Everybody Who Reads The Harry Potter Books Knows Its Bad That Snape Calls His Best Friend A Slur, But

Everybody who reads the Harry Potter books knows it’s bad that Snape calls his best friend a slur, but the crazy thing is this isn’t even the worst thing we see a friend do to another friend during that year. Sirius uses Remus to almost kill Snape. What is the real world equivalent of using your friend’s Medical condition where they lose their mind and become dangerous to stage a prank on someone you hate that would turn your friend into a murderer against their will and without their consent?

That is like suffering from violent psychotic breakdowns and in the middle of one, your best friend leaves a loaded gun in the room and sends in some kid you both bully inside for a laugh.

if there was a straightforward real world equivalent for what Sirius does to Remus, Sirius would get trashed by everybody. The abuse of trust and the level of betrayal on the marauders end of the werewolf prank does not get talked about enough.

severus snape apologizes to lily right away. We never see Sirius apologize to Remus. But somehow the fact that Remus forgives Sirius is proof of their strong friendship and true love. No one expects Lily to forgive Sev. Everyone expects Remus to forgive Sirius. Wtf

so there's this white woman i know who sincerely believes that everyone must respect others' perspectives and opinions, no matter how violent or destructive those perspectives may be. and i want to make this clear because i cannot take it anymore and i need to vent:

being able to respect other people's opinions no matter what, even if their opinions are inherently violent, is a deeply privileged stance.

the other day, we saw a "blue lives matter flag," and i couldn't help but test the waters and say that it was hard for me not to heavily judge people like that. her response was basically sure, she gets it, but maybe they just have a very different perspective than me. this is the same white woman who presumes to know enough about family dynamics in my culture to make broad generalizations about it and expects that she will hear no rebuttal, then gets pissed when she does. this is also the same white woman who cannot reconcile in her cisgendered mind than just because a trans woman is a bad person, and just because she's had wildly different experiences as a woman than you have, doesn't mean you can misgender her and expect people to agree with you.

i am mixed race, queer, nonbinary, and have never been financially comfortable. i come from a generationally poor family, i've been looked down upon, reviled, and made to feel like a fugitive in spaces that are welcoming safe havens for others, because of people's "differing opinions."

"blue lives matter" backers, Trump supporters, Republicans in general - even white, straight Democrats and so-called progressives who would rather queer folk, Black folk and other people of color be silenced and quarantined away than have to confront their own privilege in this society make me feel unsafe. every day i hide away an essential part of me to protect myself; i spare white people's feelings, i don't stand up for myself, i stay silent, i drop arguments and feel sick to my stomach when i do, all to protect myself. i feel that if i truly spoke my mind, i would be in danger one way or the other.

so no, i can't respect other people's opinions all the time, and yes, it is a privilege to be able to do so.

I don't know if it's just me but I highkey dislike Annabeth. I think it has to be the writing. Rick can't write very compelling characters all together, but his female ones are all "I'm not like other girls. I don't put on makeup". From Annabeth to Thalia to Clarisse, they are all apparently "badasses" because they are not feminine. The only character who is feminine, Silena, is painted as weak and frivolous.

But my problem is with Annabeth especially because she is the lead female character. We are supposed to be rooting for her but it's really difficult because she is acting like a jerk to everyone. I can excuse her behavior in the first couple of books because she was younger but there is zero character development throughout PJO. And childhood trauma can excuse as much. For example, Percy had an even harder childhood but he is not mean to everyone around him. He tries his best to a good guy. Annabeth is just not trying to change herself. She is rewarded for her bad behavior even.

And I know that she is a fan favourite in the Percy Jackson fandom but I believe it has to be that the fanon!Annabeth is nothing like canon!Annabeth. Fans stan the idea they have created of her, not actually her. I say this because I have seen tons of posts that have her be so out of character, that it's basically a whole new person. This isn't something exclusive to the Percy Jackson fandom though (God, fanon Batfam is probably the worst offender) but it's interesting how certain fans refuse to even acknowledge this. But I don't want to be misunderstood so I want to make something clear; I don't think it's bad to have headcanons or even project on characters. That is perfectly fine and eveyone is allowed to do it. The problems start when people are so caught on to their fantasy that they don't want to see problems with the canon material and even go as far as to attack people who give valid critisism.

