#there are too many unanswered questions

[preciouspatriots]

season finale of Shelter is tomorrow and there hasn’t been any renewal news; i’m nervy

#there are too many unanswered questions #it’s giving julie and the phantoms #it’s giving the society #and i can’t deal #i need more spoon mickey and ema #shelter #harlan coben's shelter

[supremechancellorrex]

I was mulling over Harry Potter recently and I think one of the reasons it doesn't really appeal that much to me is the worldbuilding is not my cup of tea. In the context we are given wizards and witches are far too powerful to be hiding from Muggle nations. Wizards have the capability to mind control, memory wipe, easily create Muggle-repelling charms over entire locations that confuse and disorientate, as well as have teleportation, portkeys, Floo powder, spatial magic, invisibility, etc. Wizards sharing a planet with Muggles is positively Lovecraftian, like Cthulhu being just next door and closer.

With basic evolutionary patterns, Darwinism, the fact wizards can be disappointingly human and their leanings to fascist elements in their history (so many Anti-Muggle Dark Lords), they'd have wiped Muggles out by the BCE period, or at least not be hiding from them in a way that's the equivalent of the United States hiding from Monaco. It wouldn't take that many wizards, and in the book we are provided no evidence of our Muggle tech being able to withstand something as dynamic, tricky and reality warping as magic.

Power Dynamics

"They can strike anywhere at any time before anyone knows it."

The power dynamic from what we are shown in the books are very wonky and infinitesimally so unequal one begins to wonder if owls hide from slugs. Perhaps if JK Rowling had depowered wizards more by incorporating clearer weakness and faults in the magic system, such as perhaps no apparition (I mean, they already have portkeys, Floo powder, brooms, greedy wizards), more limits to the mind control like showing Muggles can fight it off, made wards and Muggle-repelling charms more fragile (maybe have that they can only be set up in certain geographical places either choking with magic or idk related to runic stuff and ley lines), as well as perhaps indicate that the average shielding charms can't withstand heavy kinetic onslaught from a heavy duty weapon like an AK-47, etc., it might have felt more understandable why the Muggle World and Wizarding World have the relationship they do.

Because, in the canon, we are given no concrete reasons why the wizarding world chooses to hide other than Muggles being a bother, probably asking for cures to cancer or something. In the canon, we are never presented with any Muggle technology that justifies the Wizarding World being under threat if the Statute of Secrecy breaks. We can speculated, but we can speculate either way depending on our mood. You'd think this would be more defined since the conflict centralises on Wizards and Muggles (including their offspring) existing.

Ethical Concerns For Mugs

"With this rep, I guess we deserve to be mindwiped whatever our consent."

Regarding certain implications in the books, there are a number of ethical concerns that don't feel they're given the weight and attention they deserve considering the themes. One is the overuse of memory charms, a mental violation which are hinted to cause brain damage. Considering how much wizards obliviate and violate Muggles' minds as well as cover up their deaths, that's practically fridge horror. Wizards, both good and bad, also often subvert Muggle democracy and freedom of information, and are quite authoritarian and devil-may-care about this. The Harry Potter narrative never really fully tackles this or shows any real critiques or changes in regards to the Statute of Secrecy and Muggles.

Considering the over all message of the books is anti-authoritarianism, anti-fascism, freedom and even saying Muggles aren't 'lesser' beings, these actions contradicts the themes and kind of makes all the wizards look pretty morally bankrupt when they continue to do this even after the 17 Years Later epilogue. In all honesty, this actually impacts the characterisation of our protagonists in a way I don't particularly like, especially since Hermione is Minister For Magic for a period of time.

Muggles & It's Just Fantasy

"Hi boring people we're fighting an entire conflict over, just passing through."

Suspension of disbelief is a tricky thing and so is the way a writer earns it. I think it would be more okay if Harry Potter was a purely separate fantasy world similar to Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, but the author has Muggle society (aka our 'logical' world) develop the exact same way despite sharing the planet with the logic-breaking magical world since the dawn of time and evolution. With all the factors shown in HP, these powerful, reality-warping wizards would fuck up our history and society so much we Muggles would either be dead or coughing out live elephants every time we ate a salad on a regular basis.

