That matches my recollection.ubernoob wrote:...I don't recall her being described as notably pretty ANYWHERE.
What the hell, Harry Potter?
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I was being entirely serious. Watson will always be Granger in my eyes, even if she's playing other roles. Lynch also pulled off Luna rather charmingly in a "Lalalala, oooooh pretty flowers!" kind of way.JigokuBosatsu wrote:Zinegata wrote:I like both Lynch and Watson, but read Playboy for the articles.
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... guess who's worst dressed.
What's up with those pants? 1980s called, they say not even MC Hammer would touch that...
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I actually work with someone who reminds me very much of a somewhat less cloud coocoolander Luna, and after some thought, I realized that, to me at least, the fact that she's a devout christian actually just solidified the impression.Cynic wrote:Is that Cho? She is cute in a very elfin way. Luna's actress doesn't seem like she's playing a role.
Sadly she's 18*, taken, and a devout conservative christian. Might be fun to corrupt her though...
...I mean... Um, yeah, what about Rowling not being anywhere near as committed to the "Slytherin's not 'the evul house" bit as any of her characters? Fucking ...whatsername-wants-draco's-evil-boy-seed saying "Harry's right there! Let's hand him over!" and no one at her table just smacks her across the back of the head saying "bitch, shut the fuck up"?
*edit: er... it occurs to me that might sound really bad... so let me clarify, it's a shame she's five years my junior, I'm trying to take a friend's advice and sticking to people at least old enough to legally drink, if not my actual age...
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Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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Are they tiny, tiny people, or do their clothes just fit that poorly? They look like halflings in that picture.
And yeah, Slytherin is complete evil. After 7 books of bs how they aren't, I actually expected some of them to help in the battles of Hogwarts.
And yeah, Slytherin is complete evil. After 7 books of bs how they aren't, I actually expected some of them to help in the battles of Hogwarts.
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I think the only good Slytherin, aside from a dead slytherin, seems to have been Snape. Snape also seems to have been good only as a means to an end rather than as an end.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the other wizarding schools have the same houses or if they even have any houses mentioned.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the other wizarding schools have the same houses or if they even have any houses mentioned.
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Oh God Naruto characterization. 
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
And Hermione should have been Ravenclaw. What's really egregious is that Rowling treats the non-Gryffindor houses like farm teams for Gryffindor. I forget how explicit it is, but The Sorting Hat or Dumbeldore or someone basically says that in peacetime Harry, Hermione, and Ron never would have been in the same house, but since the great tribulation was coming, they were all specifically put in the "Big Damn Heroes" house so they could team up and save the world.FrankTrollman wrote:Harry Potter would be a better story on many levels if Harry had been a Slytherin and Ron had been a Hufflepuff. They stay friends and do all their important adventures together, the Scooby Gang just happens to be distributed between the thee houses.
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I always wondered about that. So it was mentioned that the hat mis-assigned them to save the world?Sashi wrote:And Hermione should have been Ravenclaw. What's really egregious is that Rowling treats the non-Gryffindor houses like farm teams for Gryffindor. I forget how explicit it is, but The Sorting Hat or Dumbeldore or someone basically says that in peacetime Harry, Hermione, and Ron never would have been in the same house, but since the great tribulation was coming, they were all specifically put in the "Big Damn Heroes" house so they could team up and save the world.FrankTrollman wrote:Harry Potter would be a better story on many levels if Harry had been a Slytherin and Ron had been a Hufflepuff. They stay friends and do all their important adventures together, the Scooby Gang just happens to be distributed between the thee houses.
Yeah, but the the weird part is that this is apparently the purpose of Gryffendor. If you look at the credo of each house it becomes obvious:
Ravenclaw values "intelligence, creativity, learning, and wit", and should have snapped up Hermione, but what that actually means is it's a house for neeeeeerds.
Hufflepuff values "hard work, tolerance, loyalty, and fair play", which should be Ron and Neville, but it's actually a house for people who are boring.
Slytherin values "ambition, cunning, leadership, resourcefulness, and most of all, pure wizard blood", which should be purebred parcelmouth natural leader Harry. But it's actually a house for bullies, backstabbers, and toadies.
Gryffendor values "courage, bravery, loyalty, nerve and chivalry" which is literally nonsense. This is because it's actually the house of Big Damn Heroes who are smart and creative without being nerds, loyal and hardworking without being boring, or resourceful leaders without being backstabbers.
Ravenclaw values "intelligence, creativity, learning, and wit", and should have snapped up Hermione, but what that actually means is it's a house for neeeeeerds.
Hufflepuff values "hard work, tolerance, loyalty, and fair play", which should be Ron and Neville, but it's actually a house for people who are boring.
Slytherin values "ambition, cunning, leadership, resourcefulness, and most of all, pure wizard blood", which should be purebred parcelmouth natural leader Harry. But it's actually a house for bullies, backstabbers, and toadies.
Gryffendor values "courage, bravery, loyalty, nerve and chivalry" which is literally nonsense. This is because it's actually the house of Big Damn Heroes who are smart and creative without being nerds, loyal and hardworking without being boring, or resourceful leaders without being backstabbers.
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I know, I know, but it's something that occurred to me. When the villain of your 7-book billion-dollar empire is less compelling/interesting as a character than a damned ANIME villain,you need to go back and see what you missed.Lago PARANOIA wrote:Oh God Naruto characterization.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
?? What is Naruto characterization. And why is it bad? (I mean, aside form having to do with Naruto, what specifically.)Lago PARANOIA wrote:Oh God Naruto characterization.
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
So I take it you haven't heard about Shinji and Warhammer 40k, sometimes referred to as The Holy Grail Of Fanfiction?Psychic Robot wrote:shirak wrote:fanficPick one.awesome.
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This deserves a separate thread. You can feel free to bump the old Naruto thread if you want or start a new one.Kaelik wrote:
?? What is Naruto characterization. And why is it bad? (I mean, aside form having to do with Naruto, what specifically.)
Talking about Naruto is like talking about professional wrestling. You feel kind of like a retarded for talking so in depth about it even if you think you have something interesting to say.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Shinji and 40k is weirdly good. I prefer A.R.S.E.N.A.L. and Nobody Dies myself. But X+40k is considered an instant Add Awesome recipe in the fanfic community. Sometimes it works, often... not so much.Koumei wrote:Shinji and 40k? Oh dear. I've seen Ranma 1/2 crossed with 40k (and with Doom), and Slayers with Eva. All are at least as bad as they sound.
Maybe we should a new thread or something, we are supposed to talk about HP, not fanfics.
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