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Thinking about the fact that Maul seems to desperately crave companionship but he only gets it through making people serve him. He makes Savage his apprentice, he tries to do it with Devon and Ezra too, because the only close relationship he’s ever had in his life is his relationship with Sidious. An apprentice worshiping a master is the only form of love he knows, so in order to be loved he needs an apprentice.
never watching phantom menace the same way again 😭
I do not like the word "unhoused."
And don't start with me about the stigma of "homeless" - being homeless is inherently a bad thing. It is a negative state of affairs. It's honestly kind of ghoulish that you'd try to promote a word that obscures how horrific it is that there are people in our community without a safe place to live.
And I really hate it because it reduces that horror to a person's relationship to a commodity. A house is a thing you buy or rent. These people don't have one. No further implications are made about why they don't have one. You might as well call me un-labubued. A home is more than that, and saying a person is homeless is an indictment of their entire community. As well it should be. Homelessness isn't a problem of one person's relationship to a commodity, it's a problem of a community that fails to meet the needs of its members.
My take on the HBO Harry Potter trailer is that I am extremely excited for it.
It does look a lot like the Columbus movies. But I feel like there's no way to make a faithful adaptation of the first Harry Potter book that doesn't look like the Columbus movie. The biggest criticism of that movie was that it was too faithful. Aesthetically, it was perfect. No notes. But the script was almost perfectly line-for-line from the book, and book pacing =/= movie pacing.
I also saw somebody point out that there's probably a financial reason for not making major changes to the aesthetics. Nobody really wants there to be two completely different, competing sets of merch. There will be subtle differences in the robes, wands, etc, but it can't look too different without competing with all the existing stuff. Especially the Universal Studios park. It has to look more or less like the park.
My biggest take after watching the trailer was, "This is Harry Potter for adults." The original movies were for kids, so they really didn't play up the fact that the characters are children. Even the books are like that, because you're seeing it all from a child's POV, and children aren't constantly thinking about the fact that they're children. Children always think they're very grown-up. But when you reread the books as an adult, there's a bit of discomfort to it. Because these are squishy-cheeked babies being put through unimaginable horrors.
But the trailer seems to really be playing up that these are little kids. And I noticed that there's very little in the trailer about the latter half of the book. Pretty much all of it is from the beginning - the letters, Diagon Alley, the Sorting, the Hogwarts Express. You get a few flashes of middle scenes, but there's almost nothing in this trailer about the actual plot of the book.
I think they're going to lean really hard into the whiplash of "look at the widdle babies having such fun... OH GOD THE BABIES ARE BATTLING THE EVIL ALL BY THEMSELVES."
Because an adult's perspective on the Harry Potter books is totally different than a child's perspective. As a child, the Wizarding World seems flawed but super cool. And that is how the movies play them, for the most part. (Cuaron was an outlier.) When you read it as an adult, it's almost immediately apparent that this world is deeply fucked up. And it feels like they're leaning into how an adult sees the Wizarding World.
i think it's because - like it or not - the new HP series is made for the same group of HP fans. Not that I have checked recently, but it doesn't seem to me that the HP fandom has ben taken up by anyone who wasn't already a fan during release of the original films. If you were born the year the last film came out (2011), you're 15 now. I don't ever hear teens on the internet discussing HP. It's all the original fans still.
The original fans are older now, so the new series needs to adjust the focus of the lens (so to speak) to accommodate all the aging potterheads old enough to have kids of their own.
Before they were making the movies for us and we thought it was cool and fun to do all those things. Now we are the parents and we don't find it nearly as cool. Our knees hurt watching all that running.
Cringe "article" written entirely to piss and shit about JKR and the fact that she gets a do-over with people who aren't ingrates lmao
Reasons the show is "disappointingly familiar" according to the article:
the students think magic is cool
the quidditch scenes are actiony
Hogwarts is a mysterious castle
Harry gets bullied
Hagrid exists
Then he starts screaming and crying about the show somehow being "problematic" purely by dint of JKR and everyone should just watch the movies instead.
And that's.... it. No alternatives are presented. No actual criticisms of the filmmaking or casting or anything else are made. That's the entire "article" LMAO
They will keep whining about it until they stop being paid to do it, so probably as long as we still have childless jobless zoomers kicking lol
The aesthetics of the trailer are VERY reminiscent of the Chris Columbus movies and I thought maybe that's what this article was complaining about. Because that's at least be a reasonable criticism you could make, if you were hoping for a fresher take. And it's one I've seen a lot of.
But no, it's literally just complaining that the Harry Potter show has Harry Potter in it.
The trailer shows everything you expect to see in a Harry Potter adaptation: the delivery of Harry’s (Dominic McLaughlin) Hogwarts letter; the bullying he faced from his aunt, uncle, and cousin; Hagrid (Nick Frost) telling Harry about his parents; and plenty of scenes of Harry discovering the magic of Hogwarts.
Hogwarts has the same fog-covered castle feel, the childlike wonder of the students is present in spades, and the Quidditch scenes look action-packed.
Uh... yeah. It's Harry Potter. It's specifically an adaptation of the first Harry Potter book. What the hell else would it be?
