friendly reminder to do that thing your mum told you to do before she gets home
Reblog to save a life
the signs as the scum of the internet
Aries: brony
Taurus: otaku
Gemini: superwholock
Cancer: furry
Leo: meninist
Virgo: the attack on titan fandom
Libra: gamer
Scorpio: weeaboo
Sagittarius: hentai enthusiast
Capricorn: shitposter
Aquarius: thinks their waifu is real
Pisces: lolicon
I have this theory that Neville is supposed to represent everything that Peter could have been. You know, both of them were the weak link in the friend group, the guy easily influenced. But instead, Rowling made Neville weak to prove the two paths an individual could take. How each of our weaknesses manifest in different ways. Peter’s weakness made him a villain, ultimately worse than Voldemort because he betrayed his friends, while Neville’s weakness made him work harder and in the end made him Harry’s strongest ally.
Harry = James, Ron = Sirius, Hermione = Remus, Neville = Peter, Ginny = Lily, Luna = Snape.
You will notice that none of the six from the old generation survived. The kids each have traits from the old generation but they’re here to fix the past, and thus must survive the series to metaphorically right the past. Some may raise their eyebrows at Luna as Snape, but just as Harry represents James (the popular kid who was good at quidditch, but didn’t become arrogant like his father) or like Peter and Neville (two people who could have been cowards, but Neville rises to life’s challenges) Luna mirrors Snape in being mocked, a pariah, Looney Lovegood and Snivellus. Instead of being resentful, she rose above it, and loved herself regardless.
If you went with Harry to the Ministry of Magic in book 5, you mattered beyond just backing him up against Voldemort. This core six represented the loss and failure of the Marauders generation, and the hopes of a post-Voldemort future.
Holy shit
Some of my favourite linguistic developments
‘Is that a thing?’ for ‘does that exist?’
Deliberate omission of grammar to show e.g. defeatedness, bewilderment, fury. As seen in Tumblr’s ‘what is this I don’t even’.
‘Because [noun]’. As in ‘we couldn’t have our picnic in the meadow because wasps.’
Use of kerning to indicate strong bewilderment, i.e. double-spaced letters usually denoting ‘what is happening?’ This one is really interesting because it doesn’t really translate well to speech. It’s something people have come up with that uses the medium of text over the internet as a new way of communicating instead of just a transcript of speech or a quicker way to send postal letters.
Just the general playing around with sentence structure and still being able to be understood. One of my favourites of these is the ‘subject: *verbs* / object: *is verb*’ couplet, as in:
Beekeeper: *keeps bees*
Bees: *is keep*or
Me: *holds puppy*
Puppy: *is hold*I just love how this all develops organically with no deciding body, and how we all understand and adapt to it.
you know like. that thing tumblr does when ur scrolling and suddenly it skips a post and u scroll up and it skips the post again and youre like okay what the fuck is it you dont want me to see
Imagine unique Alternian internet culture though like:
Aesthetic pictures of groups of friends with different blood colors forming the rainbow.
“Follow for more ancestor fashion”.
Tips on how to improve the quality of your cocoon’s slime.
“Lusus shaming” pictures.
Lowblood channels in youtube giving you tips on how to look fashionable regardless of blood color limitations.
Aggressive highbloods having their own online store where they sell the excess supplies they get from trolls they killed.
Jadeblood gardeners advicing other hemocastes on sunlight plants and giving them nightblooming varieties.
The debate surrounding the trend of interior design of your hive not matching your blood color.
Alternian vegan activists trying to find another way to make paint other than using grubs.
Rumors circulating around the web: lava lamps are made of mutant blood, suddenly everyone do not want.ALTERNIA.