ᛇ ᚹ Gothic Jason Voorhees ᛋ ᛉ

Name a few dimensions we can flow between,
With no obstructions,
Another timeline,
I’d give anything to find

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

To give you an idea of how insane this is, they fired a guy they had just hired a few hours earlier because some Leftist miscreants showed them +13 year old tweets that he made when he was a teenager in high school.

Progressive cancel culture is alive and well unfortunately. For all the talk of “Woke 1 being crazy”, it’s important to understand that Woke 1 never ended.

[planefag @planefag]

"The market is under-supplying tsunderes" is 100% accurate, but this goes further - into people realizing that J.K. Rowling had (has?) some real weaknesses as a writer.

What people are realizing with the "Malfoid" thing is that a Malfoid x Harry romance would have worked shockingly well as a load-bearing core for the overall narrative in a way Harry's romantic entanglements in the actual series never were. Not just as "plot-relevant," mind you, but thematically and metaphysically as well. This ties into Draco being based on Rowling's own grade-school bully; he's *written* in a feminine register, and moreover his relationship with Harry *is* load-bearing in the later books; and yet he never really gets much of an arc; remaining mostly one-note through the series. To Rowling's credit Draco is *not* one-dimensional and Rowling does a good job showing that despite the limited-third-person perspective locked to Harry (e.g. Draco's friendship with Moaning Myrtle, revealed via the Marauder's Map,) but he doesn't really change through the story - nor does he really change Harry, which feels a bit underwhelming given Harry's growing obsession with him in book six.

A good foil is every bit as important a character as a primary romantic interest. Especially with an episodic structure like the Harry Potter novels have; with each book having its own end-game villain, a foil like Draco provides a through-line adversary for the whole narrative. His family connection to The Big Bad Evil guy makes this even more potent; allowing him to serve as a tangible, present representative of the gathering darkness that Harry is all but fated to eventually confront - which also mirrors the same darkness that's in Harry's own soul, and has been a crucial plot factor since early in the story.

This is why Draco's eventual fate seems underwhelming. He gets in way over his head with the Bad Guys, but never truly makes a choice - as Rowling said in an interview, "there's a real moral cowardice to Draco" but he's not "wholly bad." And so he's always on the fence - he doesn't become a true nemesis to Harry, nor does he provide a cathartic parallel by confronting the darkness and choosing to stand against it alongside him. And it's not *bad* for characters to do this; most people aren't going to make some great, seismic binary choice between Good and Evil - but given he's the closest thing Harry has to a true foil in the story, it leaves the far end of the narrative hanging in open air. It feels like Harry spent a lot of time shadow-boxing; that thread is never resolved, much less in a way that has powerful synergy with the greater forces at work in the story and world.

Rowling was never a great prose crafter, but I can forgive her that, right down to her hilariously on-the-nose naming schemes, as grade schoolers don't need divine prose and her ability to craft an interesting, enticing world is both far more important and incontestable given the results. Nor is she bad with characters; when they're on-screen their presence fairly pops off the page. It's her plotting that's weak, and this retroactively damages her characters as plots are driven by character choices and motivations. Book 7 really made that plain; soon as the characters were away from the structured confines of Hogwarts they started teleporting around willy-nilly (as wizards are wont to do) but it was Ron showing up right when he was needed, with a spare wand in his pocket to replace Harry's broken one, that really made me scoff.

What makes this all interesting is that Harry Potter is the closest thing to a cultural touchstone for an entire generation; one work of literature read by almost everyone of a particular age cohort. So even those not inclined towards literature, who've "never read another book" post-Potter, remember it well - and so this present Malfoid trend is a rare example of literary analysis escaping its usual grottoes and percolating through the minds of the masses.

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

Palpatine being retconned by the sequels as this evil Sith mystic with some boring nondescript cult surrounding him sucked ass - he was best as “the post-Sith Sith Lord,” who really didn’t give a fuck about such inefficiencies to his power as that.

