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In my 30s || English Philologist, teacher and fic writer || Severus Snape and Snarry || Elementary, Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson || Doctor Who || Pedro Pascal & The Last of us || Tony Stark & Peter Parker. Check my AO3: memelovescaps.
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Pedro Pascal | "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" Blue Carpet Fan Event in Berlin, Germany | July 08, 2025
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The best part of the interview with SensaCine
“Quiero pedirles disculpas no más que me encanta morir. Hay que practicar por que nos va a pasar a todos… La muerte me quiere mucho”
PEDRO STOP!
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PEDRO PASCAL Materialists | dir. Celine Song
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#so broad
PEDRO PASCAL in Celine Song's Materialists
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PEDRO PASCAL The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.
Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.
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PEDRO PASCAL as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS 2025 | dir. Matt Shakman
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PEDRO PASCAL as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastics THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS 2025 | dir. Matt Shakman
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hands down one of my favorite scenes in the whole show. the fact that sherlock is taking it so much at face value, that he doesn't even question it because he sees how important it is to watson and it's not even more than a minute of consideration because she's the most important thing to him.
'for you, watson, i'd make adjustments. always.' just punch me in the face it'll make me feel less.
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The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.
My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.
All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.
I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!
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Huh, I always thought the movie having Hermione explain the slur was weird, since we have no indication that she was ever called that before, and while she can tell it's an insult, it makes more sense for Ron, who grew up in the wizarding world, to understand the severity of it than her, who's just entered the world a year prior. Knowing a word is a slur and having baggage with can be different. And it is severe—Draco says it, likely parroting his father, but we don't see anyone else really say it until politics get more fraught later on. I don't think regular students like Lavender or Parvati are throwing that word around, and not to Hermione's face. Isn't her initial lack of friends due to her attitude, not her blood status?
I think this comes back to a worldbuilding question that the books don't reeeally answer. Which is: how widespread is anti-muggleborn sentiment BEFORE Voldemort comes back? Like outside of your extremists and your cult members, what does your regular wizard citizen think about muggleborns? And how taboo do they consider the term "mudblood."
We know that being Muggle-born is definitely a notable trait. It's the first thing Rita Skeeter brings up when she mentions Hermione in her articles, and there seems to be a sort of... social climber narrative there? "a stunningly pretty Muggle-born girl" "a plain but ambitious girl" - I wonder if that might be a muggle-born, stereotype? That they're "scarlet women" (as per Mrs Weasley)? I mean, with the power/money of the wizarding world pretty firmly with the purebloods, muggle-borns are definitely a disenfranchised minority, so maybe a lot of them do try to marry up.
I also wonder if being muggle-born fuels some of Hermione's intense know-it-all tendencies, psychologically. She probably has feeling that she's constantly playing catch-up (so she better be insanely well prepared.) And a sense that - well she better not mess this up, because there's no safety net. Slughorn seems to have a sort of bigotry of low expectations around muggle-borns, seeming "much too surprised that a Muggle-born should make a good witch." Which would ALSO fuel Hermione's need to not just be good, but to be better, because that's the only way to get on even footing with the purebloods.
“Your mother was Muggle-born, of course. Couldn’t believe it when I found out. Thought she must have been pure-blood, she was so good.” “One of my best friends is Muggle-born,” said Harry, “and she’s the best in our year.” “Funny how that sometimes happens, isn’t it?” said Slughorn. “Not really,” said Harry coldly. Slughorn looked down at him in surprise. “You mustn’t think I’m prejudiced!” he said. “No, no, no! Haven’t I just said your mother was one of my all-time favorite students?"
It's clearly considered a bit rude to be too open about your muggle born prejudice - Slughorn doesn't want to seem prejudiced, especially after Harry doesn't respond to his subtle "Muggleborns, they're weird huh?" feeler. But Aunt Muriel, who has no problem being rude, is very happy to bring up anti muggle-born sentiment:
“Dumbledore’s mother was a terrifying woman, simply terrifying. Muggleborn, though I heard she pretended otherwise —”
and then when talking about Hermione:
‘Oh dear, is this the Muggle-born? (..._) Bad posture and skinny ankles.’
