man: has anyone ever told you you’re beautiful?
me: oh no sir, today is my first day out of doors and papà forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity
I’ve been laughing at this on and off for two straight days
the straight up funniest thing i know is when people go “harry’s a dumbass and never noticed anything because he thought snape was evil in PS!!!” like so did you bitch…… finding out it was quirrell is literally a plot twist you fucking moron
The plot twists in Harry Potter are, for the most part, very Good Plot Twists.
A bad plot twist does one of two things. One, it comes totally out of left field, and makes much of what went before complete nonsense. Or two, it’s telegraphed way in advance and you totally see it coming.
A good plot twist is highly unexpected–or at least, unexpected if you aren’t genre-savvy and trying to predict plot twists–but once you know it, the entire narrative is viewed in a different light.
Philosopher’s Stone is an entirely different book when you read it knowing that Quirrell, not Snape, is Voldemort’s minion. It’s even more different when you reread it understanding the complexities of why Snape hates Harry but protects him anyway, or why Dumbledore won’t tell Harry the whole truth yet.
Chamber of Secrets is an entirely different book when you read it knowing who the Heir of Slytherin is. You thought it might, somehow, be Harry, too, the first time you read it. AND the whole thing takes on yet ANOTHER layer of meaning after the end of the series, knowing that Harry was also a Horcrux.
Prisoner of Azkaban is an entirely different book when you read it knowing that Sirius was framed. And yet again, when you reread it knowing the history of the Marauders–and especially if you reread it in light of all the fan-lore about the Marauders, if that’s your bag–it takes on a different character again.
Goblet of Fire is an entirely different book when you read it knowing about Barty Crouch Jr. You felt sorry for that boy in the pensive too!
Order of the Phoenix is a different book when you read it knowing what Voldemort wanted in the Department of Mysteries, and how he meant to get it.
Half-Blood Prince is a slightly different book when you read it knowing that, holy s***, Harry “0 for 5 on spotting the bad guy” Potter is actually right about Draco Malfoy being a death eater, but it’s vastly different when you read the Horcrux lesson and Harry and Dumbledore’s relationship in light of the Deathly Hallows. Snape’s departure at the end of Half-Blood Prince is an entirely different scene when you read it after having read The Prince’s Tale.
The reason people think that Harry was a dumb-a** for falling for all of this stuff is that you can only read that first book–the one you read without knowing the twist–one time. These twists are beautifully, wonderfully set up, so when you read them the second time (or the third, or the twenty-fifth), you absolutely see them coming, you see all the signs, you can’t imagine how anyone (for example, your past self) could have possibly missed it. But they are twists. You might see them coming if you’re genre-savvy, but you certainly wouldn’t see them coming if you were a person living the events.
adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive
Will Poulter left Twitter because people were calling him ‘ugly’ after he appeared in ‘Bandersnatch’.
This man, who is an actual gem, is anti-bullying, the ambassador of an anti-bullying organisation, critiques whitewashing, critiques the media for not calling white shooters “terrorists”, volunteers for charities, and is genuinely a nice human being.
And all people can think of saying is “eww he’s ugly”? “he looks like that ugly kid from toy story” (which, by the way, he dressed up as Sid from Toy Story for Halloween one year, so he knows the joke and decided to dress up while also raising awareness for bullying with it), “he’s an ugly white boy”.
Will deserves so much better than that. The man isn’t even ugly, but even if he was there’s so much worse things to be.
