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reignofevil posted:Just so everyone knows an enchanted painting that is a conglomerate of what everyone remembers of me is how I'll still be modding this place 1000 years from now. thia is like some sort of roko's forum mod like why would you do this to something that is in any sense yourself im not sure it's different from just being a mod in the first place though
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# ¿ May 16, 2020 11:09 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:59 |
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i don't know anything about the ancient magus' bride, but based on the artwork the ancient magus is like a badass wendigo or some poo poo so i was really hoping the bride part was actually 'apprentice' and not '4-chan poo poo' but wasn't holding out hope because anime will betray you on that one
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# ¿ May 31, 2020 02:37 |
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^^^ oh good. like the magus looks more like a forest spirit than a person and marriage can be more like being chosen as the shaman or whatever for a god or spirit, in a context where everything isn't an excuse to be horny for kids Ghost Leviathan posted:Wizards being weird horny rear end old perverts going after way younger women who just want to learn magic is way older than anime literally what got merlin in the end Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 05:18 on May 31, 2020 |
# ¿ May 31, 2020 05:15 |
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other options include the lovegoods, the hippie astology teacher, and the house elves
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# ¿ May 31, 2020 17:55 |
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there is no magic, just a small population so inbred that it collectively believes that mumbling in latin is responsible for their hallucinations
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 02:04 |
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maybe every highly populated area in the wizarding world is instanced on special occasions so we're only seeing the population of the instance that the main characters are in it also dynamically sorts you onto the instances populated with the highest concentration of people you've previously interacted with this process is way too boring and technical to be of interest to anyone but mmo players let alone single moms powered by an aspirational cocaine habit so rowling didn't bother writing it down Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Jun 2, 2020 |
# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 02:59 |
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Tulip posted:200k is really, really big for the vast majority of human history. Paris only reaches 300k at the very end of the middle ages and was 20k around 1000 CE. London never reached 200k in the middle ages, Rome was 200k in in the late 19th century. large cities go back at least to Uruk, with approximately 100k people. Rome and large cities of its time like Alexandria and Xian easily hit the 500k mark and had populations over a million in some estimates. that remained the big leagues until the industrial revolution. london was around that size by the early 1800s and exploded to over 6 million by 1900. over 200k was common though, western Europe was a shithole
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 08:00 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It is outright said at some point that a shitload of Hogwarts' non-Muggle-born students know at least one relative who got murdered by Voldemort and his crew, and some entire families were wiped out. Said before, the irony being that Voldemort basically ensured that wizards had to start having kids with muggles or die out from inbreeding. iirc ravenloft also gains population on a regular basis because people wander in from other planes under suitably ominous circumstances e: also dreadlords tend to come with kingdoms alongside the ineffable torment which consumes their ill-fated souls Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jun 2, 2020 |
# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 16:01 |
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Zetsubou-san posted:so Sci-Fi Wi-Fi is a part of Ravenloft, then? technically all of earth was taken by the dark powers early in the reagan administration
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 19:52 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That would never happen. Maybe the evil wizard behind Mao did it. the fabled sword of chang is a relic of their battles
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2020 08:44 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Pretty sure they just go through a Latin dictionary while waving a wand around and seeing what happens i know i wouldn't rest until i had learned to cast space lasers spell
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2020 01:52 |
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Lovecraft recanted and went into the great void in the embrace of solidarity. Or so I understand. e: a quick check tells me that he supported FDR but thought the New Deal didn't go far enough, so evidently old Lovecraft was good. Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Jul 8, 2020 |
# ¿ Jul 8, 2020 06:07 |
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Tulip posted:Lovecraft married a Jewish woman. He was notably, virulently racist, and clung to racism towards black people even to the end, as well as an ultimately class-based social ideal, but his animosity couldn't overwhelm the experience of the great depression when it came to understanding that people need basic things like food, I guess.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2020 09:24 |
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I found most of the setting of Harry Potter boring because her view of nature and the mystical seemed to be basically a fun and exciting playground for wizards. It might be dangerous in a limited way, but not truly threatening beyond an extremely local scale.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2020 11:28 |
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so a pretty accurate depiction of the (british) upper class hp basically promised millennials that they were special, and they would be granted entry into a magical secret world which would appreciate our uniqueness, unlike the dingy and unworthy mundane world this is no longer a plausible premise for young adult fiction, unlike more grounded concepts such as wizards also anime and manga are easily available now, and frankly naturo is at least 1000x more honest and useful to a kid as a take on a vaguely similar premise and near identical target audience
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2020 11:05 |
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its supposed to reflect childhood, but frankly if school taught literal magic kids would be all over that poo poo as a metaphor for a nominal education as a prelude to immense privilege otoh....
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2020 08:32 |
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FunkyAl posted:Or else Voldemort was i mean, it's explicitly a theme that harry isn't very different than voldemort because the thesis of the books is essentially that systematic reform is accomplished by putting "good people" in charge, with the distinction between good and evil ultimately coming down to free will e: like it's been awhile but my reading of the house elf thing was that ron and harry are sort of poo poo and that hermione was comicly inept partly to soften the fact that she's completely correct and the boys are being hypocritical. but by the end it was clear that symbolic progress with an indefinite timeline for actual justice was also the only outcome rowling cared about as long as people agree to be good masters to their slaves and promise to free them (evidently with the coming of the messiah or something) Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Aug 24, 2020 |
# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 07:52 |
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Tulip posted:I always thought this was on purpose - Rowling's way of writing about the very British middle class terror of fire arms it is, but from its own perspective in which Harry is heroic for using "non-lethal" ammunition. it also is very lazy from the perspective that magic is meant to be interesting and creative. my headcannon is that ultima from ff is a spell in hp and its just every wizard who tried casting a spell with that word has died in the aftermath
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2020 22:35 |
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Sydin posted:It is interesting that according to Rowling wizards are just completely immune to nationalism. Did British wizards do nothing to help the muggle government during the blitz, because even if muggle Britain is replaced by muggle Germany, wizard Britain still goes on? How did Chinese wizards going to school in Japan feel about the Rape of Nanjing and various other Japanese atrocities - really no tensions there at all? What about colonies that threw off the imperial yoke: did American wizards team up with muggles during the Independence War, or did British wizards just never bother with the whole imperial hegemony thing and American wizards were self-governed from the start so they didn't give a gently caress about the muggles fighting? wizards are Enlightened Centrists
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2020 10:08 |
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Regalingualius posted:You know, I still feel like there was a missed opportunity for the “neither can live while the other survives” part of the prophecy. Namely, having it be a whole thing where as they go on destroying the Horcruxes (if not sooner), it starts sinking in for Harry that that means that he’s quite probably going to have to very deliberately kill Voldemort, which starts gnawing away at him in a “I’m becoming more and more like him” sense. if you want to see that, just watch any episode of post 2000 dr. who in which the doctor feels bad about hating the daleks and decides that saving the universe from genocidal evil is exactly like being genocidal evil somehow
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 21:09 |
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Butternubs posted:Why has no one invented an full auto avada kedavra? Maybe like on of those old timey crank handle machine guns but it's just a bunch of wands. The battle of hogwarts would have been over in seconds. i'm never going to get over the fact that ultima from final fantasy happens to have a name that is a single latin word with very ominous interpretations and from the way magic seems to work in harry potter this means that harry is about 40 hours with a Playstation game and the desire to destroy all who oppose him with the ultimate destructive magic from becoming a living nuclear weapon there are some misaligned neurons in my brain that cannot be convinced that this is not, in fact, actually an incredibly clever observation
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 15:02 |
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on a purely practical level, i have some doubts about voldemorts plan to assassinate his greatest enemy, a literal wizard who can disable an attacker in a million ways without harming them, using a kid who can barely bully another kid effectively
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2020 08:39 |
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Mistaken Identity posted:Well, I was always under the impression that it was less about finding an efficient way to deal with Dumbledore and more about punishing Luscious Malfoy. Dude never could catch a break with Voldemort after basically losing a Horcrux. oh, it was, but that doesn't make it a good plan to neutralize an enemy leader
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2020 09:17 |
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cursed jewels that kill whoever touch them just sitting around to be used in some convoluted plot. all this bs is exactly why one of your first ninth level spells always has to be mordenkainen's disjunction. cleaning up every other wizard's messes!
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2020 15:34 |
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yeah no need for tricks by the divorce ron would be halfway through a transformation into a magic sovcit/MRA and probably ends up with supervised access to the kids one day a week
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2020 11:25 |
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that sounds like a house for surrealism and at last I have a home at hogwarts (e: the elephant seal one)
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 11:04 |
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reignofevil posted:The solution to the problem turned out not to be making Slytherin any more noble or good but in fact to include seventy to one hundred six additional evil houses in what would go on to become known as the "Hogwarts 2000". a very confused sorting hat assigning the first goon wizard into "das goonhouse"
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 20:14 |
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tbf that does sound like accurate characterization of a kid who had his entire early childhood and every summer spent in more or less solitary confinement
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2020 12:29 |
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finishing writing your 12 book 'trilogy' has become passe when you can expand your type 2 diabetes problem instead
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2020 21:05 |
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reignofevil posted:Honestly this is pretty fuckin grim but at the same time the whole concept of a house elf is fuckin grim and this post is merely pulling aside the veil of respectability that Dumbledore and co put on the entire system so it stands imo. I could easily see it being clickhole Rowling. If not the real thing.
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2021 04:28 |
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amigolupus posted:Turns out the power of love to a teenage boy means having the biggest wank ever, so that's why Rowling had cold feet writing that. If you think about it, this is exactly what he did though.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2021 12:39 |
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Zore posted:Not really, she goes on to be a naturalist who travels all over the world and ends up marrying the grandson of the dude from the Fantastic Beasts movies who she meets on an expedition. she appears crazy through the eyesof the characters because thats what sane people look like to crazy people
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2021 00:22 |
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Guy A. Person posted:“I have access to magic Dumbledore never dreamed of” we would have the boy who lived to be dirty harry potter rowling is too big a coward for gun wizards
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2021 05:32 |
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she's just funneling kids towards japan and tbf korea, in which there are entire industries that revolve around the high school + magic/superpowers/horrific warfare/sports/just about anything formula
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2021 11:48 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Fiendfire is evil magic, possibly the most evil, so Harry, a good guy, couldn't use it or even consider using it. *whispers in harry's mind* i've got a better plan, kid. point that wand at wrinkles and say "ultima." maybe bring sunglasses 'cause the goth dudes gonna be undergoing several types of fusion and fission and you'll be needing those eyes for your long healthy life oh btw meteor is a latin word too
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 18:16 |
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Barudak posted:Hey, Ron? disco elysium as a stealth hp sequel
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2021 19:06 |
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Sydin posted:Also Harry is barely interested in empathizing with people he actually likes, no way he's gonna spare a thought to how he could find some common ground with the man who's been using his position of authority to bully and harass Harry for years on end. learning how to do this is part of growing up, but since harry is an aristocrat it not happening is probably more accurate characterization
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 03:58 |
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Occasionally some dumbass wizard will send their kid their for borrowing the broom without permission and is shocked when the kid gets their immoral soul devoured by the guards.
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# ¿ May 2, 2021 21:27 |
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reignofevil posted:We love you cranappleberry. We love you and we love wizards so much. Ever wish you were a wizard? That would be, as the the ancient runes say, "sweet af."
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# ¿ May 8, 2021 19:03 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:59 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, the evolution of humanity developing things like language, weapons and fire dovetails with the extinction of shitloads of megafauna pretty much everywhere in the world. according to some white people projecting their own society onto the past with little or no evidence, yes
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2021 20:07 |