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New blog, who dis? I've wanted to make a perciver blog for ages since this is a pairing I always seem to come back to and Percy Weasley is one of my favourite characters of all time so here it is! I figured it was finally time to start creating and interacting for once
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Fics + Headcanon Masterlist (will be added to as I write them)
Sometimes the canon straight relationships are deeper, better fleshed out, and more compelling than the fanon gay ships btw.
Not all the time, and this might be sacrilegious to post about on the Gay Fanon website, but I really do mean it. I ship a lot of non canon gay couples in a lot of different fandoms, but I can also see when popular fanon ships are just an excuse to put someones favourite blorbo into a gay relationship. And like, it's fine or whatever. Let the little fourteen year old queer kids who don't have any other outlet to explore their queerness have fun and feel safe. Let them create their made up worlds where everyone is queer and accepting and gets a happy ending because they may never find that in the real world. Escapism can be fun and healing. But lets not pretend these worlds are narratively as strong as some cannon ships and let's not pretend this part of fandom culture doesn't carry some serious issues. Let's not pretend these ships don't often end up reducing complex characters to one dimensional stereotypes. Let's not pretend they involve ignoring key details about a character's background or beliefs to project [insert sexuality here] onto a character to fit the ship. Let's not pretend this often leads to perpetuating negative stereotypes in order for a antagonistic character to fit a fanon narrative (a common one I see is bullies or bigoted characters only doing it because they were closeted. Like, what message does this send kids when their past shitty behaviour is automatically excused by other characters because of it?)
Also, let's not pretend fetishization of gay people (or trans people, I see this too) doesn't play a role (at least some of the time) either. Let's not pretend that sometimes some fanon gay ships are just an excuse to get female characters out of the picture because people carry so much internalised misogyny they refuse to adress. Let's not pretend that taking a male character who's arc revolved around unlearning misogyny, learning to respect women, and falling in love with one, and pushing him into a fanon gay relationship kind of assassinates his character a bit.
And I know, believe me I know, we're starved for queer characters. Believe me I do. But taking a canon straight couple, that were well written and well suited and whose arcs complimented each other and going well he's gay now and is in love with Hot Male Villain #1 but she's a lesbian now too so don't worry there's no hard feelings on her end and also I don't hate women but i'll never write about this lesbian relationship ever it's just an excuse to get her out of the way without having to explore any negative feelings ever- is, a bit weird to me.
I've also noticed there tends to be this odd conflation in fandom spaces where queer characters= inherently morally good and straight characters= inherently morally bad in an overwhelming number of stories, and I find it concerning. Sexuality and gender identity and queerness in any form is inherently a neutral thing. It has no moral connotation whatsoever. At all. And while I know most people know this, this feature of equating queerness with morality and straightness with immorality is not a good thing for anybody, queer or not queer. These are not the sorts of ideas it's healthy for anyone to internalize, and having these messages beamed at you from every direction ever day means people will start to internalize them
This isn't a callout post and I'm not about to start listing ships or fandoms because that is neither constructive nor kind and I really don't need people coming after me for 'attacking their ships' but I find a lot of these issues pervasive and slightly worrisome. Again, everyone is absolutely entitled to their escapism and their interpretations of a character, but if you're interpretation of a character involves changing literally everything about them just to put them in a gay relationship, maybe you don't actually like that character that much. Maybe write an OC. Ask yourself why you ship this so hard? Do these characters as PEOPLE make a good couple regardless of their sexuality or gender identity? If one of them was canonically in a straight relationship maybe ask yourself why you think they were so ill suited. Ask yourself if one of the characters in that canon relationship you hate so much was genderbent if you'd still think the relationship would never work. Ask yourself if the narrative purpose of that canon straight relationship was important enough to the story that to dissolve it would dissolve the main themes of the work itself.
Again, this doesn't apply to every straight relationship in media. A lot of them are shitty, heteronormative, underdeveloped, and excuses to put two single characters together because god forbid a fictional character ever be happily single. But some straight relationships are well written and cute and explored well and central enough to the centre of a story that pulling characters out of that relationship deeply affects your ability to actually engage with a piece of media, it's themes, and the messages it conveys. And I know not everyone is into literary analysis as much as I am and that a lot of people just want to use their blorbos like paper dolls, and again that's absolutely fine! But call it what it is, be cognizant of the media you're consuming and creating, and try not to fall into common 'traps' in fandom spaces because goddamn even the most lighthearted of these spaces are a goddamn echo chamber.
Ok so I think in my head Penelope looks like Maya Hawke if she had curly hair. Thoughts?
