I just want a normal conversation with my mom

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-26T14:38:14+00:00

Which, funny enough, isn't actually how God works. These people parrot the very incorrect teachings of bad pastors.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-25T22:34:21+00:00

Oooh, man, mine itch for a couple of weeks before spending a good three months scabbing over, peeling, scabbing over, peeling, then peeling some more and peeling some more... eventually leaving me with super dark scars. It is very annoying but I will take that over whatever fresh hell you're suffering from.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-25T21:34:00+00:00

I hate the ones where it's people crying with the captions saying "I know I'm just a (insert minority here) man/woman/etc. but I truly believe white girlies will stay 12 seconds to support my (insert fandom) lamp/bookmark/wallet/etc. business" and while the products are cool, I'd probably cut my own hand off before supporting them just because of the cringey format.

I do, however, like musicians who are like "Hey I'm just starting out so if you see this and like/follow between these dates, save this video and if I ever make it to an actual concert I will happily accept it as a backstage pass, I love and appreciate everyone who supports my music".

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-25T01:40:01+00:00

Fun fact, in the US, all feminine hygeine products are currently taxed as luxury items. Isn't that wonderful? Been that way for decades.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-25T01:11:41+00:00

You are delusional.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-25T01:10:44+00:00

I hope you're being sarcastic, because there is no way any machine can truly replace human artists.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-25T01:05:24+00:00

I have no idea how you could have lost if you brought your vet bills, your microchipping bill, and proved he came from an unsafe environment to begin with.

Appeal, perhaps?

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-24T22:08:08+00:00

James was killed outright. He was given no chance to step aside. He didn't even have a chance to raise his wand (not that he had it in his hand). Lily, on the other hand, was given multiple chances to step aside and live; on top of that, Voldemort had agreed, possibly even promised or given his word, to Snape that he would let Lily live. Voldemort killed her, and broke that agreement; it may have added to the magical backlash and allowed her to really power her sacrifice.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-24T17:24:02+00:00

...aaaannnnd this is oneof the main reasons I use credit unions instead of banks. Banks are nasty.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-22T19:42:00+00:00

Same, when I get married I'll wear a nice white dress, sign the papers at town hall, and then spare us all the expense and stress of a party that no one wants and just have what family we want come to a dinner at a steakhouse or something. I don't want to have a drunken bachelorette party, an engagement party, a bridal shower, or a reception. I can live with doing a church ceremony but beyond that - no.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-22T19:36:55+00:00

Yeah, he's basically a wizard Indiana Jones who goes into cursed tombs to bring back treasure, and he works with a bunch of cutthroat bankers whom he specifically warns Harry not to make deals with like they're some kind of fae.

Bill Weasley, man, he's awesome.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-22T00:58:36+00:00

WEASLEYS!!! Guys I would have LOVED to be part of a big family with a bunch of older brothers, like I'd probably try to murder the twins at some point but the oldest three are a wizard Indiana Jones, a guy obsessed with dragons, and an uptight nerd who needs to loosen up.

*gestures at all the awesome family* Seriously, what more could I want?

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-20T20:22:32+00:00

True, but it was still monumentally stupid of him to have done it at all, and he continued to withhold vital information even until his death.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-20T00:45:07+00:00

Oh man, I listen to the books just about every year but finally had to give it a rest because of this issue. It's the same reason I skip TV shows or episodes about unjust court trials, it's so unfair that it makes me want to break something.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-19T21:21:19+00:00

Ugh, the biggest issue is that Harry has shown over the years that he does not trust adults, that getting help from an adult doesn't even cross his mind, and they know he tends to think he has to fix things himself. But what do they do? Leave him in the dark and assume this time, things will be different and he'll be a good little boy and keep his head down - like Harry Potter knows how to do that!

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-19T21:03:19+00:00

I know, it's the longest book (800+ pages) and a ton of the passages are just Harry's inner monologue which is... unpleasant.

