another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great
O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION
BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE.
EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’.
CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES
so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink
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fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes
I am impressed at this much knowledge
Also, anthropologists say there is much evidence that women invented agriculture, and that the first semi-permenant agricultural villages were established for the primary purpose of facilitating beer-brewing.
That’s right: Civilization was invented by women. For beer.
My family likes to brew alcohol and I love witchcraft, so this was one of the funnest things to ever share with them
This has actually happened to a lot of things throughout history. Recently, archeologists discovered that almost half of the Viking warrior remains that have been found were female, and buried with their armor, weapons, and full honors. Earlier researchers had just assumed that they were male, based on our modern image of a warrior.
cedarwood, campfire, fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, rain, crisp mountain air, books/notebook (so basically a camping trip in the mountains with fresh drawing/reading supplies and cookies? lol)
18: Favorite Hogwarts class?
Ok, without the teachers being a factor- I would love divination, care of magical creatures, and charms. Some of those classes have great teachers, but others not so much 😛
I really enjoy astrology a lot, and get a kick out of other divination stuff- so I think I would love the subject. Animals make me SO happy- so I can’t imagine not enjoying that class, even with crazy boring critters. I have slugs outside my house I named. 😛 (Zero, Mostel, and their baby Mostella.) And Charms! I would accio shit ALL the time, and color change things, and float stuff and stick things etc all the time. Like, man, charms would be SO handy as an artist.
34: Wizarding World job?
I think I’d still be an artist, honestly. I love it too much to imagine having a different job. How cool would it be to make art that has a life of its own? (Eff, I can do that if I’d just take the time to make my illustrations animated. I need to do more of that!)
38: Crookshanks or Pigwidgeon?
Crookshanks. I love Pig, but I think if I were around him a lot, I’d get tired of the hyperactivity. I like much more chill pets. Plus, Crooks is so smart! Hermione never used her cat in any way beyond ‘pet’ and that makes me mad, because Crooks was so effing smart that he could retrieve lists for Sirius and all sorts of things. How cute would that have been for her to use Crooks to deliver notes or retrieve things!!!
50: Who would your BFF be?
Well, if I was just IN the world of HP, it depends a lot on what my age would be etc. But I think the characters I like the most are the ones I’d be closest with- Ron, Remus and Tonks. They all have traits I find important in a friend- especially passion, dedication, humor, grounded intelligence, kindness, empathy, unusual etc. I see a lot of my best friends in them, so feel I would get on great with them. 🙂
What I love about this is that you chose the pet that is the cat version of Ron.
I always get upset at how biased Hermione and Harry were when Ron tried out for keeper. I don’t think he was a good keeper, Hermione basically cheated for him, and it irks me that they would do this when it’s more than “Harry’s team” because those matches go towards house points. The other guy, whom we did not get to know at all other than he was interested in knowing Hermione, was obviously more fit for keeper.
Except we do know more about that “other guy.” He’s a jackass who tried to take over the quidditch team the one time he was on it. While Mclaggen is technically a better keeper, he was a pain in the butt to work with. When he heard that Ron got poisoned, he cared nothing for his safety or Harry’s feelings and basically announced that he was on the team. He was constantly trying to take over their practices, coaching the other members of the team when he had no right to. And, let us not forget that time he wapped Harry upside the head with a beater’s club during a match because A. He took the club from one of the team member’s whose job it was to use them (during a match, lest we forget) and B. He was so busy showing off his superior technique that he didn’t notice his captain flying toward him. I have worked with people like this, the kind of people who think they’re God’s gift to the world due to this talent that they have. And if I had to choose between that person and someone who’s maybe not as good, but at least takes direction well, I’ll take the not as good person, because then at least I can work with them.
Cormac McLaggen was of roughly the same skill level as Ron (Ron saved five goals in the try-outs, and McLaggen would have done the same if Hermione hadn’t confunded him). The main difference between the two was that (aside from occasional moodiness and insecurities) Ron got along with the rest of the team far better than McLaggen did. Also, Ron’s lack of an ego meant that he could always improve as a keeper; McLaggen thought he was perfect already and therefore would have never tried to get better.
Ron won the Quidditch cup for Gryffindor when no-one thought he was any good. McLaggen lost Gryffindor a match and put Harry in the hospital wing because of his own ego.
Skill isn’t the only thing necessary for sport; being a team player and constantly trying to improve your performance is incredibly important too.
Today in chemistry we did a lab where we burned different chemical compounds to see what color flame would be produced and my group mixed all of the compounds together, and this was result
fire is gay culture confirmed
Thats my battle aura.
Pretty sure this is the light surrounding Luna Lovegood’s patronus.
Yeah, during the run-up to the Yule Ball. She tried to ask him using her powers, but her aim was a little off and Ron got the full force of it. Which is presumably why Fleur was so shocked about Ron then asking her to the ball.
However, it’s quite common (in my experience, at least) to have a brief crush on someone, and then become closer to them after you get over it. I have seen headcanons about Cedric and Fleur becoming close friend during GOF (many of them taking place in AU’s where Cedric is part Veela as well, and that’s one of things him and Fleur bond over).
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