i like when wikipedia pages for bands have that little chart at the bottom where you can see how they’ve been ritualistically cannibalizing their drummer every 3-5 years since 2007
Now that I’m on a roll with starting shit, it just occurred to me how fucking weird it was how much J.K.Rowling’s books associated having ambition with being evil. Not just that power corrupts, but the desire to gain power is automatically a path towards becoming a villain. It wasn’t even depicted as “people who want to have the power to hurt other people are easily lured towards fascism which promises them the power to hurt other people”, but as if it’s a natural flaw of the human soul that if one gains a fraction of power and control, they will be immediately swept up by the irresistible siren song of racism and give in to the urge to begin building an even more racist and segregated society, instead of merely being content with living in a society that is already sufficiently oppressive and inequal for one’s own convenience and comfort.
I really don’t think that suddenly becoming insanely rich made her evil. Dumbo never needed the magic feather to have the power to fly. It was within him all along.
yeah joanne has ALWAYS shown some weird politics in her series, she’s a steadfast thatcher-aligned liberal through and through and the worst thing you can possibly do in the HP universe in try to change the status quo
I find it so strange that someone with such a clear hatred of nazism fell right into it’s trap. The whole series is a metaphor for it. It’s like she’s never read what she wrote.
i think joanne has fallen into a very juvenile thinking of morality, one that the entire moral compass of her series is also hinged on
she doesn’t think that being a good person requires good actions. instead, a good person’s actions will automatically be good because THEY are good, and why would a good person do bad things? and she sees herself as a good person. why shouldn’t she? if she was a bad person, don’t you think she would’ve noticed? (‘i’m not addicted, i’ve drunk alcohol every day for the past decade, i THINK i would know if i was addicted’)
and in the HP universe, people like the malfoys owning slaves is a bad thing. of course it is, they’re bad people! but hogwarts owning slaves to cook their every meal? meh, they LIKE being owned. besides, hogwarts is good! why would the good guys do something BAD? lol idiot
this is why her tirade against The Transgenders will NEVER register as a bad thing. she is a good person, and thus doing good things. in her mind, why should this not be true? i’m the GOOD GUY here, i would NEVER do anything bad, so advocating for the social genocide of an increasingly oppressed minority simply cannot be a bad action
I know it’s 2025 but I nonetheless felt the compulsion to make this:
“Every time I show the film – whether it’s to film students at USC or UCLA or I’m going to a festival – that’s always the first question: How did Kermit ride the bicycle? And my stock answer is: I put him on a three-wheeler until he got his balance, and then I put him on the two-wheeler.”
claptrap giving a comically long explanation of how to blow up the door without him standing in front of it giving you no choice but to blow the door up with him standing in front of it
the bullymongs changing names in real time as hammerlock brainstorms
the fake objectives for unlocking the shared-between-playthroughs storage space literally showing up on your hud
the ‘perform surgery’ button prompt
blowing up that one annoying guy’s house with a cannon and then being told “okay now here’s the actual target”
the quest where jack pays you to kill yourself
doing fetch quests for the obviously dead townspeople of oasis
the presuptive final boss of big game hunt falling down the stairs and dying instantly
the world in dragon keep visibly transforming around you as tina backtracks on her narration
the astute obnsever will notice that literally all of these utilize the medium instead of just being delivered to you through the game’s abysmal dialogue
