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for tumblr's next feature they should release all the inactive urls and let the fandom girlies fight over them to the death

unfortunate that twilight (the book and movie franchise) was marked overwhelmingly in its relevant years by petty criticism in the vein of “vampires shouldnt sparkle and yucky girls like it” cause now whenever any substantive criticism is levelled against twilight (ie the racism, abuse apologism, among many many other things) people want to come wildly at its defense with a great internet anger

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Justice for Cho Chang

Alright, hear me out. 

Cho Chang has always been one of the most controversial characters of the Harry Potter series because of how she was portrayed to be so stereotypically East Asian - to the point where her full name is literally composed of two Chinese last names (we’ve all heard of that discourse before). 

What has always annoyed me the most, however, is that Cho Chang in the books has 100% more potential for charisma and personality than what the movies constrict her character to have.

First of all, Cho is a huge jock. Need I remind you that she was the only girl in the Ravenclaw Quidditch team up until her 5th year and has been an avid fan of the Tutshill Tornados since childhood? You can bet my boy Cedric developed a crush on her from getting his ass kicked on the Quidditch field.

Not only is Cho a jock, but she is also known to be one of the most popular girls at school which, to me, adds to the interpretation that she was more extroverted than introverted prior to Cedric’s death. In the books, she is often seen hanging out with groups of people and being almost intimidating from how cool she is.

Moreover, and probably most importantly, Cho was able to cast the Patronus Charm which required a huge amount of control over her emotions. Let’s not forget that during the time that she did, my girl was dealing with:

1) Trauma from her boyfriend being murdered by the freakin’ Dark Lord.

2) Losing her friends and seeing her grades going downhill as a consequence of said trauma and depression.

3) Being part of a secret organization preparing her to go to freakin’ war. An organization that could’ve ultimately cost her mother’s job at the Ministry, if I may add. 

Therefore, the fact that she was able to cast a whole ass Patronus Charm despite being obviously very tormented by her feelings of grief, anxiety and sadness is, to me, super badass and remarkable. 

So let us not carry the poor portrayal of Cho Chang from the movies, but rather celebrate the characterization that she deserves. 

When you think about it, Cho and Ginny are very similar in how they are generally disliked from their portrayal in the movies. They really went from being badass Quidditch players in the books to silent love interests on screen. 

Can we get as many voices calling out the unfair representation of Cho in the movies as we’ve gotten for Ginny?

So in conclusion,

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(Edit: Also, her Patronus is a swan??? The birds known for their beauty but also for how dangerous they can be when they attack you!!)

u/Cant_Even18 shares the horrific details of what it was like to have COVID.

Wear your masks. Wash your hands. Socially distance. And most importantly: stay the fuck home if you can.

Hey y'all! So, as some of you may know, my mom is a middle school librarian. I've posted about her a few times on here. She's been an educator for over thirty years. Before she was a librarian, she was an English teacher. She's amazing at her job, and her passion for it is part of what inspired me to become a teacher in the first place.

Like any good school librarian, my mom wants the library to be a place that's cozy, engaging, fun, and relevant to student interests. That's where y'all come in! She's made a wishlist full of all the things her ideal library would have. If you have the means to purchase something from it, you would be supporting my mom and some extremely cool middle schoolers. Any purchase, big or small, is greatly appreciated.

The link to the wishlist is attached here! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

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Random Big City Greens headcanons cuz this show is underrated asf and needs more fandom content (some TW maybe?)

Bill can literally kick ass and won’t hesitate to beat up anyone who messes with his family.

Since the original Green family farm is in Big City, Bill and Nancy started their own farm when they got married and that’s where they raised Cricket and Tilly.

Cricket is ace, or possibly demi (we know he’s with Gabriella but like, it’s not a real relationship yet)

Tilly has intrusive thoughts.

Nancy’s father was abusive and controlling, so she would sneak out every night to stay with Bill (without Alice ever finding out).

Whenever Cricket and Tilly can’t sleep at night they talk to each other about random things, usually about how their day went and such.

