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obligatory follow-up
also jesus, death eaters, how fucking stupid is your organization
why on earth do you call your organization "death eaters" if you yourselves have nothing to do with immortality in your doctrine
it's 100% voldemort's thing and not yours
and actually, a skull with a snake coming out of its mouth just a shitty tattoo someone who thinks they're hardcore but actually didn't put much thought into it beyond "oh, yeah, those two things are SO SCARY" would get
(1) the symbolism's moderately better if, instead of every book illustration/fanart/WB movie CG that i've seen, your skull is sitting like it's resting on a table or something and the snake is forcing its way between and under and out and tugging the jaw open way wider than it was meant to be tugged. then the skull is just this thing, and the snake (your organization) is insinuating its way around and through and completely disregarding it (death) in a visual that's deeply unsettling for not respecting the humanity or organic properties inherent in the skull. add points for the eye socket having cracked so that it's distended and huge and garish, etc.
a. problems with this imagining: it's not a fucking logo, which is why you get the cartoonish skulls in book illustrations/fanarts/shitty CGs; you can't reproduce it in actor-character tattoos or chapter headings.
b. of course, if you're producing the movie, you have three dimensions to work in when it comes time to do the symbol in the sky because it's fucking magic and your budget is five kajillion dollars wouldn't it be great to have an arresting, actually terrifying visual to kick off your Darker And Scarier movie4? (seriously, you could animate the snake just completely demolishing the skull, slowly and carefully and deliberately.)
(2) so you might could kick up the symbolism by having the snake be big enough to be desecrating the skull in some other way, by wrapping itself around and crushing it. "death eaters" though you may be, i can't imagine a snake going to swallow the skull could be anything but silly-looking. or just entwine the fucking snake around and through the skull for maximum disrespecting effect, just draped across the lower jaw from cheek to cheek and twisted around back to enter one eye and slither out the other, so that the effect of being "consuming" is visually and emotionally the same.
C. jesus fuck do i have to think of everything around here!
back to A. death eaters do not, in fact, eat death or seek immortality in any explicit or even really thematic way
they're genocidal, and powerful, and their propaganda is uncohesive and unimpressive
all you have to do is restructure the organization a little bit, jo rowling. muggles live limited, tiny, unfulfilling lives, because they are missing out on The Glorious Bloodline and Magical Ability which make you virile* (*optionally gendered; maybe just 'potent') and strong and hearty and long-lived. it is our right as the powerful, thick snakes (all right lol i totally want this to be a horrible masculine insecurities thing) to consume these lesser individuals, as morbidly weak and brittle and temporary as they are when they do not have The Gift and wither and die so quickly.
and as proof of our superiority, we have at the head of our organization a wizard who has literally accomplished supremacy over mere humanity and in fact mastered the greatest secret of wizardry which is eternal life
that wasn't even a little hard, jo. jo's editors, i'm looking at you.
THANK YOU BLOGOSPHERE! GOOD NIGHT!
why on earth do you call your organization "death eaters" if you yourselves have nothing to do with immortality in your doctrine
it's 100% voldemort's thing and not yours
and actually, a skull with a snake coming out of its mouth just a shitty tattoo someone who thinks they're hardcore but actually didn't put much thought into it beyond "oh, yeah, those two things are SO SCARY" would get
(1) the symbolism's moderately better if, instead of every book illustration/fanart/WB movie CG that i've seen, your skull is sitting like it's resting on a table or something and the snake is forcing its way between and under and out and tugging the jaw open way wider than it was meant to be tugged. then the skull is just this thing, and the snake (your organization) is insinuating its way around and through and completely disregarding it (death) in a visual that's deeply unsettling for not respecting the humanity or organic properties inherent in the skull. add points for the eye socket having cracked so that it's distended and huge and garish, etc.
a. problems with this imagining: it's not a fucking logo, which is why you get the cartoonish skulls in book illustrations/fanarts/shitty CGs; you can't reproduce it in actor-character tattoos or chapter headings.
b. of course, if you're producing the movie, you have three dimensions to work in when it comes time to do the symbol in the sky because it's fucking magic and your budget is five kajillion dollars wouldn't it be great to have an arresting, actually terrifying visual to kick off your Darker And Scarier movie4? (seriously, you could animate the snake just completely demolishing the skull, slowly and carefully and deliberately.)
(2) so you might could kick up the symbolism by having the snake be big enough to be desecrating the skull in some other way, by wrapping itself around and crushing it. "death eaters" though you may be, i can't imagine a snake going to swallow the skull could be anything but silly-looking. or just entwine the fucking snake around and through the skull for maximum disrespecting effect, just draped across the lower jaw from cheek to cheek and twisted around back to enter one eye and slither out the other, so that the effect of being "consuming" is visually and emotionally the same.
C. jesus fuck do i have to think of everything around here!
back to A. death eaters do not, in fact, eat death or seek immortality in any explicit or even really thematic way
they're genocidal, and powerful, and their propaganda is uncohesive and unimpressive
all you have to do is restructure the organization a little bit, jo rowling. muggles live limited, tiny, unfulfilling lives, because they are missing out on The Glorious Bloodline and Magical Ability which make you virile* (*optionally gendered; maybe just 'potent') and strong and hearty and long-lived. it is our right as the powerful, thick snakes (all right lol i totally want this to be a horrible masculine insecurities thing) to consume these lesser individuals, as morbidly weak and brittle and temporary as they are when they do not have The Gift and wither and die so quickly.
and as proof of our superiority, we have at the head of our organization a wizard who has literally accomplished supremacy over mere humanity and in fact mastered the greatest secret of wizardry which is eternal life
that wasn't even a little hard, jo. jo's editors, i'm looking at you.
THANK YOU BLOGOSPHERE! GOOD NIGHT!