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Hagrid is the grandma Norberto’s clutches deserve.

Whenever Hagrid finally decides to retire as Care of Magical Creatures professor you can bet your last knut that Charlie Weasley flies back to England the following week excitedly waving his resume and recommendation letters from no less than two Scamanders and the Minister of Magic, Hermione Granger.

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“THIS 16 YEAR OLD IS INCOMPETENT!”

By what standards???

Wade here thinks that because Greta had trouble answering a question on a stage in front of a bunch of people, she is not intelligent. 

“Why is this teenager not a perfect public speaker at all times!?”

I dunno, perhaps she has Asperger’s and is not super comfortable in social situations where she is required to be spontaneous. And despite all of that she is doing her best to push past her discomfort due to this cause being life or death.  

She prefers to write out her words beforehand (which she does on her own) because she knows this is a limitation of hers. She often finds ways to speak out that don’t require her speaking at all. And she’s quite brilliant at it.

“Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, it’s a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldn’t possibly have put myself in this position. But that’s exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been ”normal” and social I would have organized myself in an organization, or started an organization by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything. And sometimes NOT doing things - like just sitting down outside the parliament - speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.“

–Greta’s Facebook Post, Feb. 2

Also, she didn’t CRUMBLE in that clip. She was asked a broad, generic, lazy question for which the answer could only be some general platitude (that she also had to consider and respond to in her SECOND LANGUAGE). 

In her brain, the answer was probably just “fucking do something!” But she knew they wanted a soundbite. They were asking her to be a “spontaneously inspirational speaker” and that is not her thing–as she has stated multiple times. So, she asked another contributor to take that question. Big deal. 

I did stand up comedy and I loved being in front of people and I rarely got nervous. But I still had moments where it could be extremely intense and nervewracking–even with memorized material. On the occasions I had to improvise, the pressure increased tenfold. Expecting that kind of “performance” from her at all times is unfair. She has spoken eloquently many times and one instance where it was overwhelming does not speak to her intelligence or competency. 

She just got nervous, ya doof. 

Sorry if I am posting a lot about her, but Greta shouldn’t have to defend herself from all this nonsense. This is just one comment in a sea of right-wing bullies. They can’t refute the facts she has presented, so they go after her character. Or they invoke “child abuse” as if they care for her wellbeing. 

Or they do whatever this is…

Thankfully others are sticking up for her like this. But “eating on a train” has to be one of the most desperate hot takes I’ve seen yet. 

Greta’s persistence impresses me. I think those of us who can speak up should try to show her we have her back and will not let these bullies prevail. 

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I agree and was a point on one of my previous posts.

So I posted this yesterday, and apparently Tumblr doesn’t let you caption conversations on reblog, didn’t know that. So I’m now awkwardly blogging a screenshot of my original post…. Anyway, this has been a strange post for me. I seem to have found the only way to get the normally very positive and inclusive GO fandom to send me hateful messages - by pointing out that as a nonbinary person, I’ve never had any positive representation in media, and having that in Crowley and Aziraphale is incredibly important to me. I have been sent angry and insulting messages because of this post. From GOOD OMENS fans of all people!

Look, if someone wants to headcanon them as gay males, that’s their business. But a lot of fans seem to think the entire world needs to agree with that headcanon. So let me elaborate on my original point and why respecting nonbinary representation in GO is so important.

I look female, but I’m not. I’ve been told my whole life that if I look female, I am female, and suffered from dysphoria-induced depression for decades as a result. I only overcame that depression as a result of watching Good Omens and realizing it doesn’t matter how you look on the outside, what matters is who you are on the inside. And I’m not female.

Aziraphale basically presents as male pretty much all the time. Crowley does not. He explicitly presents as female as the nanny, and also at Golgotha. In some other scenes he seems totally neutral or fluid, having masculine features but neutral or feminine mannerisms/personality. And in some scenes he presents as fully male. This is genderfluidity and it’s beautiful. By saying “I think he looks male and therefore he’s male”, you’re erasing that identity, and that’s something that happens to nonbinary people every day. It’s hurtful. It’s harmful. Don’t do it.

By saying “they look male and therefore they are male” you’re also implying that every nonbinary person who doesn’t look perfectly androgynous isn’t really nonbinary. People often can’t help how they look, or are nonbinary but don’t mind appearing gendered. This type of labeling is incredibly hurtful to nonbinary people.

Representation is critical. Gay representation in the media is important! It doesn’t happen as often as it should. But it NEVER happens for nonbinary people. We NEED this. We have NOTHING else. Why would anyone insist on taking that away from us?