There's also Sirius' take that his parents were fans of Voldemort's politics, but not his methods:
They thought Voldemort had the right idea, they were all for the purification of the Wizarding race, getting rid of Muggleborns and having purebloods in charge. They weren’t alone either, there were quite a few people, before Voldemort showed his true colors, who thought he had the right idea about things. . . . They got cold feet when they saw what he was prepared to do to get power, though.
And then there's just how fast people start complying with the ministry anti-Muggleborn polices.
“People won’t let this happen,” said Ron. “It is happening, Ron,” said Lupin. “Muggle-borns are being rounded up as we speak.”
The the term "Mudblood" specifically - it's clearly something that Draco and Lucius feel very comfortable using, although Lucius probably is smart enough to only use it in private. Madame Malkin responds to Draco's use of it with a “I don’t think there’s any need for language like that!” So it's rude, but not not an everything-stops, slap-in-the-face, immediate-apology word. From what we see, the Weasleys react unusually explosively.
Obviously the Gaunts, the Blacks, and the Death Eaters drop "mudblood" all the time, but there's something in how it seems to become a neutral, almost official term at the Ministry during the Voldemort occupation. We have Pius Thicknesse say “If you ask me, the blood traitors are as bad as the Mudbloods," quite casually at work. A random pamphlet-maker idly says “Will the old hag be interrogating Mudbloods all day, does anyone know?” And maybe that's not so surprising, since one of the official pamphlets is called "Mudbloods and the Dangers they Pose to a Pure-Blood Society."
My read on all this is that anti-muggleborn prejudice is pretty common, and while Lavender and Parvati aren't calling Hermione "mudblood" to her face or anythng, they probably came to Hogwarts with certain preconceptions about muggleborns being -untrustworthy, or slow, or whatever. Like they've at least heard it somewhere, even if that's not the attitude their parents have. I'm sure it didn't help Hermione make friends. Especially in year one - Hermione doesn't have the social buffer that is Harry and Ron, and she hasn't made herself a reputation as "the smart one" yet. I do think that she would have been hit with some anti-muggleborn prejudice, even if it was something subtle. And Hermione's got an investigative streak, if something weird happened to her, someone treated her oddly, someone said something that doesn't make sense, she would have done some follow-up.
It's entirely possible that Draco was the first person to call her "mudblood" to her face - but it's also very, very possible that he wasn't.
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What do you think about Molly Weasley?
I have a lot of thoughts about Molly Weasley. I think she’s a fantastic character,  just not in the way that JKR intended. 
I think the intention was to make Molly kind of a mama bear. Fiercely loving, fiercely protective, hot tempered… but you know. In a cute way. In a warm way. I do think that Movie!Molly threads this needle. (I also think that her bear-ears hairstyle is perhaps intentional.) 
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Movie!Molly gets her big duel with Bellatrix, she gets (reasonably) annoyed at the boys for stealing the car. Her only spicy moment is the Howler… which is softened and made more comedic by 1) including a nice message for Ginny at the end 2) including a tongue-sticking-out moment, which turns the whole thing into more of a joke on Molly. Now it’s your mom being kind of weird and embarrassing… versus her public shaming you, toxic tik-tok mom style. The Howler is much worse in the book: “​​I THOUGHT YOUR FATHER WOULD DIE OF SHAME, WE DIDN’T BRING YOU UP TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS.”
