#ginmo

[chickren]

pity the fandom that doesn’t have a @ginmo tbh 

[janiedean]

ginmo ha risposto al tuo post “im pretty sure that c. calling jaime 'the stupidest lannister' ALONE...”

imagine a man calling his girlfriend the stupidest of them all, with the intent to make her feel like shit, and then having the woman say, "he always said I was the stupidest" as she's running back to be with him.

guys imagine anything in jc with reversed genders and it would make people run for the hills, like the fact that no one seems to notice it or brushes it off is really worrying ngl

[fleetingmusings]

sometimes i’ll randomly remember that i met nikolaj coster-waldau and gwendoline christie and breathed the same air as them and nik touched my shoulder and gwen held eye contact while talking to me and then the scent of nik’s cologne will come back to me and now all i need to die happy is for jaime x brienne to bang

[iwritesnortsintragedies]

Responses to my ‘I hate the idea of teacher!Harry’ post

[Link to the post for reference]

I also kind of want to make it clear that just ‘cause I personally hate the idea it doesn’t mean I think people shouldn’t be allowed to like or use it—I’m just gonna make sure to play in a different sandbox for the sake of everyone involved xD

That being said, since the post was kind of bare-boned and written in the heat of the moment, more explanations/reasoning is fair game. Ahem. Onto the debate, such as it is.

@ginmo said: I get what you're saying and I'm 50/50 on the Harry as a teacher thing, like I really don't care what profession JKR would have given him because I see value is each, but the boundaries and culture you're attributing to the profession in the real world is not necessarily there in the magical world (and I'm a teacher -high school- too lol I didn't expect to see a lot of teachers on here!)

Haha, hi fellow teacher! (I have different conditions tbh, I teach in a French Institute which is more like a...private language school? Sort of? Vastly different from teachers in the national education network of France, at any rate)

Honestly, I disagree with the idea that Hogwarts would be freed from the limitations that exist in muggle schools.

After all, Albus Dumbledore was a very influential person, and even he couldn’t prevent his own firing (courtesy of Lucius Malfoy and some kind of parents council or whatever else in COS) Dolores Umbridge’s presence in OotP, or Lupin’s firing due to prejudice in PoA. True, those were in the specific context of mounting fascism in the magical world and Dumbles was a very flawed person, but still.

Plus, while we don’t know for sure whether Hogwarts is a private or a public school (or in any case, the knowledge escapes me) it is, as far as the books state, the only wizarding school in GB, so you bet your butt people are going to keep an eye on it and demands are going to be made.

If Dumbledore couldn’t make the school into its own little kingdom, I highly doubt later headmasters/headmistresses will manage it, even if I have every confidence that some of them will work their hardest to make things better.

@rahakasha said: I always thought that if he did any teaching it would be tutoring - weekends/summer for Hogwarts students or perhaps home tutoring for non-Hogwarts students. He'd be able to set his own schedule, location, terms (if contracts are needed), and so on.

(Sorry, the @ feature didn’t want to work for your url :/)

It is a possibility indeed, and there would be more leeway there (plus of course creative license since there’s no canon about that option). However, even when privately arranging with a family, you are not free to do whatever you want—they are your clients, you’re their employees, and you’re forced to compose with them and their demands, whether you think they’re reasonable or not.

(For ex : If a parent says they want their kids to have four hours of class every Saturday morning with you, it’s delicate to refuse, first because they might not accept or appreciate your attempt to influence their kid’s education, and second because you might lose a client and you sort of do need them for a living)

Plus, from what I’ve seen and experienced, people who ‘buy’ lessons for their kids tend to treat said lessons as a product. They often want visible results as soon as possible because, well, they don’t always want/have the ability to pay for too many hours in the long run. This is actually very frustrating for teachers, especially when the expectations for results fail to take into account the realities of teaching and learning.

(To be fair, most of it is born of a lack of education to the topic, but it doesn’t make things any more agreeable for the teachers involved).

@crocordile​ said: Hogwarts is so different from a regular school, I really feel like Harry would have much more ground to make a positive impact on children who need support - because they're being bullied or anything of the sort....  with minerva as principal moreover it'd be a very different things, they could work together and do so much...                     In this job, he'd BE the authority, only minerva above him, Btw I don't mean to come onto your post and annoy you sagvdbhfrgnjsd just exposing why some of us don't find it hateful even if we are teachers ourselves dealing with the terrible aspects of our profession :S I'm positive most people with that headcanon see harry as a solution to the problems you bring up, rather than being caught in them, etc

(Frankly, I disagree on the idea that it’s that different from a regular school. The topics and building are different but it didn’t seem to me like the pedagogy or lessons structures were that different from things I’ve seen or experienced as a student or during my nine months of working in Scotland. Hogwarts, to me, seems fairly modeled on the UK’s schol system, but I might be wrong.)

I mean, yes, he’d have power to turn his classroom into a better environment, but changing the school would be dependent on his colleagues’ and superiors’ active cooperation, which is never a guarantee. Plus, even with his hierarchy’s full support, McGonagall (or any other headmistress/headmaster) isn’t above the law or the various institutions meant to control Hogwarts, and war prestige only gets you so far (see my response above about external influences on the school life during Harry’s years).

Like, yes, Harry could make a positive impact as a teacher, but it would still be delayed no matter how you cut it, which I really, really can’t picture him being okay with.

Also, you mention bullying but what about the abuse that happens at home? What about students who are too poor to afford proper living conditions outside Hogwarts? As a teacher, he’d do what he can but I doubt he’d be able to offer much in terms of practical, immediate solution (let alone solutions he could have control on).