[Punished Snake @MorihausKyne]

The disrespect to Lord Vader becomes more reconcilable when you realize that the Galactic Empire is a totalitarian socialist state that has more in common with the Jacobin or Bolsheviks than the Nazis. One of the main goals of the Empire was eradication of religion/clerics.

[moonlight pepe @thuletide_]

Nah it's like 99.9% caused by the Women Are Wonderful effect; they're always perceived as victims, even when they're perpetrators. "Our wholesome whores would *never* do anything gross or immoral! They *must* have been forced into it by evil, predatory men!"

[Cloud @cloudateides]

“Scared, Potter?!” Malfoid called out.

“No” he replied, clasping his arms around her, steadying her shaky hands in his own.

“Not when I have you. Now concentrate, we can do this!”

“…together?” She asked.

Harry nodded. In unision, two voices roared as one.

“EXPELLIARMUS!”

[Severian @urthofthenewsun]

Slytherin have their origins in the Umbri tribes of pre-Roman Italy. They worshipped Angitia, a goddess of healing who often took the form of a snake. Once an altruistic people, they became ruthless after being driven to the fringes of civilization through muggle persecution.

[ᴜᴍᴇᴢᴏɴᴏ @taishopervert]

"Parseltongue" is a secret cultic language taken from a Pelasgian-Tyrsenian immortality cult centered around the snake, cf. Etruscan "phersu" meaning mask

[ᴜᴍᴇᴢᴏɴᴏ @taishopervert]

Since the TL is gooning to Malfoid I'll just say it: by putting to pen all a middle aged Labourite woman sees as evil, Rowling created a compelling vision in the Death-Eaters/Slytherins/purebloods. Neo-Victorians, Nazi secret societies, posh Greco-Roman names, a ruthless vanguard

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

It’s so funny how they’re so obviously all just Mosley/BUF types mixed with Victorian aristocrats; the movies that she advised on heavily especially channel this.

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

The Catholic Church is the single largest importer of immigrants in the world and DHS just started paying them even more money to import even more immigrants

What are we even doing

[BLACK DUMPLING™ @BlackDumpling]

He knows he has to make an army of death robots to save America.. and the man who loves humanity will perhaps go down in history as the man whose name is synonymous with industrial scale mechanized death and an ocean of blood.

Imagine being the man inventing gun powder and as you do a couple hundred million deaths flash before your eyes.

That's what you look like when you know you're about to unleash a great horror upon the world.

None of this is said in condemnation.

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

The left is importing millions of Muslims because they plan to do this same exact thing to us.

[Jimmy Cummins @America1stJimmy]

The commie who started all the violence in France has been arrested @ritchy_thibault

“We’re going to attack all the police stations in this country,” “tomorrow we’re going to set the Élysée on fire,” “we’re going to blow everything up, it’s going to be a blaze”

[Hyjinx @Hyjinx48]

Do not doom. Even the house is a jump ball and YOU, patriot, are the vote that decides the election.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"Too male, too pale, and too stale"

This is who was just selected to be the New York special prosecutor for the "Cornell 7" situation

I'm sure she'll be totally fair

[Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa]

Reminder that remigration is the nice option

[Z’s Turning 🍊 @Z4BTC_]

It amazes me how the average person is completely clueless about second order effects. What logical sense does it make for prime age men to date infertile women?

That’s exactly how you end up with collapsing birth rates, which have serious societal and economic consequences.

These are the same people who complain about how society sucks but can’t connect the dots between their beliefs and the end result.

Feminists and beta males like this will be the first people crying once society fully breaks down.

[Καλός @realKalos]

Every "happy wife, happy life" advice is always just this.

[Brigadier Ketchup @BrigadierKetch]

“Enjoying the train ride, Potter? What if I told you that making the trains run on time was all we ever really wanted?…Was that a Bluetooth speaker?!? My father will hear about this!”