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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

the granger-weasley family members!!!!

(i’m obsessed with drawing romione’s little family)

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that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?

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i know there’s more than this out there but it really is incredible that people will look at a fictional character someone else wrote and collectively say “I will write you a hundred happy endings.”

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Nah it's not Hermione bashing, it's a realistic look at the girl. Because I'm a lot like Hermione and sorry to tell you but having good grades does not a supergenius make.

Even if you think Harry and Hermione paths will drift she has other friends, you know?

Like Ron, yeah? Ron is her friend, yknow?

Bold of you to think Hermione considers Neville a friend when she didn't, actually, stay close to him or made much effort to maintain relations, preferring instead to try to befriend Ron and Harry in her socially clueless "if I try hard enough they'll just have to be my friends" way. Sure, she helps him once in a while, but she never relies on him for comfort or sticks by him, not the way she does Harry and Ron. Same with Ginny, though at least they hang out at the Burrow together, but we never see Hermione truly rely on Ginny.

people make friends outside of school you know?

Yes, "people". Hermione isn't "people". That's one of the core tenets of the fandom, that she's special, that she's more of a hero than the hero, that she's not like other girls, that there'll never be another like her, that if you don't understand her you don't deserve her.

like if a 37yo woman will behave like when she was 12yo says that you can't justify the bitterness of Professor Hermione

Oh, so I shouldn't judge a future Hermione based on how she was as a child?

But people always claim future Ron will always and forever behave the way he was as a child, why should pretty princess Hermione be any different - on top of her notorious hatred for changing herself, instead expecting that everyone accept she's right and accomodate their lives around it?

The existence of bitter Professor Granger (aka Snape 2.0) is misogynistic

Oh psh. Get out of here.

Did you call the way Ginny was treated in the movies misogynistic? When she was turned into a wimpy little nothing who subserviently ties Harry's shoelaces and feeds Harry a pastry? Or is it only when Hermione The Great looks slightly less ideal that you cry misogyny?

the thought that Hermione won't fulfill her dreams without the help of a man to tame her isn't what should define Hermione

Stop right there - it's not just "a man", it's Ron Weasley. Ron's not any man, he's the only man who actually WANTS to be with Hermione and wants to support her for the rest of his life. No taming involved, though if Hermione could go to therapy so she doesn't do a repeat of the physical incidents in HBP and DH that'd be great.

What should define Hermione? I personally define her as massively overrated and more of a tool for Harry's story than a character in her own right, her back-and-forth with Ron being a rare way for her to be something other than "Harry's little helper". Unfortunately even there she's not exempt from her role as "Rowling's pretty princess" which explains why fandom cries about the slightest criticism of Hermione being "bashing" but accepts and normalizes Ron-bashing. But if you think Hermione should be defined as "a role model for every little girl everywhere in the world and a champion of feminism" then HAHAHAHAHA no.

the young girl character that many girls grew up admiring.

I've read many shit arguments to defend Hermione in my days and this one will always be among the stupidest.

That "young girl character" is the self-insert of a hateful insecure bigoted mediocre white woman who wrote her and the story in order to feel better about herself and her ideas (yes, when Rowling has Lupin call Hermione "the brightest witch of your age I've ever met", when Rowling has Dumbledore say Hermione is smart, when Rowling has Harry and Ron sing Hermione's praises ever chapter or so, it's Rowling directing her characters to compliment HERSELF, talk about insecurity!).

This is why Hermione gets to put Rita in a jar (kidnapping), why she's allowed to emulate Umbridge's punishment style on someone's face, or why she's allowed to canonically attack and physically harm the person she loves and never gets called out on it beyond a trite "oh you know it's a girl thing ;)": because she's not a character, she's Rowling's little darling and the central part of her victim complex.

Sure, girls used to admire Hermione. I used to admire Hermione. Then I realized Hermione is a lie Rowling tells herself, and I decided I didn't need that lie. If you do, you do you. But I have no interest in your nostalgia for Rowling's personal security blanket.

a girl he rejected decades ago

How did he reject Hermione? Having a good time with Padma at the Ball doesn't equal to rejecting Hermione - hell, it's this exact logic that leads to HBP's Lavender debacle when Hermione assumed Ron would know she was no longer with Viktor without her having to say anything.

Hermione in that scenario is coveting a married man, aka being a homewrecker, both are being shitty people for a terrible idea of what is "romance", what's your point? I never claimed to agree with everything Cursed Child. Just that on this one point of Hermione becoming bitter and angry if she became a teacher, I could see it.

Cheer up, if we were to use Hermione's direct inspiration, aka JKR, then her "bad ending" wouldn't be to become Snape 2.0, but Umbridge 2.0. I'm sure you're grateful that's not the case.

