IN THE MOOD FOR BLAST !

“Dreams are destroyed by technological tampering," —Paprika, 2006

[inthemoodforblastt]

Multifandom blog ⚡️

A blog for political, social, and whatever-other-kind-of opinions. Also lots of film, series, and random stuff.

This blog doesn’t have a main theme or follow any kind of logic, it’s a semi-personal space where I talk about my things and reblog whatever I feel like.

Sometimes I like to talk about things that aren’t the book series from my childhood. 🤫

[naturallyred]

Timothée Chalamet's presence effectively cursed the French team

[littlebitofhaze13]

wow i cant believe spain and argentina are going to play against each other in BTS’s concert

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Today is Spain vs. Argentina. We're probably going to my uncle's bar (he's Argentine) to watch the match. This will most likely end my relationship and the 50-year friendship between my dad and my uncle. Dramatic things are about to happen.

As for my relationship, my bf is Argentinian too and i normally don't care. Seriously, I honestly couldn't care less about football. I don't really mind whether Spain wins or not. But I do think it would be pretty satisfying to beat a country whose president, Milei, spends his time sucking up to Netanyahu and Trump, especially when our own prime minister has opposed both Israel's genocidal actions and Trump's demands. And I also think it would be absolutely beautiful if that fucking asshole Donald had to hand us the trophy through gritted teeth.

But we'll see.

[vyrid]

some snape fans “sirius black gave snape information that could’ve got him killed” when you mention how snape had no problem giving the prophecy to a murderer and dooming a random baby before he knew it referred to lily’s kid

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Let's get the timeline right.

Sirius attempts to kill Snape. That's attempted murder, and it happens years before Snape ever joins the Death Eaters. Those are two completely separate events, so stop conflating them.

Snape shows remorse. He spends the next eighteen years effectively serving a sentence of his own making, risking his life as Dumbledore's agent in an effort to undo the damage he caused.

Meanwhile, Sirius is thirty-five years old and still lives in a house with a house-elf who is, for all practical purposes, a slave. And he treats that slave like dirt, just as he treated the poor kid he spent years tormenting at school.

Funny how the man who supposedly embodies all your progressive values never seems to question the system that grants him power over those beneath him.

[licorice-and-rum]

Do you know what I REALLY don't get? The need of some Snape fans of absolutely NEEDING Snape to be A Good Person™. Like, just admit he was an awful person and you like him, dude, it's not that hard.

Yes, I like the Marauders. Yes, they were bullies and they tormented Snape. Yes, I still like them. Also, I hate Snape for being a nazi and a child abuser. And no, I don't think he has enough charisma for me to like him regardless.

Other immoral characters I like include Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Armand, Daniel, Kaz Brekker, and many others. You know why? Because I don't need my favorite fictional characters to be morally superior, I need them to be interesting.

And I think the Marauders are infinitely more interesting than Snape because I find that Snape is a ill-constructed character who falls under the stereotype of a right-wing incel. I find the writing of him uninspired, morally shallow (written for shock value instead of presenting a real moral challenge) and of poor taste.

I also think that most Snape analysis in his favor are infantalizing, victimizing, dependent on villanizing everyone else, relying on moral relativism, have a terrible habit of denying Snape's agency as an adult and a man, and, to be honest, quite prone to fake progressive views while protecting conservativism and misogynistic thinking.

Also, yes, Snape was a victim to the Marauders. Guess what? That doesn't make him morally superior at all (suffering isn't redemptive) and it sure doesn't make his fans morally superior to Marauders fans.

What I hate, though, is Snape apologists behaving like they need to prove his moral superiority over the other characters instead of just accepting that their fave is a bad person. Worst yet is to see them behaving like they have the moral high ground over Marauder fans because of which character they like.

While it's okay, and even necessary, to be critical of Media, I don't trust the view of anyone who behaves like engaging with Fiction as fans is a way of showing off their moral high ground. To engage in Fiction as if it's the definition of your morality is to contribute with media illiteracy: fiction is about being interesting, not about being moral, and Snape apologists are, in my experience, the epitome of everything that is wrong about these kinds of discussion.

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The thing is, I don't actually need Snape to be a Good Person™. I don't think he was. I think he was deeply flawed, often cruel, and made terrible choices.

What I do object to is analyses that deliberately strip away every single material condition that shaped him while extending endless grace to characters who happened to be born wealthy, popular and socially protected.

You say Snape fans infantilize him. I would argue that what many of us do is something much simpler: we acknowledge that people are products of their environment. That's not the same as saying they lack agency. It's recognizing that agency doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Severus grows up in poverty, domestic violence, neglect and complete social isolation. The first people who offer him belonging are future Death Eaters. That's literally how extremist movements recruit vulnerable teenagers. Explaining radicalization isn't excusing it. If your political analysis begins and ends with "he was a Nazi," while refusing to examine how a poor, abused fifteen-year-old gets groomed into a supremacist cult, then that's not a material analysis, it's moral simplification.