So let’s talk Book!Molly, because there’s a lot there. She’s a Prewett, growing up in a more *typical* pure blood family as opposed to being a “blood traitor” Weasley. (Cedrella Black was disowned for marrying a Weasley, Lucretia Black married a Prewett no problem.)  Molly also married Arthur really young, and really quickly. It’s even lightly implied they married too quickly - 
“I just think [Bill and Fleur] have hurried into this engagement, that’s all!”  “They’ve known each other a year,” said Ron (...)   “Well, that’s not very long! I know why it’s happened, of course. It’s all this uncertainty with You-Know-Who coming back, people think they might be dead tomorrow, so they’re rushing all sorts of decisions they’d normally take time over. It was the same last time he was powerful, people eloping left, right, and center —”  “Including you and Dad,” said Ginny slyly.  “Yes, well, your father and I were made for each other, what was the point in waiting?” said Mrs. Weasley.
There’s some psychological truth to that. (Also, Molly and Arthur were 100% hooking up while at Hogwarts:)
“[The Fat Lady] was here in my time,” said Mrs. Weasley. “She gave me such a telling off one night when I got back to the dormitory at four in the morning —”  “What were you doing out of your dormitory at four in the morning?” said Bill, surveying his mother with amazement. Mrs. Weasley grinned, her eyes twinkling.  “Your father and I had been for a nighttime stroll,” she said.
And the timeline’s too fuzzy to know for sure…  but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Molly getting pregnant with Bill was one of the reasons she and Arthur got married so fast. 
It’s hard to say, because you never get a great sense of their relationship, but I’m actually not sure how compatible the two of them are, or if they would have gotten married at all if it hadn't been for the war and all these external factors. There is an ongoing conflict between them: Arthur is a political radical who seems to enjoy upsetting the Malfoys - he’s not playing nice, he doesn't have a prestigious job, he’s not getting a promotion anytime soon, and he’s fine with this. His interest in muggles is fringe counterculture stuff, and his hobby is illegal. And Molly… is pretty establishment. She wants her sons to be Head Boys and Prefects, and then she wants them to get jobs at the Ministry:
“Mum went mad at [Fred and George after finding their prank candy.] Told them they weren’t allowed to make any more of it, and burned all the order forms. . . . She’s furious at them anyway. They didn’t get as many O.W.L.s as she expected.” “And then there was this big row,” Ginny said, “because Mum wants them to go into the Ministry of Magic like Dad, and they told her all they want to do is open a joke shop.”
Like we hear about this interaction secondhand, which softens the emotion, but I’m sorry? Molly burned their order forms? She wants them to do jobs they very clearly have no aptitude for, instead of being entrepreneurs? Arthur sides with the twins, and of course he does. They’re anarchists just like he is. But it *really* bothers Molly, and this conflict just keeps coming up. 
[sidenote. You cannot tell that Arthur Weasley, once he was in his late 20s/early 30s, once he had grown into himself a bit. Tell me that this man didn’t once think “you know, I really should have married a Muggle. That would’ve been perfect.”’]
But back to Molly Weasley, nee Prewett. She wants a big family, and there is no way this doesn't have something to do with the fact that both her brothers were just brutally killed. She’s trying to distract herself, fill some void, find some meaning. The fact that it doesn’t work (because how could it, she’s got just buckets of unprocessed trauma) is maybe why she is so set on having a girl. Maybe a little baby girl is what she needs. 
In the main timeline of the book, Molly 100% needs enrichment. She needs to start breeding alpacas or join a book club or get a job. (Job could be cool, especially since she has no kids at home and money is an issue.) Like come on, Molly is intense, Type A, and powerful. Possibly one of the best duelists in the entire series. She takes out Voldemort’s number two, and Bellatrix has already defeated Sirius - incredibly talented and powerful in his own right. I do think that the reason JKR made this choice (instead of letting Neville have a confrontation with Bellatrix, which would have been more narratively straightforward) is because (whether consciously or unconsciously) she doesn’t like the idea of one of her good-guy GUY characters hurting a woman. So Molly defeats Bellatrix with magic mom powers, which is the same reason Narcissia can lie to Voldemort’s face I guess.
What Molly definitely does NOT need to be doing is obsessing about her kids' significant others. Like take Fleur. (Who I think we as readers were meant to dislike more than we actually did?)  Fleur is great. So when Molly has a problem with her… then starts trying to matchmake Bill with Tonks… until Tonks (another fan favorite) also starts annoying her… it makes Molly looks really unreasonable. Also, let Bill have his long hair and earring. 
