I think that was the interview with The Observer that I reblogged earlier today. And I know, right! He’s such a lovely bloke! I’ve always liked the fact that he’s not bothered about fame, and is just in it for the acting. I really admire that about him.
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!”
Okay so me and my Tumblr wife Ayesha were chatting and we saw a ridiculous “Hinny is Oedipus Complex and Romione isn’t intellectually compatible” post and it being the morning for me (yeah 12:55 AM is the morning sue me) I kinda went off on a tangent…
Anyway here you go lovelies
@ronandhappiness
a dude accidentally fucked his mom (and then when he found out, was so traumatized that he killed himself) and this twat Sigmund Freud being a crusty dude that he is assumed that he must have enjoyed it @vivithefolle
Exactly
Well, actually, Oedipus didn’t exactly kill himself
@vivithefolle He was prophesized to kill his father and fuck his mother
So his father and mother sent one of their servant to drown him as a baby
But the servant took pity on baby Oedipus and instead raised him as his own son (note: sometimes Oedipus is taken in by the King of Corinth) @vivithefolle
Then Oedipus one day heard about the city of Thebes that was plagued by a Sphinx, who devoured the travellers who didn’t answer her question correctly (and also devoured Thebes’ citizens on a whim)
So Oedipus starts walking towards Thebes and comes accross this old noble dude
And Old Noble Dude is being kind of a bitch to Oedipus so Oedipus kills him, because that’s how it worked back then, you just don’t wait for the police, you ARE the police
Then Oedipus finds the Sphinx, answers her riddle correctly, and the Sphinx dies mad about it (literally)
And the prize for killing the Sphinx was… the Queen of Thebes
So Oedipus marries the Queen of Thebes and they start having children and it’s great for a while
But then Thebes is plagued by… well by the Plague, funnily enough
And Oedipus asks the oracles why the fuck is his city being plagued @ronandhappiness
Oh so the Queen is his mom
@vivithefolle
And one of the oracles, Tiresias, a blind seer, tells Oedipus “bro you’re not gonna like this”
@ronandhappiness
Lmaoo @vivithefolle
And Oedipus is all “fuck u dude, tell me what’s going on with my fcking city”
And Tiresias says “Well, let’s imagine, just imagine, that one man has killed his father, then married and fucked his own mother”
Oedipus goes “holy shit who’s that sick son of a bitch”
“In psychology classes, you are taught that “Opposites Attract” only applies to flings, short passion-filled fun things that are in no way serious or hoping to be permanent”
…
um
sorry buddy but
MAYBE PSYCHOLOGY ISN’T ALWAYS 10000% CORRECT?
LIKE BITCH YOU TALK ABOUT FREUD AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX DINGUS EVERY FUCKING PSYCHOLOGIST IS LAUGHING THEIR BOLLOCKS OFF AT FREUD’S THEORIES
IF YOU HAD A SMIDGE OF CRITICAL THINKING PERHAPS YOU’D BE A GOOD PSYCHOLOGIST
BUT I’M NOT HOLDING MUCH HOPE YOU DUMBFUCK Moving on to the “intellectual compatibility” nonsense
“So if we believe that Hermione values intellectual pursuits”
I’m pretty sure Hermione values HER intellectual pursuits
but not those of others
remember when Harry was in a snit about the Deathly Hallows
Hermione sure wasn’t all “omg!!! magical ancient artefacts!!! totally must find them!! think of the HISTORY!!! harry you beautiful intellectual beast make love to me”
@ronandhappiness
“harry you beautiful intellectual beast make love to me”
STOP @vivithefolle
she was all “wow harry you’re gonna believe a kid’s tale. 100%. your stupidest idea yet. you dumb fuck. i can’t believe you’re not dead yet. if it weren’t for me and Ron you’d never have survived ever.”
MEANWHILE Ron is all “eeeeeeeeeeeeh maybe harry’s right and the hallows exist but mate we gotta sort out our priorities, we can go Indiana Jones-ing magical artefacts later” @ronandhappiness
And then they called Ron useless and dumb lmaooooo fuck off
@vivithefolle bitch
and Ron ACTUALLY makes Hermione laughs and guess what
HUMOUR IS A PART OF INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION
I KNOW. MIND-BLOWING.
LAUGH IS ACTUALLY A RESPONSE FROM OUR BODY TO INTELLECTUAL STIMULI.
CAN
YOU
BELIEVE
IT
@ronandhappiness
“no no i don’t hate ron I just think insert bullshit about ron being so bad for perfect goddess hermione”
Really?
@vivithefolle
also fuck off but chess is like the most intellectually stimulating game in the fucking world and Hermione is shit at it while Ron is brilliant so
I think that Sapiosexual!Hermione’s gonna go for that sexy freckled arse in any possible universe if you catch my drift
@ronandhappiness
Exactly.
Honestly, at the end of the day, I blame that stupidass “emotional teaspoon” line.