I’ve seen comments that if they’re both nonbinary, that means they are the same gender, and therefore the word “gay” applies. I disagree. Some nonbinary people call themselves gay, but most do not. Queer is a more common (and inclusive) word (and I wouldn’t object to people calling them queer at all). In any case, they are not always the same gender. “Nonbinary” is a very broad term and the expression of that category of gender is unique to each person. Aziraphale stays quite neutral while Crowley moves around along a masculine/feminine spectrum.

Good Omens is all about love and about being who you are above all else. If you want to think of them in your own head as gay men, that’s totally fine. But if you try to force that headcanon on other people, you’re trying to take something away from others who need representation at least as badly, if not more. I’d much prefer we all respect each other’s interpretations of the show and be the positive, loving, caring, diverse, accepting community I know we can be.

I wrote an essay about how the nonbinary representation in this show changed my life. If you want more of my thoughts on this, to understand how truly important this is, you can read it here: link.medium.com/5s6XD1tDZY

If you want to headcanon them as gay, you go right ahead. I wouldn’t try to take that away from anyone who gets something positive out of that idea. But please, stop insisting that your headcanon is more valid than the explicit canon in the text which is confirmed by the author, that they do not have biological sex or gender, and let us nonbinary folks have our very first positive piece of major media representation in history. That representation changed my life, and the lives of many others. We can all see what we want in this beautiful story, and no one needs to force their preferred interpretation on anyone else. 

Let’s be the positive, diverse, inclusive, loving, welcoming fandom I know we can be.

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So as much as we’re all “the angel and demon are gay for each other” these creatures are in fact neither male nor female. They look how they wish to the human world but in reality they are gender less. They are two creatures created by God for a specific reason with no thought to gender so they can choose what they want to present as. The femme look of Crowley and the gay look of Aziriphale are all because they are neither and can choose whatever they want without those biases. We humans are the ones that assign gender roles to EVERYTHING. Clothes, mannerisms, hairstyles, and yet it’s all in how we want to see and relate to the world. It’s easy to be gender fluid when you have none.

I am glad Neil Gaiman confirmed that Crowley was presenting as female during the crucifixion scene

Because I have seen people argue that his Nanny outfit was transphobic, and I happen to think that’s a bad take.  It would have been transphobic if the joke had been, “Ha ha, a man in a dress,” but instead the joke was, “Ha ha, demonic Mary Poppins.”  But, you know, even though I think it’s a bad take, I can kind of understand where it’s coming from.  We’ve been so socialized to think the joke is going to be, “Ha ha, a man in a dress,” that it’s difficult to put a man in a dress without the joke sort of popping up, if that makes any sense, whether the creator meant it or not.

But, if Crowley was presenting as female at the crucifixion scene, that’s a different angle.  Because nobody is drawing any attention to his presentation, and the only jokes going on have nothing to do with how he’s presenting himself.  (In fact, that scene is appropriately grim, overall.  The biggest joke is a very dark one about how of course preaching a message of love and peace will get you horrifically murdered by the government.)  Crowley’s presentation is just … there.

And if you ask me, that changes the context of the Mary Poppins bit a little bit, too.  Presenting as female is not something that Crowley did one time, for a disguise.  Presenting as female is just something he does every now and then.

I wish we’d seen a little more of it.  Another historical segment, closer to our own time, when “female presentation” looks a bit more like we’re used to seeing and the issue isn’t confused by everyone wearing robes.  But even so, I’m glad to have it there and even more glad to have it confirmed.

I bet that post-canon Crowley sometimes dresses up in a black dress to go to the opera with Aziraphale.  Probably with high heels that could kill a man and very snake-themed jewelry.

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“‘No’?” echoed the space emperor. “‘No’?! No one. Ever. Tells me. ‘No’.”

He advanced, close enough that the threads on his rich robes could be counted by the naked eye. After a furtive glance over his shoulder, he dropped his voice to a desperate whisper and said, “Could you… could you do it again? Please?”

“No.”

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I absolutely want this. Like now.

Hey everyone! We need your help to create the best party game ever!

Introducing… What The Plot?!

How does it work?

1.) Take a Prompt Card.

Ex. ’Tell us about the time a vampire hit on you.‘ 

2.) You have one minute to bullshit a story.

After the minute is up, the player next to you needs to continue your story and so on. 

However! There is also a pile of cards each with three words on it. Every turn you draw a card and have to use one of the three words from it in your story. Ex. breadstick, cactus, werewolf.’ If you don’t use one of the words during your turn, you lose points. If you can’t continue the story then you also lose points. And if your story is really awful, other players can play the ‘Boo Card’, causing you to lose a catastrophic amount of points. The player who is not the worst wins!

We have already found a supplier and a distribution center in both the US and Europe. We really want to know what you think. Let’s create this game together and make it the best it can possibly be. Are you in?

