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inkskinned · 2 years

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i. about 2 weeks ago, i was told there's a good chance that in 5 or so years, i'll need a wheelchair.

ii. okay. i loved harry potter as a kid. i have a hypothesis about this to be honest - why people still kind of like it. it's that she got very lucky. she managed to make a cross-generational hit. it was something shared for both parents and kids. it was right at the start of a huge cultural shift from pre to post-internet. i genuinely think many people were just seeking community; not her writing. it was a nice shorthand to create connection. which is a long way of saying - she didn't build this legacy, we built it for her. she got lucky, just once. that's all.

iii. to be real with you, i still struggle with identifying as someone with a disability, which is wild, especially given the ways my life has changed. i always come up against internalized ableism and shame - convinced even right now that i'm faking it for attention. i passed out in a grocery store recently. i hit my head on the shelves while i went down.

iv. he raises his eyebrows while he sends me a look. her most recent new book has POTS featured in it. okay, i say. i already don't like where this is going. we both take another bite of ramen. it is a trait of the villain, he says. we both roll our eyes about it.

v. so one of the things about being nonbinary but previously super into harry potter is that i super hate jk rowling. but it is also not good for my mental health to regret any form of joy i engaged with as a kid. i can't punish my young self for being so into the books - it was a passion, and it was how i made most of my friends. everyone knew about it. i felt like everyone had my same joy, my same fixation. as a "weird kid", this sense of belonging resonated with me so loudly that i would have done anything to protect it.

vi. as a present, my parents once took me out of school to go see the second movie. it is an incredibly precious memory: my mom straight-up lying about a dentist appointment. us snickering and sneaking into the weekday matinee. within seven years of this experience, the internet would be a necessity to get my homework finished. the world had permanently changed. harry potter was a relic, a way any of us could hold onto something of the analog.

vii. by sheer luck, the year that i started figuring out the whole gender fluid thing was also the first year people started to point out that she might have some internalized biases. i remember tumblr before that; how often her name was treated as godhood. how harry potter was kind of a word synonymous for "nerdy but cool." i would walk out of that year tasting he/him and they/them; she would walk out snarling and snapping about it.

viii. when i teach older kids creative writing, i usually tell them - so, she did change the face of young adult fiction, there's no denying that. she had a lot more opportunities than many of us will - there were more publishing houses, less push for "virally" popular content creators. but beyond reading another book, we need to write more books. we need to uplift the voices of those who remain unrepresented. we need to push for an exposure to the bigotry baked into the publishing system. and i promise you: you can write better than she ever did. nothing she did was what was magical - it was the way that the community responded to it.

ix. i get home from ramen. three other people have screenshotted the POTS thing and sent it to me. can you fucking believe we're still hearing this shit from her when it's almost twenty-fucking-twenty-three. the villain is notably also popular on tumblr. i just think that's funny. this woman is a billionaire and she's mad that she can't control the opinions of some people on a dying blue site that makes no money. lady, and i mean this - get a fucking life.

x. i am sorry to the kid i was. maybe the kid you were too. none of us deserved to see something like this ruined. that thing used to be precious to me. and now - all those good times; measured into dust.

/// 9.6.2022 // FUCKING AGAIN, JK? Are you fucking kidding me?

#witches and wizards #kids need to be able to play games without knowing the extended universe #playing was easy #i knew i wasn't gonna be able to explain chronicles of christomancy #but we could pick up a stick and run around #nd say we were magic that would be enough backstory #and i think the last time i felt that sense of community #was the summer of pokemon go #it's about cross-generational connectivity bro #yes there are insular communtities but EVERYONE had fucking read harry potter #which is me saying - i think maybe people don't miss HER or the ACTUAL BOOK tbh #they miss... feeling connected #think about how so many people felt so weirdly ashamed and lost after Game of Thrones ended -#they did SUCH a bad job that the entire community just... vanished.#where beforehand people would have GoT weddings #we are just animals who love stories and love feeling like we speak the same language #btw i am not on twitter so i hadn't seen some of the shit she was doing #and then when i was 19 she published the ''american school'' hogwarts stuff #and was reading it casually bc again a huge nerd #and in it shes like ''the british taught the natives their more civilized magics''#and that was like..................... oh okay. okay. so.....

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hestiasroom · 11 months

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At first I wasn’t particularly inclined to watch Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman? I know the answer to that one already. Everybody does.

A woman is someone who isn’t allowed a final say on what a woman is. Pretending not to know this — that defining “woman” is incredibly complex and bewildering — is an age-old tactic deployed by non-women, usually in order to excuse treating us badly.

Are women fully human? Do they have souls? What do women want? Far greater men than the host of The Matt Walsh Show — Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Sigmund Freud — have tried and failed to answer these questions (they could always have asked an actual woman, but first they’d have had to establish whether women can think, and then they’d have been back to square one).

As Matt himself says at the start of his film, “I like to make sense of things. Making sense of females is a whole other matter”, noting that “even astrophysicist Stephen Hawking” was “completely dumbfounded by women”.

Even astrophysicist Stephen Hawking! Honestly, ladies, if the author of A Brief History of Time hasn’t a clue what the hell we are, what hope do any of us have?

The thankless nature of the task may be why the twenty-first century version of The Woman Question has now been allocated to those somewhat lower down the male intellect hierarchy: Edinburgh fringe comedians, disgraced MPs, right-wing shock jocks, Owen Jones and Billy Bragg.

The proposal that a woman is anyone who defines themselves as a woman — and that no woman may say anyone isn’t a woman — has led to a particularly unimpressive stage of the debate, one which can only be described as the Summa Theologica meets incels r us.

On the bright side, it’s clear the men are bloody loving it. If you’re left-wing, it’s your chance to put those TERFs in their place after years of having to “do feminism” as part of the right-side-of-history package deal. If you’re right-wing, it’s your opportunity to own all those feminists who suggested female bodies weren’t inferior and that pink, fluffy ladybrains were a myth. As Walsh declares of his film, “the movie makes utter fools of educated elite liberals”. I’m guessing that’s the point.

I confess to having known very little about Matt Walsh up till now. “I’m a husband, I’m a father of four, I host a talk show, I give speeches, I write books,” he tells us by way of introduction. Hey, that sounds nice! Alas, a quick perusal of his twitter account shows that he’s the kind of renaissance man who tweets things like “feminism is an ugly and bitter ideology” and “rapists love abortion. It helps them cover up their crime”.

He’s also the kind of man who, should feminists show themselves to insufficiently appreciative of his recent woman-defining efforts, tells us we would “rather be a victim than win the fight” and that we “just want to sit on the sidelines and whine”. He’s been, like, getting death threats due to his challenge to contemporary gender mores! Would you risk that, eh, feminists? What’s anyone ever done to you, JK Rowling, you massive coward?

I first wrote about the problematic nature of a gender identity-based definition of women over eight years ago. Other women, such as Julie Bindel, were sounding the alarm far earlier, and with little support. I know we’re supposed to be eternally grateful to Matt for stepping into the breach. What a gent! As the Onion once put it, Man Finally Put In Charge of Struggling Feminist Movement (admittedly it’s a man who thinks feminism is an ugly and bitter ideology but hey, we can’t have everything).

In any case, I gave in and watched Matt’s film, just on the off-chance I’d missed something (more fool me; I read Gender Trouble on that basis, and look where that’s got me). There was little in What is a woman? that I didn’t already know from the work of feminists themselves, but that’s no reason to discount it. What’s wrong with alerting the normies to the excesses of trans activism too?

Walsh never acknowledges the role his own rigid beliefs play

Perhaps the most difficult thing about conveying the absurdities of extreme trans activism to anyone who hasn’t yet encountered it, is that you either sound as though you’re making it up (usually in order to “stoke moral panic”) or the person to whom you’re talking concludes you must have missed some essential point (it would indeed be horrific if teenage girls were having their breasts removed due to social contagion and “progressive” institutions were cheering it on, therefore it can’t be happening. There must be something else afoot).

One of the great things about Walsh’s film is that he shows, first, that harmful things are indeed taking place, and second, that there is no hidden meaning behind them. The therapists, surgeons, academics and politicians to whom he speaks don’t suddenly pull back the curtain and reveal, yes, this is the reason why it isn’t total bollocks to claim that no one really knows what sex anyone is. That moment never comes (and believe me, I’d have loved it if it had. Being a Known TERF is a pain in the arse).