Because anti romiones see that as “proof” that their precious Hermione isn’t on the same “level” as nasty ron
While those of us who have brains and can think, know that this is just an example of Hermione’s hypocrisy
@vivithefolle Sapio!Hermione: *jumps at Ron after he trounces her at chess* You beautiful fucking asshole how dare you be so intelligent and not show it more.
Ron: *blushing* Her-Hermione, we’re in the common roo- AH!
S!Hermione: *straddling him* I’m going to ravish you so badly you have no fucking idea. Our kids will be geniuses. More clever than Albert fucking Einstein. My grades and your chess brain. My academical power and your ability to make everyone laugh themselves to Heaven. Oh my god even your freckles are puzzles how are you so damn sexy.
So what did we learn?
We learned that Vivi has the biggest potty mouth when she’s tired and that she floods poor Ayesha’s chatbox
Also that Romione is canon forever but was there ever any doubt?
YOU FORGOT THE NEXT PART WHEN I ASKED YOU NOT TO POST THIS BECAUSE YOU ARE MINE AND I WANT YOU ALL FOR MYSELF (Nah, I kid. It’s your masterpiece, therefore you can do whatever you want with it, and the world deserves some Hermione pouncing on Ron.)
BUT THIS IS THE BEST “ROMIONE PLAYS CHESS AU” I’VE EVER READ.
LIKE EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT HERMIONE BEATING RON AT CHESS AND BEING BETTER THAN HIM
my dude my man…..stop
I’ll bet Ron plays even HARDER when he’s playing chess with Hermione and I’m sure Hermione finds that even more intellectually stimulating.
Anyways I love Vivi and her enthusiastic commentaries and her potty mouth.
@vivithefolle@ronandhappiness You two are just the best and it’s a privilege to know you both. I swear, I couldn’t stop laughing towards the end of this post. You two really put a smile on my face.
Although I personally think Ron is the sapiosexual one of the two, I can get behind the idea of Hermione being super into Ron’s strategic mind, and having to restrain herself when he beats her at chess because she’s so attracted to him.
Pure fucking gold
Wow, @vivithefolle going full-on Ronmione smut on main 😉
@lytefoot Couldn’t keep this masterpiece all to myself now could I 😉
@headcanonsandmore – as someone who is Sapiosexual (it’s inside the Demi but I digress) that kind of intellect is, not so much an aphrodisiac but a “I won’t have anyone who can’t abcd intellectually.” I turned down quite a few dates in my time because the person wasn’t smarter than I was.
It’s rude to admit (’course this was before I got married to a brilliant man) but every single person I dated (not just guys, either, even if they were more platonic dates and still are!) is in one way or another, smarter than I am.
I can sooooo see Ron being Sapio (even if @vivithefolle has me seeing him kinda prudish too, now!) but also demi (where once he knows the person, they turn him on, brains being a bowl of pudding on top.)
But dating? Casual affairs? I don’t see it (not the way he’s written in canon.)
@diva-gonzo Whoops, sorry; I didn’t mean to imply that. Beg pardon.
Yeah, I can easily see Ron as Sapio, since he seems (at least, with Hermione) to admire intelligence and wit in a person. And I see him as Demi too, since he (aside from adolescent crushes and attraction brought on by Veela-powers) rarely has any interest in someone that he doesn’t know very well.
The first Fish and Chip shop in London was opened by a Jewish immigrant called Joseph Malin
San Francisco was once controlled by a gang of Australian criminals known as ‘The Sydney Ducks’
The Roman Emperor Caligula got his nickname after a type of soldiers boot he used to wear as a child
The Isle of Man has arguably the world’s oldest democratic parliament, Tynwald, which has run continuously since the year 979.
Louis the Fourteenth of France banned Pineapples from his country because when the fruit was first introduced to him, he bit into the unpeeled pineapple and the prickles cut his mouth.
There were over 600 attempts on Fidel Castro’s life. Some of the most bizarre plots include an exploding seashell, a poisoned wet suit and an exploding cigar.
4. Favourite historical era?
The 1960s. Love the music, culture, and clothing.
24. Who do you consider to be one of the most underrated historical figures?
Mary Seacole
Harriet Tubman
Keir Hardy
Tony Benn
Alan Turing.
30. [ask me a question of your own devising]
Well, you haven’t given me a question, so how am I supposed to answer?
Hello it’s me again!! The same guy who wrote voice of an angel and the insecure life and I’m here with something that’s NOT a headcanon but an analysis of something that has been discussed before but I want to also put my own opinion and take on things. If possible please accept and post thank you so much!!
