-Swifties join together as a hivemind to become a fifty foot collective being and start hunting down Taylor's exes,
- ai written songs reminiscent of a mix of vocaloid and "Carol and Tuesday", we revolt after.
-David Tennant comes out as bisexual,
-tiktok makes a new trend where you sit in a busy intersection/road and try to make something with an easy back oven before you get ran over/ arrested/ removed,
-surge in cowboy aesthetic on Instagram where you wear jeans, eat beans and collect horse memorabilia, homosexual undertones optional but encouraged.
-pegging joke in new Dr who episodes,
-we get another equally hilarious fucked up painting restoration as the weird Jesus,
-Porygon is forgiven by Pokémon™ and Pikachu is held accountable for his crimes in a live action court room recording, the defender is wearing the chubby Pikachu costume and their lawyer is wearing Misty's outfit but with a red tie.
-Wednesday S2 has painter dude accidentally sleep paint himself a new face as the in universe excuse for changed actor.
-Scientists introduce rats to just dance, they start beating global top records within the first week,
-politicians start getting pelted with rubber chickens in public.
-Someone puts googly eyes on the Eiffel tower, three months later same thing with the statue of liberty.
The curious things authors do with throw-away lines.
I'm rereading The Prisoner of Azkaban when I come across a line I'd completely ignored when I was younger. When Sirius Black shreds the Portrait of the Fat Lady, do they send the painting out to be professionally restored? No, they don't. They delegate that task to Filch. Filch the caretaker. They expect him, a squib who can't do magic, to restore an enchanted painting. Filch.
Now I could just explain this as saying, well, Filch is responsible for cleaning up messes and general upkeep in the castle, therefore it's his responsibility and J K Rowling doesn't have clue one how much expertise goes into restoring a painting.
But Filch does restore that painting. Somehow or another he stitches all the pieces back together as good as new. This means that that crusty old man has the skill and expertise to restore not just old paintings, but enchanted paintings. Perhaps his real job has been as the conservator of the castle's collection of paintings all along. Somewhere in that building is a room full of paintings he has set aside for repair work. Paintings that need mending, paintings that need cleaning, and paintings that just need a little freshening up.
And all this time we thought he couldn't do magic.
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