[auroracrystal1]

‘I’m not bored.’ ‘You’re not? Sounds to me like a criticism of my leadership style.’

[auroracrystal1]

‘If you’re after a rise,’ he said, still with his eyes closed, ‘just think of me as Santa Claus.’ ‘… You’re giving me a rise?’ ‘I’m saying ho ho ho.’

[auroracrystal1]

Spoiler Alert (?) Year 7, chapter 40

Merula is out of Hogwarts, helping an evil organization like R. But she doesn't miss any class. Good student. She's gonna have a bright future.

[auroracrystal1]

I have to say, the game's approach to the MC's being kidnapped was SUPER wierd. She had been kidnapped in front of the ministry's officials. Yet when she and Corey return to school, it's like they were on holidays!

And what's the deal with Merula? Dumbledore clearly stated he would expell her (as he must. She was involved with a criminal organization) but she's still struting around. She's considered an adult with the wizarding world rules. She should be arrested. But her only repercussion is being thrown out of the circle of Khanna.

[auroracrystal1]

Spoiler Alert (?) Year 7, chapter 40

Merula is out of Hogwarts, helping an evil organization like R. But she doesn't miss any class. Good student. She's gonna have a bright future.

[auroracrystal1]

Spoiler Alert (?) Year 7, chapter 40

Merula is out of Hogwarts, helping an evil organization like R. But she doesn't miss any class. Good student. She's gonna have a bright future.

[auroracrystal1]

Night Court, S01E08, Blood Moon Binga

i would kill to see an episode about these two

[matarsack]

There’s a pattern I’ve been noticing in movies and shows in the past few years. Where the people in charge of making the movie want to have a shallow interpretation of ‘inclusion and diversity’ by adding a woman in hijab as a background character to say that , hey look! We have muslim representation! But this leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Not just because of my traumatic experience with hijab as an afab nonbinary living in an Islamic dictatorship where hijab is mandatory, but also because it’s such a cheap and meaningless thing to do.

They’re basically using a woman in hijab as a tool to make their job easier. The woman in question doesn’t have any lines or any significance to the story. She’s just there in the frame for a few seconds (examples: s1ep2 of Lucky Hank and some episodes of Bojack Horseman i can remember) to show muslim representation. They rarely use a male Muslim for representation because men mostly don’t have a telling sign that they’re muslim. But a woman in hijab? Instant recognition with zero effort. It’s just horrible. It also emphasizes how islam is particularly more interested in making women appear muslim by forcing a special attire on them. Whereas muslim men don’t have to appear muslim, which is very convenient for them i assume; in situations where they don’t want you to know they’re muslim. Hijab also makes women to always be recognized as women. Even from miles away you see someone in hijab and you’re instantly going to think a woman is approaching, even if that person doesn’t identify as female or doesn’t want you to have your first thought of her to be about her gender. But that’s just what hijab does. Makes you achingly and all the time aware of being a woman.

[rants-rambles-ravings]

Quick PSA,

You can fight for a woman's right to wear a hijab and also fight for another woman's right to NOT wear one if she doesn't want to - and you'd still be fighting for the same thing, a woman's right to choose.

You're still fighting for her freedom.

[matarsack]

There’s an inherent difference between these two and people who haven’t lived in an actual islamic country with all its blatant anti-woman laws and where hijab is compulsory for women while men get a free pass, will never understand it; the fact that hijab is inherently misogynistic and it has been used as a tool to suppress and subjugate women and control their body. Just because a woman in a free country wears hijab and calls it her choice doesn’t erase the fact that she’s wearing a piece of cloth that’s been designed by one of the worst kind of patriarchies on earth (aka religious systems) to further push women to the background and at the same time easily turn them into criminals that can be punished by law just because they’re not covering their hair.

