I’m Studying Japanese, And This Is Way More Complicated Than Just Sticking Three Sets Of Characters

1. Giving examples of oppression is not trying to control someone unless you’re using a very strange definition of “control.”

2. Could you either explain how “giving examples of oppression” is “controlling women” at all, or give an example of feminists actually trying to control women?

3. Using the term “vagina vessels” as a synonym for women is cissexist.

4. In my experience, which is admittedly very much anecdotal evidence, feminists have never tried to control my actions. Sexist people, on the other hand, have.

I've never seen anyone try to control women like a group of feminists

“Why are we listening to badger screams?”

“I’m ROLEPLAYING”

When you’re ten years old, a Hogwarts professor comes to teach you how to cast a Patronus. People were worried at first -- they said ten was too young. You can’t even go to Hogwarts. But the grass around your house could be dangerous, and besides, the consequences for mistakes aren’t that bad.

Your natural Patronus is your starting Pokèmon. A lot of people have Rattata Patroni, but not all. Those with more uncommon Patroni get special attention from the Professors. Some of them are given a special spellbook they call a Pokèdex and told to find as many different Patroni as they can.

Patroni want nothing more than to protect their casters from harm. To do that, they practice against other Patroni. This is called a battle. The winning Patronus becomes stronger and better able to protect its caster.

Besides the Patroni of known casters, there are others that wander Great Britain. No one knows quite where they come from. Some say they are the Patroni of people killed in the Battle of Hogwarts. Others say they formed spontaneously from happy memories. Regardless, they roam the lands. Some casters tame them with spells -- a burst of red light, and then they will serve you loyally.

A few Patroni of immense power roam Great Britain as well. They are said to have belonged to tremendously powerful wizards. Over time, they come to be known as “legendary.”

Godric Gryffindor’s is known as Articuno. Only the bravest dare to venture to its frozen home. Ho-oh, guardian of the skies, is mastered by Helga Hufflepuff, protecting Hogwarts with the help of a Patronus. Salazar Slytherin’s is referred to as Rayquaza. It knows how to manipulate others to get its way. Rowena Ravenclaw’s is named Giratina. Its alternate dimension fascinated her, and even today the brightest students of her house are encouraged to seek out and learn from Giratina. Merlin, as a valuer of ideals, cast a Patronus known as Zekrom.

There were others, of course. For centuries, there had been thirty others. But then, shortly after the Battle of Hogwarts, a new legendary Pokèmon appeared out of the remains of Lord Voldemort.

Its name was Yveltal.

Pokemon, but with patronuses

I… have no idea how this would work I’m sorry. Anyone want to reblog this with their thoughts?

Get out.

So there’s this community called the rationalist community, which is an outgrowth of the rationalist movement. Common traits of rationalists include watch as all the rationalists I know come yell at me :

Thinking Eliezer Yudowsky is the greatest person ever

Liking this one specific Harry Potter fanfic (Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is incidentally very good)

Being very concerned that AIs are going to destroy the world

Thinking/worrying a lot about epistemology

Being preference utilitarians

Not liking religions that believe in a god or gods

Using Bayesian statistics

Being autistic

Doing things that are very cult-like while talking about how much they are Not A Cult

this is a totally unfair characterization but will probably work to a first approximation

(To be clear, I am not saying that specific traits on this list are good or bad.)

Rationalist Tumblr is the rationalist community, but specifically on Tumblr. 

this is a ridiculous question but I wasn’t able to get a clear answer by Googling

…what is rationalist Tumblr? 

AU where Dumbledore’s Army uses the Chamber of Secrets instead of the Room of Requirement

Ultimate security as Harry is the only one capable of opening it. 

Myrtle proudly spending her time acting as a guard/lookout. 

Later, Harry diligently teaching Ron, Hermione, and a few choice others, like Neville, how to mimic parseltongue so that they can open it too. 

Muggleborns experiencing vicious satisfaction that they’re using this chamber as a place of education and defense, reclaiming the very space Slytherin built to rid the school of their presence. 

Hermione methodically dismantling the basilisk’s corpse, covertly selling the priceless ingredients to potion masters, using the funds to continue their work - buying books and battle robes and new wands for those who can’t afford it. 

(Hermione saving a portion of those ingredients for her own research, straightening in triumph when she learns what basilisk venom does to horcruxes, knowing she has vials of it hidden up in her room). 

Harry reverently adding the Chamber of Secrets to the Marauder’s Map, proudly continuing his family’s work and reveling in the difference they’re making. 

These students - these kids - choosing to train in a dark, horrifying place that was never meant for them. Learning spells amongst shadows, growing stronger in inches of murky water, the smell of a decomposing corpse in their noses, memories of all that had happened here haunting them. They know this is what war is really like and it helps to push them forward.  

GOP: We must follow the Constitution THE THE LETTER ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE THE FOUNDING FATHERS!

Me: Oh, okay. Glad you mentioned that. See, here's this thing in the Constitution where it says that the president shall appoint Supreme Court Justices, and now that there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court, President Obama's Constitutional duty is to appoint a new justice.

GOP: But Obama is in his last year of office!

Me: You mean like Ronald Reagan was when he nominated Anthony Kennedy?

GOP: But

Me: Yeah, go ahead and say something critical of Ronald Reagan.

GOP: Well. He. It. See. Ronald Rrrrreee...

Me: I'll wait. Take your time.

GOP: RrRrrrOoooonnnnaLllddddddd.......

Me: Are you okay?

GOP: Rrrrrreeeaaagggg gggg gggg gggg ggbbzzt bzzt bzzzzzt

Me: Are ... are you having a system freeze?

GOP: (a)bort, (r)etry, (f)ail?

Me: Let's go with fail. That's what you're best at.

As a history student, the most ridiculous thing that tumblr social justice warriors ever made up is “cultural appropriation”. If you only had mild historical knowledge of any cultural exchange that took place before colonialism (the ultimate times of evil oppression besides the third Reich) you’d realize that what you consider your culture is probably just a mashup out of thousands ancient cultural aspects from many different cultures. “Culture” itself is an umbrella term for basically anything that might be associated with a certain group of people - and it is both fluid and highly subjective. Your political system has been culturally appropriated from somewhere once, and so has your educational system, your economical system, your religion and your language. If you want to get mad about cultural appropriation, how about you start with those monumental cultural appropriations before complaining about white girls wearing dreads?

“Cis and straight people can do as much propaganda as they want about cisness and heterosexuality, but as soon as we try to give the choice to children, they call it ‘brainwashing’.”

This is a remarkably effective tactic for gaining access to someone’s account for any website that uses security questions, to the point that actual hackers will use guessing them as a tactic for gaining access to people’s accounts.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/09/03/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-hack-someones-icloud-with-their-security-questions/)

funny story

when I was little, I would go on Nickelodeon.com all the time and they had this game similar to club penguin except it was called Nicktropolis. and if you forgot your password, a security question you could choose was “what is your eye color?” and if you got it right it’d tell you your password. so I would go to popular locations in Nicktropolis and write down random usernames who were also in those areas, and then i would log out and type in the username as if it were my own and see which of these usernames had a security question set to “what is your eye color?” (which was most of them, since it was easy and we were all kids). i would then try either brown, blue, or green, and always get in, then I would go to their house and send all of their furniture and decorations to my own account’s. and if it I didn’t want it, i could sell it for money