As someone who headcanons Harry Potter to be of Indian descent it pleases me to think that his name is actually Hari, and that Aunt Petunia just Anglicized it because foreigners.
According to the interwebs, ‘Hari’ is a Sanskrit name meaning… Lion.
So yeah. Hari the mixed race savior of the Wizarding World.
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My friend explained the spoon theory to our DM and he was like “ohhh so it’s like when you’re out of spell slots and you need to take a long rest to regain them all” and now I keep thinking of myself as being out of spell slots instead of out of spoons
It’s perfect actually because taking a shower is like a 2nd level task, whereas making an important phone call is a 5th. If you’re out of 5th level task slots, you can’t do that phone call. However you can expend higher level slots to take that shower if you’ve spent your lower task slots on dishes, eating, and getting dressed.
THANK YOU FOR REBLOGGING THIS FRIENDO BECAUSE THIS IS A PERFECT COMPARISON AND IT HAS RESTORED ME
…suddenly spell slots make sense to me. ok all magic users in dnd are spoonies it’s official
Join me in AU Territory for a few minutes, okay?
a. So Obi Wan Kenobi basically ends up going, “NOPE. FUCK THIS NOISE.” and decides to raise baby Luke Skywalker himself.
(He’s not a true Jedi anymore; not when he can see all the mistakes he’s made with Anakin in full, excruciating detail. Not when those closely held values of detachment and denial of emotions have led to fire and death and grief and…
No. He will not turn. He might not be a perfect Jedi, but he won’t turn to the Dark Side.)
b. So he loves Luke with all his heart and baby Luke is basically the teeniest, most adorable ball of sunshine and light and his smiles are a balm on Obi Wan’s broken heart.
c. Also. Obi-Wan joins the Rebellion. Because hope doesn’t just lie in Jedi and the Light Side of the Force. Hope lies in the people who are willing to live and die for their freedom, who are there to resist the Empire and its lies.
d. Eventually, Obi-Wan finds Rex and Ahsoka and of course, that means baby Luke has more family members who will love him. Maybe he’s not growing up as royalty the way Leia is, but he is equally treasured and precious to Uncle Rex and Aunt ‘Soka.
(Except Luke calls her Snips – just out of the blue – even though Obi Wan has never told him about this nickname and he doesn’t understand why Aunt ‘Soka suddenly catches him up in her arms and holds him tight tight tight. He thinks he’s made her sad but Aunt ‘Soka tells him she can be his Aunt Snips and thus, Aunt Snips she became.)
e. Obi Wan does not want to put the burden of stopping Vader on Luke’s shoulders. It is monstrously unfair and neither Luke nor Leia should be burdened with the task of repairing their father’s mistakes. This was Obi-Wan’s failure and it is his job to make it right.
f. Vader chases after Obi-Wan’s ghost in various Rebel skirmishes – Jedi who mysteriously disappear and escape his finest soldiers,. Imperial shipyards being sabotaged, the best scientists of the Empire making successful defections. He is always just one step behind, just one moment too late. Vader’s rage knows no bounds.
(Vader never sees or hears about the child in Obi-Wan’s care. His heart has already been buried in the royal tombs of Naboo, where Padme Amidala lies in her forever sleep.)
g. There is a holo of little Luke and little Jyn Erso playing together. Jyn has not smiled in months as her father and mother have desperately tried to flee the Empire, so that they would not be forced to keep working on its latest monstrosity. It is Luke who has made her laugh again for the first time as they ran and chased each other.
h. Luke’s first friend, first crush and his idol is the dashing Cassian Andor.
i. Obi Wan finds healing and a new outlook/philosophy on the Force when he becomes friends with Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus. He and Luke make the pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jeddah and while Luke is too young to understand, the ruins of its ancient temple make the child “feel good.” For Obi-Wan, it is a peace he’s not felt in years.
j. Some things are still meant to happen. Obi-Wan and Vader clash over the years but each duel is inconclusive and both men walk away alive. It takes years for the Rebel Alliance to gain steam. Galen Erso still falls into the hands of the Empire. The pilot Bodhi Rook still defects to the Rebels. Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor still lead a desperate group to Shariff to retrieve the Death Star plans.
