#I know she’s from the UK!!!!

[fadelbison]

….my margaret thatcher fic has ~11,000 notes??????

im physically incapable of pushing this out of my head

[mozzzz05]

I just had an upsetting thought - what if Alison constantly visited the Ghosts and knew - when she was old and grey and had lived a life - that she was going to die, so she made sure she was in Button House for it?

Mike accepts it and understands her want to go back to the Ghosts, they’re like family, they’re always there.

But then it’s Mike’s turn to go and he decides it must happen at Button House too. He’ll see his wife again! Spend a couple of hundred years together & hey he can actually meet/talk to the ghosts now!

Only when he dies and he meets all the Ghosts, who are all excited to actually talk to him etc, he asks where Alison is, only to find that she moved on straight away.

He finally gets to see a part of his life that was so bizarre for him, so secret and hidden, part of his life where he only ever had half a story. And now he has that half but his whole world is still gone and he doesn’t know when he’ll ever see her again.

[jack-kellys]

so we all know life is a circle. thus fandom is a circle. we see things come back around like the de/twinkification of racetrack higgins. or cowboy versus artist jack kelly. or "mom" friend david jacobs and the perpetual need to make the newsies some kind of heteronormative family. and yet again we've found our way back to the anti katherine pulitzer arc of her "getting in the way" of jack and davey's popular subtextual/fanon relationship. (yes im late nevermind that.)

now, not being a katherine fan is different than being anti-katherine. not being a katherine fan means you might have criticisms like "i'm not sure how she serves the newsies narrative better than, say, sarah jacobs, as sarah is more aligned with the newsies contextually/societally and katherine is very distant and rich lol", or even "i'm not a big fan of how katherine seems to be tired of jack's shit for most of the play and then 'suddenly' finds romantic interest in him within one song".

but being anti-singular-young-woman-character because of a ship between the main two boys is. a tired take is it not? again with the circle, we've had this discourse already and its been cut out. since 2012 and 2017 we been talking about this girl and her value, but not in the context we should be.

(because the context we should be talking about it in is a newsies 1992 versus newsies broadway context, not an anti-katherine context, but i digress.)

katherine's value. what is there to mine from? she is an extremely young woman reporter, 17-18 years old, whose article makes the front page of the new york sun. since she writes under a pseudonym, i'm presuming she writes with skill well above her age to be published at all (yes, even writing vaudeville reviews). in past productions she either finds the newsies at jacobi's because she saw the walk-out (TWWK) from inside The World (UK), or jack kelly simply interests her enough for her to seek him out again (Broadway/Tour/Live). she is unsure about herself as a writer despite her skill which is made clear in her song. she is rich. she did not need to have a career and was encouraged not to. pulitzer is her father and she does not get along with him. she matches jack word for word, often with davey at her side. she mills comfortably about the newsies through the second act and has a friendship of some kind with specs specifically. she also literally says "that's a face [jack's] that could save us all from sinking in the ocean/like someone said 'power tends to corrupt'" essentially prophesying the act 2 betrayal. which is crazy.

you can draw your own conclusions from the above, but all of it is essentially canon? right? so maybe you don't have to be a fan of all of it, but you're really going to tell me absolutely none of this is compelling. that none of this is something you can interpret for yourself as complex. that albert is more complex.

this is not me saying you have to include katherine in everything, because that isn't what this post is about. this is about individuals choosing to dislike or devalue katherine by only viewing her in relation to her as a romantic interest, instead of a complex character in a period piece with a full arc. yes a full arc. it's the musical that's rushed not katherine.

@we-are-inevitable speaks on this extremely well in the comments of this post as well, more in connection to katherine as being a compelling romantic interest in the context of newsies speaking in the defense of love interests/often women characters. in this post i speak on how i would navigate jack/katherine as a director, and in this post i speak on how to direct something to believe in to make it, well, believable, aside from its awful writing for both kath and jack. because again, fandom is a circle, and i literally talked about how to "fix" jatherine in august 2024. at length

[cashmere-caveman]

the whole mitchell/annie romance was kind of ham-fisted and its implosion was infinitely more fascinating and better written than any and all parts where they were actually together but. all that aside i find it so fascinating that when mitchell first cottons on to the fact that annies into him and goes to george about it to have a little crisis and they discuss the possibility of it neither of them ever says that mitchell would be good for annie they only ever say that hed be good to her bc yes they are collectively ignoring the elephant in the room (mitchell killed 20 people two weeks ago) but they do draw the line at pretending he is a plus in any relationship. thats a bad dog u can teach it to behave around his loved ones but he'll never stop biting strangers

[sowhatsthesituation]

OK, I know as viewers we know that Frankie made the right decision with the Seer power, but I feel like her choice didn't make a lot of sense if you look at it from her perspective

If Charlotte is the one you trust the most, why are you using your Seer power to confirm it instead of using it to catch a traitor? From the way she's putting it, she seems pretty confident that Charlotte is a faithful

If I was in her shoes, I would pick one of the others, since I would rather try catch a traitor than prove someone is a faithful.

