JKR is like "there is no autism in the Wizarding World because it can be cured with a wave of a wand" as if autism is a disorder in a pre-industrialized society or she didn't write Severus Snape and Hermione Granger.
She fucking said that?
In WOG Twitter
JKR is like "there is no autism in the Wizarding World because it can be cured with a wave of a wand" as if autism is a disorder in a pre-industrialized society or she didn't write Severus Snape and Hermione Granger.
Oh idk if I said but we be married now
The undersiders had much better m/s protocol than the order. This does not surprise me but I wish it did
So Voldemort is a stupid villian in the same way Dio Brando is a stupid villian.
Like Dio should have been like anti-alcohol or anti-gambling and fight for impoverished children but he made enemies for life and for bloodline with someone he could have been allies with and manipulated for centuries, but he instead killed the person who unconditionally loved and believed in him. Stupid.
Voldemort mourned the loss of his mother, blaming his muggle father, but even so he didn't think until later to blame his mother's family. He should have been staunchly anti-blood supremecy or anti-man. Stupid.
The Simurgh is hope. She's an angel, sure, but she's hope
Like Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
The endbringers and Scion built themselves off our worlds lore, and Simurgh is supposed to be the worst because she masquerades as Hope. She sings her song and floats like an angel and turns people's lives around, and then she destroys it. She is false hope, the destructive nature of false hope
When I first ingested the Harry Potter series, I thought that Harry was a pureblood because both his parents were wizards. I thought, since there were only three terms that meant that there were only three ways it could go: if you had 2 wizard parents, you were pureblooded, if you had 1 wizard parent, you were half-blooded, and if you had no wizard parents you were muggle-born.
I have since grown up enough to know that JKR is both ignorant and insensitive of a lot of things, hence the antisemitic representation (among other things). I also have grown up enough to know that American versions of world history classes are going to be more Americentric than European world history classes. Therefore, she might not know that within marginalized groups, there are hierarchies established to create order, and subsequently divide those in the majority so they are easier to oppress.
But like, wasn't she a history and linguistics scholar? Shouldn't she have known about the cultural influence labels and words have? Where are the ones who are just shy of pure? The ones who can marry into the branch families or second borns to produce pureblood children, even if they aren't? Why are the children of two halfblood wizard parents treated the same as one born of a muggle-born and a muggle?
There is this false dichotomy between pure and not, with the sacred 28 in the center, when no line is completely pure and the distinction between pure and not seems arbitrary.
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, and JKR has never been known for consistency or well considered worldbuilding, but so much was lost and I really expect better from a linguist
So I hate JK Rowling and also know that there are MANY different problems with the whole of Harry Potter, but I am currently obsessed with Purebloods pulling a revisionist history on Salazar because he wasn't anti-muggle but anti-Orkney
Tattletale knew this and she knew she couldn't stop it: people with martyr complexes aren't ok. A martyr complex is passive suicidal ideation. It is just mental gymnastics trying to hide from everyone including themselves that they want to die, so they look for a death that could mean something, something that would be justifiable to an outside observer. They dive headlong into danger because they cannot fear death, because their life has no meaning to them more than what they are doing now
And as someone who has been institutionalized for suicidal ideation lemme tell you it's super hard to get over that hurdle, because it didn't start with that one bad day, it started early, earlier than you'd think for Taylor or for me. It probably started for Taylor before her mom died, because, when you think about it, what kid growing up has only one friend at all? Not one that is having an ok time in school. And sure, this is a big city and there are probably multiple middle schools that feed into Winslow, but surely there were people at Winslow that she went to middle school with, or elementary school. I wasn't close to most of the people I went to elementary or middle school with, but some I was cordial with, and even one who remained my friend even into college. Before Emma must have been a dam to keep the negativity at bay, but she couldn't have been perfect, or she wouldn't have been alone.
