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critical-thinking-is-mandatory · 2 years

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like, I'll be the first to admit that, yes, once upon a time I did like harry potter. I read the books from my school library, and I was excited for the last movies to come out.

But like. Even tho I liked the books, and found it entertaining and fun and kinda cool. They really weren't...very good.

"But you just said you liked them! You said they were fun!" Yeah! I fucking did! I also think Sharknado is fun! Doesn't mean it's any good!

like fuck. Idk if it's just because I like, actually read a variety of books, and especially like. Good kids books, but I wasn't even like 14 before I was reading thru like one of the books and thinking to myself: 'hey. That...doesn't make any sense.' Or 'that's kind of dumb' or even 'but they *literally* had time travel for the sake of hermiones extracurriculars like, two books ago, why the fuck aren't they using it now. When it actually matters?'

Like, it doesn't matter which way you spin it, harry potter is, at best, fun. There's not anything about the writing or the world building or the storytelling that actually makes it into A Brilliant Work Of Modern Literature. Like, I fully acknowledge that it was an important part of my childhood, but it's just that. Part of my childhood. And it's not something I want to carry with me.

And like, I fully knew people *when I was 17* who were studying harry potter as part of their senior literature. This wasn't their decision it was decided for them *by a grown ass adult with a high school teaching degree at a stupidly wealthy school*. And even then! Before I spent enough time on the internet to even get an inkling of the shit jkr does! I thought to myself "your English teacher is a fucking moron".

Like jesus fucking christ! Harry potter isn't the best kids book I've ever read. It's not even the best kids book about a secretly special normal kid who goes to a magic school and is part of a prophecy to destroy some kind of terrible evil! Fuck!

It was fun. But it should have stayed as a mediocre kids book and been a forgotten memory. The fact that there are actual fully grown adults crying over people saying that, actually, hp is and always has been, pretty average. And that "You're only saying that because it's #woke to bully jkr and hp now!"

No. Fuck. Grow up. There has always been people who didn't like hp. Just because not everyone is obsessed with your outdated kids book anymore doesn't make it a personal attack on you. Fuck.

#Not ml #Listen. There are way way way way more good kids books #Especially about magic and fantasy and escape #Than there are plot holes in Harry potter #Like off of the top of my head there is #The school for good and evil the inkheart trilogy Percy fucking Jackson #There's igraine the brave and dragon rider and Rowan of rin and deltora quest #And Mildred hubble and freaking um. Artemis fowl and literally so so so many others #Not everything is about your stupid fucking wizard book

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doriansbutt · 2 months

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#poll #I know there’s things I’m forgetting lol #also note: things like ‘delulu’ and ‘neurospicy’ aren’t on there for a reason #and that’s because they’re just Bad Always #I wanna make a note on the OG post but it won’t let me put text under the poll?#I don’t hate all of these it’s just ones I could think of off the top of my head #idk man sometimes things just hit the wrong button I can’t explain it

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celestetcetera · 7 months

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tgwdlm is soooo funny bc even before the Evil Musical Hivemind lands everyone (except Paul ofc) is already a theater kid. Like okay you’ve got Hidgins which is self explanatory. But then Ted ends up really invested in working boys. Emma (and Zoey/Nora) did/do theater. Bill at least is invested in seeing a musical along with like a few other important side characters. It’s funny bc this is like Not how often theater is normally brought up. It’s like starkid went hmmm the average person consumes what… like a musical a week? been in a few performances throughout their life? Yeah that sounds about right. Like guys Paul’s defining character trait is fucking hating musicals and HE MENTIONS SEEING LIKE THREE OF THEM.

#couldn’t think of anything for charlotte off the top of my head maybe she’s truly the only normie </3 #the guy who didn't like musicals #tgwdlm #hatchetfield #starkid

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hawkeyeslaughter · 6 months

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hey , don’t cry . 256 episodes of mash to watch . many enjoyable . all with hawkeye . okay ?

