#and everyone is like. GOLD STAR!!!!!
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harry potter is so funny honestly bc ultimately yes it’s just a fairly run of the mill middle grade mystery fantasy series but the thing that really sets it apart isn’t the magic, it’s that it’s a series starring only jocks.
like there was a whole house for the smart kids and not a single one of the main characters was in it. blows my mind that there’s a whole bit in one of the books where harry is gifted a mysterious potentially dangerous enchanted broom while there is a suspected murderer who is thought to be actively trying to assassinate him and when hermione is like idk maybe don’t just immediately use the potentially cursed mystery gift he low key goes ballistic on her bc he cares more about getting to play with cool sports gear more than he cares about, like, being alive. and the book fully supports him in that!! the narration is like, isn’t hermione so crazy for that. she should’ve just let him play with his new sports stuff. how dare she imply that this mysterious object that was given to him from an unknown sender might be tied to the larger plot against harry’s life despite the fact that that’s the main conflict we’re dealing with rn.
idk it’s just so funny to me that hp got such traction with nerds when the entire series is actually just about exploring the question “what if the meathead star athlete of your high school tried to solve mysteries. and also there was magic.”
#fuck it im drunk. harry potter take time#people go on and on in the books that hermione is so smart#it’s rly just that she’s the only one of those meatheads who turns in her assignments#and everyone is like. GOLD STAR!!!!!#caroline speaks#and not mentioning also that#the mysteries the jock is solving are being created by a drama queen with absolutely 0 foresight#you guys ever thought about what voldemorts plan was? bc you shouldn’t
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what draws you back to your country what draws you back to your land when i was a kid i told myself if i ever left iran i'd never go back 2 years into living in the UK i started looking at news on iran again 10 years in and i visited it for the first time again and today i heard an iranian mother talk in farsi to her child on the train to london the way my mother used to and i wanted to cry i wanted to ask her whether they're still cutting the mountaintops whether the lakes are still drying today i showed the person i was with pictures of waterfalls and palaces and forests and snow-white north something odd pulls me back with increasing force i can't ignore it ever again
#i just dont know how else to tell you everything !!! santoor from a different room the large family gathering the black tea with saffron#drank out of delicate glass and gold vessels cold marble on hot nights big stars big rivers big mountains#visible from busy tehran roads the ease of conversation tension eased by sarcasm tall tall cliffsides you drive by#rushing to put on headscarves before the head teacher comes in a rave by the base of damavand massive sun pastel purple skies#disjunct architecture trucks on road sides with fresh fruits pomegranates watermelons oranges everywhere#the smell of golpar on tangerines beautiful girls in tehran holding hands bautiful boys in kermanshah speaking kurdish the janky#cars on the verge of breakdown held together by love caspian sea lighting up in spring staying up into the morning on noruz#my friends uncle sang and played setar his son played the violin a little fear a lot of love remnants of something#grand carved into the cliffside everything feels bigger taller the landscape swallows you it smells like#illegally imported wine and orange blossoms and auntie's tahchin soaking your eyes in warm tea when youre sick#tomatoes and salt concrete and stone something mandmade and something raw new flag old resilience#the anger getting to us bruised eyes big grin all i know is the north i feel sorry my mother asks if id be okay#if they got a place in tajikistan we love each other enough dont we? when we look in the mirror we see each other. theres a love letter#across the border and it says I MISS YOU IM GLAD YOURE DOING BETTER itll never be the same im not okay with it at all there are no more#stars i miss jumping over big fires i miss our fireworks im sorry we cant be happy anymore everyone#leaves the mint and rosewater and sunlight for a reason.#it's not pride it's just generational regret
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jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:
Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)
Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.
It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.
The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.
So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.
So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.
#jenndoesnotcare#respuestas#long post#cw religion#cw mormonism#i've been thinking about how my mother was the compassionate service leader in the church when i was a kid#which in our area was the person assigned to manage collective efforts to assist other members in a crisis#this could mean that someone got really sick or broke their leg or something and needs meals prepared for them for awhile#or it could mean that someone lost their job and they're going to need help#it might mean that someone needs to move and they need more people to move boxes or a piano or something#she was the person who made sure there was a social net for every member in our area no matter what happened or what was needed#there's an obvious way this is good but it also makes it scarier to leave and lose access#especially if there's no clear replacement and everyone is hostile#i was lucky in a lot of ways - my mother was unorthodox and my bio dad and his family were catholic so i always had ties beyond the church#my best friend was (and is) a jewish atheist so i had continual evidence that virtue was not predicated on adherence to dogma#and even so it was hard to withdraw from all participation in church life and doubly so because the obvious alternative spaces#-the lgbt+ ones- seemed obsessed with gatekeeping and viciously hostile towards anyone who didn't fit comfortable narratives#so i didn't feel i could rely on the community at large in any structural sense or that i had any serious alternative to the church#apart from fandom really and only carefully curated spaces back then#and like - random fandom friends who might not live in my country but were obviously not mormon and yet kind and helpful#did more to help me withdraw altogether than gold star lesbians ever did
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HIGUCHI KOUHEI x MASHIKO ATSUKI. Behind The Scenes.
