asteriskeverything
@asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
- Comment on Precision takes time 5 days ago:
Wtf, are we sure the stripper’s client isn’t dead?
- Comment on meow_irl 1 week ago:
Alternatively https://youtu.be/1JynBEX_kg8
- Comment on meow_irl 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon accidentally messages his mom 3 weeks ago:
Rip finding out your mom is a /b/tard
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 month ago:
That’s super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
- Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online 2 months ago:
There are no girls on the internet
- Comment on Who here likes Ratatouille? 4 months ago:
Ok this is mood like just make it the zillenial status baseline I feel like we are all there…
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
Yeah
Instead she made it like hermoine is wrong and the elves really do love being completely subservient to another species to the point of abuse and literally having no choice but to stay unless you’re given CLOTHING. It’s the most wild fucked up obvious lowest rung of society that desperately needs advocates and just… kinda stops there. It would be one thing if they just existed and we all later were like wait rhats messed up, like with the goblins. But no she brought attention to it throughout the book made it a whole side plot and absolutely nothing was ever accomplished. I think even later books sort of call back to this in a humorous way.
But I still like to imagine my headcannon being it. It makes me laugh more than being just a plain bigot does. It’s funnier if she is writing something she thinks a moral good character would do as her self insert and just still fails so miserably.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
Where am I putting my head in the sand? I don’t disagree with anyone’s remarks at all, fully agree, and see nothing to criticize even. I ALSO amuse myself with this little story.
(The rest isn’t really at you and more I am on a roll now) I DONT actually care ABOUT my headcannon. Shit dude was I not clear it isnt an opinion I actually hold? I guess I should have disclaimed with all the “plot holes” I am aware don’t make this fit well too?
So here they are… (cuz I was trying to be succinct in my OP and fight the urge to ramble and over explain, here I am giving in fully. )
Every single aspect of the house elves is treated like a joke, haha look at this muggle who doesn’t understand and making a big deal of having a species completely and utterly subservient to wizards and witches. They NEED it to live happy lives, pretending it is genetic trait they all have and not idk centuries of being enslaved. How do they even reproduce?? Do they get conjugal visits? Are they set up to breed much like how people do with cattle, horses, purebred pets? Do female pregnant house elves get maternity leave and how does that work someone would please ask JK Rowling about this, I’m sure there is some system in place that looks absolutely nothing like slavery did /s
It is only “bad” for doby and he had a family that abused him. And he knew their plotting to kill a kid that had been a beacon of hope or awe
Hermoine is full blast white savior complex about it and never once LISTENS to what the elves say or ask them what changes they would like to have. Even in the bs fantasy of a species born to serve, there should be things they would still like to have. She isn’t even GOOD at it. Which is fine for a kid, just pointing out another way Rowling made hermoine a total joke.
Rowling also gives it the most ridiculous name that is clearly meant to ridicule hermoine even more… by giving it a name to have her club or whatever be able to be called SPEW for short. SPEW
And she doesn’t help a single elf. Harry does and he is also the only one to treat them as individuals.
IRRC Dumbledore does do something in some way maybe just reassure her the elves are treated more like employees at hogwarts but she doesn’t feel reassured at all and still keeps at it.
ULTIMATELY what I truly feel and believe about this little story and lore from the books is that Rowling is worse than she is given credit for. She not only seems to have this at best subconscious belief that some people are suited for slavery
She also shows a similar subconscious belief or bias that progressive people speaking against the status quo are naive, silly, idealists going through a phase and that when they understand how the world actually works they will agree with the status quo. The entire vibe I get is like the characters are giving hermoine head pats and eye rolls and calling her a silly girl.
That said dude it was like, early y2k we were still patting ourselves on the back for Will and Grace. The internet didn’t show you so many people’s random opinions. We did not have the type of discussions we have now, because now we have SO many points of view we can learn aboit. Now we can be aware of the more nuanced problems of systematic racism, the patriarchy, ableism, and more. Basically if she weren’t so awful now I don’t think we would be so critical of HER personally and instead critical of the artwork itself but disconnected as a product of the time and not a product of the artist. Jk Rowling makes the former impossible and the latter almost mandatory where she keeps saying more shit that suddenly new aspects of the series has different context with this new light.
Thanks. Sorry, I am in a mood to ramble tonight with poor self editing.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
Yeah I know and agree. It is her self insert or who she “identified” with the most, so I hand wave the plot holes of my theory away with the same literary finesse Jk Rowling has exhibited in recent decade or two. Like I said, not a hill I’m even willing to fight on lol.
The reality is she is an awful racist person, but I like to make both things true in my headcannon. Idk doesn’t everyone have loose silly things they kinda choose to believe in for fun?
