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Ao3blr and other apps relationship chart

Tumblr and Ao3 are getting MARRIED! Let’s see who’s who at the wedding party.

Fanfiction.net - Maid of Honor. Ao3’s older sibling.

Wattpad - Bridesmaid, Ao3’s little sister.

Pinterest - Wedding Planner and Best Man, Tumblr’s friend. Tumblr sees Pinterest as a little brother.

4Chan - Wedding Guest, one of Tumblr’s many exes. However, following the recent hack, Tumblr and 4Chan made up somewhat and are on good enough terms.

Reddit - Wedding Guest, Tumblr’s uncle

Spotify - Groomsman, tumblr’s best friend from college. Also friends with Ao3, they met at a convention.

Instagram, Snapchat, Discord - Wedding Guests, all Tumblr’s friends and family.

DeviantArt - Wedding Guest, Ao3’s best friend. Definitely godmother to Ao3’s kids if they have any.

Webtoons, Internet Archive, Quora - Wedding Guests, all Ao3’s friends and family

Twitter/X - Not Actually Invited, crashed the party anyway after their messy breakup with Tumblr.

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[merryhaze]

How do Snape's actions as a Death Eater compare to James’ bullying, and why do fans debate who was worse?

James’s actions as a bully, the gist of them and some specifics, are canon. He was an extremely cruel and gloating bully who relished his victim’s helplessness and humiliation, although not quite the worst he could be - so far as we know he didn’t rape or rob anybody and he drew the line at killing.

Snape’s actions as a Death Eater are fanfiction, which is often much more highly coloured than canon, and people often become far more wedded to fanfiction, especially their own, than to canon.

Here’s what we canonically know about Snape as a Death Eater:

It’s extremely unlikely he joined before he left school in summer 1978.

At the end of 1979 or first week of 1980 (while Trelawney was being interviewed for a job she started in the second week of January 1980) Snape spied on Dumbledore at The Hog’s Head, overheard a fragment of prophecy about a mysterious warrior or weapon that was a threat to the Dark Lord, and reported it. We can be fairly sure he was already a Death Eater at that point, so that it was his duty to report a threat to his commander.

He definitely defected in December 1980, give or take a few weeks, once Voldemort decided the prophecy might refer to the Potters’ new baby.

Therefore, he was a real Death Eater for a minimum of 11 months and a maximum of 30 months. What little evidence we have - and it’s very thin - suggests he joined in summer 1979, making him a real Death Eater for about 18 months. The argument for this is that in summer 1996 he tells Bellatrix that on Voldemort’s return, in summer 1995, he had had sixteen years’ worth of information to give him. The Doylesian explanation is that Rowling can’t count, but within the story it’s not credible that *Snape* can’t count, or he would have blown himself up. So something significant to do with his supposed service to Voldemort, and from which he is counting, occurred in or around summer 1979: and his joining the Death Eaters is the only thing which we can be certain happened, and for which we do not already have a different established date.

The Death Eaters seem to be loosely based on the IRA - who rarely deliberately killed civilians, unless they got in the way of a military or political target. Everyone we know of that the Death Eaters killed during Vold War One, and whose identities we know, was either an Order member or an Auror or their immediate family, who may just have been collateral damage. The idea of the Death Eaters as indiscriminate wholesale killers is largely fanfiction: the canon support for it is very weak. In addition there were over four hundred of them out of a population of about ten thousand (including children), so they can’t *all* have been mass murderers or the whole society would have collapsed.

Snape himself never killed anybody prior to Dumbledore (or at minimum he never murdered anybody), but he did witness people being killed, and whilst he was a real Death Eater, i.e. prior to December 1980, he did not try to save them.

However, as a real Death Eater he was so low-key that even an Order member who hated him never heard even a rumour that he was a member, despite being known to have had school-friends who became Death Eaters.

Voldemort sent him to try to get the DADA post, which implies that something about him made him seem like a viable candidate. Given this, and his known skill-set, I assume that he was working as a curse-breaker: and that may well have been the capacity in which he served Voldemort as well.

Shortly before his defection he asked Voldemort, as a favour, to spare Lily, and Voldemort agreed to try to do so. This is the sole evidence that he had any standing as a Death Eater, when he was one. However, Voldemort may have felt Snape deserved a reward, since he had relayed the prophecy; and in any case Voldie wanted to recruit Lily, so it was a very easy promise to make, which cost him nothing (or at least which he *thought* would cost him nothing).

We know that by the end of Vold War One Snape had the Dark Mark, which indicates membership of some kind of inner circle - a great honour for such a young man. By that point, however, he had spent nearly a year as a quadruple agent relaying drips of genuine information, scripted by Dumbledore, with the specific purpose of getting Voldemort to trust and confide in him. We have no evidence that he had the Dark Mark before he defected.

We do not know what he may have done while he was a fake Death Eater, acting on behalf of the Order, other than relay information in both directions. We know that he didn’t actually murder anyone, and that he saved people if and when he could. Beyond that, other Death Eaters seem to defer to him, which might mean they find him frightening, but Bellatrix says he’s all talk and no action.

How do Snape's actions as a Death Eater compare to James’ bullying, and why do fans debate who was worse?

Claire Jordan's answer: James’s actions as a bully, the gist of them and some specifics, are canon. He was an extremely cruel and gloating b

It’s *possible* to fill in the blanks with monstrous actions, so long as they stop short of murder. But there’s no canon evidence for it. It’s all speculation, whereas James’s bullying is canonical.

