michael’s heist is still my favorite one because it’s literally just a love story about him, his girl, and his boy (who was not clued in and is screaming at the end woops) with the tragic r&r connection subplot and vengeful betrayed geoff
been thinking a lot lately about why so many of us are deeply attached to remus and for me, i think it’s because he was what i wanted from my teachers. he was practical; his lessons were fun and he was never cruel to students; he was supportive and gave harry extra instruction when he needed it but boundaries were mostly maintained, and you never doubted that remus was an adult, someone you could count on if you were in trouble and that would respect you and speak to you like a person but still knew you were a child and didn’t expect anything of you beyond that.
and then you add to that what fandom built, the hurt and the betrayal after sirius was gone, the marauders history that j.k. will never quite get right; the way he jokes and makes off-color innuendo that is just this side of subtle; the worn elbows on his jumpers and his abiding love of chocolate that means so much more than just recovering from a dementor encounter; the way he gets nauseous when he’s nervous and the way he was never quite able to let go of the hope that his friend did not betray him.
the books gave us this incredibly sympathetic adult that we believed would believe in us, and we took him and spun his history into this thing we knew he had to have, something quiet and aching that resulted in a man who would always be there if you needed him. it’s so important to me that remus’ history is traumatic and yet he became such a caring person, someone with so much love in his heart and who wants with every ounce of him to be good despite the darkness he didn’t ask for.
he became one of the most absurdly admirable people in canon, not just because he was kind and gentle and good, but also because he had every reason to be callous and cruel, and i think it means so much to us because we want that for ourselves.
My heart just melted. That’s exactly the reason why I’m so attached to him.
am i the only one kinda bothered by ppl using the “brain: you gotta” post format for like… Normal Neurotypical fandom w/e things….. cause that post format was made by neurodivergent n mentally ill ppl to express impulsive thoughts and urges…. not for ur fandom shit…. lol……..
im convinced that jane crocker owns no less than 38 stuffed animals. and they were all won at the local carnivals because she kicks ass at all the carnival games.
Ginny Weasley who lost her best friend in the world when he went to Hogwarts, and waited a year to join him, only to find she had been replaced by Harry Potter and the smart girl who smiled at Ron like he confused her a little bit.
Ginny Weasley who went through her first year alone except for her diary, which was a comfort at first and a horrific terror next.
Ginny Weasley who went through horrible unspeakable things when she was eleven and nobody noticed.
Ginny Weasley who carried a Horcrux for almost a year and managed to keep her head above the water despite the odds being stacked against her.
Ginny Weasley who shouldered past this and was kind to people she thought deserved kindness and sharp tongued with a ready wand to people she thought didn’t.
Ginny Weasley who had a chance to go to the Yule Ball with her hero and childhood crush, and went with Neville instead, because she saw the great in him before anybody else did, and wanted him to know he was worth it.
Ginny Weasley who defended Luna and liked her for the things that others didn’t.
Ginny Weasley who joined the D.A and fought even though she was a child, because it was the childrens war to fight.
Ginny Weasley who punched a fifth year Ravenclaw in the jaw when he started talking about Harry being a fraud, because she might be over him, but somebody needed to defend the boy who was trying to defend everybody else.
Ginny Weasley who loves all her brothers, but especially Fred and George, who make her laugh until she can’t breathe and take her seriously.
Ginny Weasley who loves having Hermione come and stay over the summer, because it’s like having a sister, and god, she wants a sister so bad.
Ginny Weasley who moved past her crush on Harry Potter and dated other boys while getting to know Harry and becoming his friend.
Ginny Weasley who was amazing at Quidditch and a total jock, and Harry might have been the captain, but she knew quite a bit more about strategy then he did.
Ginny Weasley who teaches him how to coach a team and get the players where they needed to be, and know where the other players are during a game while staying aware of the snitch.
Ginny Weasley who led the D.A in Harry’s absence with Neville by her side, because they might not have been chosen ones but they could choose their own paths and they chose fighting in the resistance.
Ginny Weasley who took the lashings and the burnt hands and horrible, horrible pain over telling where her brother and her friends were.
Ginny Weasley who took care of the other kids, Slytherin or Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, because suddenly houses didn’t matter anymore, when the Carrows were in charge.
Ginny Weasley who wasn’t about to let Harry Potter to fight his war alone.
Ginny Weasley who built him an army out of half starved, bruised students.
Ginny Weasley who built an army for her brothers, and for Sirius Black and for Tonks who deserved to have a baby in a world without Voldemort. For her mother who didn’t get that, and for the little girl who wrote on the walls in blood and doesn’t remember her first year of school.
Ginny Weasley who fights in the Final Battle and keeps fighting after Harry dies, because she knows him, and she sees something of him in everyone fighting and she is so furious, with these people who took her funny, lost, boy and snapped him in half, and she fights harder because he looks so fragile in Hagrids arms.
Ginny Weasley who felt the hollow aching loss of Fred in her chest for the rest of her life.
Ginny Weasley who loves Quidditch and cries the happy-kind-of-tears for the first time after Fred dies when she finds out she made the Holy Head Harpies.
Ginny Weasley who falls back in love with Harry Potter. This time because he is broken and stitched back together in all the same ways she is, and they match in all the broken ways.
Ginny Weasley who falls back in love with Harry Potter because they go together in all the good ways too, like how he makes her laugh in the mornings and the way she absent mindedly slides his glasses up his nose when they fall crooked.
i feel like at some point the fake ah crew is going to get bored with heists for large sums of money. at some point, they’re going to be so rich that a 50k heist is barely a drop in the bucket.
and maybe the logical progression here is to heist for expensive artwork, or priceless jewels, or something along that vein, but.
i kind of like the idea that they set up elaborate heists just to fuck around.
like “we need to BREAK INTO THE POLICE STATION…to steal officer sorola’s stapler from his desk again because he gets so pissed and it’s hilarious.”
“we’re going to INFILTRATE THE HIGH-SECURITY BANK…to draw dicks on as many pre-circulated dollars as possible.”
“here’s the final plan for SNEAKING INTO THE WAREHOUSE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS KINGPIN IN LOS SANTOS…so we can wallpaper the place with beyoncé posters.”