k. The difference is that Luke Skywalker defies his somewhat overprotective Uncle Ben, having stolen a ship to Shariff to rescue all of his friends. They barely make it off planet as the Death Star blows up its Imperial base, but Luke’s gotten to be a very good pilot and will spend his downtime happily chatting away with Bodhi Rook.
l. Baze spends a few minutes yelling at Chirrut for having the “suicidal tendencies of an Alderaanian lemmingray” before kissing him stupid and it is the first good laugh that Rogue One has, even as they are all safe and sound and alive.
m. Luke grins even though he knows he’s in deep trouble with Uncle Ben. There is a transmission from him – Darth Vader is now in hot pursuit of those lost plans and he is chasing after the Tantive IV. They will all rendezvous with Princess Leia on Tatooine.
It begins. A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
yaaaaaaaaaaassssssssss
Okay but Rogue One and how they’re hugged and how they hug
back headcanons. Hug headcanons. I live for platonic hugging, anything I like must have headcanons or fic for it.Bodhi:
- Baze hugs Bodhi by picking him up and squeezing him super
tight.- Chirrut holds his arms open and waits for Bodhi to come
over. (The first time, Bodhi was a little unsure. “What? What are you doing? Is
this some Jedi guardian thing?” “It is a hug so come here already. Are you
really denying a blind man, I can’t see you to hug you so get over here.” Baze
laughed and laughed and laughed.)- Jyn hugs Bodhi like she wants to be covert. She’ll hug him
fiercely and quickly and then act like she didn’t just bruise him.- Cassian pats Bodhi on the shoulder first, like a warning,
and then gives him a one armed hug.Jyn:
- Baze just puts an arm around her shoulders and lets her turn
into him for a hug. Chirrut usually shows up a moment later to make it a group
hug. (If she shrugs them off at first they’ll let her be for a little while
before trying again.)- Chirrut just tells her to hug him when he senses she’s
nearby. (“Come here little sister, and give me a hug.”)- Bodhi hugs her nervously. He’ll do it impulsively and then
stammer and try to explain until she tells him he doesn’t have to explain
wanting to hug her.- Cassian hugs her like he never wants to let her go. Even
when its just a one armed hug he holds her tight.Baze:
- Chirrut just leans into him mostly. Or drapes himself over him.
- Bodhi is too scared to straight up hug him so instead he pats Baze on the back or shoulder. (And then Baze grabs him in a
bearhug.)- Jyn just leans against his side, puts an arm around him.
- Cassian, much like Bodhi, is a little unsure about hugging
Baze and usually waits until Baze is sitting so he can squeeze his shoulder, or
prop his elbow on him and just lean on him. (Cassian also gets
bearhugged.)Chirrut:
- Baze just leans against him. Unless he did something that
made Baze scared for Chirrut’s safety, in which case he wraps his arms around
him like a shield and hugs him tighter than anyone else.- Bodhi always asks first if Chirrut wanta a hug, and then
hugs him gently. (At least until after the first couple times Chirrut hugs him
back with more umph than Baze. After that Bodhi just hugs him normally.)- Jyn does the same thing to him that he does to her; when she
sees him she tells him to give her a hug.- Cassian hugs him briefly and reassuringly around the
shoulders at random.Cassian:
- Bodhi hems and haws for so long before hugging him that
Cassian hugs him instead.- Baze and Chirrut always tag team Cassian and hug him from
either side. They usually do it because he’s overworking or stressed so they
make him hold still and breathe for a moment. (He doesn’t actually mind.)- Jyn likes to hug him from behind, wrapping her arms around
his waist and pressing her face into his back.K2:
- Hugging him is irrelevant to him since he can’t feel and
uncomfortable to the humans because he’s made of metal. So instead they pat him or, in Jyn’s case, rap
their knuckles against him. Eventually he starts patting them back too,
sometimes.*Bonus* Group hug:
- If Chirrut and Baze are hugging Cassian, Jyn will
squeeze in to hug him too and drag Bodhi along. When K2
walks by and sees them he sighs, and points out to Cassian that “the odds of
this happening every day keep becoming higher, you know.”I was “awwwwing” all time while reading this post, good job XD
“You have stardust in your veins, darling. That’s why, sometimes, it hurts to breathe.”
reporter!AU
1. The types of magazines each species creates is different (and mostly fairly stereotypical). Dwarves are big on science and geology, jewelry and other crafting. Elves tend toward the new age-y. Hobbits are where you get all your farming and food related needs. Men are more travel guides and anthropology (national geographic) types.
