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I feel very privileged here, talking to you. Because I remember being a seven-year-old kid going through all this madness; you came on my TV and created one of my biggest obsessions. That’s opened a whole new world into me making films and TV and such (Autistic Journey with Christopher Eccleston)

gerardgroves

Only just discovered this and it’s warmed my heart SO MUCH <3

Go backstage, see the screaming crowds, and take a different look at Summer in the City 2016 through the eyes of a YouTuber with BBC3...

#summer in the city #summer in the city 2016 #sitc #sitc2016 #backstage #behind the scenes #pov #emma blackery #cherry wallis #tomska #thethirdpew #doddleoddle #youtube #youtuber #gerard groves #gerardgroves

karlosmadera-deactivated2019022

I think I broke Harry Potter

So it’s 3AM and It’s just occurred to me that the most telling scene in the entire Harry Potter franchise is the scene following the announcement of the participants of the Triwizard tournament.

When Harry’s name is pulled out of the cup, literally one of the first things he is asked is “did you ask an older boy to put your name in the cup for you?“ or something to that effect, insinuating that, that was something nobody prepared for and that it was something that totally would have worked if anyone had been smart enough to figure it out.

However, in an earlier scene a student is turned into a hundred year old man when they try to artificially age themselves with a potion and put their name into the cup. Meaning someone trying to dangerously age themselves with potion they aren’t familiar with was something the teachers genuinely considered to be more likely than someone asking for fucking help from another student.

In other words, the wizards in Harry Potter’s world are so reliant on magic that it doesn’t occur to anyone save for people like Harry that asking for help is even an option in a given situation. This explains why wizards are so fucking ass-backwards at everything, they’re so confident that their magic is capable of doing everything for them that it has never occurred to fucking anyone that perhaps asking for help from the muggle world might be of some use.

Think about it, the wizarding world hasn’t changed in hundreds of years while in that same space of time the muggle world has figured out fucking space travel. I know it’s a cliché to say to say someone could have fucking shot Voldemort, but seriously, somebody totally fucking could have, he killed like 50 people, he was effectively a terrorist, if anyone in the wizarding world bothered to ask for help from the muggles instead of just telling them there was an invisible asshole flying around shooting death curses at everyone, they may have been able to help.

Pretty much the only reason Voldermort thinks he’s better than muggles is because he’s able to kill them with impunity using magic, something he’s only able to do so easily because muggles don’t understand what magic is. Voldemort is basically like a fucking disease, he’s an invisible, lurking entity preying on mankind from the shadows like a cowardly piece of shit. You know what else did that? Smallpox and we stomped that to death the second we understood it. That’s the difference between muggles and wizards, when muggles don’t understand something, they figure it out.

And here’s the kicker, the only reason muggles don’t understand magic at all is because the wizarding world deliberately withholds information about it. However, even if the wizarding world kept doing that, it’d only be a matter of time until a muggle figured out what magic was and how to stop or harness it because that’s what humanity does, it pushes past what we think is impossible to see what’s on the other side. We didn’t understand the sun as a species originally and now we use it to power satellites and smartphones.

The wizarding world isn’t a realm of infinite possibilities, it’s a universe of strict limitations where boundaries are never questioned. The muggle world is where the real magic happens. That’s why during the course of the Harry Potter books, which are set between 1991 and 1998, the muggle world (our world) discovered dark matter, cloned a sheep and invented fucking MP3s while the wizarding world were literally paying some dipshit to figure out what the purpose of a rubber duck was.

Wow, I really shouldn’t think about this stuff when it’s like 3AM, it gets kind of dark.

sarellathesphinx

#the wizarding world prides itself on standing still#because they think they’re already at the pinnacle#but they’re not and one of these days they’ll find that out the hard way

arachnofiend

“Oh, he just turns invisible? Right, we’ll get a SWAT team with heat vision goggles on it. You can expect your Dark Lord dead in about an hour.”

gerardgroves

I'd love a movie where Muggles discover magic and harness its powers for evil and war. The wizarding world is at the brink of extinction at the hands of this evil tech, because it's being used against them in new and innovative ways. It's up to one rag-tag bunch of Hogwarts student misfits and their muggle friend to stop it before it's too late. Together they learn the importance of traditional values, whilst at the same time adapting to the modern world.

thatsassyvirgochick

I think this is best Civil War edit I’ve seen so far…

jasper-rolls

christosanesti

i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say ‘london has fallen’ what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf??

sophrosynic

@deputychairman

deputychairman

And even if Peckham Tesco goes down you’ve still got the Lewisham one open 24 hours, yeah you’re in trouble on a Sunday evening but even in a survival situation you can probably hold out till Monday because all the local takeaways would still deliver, no one can stop those guys and no one should try

elodieunderglass

yeah and making it a little serious for a second, the city has such a historical/cultural expectation of being (or at least appearing) resilient in response to destruction that these portrayals are not realistic at all.

