Rosen Ritter

Sicut Deus Daretur - The fire rises, let it burn - #AnimeRight

[Rosen Ritter @RosenRitter]

Em fascina el marc mental "no hi ha recursos per viure com fins ara" quan la realitat és la contrària. L'únic factor realment limitant és el de les terres rares i fins i tot aquest millora.

En tots els altres camps (energia, petroli) les mancances són autoinflingides/logística

[Rosen Ritter @RosenRitter]

O podem no regular res i que tothom mengi com fins ara perquè les collites estan en màxims històrics i hi ha recursos més que suficients. I encara n'hi haurà més quan Àfrica engegui motors.

[HH @guginHH]

Un cop més es constata que l'esquerra és el vot de la por i la foscor. Són incapaós de proposar ni de construir res. Només generar terror i caos.

[HH @guginHH]

Això només és així si en realitat el teu independentisme és purament retòric, subordinat a temes d'ideologia partidista i administrativa. És a dir, si no ets independentista.

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

Since USAID was dismantled in 2025, no left-wing candidate has won a presidential election in Central or South America.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Now that I've dabbled in this trend a bit, and played around with what's possible, I'm going to put on my *other* Serious Professional Author Hat, and explain why you like her so much.

Draecena, or Draconia, or Drakenia, Malfoy — the "Mal-foid" — is NOT a gender-swapped version of Draco Malfoy. That's why her eyes are green and not grey.

She's a completely different character.

She fits into the socket that Draco fills in the story, but for an author, characters are defined by their wants. Because their wants determine their choices, and their actions, and these determine the ultimate outcome of the story.

Draecina is a different person from Draco, because she wants different things.

Draco, as written, is a simple creature, created for a simple utilitarian role in the story. He wants power and attention. He wants to advance his family's political agenda. He wants to defeat Potter. Rowling may have put a little spin on the ball in the later books, but he never strays too far from this.

Draecina is completely different. She not only wants more things, she wants conflicting things, and she is torn between them.

She is split between duty, love, and pride.

She wants to advance her family's cause and political agenda, to help them, to earn their love and make them proud. And for this, like Draco, she must defeat Harry Potter and everything he represents.

But she is also a teenage girl. And she wants to kiss the most popular boy in the school. The hero, the sports star, the celebrity.

No, she takes that back, she doesn't just want to kiss him. She wants him to kiss her. And more fundamentally, she wants him to yearn for her, as she yearns for him. Look at me, Harry Potter, her soul cries. See me. Do you think I'm beautiful? Please think I'm beautiful. Please want me.

But she cannot say a word of this. Because she also has pride. She cannot, she will not face the humiliation of anyone else knowing how she worships her mortal enemy. No one must ever see the stolen scarf she presses to her face, in the darkness of her bedroom.

But if she is to say nothing, how will he ever know? How will he ever look at her?

This is the rack she is stretched upon, torturing herself inside her head late at night, tossing and turning when she should sleep.

Conflicting wants make the best, deepest, most living characters, and drive the best stories.

Through the alternate set of books (that exist now only as a shared idea in scattered heads) these drive her actions towards Potter himself... not simply opposition and aggression, but a dance of approach and avoidance, of fights and arguments and timid, plausibly deniable bids for something more.

Until, as in the originals, the two are driven to crisis point, a violent confrontation, each desperate not to hurt the other, but also driven to violence by the fear that this other holds no goal but lethal hate.

And Harry, seeking only to defend himself, strikes her down with a magic that does not merely disable but *cuts* with lethal force, tearing into her body, almost killing her, and leaving her with a terrible scar across the smooth, soft, perfect white skin that his eyes used to devour the merest glimpse of.

This is the worst point, the pit, the long dark night of the soul that every author must eventually walk a character into.