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How does the christian baby keep getting into these situations

Updating this everytime I find a new Christian baby post on Quora:

[3liza]

the most amazing thing about this Quora response is that i'm not the one who wrote it, but that just sort of goes to show that people who have lived in various cities and paid attention all have the same observations about living here.

The real problem is that Seattle is a provincial town with the pretense of being a cosmopolitan city like New York or London. Imagine a chicken who believes he/she is an eagle. That’s Seattle. When you go to a provincial town, you sort of know what to expect and you are not disappointed. Likewise, when you go to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, Madrid you also know what to expect. Seattle has the worst of a small town and the worst of a big city, all combined in one.

I have lived in Seattle for three eternal, neverending, miserable years. I remember it as the worst period of my whole life. I have never been as depressed as when I lived in Seattle. I hit rock bottom. I hate it with passion. I hate every inch of it and its surrounding areas. And I hate people who love Seattle. And I won’t apologize for it!

Because of my career, I have lived in a few cities (in Europe and in the US) and Seattle is, by far, the worst for countless reasons. One thing I have to specify is that I don’t hate Seattle for the reasons other people commonly adduce: social justice warriors and hipster types. The social justice warriors or hipsters don't bother me. I don't care. The real problem is that Seattle is a provincial town with the pretense of being a cosmopolitan city like New York or London. Imagine a chicken who believes he/she is an eagle. That’s Seattle. When you go to a provincial town, you sort of know what to expect and you are not disappointed. Likewise, when you go to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, Madrid you also know what to expect. Seattle has the worst of a small town and the worst of a big city, all combined in one. Pay one, get one free.

I was offered a job in Seattle and had to relocate from California. Everybody kept telling me: “Oh my God, you will absolutely love Seattle. Are you kidding me? It’s fantastic. The mountains, the air, the people… you will be hiking. The most intelligent people live in Seattle… you will loooooove it. Love it! It will be heaven compared to California. People are so much nicer than in superficial California.” My expectations were high and in fact, I was in deep denial the first months I lived there. When reality slapped me and when I dissipated the veil of denial, I realized how much I hated it. I know you cannot generalize, so please don’t give me the “you cannot generalize!” line because there are some common traits that are very typical in Seattle. Also, exceptions are everywhere but are not statistically relevant.

One thing I have noticed is that people in Seattle, in general, are annoying, boring, obnoxious, passive aggressive. I remember that when I lived in Seattle and I said that I loved California, Seattleites would look at me as if I was the devil enunciating blasphemous words. The Seattleites would say: “Jeez, californians are jerks!” Guess what: Seattleites are jerks too and don’t look nearly as good as some californians who, at least, tend to take care of their appearance. You are not allowed to say that you love California in Seattle. It's taboo. Everybody raves about how beautiful Tacoma, Federal Way, Olympia are, as if they were prey of a mystical delirium.

I have found an incredible amount of bigotry in Seattle, believe it or not. People can claim to be liberal all they want, but it’s fake. It’s all fake. It’s all virtue-signalling. They are provincial. I worked in a very famous and big tech company and I was one of the very few unmarried and childfree people and they made me feel like an alien. If you are even slightly different for whatever reason, they will MAKE you feel different with words or actions.

As other people have mentioned, the Seattle freeze is real. I have made friends everywhere I have gone to, even in Timbunctu, but not in Seattle. It’s hard to make a real connection and most of them are nerds who love to play video games. They also think they are smart just because they landed a job in a tech company. A lot of people in Seattle are arrogant and think they are geniuses even when they are not.

There are very few things to do in Seattle, apart from eating, eating, eating and eating... going to the fish market and watch people throwing fish at each other. Why Seattleites think that is a big attraction, is beyond me. What I mean is that there are no real vibrant activities that do not involve stupid video games or eating. When I lived in New York, there was anything imaginable to do. You could never get bored. Same for Chicago.

The gloomy atmosphere is really depressing. I didn’t imagine this was going to affect me this much, but it’s true. Strangely, the cold days in New York and London were not as depressing as the days in Seattle. There must be something in the air or in the quality of light, I can’t pinpoint it, but it really is dismal.

Housing is crazy. It’s insulting, atrocious. You should pay one million dollar for a dump. They could literally pay me to live in a mansion in Seattle and I would refuse it. Now, imagine if I am going to spend a dime to live in that place. No way!

There is not a lot of cultural diversity.

To sum up, Seattle is not New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, but believes it is all of them.

When I was finally able to leave, I cried tears of joy and I solemnly swore I would never, ever put a foot there anymore. Now I live in a much nicer city and am surrounded by great friends.

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the other reply on the same page from a different guy about how all the women here hate his guts is very funny however, the level of man-hating in seattle is actually really not any different from any other large city ive lived or traveled in, idk what hes talking about but i suspect he is interpreting "not wearng makeup" as "the women are meaner". (and i support the culture of not wearing makeup, to be clear. what i object to is the thing that has replaced it, a culture of punishing people who arent conforming in this other way lol, its a false liberalism which is what the first guy is talking about)

the post about the unending, grinding, completely unacknowledged racism is worth reading closely because it is 100% true

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I was googling "fujoshi but for straight people" and found the most insane post I've ever read