#my personal weatherman#higuchi kouhei#mashiko atsuki#jdramasource#jdramaedit#*#faiza gifs#HUFUHVBHWDBF ACCHAN U GET A GOLD STAR FOR TRYING!!!! not everyone can be a footballer kouhei OKAY!!!!#no but i have a QUESTION here.#WHY is kouhei dressed like yoh for .....................#atsuki is CLEARLY dressed as yoh here so WHY is kouhei wearing a yoh-like hoodie for bc segasaki DOES NOT dress like that.#SO WHAT IS GOING ON HERE ......................................#god if these are couple hoodies or even a HINT at future episodes i will SCREAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM.#bc like i said. segasaki does NOT dress like that. and atsuki is dressed as yoh. SO WHAT IS GOING ON HERE.
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i always knew buying all the ministers before estival would pay off
#yin-thoughts#fallen london#fallen london spoilers#estival spoilers#the scoundrel shows up to the sixth coil opening with this important clue info and everyone's like yeah we already knew.#yeah they admitted to it already#but they get a gold star sticker for trying to contribute anyway
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Start of s1: Everyone is super concerned that Fan Xian is drawing the negative attention of the Crown Prince, worried that he’s being dragged into the crosshairs of the dangerous fight between the powerful princes and that it won’t end well for him
Start of s2: Everyone knows that Fan Xian is fighting with the Second Prince, and assumes he’s capable of holding his own; the Crown Prince is his ally; nobody really wants to be within firing distance of any of their combined bullshit
#they started it!#meanwhile the poor courtiers and other ministers are probably like. HOW did this happen.#how did it go from two powerful princes fighting to two powerful princes fighting plus fan xian fucking everyone up on the regular#and ALSO being of royal blood while he’s at it#and as soon as the town burning comes out fan xian is coming for the crown prince. we all know that#so what does he team up with the second prince momentarily again? do THEY team up to take him down?#either way it’s a three way struggle between fan xian and the two princes on terms that are far too close to equal#we’ve come so far and probably nobody is happy about this except the emperor#he’s giving them gold stars for scheming and inviting them to family brunch#joy of life#joy of life 2#joy of life spoilers
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listening to rqg 159 and alex describes how zolf would recognize wilde’s “eeerrghhhhh it has to do with touchy-feely emotions” face. yeh
#by god i will draw wilde looking like real oscar wilde.#rqg#bluebird.txt#look at my little doodle boy 🫵🏼#i just like to draw wilde like real wilde cuz 1) REFERENCE PICTURES THANK FUCK#2) see 1 (i need to get better at drawing people consistently and it helps)#but 3) is the real reason and it’s that. fandom wilde does not look like oscar wilde almost at all#and that bothers me kinda#i mean let’s be honest alex probably could’ve made all these historical figures original npcs and the result would’ve been the same#but he didn’t! and everyone draws wilde really skinny and when you see pictures of real wilde it’s either that he was wearing a shit ton of#layers (which he probably was anyway yay 1800s)#but genuinely apart from that he does not look that skinny guys……#i don’t actually have beef with anyone in particular about this and the fandom art is actually most of it is beautiful and awesome regardle#but it just bothers me#ANYWAAAYYYYSSSS ✨✨ if you got this far in my tags have a gold star sticker#i’m gonna go sing now#bluebird’s art#rusty quill gaming#rqg wilde#i need to finish my drawing of cel and zolf at some point but damn drawing cel is kicking my ass so i’ll come back to it#I WILL FINISH IT THOUGH THE IDEA FOR THIS DRAWING HAS BEEN 2+ YEARS IN THE MAKING
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Deep Space Nine forced the mirror universe to evolve as a concept and explore the idea of inverting the characters on a more individualistic level and opening deeper questions of who each of us could have been if our lives turned out differently and I’m tired of that being abandoned and ignored to cling to the familiarity of the Terran Empire.