I don't know where I'm going with this but I think the point is that triggers don't happen to people who aren't willing to die. I've seen posts about how shards don't work on people who are suicidal but I don't think that's true. They stop the suicidal ideation with that push of desire for glory (conflict). The same thing is used to keep suicidal people from committing as long as they can: don't commit suicide -- your conditioner and shampoo aren't finished (and then they are used unevenly so you have to get a new bottle of one before you run out of the other), don't commit suicide -- who else will water your plants or take care of your dog or feed the stray cat on campus, and more like this. The shards just say: don't die now, die later, in a blaze of glory, when it will be beautiful. Now, the shards are a parasite. They don't actually want you to die, but if they can convince you to keep on going with a promise of grandeur, they will.
Taylor Hebert is autistic and you can't change my mind
Like you can tell from her black and white thinking and generous assumptions for common ground alone
Taylor Hebert is autistic and you can't change my mind
Like you can tell from her black and white thinking and generous assumptions for common ground alone
AU where everything's the same except Worm and Homestuck trade places in pop culture relevancy
Canon divergence where Regent didn't panic in the Behemoth fight and instead moved Aisha's body so that she could escape the fear aura
I like this because if Taylor could have used regent as khepri to trip people into her range of control near the beginning. Woof! She don’t care enough about him not to
But also!
AU where Bryan died to save her instead and we get a more fucked up Aisha still hanging around a regent with 0 people able to control him and a Taylor that’s somehow more messed up
Taylor and Regent actually having that conversation at the beginning of the s9000 arc instead of her having it with a gravestone, then we'd get to know the Regent that cares but doesn't know how to feel. The Alexithymia Regent.
Regent accidentally undermining Imp's position as the new "responsible" leader of the Heartbroken because he acts like neither of them has changed, even when they both have. It's never so much to be a problem, because Imp is still willing to embrace her gremlin nature as part of her whole style, but it's a tiny bit of friction between these two that just continues to exist.
Canon divergence where Regent didn't panic in the Behemoth fight and instead moved Aisha's body so that she could escape the fear aura
I like this because if Taylor could have used regent as khepri to trip people into her range of control near the beginning. Woof! She don’t care enough about him not to
But also!
AU where Bryan died to save her instead and we get a more fucked up Aisha still hanging around a regent with 0 people able to control him and a Taylor that’s somehow more messed up
Taylor and Regent actually having that conversation at the beginning of the s9000 arc instead of her having it with a gravestone, then we'd get to know the Regent that cares but doesn't know how to feel. The Alexithymia Regent.
Also all of the heartbroken content! Aisha only went and killed heartbreaker in response to regent dying!!!! We’re they planning to do that anyway? Regent would NOT have taken those kids so what if a different faction took them?
I think it's a little much to say he definitely wouldn't, when most of his interactions with Taylor are big brother shaped. He doesn't like Cherish but can you blame him? His actions point to his plan always being: find a team to kill Heartbreaker to free his siblings. After all, he'd just need to go somewhere far enough to escape him, so killing him wasn't for Regent.
Have I talked about my theory that Rachel and Amy are both daughters of Marquis?
Since I never went more into this
1) they are about the same age
2) both have powers that involve the construction and manipulation of flesh
3) Amy evidently inherited her shard from her father
4) despite his policy of not harming women or children, Amy's mother did not trust Marquis with a child, and therefore kept her until she could not.
5) we know that Rachel lived with her mother until CPS was called when she tried to make rice on her own
6) nobody who would willingly enter a relationship with a villainess mastermind is completely stable
7) Dogs are not particularly nomadic creatures, so where Rachel triggered is probably somewhat close to Brockton Bay (within nomadic distance, in the same general area)
So I suppose that Rachel's Mother was in love with Marquis and visited him often, but kept Rachel unknown, not to keep her safe, but to use her as a trump card if she ever was in danger of being cut off from him, because until then she did not want to share his affection.
Now it could be that she kept Rachel away to keep her safe, and being absent from the home had something to do with Marquis's capture.
Also, wildbow has mentioned that Rollo wasn't a wolf or a dog, which could mean halfsies, or could mean coyote, which are not as prevalent in the new England area as they are in the south and south west.
Still I do believe this theory holds water
Well, its a better theory than that time I spent half a week convinced that Rachel's mom was The Siberian
When I first posted this everyone shot it down and now it's getting me so much attention
