so, that they don't even care about their own lives. That ought to be a moment of introspection for the white liberals: why would any young man cast away his life if he wasn't completely without hope? That doesn't elicit any empathy, sympathy, or even a twinge of compassion from them. No, it's the rave-party goers and settlers that get sympathy as these liberals can see themselves as partying, enjoying life, and being the "good soldiers" fighting in the name of freedom, democracy, and stability (pink-washing is a happy after-effect of this sham); and that's the heart of their racism, their inability to humanize people that experience extreme oppression.

Why? Their worlds stand on oppression; hence, it's the evil they accept, perpetrate, and endorse. Let's not mollify this reality. It's racism, oppression, and subjugation in its most violent form; and they're aware that, if Palestine wins today, they might have to face the music for their own complicity in the western world's forever wars, neocolonialism, and economic slavery. The holy-trinity of unscalable brutalities that have cost MENA over 20 million lives in just the last 2 decades, and this doesn't include the on-going genocides in Sudan, Syria, Yemen, etc.; or the deplorable conditions these righteous, white-supremacy-fueled wars, sanctions, and political over-throws have left them in. It's the tomorrow that necessitates this genocide for them, ensures their future, and sustains their worlds. If Palestine wins, their own western world is cast in doubt because one repercussion can open doors for many more. The fear of retaliation.

They want Palestine to be crushed, so that this genocide can serve as an example for uprisings to come: this is what you'd get for resisting; for fighting back; for trying to even the odds; and for, as they gloat, fucking around and finding out. They don't want a just world; no, they want a peaceful world about them, one in which the oppressed remain just that; and, if they dare to stand on their own feet, they're erased. (The media coverage and the uproar from the white world in the wake of that tiny attack on Israel ought to tell you as much: it's loud, noisy, and jarring, like a booming echo that refuses to cease, in comparison to tiny whispers that are uttered when Palestinians are brutalized en masse and have been subjected to that for decades.)

And now, they're worried about their elections. How nice. The UN shows itself to be a sham, allowing for MENA to finally see it for what it is, an ineffectual organization that's done nothing but legitimize the western world's endless tyranny. It's mask-off with these people who're liberals in times of peace and monstrous fascists in crisis that even slightly affects them. Palestine's just that threshold now, beyond which a free world exists for MENA or a free world for them. It's us against them now, and history would favor the bold.

From river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Give me a tomarry/harrymort au where Voldemort loses his memories and tries to kill Harry, with whom he is in an established relationship by then. Give me the angst, give me the fear, the agony of having to run away from the person you love— the burning anger as one wakes up beside his enemy. And then comes the earth shattering horror as the memories hits. Give me the all consuming regret and the crippling grief after Voldemort remembers what he has done or nearly did, but by then Harry is already gone.

Giving me the scene where Harry is smiling at Voldemort and Voldemort is befuddled. The scene where Voldemort sends his first crucio at Harry, who for some reason is looking at him, his mortal enemy with utter trust. The part where Harry looks at him with grief and confusion and V feels something break in him— a part that gets dwarfed by the seething rage, for he thinks Harry is playing with him, he thinks this is some elaborate scheme and so, he attacks, and for the first time in years Harry runs for him because he doesn't want hurt Voldemort.

HA

Its all about ethnic cleansing for them. They don't give a crap about if "Hamas" is destroyed. Their isnt any "victory" because theres. no war. ITS A GENOCIDE

The US is really telling Netanyahu he has “weeks, not months” to transition to lower intensity attacks on Gaza so there can be less civilian causalities and focus more on eliminating Hamas.

Also, today a rep from the White House said literally said: "It has to take as long as they feel they need to take to be able to eliminate this threat. But obviously, we all want it to be over as soon as possible."