#star trek deep space nine#star trek ds9#Star Trek#star trek tos#star trek discovery#star trek enterprise#mirrorverse#mirror universe#TNG mirror broken is literally just In A Mirror Darkly but again YAWN#the novels said what if mirror Ezri and leeta get married and are awesome lesbian rebels#but STO said what if mirror leeta was a generic imperial who just does all the tropes#prodigy I love you but the ISS Voyager A is lame#in my heart mirror voq and Sarek got away#Spock did not start the revolution for everyone to just ignore what he preached#it’s not an “evil universe#how did we allow a version of humanity to become a stock trek monoculture#the Terran rebellion embodies “be better than what we are so hard and so many writers throw it away because writing Evil Wins is easier#more than what we are*#you get the point it’s more Star Trek than just oh well I guess some places are evil#annoyed that Burnham never found out that her mirror brother became a hero#Smiley is such a goddamn hero#is it because most TNG era Federation ships would have never been built and writers don’t like not being able to do ISS versions of them#look I like gold paint to but c’mon#I will accept the critique that DS9 doesn’t when any agony booths
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I mean this in the best, most educational way:
You don’t get a gold star for not liking something.
If a tag, story or trope isn’t your thing, it doesn’t make you better — or more interesting, pure, appropriate, etc.
#we all like things#some of us like different things#just because you hate something someone else like doesn’t make you better#‘oh I don’t read X it’s gross/morally wrong’#do you want a gold star????#why are you telling everyone then?#let people read/write what they want#I’m so tired of seeing this anti shipping / anti tagging bs in literal ao3 tags and summaries#younger readers finding ao3 for the first time: this is not the purity Olympics#sorry end rant#whew#ao3#archive of our own#reading things#fic#fanfic#fanfiction#writing things#writing#if it’s not your cup of tea good!#the tags worked#move along
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Thinking about....... Sun Onceler.........
#sometimes the sun is a twink and he loves you and he refuses to leave your brain apparently#he's just so fun! what if instead of knitting thneeds he spins water into clouds! and they can be anything bc they can be any shape!#i realize in hindsight i have a tendency to make characters that embody some aspect of nature and may or may not be a deity lol#so maybe the others could make an appearance! sunler playing a lyre or smth singing about them#the stars and how she knows the fate in the cards#the siblings summer wind and rain#the beast and her orchard#but of course ending with how he's totally cooler and more important than everyone else#and it turns out apollo is not only the god of the sun but also of art and music so it really fits him methinks!#i doubt i could ever pull off running an askblog. however#i like the idea of him causing mischief. oh someone wants this thing to happen? let's make it a game!#keep your friends close from epic comes to mind#i don't have much in the way of story but. there are these two scenes in my head that are SO good#i wanna talk about em so badddd but i don't wanna spoil in case i do something with em#but i will say that one of them is a really really fun reference >:D#and the line “RED IS THE NEW GOLD”#but anyways i think an important part of him is that he loves people. he loves these silly little humans running around more than anything.#because all of this ultimately stems from the idea of the sun missing you when you've been inside for a long time#wanting things to get better for you and being there to celebrate the little victories yknow?#my nonsense
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i have done...an absolute deep dive into blues and folk music tonight. it was 100% one of those blink and three hours have passed type of deals. worth it though.
