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I saw someone essentially say that pornographic/lewd Malfoid fanart is good because sex is the point of romance. THIS, I fear, is another example of the way pornography has damaged people. 🧵
That idea misses the entire point of the Malfoid trend at large. To be fair, Malfoid has gotten so big it broke containment and now means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. That being said, I think the vast majority of those who enjoy this trend agree that Malfoid isn’t about sex, it’s about yearning.
To yearn for something, to long for it, is to deeply and often melancholically desire it. That sense of melancholy often stems from the understanding that whatever the object of your desire is will be difficult to obtain. Men are yearning for Malfoid because finding a woman like her is incredibly difficult, but she’s worth it. People are writing stories, making art, and changing themselves for the better in an effort to even get close to the feeling of achievement - to get close to her.
Making pornographic art in this movement cheapens all of this. The object of desire becomes not the woman, but her body. The way to express this desire becomes not hard work and effort, but masturbation. Looking at images on a screen and allowing yourself to be titillated will poison your soul against improvement, and you will seek to get your jollies off however you can rather than by becoming the kind of man worthy of a Malfoid, or the kind of woman worthy of a Harry.
Certainly, it is true that Harry and Malfoid are sexually attracted to each other. It’s also true that the vast swaths of wonderful illustrators in this movement depict Malfoid as sexually attractive. But Malfoid being sexually attractive doesn’t innately reduce her to the point of objectification.
Beauty exists, and Malfoid is beautiful. This aspect of her character is a virtue - it’s something that men often find lacking in modern women. To be fair, it’s also a quality that women find lacking in modern men, so there’s blame to go around. But that’s why people have started going to the gym over this trend, in pursuit of beauty.
Beauty may also easily be corrupted. Because beauty is a virtue, it goes hand in hand with other virtues - love, self-control, modesty, etc. - and if any of these other virtues are lacking in a person, so too does their beauty. Portraying Malfoid as a loose woman, exposing herself and engaging in all kinds of indecency, makes her less beautiful. It may make her “hot” or otherwise “sexy”, but this is a pornographic debasing of her. Those depictions are not worth your desire.
Malfoid is modest, in both dress and in mannerism; of course she is, as the heiress to the Malfoy name. And the people who get the trend don’t portray her as a ditz or an airhead, but as a confident, even prideful woman (it’s worth noting that such depictions have her putting down her supremacist pride in her bloodline and accepting her love for Harry, humbling herself, which is a virtue).
Keep Malfoid modest. Yearn for something greater.
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Hayes has the portrayal of Malfoy's innocence so spot on. She grew up just being taught all these things as if it was just how things were so she doesn't realize how her words sound.
Like geez dude even from the moment they meet Harry and her have such a good duality.
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"A woman of valor who can find? Her value is far above rubies." -Proverbs 31:10
I saw someone essentially say that pornographic/lewd Malfoid fanart is good because sex is the point of romance. THIS, I fear, is another example of the way pornography has damaged people. 🧵
That idea misses the entire point of the Malfoid trend at large. To be fair, Malfoid has gotten so big it broke containment and now means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. That being said, I think the vast majority of those who enjoy this trend agree that Malfoid isn’t about sex, it’s about yearning.
To yearn for something, to long for it, is to deeply and often melancholically desire it. That sense of melancholy often stems from the understanding that whatever the object of your desire is will be difficult to obtain. Men are yearning for Malfoid because finding a woman like her is incredibly difficult, but she’s worth it. People are writing stories, making art, and changing themselves for the better in an effort to even get close to the feeling of achievement - to get close to her.
Making pornographic art in this movement cheapens all of this. The object of desire becomes not the woman, but her body. The way to express this desire becomes not hard work and effort, but masturbation. Looking at images on a screen and allowing yourself to be titillated will poison your soul against improvement, and you will seek to get your jollies off however you can rather than by becoming the kind of man worthy of a Malfoid, or the kind of woman worthy of a Harry.
Certainly, it is true that Harry and Malfoid are sexually attracted to each other. It’s also true that the vast swaths of wonderful illustrators in this movement depict Malfoid as sexually attractive. But Malfoid being sexually attractive doesn’t innately reduce her to the point of objectification.