Hmm okay i see the vision
To me, she has a bit of a rounder face.
Also i see her with longer and lighter hair tbh.
hmmm but i do really like that hehe
lemme try to find someone that i see her as!
okok, like them but with curlier hair (yes these are two different people, i'm aware, but they have the same vibes and the same feature that i think of her to have)
idk, lemme know what you think!!
but i also love maya hawke, so yes.
Ohhhh I see your vision! I definitely get seeing the rounder face thing, but I need my Penny with dirty blond hair, like Idk why I jsut cant see her any other way also I'm kind of in love with Maya Hawke which definitely influenced my fancast wait what who said that
Oliver has a problem.
It’s not necessarily a big problem, like that time he’d agreed to help nana with her christmas cooking and nearly burned down the kitchen, or that time da had introduced him to his new girlfriend and he’d puked on her shoes. But it’s still a problem.
The thing is, Oliver is a simple man. He likes straightforward classes, like potions and defense, and he likes quidditch because it’s a simple game that requires complex thinking. Most of all, he likes Percy Weasley- but Percy Weasley is not a simple man, and Oliver spends an inordinate amount of time trying to figure him out.
It’s a long term project, but Oliver is not opposed to hard work, and Percy is worth it, always has been. That’s not the problem, not at all.
The problem is that somewhere along the line being friends with Percy turned into falling hopelessly, madly in love with Percy, and now Oliver can’t even study in the library with him without daydreaming about biting his collarbones.
Fuck. The collarbones are just there, okay? They’re exposed by the scoop neck of his Weasley sweater the way they never are when he wears his robes and his school shirt, and it turns out Oliver’s weakness- besides just Percy in general- is apparently an extra inch of creamy white skin sprinkled with freckles, and the small hollow where Percy’s shoulder meets his neck.
He wants to lick it. He wants to bite it. He wants to snog Percy Weasley absolutely senseless and figure out what will make him gasp and squirm and agree to be his boyfriend.
Unfortunately, Percy has never once given even the slightest inclination that he might be on board with such ideas, and so Oliver is not about to say any of that out loud, ever, not even if Penelope Clearwater makes good on her threat to lock them in a broom cupboard so they’ll ‘finally stop dancing around each other and admit they’re arse-over-tits for each other’(her words, not his). Penelope is kind of weird, but Oliver likes her anyway. For one, she’s Percy’s best friend, and for another the fact she thinks it’s even possible Percy might like him back is extremely flattering, even if it couldn’t possibly be true.
“-ie? Ollie?”
He blinks and Percy is looking at him, brow wrinkled in concern, his blue eyes as sharply intelligent as ever, even though the bags under his eyes seem etched into his skin. Percy’s insomnia has been one of Oliver’s main worries since first years, and now that Percy’s got the prefect position it’s only gotten worse.
“You okay?” Percy’s voice is deeper than one would expect, and slightly gravelly because of all the cigarettes he smokes. Sometimes, he’ll read out loud before they put the lights out in the dorm, and it’s Oliver’s favourite sound in the world, “You seem distracted. Well- more distracted than usual.”
He grins, propping an elbow on the desk beside his arithmancy books, and the movement makes the divot of his collarbone even more pronounced. Oliver curses whatever deity or creature Penelope must have convinced to torment him, and tries not to whimper.
“Me? Distracted? Never.”
He tries to meet teasing with teasing but it sounds too breathless to be truly convincing. Luckily, Percy doesn’t press, just shrugs elegantly and turns back to his books.
“Alright.”
Oliver goes back to staring at him over his copy of Numerology and Grammatica Level Five.
Deep red curls glow under the warm light from the lanterns, framing high cheekbones and brushing over Percy’s perfectly round ears. A delicate nose balances out a strong jaw, and plush, slightly chapped pink lips part to show a flash of pink tongue caught between Percy’s teeth.
Oliver wishes said tongue was caught between his teeth.
Fuck.
He should go back to reading. The assignment is due in three days, and reading takes him longer than it should, all things considered. Instead, he goes back to looking at Percy’s collarbones rather than his face. It seems safer. Marginally.
The collarbones are still exquisite. Oliver still very much wants to bite them. It’s still a problem.
“Do I have something on my shirt?”
“W-what?” Oliver jumps, caught, and tries very hard not to look guilty, “No. Why?”
“You’re staring at it rather intently,” Percy tugs at his collar, pulling his sweater out to examine it, showing off even more skin and causing Oliver’s brain to melt, which is why he says what he says next.
“I’m not staring at your sweater, I'm staring at your collarbones.”