Instead they say things like “a chicken has an assigned gender” and that the word truth is “condescending and rude”. Ha! Aren’t liberals ridiculous? At one point Matt interviews someone who identifies as a wolf (or some other animal. I got bored and went to the kitchen for a biscuit at that point). What’s striking is that you sense his interviewees know on some level that they’re bullshitting. That’s why a number of them end the interview early, citing Walsh’s alleged bad faith as the reason why.

There are some genuinely moving sections to the film, such as the interviews with female athletes cheated out of prizes by the inclusion of males in the girls’ categories. The contribution from Scott Newgent, a trans man deeply concerned about the impact of medical transition on young females, was incredibly engaging. I could have watched a whole film on Newgent alone, as someone clearly driven by both personal trauma and compassion for others.

So why, overall, did the film leave a bad taste? Am I just an “ugly and bitter” feminist, peeved that a man has come along and claimed a number of feminist observations as his own? Am I a purist, unwilling to accept any support from anyone whose views don’t align precisely with mine?

I don’t think so. The problem for me is that Walsh never acknowledges the role his own rigid beliefs play in creating and perpetuating the current situation.

He finds countless people convinced that the only way to avoid imposing harmful social norms on individuals on the basis of their sexed bodies, is to pretend we can’t define said bodies or impute any social meaning to them at all. Yet he does nothing to suggest one shouldn’t impose said norms, or that his own pink/blue fantasies of girlhood and boyhood might be leading those who don’t conform to feel they are somehow “wrong”.

“Give my son a BB gun and that’s just about all the emotional support he needs,” he muses over a children’s party scene, all boys in blue jeans, all girls pink princesses. “My daughter on the other hand … I’ve heard people say that there are no differences between male and female. Those people are idiots.”

Hmm. I have three children, all biologically male, all of whom have played with dolls houses and worn dresses. Two of them have Frozen-style long blonde hair and I’ve never bought any of them a toy gun (nor have any of them asked for one).

Women are caught between two forms of misogyny

According to Walsh’s own gender ideology, I’m on the slippery slope towards the erasure of any stable definition of “male” and “female” at all. This is the mirror image of the absurdities of trans activism. Both Walsh and the people he interviews conflate sex difference denialism with the rejection of gender stereotypes. He thinks we should suffer the stereotypes; they think we should suffer the surgery. Feminists believe we shouldn’t suffer either.

There’s a particularly grim scene where Walsh attends a Women’s March, and delights in harassing female protestors who don’t want to give a precise definition of the word “woman”. Much as this reticence frustrates me, too, I know where it comes from. The polarised politics of the day has told these women they must choose between denying their sex and accepting an anti-choice, conservative vision of what it means to be an adult human female. It’s a vision Matt Walsh shares.

These women are caught between two forms of misogyny but to Walsh, it’s all “own the libs” fun and games. This man is not on our side, nor will he win over the women he lazily misrepresents as not knowing what’s good for them.

At the end of the film, Matt returns home from his gender odyssey to his waiting Penelope. She is, of course, in the kitchen, and happens to be struggling with a pickle jar.

“What is a woman?” he asks her.

“An adult human female — who needs help opening this!” she responds. Got it, ladies? He’ll defend our right to exist as a sex class, as long as we can all agree it’s the weaker one.

In the end, I’m just so fed up with the machismo. Last year I spoke to one of the founders of Woman’s Place UK, who told me sex-based rights will ultimately be defended best by those in it for “the victory, not the glory”. The people, mainly women, often lesbians and women of colour, who do the dull, behind the scenes work of compiling data and challenging unfair practices one by one. The people who aren’t seeking to reimpose other, equally oppressive beliefs about sex and gender.

It may be that What is a Woman? helps, by showing some still on the fence that the problem is real. Others, it may push in the other direction. Either way, women themselves won’t be thanked for their own hard work and significant risks.

After all, that’s just what being a woman is.

#What Is a Woman?#what is a woman #matt walsh #gender ideology #transactivism #trans #transgender #mansplaining #Victoria Smith #only men are qualified to decide what a woman is #misogyny

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yogorlhilanne · 18 days

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BREAKING MY SILENCE

I'll probably make this on Twitter also, though I doubt it'll really attract (on both Tumblr and Twitter) many people but OH MY FUCKING GOD. THIS NEEDS TO BE SAID.

I know OTHER people have probably talked about this (or maybe not)— plus the Harry Potter fandom is probably dead at this point or maybe still thriving somehow in ways I don't really know but LILY FUCKING EVANS MADE THE WORST DECISION POSSIBLE AFTER ENDING HER AND SEVERUS' FRIENDSHIP.

Look, she was like practically a minor character yet was kinda important to the plot but honestly she deserved to be with someone better than James Potter. No hate or dumb reasons are gonna be thrown at Lily but girlie was dumb as fuck entirely for having a kid with her friends bully who made his school life HELL.

It's been on my mind the more I think about Severus' past and James and Sirius bullying.

I genuinely like Sirius as a character but bro cannot be bullying Snape, like sweetheart we know your an inbred rich child but that doesn't mean you should bully someone who's the LITERAL opposite of you. (expect for neglect and abuse)

James was a fucking jock.

LISTEN & IMAGINE. A friend of yours who you've know for maybe about 6 years calls you the worst insult ever, in a fit of rage, you break the friendship and ofc, leave. That's genuinely completely understandable to one who has common sense.

BUT THEN, after that, you go on to marry your ex friends bully that HAS MADE YOUR EX FRIENDS SCHOOL LIFE MISERABLE AND SHITTY.

Sure it's COMPLETELY understandable how Lily can be mad at Severus for calling her a "Mudblood" because that's a canonical slur against muggle-borns, really, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN SHE HAD TO MARRY SEVERUS' BULLY WHO BULLIED HIM RELENTLESSLY, and that's so fucked up in many ways. And YES. As far as I'm concerned, Lily seemed to only like James because:

He wasn't strongly associated with the dark arts

Wasn't associated with future death eaters/followers of Voldemort

I don't think it's confirmed how long James and Sirius had been bullying Snape but it makes me SOOOO fucking livid that like... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU ACTUALLY LIKE A CHARACTER IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEIR FLAWS AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS? (*Cough Cough* James and Sirius "fans" *COUGH*)

If I'm being 100% honest, I've never seen anyone say "James/Sirius is better than Snape" ever and not even ONCE in my lifetime being in the Harry Potter fandom.

There's really not much on Snape's past during his school years but in all honesty, Lily Evans was dumb as fuck for dating her friends bully like okay, MAYBE James and Sirius did take accountability at one point and confessed to Lily. JUST MAYBE. But I don't remember nor heard anyone saying that was true nor JK Rowling saying anything about them taking accountability.

AND I DON'T THINK THEY EVEN APOLOGIZED TO SNAPE EITHER. (Maybe regretted it but that's not taking accountability for one's actions, perhaps Remus did but never heard anyone saying that was true either because it's probably just a headcannon and Remus probably didn't even bully Snape at all)

Lily Evans... I love you and all and I don't hate you... You just disappointed me.

LIKE IF I WERE IN LILY'S SHOES I WOULDN'T GET TOGETHER WITH JAMES BECAUSE MY FRIEND HAS ALREADY LIVED A HARD LIFE AT HOME, (she probably didn't know but I would've ask Snape what his home life was and would've saved him unlike Lily) AND JUST BECAUSE SNAPE WASN'T RICH NOR GOOD LOOKING DOESN'T MEAN YOU GET A FUCKING PRIVILEGE TO BULL HIM. OR JUST BECAUSE HE FUCKING EXISTED.

Also I get that Lily was mainly mad at Severus because of his Slytherin friends and that he called her a "Mudblood" BUT IGNORING THE FACT HE GOT BULLIED RELENTLESSLY, NEARLY DIED TO A "prank", LIVED IN AN ABUSIVE HOUSEHOLD (she didn't knew that but imma just put it there anyways) AND THAT HE HAD HOPED THAT HOGWARTS WOULD HAVE MADE HIS LIFE BETTER BUT IT GOT DESTROYED, IS UTTERLY DISAPPOINTING AND FLABBERGASTING TO ME.

