February 2012
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What are your favourite HP quotations & passages?
I’ll make graphics for some of them.
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
SERIOUSLY! I’m sick of LGBTQ culture being treated as just some political issue. Queer people aren’t just a handful of people who want to get married, okay? We’re real, and we’re fucking important, and we need to be represented...
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“But in all honesty, I feel slightly unsatisfied. [Pottermore] does all it...”
– Shoshana Kessler, for the Guardian
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“Books and movies each have strengths as a medium that the other doesn’t. I think...”
– Read It First…. or Not (via thehpalliance
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From the Wikipedia entry “Fictional Portrayals of Psychopaths”:
Lord Voldemort from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series exhibits many of the traits associated with psychopathy, including aggressive narcissism, a sense of entitlement, exceptional intelligence, manipulative behaviour and a complete contempt and lack of regard for others. Rowling herself has described...
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I must not tell lies.
“People always say stuff like, ‘You didn’t have a childhood.’ That’s an...”
– Daniel Radcliffe [x]
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feminishblog:
Reader Submission: Hermione Granger and the Failures of Feminism
“Hermione Granger is JK Rowling’s feminist presence in the Harry Potter series, and she is a triumph. Hermione is a wonderful feminist character: smarter than anyone, brave and shrewd and assertive and just. As a Muggle-born witch, Hermione faces marginalization because of her birth and sex, but her...
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peetamellaark:
she wears high heels
i wear sneakers
she’s cheer captain
and i read homoerotic fanfiction about fictional couples
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“I don’t think I ever had one, great drunk night, but I had heard about them, and...”
– Daniel Radcliffe [x]
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Stupid Questions Asked on Valentine's Days
i-am-a-marauder:
Note: Just a derpy little thing I thought of in my head. Each section is a different year at Hogwarts, in chronological order. Each year, the Marauders have questions about Valentine’s day, stupid questions. And I documented them here. The end.
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It’s like a mini-fic.
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Femininity, feminism, and female privilege.
alijandra:
ryking:
As a woman …
1. I have a much lower chance of being murdered than a man.
2. I have a much lower chance of being driven to successfully commit suicide than a man.
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24. My role in my child’s life is generally seen as more important than the child’s father’s role.
— Female Privilege Checklist
Now let’s see how many so-called feminists dismiss...
jedi-wizard-hobbit:
faberry:
sometimes it lasts in love
but sometimes your otp isn’t canon
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