In the time it takes him to realize what he said and slap a horrified hand over his mouth so he can’t say anything even more life ruining, Percy turns about twelve different shades of red, his mouth dropping open.
“You-I-my-what?”
“Nothing!” Oliver jumps up, fully intending to go throw himself into the lake and let the giant squid eat him, “I’m staring at nothing! Sorry I-”
“Oliver Benjamin Wood,” Percy says, and it’s his prefect voice, the one that makes Oliver shiver in a multitude of ways, but that also leaves no room for argument, ever, “sit down and tell me why you’re looking at my collarbones.”
Oliver drops back into his seat, shaking his head mutinously.
Percy takes a step towards him, face still glowing like the sunrise. Oliver cringes and contemplates attempting apparition even though he’s never tried before and it also doesn’t work in Hogwarts.
Then, Percy does something absolutely, entirely, completely evil. He takes another step closer and leans it, breath ghosting over Oliver’s face, and whispers, “please?”
Oliver caves.
“BecauseIwanttobitethem.”
Oliver didn’t think it was possible for Percy to go any redder, but somehow he manages it. Distantly, he wonders if he should be worried about Percy’s health.
“You…want to bite my collarbones?”
Oliver can only nod helplessly, still reeling from the feeling of Percy’s breath on his cheek, and those blue, blue eyes boring into his soul.
“Right,” Percy exhales a deep breath, and nods, his face rapidly retuning to normal except for a slight pink tinge over his cheekbones, “okay. Let’s go.”
He holds out a hand. Oliver stares.
“What?”
“Let’s go.” Percy huffs, but he’s grinning, eyes twinkling mysteriously in a way that has haunted Oliver’s fantasies for years.
“Go where?”
Is Percy going to murder him in the forbidden forest? Turn him into McGonagall for being a creeper? Sick Penelope on him?
“Back to the dorm," Percy says, like it's obvious, "so you can bite my collarbones and I can lick that freckle on your neck.”
“What?” It’s Oliver’s turn to choke. He can picture the scene, the two of them intertwined on his bed, Percy’s curls tickling his nose as his mouth drags over- nope. Can’t think of that in public, can’t think of that in public. “You- you want to lick my neck?”
“Have for ages.” Percy sighs and that- that does it.
Oliver jumps from his seat and seizes Percy’s hand, tugging them towards the door.
“Yep, alright, let's go, let’s go right now.”
Percy laughs and trips after him, casting a summoning charm over his shoulder so their books pack themselves up and follow them back to Gryffindor tower. Not that it really matters. They aren’t going to do much studying for the rest of the day, at least not if Oliver has anything to say about it. He’s got far more important things to do.
IM IN LOVE OML THIS WAS WRITTEN SO WELL IM SO IN LOVE WITH YOUR WRITING I LOVE OLIVERS THOUGHT PROCESS AND HOW THEYRE BOTH IDIOTS IN LOVE THANK U SM FOR WRITING THIS IM GONNA READ IT EVERY SINGLE DAY 💗
OMG thank you so much I'm so happy you liked it :)
it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore
I have a birthmark smack dab in between my eyebrows.
I like it when ppl play with my hair :)
@amy-r0z3 @luv-again @d3lly1000 @reinafish @jjdrawstuff @jokerandthethief @glitch-studios @raine-ydays & anyone else who wants to join ^^
I think I have adhd and also I really like coffee (:
all my moots. if you see this and are my moot, its the same as tagging you cuz theres a lot of you guys>>>
and anuone else ofc
I love the smell of books, ESPECIALLY old ones
Everyone :P
i have this mole on my ear and people often ask if it’s a second piercing cause it’s right where a second piercing might be
@/anyyyy
i always need to have smth on/in my hands
i have an ungodly amount of stuffed animals on my bed and my room is always messy
oh I also like I to draw
oooo i love that.
I have an unhealthy obsession with hot chocolate and ginger ale.
@jammahanna @sweetest-thing-in-hell … its so late. Im so tired. Open tags for the rest of yall lovwly people (if your my moot please please do it 😁😁
I recently gained possession of the school elevator key and hop in thee daily:)
I love math so much, and I’m a tutor for it.
I’m also a pretty good cook
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outside my house is pure ice right now and I nearly fell three times walking to the bus stop this morning
Wait how many of my moots are ace again?
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Gonna complain a bit on here because I can't on my other account but I signed up for a gift exchange and my giftee didn't even READ the fic I wrote them, which feels kind of disrespectful to me. I know they're active, they've posted like twelve times since I posted their gift and I worked really hard on it and idk ANY sort of reaction would be nice, even just a like or a reblog. It just seems kind of shitty to me that I put in all this work for them and they haven't even bothered to acknowledge it. Like why even participate in the gift exchange then?
idk am I being unreasonable?