My mom wore hijab all her life because her dad forced her to. Because every time she took it off, her dad would beat her up. She’s still living with that trauma even with her dad out of the picture because she has convinced herself that wearing hijab is part of who she is. Islam as a whole is that father figure that forces hijab on you and will beat you up if you refuse to wear it. And if you can take off your hijab freely and don’t get punished for it, whether by your Muslim guilt or your father or the patriarchal system, then you’re not really talking about islam. You’re appropriating that religion and twisting it to suit your own agenda. That’s not fighting for freedom. You are actually fighting against your freedom. But you can say that you have a right not to be free and I won’t stand in your way of shackling yourself. But please don’t talk about those shackles as a symbol of freedom and dignity and beauty. You have to remember where that piece of cloth came from. You have to remember all the women in Muslim countries that don’t have a choice. But you do. So don’t tell me hijab is a choice. Don’t tell me you’re fighting for your freedom. You already have it and you don’t want it. That’s what makes us different.

[matarsack]

i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.

1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.

2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.

3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.

4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.

5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.

6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.

7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.

8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.

9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.

10. Did you know that the islamic regime doesn’t allow women’s faces to be printed on their obituaries or headstones? They put a flower for our faces instead and if they see a headstone with a woman’s face printed on it they’ll smash it to pieces. That’s how religious dictatorship continues to oppress and erase women even after their deaths.

So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.

Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.

This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.

Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.

[harrypotterconfessions]

Wolfstar (Remus x Sirius) is not canon. It will never be canon. It COULD NEVER be canon. Wolfstar destroys Sirius and Remus as characters. An in-character Wolfstar fic is an oxymoron. It is out of character 100% of the time for Remus and Sirius to be together romantically.

[fugamalefica]

I completely agree! I was thinking of this a few days ago, and not because I wouldn't want my husband Sirius shipped with a werewolf. I much prefer Sirius/James as a ship between Marauders. It makes so much more sense because Sirius actually loved James passionately, so much that he went to Azkaban for him and escaped it for him! All for killing James's killer. You think he wouldn't do it if it was Lupin instead of Pettigrew? His love for him can easily be read as romantic. Whereas Lupin and Sirius didn't even trust each other when they met after all those years. They never seemed half as close as James and Sirius either, and Sirius tried to expose that Lupin was a werewolf by trying to make him kill Snape. Of course he probably wasn't thinking of it, but he still risked it.

[harrypotterconfessions]

I think fanfiction is dangerously reshaping our own ideas and perceptions about canon events. Like it's happening in subtle and indistinct ways as we read more and more. (Don't worry I did not forget about crazy tiktokers or tumblr bloggers or fb groups spreading nonsense.) Oh well, I'm not complaining really, because great fanfiction is difficult to find in the first place, but just a thought, that's all, since the HP universe isn't exactly a one time thing for most of us fans and HP isn't just a single chapter of our lives that we can simply close and move on from (God, I really hope not). So yeah, maybe it wouldn't hurt to revisit hogwarts again from the real books.

[auroracrystal1]

More like a comedy than drama:

Surgeon Dad supervising resident Daughter, then same-said Daughter supervising Dad when he returns to work after spending 6 months in a coma. they're both sexually involved with other residents under their supervision. This is HR nightmare.

The main character, Sam, is a pretty and perfect girl, playing piano and eating her meals in the lab. (doctors don't work in the laboratory...) She's smart, she's kind, she has it all. Apparently, there's no need to see her character progress and develop, because there's no flaw in her.

Rob Griffith is clearly written under Dr House's impression, and while I liked Jason Isaacs's acting, I can see the similarity like the light of the day; He's such a super doctor he diagnosed a patient's situation on the spot, most of the episode is about trying to diagnose the problem and solve the mistery. The most tension comes from this and a lot of emphasis is put on this situation. Also, Lupus!!!

Griffith disregards a man's appeal to attend his wife, and the man shoots at him. Too simple and bland. Griffith goes under a coma after being shot in the chest (is that even possible?) And after six months, he woke up a coma and demands immediately to get to work. I don't care how workaholic you are, people don't get up after a coma and speak, walk and talk as if it was an afternoon nap. No PTSD. No physical affect. Give coma some credit!

Sam took his place at the hospital. The show insisted that Sam is a good doctor and person, so she EARNED to be the chief, and there was no nepotism. Here's the thing: Even if she's a MIRACLE, the hospital won't give the position to someone who was under Griffith's surveillance, unless some strings are pulled, or there wouldn't be any other qualified doctors who have finished residency around. And mother-father-daughter all in higher up roles in a hospital? It only works when nepotism is on the table. Even after getting up from the coma, Dr Griffith is still around and does his job. Why not? His coma was a joke, and apparently hospital's rules don't apply to him and his daughter.