Of course, the job of Auror comes with its own trappings in that respect because he wouldn’t be on the field 24/7 and there would probably be a TON of paperwork, but at least with every job finished he’d know for a fact that he had a real, measurable influence on making the world a better place, which I honestly think he needs to see.

(Hogwarts, while an important place, isn’t the world, after all, and I’m not sure Harry would feel satisfied to limit himself to such a small microcosm without even being able to address the causes of his students’ distress)

That being said, don’t worry, I wasn’t annoyed by your intervention :D

Like I said at the start of the post, while I have a visceral dislike for the idea I don’t mind that not everyone shares my opinion I just...avoid entering the debate with staunch proponents of it? Mostly because I know I’d get irritated and snippy and that wouldn’t be interesting for anyone involved, honestly.

Debates along less wide chasms I can manage, though, I hope xD

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@bugmaniacguzma & @ginmo

this is from the new aftermath book -- aftermath: empire’s end. 

SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY

Rax awaits [Sloan], already off the shuttle. Troopers have lined up on either side of him. And Brendol Hux is here, too: the man behind Arkanis. Hux was helping to train the next generation of stormtroopers. She, with the aid of the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift, helped to extract Brendol and his son from Arkanis before it fell to the Republic. He’s now on Rax’s own Shadow Council. The man’s a blustering ass, and she sees that he’s let himself go: A gut strains at his belt. His hair is a mess. His eyes look tired.

Those eyes look to the margins of the hangar, from left to right, and it’s then that Sloane sees that others have joined them, too—

Along each wall of the hangar are children. Two dozen of them, roughly. They are young—some early in their teenage years, others not yet that age. They all wear plain white uniforms. Like nightclothes.

Rax smiles. “Troopers, weapons down, please. We’re all friends.”

The stormtroopers lower their blasters.

But Rax says, “No, no, all the way down. To the floor.”

The troopers give one another brief looks of confusion, but do as asked: They stoop, laying the weapons upon the ground.

Rax walks up to her. Looking her over. “Do you see how the troopers have marked their armor? Painted it. Carved it up. Burned it with hot metal. They have transcended mere service. They are not just soldiers. They are something altogether more tribal, more ferocious, less human, all animal.” He sighs. “But I still don’t know that it’s enough.”

“What have you done with my Empire?” she asks, desperate.

He grins. “Ah. Let me show you.”

Gallius Rax’s hand rises in the air, forming a fist. He snaps his fingers once—

The lights in the hangar go out. Sloane’s heart jumps into her throat.

Her eyes are slow to adjust, but her ears hear the sounds of the fracas. She thinks to run, to duck, to flinch, to flee, but she can’t imagine where she would even go or what she would do. All she does instead is tighten her body and lower herself to the smallest profile she can—hunkering down so that her chin is tucked between her knees.

Blasterfire lances the dark, now. But that doesn’t last long. After which there are thumps, thuds, crunches—and grunts of pain.

Silence, now, stretches out for one beat, two, three—

Until it is ended by another snap of the fingers.

The lights come on. Again her eyes have to adjust. Everything goes from bleeding black to overwhelming white, and as her vision reconstitutes she sees the floor is littered with bodies.

The bodies belong to stormtroopers. All dead, by the look of it.

Standing over them are the children. Many hold sharp, crude knives with handles swaddled in dark tape, the blades made of black, dull steel. Some knives are buried in the backs of trooper necks—shoved elegantly, perfectly up under the helmet into the brain stem.Some are under the troopers’ arms, where another gap in armor waits and makes them vulnerable. A few of the children hold blasters, too.

One of those children is a tall girl with her hair shorn to the scalp. Her face is a dead, emotionless mask. Brendol Hux, in contrast, is smiling. It is the smile of a child—giddy, broad, as if he’s just seeing outer space for the first time, or just had his first taste of sweet-taff. Has she ever seen him smile before? It is a terror to behold.

[janiedean]

ginmo ha risposto al tuo post “You know I was thinking about the activists against climate change and...”

The No Planes thing is the most illogical, and I feel like those who say it are the ones who need to get the hell out the most. We should encourage people to travel so they can get out of their bubbles, which in long term is beneficial to the planet and society. Focus energy on alternatives, like pushing for more fuel efficient and eco friendly planes. Saying “don’t do this” is just a short term solution and only slows down our progress.

thank you, I mean I’m all for fuel efficient/eco friendly planes and actually any vehicle being more fuel efficient/doing away with fossil fuels altogether, but you can’t expect people to go back to going by ship or train all around the world in 2019. like, it’s not feasible at all and not just when it comes to travel, you can’t go back to 19th century times of travel at this point in human history. but yeah like.... don’t do this doesn’t work in the long run and in short run if someone can’t not do that they’ll tell you to get bent if you don’t give them alternatives, that was my entire point X°D

[chickren]

I was confused by the same question as the previous anon, but after reading like 10 times, I understood it. I think you were being sarcastic.

everybody’s saying it was something i reblogged from @ginmo and i reblog a lot from her, so idek what it was

anyway, to clarify: gin says she was being sarcastic with whatever it was

also, guys, ginmo and i have not dedicated our fandom lives to jaime x brienne because we think that shit is going to end in romantic rejection for brienne. lolololololol NO

WE SHIP THIS SHIT LIKE BURNING BECAUSE WE B-E-L-I-E-V-E

[janiedean]

For all the wank you’re getting about Jaime, I’m going to quote my favorite tweet. “GRRM has a character for who love has been a cruel joke and one that takes love very seriously and pointed them at each other. If you don’t understand how that’ll play out, I can’t help you.” -@valorfaerie

THANK YOU SOMEONE SUMMED IT UP VERY VERY NEATLY