#hp topic

[kitsubmemori]

ダンブルドアは本当にゲイか？の話

ダンブルドアはゲイ！子供相手にもシナを作るぞい☝️みたいな描き方、私もネタとして結構するけど、 自分の小説の解釈をマジレスすると、厳密にはダンブルドアはゲイ（性的嗜好が男性）ではないと思う。 ただただ女を対等な人間だと思ってないだけの、ホモソーシャルに歪んだ人だと解釈してる。 というかまず、女に限らず「対等な人間」のハードルがバカみたいに高い。 魔法使いとしてルーツがある程度しっかりあって、頭の出来が良く、知見があり、強くて、顔が綺麗、みたいな… なんなら顔が綺麗の延長に「人種が白人」もありそう… （加点要素全部エグそう） かつこの人のフィルターには絶対「男」もある！ だから性的嗜好と言うよりは、それでやっと「人間」と思ってるだけだと思う。 その上でさらに上記のハードルが続く…て感じ。 つまり「消去法で残る、恋愛するに足る要素を持った人間が必ず男」だっただけでは…？？ それゲイって呼んで大丈夫か？？？ 前提として、アルバスはそのくらい周りを見下してる人だと思う。 作中でアルバスは反差別主義を強調されるけど、根本的に考え方がノブリスオブリージュで止まってる、メチャクチャ前時代的な反差別主義だと思う。今で言う「女の人はみんな誰かの嫁や娘なんだから守ろう」って言っちゃう人に近い、行動は合ってるけど思想が伴ってない人。

多様性受容の必要性についても、「社会構造的に持続可能性を追求したらそうだから。」ってだけであって、自分が結婚するかと言われたら絶対しない！！ 「差別」について言及してるのも、ハウスエルフ・マグルボーン・巨人・ゴブリン・人狼……… ってそれ魔法世界を構成する要素だからやないか〜い！！てなる。 あくまで階級の上位存在として、"これらの存在も認めるべき" でしかないから、2023年で提唱されるような、人権思想に基づいた反差別・多様性受容の思想からはむしろ1番遠い所にいると思う。 （もちろん、自分のそういうところが全部間違ってる、というのを理解した上での思想であるところが、この人の苦しさと美しさだと思うし、主張自体は全て正しいと思ってる） 作中の彼の言動、人による態度の変え方、思想の演説から見える階級的価値観と、度を超えて傲慢な人柄…………… 1800年代のゴチゴチ家父長制の世界観で、そこそこの旧家の嫡男に生まれて、18歳で家族が半分以上死に、「はい、家長よろしくね」 って経験…… 諸々踏まえて、あの狂ったタイミングでたまたまゲラートと出会って恋を知ったからといって、「性的指向が男」ってまとめていいものか？！性的指向の自認って結構高度な自認だと思うが？！ってなる。 ごちゃごちゃ言ったけど、つまり… 「性的指向が男」の前に、この人は「人」の引き出しが少なすぎる！！てこと。 性指向の自認以前に、もっと致命的に歪んだ自己認識が多すぎるので、「ダンブルドアは実はゲイ！」みたいなのは…半分嘘だよなぁ…と思って聞いてる。

[kitsubmemori]

「夢も魔法も、すべてあなたの手の中にある」って、ダンブルドアに対してすごく侮辱的なフレーズになるぞ〜！！！と思ってキャプションつけたけど、普通に真に受けられる可能性ある

Dreams and magic, all in your hands.

[moonlightdancer26]

One thing that never fails to shock me is how many Marauder stans I’ve seen hating on Draco for saying this line to Hermione in GoF:

“Granger, they’re after Muggles,” said Malfoy. “D’you want to be showing off your knickers in midair? Because if you do, hang around . . . they’re moving this way, and it would give us all a laugh.”

Yet somehow they can’t apply that same logic to what happened in SWM:

James whirled about; a second flash of light later, Snape was hanging upside down in the air, his robes falling over his head to reveal skinny, pallid legs and a pair of graying underpants.

Many people in the small crowd watching cheered. Sirius, James, and Wormtail roared with laughter.

I’ve seen Marauder stans who bash Draco and call him horrible for “making a SA joke,” but then go ahead and defend what the Marauders did (which was ACTUAL SA, not just a gross joke) in SWM as if that’s not much worse. The irony is ridiculous.

That’s always confused me because… they can clearly see the harm in a character making a SA joke, but they gloss over or even justify their favourites characters actually doing what said character joked about??? Make it make sense.

