shadowy-dumbo-octopus: It’s 4am and I just woke

via https://ift.tt/2GHGXIC

shadowy-dumbo-octopus:

It’s 4am and I just woke up thinking about Snape. You know, as you do. I know that he’s a… difficult character and there’s a lot of… conflicting views surrounding him, but here’s mine:

He had amazing potential to become one of my favourite characters in the books. The concept? Great! The execution? Not so much.

Mind, that’s just my opinion and my taste in problematic, morally ambiguous characters is incredibly specific. I might elaborate on what I’d change in him someday, perhaps when I’m more awake. Idk, I just feel like he could’ve been written differently.

Also, he didn’t deserve to have Harry name his kid after him and neither did Dumbledore. This is a hill I will die on.

It doesn’t matter how cool or ambiguous he is, he’s an adult bully who torments kids, and that just isn’t cool for me.

nianeyna: skull-bearer: shadowy-dumbo-octopus:

via https://ift.tt/2TbYq1F

nianeyna:

skull-bearer:

shadowy-dumbo-octopus:

It’s 4am and I just woke up thinking about Snape. You know, as you do. I know that he’s a… difficult character and there’s a lot of… conflicting views surrounding him, but here’s mine:

He had amazing potential to become one of my favourite characters in the books. The concept? Great! The execution? Not so much.

Mind, that’s just my opinion and my taste in problematic, morally ambiguous characters is incredibly specific. I might elaborate on what I’d change in him someday, perhaps when I’m more awake. Idk, I just feel like he could’ve been written differently.

Also, he didn’t deserve to have Harry name his kid after him and neither did Dumbledore. This is a hill I will die on.

It doesn’t matter how cool or ambiguous he is, he’s an adult bully who torments kids, and that just isn’t cool for me.

I mean Snape is certainly worse than most of the other teachers with some notable exceptions but personally I can’t really apply my own real-world standards regarding acceptable levels of child abuse when reading Harry Potter otherwise my head would explode, so eh. I have to say I understand both the staunchly anti-Snape crowd (he is pretty horrible!) and the Snape fan crowd (suspension of disbelief is a thing and from what I remember the series seems to position his actions as within, or at least not far beyond, the range of normal teacher behavior, plus you know *gestures at Alan Rickman* I’m not the sort to judge people liking a character on aesthetic grounds).

tl;dr there isn’t a single adult character in Harry Potter that oughtn’t be in jail for child abuse, endangerment, neglect, or all three, so you may as well stan whoever you like really

Here’s the thing, most of the teachers in HP are bad or abusive in almost cartoonish ways. They are so over the top that it doesn’t have much to do with reality. We don’t know someone who would act like Dumbledore, or Lupin as a werewolf. We do know someone who acts like Snape, or could well imagine one. 

Particularly with how Snape acts towards Neville. 

It’s why the Dursleys or Umbridge are so much more hated than Voldemort- we don’t know a Voldemort. We know a Vernon Dursley.

logicked: naamahdarling: sl-walker: elfwreck: ralfmaximus: andillcallyoubymine: Literally why...

via https://ift.tt/2NlEUdP

logicked:

naamahdarling:

sl-walker:

elfwreck:

ralfmaximus:

andillcallyoubymine:

Literally why would you ever go for Bernie when Elizabeth Warren is RIGHT there

A vote for Sanders is a vote for Trump. All he can hope to do is spoil the Dem’s chances.

VOTE BERNIE IF YOU WANT 4 MORE YEARS OF TRUMP 

FUCK THAT NOISE HELL NO.

We are not doing this again.

Lobby hard for your choice in the primaries, but do not insult the other options. 

I like Warren a lot more than Sanders. I like Klobuchar and Harris better than either of them. Right now, Gillibrand is my top choice. 

BUT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN NOVEMBER, whoever that turns out to be.

And since I want to be able to get behind them, I want to know what their good points are. I want to know what I can expect them to do, and - this important - what issues aren’t on their top priority list, so I can let them know what matters to me. 

All of them are smart, decent people. All of them want a better country, a better world. All of them would, on their worst day, be better than Trump at his best, assuming he has something a sane person could call “best.” 

No infighting this time. No circular firing squads. Do not insult, denigrate, discourage, or bully people who are supporting the candidates you dislike. WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THIS.

Before the primaries, figure out who is the best representative for your interests, and promote the hell out of them. Encourage people to vote. Get people registered. Tell everyone why you like this one better than that one - based on policies and history, not “he’s a lying scumbag” or “she caters to corporate greed.” 

None of them is perfect. ALL OF THEM ARE BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE - do not help the Republicans (and the Russians!) suppress progressive voters by badmouthing other people’s choices.

I don’t want Sanders. I think he’s too old (and so is Warren) and we need people whose understanding of business and social dynamics are based on recent trends. I think Sanders is too caught up in social class as the only real axis of oppression; I don’t think he understands intersectionality. I worry that he favors gun rights more than is safe.

I’m not voting for him in the primaries. But if he gets the nomination, HE HAS MY VOTE IN NOVEMBER. And not in a “ugh, holding my nose and voting against Trump” way - he wants medical care for everyone; he wants college to be available to all; he wants strong unions and worker support. I can get behind those policy plans.

No litmus tests this time. No single issue that convinces people to stay home in November 2020. Pick one you like, or pick a few that you’re deciding between - but don’t convince yourself that any of them are evil incarnate and must be stopped at all costs.

Because we have that. And Republicans know damn well that they only win elections by splitting and suppressing votes for Democrats - so they’ll be hyping “this candidate is too terrible to vote for!!! Just stay home!” for the next year and a half.

FUCKING THIS.

We do not shoot down any decent, viable candidate this time. 

Listen, if the Democratic candidate winds up being a dead lizard in a broken-down Radio Flyer wagon, I will vote for them, because a dead lizard would be better for this country than the utterly disgusting, morally vacant person that currently holds the office.

And until then? I’m going to assume that people shit-stirring to get people to turn on Dem candidates are actually furthering a Republican agenda, because that’s what it amounts to.

this is the first post i’ve seen on this site that actually understands strategic voting and why it’s a necessary thing

I’ve seen people saying that’d vote for a dead dog against Trump, and then turning around and swearing never to vote for Elizabeth Warren because in 1984 she once put down she was Native American on a survey. How high do you fucking have to be for that to make sense?

People go review

via https://ift.tt/2IwNrf0

felinalain:

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/1057728/venom-11

Please

this shit rating is way too high, we need to show our thought, and this is a simple way to do it

If it earn a very bad rating, maybe, just maybe, Marvel might actually wake up