Also kinda unrelated, but this isn't going to end well for either of them. They're both going to accuse each other of being traitors, so the best move for the other faithfuls is to just vote them both out since they can't confirm who is the traitor.

[gomzdrawfr]

Love when I see new oc and there’s a whole history and list there with divisions and all meanwhile mine’s just:

She works alone, merc with some intelligence exposure, the specifics? Classified. She got a nasty back injury at some point, o ya also she’s a Lieutenant. Hm age? Classified. Ooo also has a fear towards flowers. Divisions? Classified.

[sunnysideaeggs]

Before GRRM's blog I saw so many TB fans viral tweets about how smallfolk loving Helaena and Alicent was Maesters/Greens propaganda 🤭

omg this 😭 i saw a tiktok about how the smallfolk liking alicent and helaena was ‘propaganda’ because they didn’t pass any laws like alysanne or rhaenys the conqueror did. did they forget the 20 years of alicent being queen in times of peace? the people of king’s landing see the royals and create opinions about them, they know helaena is kind and gentle and alicent is wise and pious. the smallfolk of king’s landing celebrated helaena’s birth, wedding and children for sure, they know her, and knowing about someone’s life for years makes them dear.

[maladaptivedaydr3amer]

She’s for real my Pandora Lovegood fancast

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

Any and all HP related blogs that reblog from us will be blocked.

Edit; idgaf if you’re trans yourself. You should know better then. Support your trans family and stop sucking jkr’s toe.

[camellcat]

WTFFF I thought thirteen would be my new girl crush love of my life heart eyes wife you-came-after-twelve-you-must-be-better-than-they're-all-saying bbygirl and then I had to sit down and watch as she told a man who (if he were not a murderer, of course) literally every regeneration before her would've LOVED and FULLY SUPPORTED that "the systems aren't the problem. how people use and exploit the system, that's the problem. people like you" </33333 !?!?

[mildmayfoxe]

i know i was just complaining about skinny yoga instructors on here the other day but one skinny lady i like a lot is charlie follows if anybody is looking for yoga videos

[kay9leo]

Shrimp Fried Rice

Go ahead and tell me Sebastian wouldn't be making puns out of everything from what we see in the game. I dare you 🤣

Lucky for him, Iñaki is just as guilty of being a punster 🤣🤣🤣

Ominis needs someone to save him, stat! 😭

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The other day, my sister made this same pun and I couldn't help but roll my eyes and laugh at it while thinking: "This is definitely something Sebastian would say".

So here we are with these two panels. 🤣

vvv...Possible backstory to go along with the panels...vvv

Seeing how Iñaki/MC is a half-blood (well, really a muggleborn but she was advised by her pure-blood godfather to lie about her blood status when she moved to Europe for obvious safety reasons) and feeling homesick, she decided to sneak out to the closest nomaj/muggle major city - which happened to be Aberdeen, Scotland. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to do it without the Slytherin duo catching her and they both decided to sneak out with her to try to deter her; well mostly Ominis. Sebastian was rather excited to go than to try to stop her from leaving.

The trio then ends up traveling to Aberdeen, Scotland where MC brings them up to speed on the nomaj/muggle tech and world as the two boys learn to blend in more in her world. When they arrived at Aberdeen, it's around lunch time and as she rather missed having Chinese food, she invites the boys to lunch.

(Plus, she is the only one who carried the nomaj/muggle British pound cash currency)

This is the first time either of the boy had nomaj/muggle (or even) Chinese food. MC was the one who ordered for them Shrimp Fried Rice - something rather safe for the Slytherin duo who never went muggle or had Chinese food before.

Sebastian being Sebastian, couldn't help but make a pun about the food and MC goes along with it. Ominis is reevaluating all his life choices.

...

A bit more on Iñaki "MC" Martinez Cariaga and the Hogwarts Legacy "Modern" AU she lives in...modern as in her story starts in the year 2008😅

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[sparklyseblos]

no one is doing it like tate mcrae i fear i need everyone to watch the 2 hands music video immediately ESPECIALLYYYY that dance break oh my god

[royalboyixi]

petty about it bc I'm trans, but it's kinda hilarious that numerous Harry Potter characters were in the first round of JN's Halloween contest and it seems like none of them made it to the second round...