I’m with you on the fanfic thing. Honestly, I think one of the best ones I’ve heard (unfortunately, can’t find the fic at the moment) imagined adult Scorpius as a badass bisexual rock musician who had dated both Rose and Albus in the past. Wish I could remember what it was called….

Is that an actual line? Yeesh. Makes me wonder why Scorpius is a fan favorite, if he says things like that.

I haven’t even finished the plot summary yet and I’ve already said “What” five times. Merlin, this is even more ridiculous than the spoilers on Tumblr made it out to be.

How Leto can put so much effort into method acting for a character he clearly doesn’t understand is beyond me.

I know a good number of cops who would ask what you were doing first, and chuckle and move on when they learned you were playing Pokemon Go. The vast majority of police officers are not racist psychopaths. They do exist, but they are not the majority.

Well, aren’t you a charming human being.

Again with the mockery. Look, creationists don’t embrace their way of thinking because they’re all of uniformly low intelligence; in my case, my parents equated evolution with atheism and atheism with a lack of morality, and a lack of morality with a rejection by God. In other words, I was taught that if I embraced…

Then you’re no better than the people you mock.

1) Because that’s childish.

As a former creationist, let me say that open mockery of their beliefs isn’t going to help them see the logic in evolution. It’s only going to make them dig in their heels and cling even more desperately to what they see as true. It wasn’t mockery that helped me let go, and it wasn’t documentaries on evidence for…

I would love to see something like that. Or even something a little more slice-of-life. Something that shows the wizarding world picking up the pieces. Or—wait, why not write a story set seven years after the war, about the first class of first years who won’t have classmates who saw the war up-close and personal?…

Nothing, but why isn’t she giving the fans what they’ve wanted for years—namely, a prequel series about James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter? I can’t think of a single Potterfan that doesn’t want that, and the fact she’s given us Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts without even hinting that a Marauders prequel is in the…

And it’s aaaallllll because of a sex scandal back in Ye Olden Days. That’s not insulting at ALL.

After giving the article a reread, I’m kind of liking Harry/Table, too. ;)

On the one hand, I get it. Giving Harry a stable nuclear family to contrast the radioactive one he grew up with is a nice way to bring his story full circle and show that healing has begun. On the other hand, what about the chance that Harry would feel uncomfortable with the idea of a traditional family, since that’s…

I would love it if more abused YA protagonists ended their stories with found families, instead of reinforcing the idea that healing can only happen when you’re integrated into an existing nuclear family.

The word “dreck” could be applied to nearly anything, depending on who’s using it. Prefer hard sci-fi? Fantasy comics are now dreck. Like superheroes? Space operas are dreck. Like slice-of-life? Ta-da! Any comic containing any hint of the fantastical is now dreck.

My family moved a lot when I was a kid, and so I’ve gotten to live in or pass through most of the lower 48. And I can say honestly that every state has some beauty to it; what you think is prettiest really comes down to what you prefer. Forests? Try the Pacific Northwest. Plains and snowcapped mountains? You can’t…

There’s also the chance that more kids in Harry’s year than usual were homeschooled, or that they were sent to other schools elsewhere in Europe. For one, it’s mentioned in DH that Voldemort’s regime outlaws homeschooling, implying that it was a big enough trend to draw his attention. For another, Draco mentions that…

Great. Now I have high hopes they'll actually make Stormpilot canon, when I know those hopes will be dashed.