There is precisely one good criticism in this:
In fact, the most glaring difference seems to be the amount of Americans playing Hogwarts faculty (John Lithgow and Janet McTeer, I’m looking at you).
Yeah I'm not loving John Lithgow's Hagrid so far and literally my first response to seeing the trailer for the first time was, "That looks great, but Lithgow's struggling with the accent."
Lithgow isn't Hagrid, he's Dumbledore. Nick Frost (from Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead) is Hagrid, but YES he had some real difficulty nailing the accent.
Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.
But it's a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.
PA system: Worker 72094. Leave your working station and report to the Supervisor immediately.
Supervisor: Worker 72094. You failed to meet your quota for 3 weeks in a row now.
Worker 72094: I can explain!
Supervisor: You're clearly burned out. I heard you moved recently. Take a mandatory two weeks paid vacation to readjust and report to me then.
Worker 72094: I... thank you?
Shadowy Board Member: Worker 11335. Do you know why you were summoned?
Worker 11335: Is it because I badmouthed the company during lunch?
Shadowy Board Member: That is correct. We are very displeased, Worker 11335...
Shadowy Board Member: ...with ourselves, that is. We hold ourselves to high standards of excellence which we clearly failed to meet. We were hoping you could advise us on necessary improvements. You will receive appropriate compensation, of course.
Job Interviewer: *wearing a featureless mask and speaking through a voice changer* Welcome to Hopeless Inc., Worker 100100.
Worker 100100: What's with the mask?
Job Interviewer: I'm shy 🤭
Of course. All Hopeless Inc. employees are due-paying members of Mindless Drones United.
It's a very responsive union that cares about its members on an individual level. They just love the dystopian hivemind aesthetic.
An experiment in language change
Nifty little language game here.
I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty
at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words
at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context
1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible
2000, 1900, and 1800 were easy. 1700, 1600, 1500, and 1400 were increasingly difficult and then once I hit 1300 it is more like German with some English spelling thrown in and it makes sense again. It's that middle period where it's English with funky spelling and the occasional German word that throws me off. English and German by themselves are easier to understand. Deutschlisch or whatever is not.
An experiment in language change
Nifty little language game here.
I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty
at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words
at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context
1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible
Trial of Seven
This is also exactly what I've been saying
This is a really good (and much nicer) way to explain what I mean when I say "There's no such thing as can't, only don't wanna." Also phrased as, "If you wanted to, you would."
Can I ask USAmericans something: would you be happy if the US balkanised peacefully
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No, this is a terrible idea. One we've tried twice before, and it failed both times.
The first was the Articles of Confederation, which was our government immediately after the revolution. The Articles of Confederation were kind of like an American EU. It was a nearly immediate failure. The states simply weren't capable of building strong economies and militaries on their own.
The second time was the Confederate States of America. The original secession was peaceful-ish. The Confederacy was doomed from the start, for a long list of reasons. The Union could have survived without the south economically, but there are a lot of alternate history what-if scenarios about timelines in which the South wins the civil war, and all of them agree that the divided USA and CSA would have been much weaker than the United States ended up becoming post-Civil War.
On top of that... balkanization is not a good thing. The very word is named for a series of geopolitical conflicts that eventually resulted in WW1. Balkanization generally does not result in strong, peaceful states with a higher standard living. The very idea of "peaceful" balkanization is silly. Groups of people who dislike each other so much that they can't stand to be under shared governance generally don't become friendly, cooperative neighbors once they have separate government.
Just to give one potential problem: which American micro-country gets the Hoover Dam? California really needs it, since they consume the largest share of the energy it produces, but it's not in California. Maybe Nevada would throw in with California, but the dam is on the border with Arizona. Does Arizona choose to throw in with California, too? More importantly, what if they don't? A "peaceful" balkanization could become very unpeaceful very quickly.
I imagine everybody who voted yes is probably from a blue state imagining a world where the red states are left to their own devices. If they want to destroy their own societies and devolve into fascism, by all means, but it's not your problem anymore. Right? Yeah, except that now you have a hostile and covetous fascist state on your border. Famously, not a desirable situation to be in.
And that brings us to the worst potential complication of this... who gets the US military? I'm not talking about the people - they probably go with their state of origin. Who gets the planes? Who gets the ships? Who gets the nuclear arsenal????
I want you guys to imagine, for a moment, a world where Florida is an independent country with a nuclear-capable navy. Does that seem like a better world to you?
Not to mention the global repercussions! The only thing keeping China from invading Taiwan and Russia from trying (and failing, but trying nonetheless) to bum-rush Europe is the concern for a US response. Yeah, the orange fool has made a mess of our foreign policy, but it is waaaaay more in tact than our domestic situation.
