I had a dream last night that they made a new Bond movie, but they didn’t say who was playing Bond. Throughout the movie you have no idea which character is really Bond, because he’s undercover, duh. And every single character, no matter how minor, was played by somebody famous, so they could all conceivably be Bond. And at the end it turns out Bond was Leslie Jones.
Have you ever seen a twitter thread (or, in this case, two!) that so perfectly expressed everything you’d felt over months and months of harassment persistent? With all credit to @blackblobyellowcone, who is clearly amazing and completely gets it– not just why us women write and read the erotica that we do, but the history behind the censorship we, as a gender, have experienced. Bravo.
Hey, all. I’m not usually addressing the younger members of fandom when I post, but I think for this, it’s important. For those of us who are not so young, too, though.
Australians have two days left to opt out of My Health Record. I tried online, but wasn’t able to do it, and neither were the other people I know. It took about 35 minutes of waiting (with “THIS IS A GREAT SYSTEM” being babbled in my ear) for me to get through on the phone, but once there, it was about a 5 or 10 minute task.
If you’re 15 or over, you can have your own medicare card/number – that’s all the ID (match to date of birth, name) that I had to give over the phone to have myself removed from their system. I can’t find the link right now, but I think until you’re over 18 your parents can have access to your info? If this is true (if!) then… If I was 15/16/17 I’d want my medical data kept absolutely private.
The government says that they are tightening restrictions, blah blah blah, but.. This is an online system. Online systems get hacked. The information in online systems gets sold/shared (remember the HealthEngine debacle?) I don’t trust the current party in power (or the other big one, really) to keep this safe. I don’t want insurance companies or legal companies or anyone but the doctor I choose having my info.
You can opt back in if you want. I want to at least see what new things they’ll bring up as safeguards when they sit again (the Libs have refused to push the date of opt-out to after those things are dealt with in Parliament – that’s just fishy.)
Headcanon that an outraged 6-year-old Charlie Weasley writes to an elderly Newt Scamander wanting to know why Gringotts keeps a dragon locked up underground and begging him to fix it. Newt writes back saying that sadly he’s been fighting that fight for years and no one ever wants to listen to him because the powerful families whose money is being kept safe by the dragon always shut him down, and that Charlie is the first person he’s heard of who’s as angry as he is about it. Charlie decides that day to dedicate his life to finding out everything he can about dragons so that one day he can free the poor Gringotts dragon. After the war, when they hear that Harry, Ron and Hermione freed the dragon, they celebrate and immediately begin petitioning to have it made illegal to imprison dragons so that nothing like that ever happens again. It’s only when Hermione becomes Minister that it’s finally signed into law.
This is the best Harry Potter headcanon I’ve ever seen
yes yes yes
Just imagine how that conversation would go though, like Charlie’s been learning about dragons his whole life, studying them, learning about the laws surrounding them, practising the jailbreak of dragons by smuggling one out of Hogwarts, preparing for the moment when, one day, he can free the Ukrainian Ironbelly from Gringotts.
And Ron’s like “Oh, yeah, don’t worry about it—we broke into Gringotts and used him as our get-away vehicle. He’s just chilling in the wilds somewhere now so, yeah. Job done.”
I want an AU where Ron, completely convinced that he’s overshadowed by all his brothers and will never be as remarkable or as well-recognised as any of them, just accidentally achieves all of their major life goals without noticing. They’re all super jealous and think of him as The Golden Brother and he’s completely clueless.
I’m not sure this is an AU to be honest. I mean:
Bill Weasley: Curse-breaker, works for Gringotts breaking into cursed tombs and distributing valuables to heirs. Ron Weasley both broke into Gringotts itself and destroyed the ultimate cursed object, a Horcrux. Check.
Charlie Weasley: Aforementioned dragon stuff. Check.
Percy Weasley: Social climber, status seeker, desperate for attention and approval from his superiors. Ron: Literally married to the actual Minister of Magic. Check.
Someone else add on to this with Weasley-twin eclipsing stunts and hijinks, I’m sure there are some but my brain isn’t thinking of them right now.
Charlie:
You guys.
You guys are forgetting one of the most epic parts of this.
The vault that the trio broke into is the Lestrange vault.
What’s important about the Lestranges?
Newt’s ex-girlfriend was born a Lestrange.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione freed the dragon while breaking into the family vault of Newt’s ex-girlfriend.
If that isn’t epic revenge-by-proxy for Newt, what is?
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