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
I feel like that was more so her self insert, hermoinie, can be “on the right side of history”
This is my little headcannon theory and not a hill I even wanna fight on, so if there are blatant holes I’m interested I’m hearing but also keep in mind this is just something I “believe” because it amuses me.
- Comment on gotdamn 4 months ago:
What order of events was this conversation?? I never could get into tumblr/Twitter reply format I’m so confused. Who shot first
- Comment on Sunglass holder? 4 months ago:
Yo queiro taco holder
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
Thank you, I love you. I really appreciate the little linguistics lesson! So fascinating how cultures change ‘source material’ and why.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 5 months ago:
I can totally see how it may have started as fftterodacto and over the years the f sound got less and less noticeable! It’s my theory/headcannon now at least lol
- Comment on Liberals don't want you to google this 5 months ago:
Lol yeah keyword there is coworker though.
There are fantastic ways to politely and without any blame making people feel stupid enough to shut up, or make them backpedal and change the subject. Knowing your audience helps too, who else is there and what their politics are. I don’t think that comes naturally to anyone really though. Not most.
- Comment on He's not going to go easy on you either 5 months ago:
It is a fantastic, one of a kind show! I am so happy to see it already mentioned!
- Comment on Happy Father's Day. 5 months ago:
Read this a fascist swimmer and imo that is much more likely a card I’d buy
- Comment on Congrats to all 2024 college graduates! 6 months ago:
And you have to commute an hour because you won’t be able to afford rent where the jobs are.
- Comment on What a clown 6 months ago:
I fucking hate Ross.
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 6 months ago:
I tend to always read these, both when I sign up and when there are changes. Idk if I ever felt that it changed significantly at all from what I expected originally. They are “updated” annually and when a new law passes so usually it is no change or something about the new law. Basically usually if you consented to the original privacy policy, updates are unlikely to have anything surprising and new to change your mind. I guess unless it went from none to some/a lot of shared data!
- Comment on i don't get you 6 months ago:
Self reflection is important! It is good to ASK yourself these questions, and ask others even. It is not good to ruminate on the questions or doubt yourself because of lack of confidence. And if your answer is always that you were wrong… idk maybe seek therapy. Sounds like a trait of a chronic asshole or a chronic doormat.
- Comment on i don't get you 6 months ago:
Have you spent your entire life raised to put more weight in others’ comfort, opinions, achievements than your own?
It’s REALLY easy to gaslight someone. Congratulations, you’re not a predator who seeks out/recognizes these qualities in someone for you to take advantage of.
It IS common. It exists in many forms of abusive relationships. The fucking problem is that the internet is stupid as fuck and doesn’t understand what gaslighting is. If you start to question your intelligence, memory, etc because your partner is always contradicting you, just them, yeah that’s gaslighting. Disagreeing or the person is being a jerk and saying those lines doesn’t mean “you’re being gaslit” it’s a process and state of mind and being. You can be gaslit to believe your father never spent months painting himself blue trying to get into the blue man group, but that’s if you are convinced! Someone telling you that your dad never blue himself trying to convince you mean you were gaslit.
Also lying isn’t gaslighting. The point is someone questioning or changing their reality.
Sorry for the rant. I’m very passionate about abuse awareness and can’t self edit so well.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 6 months ago:
Dude… idk if I know if I’ve ever seen a more accurate simile than that. Equally “buggy*”, frustrating, and absurd if you have little to no experience with it
*idr word tables well but I suspect it was like pen tool where it wasn’t so much buggy as it’s hard to make it work right if you don’t get it yet
- Comment on Anon goes to the gym 6 months ago:
Hey science actually backs you up. I’m gonna go with the most basic and awesomest source; Mythbusters did a myth that proved swearing increases your pain tolerance. (Also the busted myth, if anything, seems to prove the opposite. Hey redheads did you know you’re also more likely to have higher tolerance to anesthesia?)
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility 7 months ago:
- Comment on Fun fact: Wikipedia has a list of every single person that died on Mount Everest 7 months ago:
I wanna say fun fact but I lacking a source beyond a podcast episode. I do feel that fits the spirit of the meme tho so fun fact most childhood human trafficing victims are youth that identify with the LGBTQA+ and lost their entire support network after coming out. But that’s not as appealing sooo
- Comment on "I wish you well in your future endeavors" 8 months ago:
I was just ranting to my husband about how I got tired of being polite to men in my personal life who don’t take “no” for an answer the first time. I am exhausted after years of finding 17 different ways to politely say no to a stranger who wants something from me on any given day. I am absolutely fucking done wasting time pussyfooting my words, with the men I am safe with (for whatever reason) and uh often men I am not safe with but I have been VERY lucky to have positive outcomes there. Pure luck
- Comment on just one more signup bro, on god 8 months ago:
It’s like the nerdy forgotten stepchild of the hospitals, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies.
- Comment on If you know, you know. 10 months ago:
Is this loss?
