Yesterday, I Was At Pride With A Friend, When We Noticed A Homophobic Street Preacher. This Preacher

How can I engage with other human beings as full human beings?

y'all want Trump to say ‘Deez Nuts’ I want him to say ‘I withdraw from the Presidential Race.’

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GUESS WHAT

Ace people are queer!!!! And in the community!!!! And VALID PEOPLE

Get out.

Wow, are you okay?

well. Colour me impressed. Mother dearest just got so mad, she left. Like, went outside, got in her car and drove off.

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This is by no means an original take, and I probably did not spend as much time as I should have editing the writing into being a coherent take, but:

In an awful lot of movies, Steve Rogers would have been right.

(Or, well, treated-as-right by the narrative, at least; in some of those movies many, many people would have died for his idealism, but this wouldn’t have been treated as wrong.)

When faced with this sort of explicit trolley problem, there are two main messages in pop culture: either you should never pull the level (you might kill a named character) or you should find a way to save everyone. For instance, take The Last Jedi: the narrative treats it as correct that Rose stopped Finn from sacrificing his life, not because his plan wouldn’t have worked, but more-or-less because we don’t trade lives. (Other examples: every fucking YA novel ever. ‘You can choose between your significant other... or saving the world.’ ‘Bye, world.’)

(She is absolutely trading lives, just not in the direction that, you know, saves people.)

(This is not to say that characters never trade off lives! The really obvious example here is that most movies are totally fine with killing the villain to protect innocents, although I’m pretty sure the message is generally closer to “the lives of villains don’t matter” than “pull the lever.” Characters will also sometimes do things like choose which of multiple locations to go to, which is generally understood in their narratives to be trading off lives at least a little. But when there’s this sort of explicit setup, the correct answer as portrayed in the narrative is almost never “pull the lever.”)

Now, I actually can think of counterexamples -- Wrath of Khan is very clear that you should pull the lever, for instance, and since I brought up The Last Jedi earlier I might as well mention Holdo’s choice at the end. But in said counterexamples, the person making the choice is almost always choosing to kill themself, not another person, and they usually would have died anyway.

But when characters are faced with the explicit choice of killing someone, maybe multiple someones, or letting far more people die, the treated-as-correct choice is almost never to kill them. 

And I’m glad that we have a movie where that’s not the case.

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Pretentious Pureblood here oops

Muggle born slytherins who bring pens and notebooks to school and the purebloods are infinitely curious but wont ask. (Every descendant of the malfoys ask. Every single one of them)

Muggleborns using memes in every conversation with the purebloods because why not

they almost create two little groups, the muggleborns and the purebloods, until Scorpius decides to drop by and physically pushing the two groups together. (it was a hilarious sight, as the purebloods were physically resisting and the muggle borns just encircled the more pretentious ones in hugs that the purebloods were sure would give them some sort of muggle illness.) 

Eventually they form this huge group, muggleborns indistiguishable from the purebloods, and they have inside jokes and share those weird ‘pen’ things and even some of the purebloods take to using notebooks instead of parchment (if asked, they either ignore you or shrug and say that its convenient)

-Mod Cas who has feelings about Slytherin house and needs a Slytherin friend.