Draecina curses herself for a fool. None of it meant anything. He never cared for her. He hates her with every fiber of his being, and why would he feel otherwise? But try as she might, she cannot actually blame him. He overheard her plotting his death. They fought. Is it any wonder that he struck at her with whatever weapon he had to hand? She cannot stop loving him, even though she knows now that it is utterly hopeless.

In her hospital bed, left unable by her injuries even to toss and turn, she stares at the ceiling and weeps in despair.

Harry feels... sick. He fought for the right cause, he knows that. But this doesn't feel like goodness, and it doesn't feel like winning. It feels wrong, like he has destroyed something beautiful. He has left her with terrible scars, and terrible memories, that she will carry for the rest of her life.

More than anything he wants to go to her, to kneel beside her hospital bed and beg her forgiveness. But that is foolish. She hates him. He is the last person she would ever want to see, and she would never, ever forgive him. It's hopeless.

This is the greatest task of the author, to create this terrible moment, and then, somehow, perform some magic to walk these characters to the ending the story demands, where the day, the hero, and the world are all saved by the very thing that started the story to begin with... the love of a woman who would give her life to save his.

Except this time, that love is not an inheritance, for Harry is no longer a child. He is a man now, facing a dark and terrible enemy, and that love is not simply given, nor can it even be earned.

It must be inspired.

And the two lovers must defeat their enemy together... not through a cheap magic trick, nor through a vague and sappy appeal to ill-explained abstraction like "the power of love", but for the very real and concrete reason that heroes have friends and allies, families and lovers, while tyrants have only reluctant and fearful slaves.

And from that first inflection point, the pit of despair, it is difficult to see the second, the moment of triumph.

In all the best stories, the ones that really matter, there is a moment so dark that sometimes we don't want to go on, because how could the ending ever be happy?

But we must go on, because that is the third moment the story demands, the moment we must reach. And it is not Harry, but Draecina, who must give it to us, that happy ending.

Look at me, Harry Potter, she must say. Look at my scars. I will not hide them from you, not anymore, though they make you flinch with guilt and turn away. Look at me. I forgive you, my love, not merely because I love you, but I because I understand in my very soul the impossible trap you were caught in, the conflicting forces that tore you apart inside.

But you must look at me, all of me, and see me as I am, flawed and scarred and imperfect, for I must know if I am still beautiful in your eyes, if you can accept my love and forgiveness as I have accepted yours.

We must bury the anger and bitterness that passed between, and pass on only good to the next generation. Because I have just learned that the next generation is coming very soon now, and I hope we are ready.

It takes a wise character to say this, so she must grow throughout the story from a scared and lonely little girl to a woman who can face the future, even though she is afraid.

This is why you love this character. Because she makes a beloved story into something that is even more about the things that matter, the universal experience of what it feels like to be a human.

And it's why I'm not ashamed, nor embarrassed, to "fix" a billion-dollar success story. Because humans are a pack animal. We hunt together, and build on each other's work. Everything we have achieved as a species, from great stories to great civilizations to rockets to the stars, was built on foundations laid down by others, and will be the foundation for others to build on.

Frodo carries the ring across Middle-Earth, through Mordor, and halfway up the mountain.

And then it's your turn to carry him the rest of the way.

[((( David Romà ))) @DavidGR1714]

Els de Junts a favor de Lula un paio d ' extrema esquerra anti occidental amic de Cuba , Iran i Hamas
Despres s' estranyen de caure a les enquestes

[ᗩlbertDM ||*||🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @albertdmcat]

Quin racisme? Jo no tinc cap problema amb la gent pel seu, color de pell, origen…
Jo no tinc cap problema que Marroc continuï sent marroquina, o la Xina, xinesa.
Senzillament vull que Catalunya continuï essent catalana. I que qui vingui, s’integri. Això és racisme?

[Rosen Ritter @RosenRitter]

@JordiPL85 Lluita per Catalunya i pels Catalans, o aparta't.

[The Golden One @TheGloriousLion]

The Algerians deported a million Frenchmen (born in Algeria) without any moral qualms.