I have a galentines party tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it i am, but I know there's going to be The Moment, especially because a few of the people attending are friends of friends, and they don't know me. So we're going to be chatting and drinking and dressed up all cute, and then we'll end up playing some stupid game 'sip or spill' or 'for the girls' or be sharing about exes or just chatting and The Moment will happen. We'll be playing 'never have I ever' and I won't be able to sip for any of the hookup related salacious things other people will confess to. I'll draw a 'truth' card and be unable to describe my first time because i haven't had a first time and don't particularly want one. And people will brush it off, my roommate will laugh her charming laugh and change the subject, or my best friend will crack a joke, but it won't stop the looks people will give the 'oh, you sweet summer child' look or the the 'well meaning' comments where they call me a prude in a more polite way, or the way I'll always be the boring, weird, pitiful virgin girl at every table I'm ever at, 'seriously, how is she twenty and she's never done anything'. I'll never be normal, never be one of them, and they all judge me for it even when they pretend they don't, I HEAR them, I see the looks, I know what they all think of me, and the worst part is that they're right. I'm never going to fit. I'll never have any story to share. I'll never be a 'proper' girl.
I try so hard to love myself. But fuck sometimes I really hate being ace
Peter does not need to be skinny in fanfics. PETER DOES NOT NEED TO BE SKINNY IN FANFICS.
Peter hardly has fanfics were he’s the main character. Even less where he’s shipped with someone(s). Evan less were he’s fat and in love.
Why? What’s so hard about writing a fat character? Peter is fat and fat people are capable of love.
Write fat Peter. Write fat Peter falling in love.
“Oh it’s just how I write!” Write better.
“It’s just my art style!” Get a new one.
There’s no excuse for twink-ify Peter. He’s fat. Deal with it. He’s fat and capable of love.
He’s not a bad character, in fact his character is quite complex. You’re just fatphobic.
YES! Let him be fat and deeply in love. Let him have a partner who thinks the light shines out of his eyes. Let him have a love going into the war who he loses, who he watches die, maybe in an order mission. Have someone in the order call her 'collateral damage'. Have people act like she was worth less because she wasn't as strong or smart as people like James or Sirius or Lily. Let him become angry. Let him become scared. Let him become what James never could. Let him turn because he loved and he lost and it felt like no one cared. Let him turn because it felt like the love of his life died for nothing.
Let him be fat and in love and complex and scared. Let him be fat and intrical to the narrative.
But also. Let him be fat and have sex.
"Oh but I headcanon him as aro/ace!" If you genuinely do that's fine, but I NEED you to do some soul searching and ask yourself if the only reason you headcanon him that way is because he's fat. Ace is not just a label you can slap on people you wish were celibate, and I'm sick of the only characters ever being headcanoned as ace being the fat or ugly or 'evil' ones. (Before you come at me, I'm ace and this is a real pet peeve of mine. Beautiful, sexy, conventionally attractive skinny people in loving relationships can be ace too but I've never seen ace James Potter or Lily Evans but I ALWAYS see ace Peter who just loves food so much haha and his real love is pancakes ha fucking ha and he could never get a date even if he wanted one so good thing he doesnt but it's okay because he's ace so ace rep yay!) I've said it before and I'll say it again, If the only characters you heacanon as ace are conventionally unattractive or fat, you're not being inclusive. You just fatphobic and acephobic and perpetuating negative stereotypes. PLEASE do better.
I have this stupid little headcanon that in my heart the reason I love every duo I think are soulmates (platonic) is because they are. They're all reincarnations or alternate universe versions of the same two souls. Like, I love percy and penelope friendship, and I love Ponyboy and Johnny friendship, and I love Steve and Robin friendship, and on and on, but the REASON in my heart that I love them all so much is because they're the same souls in different worlds finding each other over and over and over again
okay i am officially obsessed with everything you post about perciver because I NEED MORE PLEASE!!
AHHHH omg thank you so much! I'm working on a few more ficlets but i've got midterms this week so it might take a little bit until my next one is posted, but yeah I'm obsessed with those weirdos and I love Penelope and Audrey with my whole heart ahsgshsbn :)
hi! Omg congrats on 400!
🗝 — I'll tell you a very specific thing that you remind me of
The feeling of being out of breath after dancing around your room mindlessly while listening to music. you've flopped down onto your bed and you're left with a feeling of just pure happiness.
sorry this took awhile!! lemme know if it doesn't make sense lol
This is so sweet and such a huge compliment thank you!