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rainbowsuitcase · 3 months

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So much BTS lore feels like fanfiction and I can't get over it

Two of the members hated each other at first. They argued a lot and one time, they threw folded clothes at each other and the member who folded them had to come scold them. And now they keep reminding everyone how long they've known each other for. They wrote a song together where they said that "respect is a higher tier than love" and then called each other "my respect."

The smartest member of the group (one the previous two morons btw) didn't know how to tie his shoelaces until highschool. He doesn't eat seafood because he loves crabs. He's a literal geniues and he's so clumsy and such a dork (and I relate so deeply). And that body, guys, I'm telling you. This whole guy was made by a fanfic author.

Their company was near bankrupcy when they debuted. One of the members, who was getting offers from so many other companies, joined this one because he admired another member who was already a part of it. When these two met for the first time, member two was only wearing underwear and member one said "wow, thighs."

Another member came to an audition, not to audition himself but to support a friend. He was the only person from that audition round to get in. The friend did not.

Another member, who was studying to be an actor, was street cast on a bus.

One of them lost confidence and tried to leave before the debut, but another convinced him to come back, because they "needed him."

The whole industry hated them when they debuted and now they're arguably the best kpop group worldwide. (Arguably, read: argue with the wall)

(Add your own pls, I want to make a collection from this)

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markscherz · 1 year

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what's the stupidest/silliest looking frog you know of?

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[In order of appearance: Glyphoglossus molossus, Myobatrachus gouldii, Choerophryne proboscidea, Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, Pipa pipa, Litoria pinocchio, Triprion petasatus, Synapturanus danta, Breviceps verrucosus, Notaden bennettii, Hemisus guttatus, Hemiphractus bubalus]

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alleycatchitchat · 4 months

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did anyone else notice how physically protective shadow was in this episode

#like CONSTANTLY pulling/pushing/moving sonic out of harm's way #all things considered he was also being really understanding #i dont have examples off the top of my head and i'm too lazy to look for them #but other people saw it too right?#sonic prime #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #shadow the ultimate lifeform #sonadow #sonadow prime #sonic prime season 3 #sonic prime s3

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me-beef · 3 months

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colorful horse show

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yangjeongin · 2 months

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HYUNJIN BIRTHDAY COUNTDOWN (2024): hyunjin in every letter... ↘ D-5 | ZZZZZZ...

#hwang hyunjin #hyunjin #stray kids #bystay #createskz #staysource #a9gifs #*gif #*hyunjin #*ccarly #*carly:hyunjin #*series:hjbday24 #i could've made this 10 gifs but i made this literally today #and i didn't feel like it. i could think of one more but not the last one i needed off the top of my head and i was like no alksdjfadsgl #30 gifsets u will have to forgive me for this one

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chaosgenasi · 1 year

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We came to a young world. We came to a world of raw, elemental wonder. Of chaos and exultant passion. Of energy vaster, and more potent than anything we beheld in the cosmos... It doesn’t seem like it’s random or chaos. It just seemed like potential.

#critical role #criticalroleedit #critteredit #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #matthew mercer #cr exu #cr calamity #cr2 #cr3 #basil.gif #long post #it's about magic it's about potential it's about life it's about stories it's about exandria being a beacon it's about let's do it again #i mean it's also my thoughts on how the luxon maybe made leylines when they impacted/scattered #+ how cool that is when u examine the magic of exandria especially when u consider. luxon = leylines = ether = dunamancy = magic #(some quotes that Almost made it in were matt saying that all magic basically falls under dunamancy + the description of ether)#not to mention the tharizdun connections of a being of elemental chaos & what that could mean for the relationship between the luxon + them #and ruidus and exandria. i also have so many ashton thoughts re: elements + divine + being a fucking beacon but that's for another set lmao #also aabria's!!! dark motes of potential!! what's that about!! i gotta rewatch exu sdfjkh this was just everything off the top of my head #also real spiral shit here but the first person to officially find a beacon post calamity being named leylas. COINCIDENCE. most likely yes #also thinking about draconic being one of the like. languages of magic esp when you think about Elements. but i'm gonna stop now