She gets weird about Hermione in Book 4, after she believes Rita Skeeter’s write-up that she's some sort of temptress playing Harry and Krum off each other. Instead of, idk, asking Harry (who she thinks of as a surrogate son) she sends Hermione a passive-agressive comically undersized chocolate egg. Harry and Ron get huge ones. That’s not cute, or funny.
Also, Percy and Penelope Clearwater. I know the real-world reason Percy hides his relationship in Book 2 is so he can be a red herring acting all suspicious… but in universe, I guess Percy just wants to date someone without his mom being weird about it? Like Penelope Clearwater is nice and normal and fine. Why is he hiding this relationship?
Then there’s Molly the disciplinarian, which we mostly see in the context of Fred and George (although there is also Ron being public-shamed by the Howler.) She is constantly giving the twins a hard time about their life choices, their jokes. Ron says “I remember Mum walloping Fred with her broomstick." Then yeah, she burns their order forms. She does feel bad about this later, and after the whole thing at the Quidditch World Cup hugs them and says, “What if You-Know-Who had got you, and the last thing I ever said to you was that you didn’t get enough O.W.L.s?” It’s meant to be a sweet moment, but this would annoy me just a little. It’s a little like saying, “I’m glad I don’t have to think of myself as being a bad mother.” 
I also want to point out Molly's pretty clear favoritism. Fred and George are the problem children, Ginny is the baby (although we almost never see her and her mother interact, so it’s actually very hard to say what their relationship is like), and Percy is the golden child. We see how this sort of sets him apart from all his siblings, how he's described as pompous and full of himself, but also how he’s secretive and hides things from his family. It’s kind of precarious being the golden child, and when he finally does stop pleasing his mother he falls hard. (Although I will always be a big believer in Daddy Issues!Percy. That has to be why he commits that hard to Barty Crouch Sr that fast, and then ignores that many red flags.) 
And of course Ron is the invisible child. Almost the first thing we hear him say is, “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.” That one can slide. Molly’s got five kids at home, she made corn beef sandwiches, not everyone is going to be equally happy. But Ron’s clothes.  Molly makes her own clothes, she's defined by her facility with household magic. She knits Ron sweaters... but at least two of them are maroon despite the fact that Ron hates maroon. His room is  plastered top to bottom in bright orange Chudley Cannons merch. She couldn’t make him an orange sweater? There’s also the issue with the dress robes. Ron clearly doesn’t like them (“Mum, you’ve given me Ginny’s new dress.”) But he is the one who cuts off the lace trim later, and he doesn’t do an amazing job. I know that it's a joke, but like. That sounds like a job for Molly.
We do get Horcrux!Hermione telling Ron that he is the “Least loved, always, by the mother who craved a daughter,” so this idea of Molly picking favorites is *kind of* in the text. But Horcrux!Hermione is wrong about Harry/Hermione being a thing, so maybe we’re meant to read this as Ron’s baseless anxiety? It doesn’t feel like that though. What it actually feels like is an unresolved plot thread. 
So here’s my take on Molly Weasley. This is someone who is pretty high-powered, who suffered a period of emotional upheaval, then got married and started having kids because she kind of thought that was what you do - and it wasn’t as fulfilling as she thought it would be. I think a lot of her comments come off as *meaner* than JKR intended, because let’s face it - JKR has a kind of mean sense of humor. And if I want to speculate further… I think there are quite a few parallels between Molly Weasley and JKR. I don't think she put them there consciously.
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Netflix’s The Witcher ‧ Betrayer Moon
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3 A.M. Thoughts.
Listen to understand increases our empathy for others while expanding our knowledge and wisdom.
Listen to learn not respond.
~beccawise7💜🖤
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guys did yall know that elementary is an amazing show and sherlock holmes adaptation
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We always have been.
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Oi, you Holmes and Watson? What’s it to you?
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