Trying to explain the concept of a Lollipop Man or Lady to anyone who isn’t from Britain, Ireland or Australia.
@callieskye That would be too easy. Also, it’s hilarious seeing their reactions when you say “Well, when we want to get children across a busy road near a school, we give an old man or women a giant lollipop!”
In science fiction, AIs tend to malfunction due to some technicality of logic, such as that business with the laws of robotics and an AI reaching a dramatic, ironic conclusion.
Content regulation algorithms tell me that sci-fi authors are overly generous in these depictions.
“Why did cop bot arrest that nice elderly woman?”
“It insists she’s the mafia.”
“It thinks she’s in the mafia?”
“No. It thinks she’s an entire crime family. It filled out paperwork for multiple separate arrests after bringing her in.”
disagree and agree. i agree that “albus severus” was a bad move on jkr’s part. i mean, i’m okay with harry forgiving snape. It’s not for me to decide whether a victim should forgive their bully but to name your child after a spiteful, vile and unhappy man? hell no. i’m definitely biased over here but in my culture, we don’t name our children after people who’ve had shitty lives, because names are powerful. It’s as simple as that.
however, that does not mean that the epilogue is the worst chapter in the books and the way some hp fans talk about it, you’d think that jk rowling pissed on their plants. there are many things that shouldn’t have happened in the books. for example, ron bumping his head after his quidditch victory. dumbledore telling harry that he was going to make him a perfect instead of ron. a certain aspect of the lavender business that I won’t elaborate on or the hermione stans will eat me. But the epilogue gets more hate than it deserves.
I’ve noticed that most people only hate the Epilogue because their garbage ships got sunk. And sorry not sorry but most of fandumb’s crack-ships aren’t any better than the canon ships, and there’s nothing you can say that’ll change my mind. Heck, I’ve actually read a so-called “better” version of the epilogue and it was the fucking same (word by word actually) except it was gross dr*rry instead of hinny and cho x ginny except for drastoria (they didn’t change romione, though.) congrats to the author for adding diversity but shame on the author for thinking that dreary dr*rry is better than a wholesome ship like Harry x Ginny.
Basically, most people only hate the epilogue because they don’t like the canon ships and I drink the salty tears of non-canon shippers daily. I don’t know why they even care about the endgames considering that they end up divorcing them in their fics for obscure reasons I have yet to understand.
@ronandhappiness So, basically, most of the things that shouldn’t have happened in the books tend to revolve around ‘Rowling putting Ron Weasley through the blender just for spite’. Can’t say I disagree with that assessment.
No, please elaborate about the Lavender business. You piqued my interest now! I’m sure most Hermione fans who follow our blogs understand that our problems aren’t so much with the character but the author.
I don’t personally mind the epilogue. Although I have very mixed feelings about Harry and Ginny naming all their kids after other people (although Lily Luna is quite a sweet name). I think the way Ron and Hermione named their kids was better (also, having their initials swapping genders was a nice touch). Although I suppose Ron understood the difficulty of having to live up to someone-else’s reputation, and didn’t want that to happen to their children.
Having said that, I was a bit worried about the fact that Slytherin still had a bad reputation even 19 years later. I know Harry and Ginny didn’t have any problems with Slytherin, but the stigma still exists after almost two decades later.
The house system caused so many problems at Hogwarts, why didn’t the lightning generation realise that it would make more sense to either de-stigmatise Slytherin or just get rid of house divides altogether? Having Slytherin still be seen as ‘the evil house’ implies that nothing ever actually changed, and that the problems that created the wizarding wars were never gotten rid of. Unless the Wizarding World completely reformed itself from the ground-up, another Voldemort could easily occur in the future.
That’s just my thoughts, though; what do you all think?
So #hpchristmas day 3 marks our first ship war monday!
I’ve made a bracket for what our poll last year deemed your top 16 harry potter ships, and each week polls will be open from midday to midnight GMT for you to cast your votes
Feel free to fill the bracket in yourself, or I’d also love to see your predictions and whether they’ll line up with the final result (I’ve made my own prediction so I’m excited to see how well I know my followers haha)
Trying to explain the concept of a Lollipop Man or Lady to anyone who isn’t from Britain, Ireland or Australia.
@callieskye That would be too easy. Also, it’s hilarious seeing their reactions when you say “Well, when we want to get children across a busy road near a school, we give an old man or women a giant lollipop!”
