#against the atom

[poplopovich]

what a read

[crismakesstuff]

ponyfies your superhero show 🐎🌟

[transjudas]

Laura Jane Grace + Frank Iero (x, x, x, x)

[cherbearsz]

it’s as nicki minaj foretold… he is the alpha the omega everything in between @fernsnailz

VOTE OMEGA IN THE TEAM DARK POLL AND SPARE YOURSELF IN THE IMMINENT ROBOT APOCALYPSE

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Bought To Rot by Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers is Transgender!

[magdaclaire]

we need a worst episode of supernatural bracket. reblog with your least favorite episode(s) of supernatural

[supremechancellorrex]

I was mulling over Harry Potter recently and I think one of the reasons it doesn't really appeal that much to me is the worldbuilding is not my cup of tea. In the context we are given wizards and witches are far too powerful to be hiding from Muggle nations. Wizards have the capability to mind control, memory wipe, easily create Muggle-repelling charms over entire locations that confuse and disorientate, as well as have teleportation, portkeys, Floo powder, spatial magic, invisibility, etc. Wizards sharing a planet with Muggles is positively Lovecraftian, like Cthulhu being just next door and closer.

With basic evolutionary patterns, Darwinism, the fact wizards can be disappointingly human and their leanings to fascist elements in their history (so many Anti-Muggle Dark Lords), they'd have wiped Muggles out by the BCE period, or at least not be hiding from them in a way that's the equivalent of the United States hiding from Monaco. It wouldn't take that many wizards, and in the book we are provided no evidence of our Muggle tech being able to withstand something as dynamic, tricky and reality warping as magic.

Power Dynamics

"They can strike anywhere at any time before anyone knows it."

The power dynamic from what we are shown in the books are very wonky and infinitesimally so unequal one begins to wonder if owls hide from slugs. Perhaps if JK Rowling had depowered wizards more by incorporating clearer weakness and faults in the magic system, such as perhaps no apparition (I mean, they already have portkeys, Floo powder, brooms, greedy wizards), more limits to the mind control like showing Muggles can fight it off, made wards and Muggle-repelling charms more fragile (maybe have that they can only be set up in certain geographical places either choking with magic or idk related to runic stuff and ley lines), as well as perhaps indicate that the average shielding charms can't withstand heavy kinetic onslaught from a heavy duty weapon like an AK-47, etc., it might have felt more understandable why the Muggle World and Wizarding World have the relationship they do.

Because, in the canon, we are given no concrete reasons why the wizarding world chooses to hide other than Muggles being a bother, probably asking for cures to cancer or something. In the canon, we are never presented with any Muggle technology that justifies the Wizarding World being under threat if the Statute of Secrecy breaks. We can speculated, but we can speculate either way depending on our mood. You'd think this would be more defined since the conflict centralises on Wizards and Muggles (including their offspring) existing.

Ethical Concerns For Mugs

"With this rep, I guess we deserve to be mindwiped whatever our consent."

Regarding certain implications in the books, there are a number of ethical concerns that don't feel they're given the weight and attention they deserve considering the themes. One is the overuse of memory charms, a mental violation which are hinted to cause brain damage. Considering how much wizards obliviate and violate Muggles' minds as well as cover up their deaths, that's practically fridge horror. Wizards, both good and bad, also often subvert Muggle democracy and freedom of information, and are quite authoritarian and devil-may-care about this. The Harry Potter narrative never really fully tackles this or shows any real critiques or changes in regards to the Statute of Secrecy and Muggles.

Considering the over all message of the books is anti-authoritarianism, anti-fascism, freedom and even saying Muggles aren't 'lesser' beings, these actions contradicts the themes and kind of makes all the wizards look pretty morally bankrupt when they continue to do this even after the 17 Years Later epilogue. In all honesty, this actually impacts the characterisation of our protagonists in a way I don't particularly like, especially since Hermione is Minister For Magic for a period of time.

Muggles & It's Just Fantasy

"Hi boring people we're fighting an entire conflict over, just passing through."

Suspension of disbelief is a tricky thing and so is the way a writer earns it. I think it would be more okay if Harry Potter was a purely separate fantasy world similar to Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, but the author has Muggle society (aka our 'logical' world) develop the exact same way despite sharing the planet with the logic-breaking magical world since the dawn of time and evolution. With all the factors shown in HP, these powerful, reality-warping wizards would fuck up our history and society so much we Muggles would either be dead or coughing out live elephants every time we ate a salad on a regular basis.

Over all, I feel the Muggles need to be more of a threat and have more going for them to explain why the wizards are hiding from them. Otherwise a wizard could teleport around the land of Muggles and just put Muggle-repelling charms on the British Parliament, all the nation's hospitals, police stations, banks, etc. and just watch the chaos. Okay, next stop, the Nuclear power stations and missile silos. By the Muggle world existing it intrinsically forces reality into a fantasy that doesn't want it.

[scrawnytreedemon]

"Gerudo man acclimates cats in unethical manner: more at 5."

Behold! The nuclear family.

[boyrobott]

1980s tenma being regarded as the best version simply for not rejecting, abusing, or straight-up murdering his robot son:

[veryartsyfish]

I’m actually so immensely sorry for the person I’m going to be when season 5 comes out. The special already ruined my brain chemistry, so this might kill me

[stuckinapril]

saw atomic habits on a friend's shelf and was fighting not to make a face <3

[redjaybathood]

If it helps you know you're not shouting into the void, I'm boycotting Atomic Heart after what you wrote.

Thank you. It's very important to me to know that we're not alone in it, and that this issue is being understood by others.

For someone who might have missed it, you can check the Boycott Atomic Heart tag, or this video from an English-speaking Ukrainian game reviewer could give you a quick rundown.

Make note that this video has been attacked by water army/Russian bots - all those username1234 in the comments that say more or less the same, sarcastic "thanks, I will definitely buy this game" - and like, I know they're bots, but still, it's jarring and very unpleasant to see. Like you in a kingdom of curved mirrors.

Also, here's a video from another Ukrainian game reviewer but in Ukrainian (there are auto-translated English subtitles tho): Atomic Heart "Outside of Politics"? (spoiler: no)

[superbeeny]

Astro Boy in the Blue Knight Arc: Tonto we can't hit humans they'll get hurt really bad

Astro boy in 1954:

[todayisafridaynight]

yagami should get his back snapped in half like a toothpick if he wanna fuckin sleep on couches exclusively might as well be doin the same amount of damage

[mintleflower]

Good morning astro boy fans

[ghostwanderer]

Announcement

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