Over all, I feel the Muggles need to be more of a threat and have more going for them to explain why the wizards are hiding from them. Otherwise a wizard could teleport around the land of Muggles and just put Muggle-repelling charms on the British Parliament, all the nation's hospitals, police stations, banks, etc. and just watch the chaos. Okay, next stop, the Nuclear power stations and missile silos. By the Muggle world existing it intrinsically forces reality into a fantasy that doesn't want it.

#anti harry potter #harry potter critical #muggles #muggles are written as inferior #read the books but they ain't for me #will we ever learn hermione's parents' first names? #can muggle technology do anything? #can a shielding charm protect against radioactive particles and an atomic blast? #major canon gaps #anti hp #worldbuilding #bad writing #too many unanswered questions about the fucking conflict

[yutaleks]

I do think the one bit of bad writing (imo) is like… why aren’t there more sorcerers… like gojo’s from a clan isn’t he? He ain’t got a cousin? Sukuna the KING OF CURSES and we can’t muster up a great ninja alliance like we fighting Madara rn??? There are more than like… ten sorcerers, aren’t there???

#jjk spoilers #JJK has way too many unanswered questions sometimes. and it’s frustrating cause knowing Gege he ain’t gonna tell us shit

[molkolsdal]

thinking about the identity crisis i went though as a kid cuz my parents had told me very simply that my mom was pashtun and my dad was punjabi and they were both from peshawar and that was that. understandably they had simplified it so much for me cuz i was a kid, but whenever other brown people asked where i was from or "what are you" and i mentioned punjabi and they'd be like oh wow where? lahore? and i'd just be like nope lol peshawar and they would press me about how my dad could be punjabi if he was from peshawar and i just didn't have an answer. when i got a little older, i started saying well borders are manmade, you don't necessarily have to be from one ethnicity cuz you're from a certain area (and i was right! i just didn't know at the time why i was right).

as i got older and i found out more about our family background, it all made more sense to me as i came to know that the punjabi side of us was allegedly from a great-great-great grandfather from gurdaspur who had moved to bannu way back when. but as my interest in linguistics and anthropology and history grew, i realized that my old explanation of "borders are manmade" was true anyway!!! prime examples being speakers of Hindko and Derawali, as well as the Hazarewal community in general. anyways, i could go on about this, but it's all just so endlessly fascinating that i wouldn't know where to stop so i'll stop now.

#also thinking about the fact that my dads family speaks derawali / seraiki and i keep wondering how his family managed to maintain such a #strong punjabi identity despite being only a fraction punjabi 'by blood' and living in kpk for generations #their ancestral home is in bannu and they have no ties to gurdaspur anymore as far as i know #and we have more recent kashmiri and tibetan ancestors but that gets completely overlooked (that could prob be for patriarchal reasons too #since i rmr my dad once saying 'you are what your dad is' which is so stupid and makes no sense. made me roll my eyes so hard) #but anyways im wondering if any of his great-grandparents or whoever were originally from bannu/surrounding areas and thats why they kept #the language OH BUT IM ALSO REMEMBERING NOW my grandma grew up in gujarat (present day pakistan) and also both my grandparents lived in #qadian in india for quite some time in their youth bc they were ahmadi #wondering how many of my other ancestors lived in qadian as well since they all very strongly identify as ahmadi #qadian is in punjab so maybe they married people there as well!!! #anyways just... so many unanswered questions!

[catominor]

lord help me im still thinking about romegaverse. imagining how marriage would work. imagining how it would interact with state religion....