A crossing guard?
Do crossing guards look like this where you are?
‘Round here @headcanonsandmore they aren’t so… vibrantly bright. (And they don’t have poles to look like a lollie.) (though here we have police keeping watch much of the time and tis a very expensive fine for speeding in a school zone. (and they will tag you going 2km over the posted limit.)
Fair enough. In Britain, the government keep cutting police numbers, so they don’t really have any to spare.
I like the idea of AU headcanons where one or more of the golden trio are in different houses to each-other. It means that they work harder for their friendship, and it’s a little less…easy (good drama).
I think Ron would do well in all of the three other houses. Granted, he does have the Gryffindor bravery, but he’s also got Hufflepuff traits, Ravenclaw traits and Slytherin traits as well.
Ravenclaw!Ron is one of my favourites honestly and I hate how little fics there are about him!!
Come on, Ravenclaw is the house that chose Luna Lovegood! Ravenclaw doesn’t only take in the scholars, it takes in the dreamers, the inventors, the comedians, the guys who hyperfocus on one thing and become experts at it! Ravenclaw isn’t made up of Hermiones!
Rowena states it herself (posthumously): Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure. And who is the wittiest character in the books? You know it – Ron!
Ron, our local chess expert who makes a thousand jokes a day (being able to make up a joke is said to be a sign of intelligence by the way) would so be in Ravenclaw.
I even have a small fic idea where I think I’d ditch Harry and Voldemort altogether, where Ron is sorted into Ravenclaw while Hermione is sorted into Hufflepuff (the House of hard work, anyone…?) and Hermione kinda gets rather pissy at Ron for being Sorted in the “House of the Smart Ones” 🙂 (Of course it’s a Romione AU, what do you take me for?)
Ron would also get bullied by his own house, for being “a Gryffindor reject” and all, and would feel pretty awful about it. Then, second year rolls in, and a young girl with blonde hair dreamily asks him if he’s seen her shoes, because her housemates have hidden them. And this, this prompts Ron’s inner knight-in-shining-armor to blast the doors open and shout “WHO THE EFF IS HURTING MY NEW BEST FRIEND I’LL CUT YOU”. (… shit this can also make for an awesome Runa AU. Someone save me.)
Meanwhile in Hufflepuff Hermione is tearing her hair out because she has this weird friendnemity with Ernie McMillian, who is a knowledgeable pompous prat that can never back down when you’re trying to prove him wrong, but she can’t ditch him because he’s a great study partner too.
I have too many ideas and too little time help.
@vivithefolle Once again, you’ve outdone yourself! Love these ideas!
Ron is definitely witty and clever, so Ravenclaw’s a great fit for him. Personally, I think Ron could easily fit into all four houses, but that’s probably because he’s got such a well-rounded personality.
I can definitely see Ron befriending Luna; he’s such a mother-hen that way. I don’t really ship Runa, but it is a very cute ship, and that fic idea sounds adorable! It would be great to see Luna’s canon (in my eyes) crush on Ron in more detail, as well.
Not so sure about Hermione being in Hufflepuff, though. Don’t get me wrong, she is a hard worker and is kind. But Vi; you know as well as I do that Hermione Granger is…not exactly the nicest person around. Granted, she’s much better than Zacharias Smith, but that’s not saying much.
Although I do like the idea of Hermione getting irritated by Ernie Macmillan, while Hannah and Susan (her dorm-mates) have to restraint her from setting flocks of birds on him. I dunno, maybe the Hufflepuffs would help Hermione mellow out a little, and be a little less judgemental to Ron? It can’t hurt to be surrounded by the nicest people on the planet all the time.
“I credit the greatest part of my growth over the last 7 years to my
acting teachers and classes that I attended in LA. Before doing that
work I felt like I could have been absolutely anybody in a really awful,
hollow way. I had no strong sense of who I was or what my worth was
outside of being Luna, and yet I no longer felt like Luna. It was a very
strange, lonely, unknowable time and I felt nothing was anchoring me to
the world. Working with great acting teachers who made me do deep
self-introspection and showed me that I already had opinions
and convictions and something to say to the world made me grow up and be
more assertive in my life and work. I’m no longer walking into rooms
looking for someone to tell me who I am, I know who I am without loudly
having to assert my presence, and that’s given me the courage to
manifest the opportunities I want.” — Evanna Lynch [x]
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