No hate to people who genuinely ship James and Lily (love the fanarts) but Lily deserved better than that. Perhaps she also knew about the werewolf incident but if I were her I would've BITCH SLAPPED Sirius to remind him of being inbred and stupid as fuck BECAUSE WHAT????

A prank—as far as I acknowledge, shouldn't put someone's life in DANGER and in a LIFE OR DEATH situation SIRIUS 'INBRED' BLACK.

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE YET TALKING ABOUT THIS AND SHITTING ON LILY (for being flawed ofc yet dumb as shit). Lily in general is a good person but she had flaws that needed to be talked about and HERE I AM.

James & Sirius bullying was ignorant and really unjustifiable, Peter and Remus should've known better but I don't ENTIRELY blame them but they should've known fucking better. Lily WAS understandable up until she got together with James and I kinda wanna bitch slap her right now.

Honestly if I were Lily, I genuinely would've gotten together with Snape and ACTUALLY helped him like any person with COMMON SENSE would do.

And to end it off with a cherry on top. James and Sirius bullying Snape should be talked about more and we should shit on them for their flaws yet ignorance actions that they didn't even try to take any single OUNCE of accountability for. Just because you learned from your bullying mistakes and "becoming a more mature and better person" isn't justifiable and shows your blind fucking ignorance to your affects of bullying to other people you dumb dipshit fucker.

(Will possibly edit this again but I'll post this now bc it's been in my drafts for some time and it NEEDS to be sent out rn)

#breaking my silence #harry potter #hp fandom #james potter #sirius black #severus snape #lily evans #essay #rant post #ranting

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griffynbird101 · 8 months

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The Black Family tree is weird as hell (not for the reasons you think)

Hi, so a few days ago I made a post talking about squibs in the Harry Potter world and how JK Rowling doesn’t make sense and in it I mentioned how Cygnus Black was part of a child marriage and that prompted me to scour the Black Family tree for more examples…

It is deeply weird. In more way than one.

First of all; Cygnus was not the only child to have children at 13. His father Pollux also started at 13. This isn’t like a trend in the Black Family; most have children in their 20s and 30s, and the pair have siblings who have children at reasonable ages. It is completely random. Cygnus has 3 children before he finishes Hogwarts so it wasn’t like an accident or anything. I could’ve excused Pollux as a one off thing because he has Walburga but then it’s 13 years before Cygnus is born… but then Cygnus goes and has 3 children before he’s 17 so I don’t know what to think. (Especially since Alphard appears to be older, so why wouldn’t they have Alphard get married instead?? Like why did JK Rowling need to do this?)

There’s also a weird, but not impossible, trend where a bunch of Black Family members just don’t get married or have kids. In a normal family I would say that it made enough sense, but this is a family who puts having Pureblood children above everything so it doesn’t really add up. There are 8 people on the family tree who don’t have children and don’t get disowned (Granted we can cross of Sirius I and Regulus who both die young so it’s more like 6). It’s oddly progressive of a family who also at the same time thinks children are so important that they need to marry off 13 year olds??

Moving away from the topic of marriage; there’s an event that happens in 1990-1992 that I like to call “The Purge of the Parents” where all the remaining Black Family Members who aren’t imprisoned or disowned just die. Like literally, only Narcissa is left. The 5 other living Black family members die in 2 years (3 in 1992). It’s not just the Black Family either, I know Abraxas Malfoy also dies in 1992. There was just this massive genocide of an entire generation within 2 years and it’s not mentioned in the story at all. And while I’m writing this I’m starting to think JK Rowling just really hates Narcissa (“Oh Narcissa is your life going well? Well I’m gonna kill your entire family for no reason. How do you feel about that?”) There’s a massive plague or something that killed all the old people in the wizarding world; Harry was just too dumb to notice.

Unrelated to Marriage or death: Each generation has at least one trio of siblings where the second child is disowned. I like to think at some point the Black Family just collectively agreed that 3 was an unlucky number and they had to disown the middle child on principle. (Like; Alphard didn’t do anything against the family he just give Sirius some money, Cedrella still technically fulfilled the family wishes by marrying a Pureblood just not the right one: They were just looking for excuses at this point)

I’m rambling a lot so I’ll just say this; The Black Family tree is surprisingly not impossible. All the things I mentioned are plausible, but all together it makes for a very improbable and odd family tree. Honestly just leads to believe the family as a whole was incredibly unstable; possibly due to the fact that Purebloods in general are likely inbred due to breeding within the same few families for 1000 years. Also; tragedy for only Narcissa that the entire family just died out.. I get the feeling that it’s actually not… that terrible of a thing.

(Yay for that one Gamp (not sacred 28) in the family tree that everyone collectively decided didn’t exist. New blood was needed)

#harry potter #wizarding world #black family #narcissa black #cygnus black #alphard black #cedrella black #andromeda black #pollux black #improbable #jk rowling #jk rowling can’t do math #overanalyzing

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thecreaturecodex · 1 year

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Nunda

Image © @a-book-of-creatures, accessed at A Book of Creatures here

[The nunda is yet another African mythological creature (Swahili this time) that is sorely misrepresented in the West. This is despite several solid English translations being available for more than a hundred years. It appears as its actual self (a giant, non-magical cat capable of swallowing people whole) in The Violet Fairy Book by Lang, for example. But, under the name mngwa, it became more demythologized by colonial British forces, reflecting their anxieties about dangerous animals in East Africa (the cryptid mngwa is larger than a lion, not larger than an elephant). This mngwa is made into a supernatural assassin by Pathfinder 1e, which is a cool monster that is only related to the original by being in the shape of a cat. And JK Rowling brought it into the original Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (back when that was just a charity booklet and not an increasingly deranged franchise attempt), where it kept its enormity, but became venomous. And, for some reason, had a name change from “nunda” to “nundu”.

In an attempt to give my version a mechanical niche beyond “hey, it’s a cat, but bigger!”, I gave it sound mimicry, inspired by the discovery that margays, and maybe other cats as well, mimic the sounds of small animals to lure their prey in. If you want a Fantastic Beasts style “nundu”, change these stats to a magical beast, and give it a breath weapon in a 30 foot cone 3/day that acts as burnt othur fumes (Con based DC). That would make it a CR 12 creature.]

Nunda CR 11 N Animal This creature resembles a cat larger than an elephant. It has stocky legs and a thick tail. Its coat is blotched and striped.

A nunda is a massive big cat, large enough to prey on just about any mundane animal, and many monstrous and magical ones as well. Because of their great size and stout limbs, they are rather slower than other cats. Instead of relying on speed to hunt, nundas use deception. They are remarkably good at imitating the cries of other animals, and so attract curious, distressed or amorous creatures to meet their fate. They also know enough to use these calls to attract humans, and lure in hunters with the sound of a wild pig, antelope or even of a mundane cat.

A nunda requires an enormous home range, and thus are typically solitary. The males are larger than the females and have larger territories that encompass the territories of multiple females, but females still try to avoid or repel males unless they are in heat. Females give birth to only one cub at a time, which they raise diligently until they are about the size of a leopard, at which point they are chased from the territory. At this stage, they may be mistaken for a more mundane feline, and even adopted as pets by the wealthy and privileged, leading to a rude surprise when a prized leopard keeps growing, and keeps demanding more and more meat.

Nunda as Animal Companions Use the statistics for a big cat animal companion for a nunda, except that it has a move speed of 30 feet, sound mimicry (animals) as a 1st level companion, and gains swallow whole instead of pounce at 7th level. Characters with a nunda animal companion sometimes become mammoth riders.