#theres too many unanswered questions... #I DONT EVEN LIKE OMEGAVERSE I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS TOO WEIRD FOR ME😭😭 #romegaverse

[captain-k8kat]

There are 2 things I want for Diluc in regards to characterization

1) I want him and Kaeya to reconcile, I need it even. We've gotten hints of it sprinkled around but I need them to commit. I need them to be brothers again

2) I want diluc to realize that he doesn't need to be chained to his father's legacy. I want him to heal from his father's death more and not be chained to it, that he never needed his father's approval and he is his own person. That his father would be proud of him and even if he wasn't it wouldn't matter, he never needed it in the first place

#and 3 i need him to kiss number 11 of the fatui harbingers #/j #or am i :)c #k8kat talks #genshin impact #diluc ragnvindr #diluc genshin impact #diluc #idk if diluc will get the character development he deserves because hoyo completely forgets about him and it makes me sad #im holding out hope tho #there's so many unanswered questions and so much room for character growth #like pleasr hoyo #let diluc be his own man! #genshin thoughts let's goooo #also i'm of the belief the crepus was a very loving father #but i'm also of the belief that he done fucked up #i have so many crepus hcs too tho #i put the Ragnvindrs in a glass jar and i'm shaking them #the family makes me insane #i love them

[andersdotters]

The interesting thing about Spina Di Rosula is that while they are an organization that seems like a force for good for the most part (despite having a mafia aesthetic), they also hire "cleaners" and set bounties wanted dead or alive.

#genshin impact #navia #spina di rosula #don't get me wrong you can set bounties and still be a force for good #but hiring 'cleaners' i'm assuming like sonny and luca that's.......... yeah... #and then sonny and luca too #i'm so curious about them #if you look at the l'or noir bulletin board one of the bounties has to do with sinthe #and right before it mentions spina di rosula hiring two cleaners #i wonder if that was sonny and luca and the bounty was for virgil #unless they're working for someone else #and who is the person that trained virgil? #so many unanswered questions #is there another mafia like organization? or is it all spina di rosula? #for reference i am referring specifically to 'a fontanian message' world quest and the l'or noir bulletin board #a 'cleaner' is a contract killer

[jyunism]

bio amali: 8/10

• LP a lil bit sus…. a lil bit silly…. a lil bit goofy…..

#°•.✷ — spm 2023! #spm 2023 #i keep overthinking like what if there were extra pages with questions unanswered #but i checked so many times and i calculated the marks #8 marks for results is a little bit too generous of u LP #guys its so obvious that p1 and p2 would be damn hard one

[pluviophile-imagines]

I said it in the tags but the reason people will find show finales disappointing is bc good stories require intent in every second of content. If ur writing a story and don’t know what ur ultimately working towards then no matter how good it was at the start ur gonna drop the ball in the end

#pattering on the roof #intent could be literally anything btw #even open-ended bittersweet endings where there’s too many questions left unanswered can be satisfying #if that’s what the story was supposed to be from the start #when we think back to shows that r universally thought of as good #(like gravity falls and ATLA and the good place) #they’re shows where the creators have openly said ‘we didn’t get cancelled this is our choice we wanted to end it here’ #they told the story they wanted to tell #and ended it where they always intended to

[unstable-viper]

ok so sudden thought I had last night and just discussed a fellow takasugi fan but

WHY DIDN'T TAKASUGI RECOVER HIS LEFT EYE DURING THE 2 YEAR TIME SKIP?

from what he said, he died several times during that period but we know the altana heals any wounds so why didn't it heal his left eye?

my personal thought was for symbolism: to remember and not forget everything that happened during (and after) the war. to probably keep him on track to his goal

and the other option we came up with my friend is simply because sorachi forgot😭 like I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that was the case

but I'm pretty curious on what people think about this bc I've been a fan for 6 years and I've never seen anyone talk about this

#gintama #takasugi shinsuke #i need a logical explanation #i wanna believe in the symbolism theory #but the thought of sorachi forgetting about the altana healing wounds is hilarious to me too #crazy how after so many years of being a fan i still discover new things #like there are so many questions left unanswered #the fandom needs to wake up for real lmao

[apocalyptic-byler]

the fact that we are most likely gonna get more of henrys backstory in s5 is enough to make me go crazy btw

#henry creel #vecna/henry/one #stranger things #stranger things 5 #st5 #st5 hopes #too many unanswered questions about that boy #i need to know what is up with him 😭