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gods-favorite-autistic · 12 days

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Arthur Aguefort stop hiring the worst staff possible challenge

#the list of bad staff is now: Porter Jace Bobby Dawn Kalvaxus Daybreak #off the top of my head at least #istg at this point part of the job description must be like ‘willing to manipulate and take advantage of insecure and unstable children’#fantasy high hours #autism (mads) speaks #fantasy high #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #dimension 20 fhjy #d20 #d20 fhjy #d20 fantasy high #fhjy spoilers

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talleryn · 3 months

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Genre of show I’ve been watching recently:

“Hey you see that kid who is very cool and also very talented”

“Yeah why?”

“Yeah they’re like 12”

“OH WOW”

“Want to go traumatise them?”

“… yeah absolutely”

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infizero · 14 days

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"...we know the government doesn't give a fuck about us. We know the government doesn't give a flying fuck about the future of this country. I don't give a fuck about Biden's campaign! Nor do I give a fuck about Trump's campaign. Because they don't care about me! They don't care about babies. They don't care about women. They don't care about Black people or Native Americans. They don't give a fuck about Palestinian children. I do! I give a fuck about this country! I was born on this soil. I love this place. Because I love my friends, and I love the earth, and I want to protect it, and they don't. Because they want pocket change."

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You have to forgive me, cause I'm getting a little angry, but I've seen a lot of rhetoric on this app, and on other social media, and on the news, that our generation is soft. That Gen X- Gen X, Boomers, and Silent Generation believe that Gen Z and millenials and this Gen Alpha are soft. And I will tell you what, I think that is the worst thing to assume.

I have witnessed hundreds of my peers' lives be stripped away from them; their futures, their hopes, their dreams, their prom nights, because of our government's inaction with gun control. I have witnessed millions of lives taken away and altered and changed and ruined because of our government's inaction with Covid.

You guys made us tough. We're tough. We're tougher than you think, and we're tougher than you like to admit. Because we know the government doesn't give a fuck about us. We know the government doesn't give a flying fuck about the future of this country.

I don't give a fuck about Biden's campaign! Nor do I give a fuck about Trump's campaign. Because they don't care about me! They don't care about babies. They don't care about women. They don't care about Black people or Native Americans. They don't give a fuck about Palestinian children. I do! I give a fuck about this country!

I was born on this soil. I love this place. Because I love my friends, and I love the earth, and I want to protect it, and they don't. Because they want pocket change.

Tough. You think you're tough? You're bootlickers! Subservient to the idea of "growth." As if we can grow anymore! Our planet is dying! Because you don't give a fuck. Because you're soft. And saving the planet might be a little tougher than you thought.

I'm ready for that work. You know what I'm not ready for? Another world war. Just because I'm not gonna go over and shoot another working class person that I probably have more in common with, than an owning class piece of shit like Elon Musk, I'm soft? Because I care enough to accomodate my differently-abled peers, I'm soft? Because I don't wanna joke about women getting abused, I'm soft? If I'm alone in a room with Jeff Jackson, I'm leaving with his teeth in a jar. I'll show you how soft I am.

And you wanna ban the only place that we found community? Yeah, nonono. This election year is crazy. Because at this point, like, I think the entire generation, my generation, knows that you guys are geriatric, and knows that the Constitution is as well. It's too old. We are one of the youngest countries and we have the oldest Constitution? Make that make sense to me.

It's time for change. It's time for a new way of life. And these rich, stupid fucks don't deserve to be in charge of it. That's it, I'm sorry, that's it. That's it, I'm done."

#united states #us politics #palestine #free palestine #gun control #joe biden #donald trump #us elections #2024 elections #elon musk #gen z #millenials #gen alpha #video #sorry im bad at tagging stuff like this. lmk if there's other tags i should use im just kind of going off the top of my head

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ricky-mortis · 4 days

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