[courfee]

James who is a successful author and Regulus who is an expert in some very niche field and James' newest book happens to make references to said niche field. Only James got it wrong and Regulus absolutely drags him on social media for it, founds some kind of James Potter hate club and insists the entire book is bad because what kind of author doesn't even do proper research

[puppypawprintce]

anyone else out there think severus is just a chronic pain haver. i know the dark mark pain is real, but i feel like he might be miserable in more ways than just mentally in other ways

[im-trying-my-best-yall]

"i know you like harry potter and all that but i dont really care about the physical/personality differences between the ginger twins or about harry potters dead fathers friend group"

how about suck on my balls?? how about that???

OR!! or better yet!! what if i ate you alive and turned your teeth into earrings???

now sit the fuck down while i talk about the fucking prankster wizards

[dufferpuffer]

Japan had an actual 'magic' school where they taught select special people 'magic' (more complicated than just 'magic' but yknow what I mean) Where they learned and studied things like astronomy, timekeeping, divination, curses, wards, 'spirit' conjuring... Went through periods of decline and abolishment...

And yet in HP the Japanese magical school is called MagicLocation and is a big fucking cherry blossom tree

Even as far as clumsy Orientalism goes it's painful. I do like how giant storm petrels carry the day students in and out though that's cute Soooo tempted to plot out a slightly better concept for a Japanese Wizarding World magical school. Surely I can't do worse

I've spent years imagining an Australian magic school too

[elen-benfelen]

welsh remus guide pt.3

Third Lesson

Right then, lads. It’s alphabet time.

Often, when looking at Welsh place names, it can seem confusing and overwhelming for anyone who is unfamiliar with Welsh. Sometimes, the confusion comes from not realising that the names are in Welsh. 

Visually, we use the Latin alphabet and so it’s easy to make the assumption that the Welsh alphabet is exactly the same as the English. 

It is not, my dudes. 

To begin with, the following letters do not exist:

K, Q, V, X, Z

Secondly, these are the vowels:

A, E, I, O, U, W, Y 

(Occasionally H is also a vowel but I couldn’t tell you when or why??? I usually go off of vibes) 

Next, are the double letters. They count to us as single letters and each make a unique sound:

CH, DD, FF, NG, LL, PH, RH, TH

NG as in thiNG

PH as in PHil

FF as in Fun

RH as in RHiannon

TH as in THat

Now comes the uh, more complicated sounds. 

For those familiar with German words such as Nacht or the name Brecht, the Welsh CH is that same sound.

CH as in naCHt

DD is like a harder TH sound. It is NOT a D sound. 

LL sounds like hissing. I genuinely don’t know how else to explain this. It straight up does not exist in majority of languages but there are some out there with the same sound (sometimes shown with a different letter). 

To hear it and learn more here’s a better explanation.

This is a really fun video on the different accents but someone mentions the town Llanelli so it’s also a good example of the LL sound. 

And so in full we have:

A. B. C. CH. D. DD. E. F. FF. 

G. NG. H. I. J. L. LL. M. N. O. 

P. PH. R. RH. S. T. TH. U. W. Y. 

There’s no K because the C is always a hard C sound.

There’s no V because a single F is always a hard V sound. 

J is a modern addition to help us with new modern words we’ve loaned from English. Such as Joke becoming Jôc. 

G is always a hard guttural G sound. 

Despite misconceptions, Welsh is actually vowel heavy and we tend to stretch vowels. If a letter has a little roof on it, like “ô” or “ŵ” then it’s an extended/longer sound. 

This means, when speaking English, our vowels are more likely to be elongated. 

Similar to the “r” in Spanish, the Welsh “r” is rolled and therefore many will still roll their Rs when speaking English. 

For a reason I have yet to discover, despite H being perfectly clear and pronounced when speaking in Welsh, when we speak English, a lot of areas have a habit of dropping the H sound. 

“Here” becomes “Ere” or “Yere” 

I am guilty of this. Why do I do this? I genuinely can’t tell you. 

For the reasons above, the following words sound stupidly similar to each other:

Ear

Year

Here

Hear 

As with any language, understanding the basic sounds helps you understand the core of the accent. 

In terms of character dynamics, I would take note that the “CH” and “LL” sounds along with our supposed “lack of vowels” is usually what the language is mocked for. Usually by English folk but other folks, including non-Welsh speaking Welsh folks are perfectly guilty of this mocking. 