Nunda CR 11 XP 12,800 N Huge animal Init +6; Senses low-light vision, Perception +9, scent Defense AC 23, touch 11, flat-footed 20 (-2 size, +2 Dex, +1 dodge, +12 natural) hp 161 (14d8+98) Fort +16, Ref +13, Will +8; +4 vs. fear Defensive Abilities bravery Offense Speed 30 ft. Melee bite +19 (2d8+11 plus grab), 2 claws +19 (2d6+11/19-20 plus grab) Space 15 ft.; Reach 10 ft. Special Attacks pounce, rake (2 claws +19, 2d6+11/19-20), swallow whole (AC 20, hp 32, 2d6+16 bludgeoning) Statistics Str 33, Dex 15, Con 24, Int 2, Wis 15, Cha 10 Base Atk +10; CMB +23 (+27 grapple); CMD 40 (44 vs. trip) Feats Defensive Combat Training, Dodge, Improved Critical (claw), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Skill Focus (Stealth) Skills Acrobatics +12, Bluff +3 (+11 mimicking animal sounds), Perception +8, Stealth +7 (+11 in undergrowth); Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics, +8 Bluff when mimicking animal sounds, +4 Stealth (+8 in undergrowth) SQ armored stomach, sound mimicry (animals) Ecology Environment warm hills and plains Organization solitary or pair Treasure none Special Abilities Armored Stomach (Ex) A nunda gains an additional +4 natural armor bonus against swallowed creatures attacking it, and it requires twice as many hit points of damage as normal or a creature to cut itself free. Bravery (Ex) A nunda gains a +4 racial bonus on Will saves against fear effects.

#nunda #nundu #mgnwa #swahili #african folklore #a book of creatures #world tour #animal companion

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thatdeadaquarius · 1 year

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i NEED to see more of your art !!!!!

*bats eyelashes* this is a threat.

AHFLALSDHA WHAT- STOP GET OUT NO U DONT PLEASE-

U WANNA SEE MY ART??!!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARRSSS FOR SOMEONE TO SEE MY ART-

For future standalone posts like Possession AU/actual Fanfics/Non-Asks I'll probably add some of my art as a fun visual, since it sucks the closest I can get is gifs to feeling more immersed! :/

These I drew over the past 2-3 weeks! They're my lovely OCS, left to right, Lucille, Mara and Sabrina! They're story is a big fat beautiful shit on JK Rowl*ng! Lucille is a black lesbian successful trans woman/future magic council-woman, Mara is a japanese-american hard-headed/bold sapphic woman/future professional magical athlete, and Sabrina is a plus-size queer woman/future professional magical plants necromancer! They're in my twist on Harry Potter universe, where they all go to magical university, and the point is that Mara and Lucille are infamous school rivals, but then fall in love/fall in love with Sabrina too! A magical gay polycule if u will, I've written 2 short stories about them for my fiction class so far!

SHEESH, DO ME A FAVOR AND CLICK FOR QUALITY!!

this was my last project for my illustration 2 class! I have a physical comic book/zine I'm making, but this is the summary TLDR digital piece lol, its actually a sort of isekai of myself into Percy Jackson and changing his fate for the better! (Yes ik his anatomy is ROUGH, dont look at him too hard- SOBS)

Here's an earlier project this year from Illustration 2, I got an article I had to make illustrations for, to help you understand it/add aesthetic to it! My subject was Cosmic Topology, pretty sick topic if u ever wanna look it up, it's about the shape of the universe! :0

^^^

And these-

are the gifs from that art exhibition I talked so much about the past couple weeks! It was my senior art exhibition (a requirement to display art in the uni gallery to graduate!)

irl photos under this text block!

These are actually being projected across pages in a fake photo album/prom guestbook thingy, fully interactive so u can turn the pages and it shows a new animation, like a magical storybook! Also, since it's prom themed, I made it a kinda guestbook/sign book so gallery viewers can get some glitter pens I left out to sign the end of it! I also have a playlist I made playing in the gallery along with it so it's like what they'd play at this prom! :) hope that made sense!

The content is that the girl you see walking around in white is getting social anxiety/stressed out, to the point of dissociating, as a way of doing my theme I've kept up for university of things appearing darker than they initially look (hence the colors + I love colors), and to bring awareness to mental health!

welp, didnt mean to include all that black space, but that's my artist statement too! (u cant see the prints in the pictures, that's just my interactive piece I was talking about!)

hope if u click on the statement it's readable lol

Just click on the Alt text, I pasted it there 😭 also the piece is called

"You're the Star of the Night (you're dissociating)!"

Tumblr hates me so I just made the gif of me actually turning the pages into a link/QR code thingy! feel free to check out if u want :)

Uh anyway, if you made it this far, thank you so much!

Can't wait to make more fanart tbh lol

AND THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN FOR ASKING ORAH!! (sorry it wasnt more genshin stuff whoops...) RLLY HOPE I DIDNT SPAM U TOO HARD-

Safe travels,

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#my art #aquarius art #aquarius arts #ask box open #my asks #art post #lol nothing to tag rlly bc if i say 'not genshin' itll still register if u search #anyway thank u sm orah #my beloved ;-;#cant believe u asked omfg #i cant wait to draw more sagau stuff tho #i just havent had much time for it this year bc of school #which is also why the possession au art is bare bones linework too lmao

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souryogurt64 · 1 year

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i'm kinda disappointed seeing Billie Joe posting Harry Potter shit especially after what britt has been posting... he has to know about the controversy with jk rowling, it's in a lot major media outlets

I completely agree with you. I personally feel that the entire Armstrong stratosphere is purposefully going in an alarming ideological direction because Billie's son got canceled.

This isn't an excuse, but it's clear Billie is very unwell mentally and is probably doubling down on a lot of "cancel culture" stuff to avoid facing who he raised.

Raising an entitled POS brat was something he was very anxious about to the point where he was publicly talking about it in numerous interviews and wrote a song about it. Judging from his behavior lately, it seems he's struggling with the fact that it happened.

The stuff with Britt is like. No it's not okay and it's fucking weird and she's crazy but Britt had/has cancer and is/was going through chemo. That's not an excuse to be a bigot and conspiracy theorist, but also I don't expect Mike Dirnt to divorce her over this under those circumstances because chemo seriously affects your brain and she is his wife and the mother of his children.

A bit off topic but

I almost put this in the SWMRS dissertation but didn’t because it was so niche and nebulous and conjecture, and also because talking about Harry Potter and especially Snape at all gets people so worked up, I felt like it would have just caused more drama than it was worth.

But one of my core memories of knowing the SWMRS ship was irrevocably doomed was Uncool Halloween 2018, which was Harry Potter themed and kind of on the cusp of when people were starting to understand JK Rowling’s deal.

There was drama over that ofc, but my one key memory was waiting to meet Max and Cole after the show and a small group of fansangrily confronted them about Billie/Adrienne and possibly Joey posting Snape/Lily “always” shit and having matching tattoos or something because it was “glorifying abusive relationships." Max and Cole were like backing away trying to de-escalate the situation without saying anything hard and fast.

I haven’t read Harry Potter since I was literally 12 so pardon me if I’m wrong but like I feel like this was just the epitome of the SWMRSosphere in that 1) Yes, the Snape and Lily stuff is incredibly weird and cringe as written by JK Rowling and it’s cringe and weird for Billie and Adrienne to care about that, but they do it because they’re dumb and Billie is a goth and Adie was a cheerleader and originally engaged to someone else, not because they have enough brain cells to know or care about this terminally online nerd issue

2) Snape and Lily were never dating??? And this is a completely fictional non-relationship between TEENAGERS that DID NOT even fully happen in the fiction??? And is purposefully portrayed as morally ambiguous and questionable in the text?? Which is a fucking kids book from the 90s?????

And everyone seemingly lost it online over fandom drama and latched on to it as a portrayal of real life actual abusive relationships to the point where it permeated real fucking life and was obscuring the real issue here which was the fact that SWMRS were saying they were so hip to social justice and trans issues when they clearly absolutely weren’t

It just epitomized teenagers falling into bizarre and vicious herd mentalities over fandom drama under the guise of fighting for very serious real-life issues, while completely ignoring and participating in actual real-life issues. If that makes sense lol

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apocryphist · 1 year

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So there's that post going around that asks, very simply, that producers and writers stop adapting shit they don't like.

And that's fair, and I would've wholeheartedly agreed with it at one point in my life, but it also makes absolutely no sense.

Film and TV is an industry where 80% of business decisions are made by people not invested in what they're selling (listen to Bob Chapek talk about disney animation, for example).

Now, knowing and caring makes those people a hell of a lot better at their jobs, but knowing and caring don't fit on a resume, and the people conducting the interviews just want to know if they can make them cash.

But also, "don't adapt work you don't like" doesn't allow for nuance in our opinions of the media we're adapting. Stories can -- hell, stories should be treated as more than a binary good or bad value.