Beauty exists, and Malfoid is beautiful. This aspect of her character is a virtue - it’s something that men often find lacking in modern women. To be fair, it’s also a quality that women find lacking in modern men, so there’s blame to go around. But that’s why people have started going to the gym over this trend, in pursuit of beauty.
Beauty may also easily be corrupted. Because beauty is a virtue, it goes hand in hand with other virtues - love, self-control, modesty, etc. - and if any of these other virtues are lacking in a person, so too does their beauty. Portraying Malfoid as a loose woman, exposing herself and engaging in all kinds of indecency, makes her less beautiful. It may make her “hot” or otherwise “sexy”, but this is a pornographic debasing of her. Those depictions are not worth your desire.
Malfoid is modest, in both dress and in mannerism; of course she is, as the heiress to the Malfoy name. And the people who get the trend don’t portray her as a ditz or an airhead, but as a confident, even prideful woman (it’s worth noting that such depictions have her putting down her supremacist pride in her bloodline and accepting her love for Harry, humbling herself, which is a virtue).
Keep Malfoid modest. Yearn for something greater.
Any romance story between Harry and Malfoid that cannot overcome Sectumsempra, that cannot overcome the point at which Harry sees her as an enemy, is not a romance story worth aspiring to.
You're conflating and purposely miscommunicating elements of traditional story telling with Deconstruction.
You even use nonsense word pairings "Deconstruction of Idealism" as if Dragging things to the mundane (Literally what deconstruction is) is reflective of any sort of Ideal.
Deconstruction is when elements of the real world intrude to bring down the suppositions and expectations of a story into a modern sensibility... it is when, after a happily ever after, someone introduces complications to the lives that are mired in the modern age worries and apprehensions, in order to proximate it to their audience rather than allow the story to elevate the urges and expectations of the audience.
Pain, suffering and overcoming difficulty in a relationship... is a VIRTUOUS CYCLE, that when integrated into a story, teach the audience that these things need not be the end... and they need not be mired within them, that they can overcome such things and become stronger, better and more virtuous through that effort and difficulty.
Classic Romance was *NEVER* about a perfect, ideal arc where no trials or tribulations were overcome; that is you twisting the original meaning of such stories to fit your narrative to justify the ugly portions of story darkness being removed.
I get enjoying the character, but I’m seeing people say she didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t deserve what happened to her. That’s crazy to me - she’s certainly comedic relief, but fundamentally she’s an armchair revolutionary who co-opts one man’s revenge mission against Arasaka to catalyze riots, looting, and murder. Roman and Omi are correct, what they were doing is no better than what the corporations do. You’re not supposed to like what she stands for
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It's been months that I keep saying Hitler was far left. Every time, thousands of clowns show up in my replies to give me history lessons.
So I made a video to answer all these low IQ takes at once.
Topic closed. Next.
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A Missed Dance
The Yule Ball is here, and...well...it's not a night the Harry, nor Malfoy will remember fondly.
1/3
I love this idea but no, why does she die
No bring her back, she has to live
Malfoy: I'll stay with you until the very end, Harry
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Translation and Coloring for manga by Focolate@bilibili
#malfoid #HarryPotter
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All things Malfoid is about alternate storytelling.
There is no Malfoid canon. Anyone interested in this kind of alternative storytelling is necessarily disregarding Rowling's canon, after all. And so they should.
You can tell this story in different ways.
I favor the Sectumsempra scene, because I like the tropes of "star-crossed lovers" and "enemies to lovers."
It seems clear to me that, if you really want an enemies to lovers story to work, you have to make the enemies part plausible, and a key beat of this story arc is the "all hope is lost" moment, in which both sides of the equation feel or believe, for whatever reason, that no hope of love remains.
If you are going to have the triumph of love at the end, there have to be real stakes, and than means *something has to happen* that seems to put an end to all prospect of love.
You could write a fully original scene, of course, but the Sectumsempra scene already it exists. It's right there, and it does the necessary work:
Dracaena has already been struggling with her conflict, her feelings for Harry vs the incredible pressure she is under to side with V. The Malfoid beat is that she is caught in the middle and doesn't know what to do. During the bathroom duel, she tries to throw a Crucio at Harry, but fails, because she doesn't hate him enough to do that to him (this is perhaps a revelation to her).
