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TW: MENTIONS OF SELF HARM

Listen. Listen for the love of everything nice and good. STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT JKR. just stop it. I'm pretty sure that she knows that 99% of the responses to her 'views' are negative everytime her name trends. She doesn't give a fuck.

Stop giving her relevance. Wash out her existence like the annoying bitch she is. Erase her like the Twilight Fandom did with SMeyer.

Nostalgia is a strong elixir and it's simply unnatural to expect everyone to quit talking about their childhood series altogether one day. If you can stop engaging with HP, good for you. I'm proud you have taken that decision.

However, if you cannot let go of the series the please for the fucking love of God stop blaming yourself. I'm a queer woc. JKR breaks my heart everyday yet her creation is the one place I find solace. Her creation matters more to me than her words and views.

Quitting Harry Potter is redundant as it is most definitely one of the biggest franchise in the world and the author being a dick doesn't throw enough of a negative light on it.

I loved HP as a child but honestly, my affection for the characters actually deepened when I joined the fandom and interacted with the THOUSANDS of fanfics, fanart, headcanons created by fans of every race, sexuality, gender identity.

i decide to engage with HP because to me the world the fandom created is more real and beautiful than the one JKR did. The works being created by Trans creators everyday matters as it forced me to rethink about gender. Being a person who grew up in a bigoted family I'm so grateful for this fandom as it is the reason that I have been able to become an ally and it has given me confidence to explore my sexuality and come to terms with it. I decide to stick with HP as I want to actively be a part of the queer and inclusive world creators of this fandom have created. The creators have nourished and polished JKR's characters to the point that the only thing they have in common is the name and THAT IS IMPORTANT TO MANY PEOPLE AS IT GIVES THEM A SENSE OF COMFORT.

so stop fuckin talking about JKR. stop responding to her bigoted statements as she's never gonna change. Instead, spread a bit more love around, especially for the trans creators because they exist and you cannot take that away from them.

I would suggest that instead of giving money to JKR, buy HP merch from small businesses. Buy the books second-hand. Donate to help trans individuals afford houses(I know you have seen the posts of a Trans sibling's plea for money to be able to afford their own apartment on various social media)

However, please do not ask people to kill themselves over liking and engaging with something that brings them comfort. I saw someone post "all people who engage with Harry Potter should slit their wrists and bleed out in a bathtub". Do you guys fucking understand that kids, YES LITERAL KIDS watch the movies and often times move onto the books? You're asking actual kids to slit their wrists?? What the absolute fuck is wrong with you?

Take some pointers from the Twilight Fandom who still engage with the creation yet not the creator effectively. Stop giving JK relevance even with posts disagreeing with her. It gives her ego boosts as she will make your logical arguments her banner of victimhood.

#jk Rowling#jkr#harry potter#drarry#mads Mikkelsen#fantastic beasts#eddie Redmayne#jude law#my rant
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orionstar-3

the hardest lines ALWAYS come from fanfics and I stand by this

(credit to the authors!! I can't remember where exactly they all came from but if u recognise their work pls tag them :) they deserve way more recognition!!)

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emilyelizabethfowl

someone tell me where the batman quote is from, google doesn't know it

okay 1. it's from Nature and Nurture by lurkinglurkerwholurks

and 2 i beg y'all stop reblogging this from me 😂

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thistlefly

hate when folk call the Sun “our nearest star” no you dweebs that’s OUR STAR! After everything she's done for you and you want to compare her to some lightyears away ass nobody called some shit like Guncho 785B? We're not spinning eternally around any old ball, we’re three deep in the window on board the Sol Train and she did NOT provide the catering, the itinerary and all the fuel to share credit with some two-bit Proxima Centauri hack. point to these nuts in a constellation while you're at it. i love the sun

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foone

My favorite thing about getting a post massively reblogged is seeing how many people have negative tagging systems. I don't mean "negative" in the sense of "bad", I just mean that instead of tagging something as X, they tag it as not-Y.

Like you'll make a post about how spoons were invented in the 1720s in an ill-fated attempt to settle an argument between four of the five popes, and it gets reblogged and someone tags it "#not naruto".

And it's like, you're not wrong. That post has nothing to do with Naruto! But you can't help but feel proud your post got selected as one of the few non-naruto posts worthy of being included on their clearly heavily Naruto-themed blog.

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How tall is Ron Weasley?

I originally posted this in a thread- but decided to make it its own post. 

 So I obsess over stuff like this way too much (why yes, I have a spreadsheet of all the heights of characters I care about… because I’m very sane… Yes…)

So I guess first let’s establish what are considered small and tall heights for average cis men & women, for these purposes:

  • Average height for a woman is around 5’4”- Under 5’3” is small, over 5’7” is tall
  • Average height for a man is around 5’9.5”- Over 5’11” is tall, under 5’7” is small
  • Most women reach their full height by age 14-15.
  • Men reach their full height by age 20, but are typically 92% close to their full height by age 17.

I think Hermione is around 5’5” and Ron is around 6’5”. ( I know 6′5″ sounds ridiculously tall- but hear me out! :) )

The main way I am concluding people’s heights is by using other character references that are specific to lock them in.

To get Hermione’s height I mainly rely on this scene from OOtP:

““You need more persuasion?” [Bellatrix] said, her chest rising and falling rapidly. “Very well - take the smallest one,” she ordered the Death Eaters beside her. “Let him watch while we torture the little girl. I’ll do it.

