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A huge amount of the romantic pathologies besetting men and women are due to erotic pathologies.
Porn is devastating us.
We thought we could play a game of "ha ha, we're so superior and enlightened that we can freely indulge in civilization-destroying perversions with no bad consequences!"
We couldn't.
Extremely rare and valuable resources are being wasted. This action is precisely why the Sith always collapse in on themselves. The reason they kill these kids from the Sith perspective is out of fear of being supplanted.
A Sith can never act except from selfish desire and it always destroys them in the end.
Not only are these examples awful but Trinity didn’t train any more than your computer trained to run Microsoft office.
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Astrid had no prior skill vs Hiccup with dragons.
Linguini has no skill in cooking, and is aided by Remy, while Colette is always more talented then him.
In the Matrix, skills can be learnt instantly. Neo is not necessarily more skilled than Trinity in areas she is.
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FIRST DATE 💘🪄
Two people. Zero supervision.
Sometimes the best love stories begin with two people who really ought to know better.
Malfoid: A Brief History of Magical Indiscretions
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Americans are just really hard to slander due to a cultural trait: The ability to neutralize most insults by owning it
Most others adamantly take offense and always end up seething
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There is an important reason that the right never wins the culture war overall, despite the left being so poor at tactics that they often end up shooting their own feet.
That is the reality that logistics are more important than tactics, and tactics only matter once you have sorted logistics out.
The left has sorted logistics out by creating patronage networks, while the right refuses to do so because it's still controlled by a curious kind of boomer paleoliberal who thinks that "free market" means "everything should pay for itself".
Thus, both the cultural and political struggles of the right must be waged by broke young men as a side project to their careers, while fighting for the left is a career.
The young men fighting for the right are simply expected to purchase their own rifles, ammunition, uniforms and kit, provide their own transport to the front, then organize themselves into units to defeat the communists.
If you understand this, then you will understand why the retards manage to win a lot despite being retards.
The left is giving people 100K fellowships for writing lesbian novels, while the right is charging its own guys $200 to listen to some theoretical ramblings about the antichrist.
No, that's not a metaphor. I wish I had made either of those two facts up as some sort of hyperbole.
Only the left understands how to get and use political power.
The left understands that power is a form of currency. So if you want it, you have to buy it, with some other form of currency. Such as money.
The right thinks that political power is a side effect... something that you naturally accumulate while doing business.
Possibly this is because most wealthy right-wing people are investors. They start a project, or put money into it, and they expect to get their money back and then some. That's what they are used to.
That's how investment works.
But that's not how power works.
And if you have wealth, but no power, then the people with power will just take whatever you built.
I don't know exactly what the tech right, the business right, the wealthy right, should be spending on political power. But what they are spending is clearly not enough and in the wrong places.
Because George Soros sure as hell isn't selling people tickets to listen to him talk.
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Tf you mean Galadriel has to choose between HER HUSBAND and THE LORD OF EVIL
Shipping fan fic is what leads to this and it’s so shallow and tiresome
Things are about to get steamy in Middle-earth. With Jamie Campbell Bower making his debut as Celeborn in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” season three, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) will be forced to choose between her husband and Sauron (Charlie Vickers). bit.ly/4BrwlFP
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Remember that between seasons 5 and 6, Draconia becomes a Death Eater. She receives the Dark Mark. That's a big change.
Now of course she does this under duress/pressure. Season 6 is going to be the low point of their relationship, by far. I think it should lead to Sectumsempra, but even if you don't, something huge needs to happen in that scene.
ADayASMR in Lumos Lumos makes an entirely legitimate call by having Harry start Sectumsempra but but down his wand, only evading her increasingly badly aimed wild swings of her wand. He pulls her into his arms as she sobs desperately.
That has consequences, both pro and con. It means, as in ADayASMR's season 7, Draconia is fully on Harry's side the whole time. The pros: we get to see her do all the season 7 stuff with Harry, Ron, Hermione and all. The cons: If the Sectumsempra is the point of reconciliation, we don't get it here in season 7.
So we lose the Malfoy Manor scene (she's already turned on her parents). The Room of Requirement fire still happens, but she's on Harry's side, so him rescuing her is a given, not something that can have a big emotional impact on her. If SS happened, and she still thinks he hates her (even though she knows at this point she loves him), then his going back to rescue her hits much more weakly.
Her turn in the SS continuity takes place after Harry rescues her from the fire and she finally stops being tormented by the idea he hates her.
In the Malfoid AU we get three huge Draconia beats:
Peacock Petronus: after the Battle of Hogwarts begins, Draconia unleashes a mighty petronus to scatter and drive off most of the dementors.