Harry counters with Sectumsempra. This is, as we all agree, dumb, since he doesn't know what it does. But Sectumsempra, although noted as "for enemies", does not seem to require an actual emotional state of hate or desire for serious harm to cast. Harry does NOT hate Dracaena. Harry does NOT want to severely hurt her in this way. He literally does not know what the spell does.
But SHE doesn't know that.
So this scene gives us:
Her: "He hates me this much." She has just been forced to face something of the truth of her feelings for him, because she was unable to cast a Crucio at him. And then this happens. She discovers, at nearly the same moment, that she actually loves him BUT that he hates her. Nadir; absolute low-point: You can't hardly imagine a stronger barrier to love than "He hates me."
Him: "What have I done?" Harry is a good lad, and is horrified even by what Sectumsempra does to Draco. When it's Dracaena, though, the emotional cost is on another level. It isn't just horror at what he's done, but a much more personal horror and loss that he has done this to HER specifically. Again, one and the same action is both the revelation of a truth (he actually loves her much more than he has ever admitted to himself before) coupled with a false revelation ("She could never love a man who did this to her").
So, the Sectumsempra scene ends with her having the understanding "I love him but he hates me, so our love can never be" and him having the understanding "I love her, but should could never love me back, so our love can never be."
If you are going to have a love conquers all story, you need to give it something worth conquering.
Again, you do have to write the entire story in such a way to make this scene work.
You can write the story of Harry and Dracaena with different dynamics.
Sectumsempra isn't canon. There is no canon. But it is one available path, the one I favor, but there's NO ONE RIGHT ANSWER here.
Sectumsempra is highly dependent on what the writer has established prior to the scene.
If Harry and Draceana are more consistently antagonistic for each other while their affection is hidden beneath it all, it makes sense and this feels like a natural inclusion to their flow. That natural spitefulness combined with her stress would make Draceana use Crucio, and Harry’s anger and suspicion to her resuls results in a paranoid reflex that makes him throw out the spell, unaware of what it does until the horrifying result.
If Harry and Draceana haven’t been antagonistic towards each other that much and it’s more a tempered “understanding”as well as more overt affection being shown (a successful Yule Ball dance, Draceana not being spiteful and abusive as the leader of the Inquisitorial squad), despite them being torn apart by circumstance you can logically and emotionally come to the conclusion that Draceana wouldn’t just drop an Unforgivable curse on Harry and that in turn wouldn’t make him use the spell.
Remember, in the original, Harry hears Draco crying and having a near panic attack in the bathroom first. He absolutely hates Draco here, and his paranoia throughout Book 6 magnifies this. If Harry had some affection, one that was reciprocated in some way, do you think his temperament would even be the same league as in the original?
You can obviously write this in a way that would justify that reaction, absolutely, but saying it MUST be done is again just trying to set a rule in something that is an AU in the first place. The majority is free to prefer it and want to keep it, but we don’t need to try and say it’s a golden rule every single writer must follow, especially if they’re being meticulous enough to lay out why it wouldn’t happen in the first place.
Full transparency, I didn’t write him doing it when did my version of the scene, and that was because everything I laid out until then didn’t make either of them going for something so potent feel that organic. We can argue that people do stupid things when emotional, but that’s how we get scenes like Hal’s death in Lanterns (out of nowhere reference, I know, but bear with me) where Kerry shoots a man she says she loves in the head because she was panicking, and then it’s excused away by people since “she was just really emotional, ok?”
Execution of a concept is what matters here, you can make Harry using it or not using it compelling, but you need to set up the pieces to make it come to that conclusion. If something is setting up a different board, you don’t need to come in and say there can only be ONE conclusion at the end of it. That really stifles the creative instinct here.
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Sectumsempra is highly dependent on what the writer has established prior to the scene.
If Harry and Draceana are more consistently antagonistic for each other while their affection is hidden beneath it all, it makes sense and this feels like a natural inclusion to their flow. That natural spitefulness combined with her stress would make Draceana use Crucio, and Harry’s anger and suspicion to her resuls results in a paranoid reflex that makes him throw out the spell, unaware of what it does until the horrifying result.
