alissonbecker:

alissonbecker:

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sleepyflannel:

send me a ☕️ and an opinion (popular or unpopular) and i’ll say whether i agree or disagree

slavicafire:

“hi, I’m not from the US” ask set

given how Americanized this site is, it’s important to celebrate all our countries and nationalities - with all their quirks and vices and ridiculousness, and all that might seem strange to outsiders.

1. favourite place in your country?

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?

3. does your country have access to sea?

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

5. favourite song in your native language?

6. most hated song in your native language?

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?

9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

11. favourite native writer/poet?

12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?

17. are you interested in your country’s history?

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?

19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?

24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country?

25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?

26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?

27. favourite national celebrity?

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?

29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?

fillyouraskbox:

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marisatomay:

Listen I love Harry Potter you all know that I sold my soul to those books a long time ago so listen to me when I say that y'all need to stop defending the canonical actions of Slytherin House
Stop it with these reaches of the century about how Slytherin “wasn’t founded on bigotry” and how “we don’t know if everyone in Slytherin in the books was a pureblood so how do we know they were all purists” and “they were traditionalists trying to preserve Wizard Culture uwu”

Slytherin House was founded by a man who wanted to exclude part of the wizarding community based on something they couldn’t control (heritage). I don’t care about his reasoning. He left a Murder Snake in a school knowing that his descendants would use it to kill all of the muggleborns in Hogwarts.

Yes. We know that not every Slytherin was Evil.
Andromeda Black married a muggleborn. Regulus Black became one of the most important heroes in the series. Horace Slughorn is one of the best examples of a morally grey character.
And there were probably others, but on the whole, the wizarding community saw Slytherin as the house of Voldemort and people who agreed with him.
Regulus Black still joined the Death Eaters before he graduated Hogwarts and no one knew that Regulus worked to defeat Voldemort until almost 2 decades after his death.
Andromeda was disowned after marrying Ted and her own sister wanted to brutally murder Nymphadora.
Snape was much more accepted by Slytherin when Harry was at Hogwarts than Slughorn was. Why? Maybe it was because he played favorites. Maybe it was because he had been a Death Eater.

And yes. We know for a fact that not everyone in Slytherin was a pureblood. Tom Marvolo Riddle had a muggle father and he was a Slytherin. If Lord Halfblood was a Slytherin and ended up creating a terrorist organization intent on committing genocide in the name of “finishing Salazar Slytherin’s noble work” then perhaps he wasn’t the only one.
Also you have to consider that during and after Voldemort’s rise to power (which according to the first chapter in the whole series was 11 years before his downfall) the fact that Blood Purist #1 was the heir of Slytherin had to influence people’s wishes when they were being sorted.
Kids who didn’t want to be associated with Slytherin for some reason or another (Sirius, Harry) were sorted elsewhere
Whereas anyone who had clear and mostly positive ties to Slytherin and wanted to be with like minded individuals (the Malfoys, Snape- another halfblood) were sorted accordingly
When a group of people all agree with each other they tend to become more radicalized because there’s no one to counter the group’s single-mindedness
So in the time between Voldemort’s first rise and Harry’s first year there had already been 20 years worth of sorting the like-minded (i.e. blatantly bigoted) kids together and sorting anyone who disagreed elsewhere
20 years worth of internal radicalization before Harry even got to Hogwarts
But sure Slytherin wasn’t labeled as the purist house at Hogwarts

I saw someone compare Canon Slytherins to the American Conservatives and I couldn’t believe it when some people literally started using Republican jargon to defend canon Slytherin values
“They were traditionalists trying to preserve wizard culture from outsiders!!”
What?!
Do you realize what you’re saying?!?
“We need to protect our country from outsiders!” “Protect traditional marriage!” “We can’t let them in here!”
Guys the kids in Slytherin House were a lot like the young republicans of today and if you can’t see that then maybe it’s time to reread the series

Anyway I get it
You’re sick and tired of being labeled as The Bad Guys
But consider: defending the actions of bad people doesn’t stop them from being bad people
It just means you’re defending bad actions
In the series, Slytherin House was full of radicalized elitists who spouted bigoted ideas. Many of whom joined a genocidal terrorist group before even graduating.
But just because it was that way in the books doesn’t mean all of you who identify as Slytherins are bigoted elitists
You’re a Slytherin because you value ambition and cunning and resourcefulness (and the color green)

It’s great that you’re a Slytherin
But that doesn’t mean you have to defend everything Slytherins did

So much all of this! Like, yes, nothig wrong if YOU are a Slytherin, nothing wron with Slytherin’s traits, but you gota consider that, withing-universe, the Hat takes choice into consideration and, like OP beautifully pointed out, there were people who chose Slytherin BECAUSE it was supposedly evil, not in spite of it.

Also, it is a story, mainly aimed at children, and has a lesson to play. Lesson being that selfpreservation whatever the cost and siding with those who are like you and oely with them leads to bad things, leads to war and genocide and death. It’s not that beign cunning and ambitious is bad. It is that tha narrative exploits what happens when Ambitius and Cunning people are put together with “those who use whateer means to achieve their obectives” and are seduced by a ideology that caters to their views.

hanzomccree:

1: are there any fics that you wanted to leave multiple kudos for, and were disappointed when you could only leave one?

2: coffeeshop AU or soulmate AU?

3: slowburn or established relationship?

4: has a fic ever made you cry?

5: what category of fics do you read the most? (angst, fluff, etc)

6: what’s your least favourite fanfic category?

7: would you rather read a plot-focused fic or pwp?

9: what are your favourite ships to read fics for?

10: have/would you read a reader-insert fic?

11: ever read guilty pleasure fics?

12: first-person or third person fics?

13: do you read author’s notes usually?

14: what’s your favourite AU setting?

15: do you usually leave comments on chapters/fics?

16: fix-it fics or au fics?

17: canon-compliant or canon, what canon?

18: have you ever read fics you would not confess to reading?

19: undercover au or college au?

20: what something that immediately makes you exit out of a fic?