Today Is The Anniversary Of The Chornobyl Disaster And I Have Found This Short, But Insightful Article

Since being angry about Severance seems to have turned me from a lurker into a poster, here, have a very cursed HP theory*.

Slughorn has tried to create a horcrux - and failed miserably at that. The idea is that Slughorn is "deeply ashamed" because he taught metaphorical Hitler how to create metaphorical nukes, but it doesn't work. By the time Voldemort asked Slughorn about horcruxes, he had already done all possible research and was clearly intending to do some soul-splinching. So a much closer analogy would be a Hitler asking a scientist: "Look, I'm definitely gonna nuke one city, do you think I would be able to nuke one more after that?"

And Slughorn's reaction was more or less "Dude, what the fuck". And then the infinitely charming little orphan Voldemort managed to convince Slughorn that his interest was exclusively theoretical.

So why the hell is Slughorn "deeply ashsamed", then? Ginny Weasley has done worse when compelled by Voldemort, but she seems to be able to shake it off.

So, my guess would be that Slughorn (who is an incredibly vain and self-serving character**) has tried to create a horcrux for himself. Maybe out of the stupid hourglass we see in the movie. But something didn't work. Slughorn is a potion master, so I suppose he would try to incapacitate his potential victim first. And then he either miscalculated the potion proportions or chickened out in the last moment. Third, much sinister option - he did manage to kill somebody but didn't have enough magical prowess to actually create a horcux. Now, that's something to be ashamed and shady about.

The potential horcrux:

*this should go without saying, but I do not support jk's horrible transphobic beliefs.

**this is not a criticism against the character or the actor, I actually love Broadbent in this role, he is one of the two good things about the sixth movie.

Had to review a few essays several months ago. Some of them were clearly written by chat gpt, using words and phrases waaay above the students' levels.

We spent a whole lesson trying to make sense of those overcomplicated sentences later. The best grade (as well as my heart) went to the student who sincerely wrote, "I confess, I still use facebook because I want to see how ugly my classmates have become!"

"you shouldnt use ai for schoolwork because its not actually helpful" this is true "and anyways if you cant even write a 600 word essay then you're stupid and an idiot" well now i think we've gone too far in the wrong direction.

every time I try to find something about The Boys (aka Supernatural season 16), tumblr does this:

feels like it's saying "are you sure you want that drama again? go back to your comfort zone with queer vampires"

It is totally unintentional, but a sad implication that Suzanne Collins established is that Haymitch was never too present, nor cared a lot about the other tributes. The tributes he mentored before Katniss and Peeta, so wholly unconnected to his personhood, who didn't remind him at all about the people he cared for, didn't get the Haymitch we see in the og trilogy. The implication, in the end, is that they get a mentor who's constantly drunk blubbering about his 16 year old dead girlfriend.

Maybe that's why I can never forgive Suzanne Collins when it comes to the retconning of his characterisation. The narrative gives him no chance but to love Katniss and Peeta, but the fact that virtually all of his problems lead to Lenore Dove and not to the kids he had to see die... not only does it take so much of his depth, but tells you that the other kids never had a chance in the first place. Haymitch losing hope on getting his tributes home year by year is one thing, but never having cared in the first place makes his character so one dimensional, and takes away so much about the importance of every tribute despite their loss in the Games.

yep, how about trying to have a normal working week (from home or from the office) while getting like 8 hours of electricity per day (4 of them during the night, btw). also, keep in mind that water supply in some buildings depends on electricity as well, and modern apartment complexes don't have gas, so heating and cooking become a huge problem.

and all of that while being under constant barrage of rockets and shahed drones, the average Ukrainian experience :)

if I see another "how i survived the worst power outage in Europe", I will throw hands

Sumy, Ukraine right now after russian strike 💔

Rashists hit Kryvyi Rih

«14 dead as of now, including 6 children, according to updated data,» — Minister of Internal Affairs.

Over 50 people injured, this number is growing - they continue to seek medical help.

Deliberate attack on the center of a residential area. Terror in its purest form.

People in the yard were burning alive in their cars.

TW: photos of victims of the russian attack.

What gets me is the implication that none of the previous children on their way to die never reminded Haymitch of the people he used to know strongly enough to care about them.

Like, was he waiting for a specific combination of features?

"This kid is from the Seam, she's got pigtails but no pin, whoops, gonna go do shots with Chaff, then!"

It is totally unintentional, but a sad implication that Suzanne Collins established is that Haymitch was never too present, nor cared a lot about the other tributes. The tributes he mentored before Katniss and Peeta, so wholly unconnected to his personhood, who didn't remind him at all about the people he cared for, didn't get the Haymitch we see in the og trilogy. The implication, in the end, is that they get a mentor who's constantly drunk blubbering about his 16 year old dead girlfriend.

Maybe that's why I can never forgive Suzanne Collins when it comes to the retconning of his characterisation. The narrative gives him no chance but to love Katniss and Peeta, but the fact that virtually all of his problems lead to Lenore Dove and not to the kids he had to see die... not only does it take so much of his depth, but tells you that the other kids never had a chance in the first place. Haymitch losing hope on getting his tributes home year by year is one thing, but never having cared in the first place makes his character so one dimensional, and takes away so much about the importance of every tribute despite their loss in the Games.

fucking seriously???

I've been genuinely worried for this woman, and now you're telling me that she's a tolstoevsky lover?

urgh

and yes, I have a right to be angry about this, I was watching this episode while listening to the russian drones being shot down near my home