[oceanwithinsblog]

WHAT YHE HELL WAS THAT

#doctor who #dw s13 #doctor who flux #thirteenth doctor #chibnall's writing was all over the place this season and i didn't mind too much #tbh i didn't mind too much #bUT WTH THE FINALE WAS NOT WHAT I EXPECTED SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS #and the bad guys were dissolved quite too quickly like what was the meaning of having so many of them in the season in the first place #idk contrasting feelings BUT I'VE ALMOST CAUGHT UP WITH EVERYTHING !!!! #anyways i LOVED yaz this season <33

[rubys-domain]

holy jesus christ...

fontaine's act 4 is by far the most stressful act of any archon quest ever

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #genshin spoilers #a big part of it was everything with lyney lynette and freminet #seeing lyney so beside himself with worry was already intense #i don't think i needed to literally relive what happened to freminet seconds before drowning to death #that genuinely made me extremely uncomfortable. i mean it drove home the direness of the situation. but still....... #but even after things wrapped up i still didn't feel at ease #everyone seemed way too relaxed #like... your whole nation LITERALLY just almost got wiped out. how do you have it in you to even think about having a tea party????? #(this isn't meant to be a dig at lynette btw. it's just the most obvious example i could think of) #and there's still so many unanswered questions #what's the deal with furina，really? could it be possible that she's not actually a god like arlecchino suggested? #“her” secret? why would the former hydro archon be keeping a secret like that? a literal ticking time bomb like the primordial sea? #where did the primordial sea come from，anyway? did egeria create it? and if so，WHY? #(unlikely imo... but not totally impossible either) #plus furina's mention of some kind of plan to deal with the crisis that we still know nothing about #and we still don't know what the hell happened to childe #did he fall into the abyss again or smth? #it's just a lot #they really nailed making me feel that the stakes are sky-high #i should've realized that since this wasn't going to be the last act，that there's no way things would go to shit for real yet #i don't know if i can say that i “enjoyed” it. it sure as hell left an impression though #i still kind of haven't fully calmed down yet #i'm probably gonna need a week or something before i can relive this on my main account #oh，i'm also a bit impressed that there was zero combat in the whole two acts #with there being a literal fighting ring and the fortress being a mek factory，i would've expcted some amount of fighting #i mean that works great for me since that means i can play through them while eating lunch or smth #and not have my meal be interrupted by combat #i feel like most of the online community probably wouldn't like that though #good thing i'm not most of the online community

[authoramalgam]

MNAF 4 Ronaldo's skin is just. Rebornica Vincent. I know why, it's very recognisable, he is The Purple Guy But, I wanna draw him But I don't wanna make him just Rebornica Vincent I already have enough problems with that man

#and the fact that ronaldos skin and hair is literally purple #what the fuck man #was this ever even explained??? #i havent seen any of the (possible) lore stuff mentioned in any of dans livestreams and stuff #but i dont think it was ever explained why ronaldo is purple #im gonna assume it has something to do with torment but #idk #mnaf lore is wild and i feel like a conspiracy theorist looking at it for too long #mostly the plotholes that bug me #like ronaldo #also why does he sound like a radio #so many unanswered questions #gonna draw his human version from mnaf 3 first anyways and see what that does #for some reason my horrid little brain keeps saying to give him a mullet #so thats an idea i guess

[juodojimirtis]

So, Poison by Alice Cooper is definitely my Avadriel hymn.

#warrior nun #ava silva #adriel #wn adriel #avadriel #warrior nun thoughts #warrior nun fandom #diary pages #thought journal #otp #i think she'd play it for him at some point #idk if he'd like it #there is no indication of what kind of music he likes in the show #he strikes me as a classical kind of guy mostly #BUT with his long hair maybe someone could get him into rock and metal #unanswered adriel questions #there's too many #warrior nun ships #wn ships #unpopular ships

[averagefolksfandom]

#average folks #terra averagefolks #i am going to plague yall with so many polls #and memes! i have not forgotten that this is primarily a meme blog #but this question is too vital to leave unanswered