2. Bilbo is a reporter for a farming magazine and is working on a piece comparing different fertilizers. In his research, he’s come across some alarming stories and anomalous information about a particular fertilizer. Since he knows little about chemistry, he has to go and find someone who can tell him what’s causing the problems.
3. This leads him to the Dwarves. They have the skills to break down and analyze the fertilizer, and Bilbo provides lab space for them.
4. It turns out that the fertilizer has dragon poo in it. This makes plants grow really fast, but also has all kinds of nasty side effects on the plants in question and also is bad for people to be around. (I mean, usually you think that it’s a bad idea to be around dragon poo because that probably means a dragon is nearby, but no. It’s really just no good for you.)
5. In the ensuing examination of the Smaug Company, they discover at least one dragon being held captive. They are also using scales and claw trimmings in their various products and the dragons are in poor shape. They free them and take them in, protecting them because Smaug’s treatment of them has left them very vulnerable. But they are still really good at starting forge fires and protecting valuables like gold and babies.
6. Bilbo wins an award for his article.
fractal, random, noise & wave
Okay, I want a superhero story in which the superhero is one of those ‘normal kid gets superpowers through freak accident’ and goes out and fights crime, and of course runs into the supervillain at some point and tries to take them down. And the villain, a couple minutes into the fight, realizes they’re fighting a literal child and just has an internal freak-out about this new development. Because, fine, I’ve got plans to steal all of the world’s largest gems and I’m generally not a nice person, but holy fuck there’s a kid coming at me. This is a kid. I can’t with this.
So the supervillain instead of trying to kill/hurt their nemesis goes through all these complicated plans to trap them or put them to sleep or stick them in a large tank or something so they can go ahead with it. Sometimes it works and the supervillain spends a harried half hour lecturing the superhero about maybe going to school and being safe instead of doing this, that would be nice.
The supervillain staying up at night occasionally wondering if the tiny superhero is out there trying to get themselves killed right this moment. The supervillain sending supervillain henchmen ninjas out to tail the superhero and help out if it ever looks like the superhero is going to get killed. The supervillain takes to pacing around and muttering to themselves occasionally about PARENTING and RESPONSIBILITY and how they never signed up for this shit. Actually petitioning their version of the Justice League to have someone step in and do something about this, that kid has to be like twelve and what is everyone thinking???? Bonus points if the kid has no parents and the villain finds this out and spends a night internally screaming about it.
Basically I want a supervillain unwittingly becomes the super worried parent of the kid who is actively trying to foil their every plan and topple their evil regime.
Maybe contacts some other supervillians who are like “Yeah? Big deal my superhero breathes fire and shit-WAIT DID YOU SAY 12? LIKE GOD DAMN TWEENAGER 12? WHAT!?” And most get super concerned? What if I step on the brat? Is…is he/she gonna start showing up to my fights? Oh god, am i going to have to childproof my death machine? That defeats the purpose of a death machine! I kill TRAINED ADULTS and STEAL thing not punch babys in- OH GOD ARE YOU WEARING SPANDEX!? LIKE FROM A CRAFT STORE? INTO BATTLE!? And the villians are getting really worried and kinda pissed because where are the Heros? The sneeze half way to mars and BAM legion of starspangled space cowboys but tiny hero baby wants to fight a city eating roboshark? Oh look! Nada! No where to be found! HOW GOD DAMN USEFUL! THEY HAVE STANDRDS (well most of them…sorta…depepend on what you call ‘standards’ and-) AND THE DON’T FIGHT DAYGLOW BABY HERO WITH HOME MADE NERF WEAPONS!
I love the idea of villains developing proper armor for the kid cause damn it they’re going to get themselves killed, like it just sort of shows up in the kids hq with post it notes reminding them to study/floss/whatever. Or baddies showing up to handle a notoriously bad villain that tries to hurt their tiny nemesis.