If you talk to people who were in London on 7/7 I feel that they use very different language about their experience, vs. people who were in New York City for 9/11. The brush with destruction is not portrayed as a life-changing experience, if that makes sense. The expectation is that the city has to keep moving. That obnoxious “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster (now a meme) was actually designed and printed in readiness to be posted everywhere if London actually fell to Nazi occupation. the expectation was that “descent into chaos” would let everyone down.

Like, in the London Blitz people made “not giving a shit as the city is gutted around you” into an art form.

this lady would make a great reaction image for drinking truth tea in the wake of drama:

like look at these guys here

“oh ffs that was my BUS”

I mean this guy is just delivering the milk like

TREVOR I DON’T THINK YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE GONNA CARE IF YOU’RE A LITTLE LATE

or this extremely safe community policing

“remember girls you need TWO policemen to go past the unexploded bomb”

or this

“hey Bridezilla your window fell off” “fuck off Helen this is my SPECIAL DAY”

“guys you’re supposed to be - guys pay attention”

or “Hey what should we do we are literally being bombed right now” “idk go hide in the tube??” “but it’s the kids’ bedtime” “yeah, but like… bombs”

“wait I’ve got a plan, we go to the tube and then…”

“ok so … so we’ve literally just tied the children to the train tracks” “shh…. they’re sleeping…. they’re safe now”

or this cheeky lil shit

apparently he’s reading a history of London

rude

Anyway it’s not like Londoners are super brave or anything, it’s just that on the one hand there might be giant alien sea dragon robot tsunamis smashing the recognizable landmarks, but on the other hand they gotta make rent

anzozi-everywhere

On the morning of July 7th 2005, four terrorists attacked London. Three of them exploded three bombs quickly, one after the other, on the London Underground. The other exploded a bomb on a number 30 double decker bus in Tavistock Square. This happened outside of the British Medical Association headquarters, so doctors and medical staff immediately rushed out of the building to give emergency aid. King’s Cross station was used as a makeshift hospital. For a few hours the whole of Britain was in panic, transport all over London was shut down, police were out on the streets. And this is London where everyone in the centre of town uses public transport, all the time, so people outside of London were going “What are they going to do? How’s everyone going to get home now they’ve blown up the tube?” The bus services started again in the evening. That evening, thousands of Londoners walked home from work. The next morning? The transport went back to normal.

tiefighters

Nothing will stand in our way, I will finish what you started…

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toocooltobehipster

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We sat down, had a chat, got a bit emotional.

I interviewed Christopher Eccleston about his new drama, we spoke about Autism, Doctor Who, and more!

#doctor who #doctorwho #ninth doc #9th doctor #christopher eccleston #autism #aspergers #autism spectrum #the a word #dr who fandom #aspergers syndrome

raptorific

bruce wayne maintains a presence on all conspiracy theory boards with the screen name BruceWayneIsTheBatman and all his posts have titles like “BRUCE WAINE IS BAT-MAN INDISPUTABLE PROOF” and it’s just a picture of Bruce Wayne from the back next to a picture of Batman from behind and they both have the contours of their butt drawn on in a shitty MSPaint red line (note: Bruce is in a suit and Batman has a cape, neither of their butts are clearly discernible) and the quote “THE BUTTS MATCH!!! THE FACTS DON’T LIE!!!!!” and he makes at least three of these posts a day, and “Bruce Wayne is the Batman” becomes a meme a la “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer” and he gets asked about it on a talk show and he laughs uproariously at the idea and Stephen Colbert just HAPPENS to have a batman mask under the desk and they do a bit together where Bruce Wayne puts on the mask and walks around saying things like “excuse me, bank robbers, can I perhaps offer you some money to stop you robbing this bank?” and “I say, cease and desist your criminal behavior or I’ll have my butler ask you to leave” and the audience is LOSING THEIR MINDS laughing at the idea of this pampered rich guy taking on the Joker on a bi-weekly basis and then anyone who suggests “Bruce Wayne is Batman” in earnest gets met with mocking “oh man do the butts match” comments