For example: Harry Potter was the most important book series to me as a kid, by far, but plenty of things in it provoke genuine disgust from me now -- and plenty just never made much sense.

Like, even if JK Rowling didn't make TERFdom her new world, I'd still take issue with the antisemitic goblin bankers, mediocre characterization that lead the fandom to prefer side characters to the main trio, and...god, okay, I'm stopping there because I don't even want to list them all.

But you get the point. If we somehow wrested control of that IP away from JK, we'd all be making jokes about her in the writers room. Same goes for George Lucas and Star Wars.

Doesn't mean that the people in that room don't love the original (though often they don't, and just need a paycheck because writers gotta pay rent too!) but these things are not on/off hate-or-love-pick-one sorts of affairs.

And by all means, push for better shows, with writers who care about the characters and producers who will devote the necessary resources to getting the story told right.

But please, approach these concepts with a little nuance, so that decision makers won't just write fans off as a bunch of rubes with no idea how media actually gets made.

#fandom #i guess #what the fuck do i tag this as #misc. apocrypha

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jayjuno · 2 years

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Why can’t transwomen handle jokes about themselves?

Ricky Gervais is hilarious.

Dave Chappelle is hilarious, too.

Disclaimer: I’m a transman.

Transwomen need to learn to have a sense of humor. Gay men, too. Transwomen need to learn that they can’t bully and harass comedians into being politically correct. That’s not how comedy works.

Not being able to laugh at themselves is what’s making everyone uncomfortable around transwomen. It’s NOT their fragile “gender identity” that repulses everyone- it’s their inability to laugh at themselves. It’s their inability to allow ANYONE to mock them that makes everyone uncomfortable around them.

Jewish people suffered the holocaust. Yet, Jewish comedians have joked about that. Jewish comedians make fun of themselves and their community ALL THE TIME. If a group that has suffered as much as the Jewish community has can make fun of themselves, why can’t trans women?

I’m a transman. I never see transmen get upset about comedians making fun of them, NOT unless there’s someone from the LGBT+ community pressuring/brainwashing them into it (which would usually be a transwoman or a gay man- lesbians/transmen don’t care about this stuff).

Do you think I give a damn whether comedians make jokes at my expense? Do you think I care if they mock me for being transgender? No.

It’s COMEDY. It’s supposed to be FUNNY. You’re not supposed to take comedy seriously, transwomen/gay men.

Learn to laugh, transwomen/gay men. You sexist, narcissistic XY imbeciles are ruining it for everyone, especially for the XX community.

I hope these brave comedians continue to mock the transgender community. As a transman, I am sick and tired of this stupid brainwashed community full of fake smiles and phoney laughs; a community that behaves more like the church of scientology than a group full of “love”. I don’t see “love” when I look at the transgender community now- I see death threats against JK Rowling, I see Dave Chappelle being assaulted, and I see death threats against mostly people with XX chromosomes.

When I look at the transgender community now, I mostly see misogyny.

The transgender community isn’t a community of “love”. At this point, it’s essentially a cult of mostly brainwashed people who feel the need to stalk/harass anyone they feel threatened by- just like scientologists. Instead of talking about “thetan levels” or “going clear”, the transgender cult is all about not being “cisgender”, calling out “terfs”, or “finding your authentic self”. All these stupid fake words and memorized slogans are an insult to intelligent life everywhere. I refuse to use them.

Can anyone explain to me the difference between the church of scientology and the transgender community? I don’t see much difference these days.

Learn to laugh at yourselves, XY people... and allow others to mock you, too.

Sincerely,

-a transman

p.s.

Ricky Gervais is right- women DO NOT have penises. Duh.

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ravenclawreign · 1 year

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How do you feel about Rowling’s stance on transgenderism? Sorry, I know it’s a heavy question, but it’s concerning to see Harry Potter blogs sometimes when terfs are everywhere lately

I'm gonna try and keep my answer rather short and on the point. I'm sure I don't know all the facts of this debate so if I have misinformation about anything don't hesitate so send an ask.

Now, I do not agree with Rowling's opinion or views at all. To me every person who identifies as a woman, is a woman. Despite your biological sex, you should be free to choose your gender and live as you want as long as you are not hurting anyone else.

I understand that some people may find it difficult to support Harry Potter and everything around it due to Rowling's stance. However the series has given me a lot and I love the community around it. There is so much more to it than JK Rowling and I don't want to loose that due to her transphobia, that doesn't sit right with me and is against what Harry Potter stands for in my eyes. I am a fan of the series and not her as a person (if that makes sense). I don't support her new work, I don't even know what she's up to atm. I don't think there's any harm in running fan and aesthetic blogs based on HP as long as you don't support her horrible views and comments.

This is a blog where everyone is welcome and we don't discriminate against anyone. Stay kind💙

#jk rowling #harry potter books #harry potter movies #debate #ask

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Ugh, hary potter rewrite this, rewrite that, ma'am the sin's of that franchise are so cooked into it's DNA id sooner just drop the whole thing and make a whole new set of adventure books that gesture at the unnamed wizard school over the hill mockingly in and out of universe!

I'm not actually doing it, I'm just workshopping/critiquing with the viewers for fun. I can tell you're not a regular viewer given you're pissing and moaning in my inbox over what I've said many times is hypothetical, but given that my work predominately deals in critique and offering alternatives to terrible ideas, it makes sense people are asking me to critique and offer alternatives to terrible ideas.

Besides trying to make a new set of adventure books out of spite is a terrible idea because while spite can fuel fanfics, it can't fuel original stories because original stories need way more work and passion than just trying to one-up a single dickhead.

Making a new Magic Adventure series for literally non other reason than to pull people away from Harry Potter is a recipe for a terrible series nobody asked for. People actually did that. That's the entire YA Fantasy genre. A genre... that fucking sucks.

Writing a spite-fic that turns to look at the camera and go "Damn this character's a fucking idiot. The person who originally wrote them is an illiterate fuck" is CONSIDERABLY less effort and costs you nothing but a little bit of time.

As long as JK Rowling remains a talking point, there are going to be people who want to tear her work to pieces. It isn't even baked into the DNA of the series, that's the hilarious part. Everything can be made the work, it just doesn't because Jojo Rowboat is an idiot who never passed an English class in her life.

I'm not trying to "save" anything here, I'm just out here being a catty bitch for fun.

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hi! I got a bunch of asks, and I figured I should (after 5 years) finally give an update.

unfortunately, though I enjoyed this for a long time, the hobby of writing faux-academic analyses of wands has long been soured for me bc I am, yknow, trans in the uk. I don't want to help sustain positive and neutral attention on jk rowling and contribute to the money she is using to fund and spearhead uk and us movements against trans people. It is truly wild to have reason to have beef with a famous children's author but here we are. Years later, these movements are still using that harry potter money and social cred to try to make questioning trans people's existence seem like a liberal free-speech common sense position that's unfairly targeted by radical, hysterical trans activists.

(Here is a tracker of the rise in current legislation restricting trans peoples' participation in public life in the us; the current uk prime minister made a jab against trans people this week in parliament, unknowingly in front of the mother of a trans teenager recently murdered in a hate-motivated attack, part of his customary appeal to right-wing culture war rhetoric. This is, as that first link points out, not his first public joke lampooning trans people, and as the stonewall link below mentions hate-motivated crimes against trans people have increased over 150% in the last few years, but only in the aftermath of a girl's murder has labour pushed back against our identities being part of a national debate.)

Interacting with people still into harry potter feels like a real toss-up. It feels depressingly likely, given what I see online and the beliefs of some of my coworkers, relatives and acquaintances, that I'm writing for someone who thinks nonbinary people are fine as long as they aren't too scarily masculine-looking, and trans women are fine as long as they're really nice and never say anything challenging and make themselves as small and cis-acceptable as possible and only react to people's cruelty with self-sacrificing grace, and trans men are fine as long as they are cute and don't look like neckbeards and are suitably disdainful of masculinity but also not too trender-y, and this whole thing about harry potter is kind of overblown but you can't say that because trans people looove to cancel people. I don't want to write stuff for people who hold these beliefs if I can avoid it! Writing non-harry potter related stuff is the best way to avoid it right now.