A continent of little Americas will not have the unified foreign policy and military doctrine to act as a counterweight to the Anti-American Axis. In the scenario proposed, all Russia, China, or Iran need to do is start picking at the grievances between the 50 little countries. Once a few pull back or adjust their objectives to something more placative, the dominos begin to fall.
okay tumblrinas, tell me what you got on this mock rice purity test for performative males
The Official Performative Purity Test
I got a 67 but I do these things in EARNESTNESS
60 but a lot of this is just being a woman in your 30s lol
90 but to be honest I didn't know what a lot of these brands or products or whatever are. I think if you aren't really into photography or indie music this test doesn't make a ton of sense. I don't take a ton of pictures and I don't have an instagram account so huge chunks of these questions just don't apply.
Autumn Butterfly Collage, 2025-10-23
John Green was not pleased
CGP Grey (the Death to Pennies and Hexagon is Best-agon guy) did an update about this when it was first floated that we might abolish the penny. It's not illegal as much as constitutionally grey Malicious compliance. It's one of the most vexatious things: following the word of the law (and testing the limits of presidential authority in so doing) rather than the spirit of the law.
(sorry about the movie thing, it's just THE connection you have to culture, when looking from the outside)
We also have it done manually by police, but it is not that common. Also red light cameras are common here, have been for over 30 years. We also have those that show you how fast you are going. But i don't mean sth like that.
I meant "Blitzer" and speed trap was sth the translator gave me.
https://stock.adobe.com/de/search?k=blitzer+auto
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwindigkeits%C3%BCberwachung
Those things. They measure your speed (with tolerance) and if you're going too fast they take a picture of you in the car. You get it mailed, you can object and get it appealed. But most often you have to pay it.
(This is really interesting with the challenging your accuser, because it is a machine. It is as accurate as can be, with proper maintenance/upkeep. You learn sth new everyday.)
Idk if any court ever officially found them unconstitutional, but the argument is that you can't cross-examine a machine. There's also the problem that the ticket goes to whoever the car is registered to, not necessarily who was driving the car.
Actually, I just looked it up - courts have ruled red light cameras constitutional because running a red light is a civil infraction, not a criminal one. But a lot of places have banned them anyway.
'Murica for the win honestly.
The "justice" system in this country is a joke anyway, so yes I do think its our constitutional right to be able to argue with our accuser, question their credibility in front of all our former classmates & neighbors, and gaslight them into recanting their statements.
If I can't gaslight a dispassionate, shitty traffic cam, then it should be inadmissible and without standing unless it has a human witness to back it up.
About the only good thing to come from AI is that it's so unreliable and gaslightable that we hopefully will never ever dare use it in court.
Unpopular opinion: Dobby' Death
I ain't going to lie. In the movie or book, his death didn't do anything to me. I wasn't sad or anything. Hedwig was more heart wrenching.
What other unpopular opinion do you have in this fandom?
(with the rise of the tv show, people in my circle are talking about this fandom hence why this question)
Draco Malfoy is a little bitch
I reread book 3 a while back after my cousin said Lupin was her absolute favorite, and I was surprised to realize he was kind of a bland nothing character outside of the werewolf of it all
That hurts my soul. Whenever I read book 3, I spend the whole time imagining Lupin's POV, because his experience of that plotline is 1000x more interesting than whatever Harry's doing.
My unpopular opinion is that Ginny is one of the least interesting characters to me.
My actual unpopular opinion is that I mostly prefer hetero pairings in HP fanfic. I have enjoyed plenty of Wolfstar, and even the occasional Drarry, but it's just not what I usually gravitate towards.
I actually ended up kinda hating Ron, and shipping HarryxHermione (i don't know the portmanteau, and i actually haven't read a lot of Harry Potter fic). I agree on Ginny not being that interesting, and her and Harry ending up together feeling forced.
And I did hate Dobby and find him annoying as fuck, but I did actually cry when he died. I really wasn't expecting that. Also Hagrid wasn't my favorite. I didn't find him as likeable as he was intended to be.
Ooh yeah that's another good one: Hagrid reads totally differently as an adult than he did as a kid. As a kid he was so loveable, well-intentioned if somewhat bumbling, and never talked down to the trio.
As an adult, he reads as an intellectually disabled Joe Exotic. The board of governors were right to be concerned about him.
Exterior: Azkaban Wizard Penitentiary.
Interior: A gloomy prison cell. Two figures, one average size and one enormous, talk in the shadows.
Average Wizard: So wha they goh you for, eh? Oim in ere for murduh.
The enormous figure leans forward, his face bathed in the faint light from the window. He is none other than Rubeus Hagrid
Hagrid: Dragon. Dragon with bad papers.
what did your GRANDMOTHERS do? #feminism
Both were Silent Generation.
One taught typing (back when you learned on a typewriter). She was sweet. Alzheimer's took her and my memories of her are unfortunately colored by who she became as a result of Alzheimer's. She didn't go through a massive personality shift or anything, just was uncanny stranger to me, as if she was a method actress assigned to play my grandma instead of the real deal. :/
My other grandma (who is astoundingly reminiscent of Mac's mom on IASIP) is a cantankerous chain smoker and compulsive gambler who used to compete in bowling leagues & tournaments for smoking / gambling money. She's awful - truly awful - but she makes a delicious key lime pie so... yeah I still swing by her place every once in a while with a lotto ticket and some money for pie. She's mean but the pie is worth it.
