#massachusettes

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Im not a movie person at all, but I saw this the year it came out when I was 12 with my parents and I've been obsessed ever since. So much so that I bought it years ago and I only own 3 movies (this, Apocalypse Now and Jackass). My mom is a big fan, too! I can't praise this movie enough!!

Session 9

2001

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[caringnewt]

Beautiful Night, Boston, Massachusettes

[butwaittheresmoretocome]

Autumn, Faculty Club, Cambridge, Massachusettes

[barely-poetry]

Lighthouse, Hyannis, Massachusettes

[thedragonweasley]

I think there is so much potential in Ilvermorny.

*clears throat*

I would like to preface this by saying this is a head canon... or just personal opinion....and is definitely....teetering...well, it is definitely on the edge of ranting. I've got strong feels about it but I respect that it's just my personal feels.

But this also has a lot of sensitive bits about cultures that are not my own but that were wronged....but if you're here for it then hell yea.

The author absolutely butchered her attempt at, well, the whole thing. It was trying too hard to be Hogwarts and had a back story that left me feeling like I was trying too hard to believe in it; also, it was pretty insensitive to indigenous cultures.

But it's potential gives me goosebumps. I live in upstate New York in the Hudson Valley, not far from where Ilvermorny would be located in Massachusetts and I cannot express to you how rich these lands are with beauty, history, culture, tragedy, tradition, nature, and the magic that those things have cumulatively created over time. It is wild and fierce and you can feel it in your bones, and if you let it, it will show put wonder in your step.

The Adirondack mountains and the Catskills are breathtaking and hold an incredible history. However, colonialism still hangs heavy in the air of these old towns and sleeps deep in the ground; the scars are old here. The tri-state/New England area was where America was settled and so it is heavy with the past. But instead of completely ignoring this and then taking pieces of these Indigenous American cultures that were wiped from history, she should have seen how Ilvermorny would have been there to protect and fight back.

*I will note here I am not of indigenous American descent so I can not and will not speak on anyone's behalf. But coming from this area and being raised in a culturally aware home I have such respect and revere for those people who's lives and culture were wiped out.*

With the arrival of the settlers began the tragic history of what would be part of America's legacy. Ilvermorny could have been created in a way to combat this or shield from it. And that is even if we keep the storyline of Isolt coming to America and founding the school, because I honestly think that the Indigenous people would have already established something. Buttttt I get she probably felt compelled to keep the EU tie-in somehow.

In my mind I see a safe space for all people of all types of magical abilities with a educational system to rival any. Elders, professionals and experts from all different cultures and as the years went on and the heavy hand of colonialism brought different people and cultures into its grasp, it should have been there to pry open its barbed clasp.

Ilvermorny should have been there to protect. It should have been there to shield the magic and any non magic folk that needed it. It should have been a beacon for the persecuted and hurt. It should have been a hand for those who have had their feet and their spirit cut from them .

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN EVERYTHING THE INDEIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE AMERICA MAMED, NEEDED.

*clears throat*

Sprawling sylvan paths up and through the mountains, embued with magics from around the world. Classes held in halls that echo with the trill of centuries of history and lessons that were born from it. The students would have houses but they would not be separated from one another. It would allow for the students to better aid each other; where one may lack the other may provide.

There is such beauty here and I have grown up with such a reverence for it. As a child reading the series I would imagine having a wizarding school here and learning with all the different cultures I saw around me. All of them. Whether it hurt to learn about or not.

Magic is so beautiful and wonderous and Ilvermorny should be so much more, but for me it always will be.

[amphibologeist]

Azur Lane - Massachusetts

Trying to practice backgrounds

[dailydoseofshitpost]

I feel that it’s safe to say yea I’m from Massachusetts, and man being lgbtq in mass gets you all the reactions.

We got the:

The positive supporter whose actually chill

The We don’t serve your kind

The What the fuck is an asexual, you just clone yourself or somethin

The Mk cool ur still an asshole, gay or not

The Clueless but trying their best to support

The DIRTY SIINERRRRR YOUR GOING TO HELL

The bad drivers. U can apply this to anyone here

The sheltered and/or Jack ass kids who uses slurs unironically

And the grandma who doesn’t care and just thinks your a nice kid. One of the back bones of society.