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You buy a brand new laptop and begin setting it up. There are three folders on the desktop labeled “data collection,” “backups,” and “DO NOT OPEN.”

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I would read this, watch it, write fanfic about it.

Consider:

A standard portal fantasy where a person falls through time and ends up in medieval times– but they have brightly colored hair.

They walk into the nearest tavern thinking this must be some novelty tourist trap, and as soon as people take one look at them they’re chased out with whatever cold iron tools the locals have on them, cries of “faerie!” ringing in their ears.

Keep reading

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Reblogging do I can find it again.

site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

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This is a jar full of major characters 

Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories. 

We’re sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls. 

Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left. 

This doesn’t last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left. 

And the thing about these bowls is, they don’t ever reset. We don’t get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, we’re still way behind from the bowl on the left. 

And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right. 

Until these are the bowls. 

Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other. 

This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

You can’t tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesn’t seem to make much of a change to this bowl. 

This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference. 

This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.

The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss. 

This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world. 

I mean, imagine your party guests arrive

Oh my god they are adorable!

And they see their bowls

But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girls’s eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girl’s bowl.

I think she’d be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?

But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girl’s bowl and moved them over to the black girl’s bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat. 

And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we don’t) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference we’ve already established insignificant. 

And that’s the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And that’s why every time a character’s race is ambiguous and we make them white, we’ve lost an opportunity.

*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*

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Jeff Goldblum is the hero we deserve.

i love how in jurassic park the woman has a phd and cargo shorts is out there solving problems and digging her hands in dinosaur poop for science 

but they still had to have a token sexy character so, instead of the usual screaming blonde with a torn shirt and tight shorts, we have him

the chaos “rock star” scientist who got a tiny bit bloody so he had to open his shirt all the way and rest his injured body in this very practical position

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I grew up hearing the phrase “you never stick with anything, what’s the point” a lot. I’ve always been attracted towards seemingly disconnected interests, and gone through phases of being really into something. But eventually my interest would fade and I would move onto something else. 

Or at least that’s always how it’s been phrased for me, by others. Now I realize that my interest for the old thing didn’t fade so much as my interest for something new outshined it, and that’s vastly different. 

I was always made to feel bad about it, with every abandoned endeavour I was told I needed to stop starting things if I wasn’t going to stick with them. I was told I was wasting time and money picking up these random interests and abandoning them after a year. 

So eventually, I stopped picking things up. I told myself “what’s the point, I’m going to give up in a year anyway”. Even worse, I started dismissing every new interest, because I had no way of knowing if my interest was “real” enough or just another passing phase. I stopped trying new things, I stopped looking up stuff that piqued my curiosity, and having chronic depression made it really easy to leave everything on the dirty floor of neglected ideas. The more they piled up, the more depressing it was. All these things that could be nice, but I just can’t take care of them. 

I realize now how bullshit that kind of thinking is. So what if I stopped doing karate after a year? That’s one more year of karate than most people I know. And in that year I learned discipline, I learned to listen to a teacher, something I had never done before in all my years of private education. I learned the true meaning of respect, that it’s something you do out of faith at first and maintain as it’s reciprocated, not something you do blindly and regardless of how you’re treated. 

It gave me the foundation for the determination and grounding I needed to practice yoga. Another year. Not enough to be good at it maybe, but again a year more than most people I know and a year that is not lost, but gained. I learned balance, I learned to listen to my body, I learned how to let go of emotional tightness through physical stretching. 

And then iaido, only a few weeks because I couldn’t afford to keep going. The year of yoga I had done a couple years previous had given me a better starting point than the other newcomers to the class. I already had balance, I had strength in my legs and I had better posture. In those months I learned the importance of precision, the true definition of efficacy, the zen state that is incessant repetition. 

Did I practice long enough to get good at iaido, and yoga, and karate? No. Of course not. It takes years to become proficient and decades to master any of those things, but I learned other skills and those skills were an invaluable part of my growth both spiritually and emotionally. Likewise for my forays into painting, sewing, graphic design, film. I’m a photography student now heading into my second year of school, and every single second of practice I have in those other disciplines has given me more experience in those areas and made learning easier. 

Skills carry over. They intersect and connect in ways that are sometimes unexpected. Nothing is ever lost, experience is never a waste of time or worthless or stupid. Allow your focus to wander, reflect on what you learn, and consider how you can keep using it in other aspects of your life. Stop telling people their interests aren’t worth their time. 

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Ah yes, the three genders: Girl, Boy, and Mischief

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This commercial voiceover is amazing.

my friend tweeted this at me because i won’t stop talking about good omens so of course i had to get out my Fancy Voiceover Microphone and make this fake drug commercial……. saturday morning funtimes indeed