#aself-indulgentfangirl

[subtlyimpulsive]

Xylophone and Zoo for the ask meme:0?

Xylophone: I do!! I’ve played the cello for the last…eh 6 or 7 ish years? And I’ve been teaching myself piano for like 5 or 4 years maybe. I’m not much good at either but it’s fun :D

Zoo: Um…cat? I’m sorry I know that’s a lame answer. Cats or hedgehogs!!

[grayclouds]

I'm one of them, so I'm aware. There are a lot of things in the HP universe that can occur naturally or through magical means. As for the punishment aspect, irresponsible behavior of a parent(especially during pregnancy) often results in an increased likelihood of the child developing a disorder, so it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to assume that the abuse of magic would have similar effects. But that's just how I see it, why do you dislike the idea?

i.... what????? his mother raped someone so he should be punished by growing up completely incapable of feeling any sort of love for the rest of his life? do you know how gross that sounds or...?????

not to mention (as i said twice before) it was an unnecessary narrative and having a villain that actually knew love and chose to reject it has much more impact than what we got now. the “othering” of a villain is so overdone and frankly unrealistic when the worst kinds of evil are perpetrated by people just like you and me and not some monstrous caricature of an actual person.

[grayclouds]

Maybe a better consequence of conceiving a child using a love potion would be little to no empathy rather than an inability to love? This, to me, makes more sense because the forced bond results in a child that has difficulty forging genuine bonds with others. It's not impossible, just difficult. And while I don't think it's fair to punish a child for the sins of the parent; it happens in a lot of mythology so*shrug*

yeah i mean you could say that would be better, but i don’t think it was necessary to begin with–why does the narrative have to be some sort of weird… “punishment”? it could’ve just as easily been tom concluding that the reason his mother died poor and alone and a death unworthy of a witch was because of love, and him choosing to see it as weakness and rejecting it as a result of that rather than a complete inability to understand it or experience it in the first place? that just seems incredibly cruel.

besides, a lack of empathy could be a completely natural characteristic and not something that had to be induced by the magical equivalent of a date rape drug but 10x worse. it is a common trait in certain personality disorders, but there’s also plenty of people who live completely normal lives and just happen to be lacking in that department. 

[grayclouds]

I compare you to: Gintoki, Kakashi, and Deadpool

Send me 3 characters you compare me to!

this. yes. i am a 1000% here for these comparisons.

[grayclouds]

I now ship Spideypool and this is at least partially your fault(thank you)

i am proud of myself

[grayclouds]

Do you think mermaids would ride whales the way humans ride horses? Or would it be more like a bus type thing?

i feel like maybe whales would be difficult bc of how huge they are, dolphins are better candidates. and some badass merpeople might even tame sharks. like, sharks would be the equivalent of motorcycles

“mum can i get a shark license”“AbSoLUTELY NOT YOUNG LADY DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS SHARKS ARE 5 MERPEOPLE GET EATEN EVERY DAY TRYING TO RIDE SHARKS WORLDWIDE stick with dolphins gdi”