unit and torchwood (and the bannerman road gang) both absolutely kept tabs on donna but since unit's official policy re: the remaining member of torchwood three is 'do not engage under any circumstances this woman will kick your arse and we literally cannot afford that' gwen has no idea what's happened until she goes on her biannual is donna still alive trip to find donna and fourteen arguing about which dresser to buy in ikea and is like hey what the fuck
i find it hilarious that Lockwood and Co. casually catches cabs in the middle of cases. does it get really awkward when there's a lanky overdressed kid and his girlfriend with horribly smudged eyeliner sitting in your backseat, dripping with Thames water, and he's begging her to talk to him and she refuses because he nearly got them killed over a bet with Kipps
Hairless Edition
Many tears, like the curls, have been shed.
“He’s acting!” “He’s balding!” they’ve said.
At U2’s Vegas home:
A shiny, sleek dome ...
Not the Sphere — Harry’s freshly shorn head!
Homeless Edition
The internet’s taking-the-piss-ing:
Harry’s house and his hair have gone missing.
Ol’ Ben’s attic shuffle’s
Now hotels with Russell,
While his husband squawks on about chicken.
since riot fest is coming up and a lot of bands we all like on here are going i just wanted to let people know about some of the shit around riot fest from chicago residents around douglass park (where riot fest is held)
the nature of the festival is that it completely shuts down the park for far longer than the fest goes on for in terms of how it ruins the grass the children’s sports teams play on (making them more susceptible to injury), the damage to trees and the set up and shut down time.
this also closes off green space in a poorer, majority Black and Latine neighbourhood. the disruption that attendees bring to the local area, including leaving a lot of rubbish, has also been exacerbated in recent years when many have caught covid at the fest, passing it on to the local community who don’t want it hosted there in the first place. locals have also struggled to get to 2 local hospitals with the amount of traffic it creates. (heatwave and summer smash have been moved from the park this year bc of the same complaints)
members of the community have now been protesting riot fest for 8 years. over the course of this time, they have spoken with the mayor and with the organisers of riot fest but to no avail
look at unetelavilllita on IG for more (and good article summarising the dispute here)
There are a lot of people who find their romance in HBP forced. I don't think it's forced so much as underwritten, and the books don't get the chemistry quite right (though the movies certainly don't, either). There's potential, but they just don't get enough actual scenes of substance (besides Harry thinking she's pretty or feeling jealous of Dean) for a lot of readers to buy that they're not only in love, but deeply enough in love to break up, get back together, and wind up married.
That's not to say I don't see the appeal. There's a very cool scene in Book 5 where Harry's doing a woe-is-me-Chosen-One act, and Ginny effortlessly puts him in his place about it by reminding him that she was possessed by Voldemort at eleven, which is a rare glimpse into her character and also a great synecdoche for their relationship — Ginny is a grounding presence who, like Ron and Hermione, isn't going to be awed by his past adventures because she knew him before they happened. In that respect, Ginny's probably one of the few women Harry could feasibly wind up with, because he only ever seems comfortable around people (let alone girls) who can see past the Chosen-One schtick and treat him like a normo (see: Ron, Hermione, the Weasleys, Luna, Hagrid). True to type, he doesn't get interested in Ginny at all until she's ditched her celebrity crush and ceased to view him as an idol, because in his heart of hearts, Harry wants to be a normal boy, and it's stressed over and over that part of what he likes about his relationship with Ginny is how normal it feels. He kind of has a horribly supercharged version the celebrity dating problem: after the Battle of Hogwarts, anyone he meets is going to know him first as Harry Potter, Chosen One, Boy Who Lived, and Actually Fucking Resurrected Messiah of the Wizarding World, which is... I mean, it's possible that there are witches out there who could get over that, but Harry's not an extroverted guy, and I'm not sure how he'd go about finding them. Ginny's the one who's been there since the beginning, doesn't need anything about him or his past explained to her, and actually likes him for who he is.
When you look at it that way, it's not surprising he married his high school girlfriend. She's one of the few people still alive who doesn't see him as a demigod.