If some of these statements feel challenging to you - I was there once too, as a confused angry teenager who felt like gay people were trying to make me feel bad about myself. The social media landscape genuinely makes change more painful than it has to be. Personally, working to humanise and listen to people I was unthinkingly taught to disregard, ignore, disdain or pity has been one of the most rewarding projects of my life, even though by definition it will probably never be complete, and also it can be difficult and vulnerable. I hope you can find it rewarding too. If you're mostly like 'wow, I for real didn't hear about any of this', happy for you, there are links below so you know what's up and can identify some messages you might have absorbed without knowing it.

I won't be updating this blog with any more analyses. Thanks for reading, especially if you had to push through discomfort or fear to do so, and for liking my analyses enough to follow! If you have questions, here are some good resources to look at:

the basics of 'what does trans mean, like, practically?';

a great primer on what we actually know about trans people in britain (useful for outside-of-britain questions too);

a video introducing jk rowling's contribution to anti-trans movements and the discussion of whether to separate the art from the artist, and, if you're interested, a dry but short video about some of her direct links to conservative anti-trans and anti-gay groups in the us and uk

if you have more questions after looking at these, the facebook group 'You Might Wanna Learn More About Trans People' is an active group where you can ask them, anonymously if you want to.

#harry potter #jk rowling #wand analysis #it was hard to write this! been putting it off for a while while I live my gay life #I don't want to be the subject of the National Debate. it sucks.#I am a privileged person. many of my friends get hit a lot harder by this stuff & it kills me!#anyway if this is useful for 1 person then mission achieved.

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naazaif327 · 6 months

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I think as someone who was a huge fan of HP as a kid/teenager (it was a really big bonding thing for my sister and I and it got me through some hard times), I'm just deeply bored by the current discourse/criticisms about it outside of Rowling's transphobia. Like, I agree that we shouldn't be buying hp stuff or posting about it in fandom spaces anymore because that promotes her work and gives her more money, but I also think that should extend to the people who won't stop making posts trying to go viral that are like "the houses don't make sense and are actually really problematic" or "the money and sports systems are deeply strange and awful", like the reasons for those things are extremely obvious:

They started out as books for children and she needed to make it clear that the protagonists were brave heroes you should emulate (gryffindor) and that the bad children who were bullies that you shouldn't be like were easily identifiable and literally colour-coded (slytherin). The world-building doesn't stand up to real logic because it was just supposed to be Wacky Wizard Stuff to fit the aesthetic which is why the money breaks down into odd or quirky numbers, and the rules of magic don’t line up perfectly because it’s more about being fun and strange in the moment. The purpose of Quidditch was for Harry to be the hero star player, hence the Seeker's main role and the golden snitch being so many points.

The books then get more serious/heavy as they continue on, which of course puts up a magnifying glass to the ephemeral edges of the world’s internal logic. Its all deeply simple stuff, but the same people I see telling everyone to never talk about the series again won't stop bringing up these critiques as though its this huge dunk on Rowling rather than another way in which Harry Potter remains within the cultural zeitgeist.

Many great fantasy books written by kind, goodhearted people do the exact same thing, deemphasizing internal world-building logic and stone-set magic rules in favour of interesting aesthetics and character-focused storytelling. This is not why JK Rowling or HP is bad, it’s because of the bigotry so apparent in her as a person AND in her writing. Pointing out over and over that children’s book for children doesn’t hold up to sharp scrutiny to continue talking about it forever feels the exact same to me as people who still discuss about it as fans.

#harry potter

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thegirlwhowrites642 · 2 years

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Many people portrays hermione as ginny's best friend & in romoine fights ginny will always took hermione's side, she consider even naming her child after her or it was hermione who told ginny to restart DA in DH or IN DH she misses hermione in DH as much as she misses Harry & her brother.

What are your thoughts on their friendship? Do you think they were bffs? please do share

I don't know if you remember but I said I had lost this ask... it reappeared (Tumblr, Idk what problems you have but I've studied coding for four years maybe I can help). The person who had sent this one was kind enough to send it again, bringing up some new points:

There are some points that are brought up that I'd like to answer before getting into a study of their dynamic.

Ginny taking Hermione's side in romione arguments -> a while ago I wrote this one-shot of a conversation between Ginny and Ron (here), and I made a point of saying that Ginny was extremely annoyed at Hermione for setting the canaries on Ron. One of the basic rules of having siblings is that you can wish them to die and go very near provoking their death, but the moment someone attacks your sibling they can consider themselves dead. This is like having siblings 101. I'm sure that in a situation like the Yule Ball, Ginny could have easily said "Yeah, Ron is a bit of a blind idiot" or something like that, but it's very different from taking a side against him.

Hermione telling Ginny to re-build the DA -> well, I've never seen this one, but look at that, another thing to be angry about. This has nothing to do with friendship, and everything to do with wanting to downplay Ginny's actions in favor of Hermione.

Ginny considering naming Lily after Hermione -> I don't think this ever happened. If you see the Potter kids' names, the only members of the family honored are the dead ones. Hermione is legally family, she's already the aunt of these kids and James' godmother. Luna is not technically family so it makes much more sense. Plus, how weird it would have been to name a kid after Hermione but not one after Ron?

Ginny wanting Hermione while she's giving birth -> I've never seen this one and it's such a weird one. Is it even allowed to have more than one person (usually the father) there with you? Why would Ginny want there someone who hasn't even ever given birth? I don't think Ginny would even want Mrs. Weasley there. I live in the firm belief that the only person who should be there with you is the one you can insult for putting you in that situation. Anyway, even if Ginny and Hermione were the closest of friends it would still be super weird.

For the Ginny missing Hermione like Harry and Ron... well, let's start with the analysis:

How and why do Ginny and Hermione become friends?

Ginny and Hermione get to know each other through Ron, Ginny's brother, and Hermione's best friend. During CoS we don't see relevant interactions between them, to have that we need to wait for PoA.

They headed down to breakfast, where Mr. Weasley was reading the front page of the Daily Prophet with a furrowed brow and Mrs. Weasley was telling Hermione and Ginny about a love potion she’d made as a young girl. All three of them were rather giggly. -Chapter 5, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling

Here we are at the Leaky Cauldron, so at the beginning of the book, we see Ginny and Hermione giggling with Mrs. Weasley who is telling a story about a love potion she made in her youth. There's not only the implication that they are friendly but they are already separated from the rest as the girls. It makes sense. Ginny has been surrounded by boys her all life, especially considering she didn't go to elementary school, and during her first year she didn't really have the opportunity to make friends. Hermione, who shows terrible social skills and inability to fit in with the other girls at school and has two boys as best friends, in the close-knit environment of the Weasleys family is easily drawn to Ginny who also happens to be nearly two years younger than Hermione and therefore probably a less intimidating social interaction.

How close are they?

Ginny, who was huddled in her corner looking nearly as bad as Harry felt, gave a small sob; Hermione went over and put a comforting arm around her. -Chapter 5, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling

On the train, after the dementor's attack, Ginny lets out a sob and Hermione is the one that goes to comfort her (while Ginny's brother is in the room, so not a necessary action). There's a certain level of friendliness between the two. This could be also due to the fact that technically there was a relevant interaction between them in CoS, even if not direct, when Hermione was petrified. There's a possibility that their first real conversation was something along the lines of "Sorry for setting a basilisk on you" and "Don't worry, I know you were being possessed by a Dark Lord". There are very few interactions that can be classified as uncomfortable if that is your ice breaker.

Then two girls appeared in the kitchen doorway behind Mrs. Weasley. One, with very bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth, was Harry's and Ron's friend, Hermione Granger. The other, who was small and red-haired, was Ron's younger sister, Ginny. Both of them smiled at Harry, who grinned back, which made Ginny go scarlet — she had been very taken with Harry ever since his first visit to the Burrow. -Chapter 5, Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire, JK Rowling

In GoF they are undeniably friends, they arrive on the scene together. During the summer they have plenty of occasions to form a bond, they sleep in the same room and then again in the same tent. During the year we even see them having breakfast together:

When he'd finally got all his clothes on the right parts of his body, he hurried off to find Hermione, locating her at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall, where she was eating breakfast with Ginny. -Chapter 20, Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire, JK Rowling

We know that by this point they are used to sharing confidences. Ginny knows that Hermione is going to the Yule Ball with Krum, something Hermione's supposed best friends have no idea about:

"I've already told you!" Hermione said very angrily. "I'm going with someone else!" And she stormed off toward the girls' dormitories again. "She's lying," said Ron flatly, watching her go. "She's not," said Ginny quietly. "Who is it then?" said Ron sharply. "I'm not telling you, it's her business," said Ginny. -Chapter 22, Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire, JK Rowling

This is also the year Hermione gives the advice to Ginny about trying to explore other romantic possibilities besides Harry. I would dare say that Hermione has a far more reciprocal emotional connection with Ginny than Harry. I bet that if we had the books from Ginny's pov we would know the names of Hermione's parents.

