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            SKAM character posters | which one will you be?

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Loki protecting/saving others.

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hogwarts houses: hufflepuff

you might belong in hufflepuff, where they are just and loyal, those patient hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil

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Credence Barebone

This boy needs safety and love and protection and he got none of it. I’m sad. So, I decided to draw him because he was one of my favorite characters in the movie.

Give Credence a hug.

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Okay, Harry Potter fans. I have a question for you, that I’ve never been able to get a proper answer to, so I’m going to see if one of you have one.

Why does so many people talk about wanting a Marauders movie/tv show?

With Fantastic Beasts coming out, I’ve seen more comments about this than ever. Along the lines of “Why would you make a movie about this instead of the Marauders?” or “Not interested, tell me when they make a marauders movie instead” or “Doesn’t JKR get that all we want is a Marauders movie??”.

I have never understood it. 

I dont’ undestand this need for a marauders movie. I just don’t. (Only way I could ever see it work, though I still wouldn’t want it, would be if the main character we followed was Lily Evans, but I’ll get to that later.)

Firstly, I don’t get the need to see that story. And secondly, I don’t think it would work. Both story wise and production wise.

Like, I get that the Marauders are popular in fandom, I do. I like reading funny headcanons and see cool fanart, all of that, Remus Lupin is one of my favorite characters. But having the marauders as the protagonists for a movie or a series? No. No way.

I think I can pinpoint what’s putting me off the most. You’re supposed to be able to root for your protagonist. Even if they’re occasionally villainous (like say, Black Sails), you’re supposed to see where they are coming from.

Fact is, the marauders, or at least James and Sirius, with the others also tagging along, where not very pleasant people for most of their teenage years. We know and are told that developed and changed, in different ways, later, and that’s great, it shows character growth and complexity. But to have series about James Potter, year 1-6? Why? I just don’t see the appeal.

“Yay, here we have the marauders, they’re spunky and funny and pull pranks on the teachers and are really good friends. They’re also bullies/goes along with bullying, James cheered on by Sirius humiliates a boy in front of his entire class, and suggests that Lily should date him to get him to stop.” 

I’m sorry, but no. No no no.

(“But what about something that’s only their seventh year-” shhhhhh. No. Like, you don’t just get to ignore the bad things a character did to get your fanfiction on screen. I think that’s doing a disservice to some very complex character work and a fundamental theme of the HP franchise - that people can change.)

First Wizarding war? Sure. But that’s still, I think, a story that’s already told. We know so much about it, we know how it begins and we know how it ends. There’s no story to tell there for me. Also Remus is not really around, and we would get no background for the characters. So that doesn’t get my interest either.

Like, the marauders were bullies. There’s no getting away from that. They were greatly supportive of their friends, and that’s a good quality, and they were almost all of them, good people in the end. But no matter what your opinion on Severus Snape is, what they did to him was horrific, and contributed to the person he became later. Besides, even if you don’t give a shit about Snape (which, seriously, even Harry who hates Snape was horrified about what happened), that’s not a pleasant way to treat Lily, that’s not a pleasant way to treat anyone. And it’s implied that they bullied other people too, but I guess that’s just ‘haha funny pranks’. 

And like, moving away from that, I just don’t see what the story would be. Them hanging out in school? Isn’t that what fanfiction is for? Not in a bad way, just like, that is what fanfiction is for, isn’t it? I just don’t get what people want out of it. 

Besides, a lot of you seem to hate whenever JKR adds something to her work that doesn’t go along with your headcanon. And I get that, even though I think people can be a bit too aggressive about it at times. But would you really want for more ‘canon’ information about the marauders? When there’s like, so much headcanons and fanfictions already? No one’s going to be pleased. With for example Fantastic Beasts, we’re getting a fresh start with an almost completely new set of characters.  

The only way I could ever imagine a Marauders tv show (and I am completely scrapping the movie idea. What would the plot be? The conflict?) working, on a theoretical level, is if Lily Evans was the main character. Seeing her struggle with her sister, with becoming distanced from her best friend who’s moving closer to dark magic, with a more bigoted magical society, seeing her interact with the marauders, slowly getting to know them better much later, etc, now THAT could be interesting. I’d still not want it, because I think that’s story is already told in the Potter books as much as it could be, but I could possibly see that.

So, what I’m wondering is - what is the idea of a marauders tv show or movie that you all seem to have? Because you can write fanfiction all you want, that’s great, but the image of the marauders presented in the books, are not something I personally could stand behind and follow a story for. 

(I hope none of you take offense to the fact that I’m putting this in the tags. Because I am genuinely curious. I think the marauders are interesting characters. But I don’t see the appeal of shouting for a movie of tv show. And I want to know other perspectives of that.)

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Alternative title: “Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me”

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Me after having seen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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Ezra’s beasts day!

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I know it’s election night and people couldn’t care less (understandably), but to take my mind of that for a minute, I’m going Fantastic Beasts and where to Find Them and the Johnny Depp casting. Thing is, I’m not that happy about Johnny Depp being cast as Grindelwald. I mean, I’m kind of neutral, but he wouldn’t have been my first choice. While he is a brilliant actor, I feel that he’s very much gotten stuck in a circle of playing ‘character’ characters recently, and I don’t want Grindelwald to be that. Still, if the casting department thought that he was right for the role, I’ll reserve judgement until I see him.

What pisses me off to no end is people’s reaction to it. Like, yes, sure, be upset about media’s treatment of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp divorce. Consider him an awful human. Go ahead.

But don’t tell people they’re ‘supporting domestic abuse’ if they go see the movie. Don’t say that WB and JKR are supporting domestic abuse for hiring him. The first one is stupid but the second one literally makes no sense. 