Cricket and Tilly are homeschooled (since we never frickin see them at school) but when they get older Bill sends them to public school.

Alice became a lot stricter with Bill after his father passed away.

When Nancy meets Chip for the first time, he flirts with her in the most condescending way possible and she immediately hates him.

Tilly’s favorite Disney movie is Frozen (she likes the angst and songs)

Bill and Nancy first kissed when they were 14-15 and started dating in secret cuz of their parents.

Remy learns how to cook from Bill and Alice.

Nancy is bisexual (there’s no way she’s completely straight, just look at her)

Sometimes Gloria hangs out with the Greens at their house or the mall when she feels stressed out, oddly enough they give her a sense of calm.

Cricket grows up to be taller than his mom, while Tilly just barely reaches her height.

Both Cricket and Tilly get bullied in high school.

Nancy spends a lot of time with the family because she feels bad for missing out on so much already and she hates being alone sometimes (when she’s not there she’s at work)

Even though she changes the story every time, Alice actually did lose her leg in the war.

Cricket has insomnia (or some sort of sleep disorder).

Unfortunately Bill can’t afford to get the kids braces so they end up with crooked teeth until adulthood.

The Greens DO NOT support toxic masculinity. If Bill needs to cry, let him fucking cry. If Cricket wants to wear a dress, he’ll wear the dress and be confident doing so.

Nancy is actually a really bad driver and can only ride her motorcycle. One time she drove Bill’s truck and they ended up crashing into a lake (that made for an awkward date night).

Tilly goes through a lot of phases in high school, but ultimately ends up as a biker like her mom.

Alice goes to a shooting range often to let out her rage.

Remy’s parents kinda give off unsupportive vibes so if he comes out as LGBT they wouldn’t approve of it at first, but would learn from the Greens that they need to accept him.

When Bill teaches his kids to drive, he’s a lot less nervous with Tilly than with Cricket but he’s always reluctant to let them drive his truck.

^Eventually they actually do crash the truck, but even though Bill gets pissed he’s just glad they’re okay.

Nancy and Bill still have feelings for each other they just don’t realize it👀

Tilly goes to community college and tries a whole bunch of classes to see what career she wants. Cricket doesn’t go to college and instead travels around the country because he can’t be tied down.

Nancy joined the Stingers when she was in her early 20’s, before she married Bill.

Cricket and Tilly haven’t met either of their grandfathers :-;

Even though Nancy acts tough she secretly likes affection, not just from her kids but from anyone she’s close to (especially Bill ehehe)

Gloria sells her art online to make extra cash.

Since we didn’t see Nancy’s mom in Green Acres, I wanna assume she’s either deceased, lived somewhere else, or she worked a lot and had no idea about her husband’s schemes.

Tilly listens to Billie Eilish unironically.

Sometimes Cricket and Tilly snuggle with Alice while she does embroidery.

The Greens have movie nights every weekend and fall asleep together on the couch.

Alice is a hypocrite when it comes to swearing (she’ll tell the kids they can’t cuss and then later fills three swear jars when she stubs her toe).

^The first time Nancy swore around her, Alice literally stuffed a bar of soap in her mouth.

Bill and Nancy didn’t know their kids’ genders before they were born, they wanted to be surprised.

^Cricket was actually a surprise to them.

The Greens are very affectionate with each other (hugs, kisses on the cheek, hand holding, massages, carrying each other, etc)

Poseidon rapes Medusa. Rape is evil. Therefore Poseidon is not a god. Correct?

Not really.

There are many things implied with this logic. The first thing that's wrong is that it assumes ancient myth literalism.

Myth literalism is a normal thing in our society because of christianity's fundamentalism. The bible in christian traditions is read sometimes literally, and even if its not, the stories told there are of vital importance to the religion. However, this doesn't happen in all religions, specially in pagan religions.

The second thing that's wrong is that it assumes the specific context of the myth. We may have a myth that uses the element of “rape” as we understand it to mean something else. But what we today understand as “rape” in ancient Greece meant probably these two things: 1. Abduction, 2. Sexual relations without the consent of the parents.

