@JimSlippy
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EVERYBODY, HEAR THIS; A NEW MALFOID FANFIC—THIS TIME WITH ILLUSTRATIONS—IS HERE!!!
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Remember that national news story about the Muslim girl on the subway who had her hijab ripped off by Trump supporters?
Turns out she lied and was scared her father would beat her if he knew she was hanging out and dating non-Muslims.
Cornell has the same vibes.
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She fills the massive gaping hole where a satisfying romance should have been. It would elevate the entire story without even having to change anything else.
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Always remember that these women have literally thousands of matches competing for their attention and lavishing them with free meals at all times. It turns them into cruel monsters who don't view you as human. These apps need to be banned as a crime against humanity.
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Neoliberals using memes made by fascists to dunk on conservatives while they promote an economic system that resulted in more pollution and destruction than anything conservatives did.
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The world ended in 1918, WWII was its death knell, and we live in the post-apocalyptic ruins of a much greater civilization than we can even fathom.
We still hear the echoes of the knell and have no language to describe it. We call it late stage capitalism, Weimar conditions, whatever it is — it’s the bell that tolled the end of our world and we feel the grief of our ancestors as they lost the Great War, and their pain is still in our blood and we have no way to excise it.
One of the greatest things I despise is "it was all a dream" endings, because they are very disrespectful to the audience. An audience takes a journey in good faith and invests time into pretending to believe in this little story for a while.
A cynical ending like this is a slap in the face, an assertion that "Actually everything you liked was stupid and not real and didn't mean anything, there was no point to being invested in it at all." It's probably my least favorite trope in storytelling.
Yeah, I would have preferred that. Everything that happened that started with a giant showing up and telling him he is a special wizard that has go to a castle to study magic really does read like the feverish escapism of a desperately unappy 11-year-old. The message to accept reality would have been much more powerful than "btw you were actually super special and different all along".
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It ends up dramatically improving the plot of a popular series for a rather small cost (Adds back in a lot of drama and romance that the series really lacked, and doesn't change many other plot points), plus yearners love tsunderes, enemies-to-lovers and "I can fix her" stories.
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Library networks fund terrible leftism in ways we don’t really notice. The kids books are just one small part of it, basically laundering money to ideological friends. There would essentially be no soft sciences, no women’s studies, no sociology, no black studies if the journals weren’t paid for by libraries which are nearly the only paying consumers of that work. Ohh and you as the tax payer pay for that.
It's wild looking into the economics of these books, they sell basically no copies to actual customers, the big goal isn't to get on best-seller lists but rather to gun for library/school library/curriculum guides, and for awards like the Coretta Scott King or Jane Addams (which improve your chances of getting on library lists), you can even get funding for them from non profits like We Need Diverse Books and SCBWI, and once they're actually on the shelves they essentially never get read, they're books that exist so school administrators can feel good about putting them on reading lists and so libtard librarians and feel good about putting them out for prominent display on the shelves
Harry Potter is an excellent example of the fact that technical writing ability is basically a waste of time and your ability to make airtight plots doesn't actually have much to do with how much people like your work.
Harry Potter has like a trillion plot holes in every book, the worldbuilding is pretty nonsensical, and a bunch of the systems like wizard fighting is really stupid. Yet, it's one of the biggest media franchises of all time and that's because it made people feel things that they liked. It communicated a message to their soul and resonated with them.
The wacky world and crazy plot doesn't get hyper-examined by the 3rd grader reading it, instead they are immersed in a whimsical world that feels both comfortable, adventurous, and like it's filled with a million possibilities to explore. You don't need the most technically incredible plot or prose to make a good story, you just need to communicate a feeling to the audience.
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Republican
American youths really need history lessons because they still have no idea which party was funding/protecting the KKK and other hate groups back then. Hilarious.
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Illegals and low skilled adults have made the “teenager-jobs” their careers.
Living 8-10 in a house paid for by the government means they can make money at minimum wage.
There is no longer a starter economy for young people to learn in.
When I was growing up, basically everyone I knew had a summer job by 15 or 16.
Lifeguarding, bagging groceries, mowing lawns, scooping ice cream. It's just what you did.
Now I meet teenagers and early 20-somethings who've never had a single paycheck and aren't in any rush to get one.
Pew's actual data backs this up too. Over half of teens had summer jobs back in 2000. Now it's barely a third.
Maybe I sound like my own parents saying this, but what changed?
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A girl who can't stand you simply wouldn't interact with you at all and would actively avoid you. Women do not talk to men they dislike by choice. Don't know why a lesbian would even hope to understand rhis.
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"I'm sorry it had to come to this my boy, I truly am. If I had been wiser, perhaps I could have prevented you from meeting me so soon in this place."
"So this is it, then, Professor?"
"It.. is not for me to know. But the final horcrux is broken. The friends you have assembled remain true. I have faith in them, Harry, in you. The battle is won, even if we won't see it. I have no regrets on this matter."
Harry sat in silence for what seemed like years with his old friend. Yes, friend. After all that had happened, any pretenses of station could be laid down, in this place.
Regrets.
Blonde hair.
Regret.
Green eyes.
Regret.
Blonde hair and greens eyes, looking up at him quietly, angry as they called him a fool, with quiet knowing across the Weasley's cluttered, chaotic table, with tears as he lay hurt and..
"I have one, professor."
"What's that, Harry?"
"A regret." He stood, the station already began to lose it's hold. "One that's crying right now. And I will not allow that."
Harry turned to where he remembered the exit to the street would be. He saw it form.
"I'm sorry, professor. We'll prospone our reunion. There's someone who needs me."