Most scenes seemed to be rushed. The shooting, the revealing of Griffith to be Sam's father, the revealing of Sam's best friend sleeping with him. I mean, she didn't even show any grief (when Griffith was in coma) or guilt (talking to her best friend, hiding this fact from her) no hints, no development of the characters, nothing.The secondary characters don't matter; they are just there to create dialogue lines.

Suphia Bush's voice was too annoying, her character wasn't like a strong, ambitious woman, more like a young girl who tries to find her place.

The father daughter dynamic? Trash. They were successful to surprise me at the scene Sam's calling him dad for the first time. One could say, well, the hospital is the place everyone had to put all of their personal issues aside to solve patients' problems, but did they, honestly? The whole show's based on this fact that they couldn't. The constant arguments is juvenile and tiring. And I don't believe none of them: They are obviously more concerned about their authority than the patient's situation.

Also, a show about smart daughter putting dad in his place: first of all, stabbing your own blood family's back for a position. This is far from 'good'.

Second; I don't think Sam could get so much better than his experienced father at being a doctor in six months. Only two possiblity: 1- the coma shows its effects, his dad should go to psychiatrist and avoid working for a while. 2- He had undermined his daughter, and sabotaging her works in the past. Either way, along with so many reasons, Sam shouldn't have the right to be his supervisor.

[missnight0wl]

The “Ismelda Murk in the Hogsmeade Festival TLSQ” appreciation post.

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[auroracrystal1]

Watching half of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, I have these thoughts:

SO MANY NEW CHARACTERS!!!!

Why? We loved the old ones, stick to them already!!

Dumbledore sitting in Hogwarts and sending innocent, competent people to do his works is so in character.

Also, I have this complain from HP's third movie till now: Why a dark theme? I literally can't see anything. Is it because the witches and wizards live in the shadows? Or is it because the main story is about fighting with the dark forces? Any poetic reason it has, I don't need it. I want to watch the movie!!

[auroracrystal1]

Before this quest, I didn't have a specific feeling toward Penny, I was simply annoyed that Jam City brings her in every side quest. But now...

Now I really loathe Penny. It doesn't matter what Scarlett had been through and she was the one who nearly died? It's Queen Penny's feelings we should be wary of!!

And before that, she had said :

I know that watching her friend being attacked was a traumatic experience, but I didn't feel like she cares about Scarlett even a bit. It's more about Penny herself : How she felt after the incident, how she feels about the werewolves, how she didn't expect to see Scarlett's alive, and how she felt about Scarlett being a werewolf, and keeping her in dark.

Only after that MC talked to her, Penny agreed to see Scarlett, and 'permitting' her to explain. All I'm saying is ... bitch, she is the victim!

[dethiel]

Monday’s Dayroom and his Times.

A Roman villa. "Monday’s Dayroom,“ said the Will.

… a beautiful woman dressed all in pink and rose who looked like Noon’s sister and so must be Monday’s Dawn. Two paces farther back was another impossibly handsome man, his face the twin of Noon’s. He wore a coat of black dusted with silver, and so must be Monday’s Dusk. 

…a very handsome, tall man of about thirty. He was dressed in a white shirt with chin-scraping collar points, a red necktie, a gold waistcoat under a bottle-green coat, and tan pantaloons over glossy brown boots. Monday’s Noon.

[auroracrystal1]

Reader's favorite quote from 'Mister Monday':

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

[electricslytherindog]

"He doesn't have any other friends! He wants to manipulate all of your time!!!"

Look who is talking now

[callmederok]

(For some reasons my comment don’t appear so i’m forced to answer through reblogs)

Merula just went from annoying talentless brat, to unredeemable pain in the ass which surprises me even more considering that people are “romancing her“

[electricslytherindog]

For some reason tumblr don't want to show me even that. I just saw it suddently in recommedations.

But, thats just means I am lucky.

Yes, for some reasons people still want to romance her. I would not even tru to undestand it, because this all looks like blind love over some dirty rat.

[auroracrystal1]

"betrayal" is for friends and allies who stab your back. Merula even isn't count as enemy. She's more like 'a nuisance Jam City likes very much'.