Ironically, you then turn around and defend James and Sirius.

James and Sirius don't start bullying Snape because of politics. Canon explicitly shows it begins on the Hogwarts Express before anyone has even been Sorted. James himself says he picks on Snape "because he exists," and Rowling later confirmed that James's resentment was fundamentally personal, tied to Lily, not ideological.

So we're talking about two boys with enormous amounts of social capital —one literally an heir to an old aristocratic family, the other from one of the richest pure-blood dynasties in Britain— using that privilege to repeatedly humiliate, assault and terrorize a working-class kid who had absolutely none of the institutional protection they did.

That's not rebellion, it's fucking abuse of power.

It's also fascinating that you describe Snape as a "right-wing incel." An incel is defined by misogynistic entitlement toward women. Snape never believes Lily owes him a relationship, never attempts to coerce her into loving him, never stalks her after she rejects him, never frames her refusal as oppression. His greatest moral failure regarding Lily is joining a movement whose ideology ultimately threatened her life, not believing she owed him romance. Those are two very different criticisms.

What I find genuinely inconsistent is claiming a progressive political framework while reserving almost all structural analysis for privileged perpetrators and almost none for marginalized victims.

James and Sirius receive enormous narrative charity despite exercising violence from a position of wealth, popularity and institutional protection. Snape receives almost none despite being poor, abused, socially isolated and eventually recruited into an extremist organization through exactly the mechanisms political radicalization research has described for decades. Again: explanation isn't absolution.

And yes, leaving the Death Eaters matters. Spending nearly two decades risking his life to bring down the regime he helped empower matters. Redemption isn't automatic, but neither is permanent moral condemnation. Character development exists for a reason. Meanwhile Sirius dies still owning a house maintained by an enslaved being whose condition he never fundamentally challenges. Funny how "he was a product of his environment" suddenly becomes an acceptable explanation there.

Finally, you say Snape fans need him to be morally superior. No, I think what's uncomfortable is that taking Snape's material conditions seriously inevitably forces people to acknowledge something about the Marauders: that the charismatic, wealthy, popular boys weren't underdogs. They were often perpetrators exercising class privilege, social capital and institutional impunity against someone who had none. That doesn't mean Snape was a good man, it does mean the moral landscape is a lot more complicated than "rich bullies good, poor radicalized victim bad."

And the fact that you're out here defending James Potter. Girl, your fave is basically an NPC whose entire canon consists of abusing his social and economic capital to target people he knew he could get away with abusing. But then you want to lecture everyone about fascists.

Seriously, get a grip. You sound like a fucking neoliberal arguing that poor people are poor because they want to be, and that we should all be grateful to rich people for their charity.

Seriously, shut up for a month.

[andremichaux]

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT | 1.01

Bonus:

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT | 2.10

[martieprince]

That’s why he’s the goat🙏🙏🙏

[inthemoodforblastt]

can you tag your slander/anti posts properly? it would be really helpful when looking through your blog :)

I tag my shit perfectly fine, you’re wellcome.

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You mentioned that you would like having a case in the court to defend someone like Severus against what the maradeurs did. And that you would do it, even if these rich folks tried to do something against you. That made me curious... Has that ever happened to you? I'm sure it happens all the time to lawyers, but have you ever been personally threatened? Like, someone tried to hurt you in some way because of your job?

No, I mean, it’s not something that normally happens. Unless, I don’t know, the people involved actually want things to escalate into legal consequences. Because obviously, if you threaten a defense lawyer while they’re handling a case or a trial, that’s not exactly going to work in your favor.

I’ve had my share of conflicts. I’ve been advised to settle cases before, and I’ve refused because I’m incredibly stubborn when it comes to my job. I have a problem: I really, really like being right. And if I genuinely think I’m right, I’ll fight it all the way to the end. That has definitely gotten me into a few disputes over the years. But actual threats? Not really.

Although, honestly, I think it would be hilarious to take on one of those child bullying cases, go all in, and have the wealthy parents threaten me. I genuinely think that would be iconic. I have this weird view of life where I believe everyone should have a bucket list of bizarre experiences before they die. I don’t know, like sleeping with a priest, getting threatened by a rich family promising to ruin your life… those are the kind of ridiculous experiences I’d find funny to tick off the list before I die. It would genuinely amuse me.

That said, it’s not actually common for some ultra-rich-type family to show up and threaten to break your legs. What usually happens is much less dramatic: they offer way more money than you or your client originally asked for. They negotiate. Sometimes they offer things besides money, too, just to make the problem disappear.