The importance of not reading myth literally (I mean, not regarding the Gods' actions in myth as factual, or their behavior as true to their nature) is that of independence. Being able to interpret myth metaphorically helps us arrive at different conclusions regarding the true nature of the Gods, and it also influence us philosophically.

See, a God cannot make evil; Poseidon is a God; therefore, Poseidon cannot make evil (he cannot “rape” anyone). But if Poseidon cannot rape, then the actions of Poseidon in myth are 1. False, or 2. Symbolic.

If Poseidon's actions in the myth of Medusa are false, then the myth serves no purpose but to entertain. However, if Poseidon’s rape in the myth of Medusa is symbolic, then it is illustrative of the God's power: perhaps, in the temple of Athena, one could experience Poseidon's presence unwillingly.

Remember what some historians used to say about Pythia’s moment of invocation? When the Priestess got possessed by Apollo? That sometimes she would get seizures? That the possession was so powerful her body could barely bear it? I imagine this is what “rape” myths refer to; experiencing a God (specially a deity regarded as “male” traditionally, for some reason) in an overwhelming rapture, perhaps randomly, without expectation. But this is a mystical reading of the myth.

There are not just mystical readings. Doing them takes time and attention, but they're often very illuminative. However, moral readings also exist. And even natural or physical readings. For example, in a moral reading, we could say the myth’s lesson is to not have sex inside Athena's temple, because that's a holy place, and it belongs to a virginal goddess. On a physical reading, we could say that Poseidon represents the fury of the ocean, and that Medusa is perhaps the earth, getting moved and assaulted by the tides. Or anything of that nature.

Understanding those conclusions is better than reading myth literally and ending up thinking those gods are evil (and therefore are not gods, and therefore must be demons; which is indeed one of many christianity's premises regarding pagan religions. These types of premises, as you may understand, feed intolerance and supremacy).

Arriving at satisfactory and philosophical conclusions with myths is a hard task, but it's really worth it. Even in ancient times, these incorrect ideas about the gods were widespread, and it was the philosopher’s, and the priest’s, task to teach people how to actually understand myth.

So, in summary; no, Poseidon is not evil, because Poseidon is a God and therefore cannot rape; furthermore, Poseidon's myth with Medusa is symbolic of a deeper, more mystical truth.

Ultimately, the myth of Poseidon and Medusa is explicative of Athena's and Poseidon's power when it gets intertwined. Oh, and, I forgot; you can also make a historical reading about this myth, or at least how it originated. The Athenians, who first told this myth, used to be devoted to Poseidon on a city-state level, until the cult of Athena arrived, and they instead made her their patron deity, removing Poseidon (there's another myth that tells this story, in which Athena and Poseidon compete for the patronage of the city-state, and Athena wins). Often times different city-states would create infamous stories about another city’s patron god in a political attempt. There's a theory stating that in other city-states Zeus’ wife would be Dione, instead of Hera, but in Athens it was Hera, and so some athenian would find it funny to imagine the god cheating over Hera (as a silly explanation of why theogony differed accross Greece).

Often times, myths are incredibly ironical. Like all of Zeus’ myths cheating over Hera as I stated before; Hera is the Goddess of marriage, so it is laughable that her own husband would go around cheating on her with literally anyone. So it is clear here that the myth is implying something deeper than what's is being told. One might have to think and reflect on why the greeks would choose to portray their Goddess of marriage in such a light, and their God of morality too. Perhaps they were hinting at something bigger with the use of hyperbole and irony; Hera never cheats on Zeus. On the other hand, Zeus is the Big Papa. So basically the whole world is of his descendence, because he is the Father of humanity, and putting it that way the greeks were explaining this.

Conflicting things about myths have always been conflicting. The greeks didn't like their gods going around raping people and killing others in those stories either, but the stories existed nevertheless. So they wrote a whole ton of treatises trying to explain to themselves the deeper truths of those myths, one of them was On the Gods and the World by Sallustius, which I recommend a lot when trying to understand both the importance and the metaphorical narratives of myths.