France can deport every last rioter (whether they are born in France or not).

Citizenship is just a passport which is just a piece of paper.

[Rosen Ritter @RosenRitter]

@naciodigital @rogertugas Ni de broma Esquerra té 30.

[Rosen Ritter @RosenRitter]

@helixx85 Per una banda farien be, per l'altra Junts contaminaria a Aliança perquè el 90% de la gent que encara és a Junts són sociates d'esperit i només busquen cadira.

[((( David Romà ))) @DavidGR1714]

LA CUP 3 diputats
Orriols 30 diputats
Pero qui parla en nom de les classes populars de CAT es la CUP amb el seu projecte chavista i referencia amb Cuba
Donen ganes de riure

[Aleix Galvany @AleixGalvany]

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Et diré una cosa mes encara.

No tenen el nivell per fer-ho, però AC podria aprofitar l'empenta per acabar de trencar un dels tabús del catalanisme:

Declarar-se oberta i agressivament pancatalanista.

[The ArchCast @TArchcast]

The vitriolic rejection of the Slutblood demonstrates the most fascinating part about the Malfoid phenomenon. It's genuinely a matter of love and adoration. Not gooning.

[Sílvia Orriols @orriolsderipoll]

Una entitat considerada terrorista pels governs de Canadà, Estats Units i Alemanya, manifestant-se impunement a Catalunya i presumint d'un dels pitjors atemptats islamistes de la història...

Contra aquests no hi ha cordó sanitari, eh?

VERGONYA

[((( David Romà ))) @DavidGR1714]

M' encanta aquesta logica de dir , com Orriols tambe us decebrà , seguiu votant-nos a nosaltres que ja em som experts portem 30 anys fent-ho

[HH @guginHH]

Dir que odies més Sílvia Orriols que Manuel Valls... és autoexplicatiu. Penso que no cal afegir-hi res.

[Marc Galimany @MGalimanyB]

Ha estat una gran idea tractar de fatxes, josepmaries i incels als d'AC.

Però sobretot ha estat una gran idea no abordar cap dels problemes que denuncien. Spoiler: començaran a reconèixer el problema l'endemà de les eleccions.

[Blake Carpenter @BCarpenterBooks]

Something I find weirdly fascinating about this entire saga is the roundabout way that people are now trying to figure out what this character’s actual name is. An entire community birthed her; now everybody’s standing around the basinet, debating about what to put on the certificate.

Some still call her Draco, or Malfoy. Lots of non-English posters are calling her “feminized Malfoy” (I expect Twitter’s translator is to blame for that). One popular choice appears to be some feminized version of Draco, such as Dracina or Dracaena; I personally find that last one a tad awkward, but that’s just me. Some have suggested Lyra (apparently because the Draco and Lyra constellations are next door neighbors, I think?). I’m told that some version of this character is years old—we can thank the Koreans for that—so it may still take time for a name to be settled on.

Whatever happens, if one vote makes any difference, the Malfoid moniker absolutely has to remain. The people who hate this character or are now trying to usurp control of her also hate the “foid” part of her name, like spotting a Crucifix at a trans-rights rally. They hate the connotation behind it, just like they hate the spontaneous way she became so popular so fast.

They won’t give up trying to twist or corrupt what happened, either—Harry Potter was theirs, it belonged to them, and only they can have the final word over what will or won’t be included in it. Why, a genderbent Draco is obviously transsexual in the first place, can’t you see that?! They already won! Go crawl back under your rocks and cope, or something.

Names are hard. Call her whatever you want for now—eventually, something will gel and everyone will roll with it.

Just don’t forget that before she was anything else, she was Malfoid.

[carme de gràcia @kanen49]

Estic jugant al billar i tenien la ràdio posada i us asseguro que parlen diferent de aliança Catalana a part de que estan dient l’avançada que ha tingut. Estan canviant la forma de parlar. Defensant el seu relat però una mica ….més pititet😂