ROOM OF REQUIREMENT

dutch/ hufflepuff multifandom blog

[lavrentia]

Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

[itsthatunique]

“Seriously misunderstood creatures spiders are. The eyes I reckon. They unnerve some folk.” 

[solasar]

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

[nonutpeanut]

Harry Potter - Polaroid Edition

[huurrekukkia]

Look at these televotes everyone!!!

18 x 12 points for Finland

And NO 12 points for Sweden

I am not getting over this

Finnish people REALLY wanted that victory 😭😭

[phil-lester-is-my-sunshine]

yeah I have to give it to the jury for single-handedly ruining loreen's eurovision legacy AND abba's reputation for the whole europe in a single evening, that's a real talent for sure

[nelsonakis]

Moments like these make me so happy 💚

[worldsmightiestwitch]

me and the gang on our way to destroy the jury

[garbagepapi]

If nothing else, I hope that Käärijä's overwhelming televote victory will inspire more contestants in the future to not be afraid to break away from the old formula for eurovision

Eurovision is supposed to be fun and colorful, and it's so frustrating every year to watch decent pop songs take the victory thanks to the jury vote, while new and innovative performances are left in the dust

Käärijä won in the hearts of the people, and I just know that 2023 will be remembered as the year of Käärijä not Loreen

[genderfluidcrowley]

Europe during Eurovision: I love esc so much it’s such a nice little gay event and

Europe as soon as the winner is announced: Honestly fuck off

[lu-does-eurovision]

Changes we need to bring to 2024 Eurovision:

– Reduce jury votes: I get that eliminating them completely is not a possibility. The EBU wouldn't agree to that. However, maybe their importance should be lower. Make the vote 70% Public + 30% jury. In the end, people should be the ones selecting the winner, not a 5 person jury often selected in a non-transparent manner.

– Winners shouldn't be allowed to come back. And not only past winners, but also consolidated artists. Harry Styles shouldn't represent the UK nor Rosalía with Spain. They already have the spotlight. Past winners also had their moment and enjoyed the momentum. The opportunity should be offered to those who haven't tasted it yet.

– Israel shouldn't participate. This one is self-explanatory. It's hypocritical for the EBU to ban Russia from competing and not Israel. They should do better.

[lapelle-du-bubblegum-vide]

I think this Eurovision will not be remembered as the year Sweden won but as the year Finland didn’t win

[kuppikahvia]

it fucking breaks my heart hearing käärijä go "...but i wasn't the best :(" when he literally scored the second most points EVER in eurovision public vote, second only to ukraine in 2022, like sweetie NO LISTEN, you WERE the best actually

[lios-archive]

Actually they won everything

[brightsunnydaysofcastamere]

My main issue with Sweden winning honestly isn't even about the song, it's the fact that the professional jury consistently rewards non-offensive pop music and punishes entries that are even slightly out there. Sweden just happens to be very good at making non-offensive pop music, which is why they win the jury vote so often.

The problem with that is that it encourages countries to send in non-offensive pop music in order to appeal to the professional jury, most of which will be very mediocre and boring to watch. If the people didn't get a vote, we wouldn't see entries like Finland or Croatia, and that's bullshit! Those kinds of performances are what people watch eurovision for! Nobody wants to see a non-offensive pop music contest. We want originality! We want fun! We want the professional jury to go fuck themselves!

Anyway cha cha cha should have won and I will die on this hill

[ahti-the-janitor]

Let me get this straight. Almost everyone here hates the jury. Has for years. You can see it here every year. People want only the public votes to count.

So people are not just upset bc Loreen won. They are upset because without the jury Käärijä would have won. He got so many votes from the public, so much more than Loreen, although she did good too in public votes.

People here always hated the jury. So yes, we are going to be upset when we can CLEARLY see that if it was only up to the public, Käärijä would have won by far.

So no, we are not just being sore losers. We just hate the jury. So this win feels like something the public didn't want, so it is not surprising that many are upset that Käärijä didn't win. The public wanted him to win. That is clear by looking at the votes.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Convinced that Croatia, Slovenia, Germany and Austria got so few votes only because everyone was actively trying to make Cha Cha Cha beat whoever the jury would pick as favourite