Not A Hp Blog But Petition To Stop Perpetuatingpaddywhackery In Fandom Portrayals Of Seamus Finnegan

not a hp blog but petition to stop perpetuating paddywhackery in fandom portrayals of Seamus Finnegan as if it’s fun when i am so very tired and the book/film characterisation of him, overseen by an english writer, as being overly fond of alcohol and blowing things up from the age of 11, was already a whole postcolonial mess like jk rowling is terrible we all know it by now so let’s not let her away with yet another example of her being lowkey awful it’s so fucking annoying the first book is literally set before the good friday agreement, are you honestly trying to tell me that an irish child in a british school in ‘95, regardless of whether they’re in the wizarding world or not, is going to be so gung ho about wanting to blow things up in that setting, like the troubles weren’t a thing and he wouldn’t be aware of the resulting anti-irish sentiment in britain at the time? like honestly? it’s so dumb jesus christ 

wait hold the phonnnneeee I know I’m horrifically late to the party but LOOK @catbishonen drew a thing based on this post of mine and I can’t be dealing omg THANK YOU no one has ever drawn anything based on my anything before this is so sweet! 

@ravenslynch ‘s post about giving Ronan an Irish wolfhound brought me this wholesome idea :”)

tfc where everything is the same but instead of everyone using dane dehaan for edits of the twins, they use adam and patrick from vine

The mood for today is wearing my worn two year old repeal jumper, carrying my near empty green suitcase with me (a subtextual mood of its own), and hovering on the cusp of a panic attack for the next ~60 hours

Between the Belfast rape trial, the hse cervical check scandal and this I am eroding into the void rn I stg

anyone else irish and terrified rn in a massive and all encompassing sense?

help I cannot get this casting of Niall Lynch out of my head - I know the general trend is to find some model looking guy with artisanal stubble and a smirky face but my brain has landed in a slightly different direction. I present film director & critic Mark Cousins:

Working-class Catholic Belfast background, raised during The Troubles, voice still has that lilt 

Dark curly hair/stubble/tattoos/general rad dad chic

Also a sensible age to fit

He’s got an all encompassing lust for life and when he talks about his work and how he’s travelled all over the world - he basically sounds like he’s dreamed it all into reality for himself somehow idk man he’s lived his life as a grand and radical adventure and gives off a trc-Lynchian aura

Like just think of him talking about cinema as him talking about dreams - in the line of that Jean Leirens quote “[Cinema creates] a vacuum, which dreams readily fill” - just look at him go 1 + 2 + 3

Sorry but I don’t know how to unsee this and I needed to share. 

Tbh he seems like the absolute opposite of Niall’s problematic streak and 1100% does not seem like he would ever dream himself a romantic partner reliant on his personhood to exist - so apologies @ Mark Cousins but I have aligned you with the hot mess that is Niall Lynch in my mind and now it will never truly leave me, even though I think he’s a massive asshole & find Cousins to be a very Good person. 

(ps here’s a short article he wrote for the guardian about Belfast/representations of Northern Ireland/The Troubles in cinema if you’re in any way interested)