Sumy, Ukraine Right Now After Russian Strike 💔

every time I try to find something about The Boys (aka Supernatural season 16), tumblr does this:

feels like it's saying "are you sure you want that drama again? go back to your comfort zone with queer vampires"

Since being angry about Severance seems to have turned me from a lurker into a poster, here, have a very cursed HP theory*.

Slughorn has tried to create a horcrux - and failed miserably at that. The idea is that Slughorn is "deeply ashamed" because he taught metaphorical Hitler how to create metaphorical nukes, but it doesn't work. By the time Voldemort asked Slughorn about horcruxes, he had already done all possible research and was clearly intending to do some soul-splinching. So a much closer analogy would be a Hitler asking a scientist: "Look, I'm definitely gonna nuke one city, do you think I would be able to nuke one more after that?"

And Slughorn's reaction was more or less "Dude, what the fuck". And then the infinitely charming little orphan Voldemort managed to convince Slughorn that his interest was exclusively theoretical.

So why the hell is Slughorn "deeply ashsamed", then? Ginny Weasley has done worse when compelled by Voldemort, but she seems to be able to shake it off.

So, my guess would be that Slughorn (who is an incredibly vain and self-serving character**) has tried to create a horcrux for himself. Maybe out of the stupid hourglass we see in the movie. But something didn't work. Slughorn is a potion master, so I suppose he would try to incapacitate his potential victim first. And then he either miscalculated the potion proportions or chickened out in the last moment. Third, much sinister option - he did manage to kill somebody but didn't have enough magical prowess to actually create a horcux. Now, that's something to be ashamed and shady about.

The potential horcrux:

*this should go without saying, but I do not support jk's horrible transphobic beliefs.

**this is not a criticism against the character or the actor, I actually love Broadbent in this role, he is one of the two good things about the sixth movie.

It is totally unintentional, but a sad implication that Suzanne Collins established is that Haymitch was never too present, nor cared a lot about the other tributes. The tributes he mentored before Katniss and Peeta, so wholly unconnected to his personhood, who didn't remind him at all about the people he cared for, didn't get the Haymitch we see in the og trilogy. The implication, in the end, is that they get a mentor who's constantly drunk blubbering about his 16 year old dead girlfriend.

Maybe that's why I can never forgive Suzanne Collins when it comes to the retconning of his characterisation. The narrative gives him no chance but to love Katniss and Peeta, but the fact that virtually all of his problems lead to Lenore Dove and not to the kids he had to see die... not only does it take so much of his depth, but tells you that the other kids never had a chance in the first place. Haymitch losing hope on getting his tributes home year by year is one thing, but never having cared in the first place makes his character so one dimensional, and takes away so much about the importance of every tribute despite their loss in the Games.

so, in case anyone is curious about the whole "Easter Ceasefire" thing putin promised...

yep, that's an app that notifies us about air alarms. 21:52 means 9:52 pm for those who use am / pm system, weeell after 6 pm.

oops, that's some rocket danger!

fucking seriously???

I've been genuinely worried for this woman, and now you're telling me that she's a tolstoevsky lover?

urgh

and yes, I have a right to be angry about this, I was watching this episode while listening to the russian drones being shot down near my home

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

The way Haymitch constantly had to reassure us that he "only liked Maysilee as a sister" was kinda annoying. Can you tell Suzanne doesn't want them to be shipped together?

Isttfg, it's like when Nina Dobrev left The Vampire Diaries, and Bonnie and Damon had to refer to each other as "my best friend" every fucking time they shared a frame.

sooooo

A few days ago, I put on a video of a girl watching Anora as a background. I'm Ukrainian, so watching the movie itself is not an option; too much exposure to the russian culture makes me wanna explode à la Soldier Boy.

And the only point that made the reviewer pause and talk for several minutes?

It wasn't the stereotypical "a girl from Eastern Europe is a stripper / an escort / a mail-order bride". It wasn't the way the russian oligarch-junior treated the main character. It wasn't the scene in which russian oligarch-senior's goons completely destroyed someone's small business.

Nope.

The watch-along girl was indignant because the main character used a slur while arguing with the goons. You know, the people who called her a whore, attacked her and tied her up.

Now, I'm usually the annoying woke friend who would tell you to avoid using people's nationality or sexual orientation as a means to offend them. But if the person in question is attacking you - you don't fucking owe them anything. You have no obligation to be polite or respectful towards a guy who tries to tie you up or a guy who calls a slur based on your profession.

I'm starting to understand how Mr "Why aren't you wearing a suit?" got elected though...

I have a lot of complaints about THG, even more about SOTR. But I really, really appreciate Suzanne Collins making orange the colour of the revolution.

What gets me is the implication that none of the previous children on their way to die never reminded Haymitch of the people he used to know strongly enough to care about them.

Like, was he waiting for a specific combination of features?

"This kid is from the Seam, she's got pigtails but no pin, whoops, gonna go do shots with Chaff, then!"

It is totally unintentional, but a sad implication that Suzanne Collins established is that Haymitch was never too present, nor cared a lot about the other tributes. The tributes he mentored before Katniss and Peeta, so wholly unconnected to his personhood, who didn't remind him at all about the people he cared for, didn't get the Haymitch we see in the og trilogy. The implication, in the end, is that they get a mentor who's constantly drunk blubbering about his 16 year old dead girlfriend.

Maybe that's why I can never forgive Suzanne Collins when it comes to the retconning of his characterisation. The narrative gives him no chance but to love Katniss and Peeta, but the fact that virtually all of his problems lead to Lenore Dove and not to the kids he had to see die... not only does it take so much of his depth, but tells you that the other kids never had a chance in the first place. Haymitch losing hope on getting his tributes home year by year is one thing, but never having cared in the first place makes his character so one dimensional, and takes away so much about the importance of every tribute despite their loss in the Games.