Better yet, local villains have a Meeting about this crime fighting child and come up with rule for engagement, and a roster for ‘babysitting duty (i.e. making sure the kid doesn’t get into too much trouble).
my problem with the ‘harry becomes lord of 2/¾/5 ancient noble houses’ trope is so unbelievably petty because its that fic writers don’t take it to the potential extreme. like, okay, you wanna make harry the bossest of bitches i get that, i understand, i have that urge too from time to time, but c’mon, be a little more creative about it please
so how about a fic where harry goes to gringotts after the fighting is all over to try to make peace with the goblin nation because this boy does not need more problems and after much hostility and some groveling and promises of future payments for damages caused a plucky goblin lass comes and shuffles harry into her tiny cube office to discuss the nature of his financial situation
(this is a grave insult among goblins. getting handled by a female, first of all, because they are supposedly less capable bankers, hello misogyny among other species, and because they consider anyone who needs help with his money to be lower than cave scum. harry doesn’t know about his. and if he did, he wouldn’t care because he does, desperately, need help)
and plucky goblin lass (who we will call PGL for short) brings out this MASSIVE tome of parchment and slams it down on her desk. a cloud of dust rises. harry sneezes and gets a terrible feeling. some of the parchment is mildewing. the stack is taller than his hand is wide. this can only end badly
PGL tells him that he’ll need to read the entire book to fully comprehend the new scope of his property and harry kind of weakly says “what??”
and it turns out that heyo, when the death eaters swore to follow voldemort with all their lives and souls and magic in their little racist hearts they actually swore a modified liege lord oath which also has the coincidental side effect of ceding all titles (and property connected to said titles) held to the lord in question too. haha how funny who knew
and that’s an ongoing thing. so voldemort was the de facto head of two dozen magical houses at the beginning of the war and he just picked up more as he gained more followers and he probably could have just voted himself and his crew into every position of the government and run the country like that if he cared to do it but voldemort was not about dat political life. he wanted change and he wanted it now. he wanted to MAKE
AMERICAMAGICAL BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN. so he started a civil war and just never informed his loyal death eaters of that little fact because they didn’t need to know.and you might think that gringotts vaults are tied into bloodlines but they’re really not. the malfoy family vault belongs to whoever is the current head of the malfoy family. normally, that’s a malfoy and his malfoy spawn becomes the next head and so it passes through the family, accumulating inherited wealth. it was a working system until voldemort got involved and exploited the ever-living hell out of it.
now this all becomes harry’s problem because it turns out that Right of Conquest is an actual thing. what was voldemort’s is now his and voldemort has has the time to accumulate A Metric Fuck Ton of stuff.
also connected to titles are votes in the wizengamot. and whoo boy, this is where harry’s problem becomes really really really problematic. because the noble families squabble over those votes like children, hoarding them and passing them down, occasionally trading them for advantageous marriages and such, but mostly jealously guarding them like the politcal gold they are. it’s such a bitterly tight-fisted market that any one family has ~maybe~ three or four votes.
and now harry bloody potter has a hundred of the things and a completely unintentional stranglehold on the government. whoops
and then hermione would shotput harry straight into the
wizengamotagainst his protests and things would become so hilarious i just
some jerkass attempts to increase his own salary for doing basically nothing
“how about no,” harry and his hundred votes say.
somebody attempts to tighten restrictions on where magical creatures like vampires and werewolves can work
“how about no.” harry crosses his arms. “actually, how about we repeal those bullshit laws already in place that make it almost impossible for werewolves to get a job right now, hmmmm? and how about we put something in place to catch abusive owners of house elves? and make sure they get paid? and vacation days? and healthcare? actually how about we get healthcare for EVERYBODY HOW ABOUT T H A T?”
ten generations of purebloods cry out in horror. look upon him ye mighty and despair.
the years after voldemort’s defeat don’t go down in history as The Golden Era. in fact, thanks to harry bloody potter (and some incessant nudging by hermione granger), they go down as The Decade of Frankly Astonishing Strides Toward Equality *cough* enforced by a semi-plutocracy.
(all thanks to a third tier plot never really explored by a would-be dictator YOU’RE ALL WELCOME)
Omg this is beautiful.
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