Fun fact: I didn’t realise W and Y weren’t vowels in the English language when I was a small child. So I really didn’t get why they thought there wasn’t any vowels in our place names. 

Another thing to note is that the Welsh language and accents are very up and down. It’s not usually flat or monotone. A lot of people also describe them as melodic. Sing-songy even.

Colourful alphabet video with BSL

Shorter alphabet video 

Note: I am not the collective consciousness of every Welsh person. My experience is not universal - especially when it comes to North Walian things. This is just meant to serve as a general guide. Hope this helps and good luck with your writing!

pt.4

[marcsnuffy]

Using Lorenzo and Charles' interviews as reference, I'd love to see any assumptions of what Kaiser and Ness would answer here

[kitsubmemori]

ねぇ〜マジでマジでマジでマジでマジで可愛すぎる！！！！黒猫大和スネイプ…！🐈‍⬛💝憧れの絵師が反応くれただけで嬉しいのに、え、絵を描き下ろしてくれたのだが…？！？！？！日本の企業知っててくれたのも嬉しい…

投稿埋もれないようにペタリ📎

[torchickentacos]

Being as you were a Percy Jackson kid, which god/dess do you think would be your parent if you were a demi-god?

I have not taken those buzzfeed quizzes since like ninth grade lol but I remember I always either got Aphrodite or Poseidon. I'm so rusty on these books because it's been so long, but I remember feeling very seen by the whole Poseidon thing. It's hard to tell how much of that was relating to poseidon stuff specifically and how much of it was just, like, Percy ALSO being an at-the-time middle schooler with authority issues lmfao. A lot of the percy jackson books rang true for me, especially the first series- I had one teacher who called me 'defiant and oppositional' and 'my own worst enemy' at every single turn, so I really related to the whole 'troubled kid' thing. It felt 1:1 and I think a lot of the kinship I felt with the poseidon cabin placement was probably moreso just 13 year old me feeling seen by a character for the first real time, and that character (Percy) was also in the poseidon cabin.

Sort of piggybacking off of the context of this ask and what prompted it though (HP, see my last post), this is why good representation and caring portrayals is IMPORTANT. I had a positive experience with the PJO series- it showed a troubled kid with a weird home life that was able to find strengths in the things that previously just got him in trouble most of the time. I was a little too old for this next experience (already knew I was bi for years before the nico stuff) but I know that a LOT of queer kids found solidarity with Nico DiAngelo as their first real introduction to queerness. I haven't kept up much but I know Rick Riordan has written a lot of queer and bipoc characters since and really leaned into his role of 'guy who makes middle schoolers whose best friends are their librarians feel understood'. I think contrasting that with other authors who have leaned more into 'I think trans people shouldn't exist', it's... you know. A stark difference. I think my positive experience of having been a PJO kid is part of why I feel so strongly about the HP thing. I've been on the receiving end of why good rep is important, and I can't imagine how I would have felt if I'd loved these books and Rick then went on twitter eight years later like 'yeah i think [group of people] should be denied medical care and not exist btw'. Ya know?

[gammija]

sherlock & co is a lot of fun but it is also, and i dont know another way to say this, the most normie fiction podcast ive listened to

[abybweisse]

At the same time I got that GFantasy issue, I also got this lovely black and shiny silver manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

[futurequibblerjournalist]

PISS????

I KNOW IM SORRY BUT COME ON

You guys have seen how I’ve portrayed him you cannot expect me to be like “yeah he’s got completely normal kinks” LIKE COME ON!!! But also I said a nonchalant piss kink, not a like,, let me piss in you kind of piss kink

I love how it’s been all blood and gore and rosekiller would probably fuck each other as corpses but you guys draw the line at piss BAHAHAHHA

[asianfrootloops]

once again saying that if you want to read a book about magic and wizards and them being sorted into cliques, you can try red magic by jen mcconnell. LIKE THE ONLY PEOPLE I'VE MET WHO'VE READ IT IS THE FRIEND WHO INTRODUCED ME TO IT AND THE FRIEND I INTRODUCED IT TO. till now i've only read the first book but it is really good and it even ties in different mythologies so if you're in the riordanverse you would probably like this too. FORGET HARRY POTTER ALREADY ITS NOT SOME MASTERPIECE.

[childotkw]

I just found out that i pronouns ciro wrong all this time,i thought its chi-ro like chi in itachi

Honestly my dear, you can pronounce it however you prefer!