“We’ve got a busy day tomorrow. I expect Ginny’s asleep,” she added to Hermione, “so try not to wake her up.” “Asleep, yeah, right,” said Fred in an undertone, after Hermione bade them good night and they were climbing to the next floor. “If Ginny’s not lying awake waiting for Hermione to tell her everything they said downstairs, then I’m a flobberworm. . . .” -Chapter 6, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling

When Mrs. Weasley doesn't let Ginny into the Order meeting, Fred knows that Ginny will wait for Hermione's retelling of the whole thing. This is the narrative letting us know that Ginny will know just as much as the other characters about the matter while building Ginny's storyline of always being overprotected and hating it. But in terms of Ginny's friendship with Hermione, it is quite telling that even Fred is so aware of the bond of trust between the two girls. It's funny how we always see Ginny as, due to her distance from Harry, the one that wasn't let in, because the books are from Harry's pov, but that same distance hid from Harry a whole set of dynamics too.

Hermione is also the one that knows about Ginny's boyfriend, Michael:

“I don’t like him much either,” admitted Hermione, “but he overheard me talking to Ernie and Hannah at the Hufflepuff table and he seemed really interested in coming, so what could I say? But the more people the better really — I mean, Michael Corner and his friends wouldn’t have come if he hadn’t been going out with Ginny —” Ron, who had been draining the last few drops from his butterbeer bottle, gagged and sprayed butterbeer down his front. -Chapter 16, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling

And of Ginny's so well-protected secret of her Quidditch training (admittedly, considering that they slept in the same room, it would've been impossible to not know):

“Come on, Ginny’s not bad,” said George fairly, sitting down next to Fred. “Actually, I dunno how she got so good, seeing how we never let her play with us. . . .” “She’s been breaking into your broom shed in the garden since the age of six and taking each of your brooms out in turn when you weren’t looking,” said Hermione from behind her tottering pile of Ancient Rune books. -Chapter 26, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling

For obvious reasons, we know mainly things that Hermione knows about Ginny. Ginny's emotional sphere, secrets, and dating life are far more relevant to Harry's life and story than Hermione's. But the implication is always of two friends sharing personal matters:

“Harry’s snogged Cho Chang!” shouted Ginny, who sounded close to tears now. “And Hermione snogged Viktor Krum, it’s only you who acts like it’s something disgusting, Ron, and that’s because you’ve got about as much experience as a twelve-year-old!” -Chapter 14, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling

That Ginny and Hermione have always gotten along really well is something that is even confirmed by Harry:

Harry and Ron stared: Hermione and Ginny, who had always got on together very well, were now sitting with their arms folded, glaring in opposite directions. -Chapter 24, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling

But now that we have seen the nature of their relationship let's look at the thing with a bit more context.

I explained before how Ginny's second year was dedicated to her recovery from the diary-Chamber situation (here), therefore she probably didn't have the opportunity to make a lot of friends, but as we know, this situation changes. In GoF, we see her finally getting out of her shell even in front of Harry and by the start of OotP we have this:

The moment they reached Gryffindor’s, Ginny was hailed by some fellow fourth years and left to sit with them; [...]. -Chapter 11, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling

This is the first day back at school, so obviously, these are friends she made during the previous year. As it will be reinforced plenty of times between OotP and HBP, Ginny has all this social life that doesn't include the trio, that doesn't include Hermione. While Ginny is close with Hermione's two best friends, the ones Hermione is always with, there are plenty of other people Ginny spends her time with, including two quite stable boyfriends. Besides Micheal and Dean (who we already know), none of these people are close enough friends for us to know their names but they are still people she enjoys spending her time with. We do not see in fact Ginny being constantly around Hermione. Them being in different years surely factors in but what I'm trying to say is that while they are undeniably close, this closeness is brought a lot by circumstantial reasons rather than a desire to spend all their time together.

It's true that Ginny confides in Hermione about Harry, but it's not like she has other options besides keeping it entirely to herself. Who else would understand? Hermione is the only person not related to Ginny with who she can have a fully honest and useful conversation regarding Harry. But this is not only about Harry. There's this whole side of their lives related to Voldemort and the Order that they can't really talk with anyone else about. And it's true that Hermione knows about Ginny's passion for Quidditch before everyone else but as I said before, they slept in the same room for entire summers, of course, she knew. But Ginny having Hermione in her room is due to Ron inviting Hermione. You see? It's always the set of circumstances that brings them to sharing secrets and becoming inevitably close.

That they do not have the most compatible of personalities is no secret. Hermione hates to be told she's wrong and Ginny is the last person on earth who will just let you talk shit without stopping you:

“— got a reputation for Potions brilliance you don’t deserve,” said Hermione nastily. “Give it a rest, Hermione!” said Ginny, and Harry was so amazed, so grateful, he looked up. “By the sound of it, Malfoy was trying to use an Unforgivable Curse, you should be glad Harry had something good up his sleeve!” “Well, of course I’m glad Harry wasn’t cursed!” said Hermione, clearly stung. “But you can’t call that Sectumsempra spell good, Ginny, look where it’s landed him! And I’d have thought, seeing what this has done to your chances in the match —” “Oh, don’t start acting as though you understand Quidditch,” snapped Ginny, “you’ll only embarrass yourself.” -Chapter 24, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling

Obviously here Ginny is being protective of Harry but it's interesting the contrast with how Harry and Ron usually react to Hermione doing this type of thing. Ron finds it endearing in a way, he will debate with Hermione and discuss it with her. Harry mainly internalizes his anger and even when he responds aggressively he is not able to put a firm point to the discussion. Ginny, on the other hand, is often seen having absolutely no problem drawing clear lines with people, and look how firmly she responds when Hermione tries to emotionally manipulate her using Quidditch.

Hermione also tries to take the big sister approach that she has with Harry with Ginny too:

Only the previous day, Hermione had told him off for distracting Ginny when she ought to be working hard for her examinations. -Chapter 25, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling

Now, we don't have Ginny's feelings about the matter but seeing her track record she probably wasn't that pleased.

This obviously doesn't change the fact that there must be something that they enjoy about each other or there wouldn't be all this level of trust between them. Hermione is a very loyal person, that's something that surely someone like Ginny deeply appreciates, we see Hermione enjoying Ginny's sense of humor, so there's that too. They also both dislike Fleur but that doesn't really count because they have different reasons for it.

I think that if I had to summarize this relationship I would say that the secret of it being so successful is that they are not constantly around each other. In fact, I would be really curious to see how the last year at Hogwarts went.

My predictions for the development of this friendship

Ginny and Hermione are close, and they always will be. They become family, there's no way out of it. Do I think they spend their time with each other constantly or have a weekly lunch? Probably not, especially when they start having children. But they have been through a lot together and while that doesn't necessarily mean that people can't grow apart in the future, that is not really an option for them considering that they are related.

To answer the question "would Ginny miss Hermione as much as she misses Ron and Harry during DH?", probably not as much. Brother and love of her life against close friend, I mean... it's not really the same thing but I'm sure she missed her and that Hermione missed Ginny, especially when Ron was gone if I had to place my bet. Hermione there could have really used the friend she had shared confidences with for years.

There's a clear storyline in the books of Ginny being the fourth member of the group, her line of separation being the Voldemort-related problems, and it starts in the third book (if you guys have a little patience I'm eventually going to talk about this).