"I love him more than I fear you.": Voldemort announces that Harry Potter is dead. He calls on the staff and students of Hogwarts to join him. Draconia is urged by her parents from his ranks, and is the first one to step forward. But she isn't joining him. After he said he had killed Harry, she is going to end him, or die trying.
They fight. She does surprising well, but he is the Dark Lord, so Voldemort is about to kill her, when ... Harry arrives, leading into
Two Hearts, One Wand: Harry and Voldemort fight. It is close but Voldemort has the advantage and is pushing Harry back step by step ... until Draconia join him, her hands on his, both gripping the wand, and ...
You know how it goes.
You still get some of that if you make the bathroom scene the reconciliation instead of the nadir, but I think it is diluted.
I like my Malfoid high grade.
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Fleur Delacour’s arrival at the Burrow in Half-Blood Prince is framed as a test of Weasley hospitality that the family largely fails. She has already chosen Bill over a return to France, accepted a job at Gringotts, and moved into her future in-laws’ home specifically “to get to know them better before the wedding.” Yet Ginny’s repeated nickname “Phlegm,”
Hermione’s participation in the mockery and Molly’s open skepticism about the engagement create precisely the reception the post describes “Imagine leaving your family,moving into your future in-laws’ home and getting that kind of reception.”
The books never show Fleur demanding deference,they show her enduring the dismissals while still preparing for a life in England,the turning point arrives only after Greyback’s attack,until that night, the Weasleys treat Fleur’s beauty and veela heritage as evidence that her feelings cannot be genuine.
Once she sees Bill’s scars and refuses to abandon him, Molly’s attitude shifts abruptly,as the original text notes, “Fleur Delacour had to watch Bill get mauled before the Weasleys finally understood that she genuinely loved him and that says a LOT about how they saw her.” The narrative itself withholds full acceptance until she has performed visible, public devotion under extreme circumstances an expectation never placed on any pure blood British fiancée in the series.
By Deathly Hallows, Fleur’s practical loyalty is already established long before the wedding.
She participates in the Seven Potters operation, opens Shell Cottage to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ollivander, and Griphook, and later fights at Hogwarts,none of these actions were required of a French national married into the Order,she could have remained outside the conflict. The post correctly observes that “She wasn’t British and she could’ve stayed out of the war.
She chose to help anyway,” and that “Fleur showed more loyalty to the Weasleys than some of them showed her respect.” The books reward her with survival and a stable marriage, yet they never fully revise the earlier, beautybased underestimation that made those proofs necessary in the first place.
Does anyone else think Fleur Delacour was treated ridiculously unfairly?
The more I reread the books, the more I feel like Fleur deserved so much better from the Weasleys, especially Molly and Ginny. I mean, think about it. She fell in love with Bill, chose to build a life with him in England and was even staying with his family to get to know them better before the wedding. That's a pretty big deal. And instead of making her feel welcome, Ginny calls her Phlegm, Hermione joins in on the mockery, and Molly doesn't seem particularly happy about the engagement either. Imagine leaving your family, moving into your future in-laws' home and getting that kind of reception lol.
Fleur Delacour had to watch Bill get mauled before the Weasleys finally understood that she genuinely loved him. And that says a LOT about how they saw her.
She was a Triwizard champion, worked at Gringotts, helped shelter Harry and his friends during the war, risked her life in the Seven Potters operation, and fought at Hogwarts.
She wasn’t British, and she could’ve stayed out of the war. She chose to help anyway.
Fleur didn’t need to prove her love. The Weasleys needed to stop underestimating her.
I'm not saying Fleur was perfect. She could be rude, judgemental and pretty full of herself at times. But I definately think she was one of the bravest and mlost loyal characters in the series, and people spent way too much time judging her for being beautiful, French and a little annoying to notice it.
Honestly, I think Fleur showed more loyalty to the Weasleys than some of them showed her respect. Anyone else feel this way?
It’s an often made point but Avada Kedavra was a very poor edition to the series that flattened a lot of creativity in the spell casting.
It’s especially silly when, if all it does is kill someone, something like Sectum Sempra is objectively worse.
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"you know what i'd really like?"
"tell me"
"a campaign"
"...we can do a campaign"
"a real campaign, no west marches, no morally gray villain bullshit"
"i'll make you a very good traditional campaign. traveling through the forest, kill a dragon, get loot and everything"
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“You know what I’d really like?”
“Tell me.”
“A Spider-Man comic.”
“We can do a Spider-Man comic.”
“A real Spider-Man comic. No multiverse-spanning, editorial mandate, torture-porn bullshit. A real Spider-Man comic.”
“I’ll make you a very good, very traditional Spider-Man comic. I don’t think you can imagine how good it’s going to be.”