I do believe that Annabeth had potential as a character but Rick ruined her character. It's even worse when in the following books he made her only interest and character trait be Percy. It's all about Percy and the relationship. There are few moments that are about her and her ambitions, her life, her dreams but in the end everything gets buried under 'Percabeth' because 'Percabeth' is what sells the books and keeps the money coming. I strongly believe it's too late now to even attempt to fix her problematic aspects, especially since the fanon!Annabeth has prevailed and people won't accept a new canon, but it would be interesting to see Rick actually try to give her character development.

I’ve decided to make a sequel to this post. I like the idea that even after learning more about how humans work, the gods still don’t… quite get it. Instead, they go on the opposite end of the spectrum and just think anything and everything could kill them.

Will: dad… this… is not what I meant

Apollo: what do you mean? you said milk makes your bones strong

Will: I did

Apollo: So without milk your bones are weak

Will: I love you, but how are you the god of medicine?

Apollo: I don’t understand where I went wrong. You need to drink milk else you die! Here’s a cow. Go crazy.

Will: it bothers me that you’re also the god of logic

Meanwhile…

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The gods not understanding how demigod kids work😂 I’m just waiting for the moment one of their kids gets a paper cut or something and they’re just like, “PAPER! THEY SOMEHOW GET HURT BY PAPER!”

Okay, but the duality of human beings is SO wild that I’m positive this information would absolutely break them.

There are humans that can survive great heights? But only sometimes? And other times they die? It is really just up to chance and how you land?

Humans can fall down a flight of stairs and say they’re completely fine, but PAPER hurts them and they whine about it all day?

Gunshot wounds? Yeah, we can recover from that (well, depending on where you’re hit, maybe). As long as invisible bacteria doesn’t get into the wound without us noticing... then we might die even if the blood is gone and wound sewn up.

Zeus is like “There are people out there who survive my lightning strikes?” and then learns the same person died like.... three hours later from choking on a hotdog.

Hermes, with a magazine: Athena! Look at this. It says here that 1 in every 15,000 humans die from exercising too much.

Athena: But... they need exercise? All my research says they need exercise!

Annabeth: You did hear the one in FIFTEEN THOUSAND part, right?

Hades: HOW ARE THEY DYING FROM DOING THE THING THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO! DAMNIT!

Then you have Demeter running in like:

Demeter: KILL THE MOSQUITOES! KILL THE MOSQUITOES!!!

Ares: Why?

Demeter: Look at this! I ran the numbers while in the Underworld while visiting Persephone. One million people die a YEAR from mosquitoes. We have to kill them.

Ares: There’s no way these punks are dying from these tiny bugs.

Demeter: Apparently, they carry diseases.

Ares, softly: ...holy shit. Biological warfare.

Apollo, flipping a table: IS NOTHING ON THIS GODDAMN PLANET SAFE ANYMORE?!

Chiron, still trying to explain everything: Nothing on this planet was ever safe at any point... ever.

Athena: Pandora’s box?

Chiron: You guys pin wayyyyy too much on that poor girl.

Later on, you have Nico walking up in bubble wrap like ‘okay, which one of y’all told the gods that it hurts when we stub our toes?’ and you got Piper in helmet and knee pads all bitter like ‘It wasn’t me’ and Will is just looking so guilty before quietly going ‘I just wanted to explain how nerves worked’

They try to explain it all to the gods and it just... gets so much worse.

Zeus: So... the medicine... that heals you.... can also kill you...?

Will: I mean, if you overdose, yeah. It’s the same with ambrosia-

Hermes: AMBROSIA CAN KILL YOU!?

Percy: HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS?!

Hephaestus: That’s it. All of you are too fragile. We’re going to have to make a safer planet. This is ridiculous. Maybe we can just put them all on Venus or something-

Leo: We need oxygen to survive, Dad.

Ares: You’re kidding me, right?

Annabeth: Um, no, but... well... we can’t actually have too much oxygen or we’ll-

Poseidon: LET ME GUESS! You die?! For the love of Rhea! How has anyone survived anything?

Nico: Well... we all end up dead at some point, so arguably... we don’t survive?

And finally:

Jason: you guys created humans. Why don't you know this?

Zeus: No. Prometheus created humans and quite frankly he did a TERRIBLE job-

:-O