Biden also still trying to send Israel $10 billion in military aid and today Netanyahu THANKED the US for their continuous support and said the war will go on until complete victory

hey hey hey what if when voldemort took harry's blood for the resurrection ritual, they actually became family because they now share blood????

like, as far as magic's concerned, they're kin now. blood-bound. and with that come a lot of complications (and pleasures?). perhaps voldemort is now an honorary potter-slash-peverell and can use the invisibility cloak.

and/or perhaps harry is now an honorary gaunt and is, like, voldemort's official heir--which comes with a whole bunch of advantages for harry, like voldemort not being able to hurt him without serious magical consequences, because that would be unnatural and tantamount to hurting his own child, and magic's like:

"nope. can't do that. or you can, but golly gosh it'll hurt a lot! and will also magically incapacitate you since your magic is bound to your heir's, so you'll feel every bit of the damage you do. not to mention that you were already bound by a horcrux bond, so now you're doubly bound, which basically means you're fucked. congratulations, lord voldemort! 😇"

what if harry accidentally finds out that he has access to voldemort's sekrit gringotts vault under the gaunt name?? or gets a letter from gringotts informing him of it? what if he visits gringotts before voldemort realises what's up and literally drains all of voldemort's finances to fund his war?

or what if, what if, the death eaters, who swore lifelong fealty to voldemort, now have to follow harry's orders too, since harry is voldemort's heir and the magical vow of fealty transfers to him, too? what if harry inherits control of the dark mark?

just picture harry summoning bellatrix lestrange with her dark mark and, like, making her buy muggle children ice creams or something. and she can't even say no??? imagine her simmering and then boiling in rage as she treats innocent muggle kids and gets hugged like some sort of beloved neighbourhood grandma while she fucking hates having all those filthy little hands on her.

lmfaoooooo harry would totally pop off and voldemort wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it. lucius malfoy kneeling before harry and freeing all his house elves after buying each of them a cute little manor. severus snape (bc even though he's a spy, he's still bound by the mark) actually having to be fair in potions and having to be nice and genuinely helpful to neville. fenrir greyback (let's imagine he has the mark, too) having to quit his perverse kid-hunting and eat nothing but veggies for every meal.

meanwhile, despite all of these enraging, humiliating scenarios that make voldemort want to explode harry into itty-bitty pieces, voldemort also feels the absolutely fucking bizarre urge to protect harry bc harry is his family now and voldemort's never had family before. and that, of course, escalates to insane amounts of possessive protectiveness when he discovers that harry's his horcrux, too.

also, while trying to figure out how to undo this stupid fucking kin-bond, voldemort discovers that the only alternative is to convert it into a marriage bond, which would simulate the kin-bond closely enough to satisfy magic, but still wouldn't solve the problem of harry being able to command voldemort's servants as his spouse (and thus his co-lord).

just imagine voldemort slowly losing what remains of his mind as he realises there's no way out of having his life revolve around potter... and not in the vengeful way it's been until now, either!

voldemort has to resign himself to teaching harry how to be a proper heir and/or spouse and how to dance/eat/talk as per pureblood culture, but harry's just over here literally thumbing his nose at tradition, deliberately botching up which forks to eat with, stepping on voldemort's toes at every waltz, and relishing being able to make voldemort's death eaters grit their teeth in disgust while still having to bow and scrape to him.

and then dumbledore finds out about this nonsense and simply passes away and/or has an existential crisis and/or tries to figure out how to twist this to his advantage so that voldemort is finally contained and controlled, but little does he know that sweet li'l bby harry doesn't need any help with that.

oh, harry controls voldemort, all right. yeah, being voldemort's heir/kin means he has to listen to his "sire" to a degree, but that's only the surface stuff--lessons, rituals, socialising, etc.--but his spirit is entirely his own and, increasingly, so is voldemort's heart.

this would be such fucking comedy gold lolololol. gotta write it one day

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There is no living being that loved James more than Sirius, he was the sun of his life

draw me after you (let us run), chapter 61, and i'm c r y i n g

So, as you know, or don't, an employee got fired from Starbucks and they posted all the recipes online =)

part 1

it's the 18th.

Strike today

This is gorgeous

tmarrymort doodle