What are your thoughts on the bad future in Cursed Child where Hermione basically becomes Snape as a teacher just because she didn't get with Ron?

Oh, I'd written a Quora answer about that! Let me get it-

In the alternated universe in Cursed Child, Hermione became a Snape-like professor because she lost Ron. Is it just bad writing because she'd never be like that? Why?

Au contraire, I think it’s the only bit of characterization in this garbage play that makes sense.

And I’m not saying that because I love Ron, I’m saying that because I know Hermione rather well - I’ve been a very Hermioneish person in my life.

I’ve been that girl who wanted to answer every question I knew the answer to, because I liked to show off what I knew, I liked it when the teacher validated me, I liked to be seen as clever by the adults. The adults were the most important people, after all they were the ones who handed out the punishments. Therefore it was important that I endear myself to the adults considering that they were the only people who could protect me from the other kids’ bullying.

I was bullied. A lot. As a result, I hated my schoolmates. I despised them with all my being. I only trusted the adults and a select few fellow kids who didn’t bully me. My philosophy? “The adults are always right. I’m always right, unless the adults say otherwise. My friends are always right, unless the adults or I say otherwise. Everyone else is stupid and useless.”

Notice a pattern?

It’s quite easy really. The more I was bullied, the tighter I shut myself out. Every new act of bullying was only vindicating me. The world is made of idiots, idiots and more idiots. There’s nothing out there but idiots, and they prey on the smart people like me.

When Hermione made friends with Harry and Ron, thankfully, they stopped her from leaping into misanthropy entirely. They grounded her, gave her something to look forward to other than school. They made her realize that people who don’t care for school aren’t necessarily complete dumbasses who’ll never achieve anything with their lives. They brought some humanity to her. Some much-needed emotion and empathy.

They got her away from her feeling of superiority and made her accept that she wasn’t perfect, something that is incredibly important considering that being perfect is impossible.

[…] Harry headed straight back to the Gryffindor common room, where he found Ron and Hermione playing chess. Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

(Lookit those two Dads parenting their perfectionnist daughter. Iconic.)

Okay, so, we know how Hermione reacted when Ron dated Lavender Brown, right?

No, I’m not talking about the birds, I’m talking about after that. After she threw her hissy fit, she went on to bully Ron for months on end.

“Hi, Parvati!” said Hermione, ignoring Ron and Lavender completely. “Are you going to Slughorn’s party tonight?” “No invite,” said Parvati gloomily. “I’d love to go, though, it sounds like it’s going to be really good… You’re going, aren’t you?” “Yes, I’m meeting Cormac at eight, and we’re -” There was a noise like a plunger being withdrawn from a blocked sink and Ron surfaced. Hermione acted as though she had not seen or heard anything. “- we’re going up to the party together.” “Cormac?” said Parvati. “Cormac McLaggen, you mean?” “That’s right,” said Hermione sweetly. “The one who almost” - she put a great deal of emphasis on the word - “became Gryffindor Keeper.” “Are you going out with him, then?” asked Parvati, wide-eyed. “Oh - yes - didn’t you know?” said Hermione, with a most un-Hermione-ish giggle. “No!” said Parvati, looking positively agog at this piece of gossip. “Wow, you like your Quidditch players, don’t you? First Krum, then McLaggen…” “I like really good Quidditch players,” Hermione corrected her, still smiling. “Well, see you… Got to go and get ready for the party…”

And

“How did you do?” asked Ron, hurrying toward Harry. “I think I felt something the last time I tried - a kind of tingling in my feet.” “I expect your trainers are too small, Won-Won,” said a voice behind them, and Hermione stalked past, smirking.

You know how many pages there are between these two happenings? Seventy. 70!! In-universe, it goes from December to freaking March!

And by being away from Ron, Hermione also reduces the time she spends with Harry. Because Harry won’t seek Hermione out, it’s always Hermione who will come see him - and only if she has something to tell him.

So, without Ron, Hermione would consequentially drift away from Harry. Without Ron to bicker with, without Ron to act as a buffer between her controlling tendencies and Harry’s rebellious nature, Hermione would close herself off and ignore other people.

Now, as for why she’s a She-Snape when it comes to students?

Well duh! Have you seen Hermione?

Ron, at the next table, wasn’t having much more luck. “Wingardium Leviosa!” he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill. “You’re saying it wrong.” Harry heard Hermione snap. “It’s Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the ‘gar’ nice and long.”

She loudly points out Ron’s failure, getting everyone’s attention and making him feel humiliated, because she was so sure she knew better than him. That she happens to perform better than him right afterwards just makes Ron feel even worse.