If Harry and Draceana haven’t been antagonistic towards each other that much and it’s more a tempered “understanding”as well as more overt affection being shown (a successful Yule Ball dance, Draceana not being spiteful and abusive as the leader of the Inquisitorial squad), despite them being torn apart by circumstance you can logically and emotionally come to the conclusion that Draceana wouldn’t just drop an Unforgivable curse on Harry and that in turn wouldn’t make him use the spell.
Remember, in the original, Harry hears Draco crying and having a near panic attack in the bathroom first. He absolutely hates Draco here, and his paranoia throughout Book 6 magnifies this. If Harry had some affection, one that was reciprocated in some way, do you think his temperament would even be the same league as in the original?
You can obviously write this in a way that would justify that reaction, absolutely, but saying it MUST be done is again just trying to set a rule in something that is an AU in the first place. The majority is free to prefer it and want to keep it, but we don’t need to try and say it’s a golden rule every single writer must follow, especially if they’re being meticulous enough to lay out why it wouldn’t happen in the first place.
Full transparency, I didn’t write him doing it when did my version of the scene, and that was because everything I laid out until then didn’t make either of them going for something so potent feel that organic. We can argue that people do stupid things when emotional, but that’s how we get scenes like Hal’s death in Lanterns (out of nowhere reference, I know, but bear with me) where Kerry shoots a man she says she loves in the head because she was panicking, and then it’s excused away by people since “she was just really emotional, ok?”
Execution of a concept is what matters here, you can make Harry using it or not using it compelling, but you need to set up the pieces to make it come to that conclusion. If something is setting up a different board, you don’t need to come in and say there can only be ONE conclusion at the end of it. That really stifles the creative instinct here.
I don't think people are being honest with themselves with the whole SectumSempra thing...
Making the argument "But what if Harry practiced or learned what the spell did beforehand", or arguing that they should be lovers at that point, or arguing that Malfoid's actions wouldn't have an impact on Harry's choice of use because she's a girl and a girl he cares about....
You're all just looking for reasons and excuses not to put it in because you prefer him not to hurt the one he loves.
You are fabricating reasons to avoid having it, justifying that fabrication with "Its fanfiction, we can do what we want."
You can. Absolutely, you can. You can also ruin a story by not adhering to the needs of the narrative, or diminish it from what it could be.
Kind of like making Malfoid male did, just because Jo wanted to distance her schoolyard bully from herself. Kind of like how she denied Draco's redemption out of spite for her own childhood bully.
You can certainly do that, and you'd be following your personal impulse in doing so. And in doing so, would rob the story of one of its most pivotal, weighty, emotional moments.
And one of the moments which most people universally agreed with as being NECESSARY for their romantic climax.
So yes. You can write that, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop you. Go right ahead.
I have raised up enough fun money to spend on a Special Edition Nintendo Switch 2 so that I can play the Ocarina of Time remaster but I’ve also been getting into art more recently and now I am of two minds about what I should spend that money on - the switch, which I raised the money for in the first place, or a drawing tablet?
I have been working on this Yor Forger piece for a few days now (I am just learning art, I am conscious to the reality that I am not very good) and the more I work on it the more I am convinced that the image I have been using as a reference is AI generated. This has turned me off from finishing the piece, mostly because there are a handful of inconsistencies from the reference that I copied in pen that now I can’t fix myself. It makes me a bit sad, but maybe if I stop working on this one, I can move onto something else that is drawn by a human.
Who knows, maybe I’ll give another tutorial a shot so that I can draw original characters and scenes.
Cedrica is turning everyone away from yearning and turning them towards just making genderswaps cuz of vibes
I like Malfoid but definitely not a fan of this current trend
Hopefully people start writing the next Harry Potter rather than just HP fanfiction
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>Guy who kept QTing you behind a block for years is now upset that you’ve declared discourse dead.
James, you are a living embodiment of the point I was making here.
yeah, I'm not convinced. I don't know that it's right to swap anyone else's sex just to swap them, I only enjoy it if it enhances the story. Cedric is only in Book 4 to die. Making him a woman doesn't necessarily make the storytelling better automatically
Wait wait ok hold up
She takes on an almost motherly role to Harry. Cedric was like big brother vibes, guiding Harry and helping him so it fits here.
She and him get close but not too close, more like a “lemme help you” thing. Obv there’s potential for Draceana to be jealous but do with that what you may.
Then the final scene. Still hits, but the loss just hits even harder.