Did this person just argue for gay marriage while referencing Doctor who?
Did this person just argue for gay marriage while referencing Doctor who?
When people say these books are children’s books, as if to demean them, I balk. These books dealt with themes that adults do not fully understand or wish to. It dealt with racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, prejudice, and general ignorance. These books taught us that it doesn’t matter how you were raised, but that you get to choose to be kind, loyal, brave, and true. They taught us to be strong under the pressures of this world and to hold fast to what we know to be right. These books taught me so much, they changed me as a person. So just because they’re set against a fantastical backdrop with young protagonists does not mean that their value is any less real.
This.
First book: Starts with the double murder of a pair of twenty-one year olds who were much missed and leaving their baby son a war orphan. A child growing up in abusive conditions that would give Cinderella the horrors. Dealing with peers and teachers who are bullies. The fickleness of fame (from the darling of Gryffindor to the outcast.) The idea that there are things worth fighting and dying for, spoken by the child protagonist. Three children promptly acting on that willingness to sacrifice their lives, and two of them getting injured doing so.
Second book: The equivalent of racism with the pro-pureblood attitude. Plot driven by an eleven year old girl being groomed and then used by a charming, handsome older male. The imbalance of power and resultant abuse inherent in slavery. Fraud perpetuated by stealing something very intimate.
Third book: The equivalent of ableism with a decent, kind and competant adult being considered less than human because he has an illness that adversely affects his behaviour at certain times. A justice system that is the opposite of just. Promises of removing an abused child from the abusive environment can’t always be kept. The innocent suffer while the guilty thrive.
Fouth book: More fickleness of fame. The privileged mistreating and undermining the underprivileged because they can. A master punishing a slave for his own misjudgment, and the slave blaming herself. A sports tournament which involves mortal risk being cheered by spectators. A wonderful young man being murdered simply because he was in the way. A young boy being tortured, humilated and nearly murdered.
Fifth book: PTSD in the teenage protagonist. Severe depression in the protagonist’s godfather, triggered by inherited mental health issues and being forced to stay in a house where abuse occured. A bigoted tyrant who lives to crush everyone under her heel, torturing a teenager for telling the truth in the name of the government (and trying to suck his soul out too). The discovery that your idols can have feet of clay after all. An effort to save the life of someone dear and precious actually costing that very same life. The loss of a father-figure and the resultant guilt.
Sixth book: The idea that a soul can be broken beyond repair. Drugs with the potential for date rape are shown as having achieved exactly that in at least one case, resulting in a pregnancy. Well-meaning chauvinism trying to control the love life of a young woman. Internalised prejuidce resulting in refusing the one you love, not out of lack of love but out of fear of tainting them. The mortality of those that seem powerful and larger than life.
Seventh book: Bad situations can get worse, to the point where even the privileged end up suffering and afraid. More internalised prejudice andfearhysterical terror of tainting those you love. Self-sacrifice and the loss of loved ones, EVERYWHERE. Those who are bitter are often so with a reason. The necessity of defeating your inner demons, even though it’s never as cool as it sounds. Don’t underestimate those that are enslaved. Other people’s culture isn’t always like your own. Things often come full circle (war ending with the death of a dearly-loved pair of new parents and their orphaned baby son living with his dead mother’s blood relative instead of his young godfather). Even if ‘all is well’ the world is still imperfect, because it’s full of us brilliant imperfect humans.
So… still think that Harry Potter is a kid’s series with no depth?
We use the term “ally” for someone who is truly supportive of the survivor. Often people in the survivor’s life are trying to be helpful, but are doing so in ways that don’t feel helpful or supportive to the survivor. Examples: encouraging the survivor to…
Full version of my comic Counting Stars, which I drew for a competition.
omgg i love this SO much!!
I want this on my tombstone.
IT’S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN! POTTERMORE IS GOING TO BE JUST ANOTHER PARTY I WAS NEVER INVITED TO!
A couple of months ago I read an article on Sparknotes about someone who wanted to boycott Pottermore. Now I get why. October. They said it would open in October. Then November…
Hunter and I were so excited about joining. They said October so I didn’t bother with all the mess for the BETA testing. “Nah, I’ll just wait the month.”
What happened?
I always figured it was political. The more division of labour, the less the workers know and the more they’re alienated from their work. The smaller the districts, the easier they are to control. Rebellion will be small and easy to stamp out when it’s confined to such a small area - unless they manage to exploit the only allowed inter-district contact, as in the books. And, of course, when people tend to only see people whose lives are mostly similar to their own, it’s easy enough to tell them how lucky they have it or how better they are than those poor bastards in District something or other. And it’s easy to make them accept the status quo as just the way things are.
^Couldn’t have said it better myself. Government censorship/control is so much easier if you’re dependent on other parts of a country or the world. Having everything you need to live without a government is the government’s worst nightmare.
The dog was named Parrot.
This was taken moments before Parrot was murdered by the cop. The cop drove his knee into the middle of Parrot’s back while stretching Parrot’s forelegs behind him, as one would do with an armed criminal. Without waiting to determine whether this technique would calm Parrot, the cop grabbed Parrot, lifted him off the ground, and brought him to the top of the concrete staircase.
He threw Parrot over the banister, down twelve steps, and onto the concrete floor. Then, the cop stood at the top of the stairs, drew his weapon, and executed Parrot. Aaron, the animal’s owner, cannot recall the number of shots fired. Witnesses state that Parrot was not harming anybody and was simply frightened by the cop. At no time did Parrot try to bite the officer, all he did was start barking.
It doesn’t matter if you are a part of an Occupy movement, PETA, Republican, Democrat, Independant Religious or not, if you are a part of the human race this should be a wake up call that something is very wrong with our society.
Isn’t brutally killing animals something that most Serial Killers do right before they switch to killing humans?I am guessing the dog bit the cop.
This is still extremely disturbing.””“cop”“”
Sometimes I think cops who don’t particularly care for dogs get more violent with them than they really have to be. I have a feeling if this cop was a dog lover he would have simply tased the dog, or some other much less violent, cruel way of dealing with it. Assholes.
I’ve gotten a LOT of new followers today. I’m curious as to the reason. Where’d ya’ll come from??
Okay, what the hell is wrong with this child.
Honestly feel like my children will be this weird.
Oh, bless our home.
LOVE this kid! LOL
