JK Rowling Is Back At It Again

JK Rowling is back at it again 💞

Because JK Rowling never wrote anything about magic in the Americas, I love to come up with worldbuilding and headcanons about how the Wizarding world would operate in the US. Of course as some have postulated there would be numerous Wizarding schools in various states, much like the collegiate system. They would be attended by teens and young adults. Magic at younger ages would be mostly learned at home or in private day schools, (a large city like New York could easily host more than one magic elementary school) where the children could go home to their parents at night.

The Salem Witches Institute (Salem Oregon) is one of the foremost of these, not to be confused with the venerable Salem Witches' Academy (Salem, Massachusetts).

What else. Oh of course, virtually every adult wizard in the US knows how to apparate and does so on a regular basis, complaints from the UK that this is an extraordinarily difficult magic go ignored, although Apparition incidents is the leading magic-based cause of death in the US exceeding even dark magic. Floo powder exists as a niche commodity but is called "chimney powder" since nobody in the US knows what a flue is.

Speaking of dark magic, there are some cultural variations between Britain and the US on what is considered Dark, as well as across different regions of the United States. Potentially lethal hexes are generally more socially tolerated in the US, studied for self-defense purposes, and there are no legal restrictions on studying the Dark Arts on a purely theoretical level.

(Magical guns are also not unheard of.)

What else.

Happy National Hobbit Day

"I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness away; simple acts of kindness and love." -Gandalf Greyhame, The Lord of the Rings

In appreciation of all things Hobbit. May you have a merry and cozy day of good food and good company! (And possibly even a Pippin day.)

Bail Organa being Leia’s father across Star Wars media in: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) Bloodline (2016) Leia, Princess of Alderaan (2017) Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)

I made a silly uquiz while dog sitting"

(This is very Tumblr-core. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)

nothing has filled me with as much rage towards the current administration as watching the effects of their policies play out in real time in my own back yard. I always knew they didn't care, but it's things like this that make me believe they're out to get us.

Who didn’t see this coming?

And here’s a stretch…who do you think were slashing those tires on the relief trucks?