Nicholas Galitzine | 'The Idea of You' Promo | 2024 | 📷 Jonny Marlow

do you ever like a character so much that just looking at pictures of them is a bit embarrassing.

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The notes are broken. This is what tumblr is all about apparently.

THE NOTES ARE BROKEN!  This has been reblogged so many times, Tumblr just shrugged and said “infinity”

…Then one more won’t hurt. :)

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Listen, for people wanting to call out colonialism, there are way too many of you mocking Irish, Welsh, and Scottish names.

No, they’re not alphabet soup, no they do not look like “you’ve thrown letters at a wall and used what stuck,” they are living, breathing languages which we did CPR on after the British Empire shot them.

Like, people DIED to keep them alive.

Every time I see some (English/American) interviewer make an entire segment forcing Saoirse Ronan to list off Irish names, I die a little inside. It’s particularly galling to see the same people ooh-ing over how “mystical” they sound, or claiming ancient heritage to us.

Realise there’s a world beyond your myopic lens and just accept sometimes you’ve got new stuff to learn. Fuck knows I do.

the next modification I plan to experiment with this one is adding mushrooms! I do expect that this will increase the cooking time possibly significantly though as they release so much moisture

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

wow.

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

These are not unique to the sea btw. Rip tides are also a danger in other large bodies of water, like the Great Lakes

I had heard of rip tides, but I would never have guessed they were the calm-looking part. If I had been looking for a safe space to wade, I would have avoided all of the white parts (turbulent! terrifying!) and gone straight for the rip.

lake michigan has rip tides and strong currents and also the highest kill count of all of them because people think of superior and huron as The Scary Ones. lake michigan has beautiful beaches along very big cities, and eats tourists like popcorn. do not underestimate lakes, but particularly not the great lakes.

This is fascinating for two reasons.

1. They haven’t actually apologised for anything. She’s pre-emptively rejecting an apology that they have no intention of giving.

2. Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are extremely well-liked. A lot of people are more attached to them in their roles as they are to the actual characters in the books.

What does JK Rowling gain by coming out with this?

OK, I'm gonna tell you what she gains by coming out with this.

A person who isn't extremely online enough to have the full, and I mean the full context of this feud--like, say, my mom, who has no idea what a TERF even is or why it's bad to be one--sees the headline and goes, "Huh. Those two young people did something that made the nice book lady so mad, she won't accept their apologies," and goes away with NO further knowledge than that.

The headline does not include the fact that they didn't apologize. This does not include what they were responding to when they made the statements for which she thinks they should apologize. It only includes the fact that she didn't accept their apologies, which in older generations goes to that whole "civility" thing - if someone apologies, the social rules say you have to accept unless the thing that was done to you was really really unforgivable.

The logical conclusion is that they said something so awful that 1) they DID apologize for it and 2) she didn't accept.

So this gets filed away in the casual viewer's brain and the next time they see Daniel Radcliffe's and Emma Watson's names, what the brain search pulls up is, "Aren't they the two people who were really mean to that nice author lady?"

Think about any celebrity you have a vaguely negative opinion of. Not like "Oh, that's the guy who killed someone" but like "Didn't he get in some kind of trouble at some point?" You probably don't recall the details. You don't have to, to make a value judgment. By the same logic, now Daniel Radcliffe's and Emma Watson's reputations are very slightly tarnished while hers is very slightly bolstered, and the person is slightly more inclined to listen to JKR than to DR or EW in the future.

I'd say even the way the photos are presented is a problem. We read English from left to right so first you see a nice middle-aged white lady (those earrings signal wealth), and then you see a young man with a scruffy beard (I can already hear my mom going "He'd be cute if he'd shave that awful stubble" because that's not what appeals to people from her era). You don't see the young woman at all. This is now subconsciously about the guy being sexist, probably. I mean, who knows? I'm a person swiping through the internet who's not gonna read the article, but it's going into my big squishy human constantly-value-judging brain all the same.

So yeah, this is absolutely conscious on the part of the JKR making this statement with the knowledge that this is how it's gonna be covered by the media, and likewise conscious on the part of the media that are choosing to give the extremely wealthy lady air time for this total non-event of a hypothetical statement.

Exactly. Articles like this very intentionally appeal to casual viewers and they do work. I've had to explain similar ones to my sister/parents who just don't know or care about celebrities for the most part. With context it makes JK look kind of desperate and petty lol, but without it, it can paint her in a much better light.

Does anyone wanna adopt me as a house cat i think id be good at that

I am so good at:

Severely tempting

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."