Voyager
8d ago
I though the implication was that this was due to the influence of Voldemort's soul in him. For example, he was randomly feeling hate towards Dumbledore.
Voyager
9d ago
while the treaty of Westphalia may have concluded the Thirty Years' War, it neither prevented the increasingly large-scale wars that followed across Europe, nor did it keep the Germanies out of them.
Wasn't it mostly cabinet wars, i.e. small-scale, limited-goal affairs that followed the Treaty of Westphalia? It was only 150 years later in the wake of the major social disturbances of the french revolution that wars got bigger again.
Voyager
9d ago
There's no male power fantasy in the flipped version of Twilight so it comes across as self indulgent even for fantasy. Unless you count Bella smelling so goshdarned good vampires want to eat her (I don't) or her inability to be impacted by magic (I guess)
The second half of Breaking Dawn is a sudden power fantasy, where Bella turns into a vampire and instead of the clumsy damsel-in-distress becomes strong, badass and good at everything, and her anti-magic grows from a curiosity into an awesome power that ends up saving the day by neutralizing the Volturi trump cards.
Voyager
9d ago
the meme seems to have a rightist valence to the extent that it has any political valence at all
I think that's mostly due to the term "Malfoid" itself, because "foid" is a term only used by chuds and considered a sexist slur by the left.
I've seen it suggested that the term is deliberate gate-keeping, to prevent wokeness from taking over the trend.
Voyager
12d ago
Cinderella marrying the prince is the resolution to the story. Harry learning he's a wizard is the setup to the story. After Cinderella marries the prince, they live happily ever after. After Harry goes to Hogwarts, his real story only starts. Although many things in his life are looking up, he encounters many new problems to deal with and things to learn. As magical as Hogwarts is, it's full of bullies, hard schoolwork, and dangerous dark wizards. Yes, as a wizard he's something more than a muggle, but he needs to learn how to wizard first. He can't just collect his destiny, his gift is just a talent he needs to cultivate.
And as his abilities grow, so do his challenges, because his new antagonists are also wizards.
„But for heaven’s sake — you’re wizards! You can do magic! Surely you can sort out — well — anything!”
Scrimgeour turned slowly on the spot and exchanged an incredulous look with Fudge, who really did manage a smile this time as he said kindly, “The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister."
The child will grow up regardless of whether or not the toys are fun, and any child toy company will have to sell to the next generation, and the more fun their toys were, the more likely parents who used to play with them are to get them for their own children. That means the company has a market incentive to make their toys fun.
The problem with dating apps is that a bad quality product (matchmaking that doesn't stick) specifically leads to repeat customers and good quality matchmaking does not.
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