I’ve never believed in that approach. I want the compensation and I want to win the case so the person ends up with a criminal record. There’s something deeply satisfying about seeing people with enormous privilege actually face legal consequences for violent crimes. Even if they don’t end up in juvenile detention, I think it’s important that there’s an official record showing they were convicted. Otherwise, if wealthy parents can just pay settlements every time their kids commit crimes, those kids never learn the lesson they need to learn, that being rich and coming from a “good family” doesn’t exempt you from the consequences of your actions.

So in a case like that, I’d go for everything: the conviction and the money. And if the family wanted to threaten me afterward… well, we’d see how that went. Rich people don’t intimidate me because I also know people with influence. Everyone has cards they can play if they decide to. That’s why I’ve always believed you should understand your opponent before you make them your enemy, know what they’re actually capable of.

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Haven't been keeping up the updates but football yaoi?👀👀👀

I can’t ship footballers because I don’t even know who most of my country’s national team players are. The only ones I know are Nico Williams, Lamine Yamal, Cucurella, and Borja Iglesias, and the last one only because he’s a leftie. I’m absolutely clueless about football, guys. I’m not caught up on the lore, sorry.

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girllll, help me, I just had a 50 years old relative tell me that they would fuck someone my age Im 21

what should I do with this guy

Call him a pedo because its what he is

[ernest-pamphilow]

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I can't find all those essays 😭 could you make a masterlist tagging them (no pressure just if possible I know you must be busy) or which tag do i search so that they come up ?

severus snape

severus snape meta

meta post

criminal law

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Lol no problem i'll give you the context. So an anon asked this blog

"Do you think James actually took Snape's pants off? If so, was this a common "prank" at the time considering the WW's fucked up idea of what does and doesn't constitute SA?"

And the blog answered

"No, I don't think that he actually took his pants off, as I do think that Sirius would have stopped him and James does listen to Sirius above all else in that scene. But if he had, it wouldn't have been considered sexual assault even though it was because (a) the wizarding world doesn't give a fuck about that sort of thing (especially when it happens to men) and (b) the muggles of the seventies wouldn't have considered a 'pantsing' sexual assault either (especially if it happened to a man). Also, I don't think that JKR had any idea what she was actually writing when she did and was likely shocked when people took SWM as seriously as they did after OotP's publication."

And like I said in my previous ask, complete disregard for male survivors, because Snape being a man shouldn't be a justification at all. Its like they were trying to say being male invalidates your one's incident. I was horrified.

Guys, I honestly don’t know why you keep sending me this stuff. I’ve literally written like 80 posts explaining why it is sexual assault. They’re all on my blog. You’ve read them.

If you want to argue with this person and don’t know how, you have my full permission to take any of my posts, send them over, and say, “This is why what you’re saying is complete bullshit. This is why you’re justifying sexual assault.” And I don’t care if it happened in a different time period or in the Wizarding World. It doesn’t matter. The reality is that it’s sexual assault. We don’t live in the Wizarding World, we live in the real world. Fiction reflects real-life situations, and when people read it, they inevitably relate it back to reality.

So if the way you interpret those situations is by denying something that’s widely recognized as sexual assault under modern legal standards, then maybe the problem is you. Maybe you’ve got something seriously wrong with the way you think. Period.

So just tell them that.

But seriously, I don’t know why you keep sending me these arguments. They’re the exact same ones I’ve already debunked a thousand times. If one day I’m in the mood to argue about it again, then sure, I will. But if I’m not, you’ve got 80 of my posts across two different blogs, no less. Just send them. You have my full permission to quote me. Cite me properly, say, “This is from her,” quote whatever you need, and send it to them. I genuinely don’t care. Go for it. I just don’t want anything to do with it right now. I’ve had an insanely long week, I’ve been absolutely buried in work. I haven’t even been able to get drunk in the evenings. I’m completely exhausted. I don’t have the energy for these people anymore. I’ve dealt with enough idiots this week already. I don’t want any more.

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Las parejas que se hacen foto en la Torre Eiffel el máximo cringe de la caspa.

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https://www.tumblr.com/reddherring3/822340360622800896/do-you-think-james-actually-took-snapes-pants?source=share

Look at this. I'm at a loss for words. Their defense for James's sexual offense is always the fact pantsying was common in 70s so i wasn’t shocked. But the way this person has repeatedly emphasized the fact that Snape was a man as a strong point that it doesn't count as sexual offense. These people think male survivors aren't a thing. A man cannot be a proper victim of SA. Their sole justification is that Snape was a man so whatever James did can slide.

Do they hear themselves ?? 😀😀

Never in my life have i seen such blatant disrespect and disregard for male SA.

i'm blocked sorry