#be warned if you go into the tags i will explain how this all came up. educational but long!#so it started with two questions. mostly because i live in the ozarks i wanted to know and secondly i like music if you haven't caught on#(btw i am so giving you guys the quick and easy version if you are reading this at all)#anyway. the first question was 'why does the ozarks have such a country influence but also bluegrass but also blues but also folk but al-'#because while i grew up in stl i am now like. living living in the ozarks right? right. and i for sure can see how we are the like...#the little sibling of the appalachian mountains. and i thought it was just cause aw cute mini mountains (highlands people)#but instead its cause there were settlers from appalachia! which makes a ton of sense now seeing influences and culture etc etc#so we cleared up that. we know why the ozarks is the way it is (or at least part of it)#btw anyone who says branson is a “true reflection” of the ozarks is out of their damn minds.#that shit is tourist central and just drives me up the wall. they are playing a parody of themselves is the best way to describe it#caricature maybe??? point is. “h'yuck h'yuck we're the country jubilee!” is not uhhhh ozarks and never was?#like it was but they took it a step further. so. anyway#can you tell i'm fixated on this right now? moving on! question 2 was quite literally 'what genre is this song'#it's 'fault line' by black rebel motorcycle club (which i highly suggest everyone listen to)#but i was like hmmm very bluesy harmonica but just fingerpicking guitar so that's more folksy#so! i went on a deep dive of what technically considers blues blues and what folk is. and guess what! the ozarks play into this too#because! the thing is that the ozarks is weird. st louis is technically not in the ozarks but on the outskirts. and stl is influenced by...#the mississippi delta! therefore blues music which led to rock and roll etc#(that's a whole other tangent for another day on stl and blues and rock and roll)#but anyway it makes sense that once you have folks from stl area coming down to the ozarks then you also have that combo of...#mississippi delta and appalachia music. so then we go back to “fault line” right?#i have declared it folk mostly because it definitely doesn't follow traditional blues progression or call and response.#so anyway. deep dive tonight was basically what is this song's genre and how does that wrap into where i live!#which also. brmc is like...usually listed as a “rock” band from san francisco which hey! awesome.#but like. from the songs i've heard and especially causing me to do this deep dive...they do not strike me as a californian band#music is cool! regions are cool! culture is cool! i just like to see how it's all spread out ya know?#if you've read this far gold star! i hope you've learned something tonight from reading the ramblings of a fixated person#i'm rambling again aren't i
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darth tiny
au where grogu becomes the first mandalorian sith - he sees what the empire has done to both his people and is determined to prevent that from ever happening again. he's naturally more immortal than the average sith and hes already got half an army's worth of morally-questionable and heavily-armed people willing to die for him because Cute Goblin Baby. his primary force talents are incredibly powerful force shield and incredibly powerful force choke.
(the red bit in the place of the beskarta is now named The Mythosaur Talisman, because he deserves to make his own brand new sith artifacts as a treat :)
#star wars#grogu#din grogu#the mandalorian#sith#mandalorians#sith grogu#redbean art#he's perfectly harmless as long as you don't go anywhere near His People#the mythosaur talismans power is something like sabines zapper superweapon#also hes nonverbal so instead of Dramatic Sith Monologues#he dramatically force-projects traumatic memories of assorted death and war into everyone's brains#the design on his helmet/mask is a reference to the mandalore mask btw#his weird cloak design is so the long back part can wave dramatically in the wind but the front part doesn't get in his way when running#the flexible material over his ears is some sort of beskar armorweave#his boots buckle around the middle toe with flexible material around the other two#that way he can still perch on stuff with his stubby little tridactyl feet#why are gestures so hard to convey with three fingers#also what is his thumbs situation#his Evil Throne is at the top of an obelisk so he can still tower over people below without having an absurdly tall dais#also he has gold nail polish to match his armor trims#just for the dramatic touch
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its deeply funny to make a name and shame post for people who attach their name to the thing you're shaming for a grand total of one single solitary note.
#wow you got us there. everyone sure did stop doing the thing you dont like.#i made this draft ages ago its time to free it#if you figure out what this is about gold star!
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Funniest way to fight SU Kafka is to use The Hunt path and get all your characters’ speeds so high that the psychological suggestion just. Never triggers. Bc your characters keep getting another turn before it can.
#did this in gold and gears it was hilarious#I was panicking bc I didn’t have lynx or bronya like I usually do in the kafka fight#but watching everyone re-enter the cycle order before the trigger was so funny#even gepard got like three turns and his normal speed is 92!!#I wonder if this works in normal su#honkai star rail#hsr simulated universe#hsr#hsr kafka
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Httyd fanart and fic thats somewhat and impressively historically accurate yet still delightfully anachronistic, I love you I love you I love you!!! artists and writers who do this giving you the BIGGEST hug and gold star of appreciation ever. you are awsome
#i was gonna say biggest sloppiest kiss ever then changed it to gold star upon remembering not everyone shares that sense kf humor 💀#but fr the like more-historically-accurate-than-canon but-still-charmingly-anachronistic creative-liberties-taken style#is SO SO SO AMAZING and i love how you can just tell whover made it was having fun#httyd#httyd fandom#moth.txt#deyas dragons
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I loved seeing Crowley as an Angel but like…get this bitch some gold.
#Crowley#good omens#Anthony Crowley#angel Crowley#good omens fan art#my art#I wanted his eyes to be golden like the sun and him to have freckles like stars !!!#how come everyone else in heaven has purple eyes and silver teeth and gold on their forehead. and my boy had nothing….
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