Like, firstly, Johnny Depp was cast for this role and probably filmed what little he has in the first movie sometime during 2015. Amber Heard’s lawsuit and their divorce didn’t happen until 2016. There’s no way they could have known that. And it is very hard to fire an actor mid-production, if that if the road you would have wanted them to take. This is the same thing that I said when  Zethu Dlomo allegedly made homophobic tweets (they were later apparently deleted)  while also being in the then upcoming third season of Black Sails, a show that has gotten positive feedback for its lgbt+ inclusiveness. She would have made those tweets in November, several months after season 3 was already done shooting. Casting departments can’t see the future.

Secondly, you can’t apply moral absolutism to this, but tumblr does it all the time, and this is where I get properly angry. Did you know that a lot of actors do horrible things, and not everything gets blown up all over media? If I had to step away from a movie because an actor had done something awful, I would see very little tv and cinema. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you can’t be uncomfortable or angry about it. It’s a personal line, and I’ve written about this before, but I couldn’t find the post. There are personal lines for where you can separate the art from the artist. Personally, I can’t stand to ever go near a Roman Polanski movie. He was never convicted for his crime and escaped justice, and that is abhorrent to me, and I can’t find any enjoyment in that. That doesn’t mean I’ll go crucify my friends if they feel like they can watch his movies. I can watch Tom Cruise movies a lot, while being aware that Tom Cruise is very much a scientologist. So I’m all for you yourself deciding what you want to support. But don’t tell others they’re supporting domestic abuse if they’re seeing a movie with Johnny Depp in it. Are you supporting every bad thing made by every actor in every movie you watch? Because oh boy do I have some news for you when it comes to some of tumblr’s favorites. Also, does this imply that if you weren’t aware of a shitty thing an actor/director/anyone involved in a movie ever, has done, that you should need to feel guilty about spending money on that thing? I’m curious how people would argue around that. 

Also, I want to highlight the fact that the accusations against Johnny Depp were dropped because Amber Heard and he decided to settle the matter privately, which they did, went out with a joint statement, she was paid (and donated it all to charity) and they went their separate ways. I’m not saying that you need to love Johnny Depp because of that, but it’s important to the point I’m making.

Because the moment you say that ‘Johnny Depp as someone who was accused of domestic abuse shouldn’t have a career anymore’ you’re walking a very fine line. If your idea of a law system is that an abuser, whether they’re convicted and punished for it, or settles it some other away, should continue to constantly be punished by society after that, I see where you’re coming from. These are very strong emotions. I understand, I really do. I understand being angry that awful people seemingly continue to get rewarded, that’ll happen with actors because they’re in the public eye, but in a more personal space as well this will happen. And you should be angry about media and industry controversy when for example men and women are treated differently in these cases, and with the victim-blaming going on in make of these situations. But the thing is, if you adopt that view of the world, that everything has to be 100% morally pure for you to accept it, you can’t stop at abusers. That’s not how it will work. You can’t make a limited amount of crimes that will count. The result is that whoever commits a crime, even if they’re punished for it and set free by the law, they should be continued to be punished for it by society. And that’s some Jean Valjean being treated like dirt in Les Miserables bullshit right there. It’s just how you can’t take the ‘innocent until proven otherwise’ and just apply it in some cases. I get it, it sucks when guilty people walk free because lack of evidence. It’s awful. But we need it there for a reason. It’s a vital foundation of a democratic society in my eyes. And yes, I might be getting to fired up for a simple casting controversy, but this is a bigger problem. It’s a problem on tumblr as a whole. I get wanting to condemn people who’ve done awful, horrible things. But the way the majority (or at least the loud minority) of tumblr go about it, with this weird moral absolutism, is deplorable. You can’t function like that, that’s not how the world works. 

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vendettalee:

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she’s like a beautiful norse god come to life and she controls the cows

she’s actually Swedish artist and singer Jonna Jinton and she’s singing Kulning, an ancient Swedish herding call

will always reblog the ancient Swedish herding call.

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evans, weasley, potter.

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His Dark Materials fan appreciation month Week 2 - Favorite quote

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that’s an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.” - Mary Malone

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atla characters as pokemon go trainers

aang: gets really excited and catches every pokemon in sight no matter what it is

sokka: any gym he takes gets taken over in approximately 3 seconds (probably by toph or katara), puts incenses on only to find rattatas and pidgeys

zuko: doesn't catch anything for awhile and then when he catches one he names it honor

katara: best one in the gaang, puts lures on pokestops

toph: refuses any help and manages to catch every pokemon, claimed every gym in her area

suki: doesn't really understand the game but manages to find the rare pokemon much to sokka's distress

azula: on team valor, always powering up her strongest pokemon, forever in search of pikachu

mai: claims she doesn't care about the game and then proceeds to play and catch basic pokemon

ty lee: has probably been to more pokestops than anyone, very good at taking over gyms, hatched most eggs

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what she says: i'm fine

what she means: did Zuko ever meet that little boy from "Zuko Alone" again? that little gap-toothed troublemaker who treated Zuko like a brother? i know they parted on such bad terms when Zuko revealed his identity, and i really don't blame him because at that time Zuko was still kind of an asshole, but did they ever see each other after the war? did the little boy hear about how Zuko disowned his father and joined the Avatar? did he learn that Zuko was the one to fight Azula in that fateful battle? did Zuko visit an earth kingdom town one one of his royal trips and recognize him years later? did the little boy apologize for rejecting him? or did maybe he go to the fire nation to see if Zuko remembered him? did Zuko beg forgiveness for the crimes of the fire nation? did they make up? did they hug it out? did the little boy's brother survive the war? did he introduce him to Zuko? did Zuko insist on giving him the pearl dagger he tried to give him before he left? did the little boy accept it this time? did