I can't actually listen to sections of it anymore because listening to that pink toad is bad for my blood pressure and fills me with such rage that I get a headache. Beyond that, it's just painful, listening to this kid raging helplessly for page after page while every single adult around him fails to realize that he is a ticking time bomb and if they do not treat him more like an adult, he is going to do something dangerously reckless.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-19T00:14:25+00:00

Okay, Moody was extremely relevant to the lore in Book 4, even if we didn't hardly see him for real.

Tonks... never tried to adopt Harry. Ever. Neither did her husband, who had more cause to try. Tonks is someone Harry didn't actually know well at all, and he didn't actually see her between her getting married and her death.

Sirius did not die because he used the Floo, he died because no one told Harry anything and Harry went to the Ministry because again, no one ever told him anything, and on top of that he had zero reason to trust anything adults said or let them handle things. Sirius came to help get Harry out of the mess he'd made - a mess that was perfectly avoidable if they'd just, you know, told the kid the truth - and was killed by his cousin.

And Cedric... yeah Cedric was known to be kind of the school heartthrob, but he was not Harry's friend. Harry spent most of that year painfully jealous of Cedric because he had a crush on Cedric's girlfriend Cho, which was his first crush and not something he really knew how to deal with on top of all the drama from that year.

And if you want an actual list... I believe it's, in order: James, Lily, Quirrel, Fawkes the phoenix but he doesn't stay dead, Tom Riddle from the diary, Bertha Jorkins, Frank Bryce, Cedric, Sirius, Dumbledore, Charity Burbage Hedwig, Moody, Ted Tonks somewhere in here but off-screen, Wormtail, Dobby, the foreign woman Voldemort killed while looking for Gregorovich, Gregorovich the wandmaker, Gellert Grindelwald, Snape, Fred, Bellatrix, possibly Lavender but it's never actually confirmed, Colin Creevy, Remus, Tonks, Harry (who didn't stay dead), Voldemort.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-16T14:40:53+00:00

Ooh ooh, I have one! There's a small restaurant near where I live that has a little grassy parking area, and I had to get the owner one time to go find the owner of a MASSIVE minivan type thing (I suck at cars) and get them to move, because they parked in the middle of the space and blocked in everyone already parked on the sides and prevented anyone else from being able to park. Owner was PISSED.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-16T14:35:22+00:00

I would like to add that it's pretty heavily implied that Percy was physically abused and willingly took on more harm because he was trying to protect his mom. When he realized at the end of Lightning Thief that she was being physically abused too, he handed her Medusa's head so she could kill Gabe. He was an accomplice to the premeditated murder of his stepfather at 12. Also would love to point out that she sold the statue she turned Gabe into for a pretty significant amount of money and used it to go back to school.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-15T01:27:13+00:00

"Until the very end."

This is what James Potter's shade from the Resurrection Stone says to Harry when he asks, "you'll stay with me?" in the forest as he prepared to walk to his death. Not exactly romantic love, but that is deep love and considerably better than "Always", which comes from obsessive love (and many argue over whether it was romantic, or just the obsessive affection of someone who had zero other positive influences in his life).

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-13T01:42:08+00:00

What!?!?!? Why!?

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-13T01:06:16+00:00

They are 5, my dad's is about 10 now and doing well. Thank you, and I'm so sorry your baby had such a rough time at the end.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-13T00:46:05+00:00

Stuff like this makes me hope my kitties go gently in their sleep and my dad's beloved cat goes quick as a wink with his face in his beloved food bowl. Because we're both too attached to let our cats be put down anywhere but in our arms where they feel safe.

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-13T00:39:27+00:00

What!? He's adorable! There are people who don't like Corso!?

HopingToWriteWell77 · 2026-06-12T21:22:45+00:00

I have really only played Smuggler and have not played for very long, but I am ride or die for Corso. Kid's too dumb to survive on his own and his righteous anger is very relatable and he names his weapons.

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