I Still Think Everyone Is Too Harsh On JK Rowling, And They Don’t Give Her Enough Credit.

I still think everyone is too harsh on JK Rowling, and they don’t give her enough credit.

This is the woman who has created so many brilliant characters, but especially female characters.

JK Rowling gave us Ginny Weasley, who taught us to stand for what we believe in, never give up, and how to be strong while also witty.

JK Rowling gave us Minerva McGonagall, perhaps the most badass teacher Hogwarts has ever had; Minerva who didn’t put up with any shit even from her own colleagues, who was fair and took away house points from her own house when appropriate, who told Peeves how to unscrew a chandelier to annoy Umbridge.

JK Rowling gave us Molly Weasley, who showed us that women can wives and mothers whilst still remaining valid and strong. She showed us that a mother’s love is unconditional, extending to children who were friends with her kids, who destroyed a witch for threatening her family: “not my daughter, you bitch”.

JK Rowling gave us Nymphadora Tonks, an auror who had a sense of humor, was clumsy but endearing, and who loved a man who didn’t think he could be loved. She too showed the strength a wife and mother could have, sacrificing herself so her son could live in a better world.

JK Rowling gave us Luna Lovegood, who is unapologetic about who she is; she’s quirky and strange, and that’s what makes her so wonderful. She has strong beliefs and loves her friends dearly, remaining positive even when people snicker about her behind her back.

JK Rowling gave us Queenie Goldstein, a beautiful blonde witch living in 1920s America who is witty and far more than her looks; despite hearing everyone’s thoughts - good and bad - she remains so bubbly and cheerful most of the time. She falls in love with someone she shouldn’t, and she does some drastic misguided things because of how much she loves him - even if it’s illegal for them to be in love, she knows it’s not wrong and will prove it.

JK Rowling gave us Lily Evans-Potter, who was strong who was stubborn, who stood up for her friend when he was being bullied, who sacrificed herself intentionally so that her son - her baby son, innocent and unaware - could live. It’s her love that saves him from death so many times, teaching us that we should never underestimate a mother’s love for their child.

JK Rowling gave us Leta Lestrange, who was haunted by her past and her family name, who grew up knowing she was unloved and unwanted, knowing that she killed her mother just by being born. And yet she managed to become a friend to a young boy who needed it, and she fell in love with someone who adored her. She showed that you can’t judge someone by their name, that she was brave, strong, and even died to help the ones she loved escape.

JK Rowling gave us Fleur Delacour, who at first seems vain and rude - but who loves her fiancée-later-husband and stands by his side when he’s attacked. She loves her little sister and would do anything for her, would be lost if anything happened to her. She moves to a foreign country away from her family because of her love for someone, even when that person’s family didn’t want her to marry him and treated her with disdain.

JK Rowling gave us Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein, an American Auror in the 20s who’s demoted for helping an abused boy, who broke the law to stop him from being beaten. She’s a woman who has cared for her little sister for years since their parents died, a woman who probably had to give up her childhood to take care of her little sister, a woman who just wants to protect her people. She’s also a woman who makes mistakes and learns from them, who learns that beasts are not necessarily monsters or completely dangerous; she learns to see how wonderful they can be too. She learns to open herself up to someone, taking that chance and eventually starting to fall in love with him.

Perhaps most memorable of all, JK Rowling gave us Hermione Granger. Hermione who was not pretty and had buck teeth with bushy hair. Hermione who valued books and learning but also bravery and loyalty. Hermione who made friends with two boys and helped them along the way, falling in love with one of them along the way. Hermione who fought for the things she believed in, who fought back when bullied or attacked. Hermione who showed generations of girls to never dumb themselves down just for a love interest, showed that being beautiful was not the most important thing a girl could be.

JK Rowling deserves so much more credit than she currently gets.

Muggles are not able to REBLOG this.

REBLOG this to prove you are not a Muggle.

my reblog button fucked up and i almost had a heart attack

I did it in the first try.

OH YEAH

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4 years ago

ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this. you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.

humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.

i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy.

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4 years ago

I got a proof wrong on an exam. No points.

Then, I thought about it for fifteen minutes outside of the exam, wrote it down, nailed it.

I showed a classmate and told him what happened. He looked frustrated. He’d clearly had this happen before, too (haven’t we all?). He said, “Don’t you hate it when that happens?”

I almost said yes. What the h*ck!? No. No, I do not hate it when I can fathom a deeply abstracted concept in mathematics. I never hate that. I the opposite of hate that. Expecting myself to immediately understand topics like this is unrealistic. I’m proud of being able to do it at all. Who cares if I did it in the exam or within the next hour? I DID IT. It’s mine now. I can do it whenever I want. Missing points on that problem doesn’t take the knowledge out of my brain. How dare I be taught that my knowledge is useless because I didn’t have it right at that moment. It’s just as good now.

Education is not about the arbitrary numeric number ascribed to your ability to do things quickly in an arbitrary, restricted time interval. Education is about being able to do progressively more things, to understand progressively complex things.

Tenacity and challenging yourself far beyond your limits is a hundred times more important than getting good grades. Because, when you’re one of .4 percent of the population who possess complete knowledge on a very complex topic, nobody cares how long it took you to do it, or how well you did it the first time you tried.

Grades don’t discover new mathematics. Mathematicians do (even the ones who failed a basic topic in mathematics because their base way of thinking was too complex). Grades don’t advance medical research. Scientists do (even the ones who had to apply for their PhD programs 3 times in a row before they got accepted). Grades don’t make science fiction into real-world technologies. Engineers do (even the ones who dropped out of school because they wanted to build things, not talk about building things).

Knowledge is power. Skills are power. Grades are constructs. Never trade actual understanding for a semblance of understanding.

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2 years ago

what the actual fuck was going on at this show

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4 years ago

“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection

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3 years ago

*upon the airing of GO Season 2*

Audience: Didn’t you have a flaming actor?

Neil Gaiman: Uh…

A: You did! He was flaming like anything. What happened to him?

NG: Erm…

A: Lost him already have you?

NG: …replaced him with foxes

A: You what?

NG: I replaced him with fennec foxes!

It won't let me post this without a comment.

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3 years ago

“Always The Same Words: ‘He’s At Hogwarts…he’s At Hogwarts.’”

“Always the same words: ‘He’s at Hogwarts…he’s at Hogwarts.’”

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3 years ago

Unicorns across the world

Whew, finally this is done! Different types of unicorns! I like different interpretations of mythological creatures, so I made a bunch of them at once. They're based on real animals, but I tried to design them a bit more otherworldly.

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