Now here’s the thing I actually think the Ron and Lavender romance wasn’t bad. I know it’s easy to hate lavender but I have come with an explanation as to why the romance was a good way to mature both Ron and Hermione. When I first read Goblet of Fire and I arrived at the yule ball scene, my thoughts were “Ron’s being immature and Hermione is allowed to date anyone she wants to” and It was the same thought for Half-Blood prince just reverses “Hermione’s being immature and Ron can date anyone as well.“ In Half blood Prince Ron is not at fault because he’s dating Lavender because he just wants to be loved (and don’t we all?) at the point in the book where Ginny says that Hermione kissed Krum then Ron decides to give up on pursuing a relationship with Hermione because clearly she doesn’t like him that way. Hermione releasing the birds is herself being immature about the whole thing and complaining about not getting what she wanted. This is an unpopular opinion to most of the HP fandom but really….. Hermione is more immature then Ron. Ron after the Yule Ball talked to Hermione and resolved the drum incident afterwards and he never really got stared a huge argument after and the whole Krum argument took about 1-2 chapter and a Christmas Eve . In Hermione’s case Ron had to nearly die for Hermione to realise she was being an Idiot.
But this is why I like the Romione relationship and why I think it’s the best romance in all of fiction. The fact is the Ron x Hermione relationship is REAL. There is no love at first sight, vampire hotties, or kinky sex stuff. The girl and guy are not even in love when they first meet. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger go through life as best friends and only at the end when they have matured do they love each other. Viktor Krum and Lavender Brown were necessary to show that love sometimes is not at first sight. Ron and Hermione had to grow and realise that they were both immature. In deathly hallows they both realise their immaturity and selfishness and decide to put it behind them, that’s what makes the kiss all the more sweeter because they finally grew up. The kiss at the end of Deathly hallows is more than an expression of love but a sign to show that Ron and Hermione are done with immaturity and petty feuds that they love each other and that’s it. This is also why I don’t believe JK Rowling when she says that Ron and Hermione need a counsellor for their marriage because they are already done with the immature part of their like and their love is real even though it took Vicky and Lav-Lav for them to realise that.
Thank you so much, anon! This is some really great analysis.
I very much agree that Ron is more mature than Hermione is; he acts more mature at the age of fourteen (after the Yule Ball) than Hermione does at the age of seventeen (during Ron’s relationship with Lavender). @ronandhappiness and @vivithefolle, this seems up both your streets; thoughts?
My uncle posted a transphobic video about how there are only two sexes/genders (the speaker was too ignorant to differentiate) and I want to link him to this article I read on how biological sex is a spectrum and how scientists only condensed it to binary to be lazy/make it simpler to talk about but ignored all the variations of biological sex. It mentions the bell curve and the variations such as XX, XY, XXY etc.
YAY! I used to run the ship over at FictionAlley waaaay back in the day. Never see fellow Lunarry fans around 😀
Oh, wow, I’d forgotten about FictionAlley, that’s cool! I’d never come across many other H/L shippers either, but there are a few of us floating around Tumblr @guineverependragon, @headcanonsandmore and @queerqueenoftears are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head but I know there are others following me – guys, come say hi to a fellow shipper!
Thank you for the tag! I’m also gonna tag @weasleyismyking540, since they ship Luna and Harry as well.
It’s the first draft. Use the word “suddenly.” Put as many dialogue tags and adverbs as you want. Say “he saw” “she remembered” “she felt” “they wondered” as many times as you need to. Put the em dash there, put in too many commas, use semi-colons with reckless abandon. Type in [whatever] instead of thinking up a title for something. Just write it. If you worry too much about the particulars, about all the advice posts you’ve seen saying whatever you’re doing is wrong or not good enough, you won’t get anything done. It will slow you down as you go back and try to reword what you just wrote to make it better, proper. The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done. And when you get to the end, you’ll find that all those “mistakes” are just clues for your future self to put together to make it all better.
Putting in adverbs and certain dialogue tags are a note for you as to who is saying something and how they’re saying it. When you’re editing, you can make sure it shows through the story instead. The word “suddenly” is a reminder to make things more abrupt. The first draft is just you mapping out where you want to go and how you want to get there. Don’t waste time trying to get it 100% right now, because then it will never get done. Don’t think too much– just write. Save the thinking for editing later.
The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done
what did ron and hermione tell their children about how they met
like
“at first i hated your mother, and i made her cry by saying ‘no wonder nobody likes her, she’s a nightmare’, but then we saved her from a troll in the bathroom, so we became friends after that”
I think it would be more like;
“Me and your mum- sorry, luv; “your mother and I”- did not get along at first. I thought she was a snobby smug show-off, and she thought I was a uncouth little twerp- aww, thanks ‘Mione, but don’t lie; I know you couldn’t stand me at first and that’s okay-. We then got on each others’ nerves during a Charms class- Rosie, do like your mother says and avoid being rude about other people’ spells- but then we beat that troll and became friends. It took us a while to get past our pre-established impressions of each-other, and we both realised how much more we were than ‘the youngest Weasley boy and the brainy know-it-all’.” *kisses Hermione on the cheek, making her blush*
Headcanonsandmore 