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if i look back, i am lost
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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Xuebing Du
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Happy Birthday, Xingqiu!
"Say, Gaming... Might you be inclined to share some insights with me regarding when the latest shipment from Wanwen Bookhouse will be arriving? Strictly confidential, of course."
"...Master Xingqiu, that's against the rules."
Gaming's lion ahhhhh
It's fashionable to diss Harry Potter nowadays, and all conceivable ways that it's "bad" has been discussed six ways to Sunday at this point, but there's one part of the discourse that I haven't seen quite yet.
Yeah, we criticize Harry Potter for its racial stereotyping, problematic names, plot holes, and the fact that the author is a raging TERF but have we discussed the fact that Harry Potter is a children's book that takes itself way too seriously?
Think about it: what made Harry Potter "great" was that it was set in a whimsical world which you wanted to inhabit. You could care less about the overarching plot of Harry vs Voldy, but you wanted to be in that world. You wanted your Hogwarts admittance letter. You wanted to write the Hogwarts Express. You wanted to be sorted by the Sorting Hat. The plot was just window dressing and not really what got you hooked. Remember how much backfilling you had to do when you were writing your fanfiction: how much detail you had to invent wholesale or ask the author about, and you'll see what I mean. Anything you can think of, like a curse on a doorway that will marry the next two people that would pass through it, or a door that will only open once you profess love honestly make sense in the world because they're silly little things that slot in very nicely. Anything silly will work in the Wizarding World because the Wizarding World is silly. And that's not a bad thing.
See, the world was whimsical and did not make sense and that was fine. It took old-timey british-isms like currency that wasn't decimal, or owl post, or a game played on broomsticks; and made a world out of it and it was wacky and you wanted to know all the intricate details of it. Details which JKR was way too happy to provide. And that's the Wizarding World's ultimate undoing: by providing details about how the world worked, it revealed what was behind the curtain.
JKR wanted to have her cake and eat it too. She wanted a silly world but she probably heard from better authors that better works took their worlds seriously. People wanted sillyness and lore. The problem was in her quest to fill in the details, she tried to make the nonsense make sense. And it was kind of... well, shit. So you get gems no one asked for, like how do wizards use the toilet before toilets were invented, or that Quidditch is named after a marsh where it was first played. Everything has serious lore when it's supposed to be silly. The mood whiplash is jarring.
And this leaks into the problematic stuff too. Needed a Jewish student? Just use the most Jewish-sounding name you got. Did Dumble ever love anyone? Not the question being asked, but Dumble was gay all along! No one needed those answers, and yet we got them because JK needed people to take her silly world seriously. Harry Potter doesn't suffer from bad worldbuilding, it suffers from bad lorebuilding.
It's maddening because lore begets lore and deeper and deeper it goes. And if your lore-building is lazy, then the lore behind that gets even lazier. Oh, a maledictus was a circus attraction but its almost indistinguishable from an animagus because uhh... [checks notes] a maledictus becomes... permanent... at some point? What? What prevents you from sticking a normal animagus in the cage then? Uhh... Veritaserum! Really? You'll use precious veritaserum in freaking Carnival? Had JK used silly lore to justify silly things, the questions end and the world becomes more cohesive.
I'm at a :.|:; for words.
The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“
Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.
you try to glomp me but i parry it flawlessly
swordmaster fashion
I am and always have been an Edelgard defender who believes she did basically nothing wrong, but her involvement with Kronya has always confused me a little tbh.
Summer Bernie
Let's go lesbians 🩷
Gonna scream oh my Gd
i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled
for those of u asking for the vid!
i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea
Barbara: I swear I'm the only one here with a braincell.
The other batkids: All hail the keeper of the sacred braincell!
Can we talk about how insane was Arakawa for creating this plot twist back in 2006 and never looking at it again?? And here we are almost 20 years later still processing the impact of the tattoo
NO BUT ALSO LETS TALK ABOUT THE WAY OUTLAWS OF THUNDER JUNCTION IS A STORY ABOUT A SON FINDING A FATHER WHO DOESNT WANT HIM AND ANOTHER FATHER FINDING THE SON HE WANTS
MAGIC STORY HAS THEMES!!!!!!!! AND NARRATIVES!!!!!!!!
Navia!