She wasn’t nice, she wasn’t friendly, she wasn’t helpful. She shot him down by snapping at him and only then did she try to help him, but she was already “the aggressor” in Ron’s mind. Of course he wasn’t going to react nicely to anything she’d have to say afterwards!

“All right – I only came in here because people outside are behaving very childishly, racing up and down the corridors,” said Hermione in a sniffly voice. “And you’ve got dirt on your nose, by the way, did you know?”

Note that here, this is Harry’s narration. Harry thinks of Hermione’s voice as “sniffly”. It’s about on par with Draco’s “sneering” in terms of positive first impressions.

And look at that! “people outside are behaving very childishly”, that’s an 11 years old speaking! She’s just as much of a kid as her peers yet she already has an overinflated sense of her own maturity. *sighs* Believe me, I know from experience that this can only end in tears.

And it’s what would make her miserable should she become a teacher.

Without Harry and Ron with her to remind her that she’s human and faillible, Hermione would ignore other people’s needs as well as her own.

We already see that she can be somewhat gentle to people like Neville, maybe because Neville is kind of the equivalent of a “special needs” kid in the Wizarding World, but with other students like Harry and Ron, whom she assumes are just dumb or not trying hard enough? She’s harsh. Snappish. She can’t understand how they don’t understand stuff that to her is so easy!

Now take Harry and Ron and multiply them by 10. And put Hermione in charge of them all.

She’s gonna go insane in a couple weeks.

A few years and she’ll have lost any sort of enjoyment she may have gotten from passing on her knowledge.

Hermione is not a good pedagogue, like the books show us multiple times - she has an easy time learning because she can memorize her books, but not all students are like this. When someone doesn’t understand what she understands, she makes a snippy remark, act as though they should know and make them feel dumb and in the process snuff out their interest for what she had to say.

Hermione Granger would be a complete nightmare of a teacher, because she has no patience and has a very “if I can do it, so can you” mentality, and she also tends to assume the worst in others. She’s not suited to a role that requires her to interact with people on a daily basis (also why she would make a terrible Minister for Magic).

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sweet kisses from mama (2007)

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romione beloveds

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Sorry about the rant I'm just SO sick of this "we have to be on all the time never look away if you aren't upset about politics and traumatizing yourself watching people die on Twitter you're wrong and complicit and evil" like I know things are fucked and we need to stay angry but we can do that while also taking a minute to crack open a cold one with the boys or have gay sex or get tipsy at the line dance, we HAVE to have joy to remember why the fuck we're refusing to give up in the first place. Fight like hell for your loved ones and then also go home with them to smoke weed and drink sweet tea and make biscuits covered in honey and butter please, please don't deprive yourself of joy, you're allowed to be happy BEFORE the work is done. You're allowed to be happy.

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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let's post on tumblr with mama

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idk. i think fandom could use a lot less of “every person’s interpretation of a text is valid and true!” and more of “reading a text means taking all parts of it into account, including the bits you don’t like or the pairings you don’t ship, to consider what the full picture is and what the larger themes are.”

projecting your fantasies onto a text, hyperfocusing on the characters you think are hot/shippable and building entire theories based on micro interactions that don’t take other competing dynamics and plotlines into account isn’t “analysis” it’s projection and fantasy. which is fine, but take responsibility for your desires and your fantasies instead of making fandom inhospitable for everyone. some readings of a text are plain wrong, others miss or willfully erase vital context just to rationalize romantic pairings. these are not accurate readings of the text. doesn’t mean they should be attacked or shamed, but neither can you expect people to validate every single headcanon and shipper fantasy as a legitimate “reading” of the text either.

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people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

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Do people realize how rare it is for a male character as cool-coded as Ron to be so down bad for a female character as dork-coded as Hermione? Ron, the class clown and consummate cool kid, falls completely head over heels in love with Hermione, the ultimate dork, BEFORE SHE GOT HOT. It's not her looks or her personality that he falls in love with BUT HER BRAINS. It's beyond me how all feminists aren't Romione shippers.

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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Who’s Alex?

Billboard demonstrating gender stereotypes as most people automatically assume that Alex is the boy.

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i need pepple to understand that in the first place leather has always been made from the byproducts of butchering animals for meat, otherwise the skin is just tossed and unused. there were some companies farming for leather for a while, particuarly alligator leather, but those were not the norm. peta did so much harm in their campaigns against leather as a concept (its not unethical. yoi get the skin when an animal dies. thats why most leather clothes in the usa are cow leather, bc thats the biggest meat animal here) that its almost impossible to buy anything "leather" that isnt made of plastic that it so fragile and shitty that the very Thread Holding It Together rips the fibers apart. it will last for maybe a year two if youre lucky, and wont biodegrade and was made out of something that isnt naturally occurring in the first place and is one of the biggest causes of pollution globally

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits