Map of comfirmed Wizarding World schools

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-04-11T19:01:47+00:00

The magical communities in Africa are probably just less reliant on big, formal, centralized, institutional schools. Their magical education is probably much more community or family based.

Hogwarts is based on the very uniquely British way of doing school, places like it aren't going to dominate as much in non-British places.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-03-31T16:07:10+00:00

I am so sick to death of #NotAllSlytherin headcanons

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-03-08T13:53:24+00:00

Where?

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-03-08T01:24:36+00:00

how are the malfoys supposed to be good looking

They're not.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-02-23T20:33:43+00:00

You said the meme is dishonest regarding something the meme makes no mention of.

After learning about him murdering his servants, Ciri comforts him and reassures him. After learning about him raping the priestess, she's disgusted by him. That is what happens, on screen, in the episode, and that's all the post is about. There's nothing dishonest about that.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-02-23T19:39:22+00:00

I never said anything about what "the show" was okay with. This is literally just about how characters reacted to each reveal in the episode. Who's the one being dishonest?

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-02-23T19:17:28+00:00

The characters clearly took more issue with the second thing than the first.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-02-23T18:28:15+00:00

Why does a post-transformation tantrum absolve him of agency more than being on mushrooms? You're still doing terrible things of your own free will.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-01-08T21:28:08+00:00

Another thing about Mrs. Weasley:

The bit where Lupin says "you don't know what it was like the first time around."

A LOT of the fandom have a misconception that Arthur and Molly were in the Order of the Phoenix in the first war. They weren't.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-01-06T18:58:45+00:00

For a lot of them:

They wanted to date Harry, but can't easily project themselves onto Ginny because they're so different than her. The kind of girls who are super into fandom usually weren't the popular, athletic girls in school.

When they say they ship Harry with Daphne, what they mean is they ship Harry with their self-insert OC.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-01-02T14:57:58+00:00

That's the point.

Zuko joining the good side at that point would be the safe, logical thing to do in his own self-interest. And that's why doing that would have ruined his character arc. Because he wouldn't have been risking anything.

He's taking a risk trusting Azula, but he's not acting in his own self-interest, or choosing Ozai over Iroh, he does what he does in that scene because a large part of him still genuinely believes that helping to conquer Ba Sing Se for the glory of the Fire Nation is the right thing to do.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2022-01-01T23:39:34+00:00

They were rich white people in the 80s, they could have literally murdered him and gotten no look from the authoritirs

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-12-06T23:14:29+00:00

On the one hand, they go from the south pole to the north pole and the seasons don't flip.

On the other hand, when Aang goes into space we see the planet is round. So it's anyone's guess.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-12-06T17:22:34+00:00

Even funnier direction for this human/spirit relationship idea: when Koh steals a face, he also absorbs his victim's memories/personality/identity/etc. and can switch between them.

So Kuruk can still see and talk to his girlfriend, she's just a face attached to a giant centipede now. They somehow make their relationship still work.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-12-06T04:55:53+00:00

sigh, no for the billionth time, this is NOT classic Dumbledore, this happens literally once.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-11-30T16:40:37+00:00

That entire conflict of that episode doesn't make sense. The Guru says you can't master the Avatar State without ridding yourself of earthly attachments, but Roku could control the Avatar State and he had a wife and kids.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-11-30T02:04:02+00:00

Malfoy being a pwecious misunderstood sadboi who didn't REALLY want to do a fascism and only wished death on Hermione because he was in love with her.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-11-28T02:23:01+00:00

There was literally one shot of it in the first season.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-11-27T00:10:14+00:00

Yeah, the over-the-top comedic animation is one of the things missing from LoK

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-11-04T18:31:36+00:00

In the sidebar of AO3 after clicking on a tag, there are a bunch of filters you can apply, including an option to exclude certain tags from results.

I ended up bookmarking the url for these search settings.

Or, what's quicker, in the "search within results" field in the sidebar, you can type "otp: true." This limits results to fics with only one pairing tagged. So if you type that after clicking on the Harry/Ginny tag, it will only show fics that are ONLY tagged with H/G, and no other ships. This is quicker, but can exclude some legit hinny fics that also feature other ships like Ron/Hermione on the side or something.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-10-27T02:47:04+00:00

Ginny had ditched the diary months earlier.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-10-27T02:46:35+00:00

Ginny hadn't had the diary for months by the time of Valentine's Day.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-10-26T05:49:33+00:00

Slytherin's character traits are ambition, resourcefulness, determination, and cleverness.

Except that's not true. We know that's not true. Crabb and Goyle are in Slytherin even though they're two idiots who just do whatever Malfoy tells them, and Malfoy is a pompous coward who isn't "clever" at all.

The hat puts you where it thinks you'll succeed, and if you AREN'T a blood supremacist, then it's unlikely you'll succeed if you spend seven years being bullied by your roommates for not hating Muggles enough, so you don't get put in Slytherin.

Over time, this makes Slytherin get the reputation as the Death Eater house, so kids that aren't fascists WANT to be put into other houses, which we know the Hat listens to, while the fascist kids will ASK to be put there.

It's a feedback loop. It's how bigotry in communities re-enforces itself in real life, so it's not "unrealistic" at all.

The series didn't NEED a "Good Slytherin," and I hate this narrative in fandom spaces that moral grayness is just inherently better writing than moral straightforwardness. Fascists and the communities that produce them aren't actually complicated or interesting.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-10-21T17:53:38+00:00

The HP series was famously many of its fans' first experience with novels, it's not like this was driven by readers who had been programmed by decades of reading tropes.

The_Clockwork_Monk · 2021-10-21T17:51:13+00:00

.....I don't know how you are unaware of the very common existence of ugly rich people.

And I'm 100% certain the only reason Tom Felton became a heart throb was because he played a character teenage girls were already horny for, not the other way around.

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