thoughts on Ginny and Harry as a couple?
There are a lot of people who find their romance in HBP forced. I don't think it's forced so much as underwritten, and the books don't get the chemistry quite right (though the movies certainly don't, either). There's potential, but they just don't get enough actual scenes of substance (besides Harry thinking she's pretty or feeling jealous of Dean) for a lot of readers to buy that they're not only in love, but deeply enough in love to break up, get back together, and wind up married.
That's not to say I don't see the appeal. There's a very cool scene in Book 5 where Harry's doing a woe-is-me-Chosen-One act, and Ginny effortlessly puts him in his place about it by reminding him that she was possessed by Voldemort at eleven, which is a rare glimpse into her character and also a great synecdoche for their relationship — Ginny is a grounding presence who, like Ron and Hermione, isn't going to be awed by his past adventures because she knew him before they happened. In that respect, Ginny's probably one of the few women Harry could feasibly wind up with, because he only ever seems comfortable around people (let alone girls) who can see past the Chosen-One schtick and treat him like a normo (see: Ron, Hermione, the Weasleys, Luna, Hagrid). True to type, he doesn't get interested in Ginny at all until she's ditched her celebrity crush and ceased to view him as an idol, because in his heart of hearts, Harry wants to be a normal boy, and it's stressed over and over that part of what he likes about his relationship with Ginny is how normal it feels. He kind of has a horribly supercharged version the celebrity dating problem: after the Battle of Hogwarts, anyone he meets is going to know him first as Harry Potter, Chosen One, Boy Who Lived, and Actually Fucking Resurrected Messiah of the Wizarding World, which is... I mean, it's possible that there are witches out there who could get over that, but Harry's not an extroverted guy, and I'm not sure how he'd go about finding them. Ginny's the one who's been there since the beginning, doesn't need anything about him or his past explained to her, and actually likes him for who he is.
When you look at it that way, it's not surprising he married his high school girlfriend. She's one of the few people still alive who doesn't see him as a demigod.
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Well, the adoption agency denied me for *checks notes* not regularly getting my indoor only cat updated on his vaccines and rehoming the kitten I adopted because I realized very quickly that I wouldn't be able to meet his energy needs.
If this cat I applied to adopt is still with their foster family--who they've been with since August--when I leave Chicago in June, I'm going to be pissed. Shelters, maybe, just maybe, you can't get your cats adopted because of your ridiculous standards and high adoption prices.
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i cannot figure out why I get nightmares every now and then where I'll be freaked out by my isopods 🤔 In real life, I love and adore them and am never freaked out by them unless occasionally seeing a dead one triggers an innate fear response in me, but even that is rare!
but once in a blue moon I'll have a nightmare that features them in a pretty normal way except I'll react to them as if they're maggots - it's so strange. even in the nightmare, I'll know it's wrong, that I shouldn't be feeling so scared of them, i /love/ these lil guys, but my body and brain react as if I'm looking at a bunch of maggots or similar. ITS REALLY WEIRD
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🎉We’re caught up!!!🎉
We have officially gone through all of 616!Moon Knight’s published material (that I’m aware of anyway hahaha). Thank you for following along, as there are a lot more of you than I ever thought would be interested in this little project of mine, and I’m so glad I got the opportunity to share this with you all! For those of you who just started following (first of all hi! So excited to have you!) and for long-time followers alike, don’t worry! This isn’t the end of the Age of Moon Knight by a long shot. Administrative minutiae and musings on the future of this blog beneath the cut.
I’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for any new 616!Moon Knight material that gets released and I’ll be posting here accordingly. Can’t wait to see how the current volume develops and whatever guest appearances they have in store for Moon Knight!
I have also been playing with the idea of branching out into other Moon Knight material. I definitely want to go through and perhaps share any variant covers I can find, as I think that could be fun. Furthermore, I might pop my head in and see what the heck went down in the Earth-1610/Ultimates continuity in regard to Moon Knight (or maybe even more non-616 continuities???). Please feel free to share with me any Moon Knight content you’d like me to investigate and post about as I am definitely open to suggestions hahaha
For those of you who like my comic commentary in general (which???? still never fails to amaze me that some of you not only read the clownery I leave in the tags but actually look forward to them; can’t thank y’all enough and I’m incredibly honored), I’m already thinking about which comic book character I would like to read through next 😅, on a separate side-blog I’d be working on concurrently of course hahaha. The list of possibilities is currently as follows:
Kaine: Scarlet Spider
Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider
Nate Grey: X-Man
Ted Sallis: Man-Thing
Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen: Cloak and Dagger
Bob Reynolds: The Sentry
There are also some DC characters I’d like to tackle some day (namely Scott Free/Mister Miracle and Big Barda, Bart Allen/Impulse, Conner Kent/Kon-El/Superboy, and Cassandra Cain), but I’d first like to nail down some reading lists that span DC’s many continuity reboots, which my cursory research have yet to yield.
Just let me know if there are any characters listed here (or others? I’m amendable) that you would like to see me dive into on my next side-blog. Right now, I’m leaning towards Kaine (and not only because he has close to only a quarter of the comic book appearances that Moon Knight does hahaha).
In conclusion, thank you once more for accompanying me on this adventure and I can’t wait to read many, many more comics with you all.
Also, I would just to like to leave this here, collected from What The --?! (Vol. 1/1988), #13:
Might I present to you...MooKnight
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they put an android in discovery he looks like data apparently mr soong started a design trend
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