And to answer the question that I've often seen regarding who was Ginny's maid of honor, yes it was probably Hermione. This would be true even if maybe Ginny became closer to Luna than Hermione during DH, something we have no evidence of. Hermione, even if not yet married to Ron, was pretty much family and there are all those implications when it comes to this kind of thing. And honestly, the girl deserves it. All those years of emotional investment in Harry and Ginny's relationship and you don't even make her the maid of honor? Come on.

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South Park Main Four Dancing HC’s

(Head Canons By Someone Who Can’t Dance For Shit)

[This was supposed to just be about dancing but I got a tad side tracked, so there is some bits about their music taste in there, too. Enjoy!! (ʃƪ ˘ ³˘)♡]

Main four + Butters bonus

Kenny McCormick:

- Unintentionally good.

- The way he dances is slightly feminine but not at all girly. (just smoother, more control over his hips, his limbs move in a satisfying, flowy way, less stiff, etc.)

- He takes the male role when slow dancing/waltzing/grinding, etc.(had to add the last one because he TOTALLY is the type to be shamelessly grinding on the dance floor) but with salsa dancing he sometimes likes to take the feminine role, just because he thinks it’s fucking hilarious.

- Finds a way to dance to any song. Like Peruvian pan flute music.

- Dances when he’s happy

- Confident Dancer

- Really satisfying to look at

- Isn’t aware that he’s good at dancing, because he doesn’t really think dancing is something you can be “good” or “bad” at, it’s just shaking your body in all directions and not giving a fuck about what anyone thinks

- Would never judge someone for how they dance

- “Twerks” (just throws his back back, and calls it twerking)

- Dances with friends to cheer them up (like in that one Harry Potter scene, where Harry dances with Hermione to cheer her up (fuck JK Rowling but that scene is adorable))

- Often dances with Karen, free and fun entertainment

- he still listens to CD’s/cassette tapes, because he can’t afford an Apple Music/Spotify/SoundCloud subscription and he had some old CD/cassette players laying around that he fixed up. Cartman rips on him for this, telling him to “get with the times”, but he doesn’t care.

- He doesn’t have spotify because he can’t skip songs, which is super annoying because he throws every song he likes into one big playlist. So when he’s listening to relaxing songs, he wants to be able to skip the heavy metal Slipknot song that comes on right after. He does have Soundcloud because there are less ads than Spotify, and he can skip songs, but he honestly prefers CDs and cassettes at this point.

- Drags people to the dance floor at parties

- Likes songs with dirty or doltish/childish lyrics

- Listens to stuff like ice ice baby and careless whisper

- But also to stuff like Cherry Pie and Louder Harder Faster by Warrant

Stan Marsh:

- Stan dances like a mom;,.. Or a wine-drunk Randy

- At times Horribly offbeat

- Can’t tell if he got his moves from Randy or Sharon

- A bit of a stiff dancer

- Bad but in a charming way, that’s fun to look at

- Knows he sucks, but doesn’t care

- He has potential but he lacks a sense of rhythm and all his moves are at least 20 years old

- The confidence he oozes makes his uncool moves not seem awkward but more endearing

- Still does stuff like that one scuba dance move, or the thing with the peace signs over the eyes

- Loves playing Just Dance with Kenny. Kenny just does it as a stress reliever but Stan tryhards, determined to beat Kenny’s ass at least once.

- He and Kenny usually dance together at parties, leaving Kyle to look for Stan everywhere (because he never announces where he’s going, he just sees Kenny on the dance floor and beelines in his direction.

- When Stan & Kenny are REAAALLy drunk, the dancing gets weirdly sensual (like Stan holding Kenny’s hips from behind, or vise versa) just because they think it’s fucking hilarious. There isn’t any actual sexual tension, just friends goofing around. sometimes they accumulate a little (mostly female) audience when they do this. The girls wolf whistle and yell shit like “Yeah, baby! shake that! (Which—let’s face it—are usually Bebe/Red or Heather) Nichole and Wendy usually just stands there, amused, trying to suppress laughs, cheering them on.

- Sometimes, (If Stan & Wendy aren’t fighting/broken up) Wendy will tap Kenny’s shoulder and ask if she can steal his Date from him. Kenny very politely backs off, but not before giving Stan a big, sloppy kiss on the hand/cheek and mouthing stuff like “call me” (with the accompanied hand sign, ofc) while getting dragged off by Bebe.

- The one thing he is actually good at is slow dancing, he spent hours upon hours practicing with Kyle because he was scared he’d step on Wendy’s feet (and he had good reason, Kyle’s toes suffered more than one could count) He could’ve asked Kenny for help, but dancing like that in a serious way—not just fucking around—while sober was way too vulnerable (Plus, he would rather slow dance with Kyle).

- Stan begs Kyle to dance with him all the time but Kyle isn’t that big on dancing, at least not in public

- Stan also listens to CD’s and cassettes, but he likes it for the “aesthetic”. He and Kenny exchange CD’s and cassettes every few weeks so that they can listen to each others recommendations. Kenny likes literally almost any genre, so he almost always digs the music Stan picks for him. But Stan has a more particular music taste and has gotten back to Kenny with a “Dude, wtf was that” more than a few times. Kenny has gotten really good and guessing what Stan will, and won’t like, though. So that rarely ever happens anymore.

- Very passionate about music

- Metalhead (duhhh)

- Aggressively sings along to songs

Kyle Broflovski:

- Also aggressively sings along to songs (He can’t sing)

- Not good but not bad

- Also a bit stiff

- Usually just nods along to the music

- Doesn’t hate dancing but just doesn’t do it as often as Stan & Kenny

- Prefers dancing alone in his room, or with Stan rather than out in public

- Not a big fan of the dance floor, but after a drink or two he can be persuaded

- A good slow dancer, taught by Sheila… against his will

- Likes watching Kenny and Stan dance. Specifically Stan, something about the way he dances so confidently uncool and manages not to look awkward mesmerizes him. Kenny just moved like a flowy piece of fabric, anyone would find it satisfying to look at.

- While teaching Stan how to slow dance, Stan would sometimes twirl him (that’s not a part of slow dancing, but Stan just thinks it’s more fun that way) and he’d sometimes twirl Stan too, but he couldn’t do it more than twice in a row before Stan would get nauseous and almost throw up (either from the twirling or from something else? ;))

- Usually watches on the couch while Kenny and Stan play just dance, and usually getting successfully coaxed into playing with them for just oneeee song

- Likes the cure (END OF DISCUSSION, THIS IS NOT EVEN A HC, IT’S CANON)

- Likes rock and jazz

- When he does dance it’s usually kind of laid back (Unlike Stan and Kenny who throw their entire soul into it) Because he’s a but more conscious of all the eyes around them. But he can definitely let loose when you mix the right amount of booze… or when he’s tryharding Just Dance

- On the rare occasion that he can actually find them, he’ll cheer on Stan and Kenny, too

- Kyle usually gets the aux, Kenny used to get a chance but after he put on “No Cock Like Horse Cock” by Pepper Coyote for the third time, they made a unanimous decision to put him on timeout

- Still uses the same ipod he’s been using since 2013 to listen to music

Eric Cartman:

- Does not dance

- Refuses to dance

- He just stands there with his arms crossed, tapping his foot at most

- Except when lady gaga comes on, he’ll give a whole performance

- Most definitely dances when no one is watching

- Likes hiphop

- Definitely thinks he can rap

- Blares along to every song

- Out of breath after the most minimal of dancemoves

- Gets his panties in a twist when Stan and Kenny “fag it up” at parties

(Bonus)Butters:

- Somehow even more off beat than Stan, in an awkward way

- Too shy to dance at first, but once he starts there is no holding him back

- Seriously, what the fuck is this guy doing?

- Flaps around his arms and calls it a dance move

- Really fun to dance with

- plays christmas music in July

- one word: Gangnam Style and Baby Shark

- Those are five words

- But seriously, never let this guy do the music, you’ll regret it immediately

All:

- I saw this in a fanfic once, but it’s perfect. They definitely all sing along to The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang. I will stand by this till I die!

That was it!! (for now), I spent waaaaay too long doing this and as you can probably tell I got lazy towards the end. (But tbh I didn’t rlly have any ideas for Cartman/Kyle, like I feel like they could go a lot of ways.)

I hope it wasn’t too long,, or too short. Let me know some of your HC’s if you feel like it, I love reading them!

Is anyone gonna read this ya think?

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