I was told she pets other dogs but I wasn’t ready for how funny it is
About the last one: Willy Wonka did say it was for children who had little pocket money. And as far as we know, he didn’t make other types of everlasting candy, so he would still get a lot of profit from all his other products while also earning points towards his public image.
Tired of fiction lying to me about food things
Turkish delight is NOT delicious or even remotely palatable, let alone good enough to sell your family to an evil witch for.
A spoonful of sugar does NOT help the medicine go down, in fact it makes it much much worse because now you have a mouthful of hard-to-swallow medicine flavoured sugar-goo. 0/10 do not recommend.
An everlasting gobstopper is a TERRIBLE business idea. there's absolutely no profit to be made there.
That’s me. And my native language doesn’t even have as much potential for mispronunciation as English lol
hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious
Really, what is canon? There’s just a bunch of movies, shows, books, comics and games of different levels of coolness and some of them contradict each other and sometimes it’s two equally cool versions that contradict each other, so what’s the point of all this? There can be more than one well-written, logical, satisfying story about the same characters in the same universe, and they’re all there for us to enjoy.
Arguments about what's canon and what's not in SW fandom are kinda pointless, I know for a fact that every fan has their personal frankensteined version of canon based on what's best for their own blorbos. I love picking up a random licensed book to sneer at half of its ideas and then steal the rest. Some shows and books and comics and whole movies are simply not incorporated into my belief system. That's how we roll
May the Force be with you, always
Live long and prosper
May the odds be ever in your favour
Aim to misbehave
May there be good in this world that’s worth fighting
Don’t. Be. Dead
May you not live in interesting times
Don’t get in legal trouble, but if you do, better call Saul
…and so on and so forth, feel free to add :)
And from me personally: love yourself, love life, love people, and then you’ll be loved too, because I said so
You deserve happiness, don’t be afraid to pursue it, but if you are, try and "do it scared"
May 2025 be your year. Our year.
Your Jane of almost all trades
Nanny Ogg and Moist von Lipwig
Characters that never met but would get along like a house on fire
— Slytherin’s reputation as the evil house is being fixed in-universe
— There are Discworld references
— Harry is a Star Wars fan
— Various aspects of magic & magical society that seem weird, illogical and/or unreasonably underused in canon are treated reasonably (though in some cases by Harry only)
— Voldemort’s plotline will make you sad while still despising him
— Harry is constantly comparing his story to LotR
— everything and everyone is crazy but will make sense in the end (probably)
— the author is so smart but sometimes shows his Crazy Fan side
Recently I got recommended a lot of videos criticizing Harry Potter and no videos talking about how great Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is instead. Like, if you want a better version of the story, just read this fanfiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
In his AU:
-Harry gets adopted by Petunia and an Oxford professor and is homeschooled in science
-When he gets into the wizarding world he is irritated by the society’s bigotry and backwardness and wants to change the world by fusing magic and science
-He is accepted into Ravenclaw and so is Hermione
-He befriends Draco instead of Ron and slowly makes him question his beliefs and actually become a better person
-Hermione has a lot of screen time and her own arcs including the one where she fights against misogyny in heroism
-there’s a homestuck reference
-there’s a death note reference
-at some point Harry bullies the sorting hat
-Voldemort (or rather his actual identity) is a well-written character with interesting backstory and goals
- the plot point where Harry is Voldemort’s horcrux plays a big role in this
-at some point Voldemort uses a gun
-there’s a scientific explanation to how spirits and patronus work
-there’s an mlp reference
-one of the hocruxes is in space
-the Philosopher’s stone is canonically created by two lesbians and one of them is baba yaga
she/her || I’m a writer, I swear || and a huge fangirl || also a language learner and a nerd in general and a lot of other things
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