My “Snape the dysfunctional mum” feelings are becoming unmanageable, honestly.
#Also please picture Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ as a mismatched godparents comedy starring #Snape as Bagheera #Sirius as Baloo #and Harry as Mowgli. #Thank you.
I mean The Jungle Book already kind of is a godparents comedy with Bagheera and Baloo, so this would work really well.
Sirius is all “Let’s ignore the rules and have a good time!” and Snape is all “If you do that you will literally get killed off in an hour.”
And obviously Voldemort is Shere Khan with his single-minded focus on killing Harry/Mowgli. But who is Kaa? Who is King Louis? (Actually King Louis might be Arthur what with his fascination with Muggles/humans. Maybe Tom Riddle is Kaa because of his fascination with controlling people and only tangential interest in Harry?)
#someone make art of this? #harry potter #the jungle book #AND WHO ARE THE ELEPHANTS???
Umbridge is Kaa, for the same reasons cited for Riddle–a fascination with controlling people and an only tangential interest in Harry.
Lucius Malfoy is King Louis–”I have an entourage of loyal minions, I want your power, and I am not above using said entourage of loyal minions to kidnap and threaten you into giving it to me,” but he also prefers to work within the established power structure rather than outside it like Shere Khan.
The elephants are 100% the Ministry of Magic, collectively.
Leaving Holes
Your story is 50% reader. It’s that mixture of reader and writer that makes the magic.
Which means your story needs to have holes for the reader to fill in. You need that negative space for the puzzle pieces to fit.
I’m not talking about plot holes, I’m talking about giving one sentence the power of two. A book that means what it says is a mediocre book. A book that means more than what it says is a great book.
Don’t over-develop your characters, having them analyze every feeling, or spelling out what every character in a scene is thinking. Don’t follow up a powerful line with an explanation with what makes that line powerful.
Let your words imply as much as they state.
it can be so so hard sometimes, cuz i gotta remember i can trust my readers
And it can be hard to know WHICH holes to leave. You don’t want to leave any ‘this doesn’t make sense’ holes, but you do want to leave ‘insert your interpretation here’ holes.
this is the most important think I have ever learned about writing
Snoop Dogg narrating planet earth is what the world needs
we dem boys
i need a series to be made off of this
(Source: http://guncharge.tumblr.com/)
John: how do you know I’m looking for a flat share?
Sherlock: I told mike this morning that I need a hot flatmate, now he brings me a bisexual military man with an adrenaline addiction lol pls, doesn’t take a genius
Sherlock:
Sherlock:
Sherlock: I am a genius tho
Sherlock: just to make that very clear
Sherlock:
Sherlock: please like me
So how long will it be before I see that Hitchhiker’s quote about the people electing the lizards
BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD
“On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”
*shoots finger guns* Thank you so very much.
Resonance
Sherlock wakes John from a nightmare and comforts him in the only way he knows how.
One of my favorite authors, merindab.
Thank you!