Harry felt the others close in around Ginny; he stepped sideways so that he was right in front of her, the prophecy held up to his chest.”

  • Ginny is described as ‘the smallest one’ when they’re all together- and they all seem to immeciately know that’s Ginny- so I picture Gin being between 5′0″ - 5′3″ - and for that height to look significantly shorter than the other girls there would need to be a fair few inches difference. I think Hermione’s hair definitely makes her height look taller.
  • Hermione’s never described as particularly tall or small- putting her height somewhere between 5’3” and 5’7”.
  • She probably has 2 inches of hair height, so I’d say she’s either 5’4” or 5’5”

So for Ron’s height- we know he’s tall (over 5’11”)-

but to get more specific we need to use Harry, James, Runcorn, The Twins, Charlie and Percy to establish heights:

Harry is not Taller than 6 ft.

““We don’t know who he is,” Hermione said, passing Harry several curly black hairs, “but he’s gone home with a dreadful nosebleed! Here, he’s pretty tall, you’ll need bigger robes… .” She pulled out a set of the old robes Kreacher had laundered for them, and Harry retired to take the potion and change.
Once the painful transformation was complete he was more than six feet tall and, from what he could tell from his well-muscled arms, powerfully built. He also had a beard. Stowing the Invisibility Cloak and his glasses inside his new robes, he rejoined the other two.
“Blimey, that’s scary,” said Ron, looking up at Harry, who now towered over him.”  -Deathly Hallows
  • When Harry polyjuices into Runcorn he goes up in height to over 6 ft tall, establishing that Harry is 6ft or shorter. This also establishes that Ron is used to being the one to tower over Harry.

Harry is between 5’7” and 6 feet tall

“At once, their features began to bubble and distort like hot wax. Hermione and Mundungus were shooting upward; Ron, Fred, and George were shrinking, their hair was darkening, Hermione’s and Fleur’s appearing to shoot backward into their skulls.” -Deathly Hallows
  • Harry is established as shorter than Ron Fred and George, but taller than Hermione and Mundungus (no mention of Fleur’s height difference.)
  • To ‘shoot upward’ in height, I’m imagining there would be about 4 inches at minimum of height increase. Hermione is between 5’3” and 5’7”- so with a ‘shoot up in height” this establishes Harry is between 5’7” and 6 feet exactly tall.
  • Ron Fred and George are taller, and most likely have more general girth than Harry. The shrinking they do could be in girth or tallness- it’s not clear. Harry being slight is mentioned in that scene as well:
““Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry,” said Fred earnestly.“Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever.” —Deathly Hallows

Harry is the same height as James- and James is ‘tall.’

“[The Potters] had not drawn the curtains; [Voldemort] saw them quite clearly in their little sitting room, the tall black-haired man in his glasses, making puffs of colored smoke erupt from his wand for the amusement of the small black-haired boy in his blue pajamas.” -Deathly Hallows
“James was exactly the same height as Harry. He was wearing the clothes in which he had died, and his hair was untidy and ruffled, and his glasses were a little lopsided, like Mr. Weasley’s.” -Deathly Hallows
  • Harry must be tall then, as James is described as tall by Harry (when it’s from his perspective) and Voldemort (when it’s from his perspective.)  James is referred to as tall throughout the series as well.

So Harry is around 5’11” +/- to be considered ‘tall’- and to be under six feet

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So establishing Harry as around 5’11” by the end of Deathly Hallows- we can infer the heights of the Weasleys. Fred George and Ron are all established as taller than Harry at the beginning of Deathly Hallows when they polyjuice and have to shrink to be his size. Fred George and Charlie are described as stockier Weasleys who are all shorter than Ron and Percy:

“Charlie was built like the twins, shorter and stockier than Percy and Ron, who were both long and lanky. He had a broad, good-natured face, which was weather-beaten and so freckly that he looked almost tanned; his arms were muscular, and one of them had a large, shiny burn on it.” ‘Goblet of Fire
“Charlie approached, running his hand slightly ruefully over his new, brutally short haircut. He was shorter than Ron, thickset, with a number of burns and scratches up his muscley arms.” -Deathly Hallows

The twins are over 5′11″

The twins are wider than Harry, and it can be assumed somewhat taller than Harry - so they are over 5’11” at least- for their heights to diminish noticeably with polyjuice, they probably are a few inches taller- so they’re around 6’0” to 6′1″- they are built stockier and shorter than Ron and Percy- so I think that means that Ron and Percy probably have a good 2-3 inches on the twins.

Putting Ron and Percy between 6’3” and 6’5”.

So! I think Ron is definitely taller than Percy (not because it’s established in the books, but just my own personal preference), so he’s either 6’4” or 6’5”.

I did a lineup of them a while back- note hermione is in heels with her hair up, so it adds some height:

more art can be found @hillyminne

Then I have my personal reasons for choosing these heights:

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jadonsgf

if we put aside the heart problems this match has given me this might be the greatest world cup final of all time

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Richard: hey guys do you want to...
Henry: We threw a bacchanal
Richard: whaaa...
Henry: Bunny saw us with blood on
Richard: wait what...
Henry: he blackmailed us for months and I had to shut his mouth by taking him on a trip to Italy.
Richard: why don't you go to the police?
Henry: police are not real, Richard.
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idk man richard going off on a tangent listing all the reasons henry might be gay after bunny said "hes not what you think he is" says way more about richard than it does about henry